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56. From Weight Loss to Perimenopause: 3 Lessons No One Talks About

• Naihomy Jerez • Episode 56

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After an unexpected journey triggered by the simple aim of shedding post-pregnancy pounds, I discovered wellness is far more than just a linear path of weight loss. Imagine a roadmap filled with surprising detours leading to greater health, vitality, and even reversing prediabetes. Join me as I celebrate my eight-year wellness anniversary and share the profound lessons learned along this non-linear journey. We'll explore how initial motivations can evolve into broader health improvements and the empowerment that comes with taking charge of our personal wellness, regardless of industry trends or external pressures.

Transitions in life, like the onset of perimenopause or unexpected health challenges, demand adaptability in our wellness strategies. I'll recount how my steadfast routine was challenged at 37, leading to insights on anticipating change and embracing new wellness goals. By sharing my story and the struggles of adjusting to a new self-image, I hope to inspire you to welcome change and focus on overall health rather than just weight loss. There's a vital lesson in allowing ourselves the grace to navigate these life phases, learning from both intentional shifts and uncontrollable changes.

In this episode, I'm also offering a glimpse into personalized food and hormone health coaching that can truly transform how you approach your journey. This isn't just about following a set plan; it's about understanding your unique needs and finding balance through tailored guidance. With weekly one-on-one sessions and continuous support, you can explore how food and lifestyle adjustments align with your evolving goals. Trust the process, embrace the challenges, and celebrate the wellness victories that await.

Thank you so much for listening!


Speaker 1:

Hey friends, welcome back to wealthy generation podcast. I hope you've been well. I know these past few weeks have been a little on the heavier end, but I want to bring back the conversation to the actions that we can take and what we can do. Right, there's a lot happening in the wellness world right now with make America healthy again and the scientists fighting back, and there's a lot going on. And I recently was thinking to myself, like, what do I want to say about this, what do I want to do about this? And I still stand true that, while there are changes happening in the wellness industry, like overall in in, like big, in a big form, to have big impact right At the government level, what that might not have an impact on you right now. Right, like there, there's a lot happening, there's a lot of conversations happening and who knows what direction this is going to move in. Right, I have a lot of thoughts about it and I'm just kind of in the way and see what is happening. There's just a lot of talking going on right now and sometimes I'm that type of person where, okay, there's a lot of talking, let's see what kind of actions come from this, and then, speaking about actions. I think that's exactly where I decided I want to focus on. There are things that you can do right now that will have a enormous impact on your wellness, and you don't have to wait for laws to change, for ingredients to change, for companies food companies to get their act together, for the medical system to get their act together. You don't need to wait for any of those things. You have a lot of power and control over how you live your life, how you feed yourself, how you act right at this very moment.

Speaker 1:

And with that said, I want to dedicate this podcast to celebrating my eight year wellness anniversary and I want to share with you three lessons that I've learned along the way. I think that if I would have waited for things to change or for things to be better for me, or for doctors to tell me the right thing to do, like I would never be here. I think that I'm here today because I just decided, I just wanted to take charge, and it happened on accident. I have to say, it wasn't like one day I knew I should be doing all like changing my lifestyle. It just it just happened by accident, and I'll explain to you what that means.

Speaker 1:

