My own lifestyle changes lead to new service offerings

Welcome. I’m Brian Wolstenholme and I’d like to share part of my life with you.

I’ve developed an absolute passion about helping people make enduring lifestyle changes because, from several areas of my own life, I know how difficult and important change can be. In fact, as a Consultant Pharmacist, my primary work is to help people improve their lives.

My personal lifestyle challenge has been in the area of weight. Each time I attempted to change, I tackled it wholeheartedly. I tried controlling portions, I tried Weight Watchers, I tried exercising more, and I even tried a few fad diets. They all worked—temporarily. I found out that, for me, something was missing in each program I tried. What I discovered missing was a close personal relationship with a person who would coach me through my difficulties to achieve my ultimate goal.

As a Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist I know better than most what havoc poor lifestyle choices can wreak on the human body by the time the body reaches old age. I also knew if I didn’t make a permanent change in my weight, I was easily cutting ten years off my life. Not to mention that it was getting difficult to play with my child.

So the last time I resolved to lose weight, I took stock of everything I’d tried before. After some thought it became clear that the three times in my life I had successfully lost weight and maintained the weight loss, I was coached—first by my high school football coach and later by my Army Drill Sergeant. Later in life I was informally coached by a fellow pharmacist. It was while reviewing the weight lost achieved with my co-worker that I realized coaching was such an integral part of making permanent lifestyle changes.

I did some research. Being a pharmacist I was drawn to what the medical profession had to recommend. I found that the American College of Sports Medicine endorses wellcoaches©.

I signed up. I started losing weight. My coach helped me to achieve realistic goals in health, fitness, and wellness.

I became so enthusiastic I took their training to become a certified health and wellness coach—which led to the expansion of Medisort’s service offerings.

As I said, my passion is helping people. For years I’ve been reviewing patients’ medications and recommending potentially life-saving changes. (See our companion website and my credentials at www.Medisort.net.) Once I realized how powerful a coach was in creating permanent lifestyle changes I had to become one to share with others the way to improve their lifestyle and life span.

If you choose me to be your coach, I pledge to you I will be nonjudgmental while giving you guidance and support which will enable you to achieve your goals. I will be much more than a cheerleader; I will be your advocate.