Fat Loss Mastery Practitioner

Transform Your Body and Mind with Proven Nutrition, Training, and Mindset Strategies

A holistic, science-based program to help you lose fat,
build strength, and love your body - without extremes.

✅ IAOTH accredited  
Includes workouts + guided theta meditations + mindset tools

👉If you've been struggling to lose fat, it's not because you're lazy or undisciplined.
It's because most programs you've tried were never designed to help you succeed long term.

🚩You've been sold quick fixes - not real solutions.
Most programs focus on weight loss (at any cost) instead of sustainable fat loss.
Some are extreme diets, endless cardio, and rigid rules that are set you up for burnout and rebound weight gain.

You've tried the diets. You've done the quick fixes. You've pushed yourself hard.
But nothing has felt sustainable or fulfilling. Sound familiar?

❌Why crash diets don't work for sustainable weight loss:
Crash diets usually involve extreme calorie restriction, cutting out entire food groups, or following rigid rules.
While they may lead to rapid initial weight loss (mostly from water and glycogen loss), here's why they fail in the long run:

✅ They slow your metabolism     
Severe calorie cuts cause your body to adapt by burning fewer calories at rest (metabolic adaptation).
Your body enters “survival mode,” trying to conserve energy, making fat loss harder over time.

 ✅ They’re hard to maintain     
Crash diets are often too restrictive, leaving you feeling hungry, tired, and deprived.
This sets you up for binge eating, emotional eating, or abandoning the plan altogether.  

✅ They don’t teach lasting habits     
You might lose weight fast, but crash diets rarely teach you how to eat in a balanced, sustainable way.
Once the diet ends, old habits return — and so does the weight (often more than before).  

✅ They harm your relationship with food     
You might develop fear of certain foods, guilt around eating, or an all-or-nothing mindset.  

💡 Bottom line: Crash diets set you up for short-term results and long-term frustration.
Sustainable fat loss comes from consistent, balanced habits — not extremes.

⚠What causes people to hit a plateau during weight loss?
A plateau happens when your weight loss progress stalls, even though you're sticking to your plan.
This can feel frustrating but it's completely normal and part of how the body adapts.

Here's what's really going on:
✅Your body burns fewer calories as you lose weight
As your body sheds pounds, your body gets smaller.
A smaller body requires fewer calories to maintain basic functions.
So, what started as a calorie deficit can eventually become maintenance.

✅Metabolic adaptation
Your body is smart! It senses a calorie deficit and tries to conserve energy.
This natural survival mechanism slows your metabolism a bit to protect against what it sees as starvation.

✅Unintentional decrease in movement
When you eat less, you might move less, and lower activity leads to burning fewer calories per day.

✅Loss of lean muscle mass
If you're not eating enough protein or strength training, some of the weight you lose may come from muscle.
Since muscle burns more calories than fat, this can lower your metabolism further.

✅Stress, poor sleep, or hormonal shifts
High stress and lack of sleep can mess with hunger hormones (like leptin and ghrelin) and slow progress.
Cortisol (the stress hormone) can contribute to water retention and make fat loss feel stalled.

The bottom line:
A plateau doesn't mean you've failed. It's simply your body adjusting and
it's a sign that it's time to reassess and adjust your plan to keep moving forward.

👉What's missing?
A plan that supports fat loss while building strength, confidence, and habits that last.

🚩The mental + emotional side of fat loss is ignored.
Programs tell you what to eat or how to work out -but don't tell you how to manage emotional eating,
negative self-talk, or motivation struggles. Without these mindset tools, self-sabotage creeps in -
and you feel like you've failed, when the plan FAILED you.

👉Real success happens when your body AND mind work together.

🚩You need a solution that works with your schedule, responsibilities, and energy levels.

👉Fat loss should fit your life - not take it over.

🚩Do not be trapped in a cycle.
One slip-up, and you feel like you've failed. This leads to guilt, giving up, and starting over again and again.

👉What's needed is flexibility, balance, and compassion along the way.

If you've been stuck in the loop of dieting, losing, regaining, and starting over, you're not alone.
And it's not because you lack will power.

It’s because most fat loss programs:
❌ Focus on short-term results
❌ Ignore emotional + mindset support
❌ Demand extreme measures  
The result?
Burnout, frustration,
and feeling like a failure.  

💡 The truth is:
You don’t need a harsher plan.
You need a smarter, more compassionate system that helps you build strength, confidence, and lifelong habits.

🎯Ready to learn how to break free of the cycle?

💡 It’s time for a new approach
— one that honors your body,
supports your mind, and
helps you create real, lasting change.

