Frequently Asked Questions
What is Metabolic Balance®?
What is the Metabolic Balance® process like?
What are the main benefits of Metabolic Balance® over other methods?
Can Metabolic Balance® help me achieve my ideal weight?
Why is Metabolic Balance® so successful?
Is Metabolic Balance® “all natural”?
What real health improvements can I expect from the Metabolic Balance® program?
What is included in the six-month Metabolic Balance® program?
What is included in the Customized Nutrition Profile?
What is Metabolic Balance®?
Metabolic Balance® is an innovative all-natural nutrition program that brings balance to your hormones, optimizes your health, and leads to a new invigorating lifestyle resulting in successful long term weight management. It is backed by over 25 years of scientific study and is managed by dedicated physicians and nutritional scientists.
The foundation of the program is Metabolic Balance's capability to develop a truly personalized nutrition plan based upon an in-depth analysis of your unique blood values, health habits, medical history, allergies and intolerances, and personal likes and dislikes. Your personalized nutrition plan acts as your “road-map”, indicating exactly which natural foods you should eat in order to orchestrate the biochemical changes needed for reaching your desirable weight and health goals.
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What is the Metabolic Balance® process like?
You are accompanied through the four phases of your program by a Certified Metabolic Balance® Coach. Your coach guides you toward reaching your ideal weight, avoids yo-yo dieting and helps you to embrace the amazing realization of a new healthy lifestyle and a true awareness of well-being. It is safe, healthy, economical and simple and has all the elements needed for you to succeed. Metabolic Balance® has served over half a million participants so far.
There are four phases to the Metabolic Balance program:
Phase 1 – The Preparation phase starts the detoxification process and is key in preparing your metabolism for the next adjustment phases. Phase 1 is two days long.
Phase 2 – The Strict Adjustment phase requires a minimum of 14 days. During this period your metabolism will "switch on" and start adjusting toward a more balanced metabolism. You will lose several pounds and start to feel a renewed energy and increased vitality! This phase lays the foundation for your body's new biorhythm and bio-chemistry leading to sustainable weight loss. You will be supported and closely monitored by your personal coach. You will have the option to remain on this phase until you have reached your desired goal.
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Phase 3 - The Relaxed Adjustment phase allows you to start integrating additional foods into your daily meal plan. Your body's new heightened sense of nutrition will allow you to instinctively know which foods are right for you and which are not. You may also enjoy on occasion a "treat" meal or two, savor a glass of wine or a special treat. More importantly you will learn how to handle these special moments in a healthy manner. Your personal coach will continue to support you and monitor your progress.
Phase 4 - The Maintenance phase is the final phase and participants can stay on this phase for the rest of their lives. Maintaining your ideal weight is simplified by following a set of nutrition rules that you have already become accustomed to and have come to appreciate. You can enjoy your newly discovered lifestyle to the fullest and possess the knowledge of how to maintain a healthy, invigorating and happy metabolic balance® way of living! Your success is our success!
What are the main benefits of Metabolic Balance® over other methods?
Unlike other methods of weight loss, your personalized all-natural nutrition plan balances your personal "body chemistry" with the right "food chemistry". The scientific research that backs the process, over 25 years worth, goes to the root cause of how and why a person stores and releases energy and fat. The base assumption is that your body is capable of producing (on its own) the hormones and enzymes that are needed to function.
In order to function, a body requires "building material" in the form of proteins, carbohydrates and nutrients that are obtained from the foods you eat. Your plan concentrates on the exact foods that possess the essential, vital nutrients your body most needs. Based on this in-depth scientific and innovative understanding, Metabolic Balance® develops your personalized nutrition plan to naturally balance your hormones, enzymes and your bio-chemistry. There is no artificial manipulation of your biochemistry by the usage of injections, shakes, pills or specialized foods. Metabolic Balance® is the right way to “diet”. In fact, it is NOT a diet at all but rather a hormone-balancing program that helps you to naturally lose weight and keep it off!
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Can Metabolic Balance® help me achieve my ideal weight?
With your personalized nutrition plan you supply your body with all the vital and healthy nutrients it needs. Food is not selected according to calorie content or by percentage of fat, protein or carbohydrates. The criteria for food selection is the effect a specific food has on your hormonal system.
Through this method a healthy and naturally balanced insulin production is promoted. Insulin is the “internal key” to your body's weight management system, and has a substantial effect on other hormonal and enzyme production. Your personalized nutrition plan allows your blood sugar and insulin to increase at a much slower rate (rather than surging); this helps you avoid hunger and food cravings for a longer period of time. Subsequently, more fat can be burned during the space between your three daily meals and especially while you sleep! By following your personalized nutrition plan and a set simple rules, you begin to strengthen and balance your entire hormonal system and to naturally manage your weight. You can experience rapid weight reduction, generally losing from 3 to 6 pounds of fat per week. By participating in your own personalized metabolic balance nutrition program, you are making a choice for increased health, vitality and quality of life - all at the same time.
