FIVE NH BUSINESSES JOIN FORCES TO BOOST WOMEN’S HEALTH!

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Contact: Melissa Koerner

Cell Phone: 603-759-2067

Email: Melissa@FriendYourBody.com

FIVE NH BUSINESSES JOIN FORCES TO BOOST WOMEN’S HEALTH!

Southern NH Women Step Up to the Challenge for Great Rewards

Manchester, NH–August 2011–The Fall 2011 Friend Your Body Transformation Challenge brings together a team of New Hampshire health-minded businesses to motivate women on a 12-week journey to rediscover their health.  Friend Your Body, ECCO USA, the Hanover Street Chophouse, Derek Russell’s Art Studio and A Market Natural Foods are pooling their resources to reward women in the southern NH community with over $1,000 in prizes for their health improvement efforts.

Yet, the greatest reward is not the luxurious prizes; rather, it’s experiencing the great benefits of living with a sustainable healthy body.  Every week this fall women will gather at McLaughlin Middle School in Manchester, NH to build their foundation in health.  The first public Friend Your Body Transformation Challenge successfully launched this past spring at A Market Natural Foods in Manchester, NH and the grand prize winner lost a total of 17 pounds, 5% body fat and went down three pant sizes.  This motivated woman is 57 year-old Evelyn Bergeron, a local Manchester teacher. 

“All my life I battled with being pleasantly plump,” says Evelyn.  “Having extra weight at the age of 12 caused me to try different diets.  I would lose the weight, but before I knew it, the weight crept back on, plus a few more pounds which added to my frustration.  So when Melissa’s clean eating promised to not only improve my health and balance my weight issues, I listened and implemented her expert advice on how to become a better friend to myself.  Organic foods, healthy recipes, and manageable exercises gave me rewarding results. I no longer count calories or use the word “diet.”  I am never hungry, and I look forward to eating foods that enrich my health.  I know my body is healthier and thinner because of this new lifestyle.”

Melissa Koerner, owner of Friend Your Body, believes that, “Women are the hearts and souls of our local communities and deserve an opportunity to get motivated and focus on themselves.  Simple strategies for applying invaluable tools and resources will guide each woman in creating a realistic nutrition, fitness and lifestyle plan.  Not to mention, the chance to win classy shoes, fine dining, vibrant art, quality foods and premier health coaching will put a glimmer in every woman’s eyes!” 

Friend Your Body is a social enterprise out of Merrimack, NH that educates, inspires, and empowers women to take charge of their lives by transforming their health.  Healthy fitness & nutrition coach Melissa Koerner is the driving force behind the Friend Your Body movement and is currently spreading her vigor and enhancing communities throughout New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine.  Friend Your Body operates off the core principle that creating a healthy body is the only way to sustain healthy weight loss.

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