Hi I'm Carmela ~
Award-Winning Author Keynote Speaker Wellness Coach
I'll help you ditch the diet drama and create a body you love (with optimized, sustainable results)
Hi I'm Carmela
Award-Winning Author ~ Speaker ~ Wellness Coach
I'll help you ditch the diet drama and create a body you love (with optimized, sustainable results)
FIND FREEDOM FROM FOOD
MAKE PEACE WITH YOURSELF
CREATE A BODY YOU LOVE
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Master Happy Calories® with the 12 Week Total Transformation Program
Whether you are dealing with a mild case of chronic stress and anxiety about food, exercise, your body and your weight – not enough to really disrupt your life – but enough to keep you anxious and stressed out about your body and yourself – or something more serious, life-disrupting or even life-threatening – like a full blown eating disorder – I can help you heal.
I like to say that my PhD is from the School of Hard Knocks. I know deeply and intimately how painful and soul sucking food, body and weight drama can be. I’ve lived the hell and I’ve found my way to freedom. I can help you do the same.
Yes, I get it...
Everything I teach is original content based on healing my own pain, shame, drama and despair around food, exercise, my body and my weight.
I blew my first professional commercial audition because I could not take a bite out of a burrito shell filled with lettuce. I didn’t know how many calories were in a bite of a lettuce burrito. And if I didn’t know how many extra calories I would consume, I wouldn’t know how many extra minutes I had to spend on the treadmill to burn them off.
Acting saved my life, literally. But that industry comes with the stress of tremendous competition, rejection and impossible standards of beauty.
In the fitness industry, I lived all the crazy fads and discovered that I wasn’t the only one for whom “diet and exercise” didn’t seem to help me create the results I sought.
I did my “personal work” and my “spiritual work.” I addressed my mommy issues and my daddy issues, my inner child and my inner critic. I embraced the “power of positive thinking.” Yet nothing really changed…. until one fateful night.
DON'T JUST TAKE MY WORD FOR IT!
CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER!
For anyone who has ever struggled, truly and painfully struggled with their body and thought, “What’s wrong with me, why won’t it work for me?” The teachings of Carmela Ramaglia will set you free.
~ Ali, Amazon Reviewer
Happy Calories Don’t Count (1st edition)
LIFE CHANGING!
If you have ever struggled with body image or weight loss/gain/loss you HAVE to meet this woman!
~ Julie Anne Jones
YOU HEALED MY SPIRIT AND PSYCHE
You made me look at something that haunted me for life in a way that heals my spirit and psyche. We’ve all been so conditioned to hate food and/or our bodies. You’re like a real-life superhero.
~ Mindy Lee Caron
I'M FREE FROM FOOD AND WEIGHT OBSESSION!
Carmela, I wanted to thank you and let you know that you have been the final step for me in my journey to freedom from food and weight obsession. It feels like new ground, as I feel like a new person. Thank you!
~ Rachel Horvath
I HAVE LOST 30 POUNDS SO FAR!
Just wanted to update you that I have lost 30 pounds so far. WOW! I am SO thankful for you teaching me to trust and build a relationship with my body. I feel so much more connected and tuned in with it. Just wanted to remind you how precious your work is and how much you help.
~ A. Milan
THIS IS THE ONLY PROGRAM THAT IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT!
I have to say Carmela that this is really the ONLY program that is completely off the diet and exercise teeter-totter, and I have done a LOT of research. It is seriously amazing, so thank you!
~ Paige H.
CARMELA’S APPROACH IS TRULY REVOLUTIONARY!
I was stuck. I knew from painful years of experience that diets didn’t work. And every alternative weight loss approach I tried left me feeling angry, deprived and frustrated. I thought the problem was me: I had a bad attitude; I needed to try harder. Then I came upon Happy Calories Don’t Count®, and I had the revelation that the problem wasn’t my failure, it was the failure of the diet and exercise model. Carmela’s approach is truly revolutionary. She puts forth a new paradigm that not only makes sense, it works. Following her five steps, I appreciate my body, enjoy my food, and made it through the holiday season having lost weight. No need for a New Year resolution this time!!!
~ Dana Lightman, Ph.D. Author, Power Optimism
I'M WEARING CLOTHES I HAVEN'T WORN IN OVER 6 YEARS!