And in these three lessons that I'm going to share with you, I think that what happens and I thought too was that wellness is linear, like you make a change and it's going to stick forever, or you're trying to lose weight and you're just going to see a downward trend on the scale, or, once your numbers look a certain way in your blood work, it's always going to remain that way. And in the past two years and this is where the lessons come in I have seen that that's not necessarily the case, and I want to bring this up because I feel like so many women struggle because or are frustrated or feel defeated like there's nothing they can do about where they currently are, because they try and go back to methods that have worked for them in the past right A few years ago, when you were in your twenties and it's frustrating because you're trying to go back to that. Number one is not helping you feel any better. Number two you feel like things are just getting worse and they're just not working. So you're kind of like at a loss now because what you knew would work is no longer working. You don't know what else to do. There's so much information out here and you're just not feeling well and now you're convincing yourself that it's your age or it's because you're so busy, or it's because it runs in your family, and sure, there might be some truth to that. But what is also true, and has a lot more impact, is that you can still do something about it, is that the strategy needs to change.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so I'm going to get into real fast why I say that this happened on accident. Like this journey for me happened on accident, and that's because when I started, when I made the decision or I wanted to make a change in my health or not, it wasn't my health. I'm going to be so freaking honest. I never even knew that this was tied to health. I just wanted to lose weight after I had my second baby. That was it.

Speaker 1:

I looked at myself in the mirror. I didn't recognize myself. I was super sad. I did not like the way clothes fit on me. I was not happy with the approach that was given to me, like my loved ones were giving me fahas and I was like this is uncomfortable and I can't breathe and I can't eat, and how in the world am I just going to live in this thing for the rest of my life and what happens when I go to the beach and what happens in the summertime when it's so hot. Do I wear this on my shorts Like? I just didn't feel like that was the solution, the long-term solution for me. I did use them for a while just to actually help me recover from my C-section, because it just felt so much more comfortable to be held lightly, not like the ones that suck the life out of you Lightly. It felt good to be lightly supported to heal from my C-section. So that was the goal.

Speaker 1:

I did not know a bunch of other things. I did not know I was pre-diabetic. I did not know that this was going to be tied to my energy and my mood and how I felt in my body in regards to bloating and digestive issues. I did not know that this was going to impact the frequencies of my migraines. I didn't know any of that.

Speaker 1:

Literally, the goal for me was I just want to look good in my clothes again, like that. That. That was it Like. I just wanted to feel like myself again. I just wanted to look at myself in the mirror and look a little sassy and sexy, right, and just not have things so out of place, like I had a lot of love for my body and what it had done and I also wanted to promise myself that I wasn't going to strive just for me anymore, like Naomi the person Naomi herself, not Naomi the mother right or Naomi the wife like I wanted me back and it just so happened I was also a mom right, but I so desperately wanted myself back in the same duality as I was a mother and I did not want to do diets Like it's not something I had enjoyed ever before I had kids, or maybe after my first son after, actually, my first son I tried things like diet pills and I thought it was literally going to die because my heart was pumping so hard and that got me worried.

Speaker 1:

I tried the juices to some extent and I'm like this is miserable. Like I don't want to just drink juice all day. I can't even focus, I don't even have energy from commuting and being a mom and all these other things that that's not worth it. Like I miss food, I miss chewing. What else had I done? I had done a few things and it was just not for me.

Speaker 1:

So the decision I made was it, and at that time, on Instagram I was seeing women who were also moms, who were working out at a local gym, and I thought they looked amazing, like they were so bad-ass. They had a bunch of kids too, and it gave me hope. It was like, if they are able to do something like this, then maybe I can't too. And it decided. I decided to start exercising when my body was ready Again. I was healing from a C-section, so it wasn't like I could just go tomorrow. So I actually bought a Groupon and I left it there until I was ready to go. So that's how it started.

Speaker 1:

And then, a few months later, I started working with a nutritionist and at first I was hesitant because I thought, just, I did not have a weight loss goal, I did not have a preferred size I wanted to go back to. I didn't have anything. The only guide I had was I just want to feel like myself again and I want to feel good in my body, and I didn't have any restrictive goals. And I didn't have any restrictive goals. I knew inside of me that I would know when that moment was, and I love that. I trusted myself enough that that was the goal for me and yeah, so the food portion was what ended up changing my life, although I did remain consistent with exercising as well, but I would go once a week to the gym classes and there was at least maybe one year that I was able to just once a week and the result of that? After a whole year again, I also gave myself time. I did not give myself a timeline or a deadline for anything. I just kept putting one foot in front of the other, making one choice, one decision after the next, and after a year, that's when I decided it was the most valuable benchmark and by then I had lost 50 pounds.

