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Well, hello, everybody.

Welcome back to another episode of Adult Child of Dysfunction.

Today we have with us Christine Trimp.

She is the founder of the Sugar Freed Method and a certified health coach who helps professional women overcome sugar dependency and metabolic dysfunction.

After her own hundred pound transformation, she now equips women to reclaim energy, clarity and confidence so they can step fully into their calling.

Welcome, Christine.

Thanks for having me, Tammy.

I'm really delighted to be here with you today.

Yes, thank you.

And £100.

Congrats on that.

Thank you.

Quite a.

Quite a feat, let me tell you.

Yeah, I know, it's crazy.

I met a gentleman the other day who was 882 pounds and is now 450.

Amazing.

And I was like, you go, yes.

And I said, what is your trick?

Like, what was your big key?

And he said, that would just take all day to even get into that.

Okay, fine.

I guess I'll have to come on a podcast and listen to you then.

Yeah, but talk about your journey.

Talk about.

I mean, we all have our own journey.

Tell us a little bit about kind of how you got there and what got you into health coaching.

Okay.

So 10 years ago, right around this time, I was at the lowest point in my life.

I had gone to Rocky Mountain national park and was very excited about being in the mountains.

My husband planned a hike for us up to Nymph Lake.

And I thought, I can do this, because I saw the trail marker and it said a half a mile.

And I got halfway up that trail, Tammy, and I could not go another step.

I was gasping for air.

My knees were aching.

I told my husband to go on without me and encouraged him that it would be okay.

And I sat on a stump on the side of that trail.

Again, I had become very familiar with sitting on the sidelines of life.

And I just had a really, you know, really emotional moment.

Then I was 48.

And so for 30 years, I had been carrying my health struggle, which was 30 years of obesity, and I eventually landed in morbid obesity.

And so that's why I couldn't climb.

And it actually got worse from there.

I, you know, despite the morbid obesity, I was also starting to get chronic health diagnoses piling up, like pre diabetes and fatty liver disease and obstructive sleep apnea, monthly migraines, daily headaches, aches and pains every single day.

So that's where I.

That's where my turning point moment happened, actually on the side of that mountain, which I'm so thankful to God for, because I love mountains and I I see a lot of that playing into my story because climbing mountains is one of my favorite things.

And what took me to climb out of that low point in my life was definitely could be very symbolized by climbing a mountain and, you know, having to really dig deep and lean on strength.

And for me, as a woman of faith, leaning on the Lord and just getting out of that pit.

So I was able to do that and turn my life around.

And that's why I have this new message, this new calling on my life.

I left Corporate America After 32 years in accountancy, left a position as the controller of a house health organization, and now I'm a writer, speaker, health and wellness coach, sugar addiction specialist to help professional women.

And I. I can't even believe this is my life now, Tammy.

Honestly, I can't.

Isn't it crazy?

I mean.

But yeah, and it takes that.

Sometimes it takes that aha.

Moment that.

Yes.

You know, like, this is what have I done?

And.

And probably a lot of.

Yeah, just, I mean, a shock of I can't get up that mountain and this is something I want to do.

And.

Yes.

Yeah.

I mean, everybody I had.

I had that moment when I was pregnant with my first son and realized, oh, my God, I don't know what unconditional love feels like.

Like, how am I going to raise a child?

And that snowballed me into my kind of healing journey, my transformation.

And.

But we all have a story if we didn't have, you know, there's.

There's no testament without a test, right?

Exactly.

Yeah.

And like, to be called to share a testimony like this is like, I'm just so grateful every single day.

I. I healed not only physically by losing a massive of weight, but more importantly, I healed emotionally and spiritually.

And that's truly what changed my life.

It changed my heart.

It changed something deep with inside.

Helped me to figure out, like, what all that dysfunction was that I was carrying.

And the root of it, I learned, was my cravings.

Not just my physiological cravings happening in my brain, but the cravings and the longings in my soul and all the ways I had been trying to protect myself all those years.

So it really was quite an amazing journey that.

Not perfect.

You know, I still have to wake up every single day and surrender this and make my best choices daily.

But when I learned to crave, well, then I started making better choices and then I started, you know, caring well for my body.

