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Happy Exercise®

Welcome to Happy Exercise®!

Life Changing! If you have ever struggled with body image or weight loss/gain/loss you have to meet this woman!

~ Julie Anne Jones

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

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

    EXERCISE IS NOT A PENALTY

    EXERCISE IS NOT A PUNISHMENT

    EXERCISE IS NOT "THE PRICE YOU PAY TO EAT"

    Welcome! I'm so glad you're here!

    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.

    This is my story

    Welcome! I'm so glad you're here!

    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.

    This is my story
    freedom from diet and exercise
    Make peace with your body and yourself
    Optimize your results

    let me guess...

    You’ve done the diets - the high carb, low carb, high fat, low fat, fad diets, starvation diets, “healthy and sensible” diets - and realized that they don’t work long term.
    You’ve done the exercise programs - high impact, low impact, plyometric, high cardio, low burn, mind/body programs - and have achieved limited results.
    You’ve figured out that a “lifestyle change” is just a fancy way to say that a diet and exercise program is so inconvenient and convoluted that you need to rearrange your entire life to follow it.
    You’ve done your “personal work” - you’ve addressed your mommy issues and your daddy issues, your inner child and your inner critic, your self-esteem and self-sabotaging behaviors.
    You’ve done your spiritual work - you can quote the Buddha, the Dali Lama, the Bible, A Course in Miracles and cite the principles of the Law of Attraction.
    You’ve done ALL this WORK - you know ALL this STUFF - and you STILL can’t solve the problem. You can’t seem to get that monkey off your back and find some peace.

    It doesn't have to be this way...

    You can have freedom!

    Food and Exercise can be non-issues

    You can feel confident that you look your very best

    You can feel good in and about your body

    You can reclaim your life!

    that's why I created

    happy calories don't count®

    ditch the diet drama and reclaim your life!
    Find freedom from food & exercise
    Heal your relationships with your body & yourself
    Transform your body & reclaim your life
    (That means you don't have to "burn off" your food through exercise)
    (That means you feel good in and about your body!)
    (That means that monkey is off your back for good!)

    this is not
    the “same old, same old,” tired and rehashed weight loss program, repackaged with a different spin. This is an entirely different core model that will literally change your life!

    You see, the "problem" is not you! The "problem" is the conventional, cultural "diet and exercise" model. The "diet and exercise" model is the root of the "food crazies" and the body shame and self-esteem issues.

    To truly heal and transform, you need to work with a completely different underlying core model - Happy Calories Don't Count® is that model. You will learn how to find peace and freedom around food AND create a body you love.

    So you can
    optimize your physical results without diets or crazy workout plans
    break free of body shame and skyrocket your self-confidence and self-esteem
    break the cycle of pain and shame for yourself and your children
    use your increased bandwidth to reclaim and enjoy your life

    So what is Happy Exercise®?

    Step 4!

    Of the Happy Calories Don't Count® Method

    Happy Exercise® is a perspective, a state of being, a lifestyle and the 4th Step of the Happy Calories Don’t Count® methodology.

    I originally coined the term in the 90s when I first started doing Pilates. After years of hard-core, punishing, body-bashing workouts that focused only on burning calories and controlling my weight, Pilates was a completely different experience.

    For the first time in my lifetime of exercise, I was able to connect with my body… to feel my body… to consciously move my body… and it felt GREAT! I felt strong. I felt flexible. I felt embodied. And best of all, I didn’t hurt. Pilates was my “Happy Exercise.”

    This life-changing experience helped me heal my relationship with my body - and with exercise itself. I was able to take what I had learned in the Pilates studio and apply it to all sorts of physical activities - including many of my old workouts - transforming them into “Happy Exercise®.”

    People noticed a change in me - I seemed happier, freer, and I was looking better than ever - and they wanted to know my “secret.” So I wrote a book, Happy Calories Don’t Count (neither does unhappy exercise) - and everything grew from there.

    Happy Exercise® helps you create a body AND life you love!

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    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

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    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, PhD
    Author, Power Optimism

    Award-winning author, speaker and wellness coach, Carmela Ramaglia equips women with the mindsets, frameworks and tools to optimize their weight and wellbeing and to reclaim their lives without diets, crazy workouts, magic mantras, pills or potions. Her signature Happy Calories Don’t Count® Method is the result of reverse engineering the process she discovered through healing and transforming her own painful issues around food, exercise, her body and her weight. Through her online courses, podcast, and group and private coaching programs, she helps women all across the world find peace and freedom from food while creating a body they love.
    Award-winning author, speaker and wellness coach, Carmela Ramaglia equips women with the mindsets, frameworks and tools to optimize their weight and wellbeing and to reclaim their lives without diets, crazy workouts, magic mantras, pills or potions. Her signature Happy Calories Don’t Count® Method is the result of reverse engineering the process she discovered through healing and transforming her own painful issues around food, exercise, her body and her weight. Through her online courses, podcast, and group and private coaching programs, she helps women all across the world find peace and freedom from food while creating a body they love.

    More Powerful Success Stories!

    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
    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 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 K.
    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.M.
    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
    Thanks for being a beacon of light!
    Love you Carmela! Thanks for being a beacon of light, reason AND practical application!
    ~ Elisheva Herrera
    THANK YOU FOR WRITING YOUR BOOK!
    Thank you for confirming what I'd suspected about weight - it's not all about calories in and calories out. I'm just trying to focus on being happy as I am now.
    ~ Nikki D.
    Reading this book changed my life!

    My weight loss journey up until Happy Calories Don't Count was a losing game (and I'm not talking about pounds), not a victorious one. After reading this book, my life became a journey of finding my true beauty and health by listening to my body and making choices that aligned with my happiness. Happy Calories Don't Count taught me about awareness. Reading this book changed my life. This is not a typical diet and exercise book (Thank God!).

    ~ Stacie P.
    This program is amazing!
    Carmela Ramaglia is one of the most incredible women, beautiful, wise, funny - that I have ever met in my life!
    ~ Karie P.
    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.

    And abovie all, if I never lose another single pound, I've discovered the things that make me *happy* an my head-space is a lot sunnier as a result.
    ~ Sheila G
    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 H.