Speaker 1:

I had gone down maybe two to three sizes of my clothes and actually that was a big shock for me. I never expected for that to happen ever and I was very self-conscious ever. And I was very self-conscious and I had to get used to this new version of myself. I did not ever think that I would be there and I actually kept buying the wrong size clothes. I didn't know how to dress myself. Again, I felt very embarrassed and self-conscious when people would ask me questions about what I did and how I did it and how good I looked. I literally wanted to hide. I did not want to go places and at the same time I thought it was a fluke.

Speaker 1:

I didn't really think that these results were going to stay for as long as they did. I thought that everybody else I had seen they just gained the weight back and I was mentally preparing myself again to just go back to how I looked before, go back to how I looked after I had my baby. I was just like it's just what happens. So I held on to that and I also thought that there was going to be an ending to this lifestyle, like an ending to going to the gym and ending to eating how I was eating. And when I saw in year two that there was not an end, that it had just become part of my life, that I really enjoyed it, that I was really feeling so amazing, not just in my new body, the way it was at the moment, but I also had so much mental clarity, I had so much energy. I was feeling very strong. I was no longer getting migraines. I had to reverse my prediabetes.

Speaker 1:

It was so impactful for me and this whole time it was a testing and learning stage where I would notice how I felt before I went to the if I went to the gym, or if I skipped the gym or if I skip the gym, and I would be like, wow, when I go to the gym, I have so much more patience with my children, I feel so much more calm, I have a lot more energy, I am able to be more present and focused, and I really liked that version of myself. And when I realized that I didn't go, I would lose my temper. I would be so sad because I knew that I had to wait a whole week for me to get that time again, for myself to move my body, to feel that exhilaration. And that's how I started to make those decisions. That would stick Also with the food portion of it. I would go back to eating what my brain told me I used to really enjoy.

Speaker 1:

Before and when I used to eat those foods, I would notice that I did not feel well, that I was so bloated that I was tired, that it dragged me down, that I would get a headache. And then I would also notice that it wasn't a one day thing. I would need three to five days to recover from this one thing. I had to eat, and that was so annoying to me because I really enjoyed feeling optimal. I really enjoyed feeling that peace, that calmness, that calm energy in my body and I knew that if I took certain actions I was able to feel that way and if I chose otherwise, then I would feel not my best again, like I would not feel well and I did not like being there.

Speaker 1:

So sometimes it would take like this whole back and forth conversation with myself on should I have this, should I not have this? Should I make this choice, should I not make this choice? Do I want to say no and like, potentially hurt their feelings? Or do I want to say but save myself and how I'm feeling? Or do I want to say yes, just to like, you know, be, be a good girl or be kind or whatever? So there, it wasn't like it was an easy choice.

Speaker 1:

From the beginning. There was a transition period. There were so many transition foods that I had to take into account too, just to nurture myself to this new place. But I didn't know exactly where I was going. I didn't know. I just knew that I really liked the way I felt and then I started to notice that it does have an impact on health and I really liked the way I looked and how close fit and how strong I was and all these other things, but I really started to realize, too, what an impact it had on health. And by that I didn't even know about blood work and the pre-diabetes and all of that. At that time I just knew how well I felt in my own body and that was good enough for me. That was good enough for me.

Speaker 1:

Now let's fast forward six years down the line, right, because this is where I want to get into where the lessons were learned, because every other year that I celebrated my wellness anniversary, it has been kind of a similar learning, like you provide your own discipline and this is how you stay motivated. And these were the lessons I learned from food and exercise. I shared a little bit of that right now and it was kind of those what you hear, what you most likely hear from, let's say, wellness influencers, holistic health coaches. You know it's along those lines. The learnings, because I think it's similar for a lot of us. The learnings, because I think it's similar for a lot of us. But what I've never really heard people talk about before, what no one talks about, is these three lessons that I'm going to mention right now that I've learned in the past two years.

