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Weight Loss and No More MenopausalSymptoms and Diabetes: Kim's Story

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TBTFS 27 No more menopausal symptoms, diabetes andweight loss: Kim ’s journey to health (testimonial)

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What if I told you you could stop all your menopause symptoms, cure your

diabetes, get out of depression, and, lose weight all in six months? Possible

or you think I’m crazy?

Well, today, Kim share her journey, her journey to do all of that. She’s a

normal person. She’s a mom, she’s a wife. She’s a friend. She’s a nurse,

and she did it. She got sick and tired of being sick and tired. What she did

– she joined my private community, and now, she’s thriving.

Now, what is my community? My community is a private enclosed

Facebook group that I have that women can access by going to my website

where the link will be in the show note as well where we interact, support

each other in our journey in achieving our health goals. And I say health

goals because every one of us has a different objective. It could be weight

loss. It could be healing to immune condition. It could be diabetes, it could

be menopause, it varies.

That’s not important what your goal is. Because it all comes down to the

same thing. That’s what my teaching is. Yes, it starts with food, but it goes

beyond the food. No matter what condition you have, you can be sure that

by nailing down your nutrition and adopting the proper plan for you, for your

nutrition, and healing your mind-body connection, you will relieve a great

majority and in most cases, all your symptoms.

And what I wanted to do through this episode today is bring some of those

women that have done the work that are now thriving forward to you so you

can be inspired by their journey.

I know for me, when I was in my place of sickness six years ago, the fact

that I was surrounded by other people who had done the same work

providing me a lot of inspiration. And, honestly, that’s where the intent of

the community came from – for me to provide this environment.

Stephanie:



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And I wanted to translate that to the podcast by inviting women who have

succeeded in their goals. So that’s Kim for you today.

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So, now are you ready to hear Kim’s story? If so, let’s do this.

Kim is a woman, a mom, a friend, a registered nurse, and a member of my

private community, and a student of my course, Crush Your Craving, and

I’m welcoming her today for the first testimonial podcast for The Beyond

the Food Show. Welcome in Kim.

Stephanie:

Kim: Thanks, Steph. I’m glad to be here.

Thank you so much for being my first testimonial, for being the first person

that will inspire hundreds and thousands of other women listening to the

podcast and transforming their life.

Stephanie:


TBTFS 27 No more menopausal symptoms, diabetesand weight loss: Kim ’s journey to health (testimonial)

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Thank you, thank you. Kim:

Stephanie:

Stephanie: So, Kim, the very first question that I have for you is give me a little bio of

Kim before we met online. Who was Kim before?

And, also, being open to share your story because I know for some

people, it’s very difficult. So, thank you very much for doing that.

Kim: Oh, you’re welcome.

Kim: Oh, so, I was probably just starting to comment to myself the last few

years, and working on us, dieting has always been an issue for me, so,

food, emotional eating has always been a really big issue. I actually

remember you’re going to laugh at the irony here because I remember the

first time that I went to your Facebook page.

I was sitting down outside, having a tea, and I was scrolling through

Google and whatever, and I thought, “You know, I think I’m going to do

this high-fat, low-carb diet.” Even though it’s not healthy, even though fats

are really bad for your arteries, I was at that point where I was just totally

just disgusted and desperate. And I thought, “You know what? And I’m

almost embarrassed to say this as a nurse, but you can laugh in hindsight,

I thought I don’t even care if I blow my cholesterol through the roof

because I just need to do something to get this weight off.

And, so, then, somehow I found your page, and I thought, “Okay, I’m

going to check this out. And that’s when I started learning a lot about low-

carb, high fat, and even though I’ve been a cardiac nurse forever, like, my

history is also ICU and CCU and some emergency nursing. I remember

the first two weeks, I was absolutely exhausted because I Google

everything. I went into the New England Journal of Medicine, anything

that anybody mentioned that was a research, I went back and I had to see

the data.



