301. Jennie's Story: One Program That Helped Me Take Control of My Health

In this episode, we dive deep with Jennie, a Zivli member who faced a wake-up call when diagnosed with pre-diabetes. 

She shares the struggles she encountered and how she made dramatic lifestyle changes to regain control of her health. From eliminating sugar and alcohol to setting intentional health goals, Jennie discusses how the Zivli program and community support played a pivotal role in her transformation.

Jennie's story is not just about weight loss—it's about taking control of your health before it's too late. If left unchecked, pre-diabetes can lead to serious, long-term health issues, including diabetes, heart disease, and more. Jennie’s progress demonstrates how small changes, when combined with the right support, can drastically improve your health and future quality of life.

Tune in to hear Jennie's full story and learn why intentionality, community support, and consistent habits are the keys to transforming your health. If you're ready to take control of your own health journey, this episode is a must-listen.

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Transcript

I went to the doctor and he had me do some blood work and it came back that I was pre-diabetic. And that was the first time he'd ever said that to me. Pre-diabetes means you're almost diabetic. It was like the precursor to that. And I thought, that seems really serious. He said, it's not, it's not that big of a deal. You're just pre-diabetic. You know, let's just, you you just need to eat, eat less, exercise more. And I'm like,

Duh, yeah.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the reshape your health podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan Nolte. And today I have a special guest with me. Jenny is one of our Zivli members and she is going to share her story about just her health and her weight and her experience with Zivli and the goals that she's reached. And my hope is that this brings inspiration to you, especially if you're considering joining Zivli this fall, think bringing real life people who have done our program who are

continuing to do our program onto the show is one of the most helpful things that I can do to bring that hope and encouragement and inspiration to you. So Jenny, thank you so much for agreeing to come on the show. You're welcome. It's good to be here. Thank you. Yeah. So give us a little bit of background about, you know, who you are, where you're from, what drew you to Zivli. I'm from Delaware, Ohio, which is just north, about 30 minutes north of Columbus, Ohio. I

was a elementary school teacher for 31 years and retired. And now we live up here. Just love this community. It's a small town kind of feel. And we live in a house that's 175 years old and it's just a fabulous, fabulous place to live. lot of history. I was trying to think when I started my first diet and I...

honestly cannot remember. I remember being in dance club in high school and being so excited that I weighed 120 pounds. I'm at that point, I've shrunk a little bit. At that point I was five, nine and I just loved being thin and tall and I just wanted to stay at that weight and stay

active and just became really hooked on diets and losing weight and staying in shape. And I remember on my wedding day, I weighed 135 pounds and I was so disappointed with myself because I wanted to weigh 130 pounds on my wedding day. And I look back now and I think I have that weight 135 pounds in 36 years. But it's just

It's just always been in the back of my mind, you know, to be thin, to be fit, to be perfect, I guess, is what is the word that comes to mind. I was a real perfectionist and and still am. I still am. I should say we're still I'm a perfectionist. I was the youngest of six kids and I was when I was thinking about this. the youngest of six kids and both my parents, my father was a.

Episcopal minister at a church, fairly good sized church. So he was busy, you know, most days and through the weekends. And my mom was raising six kids and keeping a house. And then she also worked part time as a registered nurse. And so we had everything we needed, but the attention was not, we didn't get a ton of attention. We did from each other, but not from my parents so much. And I quickly learned that.

to get attention from my parents, would do things for them. I would try to do things without being asked. as I became a teenager, I started getting attention for being fit and being active and having blonde hair and just like the physical.

parts of getting attention. And that got me attention from my friends and from eventually boys. so it just became this whole thing that it was all kind of focused on getting attention and almost addictive. It just continued. And I remember after I got married and we had our first child, I went to Jenny Craig to lose the baby weight.

