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9 things I would go back and tell my younger self about health and nutrition

Let’s come together and teach our daughters that their bodies were not mistakes. Teach our daughters to love their bodies. That they don’t need to be altered. That by denying and erasing the body they were given they are denying where they came from, their mother. Teach our daughters how to tune in to their bodies, menstrual cycles, intuition and emotions. Teach our daughters how to cook, move their body and properly nourish themselves for health, not a body size. Allow them to have fun, play and relax and never lose sight of who they are. We have the ability to change the trajectory of our future generation. Most of us are starting to wake up and it’s a beautiful thing. What is one thing you would go back and tell your younger self? 👇🏻

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Blood sugar monitors do not work for your female physiology and jumping on this bandwagon will likely be more harmful than helpful.

Checking your blood sugar markers all day everyday won’t fix your blood sugar issues.

Here’s the deal.

You get a fancy blood sugar monitor and realize you are having a lot of spikes after your meals. You start spiraling thinking you are pre-diabetic. You’re eliminating foods, carbs and fasting and all around just spinning your wheels trying to get your blood sugar perfect.

What if I told you you will likely never achieve perfect because of your unique physiology and the 42 other factors that could be impacting your numbers?

Keep in mind most women’s hormonal issues come from LOW blood sugar and the constant blood sugar rollercoaster we put our bodies under due to waiting too long to eat. LOW blood sugar is not discussed enough.

We starve ourselves and then when we eat we get a blood sugar spike and think there is something wrong with us. Nope. Your body is doing what it needs to do to keep you alive due to negligence.

Rather than focusing on what food or meal is causing a blood sugar spike get the foundations in place and if you decide you truly need a blood sugar monitor based off blood work then work with someone that can analyze the results with you otherwise you will just drive yourself mad and end up in a worse place than where you started.

Slapping a blood sugar monitor on someone that has no healthy habits or foundational nutrition in place makes zero sense.

The goal is to have stable blood sugar while eating carbs of all kinds.

That is true metabolic flexibility.

Your body is intelligent. It knows exactly what to do. Stop giving up your own innate wisdom for fads.

There is truly nothing groundbreaking or kept secret about balancing your blood sugar. It’s quite simple in fact. Your body will tell you a lot more than any device could.

I’ve got 99 problems but healing my digestive system solved like 98 of them

👆🏻Actual footage of me confident AF after all my problems resolved by working on my gut health.

But really tho.

Most of you have heard my story. The reason I became a nutritionist was because I healed my digestive system and in turn every other symptom or ‘diagnosis’ I had. My clients will likely tell you the same.

Got blood sugar issues? Get your gut in check.

Got anxiety? Get your gut in check.

Skin probs? Get your gut in check.

Thyroid issues? Get your gut in check.

Hormones wack? Get your gut in check.

I made all the mistakes and tried all the restrictive therapeutic diets hoping to see some relief but only got worse. None of these diets are sustainable and the second I tried adding foods back in I would react with a massive histamine shit storm, as any body would after restricting foods and food groups for a period of time.

I now can confidently say I eat all foods, animals and plants without any repercussions. As a human should.

WE ARE OMNIVORES.

This is why I will forever be passionate that therapeutic diets are detrimental and will never get to the root of your problems but will likely create a more unhealthy environment in the long run.

PS. That is what ALL diets are, they were created to help those with chronic diseases and symptoms like seizures short term, not long term use by an average human being.

It has been my mission ever since to help women heal without restricting foods.

Let this sink in. It only takes one diet to mess with your metabolism for life.

Healing your gut is not about going on a special diet, taking a probiotic or some fancy digestive supplement that whoever the F is promoting on instagram claiming it healed every ailment under the sun to make a few bucks.

There is so much more to it and requires lifelong nourishment and healthy lifestyle.

And I might as well get this out of the way…

Eating to support your metabolism or what people would call pro-metabolic just means pro-real food.

Eating REAL food, as we should have been all along. It’s a bummer we are being bombarded with BS nutrition advice all the time that eating real food is so revolutionary, controversial and evil.

Women function best in a well-fed state

Alright ladies, listen up.

Your body will always fight for homeostasis and whether you like it or not your body requires carbs. How much? That is up to your discretion and individual needs.

It is no coincidence that women come to me trying to recover from their years of restriction and low carb dieting after it stops working *SHOCKING* 🙃

They are now putting on the weight they lost, their thyroids are trashed, minerals tanked and they put their bodies into a hyper reactive state reacting to everything they are putting in their mouths.

Mark my words. Any diet that discriminates against a macro group will go down as the most detrimental diets in history (especially for women). I’m talking to you keto, carnivore, low carbers!

Rather than doing something drastic because “carbs are causing xyz_” have you ever thought maybe you need to adjust your macro ratios and the types/quality of carbs you are eating based on how you live your life?

Repeat after me.

EACH MACRO HAS A PURPOSE!

How your body uses those macros is determined by your current state of health and the life you live.

Poor sleep? Long hike? Strength training? Stressful day of work? Laying in the sun? Poor digestion? THESE are all factors that effect your energy needs and how you will use said energy.

Something I know for sure is a healthy woman that understands her body is a woman that can utilize all macros; carbs, proteins and fats for energy effortlessly.

Imagine that? What freedom.

Your high cholesterol numbers are likely not because you eat red meat and saturated fat.

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Actual footage of me ranting about the war on animal protein and saturated fat over my breakfast consisting of grass-fed beef and coffee with raw milk while I look over my perfect lab markers with zero signs of cardiovascular disease or high cholesterol.

Joking but kinda not.

Typically the reason limiting animal proteins or saturated fat may reduce your cholesterol numbers is due to the fact that you likely got scared and started making other positive lifestyle and diet changes that impacted your numbers overall. It had nothing to do with the elimination of red meat and saturated fat.

Keep in mind. If someone is pushing an agenda or are trying to become *Insta famous* they will 100% make it believable. Just because they have great speaking skills and can read a study doesn’t mean we can disregard human physiological needs for quality animal protein and saturated fats and our own individual needs.

As always, eat real food, innately listen to your body and do your best to find your way through the BS of this online space.

Oh and eat the meat and drink the dairy ✌🏼