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Because I’m a research nerd anyway, but, also, because I needed my

own proof. I’m not going to just blindly follow “Oh, that sounds like a good

idea.” And so, actually, it was a really, really cool thing and a really

enlightening thing to realize that, “Wait a minute. This is actually for your

coronary arteries. This is better for reducing heart attack. This is better

for your blood pressure. And type 2 diabetes which was like the leading

cause of kidney disease for preventing it. And I was pre-diabetic 2, I was

pre-diabetic just before.

So, like I have the round apple shape and the chubby belly, skinny legs

kind of thing. So, yeah, I was definitely like heading into trouble because

my blood sugar was going up, and I had weight on, and blah-blah-blah.

So, it was huge amount of learning, and I can imagine like how much

other people your average person needs to learn because [0:08:27]

medical nursing background, I was not aware of all the facts. I really

wasn’t aware of all the facts.

And, yeah, so, it’s been incredible learning like absolutely incredible

learning. It’s so cool. And now like we talked about before there are

several nurses on my floor, it’s a cardiac floor, and the nurses there are

starting to follow. There’s three of us now that are like low-carb, high-fat,

and lots more that are asking questions. And, it’s interesting because the

ones that are asking questions they haven’t been exposed to the old data

that I have been as a nurse graduating in 1987. And, so, they’re actually

picking it up faster and they’re athletes and so, they’re doing research now

and say, “Hey, wait a minute. You know, like, super athletes are now

doing fat burning instead of carb burning.” [We’re just like just, “Holy cow!”

0:09:14]. And cutting down on the protein would also overwork your kidney

if you have too much protein.

So, it’s huge. It’s just absolutely huge like I was blown away. And also, I

was really excited because here I am in this desperation saying, “Oh, this

is a diet I can do even though it’s maybe not the greatest for my health in

Kim:



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It’s an amazing story. So, to help the people listening that don’t know you,

can you paint us a picture of your health, your mood, your weight, and,

how you were before you started? Like when you were desperate, like

how were you from a health-wise and a mood perspective?

Stephanie:

what I found out and learned through the process is that, it’s actually the

best for your health. And, so, that was, yeah, really cool learning.

Kim:

Kim: Mood perspective, I’m perimenopausal, I’m 50. And so, I was

perimenopausal. I was on the pill, the birth control pill because of really

bad periods, heavy periods, and, also, because of just incredible PMS. I

just started getting incredible PMS and the anxiety and depression that

came with that was overwhelming. And so the birth control pill helped with

that, but I haven’t been on the birth control pill in months because I no

longer need it, right?

Isn’t that incredible? Stephanie:

Kim: It is so incredible. It really is, it really is. And I can feel like sometimes, you

know, we have oh, a little bit more carbs or you go ahead and have a little

bit of starchy carbs. And if I’m in a PMS zone, I can feel it, I can definitely

feel the difference. [0:10:47] with inflammation, because I have

osteoarthritis in my knees. And so, for me, it’s, you know, like I’m on my

feet for 12 hours a day, so, it’s really important to get a grip on that

especially as we get older and the inflammation is a lot lower on the low

carb way of eating. It’s not a diet. It’s not a diet. It’s a way of eating. It

feels like a diet at first because it’s different and you tell yourself you’re

going on a diet.

But then, you realize, no, it’s not a diet, it’s a way of eating. And –



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It’s so much more.Stephanie:

Kim: It totally is, it totally is. It’s a way of living your life and it’s actually part of

your self-care to give yourself what you need.

Stephanie: So, I heard you say you were pre-diabetic or diabetic. You had significant

perimenopause symptoms. You had weight to lose. You had

inflammation, osteoarthritis, and somewhat of a depression, depressive

mood as well.

Stephanie: And then, Kim found my page and took her background of education of

medical knowledge and went in and studied. How is Kim now? It’s been

what? Nine or ten months we’ve known each other?

Stephanie: That was Kim before.

Kim: Yeah.

Kim: Yes.

Has it been that long? Maybe I think it’s – Kim:

Stephanie: Six months.

