Balance Your Hormones - Client Testimonial!

Welcome to the Balanced Body Podcast, where Sherri Griggs, owner of Balanced Body Health and Wellness in Omaha, talks to us about health, wellness, and balancing hormones.

Welcome, Sherri, to your podcast, Balanced Body Health and Wellness. Um, the Balanced Body Podcast with Sherri Griggs, owner-operator of Balanced Body Health and Wellness here in Omaha. Hormone expert extraordinaire, and we have a guest today. Today, Susanna is joining us for a conversation. How are both of you?

Fabulous. Doing great. Here we are.

That's wonderful, wonderful to hear. Now we're coming off of talking sugar and diet things. But because Susanna's here, we're going to talk in sort of about not only your journey, but just what, you know, what you've been through, how it's going, how you're doing, what you expect. And then we're going to riff a little bit about like both of our experiences dealing with Sherri, as if she's not in the room.

But I'm like, wait a minute, dealing with Sherri?

That sounds a little ominous.

Good thing Ray is not here.

How wonderful Sherri is to work with about our wellness journeys is what I meant to say.

OK, John, we will forgive you.

So, let's start off with who is Suzanne?

Yeah. So, my name is actually Suzanne and Yes.

Sorry.

No problem. And, um, I am a healing practitioner in my job that I hold. I, um, so I do energy work and things to that nature. So I deal with people and their energy. And what I have found, how I got to Sherri, was that as I had been aging, I noticed in the last 5 to 7 years, how old my body was feeling and how resistant my body had become to losing weight, retaining muscle, cravings, my inability to get a full night's sleep, all of the things that were happening. And my stomach hurt all the time.

Oh my gosh.

And so I had been using traditional Western medicine and had not found that I was happy with how the physicians were able to answer any of the questions about my physical condition. And so I went on a journey to find someone, and I found Sherri, and I am so incredibly grateful that I have found her and that I started this program. I started back in January. This year and came in really with a sense of overwhelm is what I'll say. There were so many things on my punch list of things that I needed to deal with. I felt like I had no idea where to begin, and I was so uneducated about what my body needed and what it didn't need. I will add that as well. And how I had just been treating my physical, physical body and the damage that I was creating by the foods I was choosing to eat. Sugar had been my, one of my good friends.

Mm-hmm.

And listening to the podcast last week about sugar, I was just like, oh, yes. I mean, seriously, it really is so difficult to, you know, break that habit. I love cookies and cakes. and desserts and things like that, but I can't have them. And it truly affects everything in my life when I choose to indulge in that kind of thing. I can feel the inflammation. I also have some old injuries in my body that I can tell when I'm eating foods that aren't good for me.

Uh-huh.

that those— the inflammation in the old injuries within my bone structures, within my tissue, all of that is so affected by the food choices that I, I'm eating. So working with Sherri, we've been able to help me understand what's best for me to eat.

Uh-huh.

Um, the volume, how much I'm eating. And then having the supplements that my body needs. I had not done— I really wasn't doing vitamins or anything like that. And here I am 6 months in, and I cannot tell you how different I feel just by consistency of eating better and taking the supplements that are needed in my body. It's night and day. For the first time since I can remember, I don't wake up in the middle of the night.

Wow.

I sleep all night long, and that is amazing.

Yeah.

I get, I get 8 hours or more sometimes of sleep and consistent sleep. So depending on how much liquid I drink right before bed, but for the most part, it's anywhere from 7 to 9 hours I'm getting rest. And that I have not done in— I can't remember how long. So that's a significant change. And not only just the foods, but adding a hormone regimen, um, to my body as well. Uh, estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone. I have all 3. And, uh, I feel so much better. I'm clear. I'm less foggy. My memory has increased. Um, I have more energy. There's less fatigue. I still have some body fatigue just from— I think that for the most part, sometimes that is what I'm eating, but also like depending on my day's structure, how much I'm, you know, what I'm doing throughout that day, because I do have some physical stuff that I'm dealing with with my body. But for the most part, the energy levels are amazing. And that is all due to 6 months into this Program. I can't wait to get to the year mark to see how much better I am going to feel. I am still working on some weight loss and I am hoping to drop a few more lbs., but I am pretty happy with where things have led me. So, I am so grateful for OPTAVIA.

