Here’s the story of Sarah Jenks success story with the Pleasurable Weight Loss approach:

“When I met Jena, I was feeling very hopeless and mad at myself. I felt like a failure. I didn’t know how to actually not eat th

e ice cream in my freezer. I didn’t know how to actually work out, how to actually get myself to the gym. I knew that I had to, but I didn’t know how. I couldn’t seem to get my legs to get me there.

“I wasn’t obese, but I was probably carrying thirty extra pounds. I wasn’t comfortable naked with my boyfriend, whom I had been dating formany years. I felt like I couldn’t change in front of him. My relationship was in the shitter. My boyfriend and I weren’t having sex, we were fighting all the time. I was convinced he thought I was ugly, even though he always said I was beautiful and he loved me. But I couldn’t hear that, because I hated my own body so much. I was feeling lost.

“I had always struggled with my weight, since I was twelve years old. I went to my first Weight Watchers meeting when I was twelve. I had been on and off diets my whole life, up and down, up and down with, but never happy with myself, even when I was “down” and weighed 120 lbs. I still felt fat and I still felt ugly and unworthy. I would gain all the weight back within a couple of months. I always felt like something was wrong with me, that I didn’t have will power.

“What drew me to Jena was, she was very clear with me that there was something behind why I was eating the way I was eating. Most other weight loss programs told me what to eat and what not to eat, but they didn’t get into the deep emotional and psychological reasonss of why I was eating in an unhealthy way and how I could change.

“Jena taught me that there were all these reasons I was using food as a benefit, to keep me afloat. I was completely void of pleasure. I was completely void of femininity. I was void of self-worth, void of feeling like I was worthy of relaxation, self-care, and taking time for myself.

“Jena showed me that it wasn’t my fault. There wasn’t something wrong with me for eating the way I was eating. I just needed to add in all of these other wonderful things into my life that I had pushed out somewhere along the line, that I had previously felt selfish for having. I felt selfish for having pleasure. I felt selfish for relaxing.

“It was so ground-breaking to be given a permission slip from Jena to put those things back into my life. When I did that, I realized that my weight gain wasn’t about lack will power (as most other diets would say), and it wasn’t about lack of self-control. It was about me filling a void inside of myself. When I was able to fill that void with these other ways that were really, really nourishing—so much more nourishing than a bag of potato chips—then I didn’t need to overeat to keep myself afloat.

“I was overeating, almost as a way to know I was alive. When you are eating all the time, it is a way to connect with yourself. It’s a way to feel your body. You can taste the food, have that physical experience. It’s very pleasurable. So when I added in pleasure in my daily life, like going for walks, getting my nails done, dancing around my apartment, taking baths, paying attention to my hair and my makeup and all of those things that make me happy, I didn’t need to eat for pleasure all the time.

“During the time I worked with Jena, I lost 40 pounds. I was a size 12, and now I am between a 4 and a 6.

“I got married two months ago to the man I have been dating for the past five years. We have the most unbelievable relationship. We are just so passionately in love with each other. I felt like fell in love all over again after I went on this journey.

“I am of course very comfortable with him physically now. We have a great sex life, and we are just so insanely attracted to each other. To have that physical excitement when he gets home from work—it’s just so awesome.

“Get this… Now, I went from being chronically overweight, hating myself and my body, and being miserable in my relationship—and teach other women who are about to get married to lose weight, in my own Breathtaking Bride program I now teach. It’s hard to believe, but this one-time weight loss ‘failure’ is now teaching weight loss to other women!

“But the most important woman I want to share these teachings with will be… my own daughter.

“I come from a family history of women who haven’t been happy with their bodies. Now, I am looking forward to having a daughter, who is happy with her body for her whole life. I want to teach her to have pleasure in her life, and be the end of this lineage of body-hatred in my family, and the birth of a new generation of self-love and empowerment.”

Since losing 40 pounds Sarah has made it her mission to help women get out of body-jail with counting calories or stepping foot on a treadmill. http://thebreathtakingbride.com/