And so, yeah, it's just the transformation part of this is worth sharing.

I love it.

Yeah.

So I'm going to go right into something that is very near and dear to my heart because I am also a holistic health coach.

And so I love that you put that in there because I have so, you know, I have clients that come to me and they're fighting with their weight and they're fighting with this and, and their natural tendency is, well, my doctor put me on a zempic.

My doctor, you know, did this.

And I am.

If you're out there, I'm not judging you.

I'm not judging at all.

Not my path.

I had a stroke.

I don't take any medicine.

I've cleared my blood up, I've cleared, you know, you, you do.

You go your way, I go mine.

But I love that you chose the holistic route.

And what does that mean to you?

To me, that means I'm a lot like you, too.

I'm, I'm not against Western medicine.

There is a time and a place for that.

But when there's something holistically that we can do to heal our body, heal our mind, heal our, our heart and our soul.

Let's try that route first.

Again.

I just like you, I have a lot of people, women that come to me for coaching, that have tried the Ozempic route and, and they, they've stopped it because it caused side effects that they didn't like.

And I'm not out here to dispute if you should go on Ozempic or not.

Just like you, right, under a doctor's supervision, that might be something that is worth trying for you.

But whole healthy food, what I call from God's good smorgasbord, can have the exact same impact on your hormonal health and help you lose that weight as going on drugs.

So I invite women to come along and let's try this with whole foods and see what happens.

Because you can, you can impact those GLP1 receptors and when you fix your hormone health.

So let's try that first.

And that's what worked for me.

And I started this massive weight loss journey before Ozempic was really greatly talked about in, in, you know, media and stuff like that.

So.

Which I'm grateful for.

I didn't even, that wasn't even an option for me.

I pretty sure I would not have gone that route.

But I'm living proof that you can do this with just food.

You can heal your body with food.

Right?

And it's, and it's not a quick fix.

That's.

I think everybody, we in Western medicine want a quick fix.

You know, your, your cholesterol level gets to X amount and they say, quick, go on a statin drug.

Right.

You know, they don't take into play that cholesterol comes from stress and it's a protective thing and that your brain needs cholesterol.

So how about just fix your sleep so that you can drain your cholesterol from 10 to 2 in your BR.

You know, I mean, like they, we don't know everything and nobody knows everything.

But I'm, I'm with you in that.

I remember my dad just telling me one time, tammy, stop complaining about your weight.

Just stop eating white food.

Yeah, good advice.

He's like, with the exception of potatoes, how many white foods did God really make?

That's literally what he told me.

Yes.

And then one other time, you know, he's like, stop complaining about your weight.

Just go on God's diet.

If God didn't make it, don't eat it.

Right, Exactly.

You know, and, and I've had naturally high cholesterol my entire life.

100.

You know, my cholesterol at 15 years old was 228.

Wow.

Stress related.

We know now stress related had nothing to do with my diet.

Yeah, you know, of course it has something to do with your diet.

You know, you know what I mean?

Like you're always going to want to put the right things in.

Yes.

But you could, you have to balance.

That's why I'm, I'm super into the body, mind and spirit part because you have to balance it all out.

Yeah.

You can take all the drugs in the world, but if you're stressed out and it's doing something to your body that is going to store fat, then here you go.

You're right back at st.

Stage one, you know.

Right.

Yeah.

And I've just lived through that.

I have been through like seven years of chronic stress due to a family situation and they, it just kept piling up and I was, felt like I was living in a state of hyper vigilance.

And so I actually got, I got help from a functional medicine provider and I love functional medicine because they get to the root of everything.

And.

Yes.

So I've been through on, on a journey now for five months of lowering my stress, healing this.

I feel so much better.

I'm sleeping better and my cholesterol actually did come down.

Just.

And I don't take statins.

And I just saw my cardiologist that I have, I don't have heart disease, but my family history does.

So I see him and he was very happy with my progress, he's like, great job.

And we talked about it being all contributed to stress because he knows I eat a fairly, you know, I eat a healthy diet.

So, you know, the reason it spiked up was due to this very stressful season.

So there is definitely something to that.

And there's nothing like good sleep and managing your stress.

Yep, I actually do.

And it was started given to me by a functional medicine doctor and then I started started using it in my practice.

