Client Success Story with Vanessa

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:nutrition, Nutrition

4.3 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Dishing Up Nutrition, Brandy talks with client Vanessa about her experience using a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and what it revealed about her “healthy” habits. From afternoon crashes and cravings to better energy and mood, Vanessa shares how real-time blood sugar data helped her make simple, realistic changes to her diet, without giving up the things she loves. A great listen if you want practical insight into how food truly impacts how you feel.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition. I'm your host, Brandyboro, a licensed and registered dietitian here at Nutritional Weight and Wellness.
0:16.0	We're a Minnesota-based company that specializes in real food nutrition education and counseling for real everyday people.
0:24.3	And today, we're diving into a really popular topic in the world of nutrition, and that is continuous glucose monitors or CGMs.
0:33.2	We're going to be talking about how CGMs can give us real-time insight and we're going to talk about how we can leverage that awareness into changing habits that support our health for good.
0:45.3	So if you're not familiar, a CGM is a small wearable device that tracks your blood sugar levels throughout the entire day and night. Most CGMs last for about two weeks.
0:57.7	In the past, these devices have been used almost exclusively for people with diabetes. But now,
1:05.0	CGMs are available to anyone without a prescription. And we're seeing even more people use them as a tool to personalize their nutrition to support better metabolic health.
1:15.6	As a dietitian, sometimes I suggest that my clients start testing their blood sugar with a CGM, maybe to reverse pre-diabetes or support their weight loss goals or improve hormone balance.
1:31.3	I think it's a wonderful tool with a lot of applications.
1:35.3	And to bring this to life and hear how somebody without diabetes is using a CGM,
1:42.3	I invited one of my clients to share their story.
1:46.0	Vanessa has been working with me for almost a year now, and she's been wearing a CGM for almost that
1:52.0	entire time. So I invited her today to tell us about her experience, hear what she's learned,
1:58.0	how she's applied that information, and the impact it's made in her health
2:03.2	and her life. So welcome, Vanessa. I'm excited to have you here. Thank you. I'm excited to be here too.
2:09.9	I'm so excited to dive in, share with our listeners, all that you've learned. So just to start,
2:16.7	maybe you can share with our listeners a little bit
2:19.8	about yourself. Who are you? What do you do? I am 39 and I'm a high school teacher here in the
2:26.0	Twin Cities. I really like hiking and camping. Um, cooking for myself is something that I've
2:32.7	done a lot more recently in the last like 10 years.
2:36.4	So I'm getting better, traveling.
2:38.6	I'm pretty active.
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