At that time I weighed 146 pounds and I walked in and they're like, why are you here? You're five, nine and you weigh 146 pounds. like, I just got to get back down to the weight I was when I was married, you know, and I did, and I got way, actually way below that, but every time it came back on, I mean, I just always seem to have it come right back on again. Um, and sometimes more than, than what.

I had even lost. Um, you know, it's, it's the classic yo-yo dieting, um, program after program, know, Weight Watchers and Mediterranean diet and just everything. read so many books and tried so many different things. So it's just, it's just been really, I am now 62 and I think, you I've been doing this for 40 years, literally 40 years of.

dieting and exercising to try to be whoever this person is that I feel like in my mind is the perfect, the perfect person, you the perfect woman with the perfect body and you know, so it's just, it's been a long, long fall. Yeah. Thanks for sharing that with me and the listeners. I'm that takes courage to be vulnerable like that. And I think that there's

Probably a lot of people listening who can nod their head and be like, yeah, yep. I remember that too. And it's interesting just thinking about your weight story. Have you ever thought of that? Like, what is your weight story? When did like, you kind of alluded to like, when did all this start? And it was like an intention thing for you. And then, you know, after you had your first child, that's kind of when you wanted to start losing the weight again.

Was there any other time in your life where there was a lot of stress going on where like you just gained weight then and like you stopped being able to lose it? My husband struggled trying to find his identity with his job, his career. We all knew what he needed to do. He needed to go into the ministry. He was just called to be a minister and we all knew that.

But he tried a lot of different things trying to get there. And I was the sole provider. I was the one with the full-time job. I was the one with the insurance. I did feel a lot of pressure to have to be there for my family, to be the one that provided for them, because I was never sure if he was going to keep this job. But finally, he kind of had one of those moments where you get

You know, you're like, he said, I was going down this road and I got to the end of the road and there was no fork. And he said, I need to do what I've been, people have been telling me, you I need to go into seminary. So he did. He's not, he's not an elder or a deacon, but he is, sorry. But he is just a rock to me. And our church is really important to us. our church friends are really important to us. And it's just, it's.

Just so nice to see him. He's now working in a nonprofit free store that helps people who are homeless and helps them find homes and helps them get the food they need and the clothes they need. it's just such a wonderful calling for him. But I just think through that whole time I was having children, I was working full time. It was a lot to eat, right? To work out, to do all those things. It was just a lot.

Mm hmm. And I was and I'm glad that I had that job. And I'm glad I was able to do that for our family. But I think it was really, it was tough. It was a tough time. Yeah, I mean, it sounds like a lot of other people's needs came before your own essentially in that season of life. Is that right? Yeah. I would love to hear when did it become your time? Or was it just kind of a slow

Like was there a rock bottom moment or was there a flash of insight or was it like just kind of slow and gradual as your children became more independent, then you could spend more of your time and energy back towards your health or what was that impetus to really start focusing on your lifestyle changes? Yeah, I think it, about two years ago, I was about at my heaviest. I think I was,

close to 190. I had never been that big. was just, gosh, just inactive and just eating whatever I wanted. And we were eating out a lot because the kids had all blown the nest. And so we had extra money. so we were just spending more money eating out and drinking more and just stuff that's not good for you. I went to the doctor and he had me

do some blood work and it came back that I was pre-diabetic. And that was the first time he'd ever said that to me. Pre-diabetes means you're almost diabetic. It was like the precursor to that. And I thought, that seems really serious. He said, it's that big of a deal. You're just pre-diabetic. You let's just, you just need to eat less, exercise more. And I'm like, duh, yeah.

I know that I know I supposed to eat better and exercise more. I mean, it wasn't like, you know, I want to hook you up with this nutritionalist or, know, and I even said, said, should I work with a nutritionalist? He's like, well, I mean, just eat more fruits and vegetables and lean meats and, know, and then just just move your body more, you know, rock and was so very simple. It's like, okay. So I dropped sugar and alcohol for

a very long time. was like, okay, this is the answer. I'm just going to drop sugar and alcohol and eat more whole grains. this kind of thing went back the following year. He was like, yeah, you're still pre-diabetic. And I said, okay. Um, and then I'm just, we're just a little bit higher, not a whole lot, but just, they were creeping. And he said, I could probably prescribe you something if you needed me to prescribe you something. And I was like, I don't want you to prescribe me. It's not like I'm.

