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Meet Allie Marcus of Allie Marcus Wellness in Calabasas

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Allie Marcus .

Allie, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
After giving birth to two daughters, only 14 months apart, my heart was filled with joy but I felt completely disconnected from my body and didn’t recognize the woman starting back at me in the mirror. I found myself living in sweats! I remembered a party more than 3 months after my second daughter was born and someone asking me when I was due?

I was simply devastated. On the outside, it looked like I had everything, married with a beautiful home and nice cars, but felt like I was dying on the inside. My marriage was falling apart and so was I. Losing the weight wasn’t easy and neither has been keeping it off for more than a decade.

I became a weight watchers leader and realized that the biggest challenge not only for myself but for others was that we know how to “diet” but don’t truly know what is actually nourishing our body. An obvious example is that a bag of Doritos doesn’t have the same effect in our bodies as a banana. I noticed as I lost the weight I started dressing better and started wearing black strappy heels and doing my hair and nails and wore mascara again.  Getting my body back was also helping me get my confidence back.

I liked this woman so much more and got the courage to leave my husband.  Determined to unlock the secret science of what it would take to stay thin, I went back to school to study nutrition. To this day I have kept off the weight!   I want everyone who feels frustrated jumping from weight loss program to every fad diet out there only to gain the weight back and then some, to know there is a better way.

Has it been a smooth road?
Many challenges along the way of course. To this day I cannot keep certain “trigger” foods in the house so I just keep a sober eating environment. At one point, I was also covered with hives head to toe that would not go away.  I saw several doctors but they couldn’t determine what the cause was.  Turns out I had hypothyroidism.  The doctors didn’t realize because I had not gained a significant amount of weight. So sometimes there is a medical reason for weight gain or weight loss so I work closely with my clients to make certain we cover all of those possibilities as well.

We’d love to hear more about your business.
Our confidence affects every aspect of our life and is closely linked to our body image or how we perceive it to be, therefore I work with my clients on their mindset for an overall transformation both inside and out.

Is our city a good place to do what you do?
LA is the best city in the world and is filled with health-conscious people. There is a lot of social pressure in our area to look great so this is the city to be in for anyone in the wellness industry.

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