Hack your hormones with Gabi

My whole life I have struggled with weight loss, energy and mood swings. Even as a teenager where I should have so much energy I had none. I was snoozing my alarms in the morning to get more sleep and peeling myself out of bed. Everything was made worse after I had my daughter.  Immediately I was rushing to the coffee pot to get some energy instead of being a zombie. 

Throughout the day I was relying on coffee and energy drinks to just be able to function through the day. My co worker even brought in a Keurig to the office for just me to use because they saw how much coffee I was drinking. I was trying to lose the postpartum baby weight with exercising, eating healthy, cutting calories and even going keto. Nothing was working and I was so upset and angry at myself. I could not understand why the scale was not moving despite everything I was doing. Everyone told me that if I breastfeed that the weight will just fall off and that was not the case. All the other moms bounced back and I couldn’t understand why that was not happening for me. 

On top of that I was angry and irritable all the time. I was snapping at my husband, family and even being upset with my daughter over everything. I felt like a horrible mom, wife and daughter because I did not feel like myself. My husband even said to me that he felt that he couldn’t do anything right and that he had to walk on eggshells around me due to never knowing when I would blow up.  He even suggested that I go to the doctor and get medicine which he would usually not suggest but something was wrong. Those words absolutely hurt because I felt so broken that even my husband wanted me to go on medicine which he has never suggested before.

So I went to the doctor and they told me that all my blood work was normal, to see a specialist and to start on medication. I felt that something was still wrong because as a nurse practitioner the blood work was not correlating to the symptoms that I was experiencing. I stood in the shower and cried because I felt so broken and so disconnected to my body. Everyone around me hated me and I was failing. I felt that I hit rock bottom and something needed to be changed. 

That is when I did some research and found a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. We ran some tests and found the root cause of my problems despite my blood work being normal. I started crying during the meeting because I felt that I had found the answers that I was looking for and that someone was actually listening to me. Let me be clear, my doctor did the best that they could but they are only trained to see the blood work as “in normal range” and not look any further. 

After the meeting I started implementing the customized plan for me and things started to change. I had more energy to the point that my coworkers asked me why I was not drinking so much coffee. My mom even asked me what medicine I was on because my moods were so much better. Even my husband noticed a change in my moods and I felt great. I was not peeling myself out of bed but actually getting up earlier than my alarms and feeling that I did not need coffee to start my day. The best part is that the weight started to melt off. 

At that point I decided that I wanted to help other people feel as good as I did. So I became a Certified Hormone Coach. With my medical background as a Nurse Practitioner and now Certified Hormone Coach I am ready to help other women that feel just like me. The postpartum mom that is struggling with mood, energy and weight loss. If you can relate to my story then contact me and we can get started to help you feel your best.