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A Glass of Wine Could Change Everything - A Case Story in My Health Coaching Practice · Doctor Turned Health Coach

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  Welcome to the doctor-turned-health-coach podcast. My name is Dr.
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  Ashuri, family medicine physician-turned-health-coach.
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  All it takes is a glass of wine.
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  So the concept of weight loss, weight management, fitness, a good metabolic
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  state, often comes down to very, very small things.
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  Many people try to make big changes in their lives, thinking that those big
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  changes are going to give them rapid and drastic results.
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  But when we look at the data, the people who end up sticking with their overall
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  healthy aging goals, their health plans, are the ones who make very small changes,
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  very minor changes, but they stick to those changes.
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  Now, I know I'm speaking in generalities, but try to follow me with this.
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  It might resonate with you.
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  Over the years, I've had many different health coaching clients,
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  And one person stood out to me, a woman who had just passed menopause.
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  So she was 12 months without her last menstrual period, 12 months out from her last menstrual period.
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  And her weight gain was impressive.
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  She was gaining weight. Her mood was OK. Her sleep was OK.
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  She didn't really believe her appetite and nutrition plan had changed all that much.
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  But she was gaining weight. and in many ways it demotivated her from exercising
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  and staying fit and so she also felt like her stamina was getting lower,
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  her muscle mass was getting lower, she felt it in her thighs.
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  And we were trying to figure out what it could be.
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  She hadn't changed much so her diet was the same, she had the same routine,
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  kids were out, she had been divorced for many years or I don't remember maybe
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  her partner had passed away but either way she had a pretty normal routine,
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  she would go to work, she had a volunteer gig with some animals in a shelter,
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  and she would come home and have one glass of wine,
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  one simple glass of wine.
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  For whatever reason, it's possible that her metabolism had changed with age.
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  Maybe the menopause state had made some changes.
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  But she really had a hard time with her weight.
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  So one thing that we tried is, hey, let's get rid of this glass of wine.
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  In fact, it was a very difficult thing to get rid of.
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  Both of us realized. We thought it would be easy and she didn't think it was all that.
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  After a few trial and errors, she ended up switching from the wine,
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  the glass of wine, to some sort of a kombucha drink that had quite a bit of calories.
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  I would say equivalent calories, probably not as much. So her weight didn't change that much.
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  We went back to the drawing board and we said, all right, so maybe it's not
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  the alcohol content of it.
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  Maybe it is the calorie content of it. So we switched from this kombucha drink,
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  which I don't remember. it was probably like 100 and some calories,
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  which is quite a lot for kombucha.
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  Most kombucha you can actually get for 25 or 35 calories.
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  We switched her to a tea at night. And so we had her go shopping for some expensive
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  teas. She found an online tea store.
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  She got all this tea shipped to her house. And she really enjoyed that.
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  She really, really enjoyed the switch. And guess what?
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  The weight came off. Not in the beginning.
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  After a few months, it came off. She booked another time with me.
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  And she was just ecstatic.
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  She was ecstatic that all it took was probably around, I don't know,
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  150, 180 calories of wine that she was having to start seeing the weight come off.
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  And guys, that's the whole point of this podcast.
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  Many times, if we can keep all things equal, because remember when she switched
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  from the wine to the kombucha, she did make a switch, but the calories were the same.
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  So if we can keep all things the same but we cut out that one little thing that one little item.
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  We can start seeing some changes and for her of course
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  it wasn't just about the weight i was monitoring her metabolic health i was
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  monitoring her overall blood sugars insulin levels and some her triglycerides
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  were going through the roof if i remember correctly and so we were working on
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  a lot of different things and all of these things really did change they really
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  really changed and And that's, I would say that's all it took.
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  By no means was it easy and it was a long process and it took probably a year
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  for those numbers to change.
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  But the fact that they did and the fact that all it took is one change,
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  but that one consistent change that you don't compensate for in some other hidden
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  way, to me, is a very encouraging idea.
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  I hope you find these podcast episodes helpful and me sharing some of these
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  lessons that I learned for my health coaching clients.
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  If you have any questions, reach out to me. Hello at drashori.com.
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  Click in the show descriptions for more information. And thank you for listening.