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Client Highlight; Meet Julie

 

 

Meet Julie,

Julie is a beautiful young client that works as a professional cook.

Her main reason for reaching out to me was for weight loss.

She had noticed, however, that the weight game played heavily on her mental health and she wanted a more holistic and balanced approach that focused on overall health, rather than just the number on a scale.

Julie had already done some work in this department and she was better equipped with mindfulness and stress management tools than most people twice her age.

She struggled with fairly regular headaches that cleared up almost immediately once she increased her water intake.

She was also catching frequent lung infections and was not awakening rested.

 

 

Julie started on the Metabolic Balance program.

2 weeks in; she was down 17 lbs She felt great and was grateful for supportive family and friends during the initial reset period.

1 month in; she had shed 22 lbs. At this appointment I encouraged Julie to get curious and to make connections between clean eating, her stress, mood and focus.

We discussed the gut-brain connection and the importance of a healthy gut and probiotic and prebiotic foods when addressing emotional or stress disorders.

Julie noticed that her mental health suffered when she stopped eating as clean. She noticed more fogginess, worse mood and more feelings of insecurity and doubting herself.

4 months in and Julie was within 3 lbs of her goal weight and had lost a total of 35 lbs.

She is catching less infections and has been awakening rested.

Julie is rocking this experimentation stage.

She’s making the important connections and recognises how her stress can derail her.

She is remembering to use her amazing stress management skills when she notices that she’s slipped into stress eating or snacking.

Julie’s talents as a cook are also a bonus. She knows how important it is, for long-term sustainability, to make her healthy food taste good.

Moral of the story: There are no miracle cures or programs. But, sustainable change is always possible especially for folks like Julie that are ready to show up and play the long game.

 

Let’s get clear on what Metabolic Balance IS and IS NOT.

It is/does:
✅A diet and lifestyle program
✅A program that naturally helps lower inflammation in the body
✅A program that naturally helps balance hormones – particularly insulin
✅Provide a template and a reliable tool to manage health and weight
✅Involves an initial, short ‘strict’ phase that enables you to detoxify, alkalinize and reset

It is NOT
🚫A miracle cure
🚫A diet
🚫A fix-all-cure all
🚫A rigid or restrictive way of eating
🚫An all or nothing approach to food

Here are a few words from Julie:

Q.:What has been the biggest takeaway from doing this work?

A.:My biggest takeaway would be that Metabolic Balance isn’t just about losing weight but more about clean and healthy eating and as well about how comfortable you are in all of this and all the challenges you are willing to face. Metabolic Balance is all based on you, Kim will be there with you every step of the way, you are not alone in this.

Q.:What has been most surprising?

A.: The most surprising part of Metabolic Balance is how much society has over blown portions. I’m surprised at how satisfied I am with smaller portions.

Q.:Would you recommend the program and working with Kim?

A.: Yes!!! Absolutely!! I can’t recommend Kim enough, and I have loved working with her. She has helped me so much it’s unbelievable.
Congratulations Julie for showing up, doing the work and for being such an inspiration 💜

Kim,

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Rocket Fuel Anyone?

Have I ever told you about how Hughie likes to feed our car with high test fuel on road trips, especially if there are mountains involved?

I always feel weirdly resentful of our car when he selects the expensive stuff but I figure he knows what he’s doing…

On one particular trip, after filling the car with the premium stuff, he suggested grabbing some lunch from a fast food joint.

Well… that got my knickers in a knot.

”How can you dump rocket fuel into the car and feed your body garbage? ” The whole verbal onslaught probably went on much longer, but you get the gist.

 

 

The recipe that I’m about to share is my version of green rocket fuel.

Over the years, whenever I’ve felt:

run down,
like I was catching everything that was going by
like my skin had lost its glow
like my energy was down around my ankles
cold sores coming on every two minutes
like my weight was creeping up despite doing all the things…

I’d mix up a few batches of juice, give my bod some love, and all would be well.

 

 

As things would improve I’d inevitably let the rocket fuel habit slip.

I’ve repeated the cycle several times over the last 10 years or so.

Now I (mostly) stick with it…

Ever notice how we stop paying attention to our health and bodies when everything is going well?

 

I love pairing a small glass of the juice with my breakfast and even sometimes when lunch is rushed (aka when I don’t have time to prepare veggies or greens.)

Our bodies were designed to extract the nutrients that it needs from real food.

And let’s be real, when else would you eat greens or vegetables at breakfast?

Get the recipe HERE

 

A few things to keep in mind :

-If you aren’t a recipe follower and want to go rogue; stick with mild-tasting veggies. Some other ones that aren’t in the recipe: avocados, beets, fennel, swiss chard, carrots, romaine lettuce… Mix it up.

-Stick within a colour palet. Mixing spinach and blueberries will result in a nasty-coloured end product that won’t be appetizing. What your food looks like really does matter.

-Beets will turn everything pink, pair them with berries.

-Add a bit more fruit or honey if you’ve got picky skeptics that aren’t into green stuff. You can only make one first impression.

-Avoid gulping the juice. ‘Chewing’ it, or at least swishing it around in your mouth to mix it with your saliva will lighten the load on digestion.

-Finally, I highly recommend using a blender to make the stuff. Juicers remove precious fibre. Almost no one gets enough fibre.

Here’s the machine I use:

Bottom line; your body machine deserves the high test stuff.

I’m not claiming that this will cure everything that ails you, but it sure is a nice thing to do for the amazing body that you call home.

Try it for a couple of weeks and let me know what you notice. I read and answer every response 💚

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