ALLIE KNOWS HOW TO HELP, BECAUSE SHE’S BEEN THERE

My Story.

I had been a fitness + nutrition coach for 6 years. I knew how to help myself and my clients lose weight, build muscle and gain their confidence back. I guided myself on my postpartum weight loss journey THREE TIMES and each time, felt stronger and more confident than ever. That was until my fourth pregnancy. And I was hit with hyperemsis gravidarum. During the first trimester of that pregnancy, I was too nauseous to eat, and what I did eat, I immediately vomited back up. And I don’t know if you know this or not, but starving is probably the very worst thing you can do for your hormones and your metabolism.

So once I began to feel better and hold down some food - what do you think happened? My body began to hold onto EVERYTHING. And I mean everything. By the time it was all said and done, I had gained close to 80lbs in that pregnancy. So not only did I feel terrible on the inside, I really looked terrible on the outside, too.

Let’s add onto all of this that my fourth baby, who I had planned on having a natural child birth with, ended up being breech and needing a c-section (my fourth baby, first c-section. WOOF!).

So to say my postpartum recovery was a struggle is a MASSIVE understatement. My body felt broken. My metabolism was in the toilet. And my hormones were a total disaster.

I began doing all of the things I had done with my first three postpartum periods: tracking macros, working out, etc. Except this time, nothing happened. I was doing all the right things and the scale was not budging. I actually think I gained more weight postpartum (how is that even possible?!), but I was too afraid to hop on the scale, so I can’t tell you that with certainty. But… I know.

After a year of this, I decided it was time to get a better picture of what was going on inside me and address the root cause. I began to hear more and more about functional medicine and getting hormone testing. Following this gut intuition was the BEST thing I have ever done for myself. I had blood labs drawn, found that I was extremely estrogen dominant and had a lot of estrogen tied up in my liver. So I set out on my hormone health journey, learning how to heal my hormones, optimize and thrive.

And that’s exactly why I began FemWell Functional Medicine. Because YOU ARE NOT ALONE. And it’s not your fault. There is something happening inside your body that you don’t know how to heal unless we can pin point it and began to address root cause. That’s exactly what I am to achieve with FemWell.

We test, we don’t guess. We create personalized plans to begin to heal. We start to optimize. And we thrive.

If I (a nurse and health coach) has these struggles, then I know you can, too. Don’t let it take years for you to address your struggles. Let me help you.