Speaker 1:

So do you notice, like when I was first transitioning to a new lifestyle and I wanted something different for myself and different results, it took about two years to figure it out, because a lot of these things like I was doing on my own, like the whole transition of it yes, I had help with exercise, yes, I had help with food, but the whole journey of finding myself was on my own. And this time, too, it's similar. I have a lot more knowledge, I have my certifications, I've taken the courses right, I've coached a lot of people and I have friends who are health coaches and who support me if I reach out to them, but this whole transition within myself, again about two years. So I maintained those results that I spoke about for six years and then, when I turned 37, in the beginning of 2023, everything started to change for me. I gained 30 pounds and I had a lot of inflammation, my body was struggling with blood sugar again, like there was a lot happening at once and very fast, and I couldn't understand what exactly was happening. I was trying to wrap my. I kind of knew, but I was trying to wrap my head around it, because one thing is to read about it and to see other people go through it and another thing is to go through it yourself and then try to figure out what works for you, because a lot of things might work for one person but doesn't work for you. Or you know of these strategies and you recommend them, but you haven't necessarily applied them for yourself. So you still, as a human, have to figure out how to apply those strategies to your own life.

Speaker 1:

And I suspect, like 99%, sure it was the like, not the start or maybe the start of significant visible symptoms for myself for perimenopause. Yes, I was currently. I think I was taking antidepressants at that time and I was taking thyroid medication at that time and I had even done one round of testosterone hormone therapy during that time, just to be super transparent and clear as to all everything that was happening. But technically, none of those things should have really impacted me the way that I was being impacted. There was one time I had a conversation with my doctor and she was like oh yeah, this kind of weight gain is seen with antidepressants. That was probably an option.

Speaker 1:

But I also know that perimenopause starts to create changes in women around age 35 and I was turning 37 and it was just very odd for me to just be so inflamed and gain steadily so much weight in such a short amount of time If I was still doing the lifestyle that had sustained me and had no changes for me for the past six years. So here is the lesson number one that I learned and no one talks about, and number one is that I had to adapt. I had to learn that I need to adapt my wellness for different seasons of my life. Okay, it had not been apparent for me before, because I was not this person who had a wellness lifestyle, a concrete wellness lifestyle before I had children. I didn't really notice that I was making this change or I had to shift with my season. When I started my weight loss journey after my second son, I didn't realize that. I just thought that, yes, to have weight loss and to make change, you need to make these changes. But I coming from a wellness lifestyle already and something that had worked for so long and, like I said, it's not something that I stopped and then started. I didn't stop and start. It was literally a consistent six years.

Speaker 1:

Then that really shocked me because I'm like why is this no longer working? So that's why I suspected was perimenopause. My doctor took, like you know, all the hormone tests and everything. But sometimes it's hard to tell with hormone tests is more of like, the symptoms that you have. That's more telling. So I decided to kind of trust myself on this and I had to start applying the strategies I knew worked for women in perimenopause and thankfully I had women that I could have conversations um with this about my health coach friends who know more like, know as much as I do, if not even more, about this topic, and they happen to be friends and health coaches who were also already in perimenopause for quite a few years. So just their knowledge and their lived experiences and their support, really they really held space for me when I was just so kind of devastated about everything that was happening. So now looking back is a lesson I learned and I want to share it with you to hopefully ease up some of that anxiety of what do I? And now I have the understanding that what I'm doing right now that has brought me back to a space of feeling balanced and like is working, is not necessarily going to be this way forever. I might have to switch my strategy again when my body says this is not it anymore. So it's really important to know that, so that we can be more graceful with ourselves, so that it's not necessarily catching us 100% off guard is like, oh, here we are again.