👉Discover the Fat Loss Mastery Course
-the complete mind-body system
designed for sustainable,
confident fat loss.

🌟 Why This Program is Different

  • Holistic, Mind-Body Approach: unlike most fat loss programs that focus only on diet or exercise, this course combines Science-backed nutrition education with workouts and guided meditations (no fads, no gimmicks).
  • Functional Fitness Workouts: for building real-world strength, mobility, and balance. Instead of random workouts or endless cardio, this program offers functional, time-efficient workout that prepare the body for daily movements, core strength, flexibility, balance, and mobility training. These workouts are designed for busy people - they are short, effective, and flexible.
  • Mindset tools: for addressing emotional eating, negative self-talk, and motivation. They help build discipline and resilience, manage emotional eating, and cultivate self-love and body acceptance.
  • Guided theta meditations + breathwork: effective for supporting stress management and inner healing.
  • Sustainability Over Quick Fixes: this program teaches habits that last, not crash diets or extreme plans. This is key in real transformation.
  • Lifetime Access + App Convenience: this course offers lifetime access and can be accessed through the Zenler app for mobile-friendly experience.
  • 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee: if you are not happy after 30 days of purchase, we will refund you.
  • Accredited by the International Association of Therapists (IAOTH): providing external validation of its quality and integrity.
  • Direct Access to an IIN Certified Professional Health Coach, Michelle Schwarz for support.

This is a complete mind-body transformation system:
nutrition + functional fitness + mindset + meditations

Real-life, sustainable, flexible
-designed for long-term success

No fads. No gimmicks.
Just a compassionate, evidence-based path forward.

🔍 What You’ll Learn + Achieve

  • Build lifelong habits that promote fat loss and well-being
  • Strengthen your body with functional fitness
  • Heal your relationship with food and your body
  • Develop emotional resilience and self-love
  • Have access to workouts and guided theta meditations 
  • Certificate of Completion just as below:
Join now - Build Your Strongest, Healthiest Self

📦 What’s Inside the Course

  • Science-backed lessons - energy balance, macros, meal prep
  • Clear, practical lessons on nutrition, training, mindset, and sustainable weight loss
  • 4-week functional fitness program - at home, minimal equipment
  • Guided meditations + breathwork - emotional eating, body acceptance, motivation
  • Mindset + emotional tools - overcome self-sabotage, develop discipline
  • Access to your instructor and IIN Certified Professional Health Coach, Michelle Schwarz
  • Certificate of Completion as Fat Loss Mastery Practitioner

🌟 You’re Supported Every Step of the Way — Without the Cost of Personal Coaching

  • When you enroll in Fat Loss Mastery, you’re not left to figure things out on your own.  
  • This course is designed by a Certified Professional Health Coach (IIN) — blending expert knowledge with real-world strategies that work.
  • You’ll have access to clear guidance, structured lessons, and practical tools to help you stay on track.  
  • Need help along the way? You can reach out anytime through our dedicated support channel (Module 2) — so you always have a trusted resource when questions come up.  
  • Get the benefit of a professional system — at a fraction of the cost of personal coaching — while feeling supported on your journey.
  • 🎯 Fat Loss Mastery was created to empower you with knowledge, confidence, and tools that last for life.

✨This is for you, if

  • You're tired of yo-yo dieting and want real change
  • You're ready for a kind, sustainable path to weight loss
  • You want to feel stronger, more confident, and balanced
  • You want to move beyond quick fixes and embrace sustainable, science-based fat loss
  • You want to build a stronger, healthier body while cultivating self-love and confidence
  • You want to develop lifelong habits that support well-being and vitality
  • You want to shift from a "dieting" mindset to a balanced, empowered lifestyle

✨What Makes Our Guided Meditations Unique?   

Our meditations are not just words - they are carefully crafted journeys enhanced by soothing theta waves music to help you experience profound inner peace and transformation. Theta brainwave frequencies ( 4 to 8 Hz) are naturally associated with deep relaxation, emotional healing, and heightened intuition. By gently guiding your mind into this powerful state, our meditation help you access your subconscious, release stress, and awaken your inner wisdom - even if you've struggled to quiet your mind before. Whether you're seeking clarity, healing, or simply a deep sense of calm, these meditations offer more than just relaxation - they open the doorway to true inner transformation.

Theta brainwaves (4 to 8 Hz) are naturally present during deep relaxation, dreaming (REM) sleep, and deep meditation. When you listen to music embedded with theta waves, your brain tends to entrain - it synchronizes its electrical activity to that frequency. This helps guide you more easily and deeply into a meditative state, even if you're newer to meditation or have a busy mind.

Theta states are linked to: Emotional Processing, Creativity, and Intuitive Insights.