That is so awesome. Well, and it's hard, right? Like, and I don't want to pinpoint it for you, but you said it. It's, you know, helping not only change the foods and your sleep and supplements that were missing and hormones. Like, it's— that's where it becomes kind of like this thing where I always struggle to articulate. It's like, it does seem overwhelming because you kind of have to— you kind of have like a dashboard with all these buttons and knobs and switches. That you have to like twist and kind of make right. But it starts with like what, what you just said. You saw yourself in the mirror and you're like, I just need to make a change. And it's like it became that one point, that one area. And for me, funny enough, it wasn't the mirror because it looked, you know, I actually look in the mirror all the time, but then I never really look. I don't know how to explain it. Like I I glance at myself and then I never really take it in. I move on. But it was photos for me. Like, my son took a photo of me and I looked at it and I was like, God, is that how I look? Right.

Yeah.

He needs to, he needs to take a class in taking photos. He's terrible. Right.

Yeah, that's, that's some truth right there, right? That's a harsh reality when we can see ourselves How we're portrayed to other people as well. It's a, it's an interesting thing. Um, it, it has that emotional component, you know, that drive to, to shift into gear into making a shift in your life. And you, I think intuitively most people know that it's time. You have to start doing some things differently or nothing, nothing changes unless nothing changes. Right?

Right.

That old saying. Totally.

And I feel like that's, that's probably true. Like that, that decision, that one, it's like the, the hay, the last little straw on somebody's back, right? That just kind of breaks it. You have to flood and then make all those changes. But what's nice is, and kind of what I wanted to hear from you to see if it's similar to my journey and what I've talked about with Sherri on this podcast, is even though it does kind of take a couple different things to kind of just balance everything out, right? You're balancing Hormones, your diet, getting your nutrition right and supplementing. But like, it's little changes here and there, and we're taking a lot of, you know, time and analyzing a lot of different things about your body to then make the change that's right for you, because your change is different than mine, which is going to be different for anybody else who decides to go through the program. So, you know, what do you find was like one of the more impactful things that you're like, this change was the one? For me, it was sleep. Yeah, but, but what about you?

I, I would agree that for me it's actually a combination of things because I had so much inflammation in my body. Then I can tell if I'm eating something now that Is, is not— my body doesn't want me to eat because within 12 to 24 hours I can feel the inflammation in my gut and in my joints. So that was, that was for me, probably, I need to feel good. I need to be able to move this body when I'm awake. And not getting the sleep. was not allowing my body to heal either. So I think it's a combination of those 2 things. So having that restorative sleep that I wasn't getting before allows my body to heal from whatever it is that I did to it that day. And, and, you know, through the sleep, and then hopefully putting, you know, things that are best for my body into my body throughout the day. And that is, that's been a challenge. I'm not gonna—

Oh, it's hard.

Changing your eating habits has been one of the most difficult things. I can, I usually do a really good job doing it for a while. And then, you know, something will come up and I'll indulge and then I'm off to the races a different direction. And so it's pulling myself back to eating better when I feel really bad. So I think practice, you know, we practice this with our bodies and how we make choices opposed to being perfect with it.

Right. And you can't be perfect. And I think, John, sleep was what— I don't think you saw that one coming. I think that's why it was such a profound thing for you, because that— I don't think that you went into any of this thinking, well, I'm just going to get some more sleep and everything will be better. You just— I think you were surprised.

I was very surprised. And I've— and what's funny is I shouldn't have been because I have seen and read things talking about how sleep is your superpower and making sure your body recovers. Like, I wanted to unpack a little bit about what you said there, like the things that you do to your body during the day. You know, good nutrition and sleep will help kind of restore that. But like, you know, we do this so that we can live our lives and make choices that maybe we go through a little inflammation here and there, but then we have structure to get back on track.