Speaker 1:

The season is changing, we need to adjust and adapt and I like to bring a lot of the human experience which I don't even know why. You know, like why is kind of like such a shock or not obvious that we are humans on this earth I have a whole episode on this right Like we are beings on this earth and the earth itself works in seasons. The moon has seasons, the climate has seasons, which is a conversation for another day on how that's changing with climate change, right, but everything is has some sort of cycle. Our women have their cycle, right. So it is just so fitting that we also need to create these changes for what our body needs. As our seasons change, whether we choose a different season and as intentional, for example, if you get married, if you have children, if you switch careers, if you move from one location to the next, you're creating a new season, you're creating a new change and it's intentional and you know that's happening, but there's sometimes seasons you don't have control over, kind of like when you start menstruating or not. You don't have control over that. You don't have control over when you start perimenopause or you go into menopause. These are natural cycles that happen in our body.

Speaker 1:

So adapting your wellness to the season of your life that is presented to you, whether it's short-term or long-term, is essential for a lifestyle rooted in wellness. When your goal is not to stop and this is what I tell my clients all the time there's no end game. The end game is death, really like passing away, like one of the biggest, I think, setbacks that people have is thinking that there's an end game, thinking that there's an end point to a lifestyle rooted wellness. There isn't. There is always something that we can do and sometimes voluntarily or involuntarily. We have to make those changes depending on the seasons of relax.

Speaker 1:

Okay, number two lesson I learned in the past two years has been that I need to choose a different short-term goal. Why am I specifically saying short-term goal? Because my long-term goal remains the same. Actually, it wasn't the same long-term goal from the beginning. The beginning long-term goal that I had it was the same long-term and short-term goal and that was to lose weight. That was it and that was to lose weight. That was it. That's all I knew, that's all I cared about, that's all I wanted, and I guess the long-term goal would have been to maintain that.

Speaker 1:

More and more and more about human wellness and what happens in the trajectory as we get older is to protect my quality of life, life to be well. I was going to say longevity, but sometimes that word is like we don't really know what it means, and even when I say quality of life like you might not, like I didn't really understand what that meant. So let me give you an example. I started to notice how, as people got older around me, they lost the ability to do things that they loved. They lost the ability to, let's say, walk long distances or go up and down stairs, or they would get really tired, or they were taking a lot of medication for their diabetes and high blood pressure and they were really weak and you know, they had to go through all these doctor's appointments and they had to stop traveling and going out with their family and all that. And yeah, I did not want that for myself.

Speaker 1:

I also started to learn that the main reason why women, specifically, would end up in nursing homes was because they couldn't take care of themselves anymore. They would fall and fracture their ribs or break a bone because, due to osteoporosis and because they couldn't do their daily activities anymore, then they needed to be supported in another environment. Reach over our head like if you're reaching over your head in your pantry to take out plates or food that's up there that would lose our ability to bend over to tie our shoes, that we would lose the ability to walk long distance, to stand up and sit down, to sit on the floor and get back up. Isn't that wild, when you think about it, that these movements that we do on a daily basis get taken away from us as we age, if that's what we choose to do? So that's what I mean about my long-term goal being to protect my quality of life, because I want to still be able to do these things.

Speaker 1:

I don't want my own limits for my own body to be the reason I can't do things in the future. If I want to go hiking, if I want to travel, if I want to do my own groceries, I want to protect myself from falling and fractures, which you can do all of this. By the way, through lifestyle you can keep your bones strong. You can keep your muscles strong, right? Um, we lose muscle density. We lose, you know, bone density like or I mean muscle mass and bone density Like. We start to lose all these things, and there's ways with our lifestyle to protect ourselves and to kind of slow that down. So I didn't want my own, I guess, decision of not to take an action to protect my own quality of life in the longterm to be the reason why I can't do the things I want to do, whatever that is, whatever that would look like. I am just setting myself up for success, for whatever I choose to do in the future. So that's what I mean that that goal remains the same right now.

