Welcome to Wellness

Welcome to the Myers Group Wellness Portal!

Good health means thriving in all aspects of our lives: physical, mental, emotional, occupational, financial and community/social. This portal offers advice, resources, recipes, and tools related to these interconnected dimensions. It also provides information on MG employee programs, updates on MG community events, links to nutrition and fitness coaching, and our tobacco cessation program.
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The Wellable Continuous Wellness Program
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With our continuous wellness program, you will have the opportunity to learn about a new wellness topic each month, for example, Nutrition, Sleep, Physical Activity, and receive points and rewards ($20, $40, $60 Myers Group gift cards & fitness trackers) on an ongoing basis just for engaging with the program. No physical activity is required to earn a reward! To register for the program, visit Wellable/The Myers Group.  To learn more details about the program, click below.

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October 2026 Health Hero - Vanessa McCoy (Ocean Shores IGA)


I’m extremely happy to announce Vanessa McCoy as our October Health Hero. Vanessa, 29, has worked in the bakery at Ocean Shores for the past eight years. Since 2023, she has lost 64 pounds by making remarkable changes to her health and daily life. She started by improving her eating habits and then became more physically active by joining a local gym and the Ocean Shores IGA’s softball team. In addition to the dramatic weight loss, Vanessa also feels more confident and sociable. She is building strong friendships with her supportive co-workers and she is setting new goals for herself in all areas of her life.

As a child, Vanessa loved hiking and staying active. She was diagnosed with ADHD at age 7 and managed it well with medication. In high school, believing she had outgrown ADHD, she stopped taking it. Around that time, she began struggling with her relationship with food and anxiety. She developed a habit of bingeing on junk food and then purging, that perpetuated into a vicious cycle. These challenges deeply affected her self-esteem and made her feel increasingly isolated.

By adulthood, Vanessa was less active, and much of her diet consisted of carbohydrates and sugar. In 2023, she reached her highest weight at 250 pounds. As she approached 30, feeling unhappy with her weight, overall health, and social life, she decided to commit to change. Sensing that her ADHD was holding her back, she sought help from a doctor who prescribed Vyvanse to treat it as well as binge eating disorder.

The medication increased her focus and productivity while reducing her compulsive eating habits and lessening anxiety. She was finally able to make significant changes to her diet. She gave up her daily frappe, cutting about 1,800 calories from her diet. She also reduced her intake of baked goods, for examples muffins and doughnuts. She still enjoys sweets, but when cravings strike, she tries having protein or vegetables first and then checks in with herself about whether she still wants a treat. Eggs, chicken, and carrots have become staples, and she hopes to learn more about cooking so she can expand her meals. She has also found that eating more protein helps reduce her cravings for sweets.

Feeling more confidant in her physical health, she decided to work towards becoming more social and active. This year, she joined the Ocean Shores IGA softball team. Vanessa didn’t expect to love softball as much as she does but she found an unexpected source of joy and friendship.. Her teammates and co-workers welcomed and encouraged her, even though she had never played before. She is now considering finding another league to join.

Wanting to build strength and stamina for softball, Vanessa joined a gym about five miles from home. She rides her bike there up to six days a week, strength trains, and finishes with an hour of walking on a steep treadmill incline. A co-worker has joined her to help her learn proper weightlifting technique. Vanessa has been feeling a newfound sense of freedom and exploration. She recently decided to obtain her driver’s license so she can return to hiking and embark on other fun adventures.Her progress has continued: she weighed 210 pounds this June and she is now down to 186 pounds. She was able to lose this weight without the help of a GLP-1. She says she feels more confident than she has in a long time. It feels good to have people notice her progress, and she’s excited about what lies ahead. She wants to keep improving as a softball player. She loves cosplay and going to Comic-Con and looks forward to wearing her costumes with confidence.

Vanessa has come out of her shell socially, which was important to her. She’s being invited out more, cherishes her growing friendships with coworkers, and looks forward to future opportunities to join in sports.We’re so proud of Vanessa’s courage and dedication as she works toward a healthier, happier life. We’re grateful to her for sharing her story with us.If you have a Health Hero you would like to nominate, please email Katy (katy@myersgroupllc.com)!

Get in Touch
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Our Director of Wellness, Katy Nishida, is also available via email with any health related questions you have. Feel free to reach out to her at Katy@myersgroupllc.com. Katy is happy to provide advice and resources on nutrition, fitness, stress management, sleep quality, and so forth.