Award-winning Author and Inspirational Keynote Speaker
Michelle May, M.D.
(Michelle travels from Phoenix, Arizona)
Michelle May, M.D., a physician and recovered yoyo dieter, empowers individuals to take charge of their life and manage their weight without deprivation and guilt. She delivers her crucial and timely message with passion, energy, humor and insight that transforms the way people view weight management.
Her personal struggle became an inspiration for lasting health
As an inspirational speaker, her interest in healthy lifestyles stems from her own personal struggle with food and weight. After years of chronic dieting, she resolved her own weight issues by developing a healthy, balanced relationship with food. Her primary goal has been to inspire audiences to improve their health with her compassionate and constructive approach.
Michelle is the Founder and CEO of the proven Am I Hungry?® Workshops that guide participants to eat instinctively again, live a more active lifestyle and balance eating for enjoyment with eating for health. Am I Hungry?® received the Excellence in Patient Education Innovation Award and is available through corporate wellness programs, medical offices, hospitals, fitness centers and insurance companies. She has trained and Licensed Am I Hungry?® Facilitators from Alaska to Florida. As a physician, speaker, writer, workshop facilitator and consultant, Dr. May has shared her powerful and innovative approach to weight management with thousands of workshop participants, health care professionals and organizations across the country.
Michelle is the award winning author of Am I Hungry? What to Do When Diets Don't Work in collaboration with Lisa Galper, Psy.D. and Janet Carr, M.S., R.D. Am I Hungry? won three Glyph Awards for Best Health Book, Best Self-Help/Psychology Book and Best Book by a New Publisher. Am I Hungry? is also the basis for the American Academy of Family Physicians' national health and fitness campaign, Americans in Motion. Michelle is also the author of 'H' is for Healthy - Weight Management for Kids to encourage healthy attitudes and behaviors in young children.
She was featured in the Discovery Health Channel specials, Adult Obesity: Reversing the Trend sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Healthy Steps to Treating Childhood Obesity. She has also appeared as a guest for numerous television and radio programs including Oprah and Friends Radio with Mehmet Oz and has been quoted in articles in Fitness, Parents, Self, US News and World Report and others. Her personal story appears in Chicken Soup for the Dieter's Soul. As an expert in the cognitive-behavioral approach to weight management using mindful eating strategies, she also advises corporations and organizations on issues of health, nutrition and obesity. 
Dr. May is a Board Certified Family Physician with 14 years of clinical experience in Phoenix, Arizona. She received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Arizona State University and her Medical Degree from the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She completed a three-year Family Medicine Residency at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona where she served as Chief Resident.
She is well respected by her physician colleagues who elected her to serve as President of the Arizona Academy of Family Physicians. She was the Chairperson for the Subcommittee on Women of the 93,000-member American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and was elected to serve in the AAFP Congress of Delegates, the policy forming body of the organization for eight years. She currently serves on the AAFP Commission on the Health of the Public and is the Chair of the Americans in Motion Advisory Panel. She is also Chair of the AAFP Women's Health and Physician Wellness Conference and a member of the American Medical Association's Healthy Lifestyles' Advisory Panel. She is also a recognized leader in many other professional and community organizations.
Michelle must practice what she preaches in order to balance her personal and professional life while maintaining her own optimal health. She cherishes her relationships with her two children, Tyler and Elyse, regularly enjoys hiking near her home in Phoenix, Arizona, and recently became a certified yoga instructor. She and her husband, Owen, a professional chef, share a passion for gourmet and healthful cooking, recipe development, wine tasting and traveling.
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