Speaker 1:

So choosing a short-term goal was different, though, because I think that I became very thin right In my weight loss journey and I was very happy with that, but I didn't know exactly what that meant, or if that's exactly where I wanted to be, or if that was the goal. All I know is that people love to see skinny. Like. People love like if you're skinny is just success. You have made it, you have done it right. Like the. The smaller the size your jeans are, you know, the greater, the greater it is, the more you have accomplished. And because you know that was part of the conversation in society and what I've been used to, I was like, oh cool, you know, you know I'm here.

Speaker 1:

But in the past two years, when perimenopause really started to happen for me um, in that way, in the way of inflammation and waking and all of that I decided that I really needed to reevaluate what my short term goal was. And at that time I think it was just like maintenance, like I was just so comfortable there and I knew exactly what to do and there was just no question about it. But then I was like, oh, I really need to change my goal now to body composition. I really need to let go of the number rising on the scale and I really need to pay closer attention to what's happening inside of my body. I really need to know what's going on with my muscle mass. I really need to know what's going on with my body fats. I really, you know, want to protect my muscle density.

Speaker 1:

So I started to take different actions, right, like I, I decided to hire a personal trainer and I had to reevaluate the way I was eating and I was testing and learning for a little while and I was seeing what was going to work and what was not going to work. You know, I tried things for a few months and then I saw I wasn't seeing the results that I really wanted and also my blood work was not well, like I was starting to become insulin resistant again. And then I kept tweaking and I kept having conversations and I kept adjusting and I kept going back to the science and adding and removing and testing and giving it time. So the short-term goal remains body composition, gaining muscle, losing fat and that meant that I had to lose interest in what number the scale told me, because I ended up weighing now the same I did when I first started my health journey, which was around 180 pounds. But my body composition is totally different and I started to feel different again. I started to feel better in my body. I started to feel like I did before. This big change happened and that's what I had to focus on. I had to buy new clothes that was like two sizes up clothes that was like two sizes up. I had to change my workout routine. I had to adjust how I was eating and pay closer attention, and all of that to start supporting the changes and my different short term goal.

Speaker 1:

Now number three lesson number three that I learned in this journey was that we need to give time and space to process all these emotions of the new season that we're in. You know it's. It's okay to be sad, it's okay to be upset and frustrated, like I think that not honoring the emotions that are flowing through us and not honoring that we're 100% human and that change is difficult, even if you know what to do, even if the changes that you need to make serve you better and support you better, there is still a mourning period. There is still a lot of frustration and emotions that go in through this, and I talk about this with my clients a lot because sometimes they are frustrated, and I was too. I'm like damn what I'm already doing, like it's not enough, like I need to add more, like I need to spend more money, like I need to carve out more time and I need to track even more and I need to be more intentional, and I just let myself be mad and be petty and I would share this with my wellness. You know, friends and peers and my trainer, and because it is frustrating.

Speaker 1:

But what is also part of lesson number three is that while you're going through those emotions, or while I was going through those emotions, I also remain consistent and trusting the process. I knew the science, I knew that I had seen it work. I had examples of women who were similar to me, who were older than me, who had kids like me, who were culturally relevant like me, who were like, had results, right, like, and I would think to myself if they could do it, I could do it. I also found examples and it was kind of like the beginning, like the very beginning of my journey again where I was looking up to people who were where I would like to be and I would interact with them, I would ask them questions. Ball of hairy emotions. I was feeling them and I did not let that stop me from showing up to continue doing the work that I knew was eventually going to work or that I had to adjust at some capacity.