Theta waves promote the release of stress and tension by shifting you out of beta (alert, problem-solving method) into a deeply calm, restorative mode. This can help lower cortisol levels, soothe anxiety, and improve sleep after meditation.

Our guided meditations are thoughtfully designed to help you relax deeply, quiet your mind, and connect with your inner wisdom, supported by calming theta wave music. While theta brainwave frequencies are also present in states like hypnosis, our meditations are NOT hypnosis. There are no commands, no external control, and no forced suggestions. You remain fully aware, empowered, and in charge of your experience at all times. These meditations simply create a peaceful space for you to reflect, heal, and grow at your own pace - naturally and gently. 
  • Energizing Breathwork Practice Meditation: this is designed to help you boost energy, sharpen focus, and awaken your body and mind. It's perfect for moments when you feel sluggish, distracted, or need a natural pick-me-up, without turning to caffeine or sugar.
  • Future Self Meditation: this is designed to help you connect with your future self - the version of you who has achieved your goals, embodies self-love, and lives in confidence and purpose. It encourages reflection, visualization, and alignment between who you are today and who you are becoming.
  • Gratitude Meditation: this is designed to cultivate gratitude and compassion for your body as it is, right now. It helps shift your focus from criticism or comparison to appreciation for all your body does for you each day. It is a healing practice designed to support self-love, body confidence, and emotional well-being along your fat loss journey.
  • Nutritional Abundance: this is designed to visualize a positive, abundant relationship with nourishing foods. It helps shift your mindset from restriction or guilt to one of gratitude, joy, and empowerment when it comes to making healthy eating choices.
  • Progressive Muscle Relaxation Meditation: this is designed to lead you through relaxation to reduce physical tension, calm the nervous system, and promote deep relaxation. It helps release built-up stress, restore a sense of peace, and reconnect with your body in a gentle, supportive way.
  • Body Awareness Meditation: this is designed to help you tune into your body with mindfulness and compassion. It supports deeper connection, presence, and appreciation for your body's wisdom and capabilities. It promotes self-love, relaxation, and a stronger mind-body connection, which are essential in any fat loss or wellness journey.
  • Breathing Exercise for Stress Eating: this is designed to help you pause, reset, and manage urges related to stress eating. It guides you to slow down, calm the mind, and reconnect with your body - creating a space to choose nourishing actions over automatic reactions to stress. 
  • Calmness Anchor Meditation: this is designed to help you create an internal "anchor" of calmness - a mental and emotional tool you can return to whenever life feels stressful or overwhelming. It guides you to connect with a sense of peace and stability, so you can navigate challenges with greater ease and resilience.
  • Emotional Acceptance Meditation: this is designed to guide you in acknowledging, accepting, and sitting with your emotions - without judgment or the need to change them. It helps build emotional resilience, reduce reactivity, and develop a more compassionate relationship with yourself, even during difficult moments.

🌿Aligns with Althea's Core Values   

We believe that fat loss is not just about changing your body.
It's about healing, growth, and empowerment at every level.


  • Self-love - this course encourages you to treat your body with kindness, patience, and respect at every stage.
  • Healing - we focus on nurturing habits that heal your relationship with food, exercise, and your body - no extremes, no shame.
  • Transformation - true change happens when body, mind, and spirit align. This course supports that full, holistic transformation.
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I know what it feels like to struggle with weight gain. I’ve been there myself feeling stuck, frustrated, and overwhelmed.

👉 I gained weight during some of the most stressful and difficult periods of my life. Stress, anxiety, and depression took a toll on my body, and no matter what I tried, I couldn’t seem to find a solution that worked — or that I could sustain.

I tried diets and quick fixes — but they left me feeling defeated and exhausted.

That’s what inspired me to take a different path. I became a certified health coach because I wanted to learn how to take care of my body the right way — with science-based strategies that honor both physical health and emotional well-being.

Through this journey, I discovered how to:
✅Nourish my body with food that supports fat loss — without feeling restricted
✅Build strength and confidence through functional fitness
✅Manage stress and emotional triggers without turning to food

And most importantly, I found a way to lose weight in a healthy, sustainable way — and keep it off.

-Michelle Schwarz, IIN Certified Professional Health Coach

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Yes, The Fat Loss Mastery Practitioner Course is designed for all levels - from complete beginners to those who have tried other programs before. Everything is explained clearly, with step-by-step guidance so you can go at your own pace.

No gym is required, but you are welcome to join one if you chose to. The functional fitness workouts can be done at home with minimal equipment (a mat, resistance bands, and light dumbbells are helpful but optional). The focus is on bodyweight movements and accessible training.