Right, right, right. So for me as well, when I'm actually eating good foods and getting the sleep that I need, I have more energy To exercise, to, you know, take another walk, right, when I've been sitting most of the day. I'm— I feel better to be able, instead of just coming home after a long day and just collapsing because I don't have any energy. And so it's really— I know for me, it's, it's really important that this be a consistent practice for me. When I'm not doing it, You know, I'll just feel like a big lump.

But it also gives you the energy to continue doing it.

Yes.

Right. If you're feeling better and you said something that, that's really important for people to, to, to, to catch or to hear is it's not about being perfect. Yeah. Right. It is. It's a practice and it's not about being perfect.

Right.

It's about making these changes. And, and as you're saying this, as you're making the changes and you're feeling better, That propels you forward to continue to make more changes and to continue to make the right choices. Right.

And for me, one of the things that I'm able to do today that I wasn't able to do before— like, my stomach hurt most of the time, eating or not eating. So, I learned to eat on a stomachache because you need food, right? And so today, I I, when I put foods in my body and I can tell, oh, this one is not good for me immediately. And so, because I haven't had the stomachaches like I did before. So it's interesting to me that it, like I say, it is a practice you learn as you go. If I'm eating, introducing something different into my diet, I can immediately tell whether my body is gonna Adjust to that food or not, and I won't have it again if I, if I don't feel like my body adjusted to it. So that it kind of cleaned the slate for me, you know, whereas I can eat now and I don't have a stomachache.

But you had to do the work to allow your body to heal.

I did.

It didn't just happen overnight.

No.

Right, right.

It wasn't immediate. It It did take some time. And I would say to anyone that's on this journey that patience is the key.

Yes.

Honestly, it's like I wanted a magic wand, just boom, you know, Sherri to wave that little wand and make me feel better and make it all magically happen. And I'm still in the process of healing in many ways, 6 months into the program, but The difference in how I felt from the day I came here to today, it's just night and day. I can't even emphasize that enough. So that's 6 months in. At 90 days, I was really feeling a significant difference. And at my 90-day follow-up with her, we tweaked a few things and added a few things, and immediately in that tweaking, on those products, I was like, oh my gosh, boom, that was the ticket. And that's from just having that awareness, I think, and being conscious of what's happening as well. Because I think that for the most part, with people who are seeking this kind of help, we learn to just deal with what we've got going on. We eat through it, we exercise through it, we work through it, and we are so hard on ourselves. in so many ways that if we get some breathing room and get some relief so that when we have a flare or something happens, we're really aware of it.

Totally.

And, and I was dealing— I mean, I think a lot of people are probably dealing with that exact thing too, because, you know, I had no idea of a part of my journey that I was lactose intolerant. But then we cut, you know, most, if not all, milk, eggs, I think. Pretty sure I'm the one eating it, so I'm pretty sure.

All the dairy out.

Yeah, yeah, we threw all the dairy and put it back in. And then, and then, you know, it's just one of those things where I just, I was like, am I? But I felt so much different not doing dairy. It's just easier. And I was like, huh. I just perpetually was throwing dairy at it because there's cheese in everything. I mean, there really is just cheese in it.

Well, and they tell us because it's so easy, and especially if somebody's diabetic, cheese is a great protein. If you need a snack, cheese is a really good snack because it's got the fat and it's got the protein and no carbs for somebody who's diabetic, right? And so now we're here. Now when you take away somebody's dairy, I've had people say, well, now what am I going to eat? I eat cottage cheese, I eat yogurt, this is my protein, what am I supposed to eat?

Whey proteins, right? Like the drinks and stuff.

Maybe, depending on it, whey can be very hard on your— on people's intestines and their gut too, because that is— is what casein is dairy, and whey is also a form of dairy, isn't it?

Yeah, I can't do whey.