Speaker 1:

So something I teach my clients a lot is doing taking care of themselves in the duality of emotions. Like I could be angry and still show up at the gym. I could be upset and still adjust the way I'm eating. I can be petty and still track whatever I'm supposed to be tracking. I can be both at the same time. Eventually, se me pasa, like eventually you got to kind of get tired of being in that space. But the point is not to stop or not to throw your hands up and give up, because what I also know to be true is that change. You need to give your body the space to make these changes. I also knew that I had to stick with it for at least six weeks to understand if this was working or not, if I was seeing progress or not. So it's not like you do these things for three days and you're like, oh well, it's not working. It's exactly the same. Actually, the scale is going up and I'm not noticing anything. It does not work like that, friends. It does not work like that.

Speaker 1:

Once you know that you are working on something and you are creating a change, you need to give it opportunity to see if it's working or not, and most likely you are seeing some sort of progress, but you're probably stuck on just one part of it or trying to reach that end result that you're missing all the little steps and little dots along the way that are connecting you to that barrier goal. And if you stop in the middle of that because you let your frustration take over and you let your pettiness take over, then of course you're not going to make it to where you want to be and you're not going to learn what other changes you need to make to get where you want to go Right. So it's super important to stay the course and to trust the process, especially if you are working with a person who is further along than you, who knows the science, who you've been communicating with and sharing how you're feeling in your journey and what your goals are, and trying to unpack what the progress you're seeing in and what kind of changes you can apply. Like staying the course and learning that we need to keep adding on to that, all right, but you cannot be throwing up our hands and be like this doesn't work If you haven't even given it the proper opportunity and the timeline to see if it's working or not. All right.

Speaker 1:

So those are my three learnings from this season, friends, that I don't think I've heard people talk about or share about. I think we just see that someone loses weight and then they get it back, or they lose weight and they stay like that, or they're losing weight and gaining weight, and losing weight and gaining weight, or I just you know, it's not tied together. At least, at the very least, I don't think it's tied together as to. This is what a wellness lifestyle may look like. Obviously, it might not look like this for everybody, but I think that there are some similarities that everybody can relate to, because everybody's human, everybody's aging, whether they're choosing a change in their life or it's being chosen for them.

Speaker 1:

The change in season, it's happening at some capacity. And if you leave with anything from this today, it's knowing that you can do something of wherever you are right now, and it might just mean making that decision to start to stick with it. It might mean adjusting your goals or what your wellness looks like for this season, managing your emotions around that and sticking with it. And something I highly recommend is looking for support from somewhere that can hold appropriate space for you right. That's a lot of what has helped me navigate my life in certain areas where I need a lot of support, who I've worked with coaches on. So that's what I want you to know that you can do something that, whatever you were doing before, if it's not working now, it doesn't mean that you're broken. It means that you're in a different season and you need to apply these three lessons I just spoke about Adapting your wellness for the season of your life, choosing your long-term if you haven't and short-term goals and letting yourself process these emotions of this new season, while also remaining consistent and trusting the process.

Speaker 1:

I hope this has been helpful and I also want to remind you that if you need support around this area if you're like I have no idea what season of my life I am in, I have no idea how to choose my goals and how to keep going and be consistent and trust this process along the way in my life I've never really done that before and I want support around that.

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Where I'm going to learn about food and lifestyle that's going to help me heal and support my hormones and just meet the goal that I want in my wellness journey then I invite you to book a free consultation for one-on-one food and hormone health coaching with me the link is on the show notes below and I will be happy to have a conversation with you where we will discuss this.

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We will discuss the challenges that you're having, what you've done before, what you're seeing now, and then I'm going to share with you how I'm able to support you through food and lifestyle and help you identify what area, know that you are seeing progress and how to trust the process as well. I will hold your hands through that. Not only will we meet on a weekly basis for six months, you also have direct WhatsApp access to me between our calls to support you, and you get access to a very cool food tracking food and lifestyle tracking app that makes it super fun and easy to collect data so that we can make more informed decisions on the changes and the progress and all that we just spoke about. So I hope that you book a complimentary consultation with the link below. I cannot wait to talk to you and support you through this process, and I'll see you next week. Friends, peace out.