Kim: Yeah, something like that, yeah.

Stephanie: So, how is your health now?

Kim: It’s way better. Well, my blood sugar is, for example, it was – I remember

it was 6.7, and my doctor said, “You know, you’re pre-diabetic. You got to

watch it. You have that fat around the middle tight-body shape.” And so,

that’s where it was – 6-7, 6-5. And take it at work all the time. And I

actually started doing that because I thought, “I wonder if I’m going to go

too low?” which I never did. But I’m 4.9 to 5.1, like pretty much all the

time. Yeah.



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Amazing. Stephanie:

Kim: And, yeah, sometimes, before eating, after eating, [add 0:12:36] some

random glucose.

Stephanie: Stable. So, and, so, you’ve no longer pre-diabetic. Your inflammation has

gone down in your knee.

Yeah.Kim:

Stephanie: Your moods are way better. No longer symptoms of perimenopause.

Kim: Yeah, that’s right.

Stephanie: And you feel better, I’m assuming from a mood perspective, how are your

moods?

Kim: Better, better. And every time, you know, you do go a little bit of a funk

because I still have a little the perimenopause. Actually, like the other

stuff, because your program is not just about food, and learn lots of other

things, so, I’ve started meditating, I’ve done some tapping and journaling

and gratitude journaling. And so, it’s not just, “Oh, I feel better because I

lost some weight.” And it’s an all-inclusive, kind of holistic everything

approach. And, so, it all kind of comes together.

Stephanie: So, let’s dive into this. So, we’ve talked a lot about diet and how

physically it got your body better, but, one of the differentiating factor of

how I put out my information is that there is a connection between the

body and the mind.

Kim: Totally.

Stephanie: Right? And there’s an emotional component to healing. So, you didn’t

know that before coming in? Is that something you learn while you were

working with my information? Or…?



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Kim: Yeah. It just was everything coming together. It was everything from your

program coming together because I don’t think there’s anyone out there,

like, if you eat less food, you’re going to lose some weight, right? But, yet,

we don’t. And it’s the emotional connection that’s missed. You can write

out 42 diets for people to have and, yes, they’ll lose weight, but if they

don’t have that connection and heal what drives them to do – do you know

what I mean? Like what drives them to do that, then, it’s ineffective and

it’s not long-lasting because you can’t keep it. It’s work.

Stephanie: How has that impacted today’s life from dieting before? How has that

changed you in face of your health and your weight?

Kim: Well, I don’t have the hunger cravings as much because you’re having like

higher fat and stuff. And the other thing is, you know, for example, like I

had turkey dinner at a friend’s place and I made the decision to say, “You

know what? I’m going to have some potatoes and stuffing.” And so, I was

okay with that because a year ago or something like that if I had done

that, I would beat myself up and say, “Oh, you know why I did this and I

did this, and, I failed.” Which, again, makes you feel more down the roof

because you’re beating yourself up. But it’s about making a decision, like,

“Yeah, I’m going to have this. And then, I’m going to go forward and get

back to my regular way of eating.”

Stephanie: And it’s for many of us women, type A personality, I’d like to call them, it’s

we’re aiming for perfection and that’s what makes us fail.

Kim: Yes. And that was a big thing for me, not just with eating, but with a lot of

things in my life. It was like an all or nothing. You know, I would join the

gym, and I was going to do all these things. And then if I couldn’t do it, I

saw myself as a failure. And then I would stop. And that was like and so

procrastination and perfectionism are actually connected more than I

thought, right? Yeah.



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And, so, I totally fell into that. And, then, I have this little thing in my head,

it’s a picture of a turtle and it says, “It doesn’t matter how fast you’re going

as long as you’re moving forward.”

Stephanie:

Kim:

That’s amazing.

Kim: And, right, yeah. So I just tell myself that.

Stephanie: That’s very powerful for other people to hear because there’s a lot of

people stuck there right now, right? And, unfortunately, with the

information that the industry puts out there are just cutting back on

calories and exercising more. Women are led to fail because it doesn’t

work and then they get trapped in that place that it’s their fault. They’re

the bad person, right?

