Fitness coach turned best-selling author and business woman Michelle Bridges has created a loyal following of clientele from encouraging people to achieve their goals both physically and professionally.
“Do some kind of exercise regularly and consistently - not just for the physical aspects, such as improved strength, bone density, mobility, flexibility, sleep, energy, but also for the mental benefits,” the former Biggest Loser coach says to business women and leaders aspiring to achieve balance.
“Getting in control of your food and fitness will really help improve your mindset as well. Not just from the feeling of power you get from taking conscious control, but also the physiological effects that good nutrition and exercise have,” Bridges says, motivational words that have seen the internationally acclaimed fitness expert launch 12WBT, a specially designed twelve week plan that has shed a combined 1.5 million kilograms off participants since its launch in 2010.
Starting with her television debut in 2007 on Australia’s life-changing weight loss program The Biggest Loser, Bridge’s can-do attitude and admirably forthright personality catapulted her into embodying a new skin – to that of a sought after and influential business woman. Fronting the covers of The Australian Women’s Weekly, Sunday Life and Woman’s Health, becoming an ambassador for Medibank, and teaming up with Woolworths to create her own healthy meal packs Delicious Nutritious, Bridges remains grounded, never having lost sight of why she started helping people.
“When people come up to me, or email me to say ‘your advice helped me to lose weight, or reverse my high blood pressure, or control my Type II diabetes and get back in the driver's seat of my life’ it is just so incredibly rewarding,” Bridges says, a reminder to always remain humble no matter how high we soar.
According to Bridges, it’s all about repetition and the discipline to stick to your guns. “Truth is that it’s not simply about ‘calories in vs calories out’, but rather developing routines and positive habits around food and exercise that will keep you consistently and confidently in your healthy weight range for the rest of your life,” she shares. It’s a page that can be taken from Keeping It Off, Bridges’ sixteenth and most recent book that came about from her need to delve into a conversation that few people wanted to start.