Yeah, me neither. So all of my protein is bone broth protein because it is very friendly to everyone. You know, some people can't do plant-based, but I digress. I am always— she— you have to rein me in. You know, you guys got to rein me in, right? I'll be everywhere.

Yeah.

But dairy, right? Because it is so good, even if, you know, saying like dairy, like ice cream dairy, but the things that we think of as bad, but the things that can also have been told To us are good for us, right?

Absolutely.

Oh, that's one of the most inflammatory foods. And, you know, getting into it, there's so much more— the protein and the way it's made and the way the human body digests— that has a lot to do with it. But I have a gal, um, a friend, a patient, that she's fine with goat milk, goat cheese. And there's another thing, is it H2 or it's something Um, I don't know what it is, but it's not cow. And so, um, when I've talked about that book, The Autoimmune Fix, that's one of the things that, um, Tom O'Bryan talks about is the different dairies, the different animal dairies, and what's closest to our genetic makeup and closest for us is easiest for our bodies. Yeah, to, to use the nutrients and to not be inflammatory.

I use the goat cheese. I love the goat cheese now, and I'd never had goat cheese before.

And it doesn't bother you?

No, it does not bother me. Um, so I, of course, when you start this, you know, you eliminate a lot of foods and then slowly add them back in if you can. But like, I don't do, uh, dairy. I use ghee for my butter substitute, and, um, I use goat cheese, um, and, um, sometimes almond milk. Um, or oat milk that has a lot of carbohydrates in it. But, um, so I don't do dairy either. Um, eggs, I have found that I can have a fried egg in coconut oil, um, but scrambled eggs hurt my stomach. Oh, how interesting. Oh, isn't that interesting?

Yeah, it is.

So, and another patient, it was the egg yolk that bothered her. Oh.

She could eat the egg white without any trouble, but egg yolks. So we do know that when they're cooked certain ways. So I wonder if, you know, when it's fried in the coconut oil, if maybe it's a— it gets a little hotter than when it does when it's scrambled, right? Because you don't get them too hot when you scramble them, right? So maybe it's something that has to do with it does something, or that the temperature at that point does something to the protein at that point. Have you tried like hard-boiled eggs?

Just out of curiosity. Yes, I have, and they don't bother me either.

There must be something with the heat. I get that.

Oh yeah, see, and this is trying to be intuitive, I think, and listening, you know.

Yeah, this is a crazy important bit about, I think, our journeys with Sherri, that it's not like— you call it the blueprint for a reason. It is not for everybody. Everybody's journey is gonna be different and there's nuance to every little aspect to it. Like, you know, I used to laugh when Sherri would talk about going through the program and how people would like lose 10 pounds off of the, you know, first month doing the elimination thing. And I just didn't put two and two together. I was like, what is Sherri doing that people are losing so much weight all at once? Well, you're eating basically like vegetables for a month.

Meats and vegetables and good fats.

Exactly.

And, you know, coconut oil, olive oil, you know, but it's the kinds of oil because we need fat for our body to run efficiently.

But we called, we called my elimination diet in our household fun with fats because we were just trying all the different ones.

Yeah.

And how, how it either reacted well to us, tasted, you know, all the different things. And, um, and that's just it. Like, you kind of, you start Finding your little niche of not only things that you like to eat, finding that you can— like, I, I remember it like it was yesterday because even now today when I'm looking at ingredients on the list, like, I'll flip over a box and then I'm like, whoa, how do they pack all of that sugar or salt or whatever into this, like, into this food? That's not actually a healthy thing. Right.

And I've used, um, I use an app on my phone that I can scan the barcode on all the products and it gives me a breakdown of everything, which makes it easier for me to know what I'm eating and what I'm putting in my mouth.

Yeah. So, oh man, it seems like our journeys— it's so, it's so crazy. It seems like our journeys are so similar, but they're so different. It's one of the things that I have trouble with Had, and I still have, I still struggle with, is snacking. Like, I just can't snack because as soon as I start, then it's, you know, then it starts.

Right.

