About Mia

I began my health and fitness career at a very young age teaching gymnastics and aerobics. I decided to make health and fitness my career path and dove into it with both runners tied up tight and I hung on for dear life. The fitness road took me to different towns from Kelowna to Whitehorse and from Regina to the Comox Valley. My positions have included, Program Coordinator for Health and Fitness at Yukon College, aerobics instructor, personal trainer, rehab trainer, fitness leader, teacher, instructor, and finally owning my own Fitness Centre, along with my husband, for nine years. I have been an internationally recognized personal trainer through the American Council on Exercise for 12 years. I have been a Medical Exercise Specialist and a Post Rehab Technician for 10 years. I have been a Sports Conditioning Specialist for 11 years. I have been a Trainer of Fitness Leaders for BCRPA for eight years. I have developed and taught several successful programs and courses for both the British Columbia Parks and Recreation Association and through Fitness Excellence.

Among other topics, I have presented seminars on nutrition, back care, knee care, general fitness, postural issues, weight control, running, stretching and sport specific training. I have written articles for both newspaper and for magazine. I have been a guest speaker for several associations covering many different health related subjects.

My greatest fitness accomplishment was the opening of Fitness Excellence, along with my husband Scott. We successfully implemented a health and wellness facility that was geared toward the general population. Our goal was to create an environment that people would love to be a part of. It is here that my curiosity with the subject of dysfunctional eating began.

The more women I worked with, the more common I realized it was. The more common I realized it was the more curious I became. I began to wonder why women were so obsessed with food and so addicted to thin. I wondered why they couldn't just work with what they were given. I wondered what would happen when they finally lost those ten pounds. I became curious enough that I decided to write a book in order to finally understand why.

We no longer own Fitness Excellence and I am no longer working one-on-one with clients.  My fitness career has taken on a new dimension and that is one of student. I am committed to listening to you and to understanding why.  I am committed to bringing a voice to your stories. I am committed to the completion of this book. I hope that it will help women realize that their potential has nothing to do with their size.

Mia

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.