Kim: And because women are women, they’re way more susceptible, too,

because they’re more concerned about their body image, they’re more

judged by their body by other people in society whether we want to admit

it or not, that’s still out there. So, it’s also about empowering yourself to

love yourself, accept yourself, and accept help along the way like your

Facebook page is so supportive. And that’s why I kind of blossomed on it

and opened up more because there was people that came and opened up

to me right away, and it was just so comfortable and so easy. And I’m not

one to put myself out there all the time, but it was a safe place. And that’s

a big deal.

Stephanie: And it helped you obviously because that’s one of the component is

support, right?

Kim: Totally.

Stephanie: Now, you’d also did the course, my course on eliminating the food craving.

How was that? That came later into your journey. How did that impact

you?



Podcast TranscriptKim: The hardest thing for me was not having cheese. Oh, my gosh, it was

like, I just can’t wait to [0:17:18] get this over with, so I can have some

cheese and see if it’s still okay, which it was, which it was.

Yeah, but, I mean, it wasn’t bad because you’re not hungry and you just

have to focus on other parts of your life, right? And one thing I learned

through this whole process is that I wasn’t giving myself enough self-care.

And that was huge through everything, through the dietary stuff, through

the every part of it that I wasn’t giving myself enough self-care.

And, I think, like a lot of women, I was in a blended family. So, my ex-

husband and I had six children, his, hers and ours. And, yeah, it was a lot

of work, and, you know, when you don’t put yourself first, and sometimes,

you don’t even take care of yourself well enough. So, sometimes, if I was

like struggling a little bit, thinking, “Oh, you know, I feel like eating, then,

that’s a good night to do a self-pedicure,” or something like that and give

yourself a little boost, yeah.

Stephanie: So you found other mean of rewarding yourself.

Kim: Totally. Totally.

Stephanie: And you feel as good as if it was food because so many of us food we

think is the only way to make ourselves feel better.

Kim: And I was this big emotional eater like in the evenings, I loved to snack,

and, you know, I’m not a sweet person, but, like, try to walk by me with a

bag of Lay’s potato chips, and, yeah.

Stephanie: It was gone.

Kim: Yeah. And, I mean, it’s okay to have treats, but, it’s not difficult and there

are so many good recipes out there that you can access now. It’s

amazing.



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So, what is the feature about the course that you like the most; that helped

you the most?

Stephanie:

Kim: The communication. The communication and the response from you.

You were always like available and you were very involved. And your

passion like it’s I felt cared for to know like it’s not like, “Oh, my name is

Stephanie and I have a degree, so, I’m going to teach this.” It’s not like

that. It’s like you have a personal investment in women, in helping women

grow and becoming who they’re meant to be.

Stephanie: So, who is Kim now?

Kim: I care a lot less about what I look like. I don’t weigh myself. And, yeah,

like I know I’ve lost weight because I’ve lost sizes, but I honestly I don’t

know I have no clue what I weigh right now.

Stephanie: It’s not a number game anymore.

Kim: No, it’s not. No. I’m learning to accept myself because I mean, and, you

know, I had my baby, my little girl Kaylie who’s almost six feet tall, was

over 9 pounds since she was born. So I have a kind of a stretched

[poochy 0:19:39] belly. And now, it’s like it doesn’t bother me. It’s who I

am. It’s who I am, it’s where I am. And that’s part of the master course,

too, because I started following Jennifer Lyle.

And, so, that was really big for me because and not that everybody wasn’t

great in the master class, but, that’s what I needed at the time. And, so,

I’m also learning to trust my intuition more which is, you know, really big

and, yeah, to do different types of healing, and, yeah.

Stephanie: It’s a very touching story because what you’re describing is exactly what I

meant for people to have for experience. And that it’s actually happening.



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It really touched my heart. Because I want my work to be different. I

want my work to not be about calorie, and not about, yes, it’s about losing

weight, but it’s not about losing weight.

