Every doctor told Brittany Gieske the exhaustion, the stubborn weight, and the symptoms with no clear cause were just "normal" postpartum life. She didn't believe it — so she found the answers doctors never tested for, then walked away from a ten-year corporate career to make sure other women didn't have to go looking alone.
Brittany is a functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner (FDN-P) and founder of The Metabolic Method, where she helps women get past the hormone, metabolism, and gut-health roadblocks that "eat less, move more" can't fix. In this conversation, she walks through what functional weight loss actually looks like, how she tested it on herself before building a business around it, and the financial and family trade-offs of leaving corporate to do it full-time.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
- [03:34] Why a stable, well-paying decade at Oracle wasn't enough to keep Brittany from chasing her own health answers
- [06:31] The postpartum symptoms her doctors dismissed as "normal" — and why she went back to school instead of accepting that
- [24:13] What functional weight loss actually means, and why calories-in/calories-out breaks down for women over 30
- [30:11] How to tell the difference between a hormone disorder and normal perimenopause symptoms
- [42:49] The hiring advice from her business coach that she thought was "nuts" — and why it changed everything
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