G Notes

G Notes LLC
2805 Center Ave.
Madison, WI 53704

Maintaining your right weight
may be a battle
you can't fight alone.

Some people who have gone through weight-loss surgery can benefit from the services of a coach, like me.

I can provide support and encouragement to help you succeed. I believe that each person, with a little guidance, is smart enough and strong enough to face the physical and psychological challenges of achieving and maintaining the right weight.

I can help you get on track and stay on track. How? By asking questions, listening, observing your emotional reactions, and helping you develop and use your skills and creativity to reach your goals. I can help you discover what will work for you, now and for life.

You can improve your life through coaching ...

If you are trying to decide whether or not to have weight-loss surgery.

If you have recently undergone weight-loss surgery and want coaching so you can make the most of the opportunities the surgery gives you.

If you feel challenged or even overwhelmed by the lifestyle changes you are making.

If you did well after weight-loss surgery, but now find yourself slipping back into your old habits.

If you are constantly undermining your efforts to make the changes necessitated by weight-loss surgery.

If you are struggling to get back on track, to return to doing the things that will improve your life.

If you are facing major changes and decisions in your life because of the surgery.

If the surgery has resulted in such large changes that you are questioning who you are, what you want, and where you are going.

How Are the Sessions Conducted?

I make it convenient for you to benefit from coaching no matter where you are. I do all coaching by phone, except in special circumstances. (I coach groups through conference calls.)

You and I agree on a time each week for you to call. During the session, you and I discuss what is going well for you and how to leverage your successes, what has been challenging for you, and any questions you may have. You may also contact me by e-mail between scheduled sessions to report on your progress or ask questions.

If you'd like more information about individual or group coaching, please contact me:

g.notesllc@gmail.com

608-240-2036

Coach Gail

Gail Engebretson has struggled with her weight and the issues surrounding this problem all her life. From early childhood she suffered from prejudice against obesity. By age 50 she weighed 330 pounds and began having medical problems due to obesity. She took the big step of having gastric bypass surgery on March 21, 2004 and within18 months she lost 170 pounds.

A bigger challenge has been keeping the weight off — a challenge for all weight-loss surgery patients. She has been succeeding through educating herself on the effects of weight-loss surgery and changing her lifestyle. She has become more confident, outgoing, and active, spending much of her free time enjoying biking, hiking, tennis, kayaking, dancing, kick boxing, and swimming.

Gail has mentored people considering weight-loss surgery through the UW Health Bariatric Surgery Program in Madison, Wisconsin since 2006. She has received life coach training from The Coaches Training Institute, the largest in-person coach training school in the world, and she expects to become certified in July.

She has provided inspiration and information to individuals and groups. She uses her personal experiences and her training as a life coach to guide bariatric patients through the challenges before and after the surgery.

"A Great Inspiration to Her Clients"

Coach Gail was featured in a series on "successful people who have made career changes in 2009, despite the bad economy," in the San Francisco Job Search Examiner, published October 23, 2009.

As the author noted, "She is a great inspiration to her clients and others wishing to make dramatic lifestyle and career changes to better themselves!"