Type one where I need to start taking insulin. This is me. This is me not taking care of myself. And there are ways to do this. So I said, no, I don't want to do that. And he said, well, just eat better and move your body more. Oh my gosh. I'm like, oh, thanks so much. Great advice. So anyways, I started talking to people. I have a friend from church who's diabetic.

So I started talking to her. My sister had been to what's it called when you're pregnant and you and you're gestational diabetes. She had had gestational diabetes and she's a nurse. And so I called her and I said, you know what, what should I eat? How should I, cause I know there's ways to eat. Like I know it's not just eating better. Like there's ways to combine things. And I knew that just by reading the internet and different things. So she gave me some advice and I tried eating smaller meals.

you know, that were high protein and still wasn't making a big difference. And then I was, I think I was on either Instagram or Facebook. I'm not sure which one I saw you first. And I saw this. I'd probably they, you know, how they figure out what you're into. Yeah. Probably saw me looking for, you know, diabetes types of things. And, and I saw your ad for the bootcamp and it was free. I thought, I'm going to try that.

Let's just see what she has to say. Because I assumed it was going to be what everybody else has always said, you know, what my doctor had said. And I was struck at how smart you were. Just so knowledgeable. And you presented it so clearly. I could understand it. It makes sense to me. And I was learning, I just learned so much just during those three days. And so I was like, I

I need to, I have a part-time job that I just have just for fun money, spoil my grandkids. so I'm like, I'm going to do this. I'm going to pay for this myself and I'm going to do this. And I actually didn't even tell my husband. I didn't tell him because there had been so many times where he was like, on, Jen, again, you're going to try this. We had 40 years, we've been married for 36 of those years. He was like, really? You're going to do this again?

I didn't want to hear that. thought I'm just going to, I could just do this privately. I only work about 10 to 15 hours a week. And so I said, I'm going to, I'm going to have a Sabbath. Never had had a Sabbath before. I'm going to have a Sabbath every Wednesday and that's going to be my civilly day. I'm going to read articles. I'm going to read through the modules. I'm going to attend the meetings. And I just set Wednesday aside as my Sabbath day. That took some training.

of my family to not interrupt me. But my pastor takes a Sabbath every week and she said, that's the hardest part is getting people in your life to not disturb you, you know, cause he can work from home on certain days and, and, like not Wednesday. You can't work on Wednesday. That really was good because I felt like I just really

had a day to focus. That's the day that I have my meeting with myself. When I check in and look at my progress and I rewrite my personal faith formula, I wrote that a gazillion, rewrote that a gazillion times before I finally landed on one that I love. So it's just become a day since January where I've just taken it for myself. And that's when I meet with my accountability pod.

And we all agree that that's that Wednesday is kind of the day that we do. They're either watching a, you know, a coaching session or something, or they're listening to a guest speaker or something. And that's the day we meet for the accountability pod, because that's what everybody could do. And we're all the same age, so virtually the same age. Yeah. So it just makes it really nice to my zippily day. And I think that's what I've heard from so many people.

on those coaching sessions is people saying, I don't have time, you I'm working full time and I'm trying to read all these things and, you know, and try to understand it all. And I just have the privilege of being able to set aside a day for that. And that's, think that's really where my success has been. Yes. And so I think it's important to just be very intentional. We talk about this a lot, be intentional about your time and your boundaries and

