My name is Andrea Amador. I'm a Professional Certified Empowerment Coach and a Body Image/ Self Esteem expert.

 

For 18 1/2 years, I juggled being a wife, mother and entrepreneur while I raised both of my children running a business from home.

 

Being a loyal to the bone daughter, and wanting desperately to help my beloved father out of a jam, I decided to leave college abruptly, put my life on hold and stepped in to help my grandmother run the family business, a $10.5M real estate empire. From that point my once close and loving relationship with my dad began to dissolve the moment he said, "Andrea, Don't think of me as your father. Think of me as your boss."

 

After years of devoted service, self sacrifice, and emotional abuse I grew a backbone and realized that I was being treated like a doormat. Unwilling to be taken advantage of a moment longer, I gave my father an ultimatum; sell the buildings and give me 49% of the proceeds or I walk.

 

After I negotiated the sale of the property and made the deal, he cut me out of his life, ran off with the money, leaving me with a mountain of debt, a bellyful of hateful hurt and a ton of regret.

As a gal who has struggled with emotional eating and obsessed with hating my body for nearly 35 years, I couldn't stop eating and gained 35 pounds. My voracious appetite was out of control, until one day I made a small change that stopped the weight gain dead in its tracks.

 

I'm still dealing with the fall out from my losses, but I'm not turning to food. Let me share my stress coping secrets with you.