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communicate with your dog like never before, creating unbreakable bonds that make you the most

exciting part of their world. Health, food, you are what you eat and all that now. We're

supposed to be talking dog training, but actually on your path to dog training success, Michelle,

you've also had a difficult eating sort of space to navigate through. And I know you've had some

rock, solid confidences. I'm scoffing like chocolate biscuits. And then other times, you've certainly

wobbled too. Now, I don't know if you want to tell us, why did you start to look at what you eat?

So I had been having a few health issues and went to the doctors and ended up having an ultrasound. And what they found was I had a significantly sized fibroid. I mean, I think you said like meters and meters and meters. It was like, it was something like 35 meters. I mean, it's probably not that much, but it was big, right? It was 20 centimetres. Okay. Okay. I was, I was going a little bit big. A little big, a little big, the size of a melon, basically. And it was, to be honest, it was really embarrassing because I was getting people asking when I was due. But the cool thing was being asked when you're due in your 50 is quite a cool thing, too. I mean, that was that was a compliment, I feel. Yes. But so I had, I got, went to the doctors and the advice I received from the doctors

was very standard surgery. Now, you sunk, you, you sought after alternate sort of thought and

therapy and, and processes. And one of the things that came across your path was

one of our wonderful dog training clients. Her name is Roseanne. You looked at lots of alternate

ways to look after this sort of situation and fibroid because you knew that you didn't want to

go through a major operation, but you also knew that you couldn't continue living with it growing.

Now, how did that journey of food go from here?

Oh, it's been really eye-opening.

And I'm a very active person.

And one of my fears, if we're having surgery, it would have been up to eight weeks of just

not being that active.

And potentially more if there was any complication because sometimes, of course, there are complications with surgeries. Absolutely. And sometimes we don't heal as we're meant to. And sometimes even anaesthetics themselves can be major issues for people. And some people don't even recover well from an anaesthetic, potentially not even at all. No. Like they are a big deal. Like we don't want to go under anaesthetic unless we really need to.

Absolutely not.

And I must say, I'm not a nutritionist, so I'll keep it really simple with what I've done. But basically, it was looking at the food I was eating and adjusting my diet to try to see if we could get rid of this naturally. I mean, it grew. so can we get rid of it through the foods that I eat and the choices I make?

Now I know with one of your scans there was a... I mean, it grew. So can we get rid of it through the foods that I eat and the choices I make?

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