It's almost like give to yourself first, you know, so that you can fill your own cup up and then better give to other people. and you can do it in any season of life. It's just a little bit easier if you do have more space in your schedule and a few or less, you know, responsibilities or obligations. So I'm really, really proud of you for taking that day. I've never heard of someone sabbathing on Wednesday so they can do Zimli stuff. I love that. I think it's hard to slow down for a lot of people, myself included, like for a Sabbath.

it's very easy to fill that time just because we're used to filling our time. that hard for you? And I used to feel so guilty. I'm like, yeah, because part of, part of my Sabbath was just so funny because I, you know, during the, during the non Sabbath days, I wake up and I have my mindset routine. So I go down and I get my coffee and I come up and I have my mindset routine. And, and part of the, my Sabbath is to.

sit and slowly drink my coffee and watch birds because I love birds. And so I sit where I can see birds either on my porch or wherever. And I'm like, so guilty. I should be doing something. Gosh, that really needs to be mode. And, know, I'm like thinking of all these things I should be doing. I know this is your day. You need to just relax. If you want to sit here for an hour, sit here for an hour. You know, it's just, there was a lot of guilt at the beginning. And now I just like,

And he even said to me last night, goes, is tomorrow your Sabbath? And I said, yeah, tomorrow's my Sabbath. goes, okay. Does he know that you're doing Zivli stuff now? Like, did you eventually tell him? I did finally tell him. I think I was probably maybe a couple of weeks into it. And I said, I'm doing this program. And I told him a little bit about it. And what was interesting is he's very smart. I was sitting at the dining room table listening to one of the modules and I

wasn't using headphones. And he walked by and he goes, wow, she's really thorough.

because she's talking about some pretty deep stuff. And I'm like, I think he just thought that it was not, it was just another program, you know? But he's like, no, this person really knows what she's talking about. You this is really deep stuff. And I said, there's times when I'm listening, I'm like, I have no idea what she just said. I have to go back and listen to that again, because I just have no idea what she just said. But it's, I think he was really impressed at that point.

And, and he started seeing how committed I was to it. You know, we eat a lot of the same things. And I said at one point, you need to let me plate my own food because he often makes dinner and it was just so much food, especially in like side things, like grains and stuff. would put like a cup of something like, you totally need to let me.

So now it's like, hey, it's four ounces of chicken and that's half cup of rice. I'm like, okay, thanks. Perfect. Yeah. Thanks. You've trained him both for the Sabbath and what portions you want. That's awesome. Yeah. I'm going to have him totally trained by the end of this year, but it's fun to see him. Like I'll make him like what I'm having for lunch and he'll go, that's really good. Yeah. That's really good food. It's good stuff that we tell you to eat.

I love hearing about the ripple effect. And that happens a lot where, you know, there's one person in the family that changes and then they're just either so excited about it or somebody in their, their family, like their spouse or their kids are like, Hey, you're different. Like, what are you doing? And that's always the goal is for somebody to ask like, Hey, you're, you're acting different. You're looking different. Like, what are you doing? I have to tell you a quick story before we move too far away from the birds.

You just sounded so much like my mom. My mom loves to sit and sip on her coffee. And she has her little binoculars and her bird book. And one day they have this, they have a ranch style house. And so they have a, she has so many bird feeders around, course, to attract all these birds that she wants to see. And the squirrels keep eating her bird food. And so, so she was like, I'm like, mom, what's on your agenda today? And she's like,

I'm hanging the squirrel spikes today. And I'm like, what is that? There's spikes that go around her like post on her deck to keep the squirrels off. And I said, that is literally the most retired thing I have ever heard in my entire life. What are you I'm hanging squirrel spikes today. Squirrel spikes. yeah. Because I love them so much that he my two of my sisters have the clear ones that hang on the windows.