And it's kind of like an energetic voice scan.

Super fun, but it shows you imbalances.

And you know, if you take this scan and then you go to your friend chat GTP and you say, hey, this is shows these markers for thyroid.

What is your suggestion?

It's going to say based on my scan, you need to go back and you need to do better vagal toning exercises.

Not you need, you know, literally it's like, yeah, you know.

Yes.

Yeah.

It's just kind of funny.

So it all ties together.

But talk about how you got, I mean, you, when you were at the lowest of your low, I know you talked a lot about the sugar cravings and the addiction and talk.

Talk to us about that a little bit.

Yeah.

So I discovered in hindsight as I'm looking back on my journey of healing, that it really, the root of all of this was cravings.

And I was craving sugar and mostly junk food in the form of like the stuff, starchy sugars.

Like, I wasn't one to eat a sleeve of Oreos.

I would prefer ruffles with ridges, you know.

Yeah.

So my ruffled potato chips,

yeah, my go to was the salty snacks, you know, the baked potato skins, you know, just anything that was savory salty.

And so I realized that I craved that stuff.

And now as a sugar addiction specialist, someone that's been trained in sugar addiction, someone that is confessed recovering sugar addict, recovering food idolater, I could see how much of that was happening in my brain.

And a lot of women come to me for coaching.

Well, most of my women come to me for coaching is because they want the weight loss.

And what I get to take them through is the experience of understanding that they are completely addicted to sugar and flours and grains.

Their brain is crying out for it, screaming for it.

Physiologically, that is impacting them emotionally.

Then they start carrying all this shame of the cycle.

It's a huge process to go through for the healing.

So worth it though, because then in the end they're not just white knuckling through another diet, they're not just counting points and calories and eating less and moving more.

They're actually working on the deep emotional work that they need to go through.

And for me, I coach Christian women, so they're going through this process of, oh, my goodness, what if I am just using food as comfort and coping and soothing?

And that's not what food is.

You know, that's not why God created food specifically for.

We need it for fuel.

So let's fuel our body properly.

Then we feel better and healthier on this spiritual journey.

We start overcoming the emotional wounds that we are using food to cover up, and then our body heals physically, which is like the benefit, the bonus.

I call it like, the.

The extra little side benefit, because really, truly, the emotional healing and the spiritual healing is worth so much more.

That's where the freed comes in.

In my sugar freed method.

Like, I hope women get that it's all about that stepping into that freedom so you can stop carrying that guilt and that shame and just start living and thriving daily instead of just showing up and trying to survive another day, which is what I had done for 30 years.

It's an exhausting way to live.

Oh, I. I can't even.

Well, I can't imagine, because.

And honestly, people that have an addiction, it is a comfort thing.

That's how, you know, it's a Fill a void, fill a need, or numb something, a numb a pain.

I can remember my parents.

I was.

When I used to get scared, I used to grab a sleeve of Oreos, and I would go up and I would sleep sometimes under this drainage ditch under the road.

But my timing was about right, that if I finished the whole sleeve, by the time I got home, they were passed out.

So that was kind of like my.

And it's.

You know, it wasn't until probably about six years ago that when they were like, hey, you're a 1C.

And I was like, oh, I don't like those letters and numbers.

Yeah, right.

I literally was like, okay, this is a good idea, Tammy.

You're 50s, 50 years old.

Time to maybe stop eating your six cookies and glass of milk every night.

But that had become my.

And it wasn't.

Like I said, it had become a habit, literally.

Yeah, right.

And you don't even consciously are aware of it.

You're like, this is.

It's a protective measure that you were probably using, you know?

Yep.

And.

And especially with some other addictions, too.

I mean, you stop one thing, sometimes you just move to another.

You're not actually fixing what make it you're still going to need that dopamine hit.

You're going to need that comfort, that craving, you know, talk about what, your process.

Look, I mean, okay, so I come to you and you go, oh, God damn, you are completely addicted.

Let's hypothetically, you know, completely addicted to gardettos.

And I'm a salty person, too.

I'm not the cookie person.

And I feel like when I quit my six cookies and glass of milk, my salt became worse.

But I don't, I don't need it.

I don't feel like I crave it.

