We focus on nutrition and lifestyle changes because we know it works! Kimberly and I know you want to improve your cycles so you can feel better and get pregnant.We know those pesky PCOS symptoms go beyond annoying and into traumatic. Having PCOS means your body is stuck in a vicious cycle.
Let’s dive in to how we help you in individual consults or in groups.
1. Symptom Relief
Most of you gals with PCOS have a plethora of symptoms that are causing you a lot of grief. So, we start to work on those right away.
We start by looking at how your diet and lifestyle is supporting or not supporting your hormones and metabolism. The following symptoms can usually be relieved with some diet and lifestyle upgrades or with targeted supplements that have been scientifically shown to help with PCOS symptoms.
We want you to have:
- Pain-free periods and normal length cycles
- Skin that is clear
- Hair growing only where you want
- More energy and excitement for life and love (and making babies)
Our individual packages and our group programs involve a thorough client intake. This helps us gather the necessary information to help you. Without it, we would be shooting in the dark. We must know your symptoms so that we know how to address them.
Worried about strict diets or always doing things wrong? We don’t work like that! We do our best to help you succeed. Success does not include unattainable goals!!!
2. Your Factors
PCOS is affected by genetics, diet, sleep, stress, gut health, exercise, and environmental exposures. Which of these are affecting YOUR PCOS? Let us help you figure that out and identify simple lifestyle changes to address them.
We will help you to:
- Find foods and meals that are yummy and filling
- Lose weight
- Reduce or eliminate sugar cravings
- Sleep deeper and longer
- Work on stress management
- Improve digestion
- Improve gut health
- Identify hormone interfering chemicals/products in your life
- Find ways to move that you enjoy (We find that many clients are not even ready for exercise yet!)
3. Rebalance Metabolism and Hormones
Lifestyle and nutrition recommendations are key to address your symptoms and the factors affecting YOUR PCOS. Our goal is to help your body to rebalance its hormones, metabolism, and to improve your fertility.
By working through our process you can:
- Get your cycles regular and be pain-free
- Clear up your skin and have normal hair growth
- Have energy to do all the things you love
- Get pregnant!!
Having PCOS means that your body is stuck in a kind of vicious cycle. If these hormone loops aren’t resolved, then the cycle continues to worsen.
The Vicious Cycle – Curious about how you can break the cycle?
Breaking the cycle starts with the basics like: better sleep, hydration, eating nutritious foods, etc
These factors all feed into the cycle and need to be resolved to break the vicious cycle:
- Reducing sugar cravings
- Reducing insulin surges
- Lowering your stress reaction hormone (cortisol)
- Losing weight
- Improving your microbiome
- Reducing inflammation and pain
This all sounds complicated, but it doesn’t have to be. That’s why we’re here. We break it down into simple steps.
You can see how the cycle just feeds itself like a snowball rolling downhill.
It’s our job to take a thorough look at which factors are feeding into your PCOS vicious cycle and help you mitigate them.
We help you
- eat the right foods to stop the sugar cravings and reduce the insulin surges. This can lead to weight loss which helps break the vicious cycle as well.
- recover foundational health like hydration and macro balancing (protein, fat and carbs/fiber) to support detoxification and absorption of nutrients.
- understand how sleep, stress, and what we eat impact this vicious cycle so that we can find ways to break the cycle. We break the cortisol cycle by supporting your adrenals and lowering your cortisol and helping you sleep better and have less anxiety.
Amazingly, we do this with food first and with targeted supplements.
You might not even know that the insulin surges (the main trigger in this vicious cycle) are happening.
The bottom line: We help you stop the vicious cycle of PCOS by implementing diet and lifestyle changes.
Please let us know how we can help you!
Are you ready to get started?
FIRST, TAKE THE PCOS SELF ASSESSMENT
Taking the self assessment will help you determine what factors are affecting your metabolism and hormones.
If you would like an in depth look at your unique situation with a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, make sure to set up a Discovery Call and we can work together to determine how to proceed.
Were you looking for Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series?
Why Lifestyle and Diet Approaches are Better than Medical “Band Aids” for PCOS
NEXT, BOOK A DISCOVERY CALL!
We can help YOU figure out what path is BEST for you!
Great blog. This is very informative and helpful.