BEFORE
Overweight since age eight. Her whole life organized around a number.
Aaralyn had been overweight since she was eight years old. Not on and off, and not only during stressful seasons. From childhood through adulthood, her life was organized around a number on a scale, a clothing size and a body she had fought with for as long as she could remember.
She had always tried. Fad diets, programs and approaches of all kinds could produce temporary changes, but they did not give her body what it needed. She lost weight she could not keep off, gained it back and continued through the cycle.
Her body was carrying more than weight. She had PCOS, depression, acid reflux, chronic migraines and pain. These conditions compounded one another while conventional approaches addressed them one at a time, if at all. Then she found the nutrition certification and enrolled.
“I was overweight and obese from a very young age. My whole life revolved around my weight. Literally my whole life.”
THE WORK
Not another diet. The science of what her body needed.
What Aaralyn found was not another diet program. She learned the underlying biology of how plant-based nutrition works at the cellular level, why detoxification matters, and how the conditions she had lived with were connected to one another and to what she was eating.
She followed the protocols and did the work. She lost 140 pounds and reports maintaining that loss for four years. But the number was not the whole story.
She also reports healing PCOS, depression, acid reflux, chronic migraines and the chronic pain she had normalized as part of living in her body.
“I have officially maintained a 140-pound weight loss for four years now. That’s almost half of my former self. I’ve also healed from PCOS, depression, acid reflux, chronic migraines, pain, and who knows what else was on the way.”
AFTER
The mission of her entire life, accomplished.
Aaralyn no longer organizes her life around her weight. She became a certified health coach specializing in weight loss and now takes clients through the same protocols that changed her own life.
She understands where her clients are when they arrive because she has lived there. When her mind tells her she cannot do something, she remembers that she has already accomplished what once felt like the mission of her entire life.
“Any time my mind starts complaining or telling me I can’t do this or that, I remember that I’ve already accomplished what was my entire life’s mission. So everything else is just a bonus. Oh, and that I can do anything.”