But maybe I do because every time I finish a meal, I go and I grab one little handful.

I have these little tiny ramekins and I'll fill it with like Takis or Gardettos or potato chips.

One little cup.

Because I'm like, I need to salt.

Right?

So, yeah.

So.

All right, Tammy, so I've enrolled you as a new client.

And one of the very first things we're working on is why are we like, I have the two whys.

Why do you want, why did you come to me with a desire to lose weight?

And then why did you get here in the first place?

So we need to kind of just open up that bit of conversation so I can get to know you a little bit better.

Now my, my coaching program is a group coaching program, but there is someone to one on one that I get to know you through.

And then I take you through a little short quiz, a sugar addiction quiz, to see how you score zero out of six points.

And most of my women score five or six as a sign of sugar addiction.

So then we, I take you through a full sugar assessment and it's a diagnostic tool online that was created by some very bright people in the sugar addiction space.

Bitten Johnson, being one of them, who's a nurse, who's very passionate, has been in sugar addiction for 30 years.

So I have a very powerful diagnostic tool to take you through one on one.

And then the rest of the 13 week program is, I would say, 33, 33, 33% split between the physical healing, metabolic health, and then the emotional healing and then the spiritual healing.

And our group coaching calls.

You know, we focus a lot on the biblical foundation of everything and then also the biology of healing your body and your mind.

And when you heal, when you begin to calm those sugar cravings down, that's all part of the journey.

It's just seeing the women step into freedom.

You know, the, the sugar freed way of doing this is, you know, I've Got it designed as a 13 week program to get you going.

It's, it's like opening a door to the rest of your life.

Right, right.

Oh, no, that's.

So are there, are there any tips?

And I'm just, I'm literally throwing this out to everybody here.

Are there any tips and tricks for people that are like, oh, I kind of resonate with that because this is called adult child of dysfunction.

So pretty much everybody listening to this podcast has some kind of underlying.

I mean, we have, we have it, we have, you know, we have it.

If we're listening to this podcast, we have not complete, completely dealt with all of our fears, all of our.

Right, you know, subconscious rewiring.

We haven't dealt with all that.

So are there any tips and tricks, just for starters, that you can say these are maybe some things to do?

Yeah, these are.

So I'll give you two things.

First of all, very practically, if you want to clean up the way you're eating, think about just shopping around the perimeter of your grocery store.

And that's where you're going to find these whole foods that God made for us.

Now, you do have to skip over the bakery section because that's always on the perimeter too, but you got to like cut that corner.

So the beginning of the perimeter, which is even worse when you're hungry.

Yeah, it is.

Like, it's there for a reason.

Like they, they have very brilliant marketers who set up grocery stores.

But I cut my grocery shopping time in more than half just going around that perimeter.

I buzz in and buzz out of there.

And I used to hate grocery shopping.

Okay, now the other thing that's a little bit.

It's not just like a practical thing, but it is a hope that I want to give your listeners is that you're carrying all this extra weight, like physically, emotionally, spiritually.

It's heavy.

The guilt and the shame is really heavy.

And what works with sugar addiction is to actually focus on getting your food choices right first.

So it becomes very natural, very habitual.

You're calming those sugar cravings.

You're choosing proteins and healthy fats.

You're starting to feel better because you're eating better.

And then we can go in and address some of the deeper issues that you need to heal from, you know, some of that dysfunction that you've been carrying forward in your life.

So get the food choices set right.

So it becomes really habitual.

And it makes it so much easier when you begin to work on all that dysfunction and overcoming that and developing new habits and Behaviors and patterns that will help you.

You know, again, it's that freedom.

It's a freedom.

Not only for me was it not just the freedom of losing that physical weight, not have to carry around 100 extra pounds every day, but the freedom of just having more joy and more peace and more patience and all the fruits of the spirit just really developed in me, especially the spirit of self control, which helps me with my food choices.

But that just all blossomed and it.

I.

That was not anything I expected when I went into a weight loss journey, but it completely changed my life.

Right.

Right.

Well, and.

And honestly, the sugar is a physiological addiction at the end of the day.

Like, it's.

It's not.

And you cannot talk yourself out of.

You know, it's like.

It's like anxiety.