You'll receive LIFETIME ACCESS to the course materials, workouts, meditations, and updates. This means you can revisit lessons, redo workouts, or refresh your mindset tools anytime you need.

✅ Yes! You can access the Fat Loss Mastery Practitioner Course on your phone or tablet by downloading the Zenler app from the App Store (iOS) or Google Play (Android).
 💡 The app lets you watch lessons, complete quizzes, follow workouts, and listen to meditations — anytime, anywhere. Simply log in with your course credentials and continue your journey on the go!

Yes, this course is accredited by the International Association of Therapists (IAOTH), which recognizes the quality and integrity of this program. 

The core program is designed for 4-8 weeks, depending on your pace. Many students integrate the tools and resources into their lifestyle well beyond that. Remember: sustainable fat loss isn’t a race — it’s a journey.

💡 Please consult your physician before starting any new fitness or nutrition program — especially if you have pre-existing conditions or injuries. This course is educational and supportive but doesn’t replace personalized medical advice.

✅ No. This course teaches flexible, evidence-based nutrition principles that you can adapt to your preferences and lifestyle. There’s no “one-size-fits-all” diet here — just guidance to help you make sustainable, nourishing choices.

✅ Absolutely. The workouts are designed to be scalable. You can modify movements as needed, and you’ll be encouraged to listen to your body and build strength progressively. The program supports people of all sizes.

On average:
Workouts: 20-30 minutes, 3-4 times per week      
Mindset/meditations: 5-10 minutes, optional daily or as needed      
Lessons: About 20-30 minutes per week (self-paced)

🌿 The Fat Loss Mastery Practitioner Course is not a quick fix. It’s a holistic system that combines:
Science-based nutrition (no fads, no extreme restrictions)      
Functional fitness (build strength and mobility for real life)      
Mindset and emotional tools (address the mental and emotional side of fat loss)      
Guided meditations and breathwork (support stress management and inner healing)  
✨ It’s about transforming how you feel inside and out — not just dropping pounds temporarily.

✅ That’s okay! With lifetime access, you can pause, revisit, and progress at your own speed. There’s no rush — this is about building habits and results that last.

While this course does not include in-depth personal coaching, you will absolutely receive support and guidance throughout your journey. I designed the Fat Loss Mastery Course to give you everything you need for success with step-by-step lessons, tools, and strategies as an IIN Certified Professional Health Coach. You will have access to resources that reflect my professional training, plus the opportunity to reach out with questions through Module 2. This means that you get the benefit of a structured, high-quality system at a fraction of a cost of private coaching - to support you on your success.

We are confident in the value of this course. While no results can be guaranteed (because your effort matters most), we stand by the quality and comprehensiveness of the program. If you encounter any issues or feel the course doesn’t support your journey, you’re encouraged to contact us for help.

💌 We’re here to help! Simply reach out through Module 2: Contact Your Instructor, and you’ll get personal support.

✅ Yes! We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee because we believe in the value of this program and want you to feel confident in your investment.  💡 If, within 30 days of enrolling, you feel that the Fat Loss Mastery Practitioner Course isn’t supporting your journey, simply contact us — we’ll process your refund, no questions asked.

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Your instructor and founder of Althea Academy

Michelle Schwarz, EdD, PhD


Michelle is a Metaphysical Minister of the International Metaphysical Ministry and an IIN Certified Professional Health Coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She has a Bachelor's and Master's in Metaphysical Science from the University of Metaphysics, a Bachelor's of Information Systems and Operations Management from Fairfield University, a Master's in Management from American Military University, an EdD in Education: Curriculum & Instruction: Instructional Design and Technology from Liberty University, and a PhD in Holistic Life Coaching from the University of Sedona.

She is a retired veteran of the United States Navy and is dedicated to empowering individuals on their journey toward sustainable health and well-being. Her approach blends science-based strategies with holistic wisdom, offering a truly integrative path to transformation. She has transformed her life from being a service-connected disabled veteran into a successful and aligned being with a purpose to help other people reach their highest versions of themselves, while meeting them where they are at and letting them discover their internal, inherent and divine power.

As a certified 500-hour Meditation teacher, Reiki Master, and a HeartMath® Certified Practitioner, Michelle supports not only physical wellness but also emotional resilience, inner peace, and mind-body balance. She is trained in both NBHWC (National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching) and ICF (International Coaching Federation) coaching frameworks, ensuring her guidance is rooted in globally recognized standards of excellence.

With experience spanning instructional design, coaching, nutrition, mindfulness, energy healing, and personal development, her mission is to guide you in achieving holistic transformation, nurturing harmony between the body, mind, heart, and soul.


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