And I know that about me, and I knew that about me before. That's the thing. And I had a question about the DNA thing with you, but, and this might be an interesting segue into it. I found that it was a lot of information, right? Like, like my journey, there was a lot of different things that I learned. But what I found interesting was I learned it, but if I really thought about it, I kind of already knew. And that's what made the DNA testing fun for me, is like, I saw it on paper that it's likely that I have this, this, this. And I would think about it and I was like, you know, I do, but I never thought that I did. Like the lactose thing, like I just didn't think that I was lactose intolerant. But then when I thought back on it, If I had a big milkshake or something, then I didn't feel right. So, you know, it, it, it like, it was like clearing the fog a little bit on about me. Did you have a similar thing when you went through the DNA? I'm spacing on the name, Sherri. Is it like, it's not the DNA experience, but like the DNA program?

DNA testing.

DNA testing. Did you have that same sort of thing, Suzanne?

So because I, over the last few years, I've been trying to eat pretty whole for the most part, it didn't surprise me on any of the things that were on there. But like I said, because of the nature of our, the way our world is today with all the processed foods that are out there, I would simply just eat through The pain.

Mm-hmm.

And the biggest thing was just understanding like the labels and what's included in the different products. And then knowing through the DNA report that, Suzanne, just, just know, like for you, you just said you knew that when you would have a milkshake, but it didn't stop you from having another one. Because you forgot about the bellyache before you ate another one, right? Or you would say in the back of your head, this is probably going to give me a stomachache and do it anyway.

Yeah.

And so the difference, I think, understanding my DNA results is like, look, you have all this information, you're making a choice.

Right? And now you can't feign ignorance because now you know.

Sometimes the hardest thing For us human beings is to tell ourselves the truth.

Oh yes.

And to, you know, stay, stay honest with the truth, right? Because I could tell myself anything I want to tell myself, like, this won't matter, I'm gonna eat this, and then know that I'm gonna pay for it later. So there's consequences for my choices.

True. And I think that's another really great thing. I know I keep just bringing up great things about working with Sherri on this, is I don't know, I don't think I was scared of telling Sherri or continuing to tell Sherri where I failed in something, because we're all human. We're going to make either choices or mistakes.

Absolutely.

But just knowing that it is okay and that we can move on from whatever choice we've made, right? Because we're on a health, long-term health journey to feel better, but be healthier, right? And they think that, you know, a majority more better choices than worse choices.

Right. And I would agree that, you know, my connection with Sherri, she's just never been judgmental. And so it frees up that opportunity to be honest, to be able to say, I'm really struggling with not doing this particular thing or doing this particular thing. And she's— she always gives those, um, beautiful, like, uh, opportunities for you to grow and learn from by just showing you the facts.

Mm-hmm.

She doesn't have to lecture or anything else. She will just say, well, you do know that Your body is reacting because this and this and this, and gently reminding you why it's important for you to follow a program.

Yeah, well, because I'm not perfect. Yeah, I will tell people that all the time. In fact, I will admittedly tell everybody today— John and I were talking earlier, um, I'm not perfect, you guys. But okay, so my husband was looking for ice cream last night. The man should not eat ice cream. He is lactose intolerant. But so we don't have ice cream. But I'd make cake for a friend's birthday several weeks ago, and it was gluten-free. At least it was gluten-free, but it was not sugar-free. And so I took the little— I'd frozen pieces so that it didn't all get—

Yes.

And I took the container out and had 2 pieces in it, and I gave him one, and I put the container back in the fridge.

And then I went, hmm, maybe I should have some of that.

So I did, and I was telling John earlier, I said, I feel today like I'm hungover. Oh yeah, my stomach is nauseated. I'm tired. I don't feel good. And I knew, I knew when I put that piece back in the fridge, didn't I?

You did.