And so know and I love them. And so he got me one for either Christmas or my birthday with seed and all the stuff. And I was so excited. And the birds started coming. It took them like a week or so, but then they started coming with all these different types of birds. One day I came home from work and there was a squirrel inside the feeder. And I swear to you, it was like filling the entire and he was just like the glutton. He finished.

everything in there and every day I'd feel it. I'd come home and he was just gorging himself and the birds were all sitting on the fence watching him. You know, I'm like, okay, that's not going to work. So then I put it in another place and then it jumped from like the air condit- and it jumped like 10 feet to the window. I'm like, are you kidding me? This is not going to work. So I have it in a place now where he can't get it. yeah. That's so funny. And this episode is not sponsored by Squirrel Spikes. So in case anyone-

cares. I told my mom, like, they're just going to come on the roof and jump. I said the exact, I'm like, they're just going to jump from your roof onto that feeder. They're very, very smart. Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. That's all good stuff. I was kind of curious. You said at times, you know, like, I don't understand what she just said. I had to kind of rewind and, and go through it. And that is by intention. And so I think that sometimes like people, they just want like a quick solution or like they want something.

and I'm like, it doesn't, if you, I think that there's, if you don't understand it on a cognitive level, then it's really, really easy to keep justifying your behaviors. And it's very difficult to like really unlearn things. Cause don't you think that there's a lot of unlearning to do from the course material as to like what you kind of came in believing and then how you figured out how to change your habits. Yeah.

When you go on a diet, there's always that first week where you lose like five pounds. And it's like a switch. It's such a deprivation of calories that you're just like, my gosh, five pounds. That's awesome. And with every diet I've ever done, that always happens. And I remember getting to the end of the first week and I'm like, a pound. Okay. All right.

And that's once you started implementing, because I often tell new members the first 10, 12 weeks is a learning phase. You don't even, if you're going to implement anything, do some mindset work, but that's kind of once you get to the implementation phase. wanted to, it's like, it's like when you read a diet book, you start to read a little bit and you go, I just want to see what I get to eat. And you go back to where the recipes are and where the plan is. And you go right there. And I remember coming to one of the first.

group discussions and saying, know, I don't know if other events, I may not have even upset it, but I was just thinking, we need to speed things up here. We need to move it along to the weight loss part. You know, I'm not going to be to hang in there for all this. But then I remember, and this is the one thing I was saying, I was thinking was that just this whole idea of progress, not perfection. And I really looked at the hierarchy

you know, where it told me we need to work on this and we need to work on this. Okay, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do it right. I'm going to do it right. So I really focused on that. And I was surprised really how, how many weeks it was before we really started getting into talking about what you're going to eat. You know, a lot of it was just having that mindset routine every

and drinking more water. And it was all these things that, and I was like, yeah, I don't drink, I don't drink a lot of water. I need to start drinking water. And so, and I'm sleeping okay. But yeah, so I, as I started going through that, I'm like, yeah, I do need to work on these things. And I do need to understand how my body processes stuff, how it works and why it's not working right now and why I'm pre-diabetic. And once I kind of just,

took a breath and said, just respect the process. Do this the way it's supposed to be done and we'll see what happens. And cause I heard other people also saying that too, like, Hey, I'm trying to do this and I'm trying to do this and I'm trying there. They were trying to do too many things. And I remember somebody who's coached Beth or Lydia said, just focus on one or two things. Maybe just even one thing, you know, just drink water this week, you know, try to get that done.

So once I said, okay, let me just do it the way it's supposed to be done, then I was able to relax a little bit and just appreciate the process. But there were times when I went back and re-listened to something and was like, get that the first time. Yeah. And I think we talked a bit offline about doing the reboot.

That'll be this fall. And you know that there's emotional brain training coming into the program. And that's going to be so, so cool. And like I was listening to your, little bit of like your weight story and your body story and all those old wires and circuits. It'll be really interesting to see you erase and replace those essentially is kind of what EBT is all about. so thanks for sharing all of that. And can you share just a little bit about the results? I know you haven't been a member for super long, but what kind of.

both internal and then external results have you experienced so far? My starting weight was 173 and now I'm at about 157. I just got back from vacation and had a little bit too good of a time. Though I will say I did take, I wrote, and this was Beth's suggestion. She said, write a personal faith formula just for vacation. Love that. Yes.

