Featured Members
Michelle May, M.D., CSP
MemberAm I Hungry?, P.L.L.C.
P.O. Box 93686
Phoenix, AZ 85070-3686
480 704-7811
Michelle May, M.D., a family physician and recovered yoyo dieter, empowers individuals to end overeating and chronic dieting without deprivation and guilt. As a mindful eating expert, inspirational speaker, and award-winning author, Michelle’s passion, insight, and humor stems from her own personal struggle with food and weight.
Michelle is the founder of the Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Workshops (AmIHungry.com) that guide participants to eat instinctively again, live a more active lifestyle, and balance eating for enjoyment with eating for health. Winner of the Excellence in Patient Education Innovation Award, she has trained hundreds of health professionals to facilitate Am I Hungry? worldwide.
Michelle is the award-winning author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How To Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle, received seven awards for publishing including Best Health Book, Best Body-Mind-Spirit Book, Best Nutrition Book, and Best Self-Help Book. TIME.com called Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat one of the Top 10 Notable New Diet Books for 2010 (though Dr. May insists that it is actually a how-not-to-diet book). Her first book, Am I Hungry? What to Do When Diets Don’t Work was the basis for the American Academy of Family Physicians’ national wellness campaign, Americans in Motion. Michelle is also the co-author of ‘H’ is for Healthy, ‘F’ is for Fitness, and three other books that encourage healthy attitudes and behaviors in young children.
Dr. May has been featured on the Discovery Health Channel, Dr. Oz, Oprah Radio, and Fox News Radio, and quoted in Fitness, Health, Glamour, Parents, Prevention, Self, USA Weekend, US News & World Report, Vim & Vigor, WebMD, Woman’s Day, and many others. Her personal success story was published in Chicken Soup for the Dieter’s Soul.
Dr. May’s shares her compelling message and constructive approach with audiences around the country, offers mindful eating training for corporations and associations, and advises numerous organizations about promoting healthy lifestyles. Her inspirational keynotes, popular mindful eating workshops, and corporate wellness programs result in happier, healthier, more productive people who eat mindfully and live vibrantly.
From the member's website:
I'm blessed to have divorced parents. When it happened at nine, I couldn't see it that way—but it's difficult to see the bright side when it's so dark. The blessings have come in having two mothers (Happy Mother's Day!), two fathers, four grandmothers, my brother plus our two half sisters, and a large extended family. More…
I believe that healing your relationship with food requires you to love food more, not less. Think about it: when you really love someone, you spend time with them, give them your full attention, and respect them. So make a date with yourself...and be good company! Take yourself OUT to dinner; lunch is fine too More…
(Now I dare you to try to get Billy Idol’s song Dancing with Myself out of your head!) For twenty years, I had a love-hate relationship with food. Now, I’m a foodie: I eat what I love and I love what I eat. I’m also a people person—so not surprisingly, one of my favorite activities More…
Areas of Expertise:
Health & Nutrition
Image/Self-Esteem
Inspiration
Life Balance
Motivation
Psychology
Self Help
Spouse Programs
mmay - Updated: August 4, 2011