So pulled it back out. So choices we make. Yeah, and we know these things, but now It was a reminder, and I can't tell you the last time— well, it had been a long time since I'd done it since her thing, because I even froze it and didn't eat it all. But sometimes it's just, you know, you just know these things. It's—

yeah. And I think that, again, just that reminder that we do practice it. We're not perfect. And, you know, the whole human part of us is gonna do what we're gonna do sometimes. And it all depends on what was your day like? Were you overly tired? Did you get enough sleep the night before? Because I think those kinds of things for me make all the difference in how I'm going to make my choices the next— in the next move I'm going to make.

It does. Because honestly, I had not eaten a good dinner. I had not eaten a good balanced dinner. I ate cucumbers. There's a lot of cucumbers right now, but I— that's all I ate was cucumbers. And so I didn't have my protein, right? I didn't have my good fat. And probably, and had I probably eaten that, probably would have been easier to make the correct choice.

You would have said, no, I'm good.

Yeah, I'm good. Right. Yeah. Because I was the night before. And it's been in the routine every other day.

I think, I think what we just went through together with that, Sherri, which is really nice. And I think, I hope it, I hope somebody hears that and then realizes that it's not like a A negative that, you know, going to see the doctor, because I feel like with, you know, we talked about Western medicine and how it's more sick medicine. Like, you know, I got into the habit of going to my doctor for my physical checkup or whatever, knowing they're gonna say that I'm fat and I need to eat better. But that's like their solution. It's like, you're fat, eat better. And then they don't give you anything for it, you know, not, not like a supplement or anything, but just like help train you out of it. And I think that's— it's, it's a journey that you have to go on when you're ready for it. But then just know that you're not here to be like, you know, that teacher with the ruler throwing chalk, you know, erasers at somebody when they make a mistake. It's okay, we all do this. And sometimes it's not a mistake, it's just a choice you make because we're trying to be better long term.

Right.

And if you want to put your body through a cake You know, that's great, then do it, but then make better choices for the rest of the week.

And I think that with any, any kind of program, whether it's an exercise program or whatever, you know, the key to success is most consistency. So even if you, you know, have the cake or you indulge once in a while, but get back on the bandwagon and you don't, you don't just go off on a You know, a bit.

Oh, well, I messed up. And that's what a lot of people will do. I messed up. Well, I messed it up. I might as well keep doing it. So, no, I did not eat cake for breakfast this morning or donuts or anything like that. I had egg white bites, you know, so I had a healthy breakfast. And I—

You start back up.

You know, once in a while. But I also believe that when you also talk about consistency, But, and indulging once in a while, right?

It's okay.

You don't have to completely never touch these things or eat these things again. But I also believe that had I eaten healthier yesterday, yes, that I may not feel as badly today.

That's probably true.

Because I do know that before I ate better, and I do sometimes get in the habit of getting busy. I think sometimes we all do this. We're not the best about it.

You get busy.

You don't eat as much as you should, and then when you do eat, you don't eat what you should eat, right? That does make it worse.

Yeah.

You'll be tired, fatigued, not feel as good, be more likely to make food choices that are poor. Because I— my theory, there's no scientific evidence behind this, but this is my theory, that when we're hungry and we feel weak, our cells use sugar. That's energy, right? Sugar is energy to our cells. Which is when you have insulin resistance and the sugar can't get in to give ourselves energy. Okay, so then we crave carbohydrates, we crave sugar. So now you're tired. So your body, kind of like John, when you would, you would talk about, you know, stay up so late trying to get work done, you were tired, you would make poor snacking decisions because your body's craving sugar because your cells are screaming to you. We need energy. Now, granted, they needed energy. They, they need us to sleep and they need us to heal and they need us to regenerate, or they need us to feed our body good food that our mitochondria can use. But it comes— still comes down to the energy source of our cells is sugar. When it comes right down to it.

Yeah, it's very true.

And it makes perfect Sense, right? And I know myself, that's very true. I will want something, you know, a quick pick-me-up.

Yep.

And then I'll have more energy to finish what I need to get done.

And recognizing that is huge.

Yeah.