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Why is Metabolic Balance® so successful?
While there are several reasons, here are four reasons why Metabolic Balance® works so well.
1. Your program is 100% personalized and actively supports your unique bio-chemistry and nutritional needs. Just as no two people are exactly alike, no two nutrition plans are exactly alike. Don't settle for a one-diet-fits-all approach. You are unique and a personalized nutrition program must reflect this and be designed just for you!
2. The prescribed foods on your nutrition plan are uniquely designed to affect positive healthy changes while naturally diminishing your food cravings and hunger spells. You do not suffer from hunger as you do with diets, and food cravings become a thing of the past. You reestablish your natural and healthy sense of hunger.
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3. Success breeds success! You start losing fat and weight. Average weight loss experienced is 3 to 6 pounds per week. Achieving favorable results fuels and inspires your sense of "wellbeing", your energy, commitment, and your inner, "I can do it” attitude. You learn new healthy habits while leaving old harmful habits behind. A new lifestyle emerges that feels great and allows you to maintain your ideal weight with no yo-yo dieting.
4. You are not alone. You are accompanied by your Certified Metabolic Balance® Coach. Your coach is there to support, teach, guide, encourage, and motivate you along the road to reaching your goal. Personal coaching is a substantial part of your success, and the coach team is an integral part of every Metabolic Balance® program. With your coach's instruction you begin to understand how different foods work to balance your metabolism and which foods hinder your progress. This knowledge is invaluable for reaching and maintaining a healthy and vitalized lifestyle for the rest of your life.
Is Metabolic Balance® “all natural”?
Metabolic Balance® is 100% natural. There are no prescribed injections, pills, shakes, or proprietary foods. Nor, as with some diets, are you required to keep “points” or count calories. Your local grocery store and farmers market can easily provide all the wholesome nutrient rich foods listed on your personalized nutrition plan.
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What real health improvements can I expect from the Metabolic Balance® program?
In 2010, a year-long scientific study was concluded on the Metabolic Balance® system and was recently published in the Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism (Volume 2010, Article ID 197656). The study revealed that “relevant blood parameters as well as HRQOL improved significantly.” In other words, the participant's blood chemistry values and their Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) showed significant improvement.
The good news is that with a purpose-filled and healthy adjustment toward a balanced all-natural diet, coupled with appropriate exercise, most diseases and illnesses in modern civilization can largely be reduced or possibly even eliminated. Metabolic Balance® proves this truth time and time again. Thousands of participants have reported their physicians reducing prescribed medicines or eliminating them all together. By restoring yourself to a balanced all-natural nutrition, you cause a "natural restoration" in your body to occur. By restoring nutritional balance you recreate your body's natural equilibrium. Simultaneously, you promote a fitter, more energetic you – a you that has regained control and is able to manage the negative effects of the stresses and strains of modern day life. You will find that you sleep better, your physical and psychological well-being improves, and your immune system is much stronger. You will noticeably feel healthier, happier, and look younger… not just to yourself but also to others.
The bad news is that natural food has become a rarity on our dinner plates. When you realize the health issues we face with our contemporary artificially enhanced and packaged foods diets, you start to understand why over 66% of people in North America are overweight and metabolic diseases are on the rise. We are being super-sized to death with processed food! More often than not, consuming these “designer” convenient foods are the cause of today's malnutrition and go hand-in-hand with modern lifestyle illnesses such as obesity, diabetes type 2, hypertension, imbalanced and high cholesterol, inflammation, fatigue, skin disorders, insomnia,.... just to name a few. This is why Metabolic Balance® truly gets to the ROOT of so many issues that cause the symptoms we deal with day in and day out.
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What is included in the six-month Metabolic Balance® program?
- Your personalized nutrition plan
- 2 initial intake appointments
- 2 - 45 minute coaching sessions per month
- Ongoing support via email and texting
- Access to Facebook group for meal prep and recipe ideas
- Access to private Facebook group for my clients only
- Access to the Metabolic Balance App
- Informative, inspirational resources and handouts
- Access to group check-ins and mini-workshops
- Free access to other workshops I offer for your program duration
- Flexible payment options
- Welcome package of sacred gifts
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What is included in the Customized Nutrition Profile?
- Lifestyle Assessment Form and Nutrient Symptomology Profile Form given in advance of your Initial Consultation
- Initial Consultation + 7-day food and lifestyle diary to track current habits
- A thorough review of all of your forms including your food and lifestyle diary
- A 2nd 60-minute appointment + delivery of your Customized Nutrition and Lifestyle Profile
- 2 - 30-minute coaching sessions available over your 4-week program
- Ongoing text and email support
- Educational resources to support your customized nutrition profile
- Bonus recipe book
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