No, I did. I, every morning I woke up and I read my personal faith formula, you what I was working on and I reported my stuff that I was eating and I brought with me stuff to have a really healthy breakfast and a really healthy lunch. And then I didn't have control over the dinner as much because every, we all took turns. Ours was very healthy, but I couldn't say that about everybody else.

I don't really drink anymore, but I did drink when I was on vacation and I don't do desserts a lot and I ate a lot of desserts. So, yeah, so those were that those parts were hard. And everybody else was not concerned about that. So, but then I did. It was kind of fun. I, we, I, I told our host, said, I really want to do, I want to do yoga every day while I'm here because we were on this beautiful lake. And he said, there's a dock.

where we can spread out this mat and he and you can do yoga right by the water. was like, gosh. And some people joined me, which was kind of fun. So some of the other people that we were with in our group joined me. And so I did a lot better than I thought I was going to do, but I'm also getting back on track. I just had my blood work done and I've gone from, my sugar was at 131 and it went down to 94.

That's amazing. So that's her fasting blood sugar, fasting glucose. So 131 to 94. That's amazing. My A1C went from 6.2 to 5.9. That's better. My waist measurement went from 48 to 38. So lost a couple inches off my waist. My BMI went from 28 to 25. And then gosh, just I'm...

I'm eating 30 to 40 grams of protein at every meal. I'm drinking 60 to 80 ounces of water a day, which I never used to do. And I'm starting to crave it. I never craved water, but I'm starting to crave it. Eating less sugar. I always, we came from a family where we always had dessert. So I'm learning that I don't have to finish every meal with dessert. We're eating a lot of whole foods. We eat a lot of good stuff and I'm a, we have a good.

garden, we're starting to get a bunch of fresh veggies and stuff, so it's really nice. And I don't eat fast food anymore. I used to eat fast food probably at least once a week. Getting 25 grams of fiber or more every day. Eating basil seed, pudding, and having just a lot more veggies and fruits, lot of berries. I'm exercising regularly. This is still an area that I'm working on.

I have not been able to convince myself that I'm a weightlifter. I love to do yoga and I love the way I feel when I do yoga, but I know that I need to do strength training and it's just really hard for me to, to motivate to do that. I don't hesitate to count things that I do. Like I mow and work in the garden, those things as well. And you've been working on so many other areas too.

You know, like that's, that's higher up the hierarchy for sure. Like you're getting these cornerstone things. So I can tell there's like you said, I'm still a perfectionist and I can tell you're still a perfectionist. And so give yourself a lot of grace and patience that you're setting your environment up for success. You're training your mind to be consistent on these easier habits. They're not easy per se, but like easier. And so by the time you're to that point where you want to really get into strength training.

you're going to have built that self-discipline muscle already with like the easier habits. So it'll, it'll come. I'm confident it'll come. I have three rocks right now are strength training three times a week, making healthier choices. When I eat out, checking the menu first, trying not to have alcohol with my meal and having two desserts a week is what I've told myself because I hike every Tuesday with some friends, some retired teachers. We hike and we hike.

quite a while, like we'll go for like seven to eight miles. And so we always have ice cream afterwards, but I've gone from having the waffle cone to a smaller cone and they still get the waffle cone with two dips. I'm like, no, one dip in a cone or in a dish. So I'm working on it. Right. And that's what I want people to understand is like, this is not an all or nothing mindset and having an all or nothing mindset is sometimes one of the biggest barriers for people to overcome. Like you get to make your own, you know,

guidelines or boundaries around food. And that's why I always struggle to answer that question of like meal plans. I'm like, well, you make your own meal plan. You know, we want to teach you the proper, like what food and nutrition your body needs, but I'm not living your life. I don't know. You hike eight miles on Tuesday, every Tuesday, anyone ice cream. Like that's not going to be in a meal plan that I make someone just a random scoop of ice cream. So I love that you're able to take the guidelines and really make them your own. Like that's the whole goal.