I remember in college, I didn't recognize that, right? I would like drink chocolate syrup out of the bottle. Because it was late and I was hungry and I was tired. And but now when I get those cravings, I realize, am I tired or am I hungry? Or sometimes do I just need more water?

Right.

So instead of just feeding that craving without thinking, I've learned my body's telling me it needs energy. But where do I need to get it from? Do I need to get it from some whole foods? Do I need to get it from sleep? Do I need to get it from more water? It's not the sugar that my body wants to crave.

Right. And I have recognized too that, um, if I'm just eating my proteins and I'm not adding any vegetables to it that have some carbohydrates, then I'll feel more sluggish. But if I add the carbohydrates, some of the squash or something with my, my protein, then I actually feel better.

Yeah.

When I'm having a combination of both the carbohydrates, you know, good complex carbohydrates, the broccoli or, um, you know, the other vegetables and eat that with my protein, I feel better and we need that. Yeah.

I think that's an important, I think that's an important little step is that it's all about balance. Like, and, and at first that can be an overwhelming thing to kind of view all at once. But Sherri, you break it down in nice even little bits and pieces and talk very deeply about this is what's going on with you and here's what to look for and here's signals that you'll see. So like you bring up your own experience with the signals for like wanting and craving. I think everybody deals with that. Obviously we all deal with cravings that we're— our bodies are aching for.

Right.

But then we get to, we get to interpret them a little bit Say, okay, well, you want this, but if we give you this—

And I think if we go back to, like, to the very beginning when we talk about the different parts of, like, understanding all of this and the overwhelm, when I first started, it's just like so much because we were looking at the sleep, we were looking at the hormones, we're looking at the food, we're looking at my— how I feel, all of those things in combination, right? And so It, you know, just to reiterate the idea of patience through that, that you won't absorb all the information or the knowledge all in one sitting, that over this 6-month span I have learned so much and that it's been in little cycles of learning, quite honestly.

Yes.

Oh, this is what she was talking about. Like when we go through my labs or what have you, and then I start to recognize the shifts in the labs and the changes that my labs are showing, it's like, okay, that totally makes sense. So I think on top of that too, it's just what I love about this and Sherri is that she helps to educate as well so that you're knowledgeable about what it is your labs are saying and what it's doing to your body. And, and in little bite-sized pieces, because again, we aren't going to absorb everything all at one time. So, you know, just, just as a reminder to give yourself some time to acclimate and patience and compassion.

Absolutely. Because it takes a lot to listen, to learn to listen to your body.

Yeah, right. And to make changes.

Yeah, certainly.

Because I tell everyone, you didn't get this way overnight. No, we won't fix you overnight.

Right. But that also leads to— and this is important for me, and this is one of the things that I just keep reiterating to myself, but then also realizing it's a part of the journey— is like, it, it doesn't take overnight, but that's almost better for my case. Like, the fact that I'm making these long-term changes that I can keep continuing to make those changes or continue on the same path, I know that in time You know, of course I feel better now, but just like you, like, what will happen in a year? What will happen in 2 years? How will I feel in 5 years? You know?

I'm looking forward to— I don't think it'll change the color of my hair. Yeah, but I think what will happen is I will, I will continue to have more energy as I age. My flexibility is increasing, my tolerance for lifting some weights and things like that is increasing. Um, my resilience is, is much better than where it was when I started. And those are all really key factors for making long-term changes.

Absolutely. Well, geez, this has been a great conversation and it makes me just appreciate not only my own journey, but like how you do things, Sherri, because it just is The journey is different for everybody, but I think ultimately it's like we go on the same sort of path. It just will be a different path through it.

Yeah, right.

A little different road to get there, but yes.

Yeah, exactly.

Well, is there anything that you want to leave everybody off with, um, as we kind of cycle down? Or, I mean, is there anything that you think Suzanne, that would be beneficial for somebody new that's sitting there listening to us discuss this? Like, you know, we keep talking, we keep bringing up that it's overwhelming, but I don't want that to be scary. You know what I mean? Like, it's not a scary experience. There is a lot to learn about how to listen.

