Aging Adventurously After Ending Years of Health Challenges

<p><strong>In this week's episode, I’m talking with another inspiring woman, Lori Balue.</strong></p> <p>These days, Lori does half marathons and hikes the Grand Canyon. She's aging adventurously and beautifully as she approaches 60. But in her 30s, she never could have imagined she would feel well enough to do any of this.</p> <p>Back then, she had asthma, allergies, polycystic ovarian syndrome, infertility, brain fog, pre-diabetes, which is also known as insulin resistance, along with depression and anxiety. She had very little energy and was on multiple medications. Along with it, she wanted to lose weight but that was a struggle as well. She was on and off diets for 20 years.</p> <p>Lori began researching on her own, which led her down a rabbit hole of ever-improving health. She read books and attended health conferences. Ultimately she found a way of eating that worked for her body. And now, she no longer has any of those previous diagnoses. No asthma, allergies, PCOS, brain fog, pre-diabetes, depression or anxiety. And the weight has gradually come off with this lifestyle approach.</p> <p>Now in her late fifties, she’s in the best health of her life, and for her 60th birthday next year, she’ll hike the CG rim to rim.</p> <p>In my talk with Lori, you’ll hear…</p> <ul> <li>The food changes that worked – and didn’t work – for her</li> <li>Why she calls her way of eating a lifestyle, not a diet</li> <li>The “healthy” food that she found she couldn’t eat</li> <li>The progressive series of actions that gradually ended all her diagnoses</li> <li>How she’s aging adventurously and beautifully and her tips for starting something like this gradually</li> </ul> <p>Lori’s personal experience inspired her to become a health coach. She’s an Adapt Certified Functional Health Coach and a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practioner. She helps women in menopause use functional labs, lifestyle and health adventures to lose weight, stop pain and create an active lifestyle to age beautifully and adventurously.</p> <p>You can fin