And my husband and I have never been great at meal plans and we don't follow a lot of recipes. So I have two go-to breakfasts that I have that I know have 30 to 40, about 30. Yeah. One has 30 and I think the other one has like 35 or 40 grams of protein. And then I almost always, like almost every day have a protein bowl, which starts with

spinach and garbanzo beans and peas and all of that little easy lunch thing that at the very beginning and then 30 ounces of 30 grams of Protein and that the protein changes in often times. It's leftover chicken or sometimes it's deli turkey or can of tuna or you know couple hard boiled eggs or whatever, but I try to do that and Then in the evening, we almost always have

a lean meat, some vegetables and then some sort of small amount of grain. So it's easier for me to do that kind of thing and then sort of trying to every day and then go, gosh, but we have to go here and we can't make that tonight. The research shows simple is better. Having like fewer meal options that you just do on repeat that you really, really like.

and that feel your body, you're going to have better results. And I smiled so big when you said tuna, because I made this stuff one week and it was similar, like, I don't know, beans and tuna and stuff. And my husband looked at it he was like, Martha Stewart wouldn't eat that in prison. I'm like, I'm eating it out of prison and I'm not Martha Stewart and it's fueling my body. So, but that was one of his best one-liners. Martha Stewart wouldn't eat that in

gosh. The number one best thing I can do right now is that I can get up and off the floor so much easier. And I have three little grandchildren, one of them's five, one of them's three and the other one's no, sorry, five, two and two. And they're always, I'm Gaga. Gaga, come play with me. And so I used to be like, my gosh, I can't sit down here.

Now I sit down there and I get right back up. And it was one of my, it was part of my personal faith formula at the very beginning. I remember saying that at a, to Beth or something. And she said, you know, that needs to be in your faith formula. like, I'm going to put getting off the floor in my faith form. she's like, if it's really important to you, it should be in there. Well, it is. And I love that I can get up and down off the floor and not look like I weigh a gazillion pounds, know?

easy and that's because I'm stronger. that's what it's all about. You know, it's, about taking care of us so that we can better show up and impact the lives of others. I think that's really what it's all about. One of our other members is also a grandma and she passed ninja training. I loved how she said that. I don't know if you ever heard that, but she's like my win this week is I passed, I passed ninja training with my grandkids. So that's fun. And I, know, when I go to the.

playground. I don't want to be the one sitting on the bench who's out of breath. You know, I want to be climbing the playground with them and doing that for as long as I can. It's a good motivator. And that's why Beth had you put it, it in the personal faith formula. Whatever motivates you is what should be in there. Any other like intangible results that you wanted to share? There's been times when I've gotten, I've been all snug in bed and just about to fall asleep. I'm like, gosh, I didn't do my evening mindset routine. Get myself out of bed and going, cause I'm like, I can't lay there thinking about it.

not doing it, you know, and it's just because it has a prayer that I say before I go to bed and it just helps me think about, what did I do today? What did I do? What I said I was going to do or, you know, did I eat what I said I was going to eat? I don't know. It just is a way for me to kind of round out the day. I having at least that morning time when you just really focus on what your day is going to look like, it does just.

put your head in the right space for the rest of day. What would you tell somebody who's on the fence about joining Ziply this fall? Is the bootcamp going to be offered again? We're doing a different training so they can just get the bootcamp. There's a couple ways to do that. When they download our free ultimate food guide that's linked in the resources, they're taken to a thank you page and they can like buy it straight from that thank you page, but they can find it on our website too. We might have it directly linked in the episode. I think we usually do that.

And it's the insulin resistance diet blueprint is what it's called. Those are the three training videos that Jenny went through. So you can get them on demand now, but we are hosting a weight loss training. So the three mistakes that sabotage weight loss after 50 is what we're hosting this time. So I would say go to that. It'll give you a really good idea of what the program's about and give you a chance to hear you and to meet you. And for me, that was.