Right.

But now that we're on sort of the other side of like starting these changes for ourselves, they're feeling so much better.

What I will add to that is, yes, the overwhelm was actually felt before I found her, number one.

Okay.

So I felt overwhelmed prior to. So when I found her, it's a different type of learning overwhelm. But I would say that, um, what I have found to be true is, is that learning and understanding— I was so grateful to find out that I wasn't nuts, that there was something actually I could put my finger on and do something about. And so yes, all of the data can feel overwhelming, but it was a huge relief more than overwhelm to find out that there's a solution. solution.

Hmm.

And that I'm going to be responsible for that solution, that no one's going to have a magic bullet for me except my understanding of what it is that I need and to stay committed to that. And to have somebody there as like walk beside me is how I feel, to show me what it is that I need to do. That's That's worth every penny to a program like what Sherri offers. It's because I could never try to figure this out on my own. And, you know, we've got the internet and all the Google that we can do in the world, and that just makes me even more overwhelmed.

Yes.

So to have someone like Sherri to be able to just step it down— so yes, that's a lot of information, But the overwhelm, again, I felt before I got here because I couldn't do anything about my life.

Yeah.

And so having this solution at least gave me the tools to know what it is I'm supposed to do, and it's up to me to follow it.

It's true. And then we have Sherri to help us continue.

Yes.

Doing the right things.

Right, right. Sometimes from my mistakes. But I always tell my patients, I would never make you do anything I wouldn't do myself.

Right.

And that's important to me, you know, that I don't ever ask people to do something that's almost nearly impossible, right? There are some things can be very, very difficult, and, and that you'll always know why you're doing things. It'll never be, well, she just told me to, right? You'll— that education, it's huge to me because that's power, right? Education is power. And if you understand Then you're able to think, that's right. If I do this and this, then this is why this happens, as opposed to, well, she's told me to do it.

Right.

Right.

Understanding the why underneath the doing is so important. And that was very clear coming into the program, was her outlining that this is what we're going to do. This first 30 days is going to be very important that you follow this exclusively. And this is why I want you to do that. And then that, that's just, and then all of the documentation to follow up, um, to be able to read to support what she was actually telling me as well.

Oh yeah. No, I, I love, I, I continually go back to my binder and look through not only my own information, but why something is. And then, right, you said it so succinctly, but, you know, being able to then realize that one thing that Maybe Sherri's already brought up or talked about, but then like during the time that you're thinking about it, reiterating it gently, and then it's like, that's it, and then it sticks, you know, it's in there.

Because there is so much stuff.

There is a lot.

There is a lot.

Well, that's the thing.

That thing. Yeah, and it sinks, it clicks into place when you need it to click into place. There are still things that I go back and look at Even now, for some training that I did. Oh my gosh. Well, this book that I'm really listening to, that's right, right, that I read 9 years ago, or this training that I did 7 years ago. And, and, oh, that's right. I have that. Oh, that's why that's that way. Because there's just so much information. It could be information overload.

Yeah.

It's true.

Yeah.

In the world. So, but Since John had you close, if you would like to talk about working with me, you can go to the website, sign up for a free discovery call. The website's balancedbodymedical.com. You can schedule a consultation. I do telehealth consultations as well, or you can call in and it's 402-807-5333.

And I highly recommend you do it. It'll be 15 minutes initially But you'll love it.

Yeah, I would concur.

Well, thank you both. This has been good. This was a great conversation. Can't wait to talk different diets coming up.

Oh, that's right.

We'll talk about all the different stuff that's out there— fad and not fad.

And yeah, there you go.

Have a great day.

You too, John.

This has been the Balanced Body Medical Podcast with Sherri Griggs, owner of Balance Body Health and Wellness. If you're looking to find Sherri, go ahead and look for the website, balancebodymedical.com. If you're looking for the business and you want to find Sherri at her office, you can find her at 10815 Elm Street in Rockbrook Plaza. Thank you.