You can't talk yourself out of anxiety.

It's a physiological thing happening.

So you have to.

There's a little give and take.

There's sacrifice, There's.

There's all of that in that.

But, yeah, getting your mind wrapped around, you know, it's kind of like I always.

My.

One of my tricks is if I ever buy anything unhealthy, which we really don't anymore, we do shop on the outside, and we've actually gone even worse.

We go counterclock or clockwise around the store.

Okay.

Like, because we.

Those are the things we usually need are over there.

So we're like, let's.

So if we don't need anything in that other, let's not even do it.

But I. I mean, I was blessed and cursed also with a lot of food allergies, so I can't eat anything from a can.

Okay.

A lot of preservatives.

So I have to eat whole.

Yeah.

I can't.

Like, cookies will make me sneeze and sniffle and cough and choke, and so it's just not even worth it.

Like anything with preservatives in it.

Right.

So.

But yeah, making that choice.

Like, I. I tell people, some of my clients, and I'm like, when you buy the icky stuff in the refrigerator, put it right next to the fruit or put it right next to something that's a better choice.

Yes.

When you open the refrigerator, be like, yeah, half the time you're going to grab for the thing that is as long as it's already prepped and ready to go.

Half the time you're going to grab for the thing.

Not the thing you want or think you want, but the thing that's healthier because you're conscious of it.

Yeah.

Yes.

Exactly it.

You just made me giggle because I was talking to a new client yesterday and she said, I'm actually doing pretty well because she was, she's in a snowstorm.

Like, she hasn't left her house in five days.

And she goes, so I have no choice.

I'm not going out to buy junk.

And I just laughed and said to her, you know, sometimes God puts us in circumstances that we have no escape from.

He knew that you are right now concentrating on detoxing from sugar for 21 days.

And you know, that's why I.

No one wants a snowstorm, of course.

But you know, I think God has a sense of humor too, so.

Oh, he does.

He absolutely does.

Yes.

Like when I wanted to write my book and I kept my.

Everybody kept saying to me, just slow down and take some time and write your book.

And then I was like, I know, I know, I know.

And then I tore five ligaments in my knees.

Oh.

And in those three months, I remember my husband, my son, driving me to the emergency room, saying to me, you know, everybody was telling you to slow down.

God just told you to stop and write your book.

So I wrote two books in three months.

Yeah.

See, isn't that funny how he works?

Yes, it's really funny.

But, but yeah, and talk a little bit too, because we know, I mean, a hundred pounds, I mean, I, I don't know what you weighed or what you weigh now, but that's, that's quite a bit of weight.

That's quite a bit for your body, your spine, your back, hips, like you said.

And that extra weight is so taxing.

I mean, when I talk about, when you talk about like the holistic well being in general, all of our systems work together so well.

So it's like, I mean, like I said, God built this perfect.

And that's maybe why I'm against medicine, because I feel like when you synthetically mess with one system.

Yeah.

You are now messing up with every other system that was perfectly designed.

I mean, a couple little kinks here and there happen, but for the most part it should all be in alignment.

You know, it should all be.

So we talk about some of the chronic illnesses because I'm sure they mimic many of the ones from people that came out of these dysfunctional families.

Same.

Yes.

Yeah.

Well, again, the root, I think for me was the sugar addiction, which is, you know, the behaviors that happen when we've had.

Now for me, as, as a child, I think that my issues were mostly related to bullying because I was a chubby third Grader, fourth grader.

So I think that's like the root of a lot of my issues when it comes to, yeah, my food behaviors.

But what is happening is with that, you know, we're constantly feeding this addiction with unhealthy foods.

It's hyper palatable.

Meaning we just, the food manufacturers keep us coming back for more, you know, the lay's commercial.

But you can't just eat one.

I mean, that's true.

Like you can't eat one lay's potato chip.

So we live in this unfortunate food environment.

And then that I always say that sugar drives disease.

And people don't really stop to think about that.

Like they know they're eating junk food, they feel bad about it.

You know, they're, they feel ashamed.

But why can't they stop?

Well, they don't know.

Their brain is slow screaming for it.

It's a brain disorder.

We need to give ourselves a lot of grace with that.

