End of 6 Week Optimize Your Health class results:

What did you achieve in the last 6 weeks as a result of your participation?

Encouragement and feedback has been life changing for me

It’s been so helpful-my habits are changing faster than I thought I would

Thank you so much for the incredible class.

I learned so much and the information was easy to apply to my life.

Very thorough and motivational.

Appreciate the research you put forth—to look for the evidence not click bait quick fixes

Value of investing in your health—if you don’t sleep well -what’s the price tag on that?

Learned from the group, broadened my knowledge.  Hearing others stories, trying things was motivating, reinforcing my holistic approach

Looking at new testing—learning measurements and stats that are helpful

that Drs don’t tell you about like the waist/height ratio.  Scheduled bloodwork.

Feel better, more energy, improving eating.  Forging a better pathway forward in health

Refocused on my health—patient with myself.  Have a plan in place.

Removed any confusion and hesitation regarding my interest in carb reduction

Good to listen to everyone—all on this journey together

Shrinking waist, less bloating, less chronic pain, doing habit stacking, more consistency

More specific outcomes based on participants goals:

• Skin clearing up; Clothes feel looser around my waist
• Lost 1.5 pounds
• Lost 6.2 pounds; lost 3/4 inch around my waist
• Increased HRV (heart rate variability) by 15 ms
• Lowered my A1C from 8.2 to 6.3 moving out of diabetes to pre-diabetes
• Pausing before eating: “will this make me healthy?”
• More attention to nutritional food: what am I getting out of this food I am about to eat?
• Noticing environment: the sugar in my pantry. Holidays are over and I’m still craving sugar
• Noticing I drink more than I thought: less sugar, less alcohol
• Noticing sugar/nut craving while giving up alcohol
• Brushing teeth after I eat-a cue that eating is done for the day
• Exploring more variety of food for increasing calcium
• Eating closer to nature
• Attention on eating more fibrous carbs
• Made cauliflower rice
• Made the soup tonight!  It is excellent!
• Got a meditation app—began meditating: 10 min meditation a day
• Learning breathing techniques; trying newer meditations; had a 5 day meditation streak
• Moving after eating; Walking 10 min daily, after dinner
• Pushing myself more when exercising-ramped up cardio/weight training
• Exercising and fasting with a friend
• Joined a hiking club
• Improving blood sugar through exercising—educating myself
• Set a 20 min timer at desk to get up and move
• Getting outside more earlier in the morning light
• Learning more about sleep hygiene, firming up sleep habits, better rested
• Better sleep-1 1/2 hrs longer before I wake up-I don’t “need” coffee right away in the morning
• Cut my coffee back—didn’t think I could do it—better sleep as a result
• Stopped eating well before bed, at 7 pm-4 nights straight of better sleep-12 hr fasting
• Eating earlier for better digestion and sleep
• Time my naps to not throw off night sleep
• Tighter eating window-don’t want to eat in the night-want to keep building on this