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Dani & Matt B.
Early last summer, I decided it was time for a change. Time to get my life back – time to get myself healthy and in shape for good. Conveniently, right at that time, I got an email from Lakeshore saying they were offering a new weight loss program consisting of six weeks with a personal trainer, and three sessions with a nutritionist. What luck, I thought, just what I was looking for!
As it turns out, going to the nutritionist was nothing like I expected it to be. I totally expected to sit down and have someone say, okay, this is your goal, and this is what you have to stop eating (pizza, French fries, hamburgers), and this is what you have to start eating (rice cakes, cottage cheese, lettuce), so do it now. I expected to be put on some sort of “diet,” perhaps low fat or low carb, as those seem to be ever-present in our society. Well, that nutritionist I went to see turned out to be Debbie, and boy, did she surprise me.
Debbie’s approach to nutrition turned out to be all about education based on nourishment and getting what the body needs, while getting rid of what it doesn’t need and particularly what does it harm.
In those three little sessions, I was so completely impressed with Debbie that I knew I couldn’t stop now. I even got my husband to sign up for couples sessions with me. Together, Debbie, Matt, and I talked through how to tackle some of the challenges in our lives: kidney stones, canker sores, picky taste buds…While she is incredibly knowledgeable, Debbie has never pretended to have all the answers. She did, however, promise to do everything she could to find us some answers. And during each of our sessions, she remained completely respectful and helpful, never once making us feel silly for the questions we asked or the needs we had.
To date, I have lost 31 lbs. Yes, weight loss was my original goal, and I’m incredibly pleased at my progress, but for me, it’s more than that now. I’ve become much more educated and aware. I now think very carefully about the way I treat my body. I make sure that what I eat is going to provide me with nourishment. I keep tabs on how I feel and what foods led me to feel that way. I’m making connections to my body that I didn’t even know were possible! And at the risk of sounding cliché, my life has changed for the better. There’s no going back now, only going forward, full speed ahead!
Lisa & Michael V.
A few years ago, my husband and I decided that it was time to prioritize our health. We’d both gained weight and my husband’s doctor wanted to put him on cholesterol medication. He was very opposed to using statins to control what was in his power to change through diet and exercise. After attempting several times to improve our diet ourselves, we realized that we needed some help.
Not only did Debbie provide great information and challenged us to eat things that we weren’t accustomed to, she gave us great, easy-to-follow recipes.
We were so surprised at the delicious food that we could prepare; it was as if our taste buds came alive for the first time. The meals were so flavorful and it was awesome to know that what we were putting into our bodies was making us healthier from the inside out. We were finally getting on the right track and we met one of our original goals; no need for statins! Within the first 3 months, Michael’s cholesterol went from LDL 164, HDL 60 (Total Chol 233) to LDL 137, HDL 63 (Total Chol 216).
This is not to say that practicing what we learned from Debbie is always easy. We fall back into our deep grooves of “comfort” food routinely, but now we recognize when it’s happening and know that a better way of eating exists. Debbie’s recipes are always at the ready to help us get back to eating real food.
Dave and Cyndi W.
My wife and I have been enjoying the benefits of Debbie's nutritional advice for several months and noticed improvements with our energy and reaching our weight loss goals.
My father-in-law, Walt, had been experiencing a severe cough and excess mucus for over three years. While completing a cleanse with Debbie, we shared the information with Walt and encouraged him to eliminate red meat, dairy, sugar and alcohol from his diet for a few weeks.
To our amazement, and Walt's relief, after just a few weeks his cough had subsided. This is truly incredible as he had been to several specialists who gave him inhalers (blaming asthma), and antibiotics (blaming a lung infection); they even tested him for lung cancer! This just goes to show, that you are what you eat and diet can often do more for you than any specialist of modern medicine!
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