But the sugar that drives disease, the root cause is the what, what for most people like me, women like me that are carrying all this extra weight is the insulin resistance.

And the insulin resistance is the, the precursor to all the other chronic disease, the pre diabetes, the type 2 diabetes, the fatty liver disease is just something that needs and it can be reversed.

I reversed my insulin resistance.

And people, I was in 30 years of yo yo dieting.

Tammy.

I was in a lot of medically supervised programs for weight loss.

Not one of those programs talked to me about my insulin hormone or insulin resistance or how to get my insulin hormone at a, at a steady, stable level.

Insulin is your fat storing hormone.

I mean, if that's the only thing you take away today and you want, you need hope for a weight loss journey.

Hear that?

Insulin is your fat storing hormone.

So let's stabilize it, right?

When you do that, talk about, talk about what happens when you eat a cookie.

Tell, Explain.

Yeah, okay.

So when you eat a cookie.

So my goal in life now is to live with a stable blood sugar.

When I eat a cookie, my blood sugar spikes up like a roll.

Think of a roller coaster.

That's how I like to describe it.

So if I am eating five to six meals a day, which was the old standard dietary advice that I used to follow and part of my addictive personality really appreciated that advice because that meant I got to eat, right?

So here I'm following, Doc, I'm following the advice to eat five to six small meals a day.

But what was happening is I was eating oatmeal, my blood sugar was spiking.

I was eating that, you know, granola bar snack that is marketed as healthy.

My blood sugar was spik.

So my blood sugar was doing this all day long.

Up and down, up and down, over.

Think of that.

Think of like your insulin hormone being held in a sugar bowl.

This is how Dr. Fung describes it.

Who is the doctor that actually changed my life with all of this health information.

And when you're doing that all day long, your sugar bowl is overflowing and it has no place to go.

And so the insulin's job is to remove what it can't use and store it as fat.

So if we can get our blood sugar stabilized, which is what we do when we focus on healthy proteins and healthy fats and very low carb, then our insulin is going to heal and it's going to stop overflowing.

It's going to stop storing everything as fat.

It's going to tap into those fat stores to start burning fuel for energy.

Sugar is a fuel, gives you a quick, quick energy, but it's not, it's quick and it's gone.

And then your brain says, I need more.

And so you're just repeating that vicious cycle all day long.

So if you, if you eliminate the sugar, adopt a sugar free lifestyle, you're going to tap into those fat stores, lose the weight, but more importantly, you know, even more than that, you're going to heal your brain, you're going to heal your heart, you're going to heal your emotions, your spiritual life, all of that.

So it's all connected, it's all holistic.

When we focus on the whole person, that's where the healing begins.

Absolutely.

And even just talking about with the food, like, I know people are sitting here going, okay, I need, I need tips, I need tricks, I need.

That's what.

Yeah, I, maybe, maybe, I don't know, maybe they aren't, I don't know, but I don't.

I just feel like the comments I always get after a podcast like coming directly to me are like, well, what should I eat?

What should I do?

Yeah.

So like, I mean, I can give tricks from what I know, I know my number one biggest tip I tell people, and I know that sounds crazy, is hydration is key to everything.

And start, make sure you have protein in every meal.

Yes.

Yep.

That's a great tip that, you know, I mean, I'm sure you have hundreds more.

I, I have hundreds more, but I'm going to let you talk on maybe some just quick, everyday strategies that they could implement right now.

Yeah, well, at A high level.

I, I tell, I look at women and I say, you don't need another meal plan.

Okay?

Like, deep down, you know what the healthy choices are.

We really need to work on breaking this sugar addiction, which is possible, you know, and, and I wanted to say too, that addiction is one disease.

You kind of hinted at this earlier.

Addiction is one disease and, but it can have many different outlets.

So we need to be cautious and, and aware of that.

If we are eliminating the sugar, don't be going to, like, start drinking a bottle of wine every other day now.

You know, like, we can replace something.

So we have to be very cognizant of that.

But that, like, that's where we, like, we don't need another meal plan.

Ladies.

You know, you can find meal plans, healthy meal plans on Pinterest, right?

We need to really get to the root of this, the heart of this, the cravings of this, the brain health of this, and just start doing a deeper work.

