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I’ve got new things going on! Couple classes and coaching!
I’ve finished my Health Coach Corse and am taking new clients in the new year! Options Below.
I teach mom’s how to conquer their sugar addictions and or stress in 90 days using herbs, diet and lifestyle habit changes, so you can serve your family at your best!
It can be difficult to slow down and relax this time of year. But I challenge you all to take moments to remember to sit and relax. Check back with my previous post here on checking in prior to meals and making sure you are eating relaxed and why that is important.
Enjoy the moments of friends and laughter. Let it recharge you and fill your tank. Take moments during the day to engage your parasympathetic nervous system and breathe when it all overwhelms you. Box Breathing can help you slow down and engage your parasympathetic nervous system, allowing you to handle the seasonal stress better. Learn more about box-breathing here. You can also get apps for your phone that can help with breathing.
I’ve had great success tackling my sugar cravings with the following protocol. I’m not saying it’s perfect, as usually, around the holidays, I might fall off the wagon, and occasionally, I’ll have to do a major reset. Still, when I want to tackle the sugar cravings, this really makes it much easier. I hope it helps you!
STEP 1:
Start your day out with 10-20 ounces of water before you eat anything.
Start your day out right with a high-protein meal. This keeps your blood sugars from crashing, making you want to eat more sugar. It also helps keep sugars balanced.
Increase vegetables to 1# a day. This helps crowd out the bacteria that crave the sugar.
Space meals 3-5 hrs apart.
This is to get the Migrating Motor Complex in your gut to start working correctly. This is the grumbling in your gut when you are hungry. It’s best to wait 90 minutes after the grumbling starts to eat, as it takes about 90 minutes for this process to finish. This is important to fix because nothing else will ultimately work if it is not fixed.
This process regulates bacteria in your gut.
How do you know if yours is NOT working? If you don’t defecate at least 2 x a day and your stomach doesn’t grumble in between meals, yours is probably not working well.
Ginger is super helpful for stimulating MMCs.
Supplement with Saccharomyces boulardii.
Bitters after meals can also help curb the sweet tooth. Bitters before meals can help with lessening the amount of food consumed.
Many herbal companies sell herbal bitter blends. I like adding my bitters to a bottle of mineral water, and I will take a couple of drinks prior to each meal. If I forget, I just take it after or with my meal.
GYMNEMA: Gymnema sylvestre: For specific compulsions with food
For example, you need to eat dessert after every meal because that happened when you were a kid, and you can’t break that cycle.
Blocks sugar receptors on the tongue – but not for long
To help break the craving cycle – to disassociate the pleasure with the food
Works in this way because it makes you not enjoy the sugar as much
I’ve recently embarked on a journey to become a Health and Life Coach. Originally it was to just help my current clients with their health journeys. I love to help clients who are burnt out and have high stress and complications from stress. I have had great success with that. Going through this Health and Life coach course you get to be coached also. Wow! Have I learned a lot about myself. I knew I had a hard time “relaxing” but never really knew WHAT to do about it… I’d occasionally learn some things and would implement for a bit but of course it never stuck. Going through this course has helped me in so many ways to just RELAX! I’m not saying it is perfect, but I feel so much healthier with the habits I have started to implement. I love my herbs, and they work great, but I certainly don’t want to have to rely on them forever to keep me as I say “chilled the freak out!” I’ve had so much success with myself, I’ve decided that this is the avenue I’d like to focus on in mixing my herbal practice with coaching!
EEK! I Ate a Bunch of Sugar! It’s that time of year! You’re bound to eat some sugar… Don’t beat yourself up! Occasionally it is nice to enjoy yourself! Especially when celebrating the holidays with your family. But what if you don’t want the side effects of eating too much sugar causes? That could be an energy crash about an hour later, hot flashes for women in menopause, rising blood pressure, or a major spike in insulin.
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