I had been thin all my life, but ended up gaining a significant amount of weight while dealing with an illness. I tried for years to shed the excess weight but nothing worked. In one afternoon Carmela helped me see how my relationship to my body and my thoughts about food and exercise had changed when I suddenly had weight to lose. The weight started falling off and now I’m wearing clothes I haven’t worn in over six years!
~ Linda C.
THIS PROGRAM IS CHANGING MY WHOLE LIFE!
I feel more freedom than I’ve ever felt and the guilt and pressure I’ve always felt around food is little by little, day by day, fading, being replaced by how great I feel in my own skin. I have been walking around for the past 24 hours totally “in touch” and communicating with my body and it’s completely changing the way I experience every single thing in my life!
~ Julie Kick, Author, Weathering the Grief Storm
CARMELA IS GENIUS
Carmela, once again, your ability to make sense of all this and communicate it so clearly is such a blessing…thank you!
Carmela is GENUIS at synthesizing all the various modalities of “self-help” and giving us a means to really heal ourselves.
~ Linda Davie
SHE TURNS WEIGHT-LOSS ON ITS HEAD
Carmela’s “out of the box” thinking about the diet and exercise craziness most moms torture themselves with is a breath of fresh air. She’s been there and understands how complicated, confusing and maddening the battle of the bulge is for most women. Her moving, witty and immensely helpful talk turns the idea weight loss on its head and made her one of our most popular speakers at MamaCon.
~ Amy Lang, Co-Founder, MamaCon
HER ENERGY AND PASSION IS INFECTIOUS!
From the moment I first had the opportunity to work with Carmela, her wit, energy and passion for healthy living was infectious. Carmela’s approach to helping people achieve healthy body issues was hands down one of the most moving and popular topics at the conference.
~ Kim Estes, Founder Savvy Parents, Safe Kids
EVERYTHING FINALLY FEELS RIGHT AND I FEEL LIKE A NEW PERSON!
Carmela, I wanted to thank you and let you know that you have been the final step for me in my journey to freedom from food and weight obsession. Just the other day, I had a moment of surrender that made me realize the fight was over, just like the surrender you’ve talked about. I finally quit, I didn’t need to fight food or myself any longer. It happened a few days after I gave up on the lingering diet mentality thoughts (thanks to you and the teeter totter diet idea), there was no more problem to hold on to. Like I posted before ‘I want to work with my body and not with a diet,” this phrase came to me like your phrase “happy calories, don’t count,” which I absolutely love, because it is utterly true they don’t. It’s nice to eat what I want, when I wanted without the idea that I am “bad” for “emotionally eating.” What a big misunderstood concept. You cleared that all that up for me. When I surrendered, I realized that there was never a problem with me, I didn’t need to be fixed because I was never broken. I was just not in alignment with myself (a new and exciting term I learned from you), and now I understand what self sabotage actually is, it is being out of alignment with yourself. Plus, I can finally have the relationship that I wanted with my body now that the fight is over. I simply don’t care what I do with food, I give it no attention. Everything just feels right. Food really doesn’t bother me anymore because I refuse to give it any power over me. I am choosing to not focus or get emotionally involved with it. Food is just food and how I feel physically and emotionally matter more to me than trying to live up to any standard. I just let things happen and follow what feels good and makes me happy. It feels like new ground, as I feel like a new person. Thank you!
~ Rachel Horvath
THE WEIGHT FELL OFF WHILE I HAVE HAD THE BEST GASTRONOMICAL MONTHS OF MY LIFE!
I’d just like to thank you for everything: the book, the discovery session, and the one-word lifesaver of a tip. *Chill*. I followed your advice. I went on a ‘research-diet’ and unsubscribed from all of the health blog sites. I haven’t read a single nutrition/fitness article since! And I don’t miss it at all. Now, I don’t over think the amount of food I put in my mouth, however big or small it may seem. I get off the bus several stops behind my destination, when I feel like it, to stretch my legs and enjoy the weather. *Calories-shamalories.* I’ve had the best gastronomical (almost) two months of my life because I’ve been so connected with my hunger and appetite. I’ve been eating the crème de la crème without losing my mind because I’ve practiced the habit of stopping when I’m full. Sure enough, the weight fell off. I am now free to enjoy my courses and have the confidence to present my work in class. Best of all, if I never lose another single pound, I know what makes me happy and my headspace is a lot sunnier as a result!
~ Sheila G.