And, and for, you know, the women I coach are Christian women.

They share the same faith I do.

And it really begins with surrender.

Like, have I had enough?

Is my health so bad right now that I have finally had enough and I'm willing to show up and do this?

And.

Because I always say when we feel better, we serve better.

And I believe that wholeheartedly.

Each and every one of us was created for a reason, and we can't serve our purpose if we're not feeling well.

So it really has to get there.

And if you want meal plans for me, you can just follow me on Pinterest.

I have all kinds of meal plans there.

Yeah, no, it's definitely, it's definitely something.

You're right.

We don't.

We can Google a meal plan.

Give me a low fat, you know, low carb, high protein meal plan and a shopping list to go along with it.

Right.

But if you're still craving, you're still going to be giving in to those cookies.

You're going to be adding those cookies into that meal.

You're just going to be doing it until you have what you need, the foundation and the basis to, to eliminate those cravings.

Right?

Yeah.

Yes.

And that's one of the things I like.

The first way I try to reach people is to help them break that sugar cycle.

And that's actually the name of a free guide that I have available.

And I lay out like, I created it when US Dietary guidelines were changing too, to focus on proteins and whole foods and healthy fats.

And so I lay out, like, the reasons why we need to break the sugar cycle and then give you.

You can do it self paced and just give you options on how to break that sugar cycle.

So that's like really where we need to begin.

Right, right.

And I want to just add in because you.

When you keep saying sugar, I think the people that are like, oh, no, I'm not a sugar, I'm not a. Yeah, it is very important that bread.

Those are still the same culprits.

Yeah, exactly.

That any of the starchy stuff.

Oh, yeah, yeah, I was.

When I still worked in my corporate career, a nurse practitioner came up to me and said, you know, she noticed my massive weight loss and she's like, what are you doing?

And I told her, I just said, I quit sugar.

She's like, oh, I don't have a problem with sugar.

And I.

She's like, I like, I like potatoes and potato chips and bread.

And I'm like, I hate to break this to you, but those are sugar.

As soon as it hits your digestion, the enzymes break it down into sugar.

And she just looked at me like, what?

And so even a nurse practitioner doesn't realize that.

It's not something I even imagined.

Like, my life didn't change until I gave up the bread, potato and pasta.

Those were the things.

Yes, those were the things I was filling up on.

I had already quit sugar.

I quit the sweet stuff for like 10 months.

And I did have some weight loss, very slow.

And then discovered this Dr. Jason Fung, who's a nephrologist and he wrote the book the Obesity Code.

That was the key to unlocking everything for me.

And that's the day I quit.

The bread, the sugar, the pasta, or the bread, the potato, the pasta, all the white stuff.

And then the weight just started melting off because I was very carbohydrate intolerant, very insulin resistant.

And that was the way of eating that I needed to heal my body.

Yep.

And it's.

Yeah.

And it's a process.

Yeah.

You know, so.

And I caution anybody, you know, again, do not go cold turkey.

Like, do not.

Baby steps.

Especially if you're dealing with emotional causes of some of this eating.

You're just going to throw yourself into so much anxiety and so much stress and so much guilt and shame.

It's not.

Baby steps.

Make small, tiny little changes.

But when my father said to me, just don't eat anything white, and he looked at me like I was the biggest idiot because that's how he looked at me a lot.

But literally he's like, Just don't eat anything white.

What's wrong with you?

Like, we didn't have potato and, and we had farms.

We had.

But we grew broccoli and carrots and okay, still a lot of sugar, but.

Yeah, yeah, but.

But it's still.

A carrot is probably still better than a cookie.

Yeah.

Oh, for sure.

Yeah, definitely.

You know, but we didn't eat.

We never had rice.

I had never even, like, I don't even remember the.

Never ever.

We never had bread.

We didn't have sandwiches we would go to if we wanted.

My dad would buy ham and chunk it up and just give us slices of ham for school, which is weird.

Like, I feel like he had a lot of wisdom in him, but we just never had it.

Maybe because we were also not.

Didn't have a lot of money.

I don't know.

I don't know why, but it doesn't matter.

We just never ate anything white.

So when I was 20 some or 30 some, and he said, and I said, I want to drop about 15 pounds.

