Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness. For those of you who have been listening to our radio show for over the last 18 years, whether you've been with us for almost two decades or you are relatively new to the show, you know our message is a simple one. Eat real food for better health. It's a simple message that gets amazing results.

Sometimes I even question the simplicity of the message. Can it really be that easy? Is it too good to be

true? We all know the saying. If it seems too good to be true, it usually is. Well, today, I am so excited to share two real-life success

stories with two women who I've had the great pleasure to work with and get to know. Both of

these ladies have been following this simple message and focusing on eating real food for more

than a year and are achieving the amazing results we often talk about on this show.

Of course, everyone loves a good weight loss story, and they both have a great one to share.

And we'll get to that. But what I also want to share with you is all the other, less commonly

talked about successes that come along with eating a real food

diet. And now when I say the word diet, I'm not talking about the awful four-letter word

diet. I'm simply talking about the food they ate. We all have a diet. It's what we eat.

At nutritional weight and wellness, we don't put you on a diet. That implies restriction, sacrifice,

and an end date when the diet will be over. We look at food differently. We look at what food does

for you and how it influences our natural bodily processes. Those could be digestive processes

or hormones. It could be cravings. It could be sleep. It can be mood. It can be pain signals. Food can affect how fast and healthy your hair and nails grow. How well you think and remember. The list of how food affects our body and brain goes on and on. At nutritional weight and wellness, we start with the food

and prioritize our health and how you feel. You become healthy at a cellular level and weight loss

follows. Let me say that again. Health comes first and weight loss follows. This concept is so hard.

It's not what we're taught about weight either in health class at school or at the doctor's office and certainly not at diet centers. The message we hear is lose weight and then you will be healthy. Lose weight and then your cholesterol levels will lower. Lose weight and then your knee pain will go away. This message is backwards. Often clients, though, can be so

desperate to lose weight that sometimes our message of health first isn't what they want to hear.

They might say, sure, it would be great if my menstrual cramps would go away or if I wasn't so

constipated. But let's just focus on weight loss. So that's what the nutritionists and dietitians

that nutritional weight and wellness do.

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