Stephanie:

Kim: Totally.

Stephanie: If that makes any sense.

Kim:

Stephanie:

Yeah, totally. It’s about getting healthy.

Kim: Not looking in the mirror and picking everything apart. And looking in the

mirror and accepting and loving who you are, and, see, that’s the thing

that’s different about your course is that it’s an all – kind of an all-inclusive

approach, it’s a holistic approach and so, through the course, I have

learned to look in the mirror, and not pick apart Kim. And when you do

that, and you start to come into your own a little bit, then, the other stuff

just falls into place, right? You’re not going to do this, you’re not going to

do that to yourself and you treat yourself better. And you’re not as hard

on yourself because you’ve learned to love yourself more and that’s what

it’s all about.

Stephanie: And you know what? Once we’ve eliminated the physical craving of

sugar, the physical craving of food intolerances, then, we’re left with the

emotional eating. And what I have experienced myself and many women,

just like you said, experience, is we beat ourself up so much that we drive

ourselves to binge eat and have more craving because of the emotional

damage we do to ourselves. Nobody else does it but us.

Yes.

Kim: That’s right. That’s right.

Stephanie: So, attempting to deal with the emotional eating strictly by just getting off

sugar is likely not sustainable and not enough because you still are going

to have the mental game in your head.



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Kim: Yes, the connection is massive, it’s absolutely massive and you have to

explore yourself a little bit and be honest with yourself. You have to not let

yourself fall back on I had 101 excuses for not doing different things and

you have to just be straight with yourself.

Stephanie: But likely, and I’m going to ask you this question, likely there was excuses

where they link to your desire to be perfect in the process.

Kim:

Stephanie:

Oh, my gosh. Bang on. Yes. Yeah, bang on. Yeah. That’s exactly it, all

or nothing.

Kim: Yeah.

Stephanie: The people who are the type A personality, so, I’m not surprised to hear

that from you. It goes hand in hand together.

Well, just the type of work you do tells me a lot about you being you’re like

a cardiac nurse and ICU, those are the top performing nurses, right?

Kim: That’s yeah, I can see that. I can see that.

Stephanie: So, if you had to give yourself three advice, back, let’s say, a year ago,

like talk to yourself but yourself being all the other women listening right

now that are stuck there, what would you say to them? Three things.

Kim: First thing is one thought can change your life. A simple thought can

change your life. The other thing would be be gentle with yourself. And

the third thing would be to learn from mentors that are worthy. And what I

mean by that is like, you know, I’ve checked out other Keto sites and other

low-carb, high-fat sites, and, you know, they had the key high-fat foods

that aren’t necessarily healthy. So, do your homework and make sure it

feels right for you, and trust the process.



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Thank you. Those are beautiful word. Again, thank you. I have the

goosebumps right now because I know this is going to be powerful for

many people out there. Thank you very much for opening yourself to

share your journey and share with us the highs and the low and be totally

transparent and that’s going to touch a lot of people.

If you want to interact with Kim, you can come in the community. It’s a

free private community, it’s a closed group on Facebook. I’m going to put

the link in the show note and you’re going to find me there. You’re going

to find Kim and many other women just like Kim. We’re about 900 people,

900 women right now. You’re going to find them in there. And then, we’re

going to be there to support you.

Stephanie:

Kim: Yes. And thank you for being part of my journey. It is an honor.

Stephanie: It’s an honor to be part of your journey, Sweetie.

Kim: Thank you, Steph.

Stephanie: Thank you, everyone.

There you have it. Kim share her very inspiring story with us. All the links

of everything me and Kim talked about will be in the show note, including

the dropanfbomb link, Jennifer Lyle and how to join my community, you

can find the show note at stephaniedodier.com/027. That’s where you can

also pick up the transcript and the link to join the community. Also, you

can look at my Keto Connector Program, which is what Kim referred to,

which is my unique program that will allow you to move forward from

worrying about food, and move on to healing your mind and your body.

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