He said, Duh, just stop eating.

And I did.

And I dropped in about six, six months.

I dropped probably 23 pounds in six months.

24 pounds.

Sounds like he was low carb before.

Low carb was cool.

Yeah, he really kind of was.

Well, yeah, he just, his thing was that a professor he had at Tufts University told him that the, the more colors in your food, the healthier the diet, period.

That's all he said.

So we ate a lot of bell peppers and carrots.

Yeah, you know, like colors.

And I still tell people that day, to this day, walk in the stuff with that are red.

Those are, you know, those have a lot of phytonutrients.

So they have all the good stuff in them.

Yeah.

Yes.

Amazing.

Amazing.

Yeah.

And do it step by step.

Oh my goodness.

I do not coach people to rip the band aid off on day one.

I want to help them prevent that, what they call the keto flu, feeling awful.

And also when we do it step by step, we build momentum.

So, you know, even in my, my guide that I just told you about, it's.

It's a seven step plan.

It's not seven days.

You know, it's a seven step plan and you take it at your own pace.

And you said you're going to offer that free to the guests, to the listener?

Yes.

Yep.

They can.

Yeah, they can actually grab that at.

If they go to www.breaksugarcycle.com, they'll find it.

And I think you'll, you'll post that in the show notes.

I'll make sure you have that link, too.

Absolutely.

No, I just wrote it down, too.

So it's kind of going in there for sure.

Because what.

I mean, what a generous gift.

Because sometimes, you know, the people.

Again, listening, if you're out there.

So much of what we have going on in our bodies and our nervous systems and our brain is all wrapped up around the guilt and the shame and just so unnecessary.

You're beautiful just the way you are.

I don't care if you're seven pounds overweight.

You're beautiful.

Yes.

Can we always look and feel better?

Yes.

Yeah.

And.

And I tell people is, you know, you made such a good point and thank you for that, is that you can't serve and you can't give people the best of you if you're not feeling well.

Yeah, exactly.

It's not selfish to take care of yourself.

It is actually the least selfish thing you can do because then the world is getting the best of you and you're permeating that energy and that positivity and that awesomeness into the world.

Right, Exactly.

Yes.

And as women, we so rarely do that.

Like, we're.

We're caretakers and we just want to give, give, give.

We can't give out if we're not taking care of ourselves.

No, No.

I love it.

So, Christine, this has been absolutely amazing.

If people want to work with you, where exactly do they go?

Quickest place to find you.

Oh, my website by my name, Christine.

Trim.com is.

And trim is T as in Tom, R, I M as in Mary, P as in Paul, e dot com.

And Christine is spelled the traditional way.

Christine trimp dot com.

Okay.

And that will go in the show notes as well.

Okay, awesome.

Now, thank you so much for coming on, but you're not off the hook.

Before you go, give the listeners your biggest piece of advice or something someone said to you or something they can take into the day to make their day a little brighter.

Oh, goodness.

I didn't get a chance to talk to this, so I'm glad you asked me this.

What changed my life was when I discovered Dr. Fung, and I was watching a very short video series about fasting, and he looked in the camera, and I want to look in your camera for anybody watching on video and tell you that this is not your fault, okay?

This sugar addiction is a brain disorder.

It's a brain disease.

And I always add a caveat because I'm a Christian woman.

And so even though this dietary advice that I've been given all these years was so wrong for me as an insulin resistant woman.

And I really believe it wasn't my fault.

I wasn't given good advice, but now it's my personal responsibility to do something about it.

So even if it's not entirely your fault, but you can show up and do something about this.

If I can do this being morbidly obese and, you know, not even 50 years old yet, you can do it, too.

Thank you so much for that.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Yes.

No, it makes total sense.

And for everybody else out there listening, you heard it.

I mean, you're looking at it.

I mean, well, you might not be looking at it, you might be listening to it, but that's Christine Trimp.

And I mean, she knows.

She.

She been through it.

She's had the addictions.

She, you know, the sugar addictions.

And look at her.

She's beautiful, she's glowing, and she is helping the world.

So do it for yourself.

If you're not doing it for anybody else, do it for yourself because you are so worthy and so worth it.

So thank you, and you all have a blessed week.

Thank you.