What if everything you have heard for years of your life was very incomplete information and counting calories, decreasing them and relying on will-power, “the eat less, workout more advice” has just truly increased our obesity rate by triple since 1960!!! The misinformation surrounding fats, has been detrimental to our physical and mental health. Fats are necessary for proper cell functioning, metabolism, and are the building blocks to cell membranes and every hormone in your body. Our focus on calories has missed the mark completely and our fat free life has created physical and mental conditions while making us fat……now what?
It is imperative to know which fats should be a daily staple and are helping you to become a “fat burner” and which ones are inflammatory and should be avoided. The gut microbiome is also a huge factor in mental health, weight gain and every condition. Having too many pathogenic bacteria and not enough beneficial can seriously damage your health. You are 10 x the amount of bacteria as your own human cells so it is important to understand how a dysbiosis plays a key role in dysregulation of your metabolism, increased inflammation and appetite.
Weight loss plateaus are a very common and frustrating problem. Nutritional imbalances are the most common issue due to a widespread deficiency of many nutrients that help control inflammation, control blood sugar and balance hormones.
Do you want to turn your body into a lean, energetic, efficient super operating system?
Nutrition protocols can help reset and fine tune your metabolism and detoxification processes, using food as the foundation to work on achieving balance in all systems of the body. Forget the calories, focus on the quality of your diet! This means when you stop eating foods that work against you and your body starts working optimally, weight loss happens as a side effect of that. This eventually means no more cravings!
Instead of continuing to blame yourself for lack of willpower, start empowering yourself by eating real, whole, fresh food that are balanced in nutrients, low in sugar and starch. There is no success in dogma or a single category diet, each individual is uniquely different. While it is important to follow some overall important nutrition guidelines, it is imperative to dial into these concepts while also removing toxins from foods and eating the right foods at the most usable time of the day. Food preparation is another consideration if you are cooking in a way at home that makes a food inflammatory or even carcinogenic.
The goal here is to flood your body with the amazing nutrients that most benefit your genetic predispositions as a bio individual, to figure out what may be compromising your weight loss. What may be extremely supportive for one person may be kryptonite for another.
Your food has the exceptional ability to make you lose weight, look amazing and feel energetic but done wrong it will bring you to a complete state of dysfunction. Your nutrition is 80% of health, it has little to do with aging. Food is information to your cells and fuel for your mitochondria.
After figuring out which mechanisms are effecting the plateau or inability to lose weight, whether through food or support of bio chemical imbalances through supplementation, the goal for each client is to continue to modify their protocol with strategies that are as much sustainable as successful.
The most complex of tasks can become easier and simpler if you take them one step at a time. We are here to simplify the process and decipher the myths of dieting that keep you spinning on that hamster wheel.
Please call me at 919-427-5946 for an appointment or email me questions at kimshack12@yahoo.com.
Wishing you health,
Kim Shackleford