That was the selling point. It just really fit what I was looking for and it was just different enough. I don't know. That was the thing that really plunged it for me because I couldn't stop thinking about it after that. It was more just trying to decide if I was worth the investment. Then once I decided that I was and that it was going to be my own money, it wasn't going to be money that came out of our budget. was going to be money I had earned.

And now I have to keep working because to make those monthly payments, but it's worth it's worth them. Yeah. So that's what I would say. If they're on the fence, go to that first and then really get an idea. I like that. And just to be kind of clear with the monthly payments, they do end. so if anyone's wondering, like we have lifetime access programs. So she just did the payment option. So I really liked that because I always want to say, like, I don't want to compete with Amazon, you guys. We're not entertainment.

Like when you're not here to entertain you on a, on a monthly subscription basis, like we're here to transform your life. So I just wanted to put that out there in case someone heard that and like, I don't want another subscription. There's going to be times where I'm like, okay, I need to refresh myself a little bit here because I'm getting off off track. So that's why we do the reboot. So all of our members can go through the program, like a new member, every single time we do enrollment for that exact reason, just to reboot, to refresh every time they go through it, they learn something new.

And you're a different person, you know, like you going through the program again, it's almost like you can go a level deeper. You know, the first time through you're kind of getting your feet wet. You're learning. What is this lifestyle system all about? Like who are these people? What is this? And then you implement some, which you're doing a beautiful job of. And then the next time through you're like, I can go deeper because I understand this stuff already. So I'm excited for that. And my last question for you in the same vein is what advice would you give?

to a new member? So someone who they're going to join, they're excited, they're a little bit nervous. Maybe they get that onboarding email and they might be a little bit overwhelmed. They might be like you and you're like, I want to my, my, pedal to the metal here. Like just kind of give me the nutrition plan already. What advice would you give to a new member? They're probably going to do that even if I say this, but because if they're, they're looking for a solution, so they're probably going to do that anyways, but I maybe,

help them get there faster, but just to take a breath and show yourself grace, work the program in the order that's recommended and understand that this is a slow and steady process that is gonna be with you for a lifetime. so there's no rush. just gonna work on it a little bit at a time and ask lots of questions. Know who people are.

Rettison to ask questions, but I asked lots of questions. went to the coaches corner a lot and I was loved the responses I would get. They were timely and just filled with more information than I even asked for, you know, and with, it always ended with if this doesn't work with for you, let's try something else. Let us know. You know, we can talk about this more. And so I always felt like I had somebody had my back, you know, if I had questions about something I'd

I never felt like I was out there doing this by myself, you know, that there was always support, really good support. try. And I'm really proud of that. Like I think that Beth and Lydia, there are two coaches right now. We are looking to expand our coaching team. And I'm really proud to say they, they answer questions in the coach's corner better than I would answer a question in the coach's corner. And that is the goal. Like that's the goal is to hire people.

that do things better than you. And I'm really, really proud of them. Like, they're just wonderful people. We have a wonderful team. Kendra's wonderful too. So I'm glad that you said that because this is a blessing to us. Like being able to do this work is a huge blessing to us. And so just wanted to say thank you. know, thank you for allowing us to do the work that we love so much. Making the impact of the impact. All of us are geriatric physical therapists. You know, so we saw

end stage disease, we saw people who weren't able to even get up from a chair, let alone playing with grandkids on the floor. So, you know, I'm so grateful for you and for your story. And, gosh, this has been a really lovely conversation. I'm just enjoyed it as well. It's really nice to get to know you and to see you on a more personal level. So thank you so much for inviting me.

My pleasure, my pleasure. So do the reboot and we'll see more of you this fall. All right, I will do that. Jenny. Blessings to you. You too. Bye. Bye.