In this enlightening episode, host Jill interviews Melissa from Melissa Crossett Coaching, who is a certified holistic gut health coach. She helps women heal their gut and improve their overall well-being through individualized nutrition plans and lifestyle changes.
Learn more about Melissa here: Melissa Crossett Coaching
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Hi and welcome to the.
You World Order Showcase podcast.
Today we're talking with Melissa from Melissa Crossett coaching.
Melissa is a holistic gut health coach.
So, Melissa, tell us all.
About what you do and how you do it and how you.
Get started and all the important details about what you're doing out there.
To be the change you want to.
See in the world.
Well, thank you, Jill.
I so as you said, I'm a certified.
Holistic gut health coach.
What does?
That mean that means that we're focusing on healing your gut.
My focus is on helping women become their own health advocate.
One small change at a time.
I don't know about you, but you get to a certain age and you're just like your body starting.
To like what is this?
How come I can't lose the weight?
How come I'm gaining weight?
How come all of a?
Sudden my eyes look.
Like this?
What's going on with my hair?
I'm 40-50 years old and I have acne. What so all of that goes down into healing our gut.
And so we're also shifting our mindset into a growth mindset and we have to work on our emotional.
Especially as women.
Which is my focus when you get into.
Your 40s and 50s there is.
A whole lot of life that you've lived.
If you've had kids, career relationships, as we all have, then you've gone through a lot of different things and stress.
Life is stressful.
Well, when you have babies, you have a different kind of stress and it your body reacts to it.
I mean, we all remember when we were sleep deprived.
With babies, right?
It's a stress and you have to.
Allow your body to recover.
From that, so with our busy lifestyle, we need to pay attention to our gut and that is where Western medicine does not do.
A very good job on it, unless that doctor has gone.
Ohh, there's something going on here and I need more training.
I know I started to see that and I became very interested because it was like I would go to the Doctor Who I thought I had.
A pretty good.
Doctor and you know I can't lose the weight.
I I'm restricting calories and nothing is happening.
I'm a teacher.
I'm running around the classroom very highly.
Stressful toxic position.
And you know what is going on and when I would go home and not want to go out with friends or barely be able to do the minimum so that my children could go to their activities, have their friends, etcetera, because I was so exhausted like what was happening.
Is that brain?
Fog was part of it.
And of course.
Going through a.
Highly traumatized.
There you go.
So there's all these things that came together.
I've learned through that process as going to the doctor and getting ohh.
You know, you're just that age.
Oh, no, you can't be starting menopause as I was going through perimenopause and ohh, that's just what you're going to.
Have to get used to.
Was just like, why?
So I went on my own journey to try to go and figure out how.
To help myself.
Long story short, COVID proved that I could teach online and I thoroughly and completely enjoyed it.
Why not dive into?
Something else that I have such a passion for and help women with one small change at a time so they're not overwhelmed because we got enough in our life with support to heal their gut.
Now I am.
Accredited or I am certified through HW CA which is a holistic Wellness coaching Academy accredited through ADP.
I thought I thought alphabet.
Soup happened in the education realm.
It happens everywhere.
Everywhere for sure.
And in that we have what she has developed as a Buddha belly, gut protocol.
And the more I dive into it and cross reference.
Because high education and cross reference a whole bunch of stuff, it is absolutely a premier gut protocol to heal your gut now.
We are in the society we grew up in the 70s, eighties of.
Ohh you have this.
Take this pill.
Ohh you do this do this.
I know my grandmother, my great aunts.
Had, like pill bottles all.
Over and my thought was, is that really helping?
So that is right, it's not.
I'm sorry, it's not.
Our gut is known as our second brain.
And I found that fascinating because our gut, that is where our.
Immune system is.
That is where our food is digested and it starts with our mouth and goes.
All the.
Way down to our digestive tract.
If you go back to your biology lessons and out the back door.
All those spots?
Along the way, there can be disruptions.
But the most important is your gut.
As a woman finding out that there's certain foods my body doesn't.
Tolerate like gluten.
Was life changing and amazing also finding out?
That there are certain.
Foods like cauliflower that is healthy for.
You that I can only eat a minimal amount of that or my body reacts in.
Basically like I've been gluten.
So that is something I also help women do is figure out what food does your body love because we are all different.
And your gut has a Biome that is utterly, completely different than your kids than your husband.
Then your best friend than anyone else out there.
It's like our fingerprint.
So that is very important as we're starting as women to go through period menopause, which can happen 10 to 15 years before menopause.
Everything starts shifting.
And you're starting to wonder.
I remember I was in a Masters class for reading, and I'm sitting in this very cold air conditioned room just sitting there listening to the speaker and all of a sudden, like, who turned down the furnace and sweat started pointing down.
I wasn't even taking notes like minimal movement, and the lady next to me leaned over and was like.
Are you OK?
You are red.
And like what's happening to my body?
Cause nobody.
Really talked about it.
And that where?
Is to refer to that as flame on.
Right, exactly.
And trying to figure out when I found out that I had a gluten allergy.
Those symptoms did become reduced.
Rain, fog.
Went away.
My face cleared up and but.
I still had that I felt like.
I was on an emotional roller.
Coaster like things were just like.
How come? Who am I?
So side track I ended up with a full hysterectomy because I finally got a young Doctor Who wasn't yelling at me that they would never do that without extensive therapy.
I'm like I'm done having kids.
I'm not having kids, no.
Any you know?
I don't mid 40s, no more children out of this body.
Because I had.
Horrible, horrible cramping and periods and that which I had been told that after I had children I would not have anymore.
Layers, layers, pants on fires, but that was the information they had because not only did men doctors tell me what?
After I left and went to college, I pretty much insisted on having female doctors whenever I could.
I just felt like there was more of a connection there that they understood, more like what I would be coming to them.
About and, but it took a younger OBGYN to sit and listen to me and.
Hear what I had to.
Say and why I was.
Saying it, let alone my medical chart.
And she said, you know, OK, it's a lot to think about it's a heavy decision.
I want to give you some time to think about it now as a teacher, I'm planning this kind of.
Surgery during my summer vacation.
And I told her, you know how long I've thought about this?
And she asked me how long.
And I said since I was 16, knew I had to have it to have babies.
I'm done.
I don't need it anymore.
And at the same time I was doing the gluten.
Free trying to figure that out, which the resources.
Were not like they are now.
In in.
Discovering that there is a health journey that nobody helps women with, so I love doing it.
I love helping women and becoming their own health advocate.
Maybe you have a doctor that you adore and for the most part is amazing.
But they're only doing what they've been taught.
When they go to school, they're learning all these different systems and everything.
But what they don't do is nutrition.
They get like 2 week.
And it's.
Most important thing.
That people can.
Learn is how to nurse their body.
So they can grow and.
Due to the basic functions of life.
So that is why I just, I really want to help I I guess we're labeled Gen.
X or the women right around that because you shouldn't be taking.
A lot of.
Your second brain, your gut it.
It talks with your brain like they have biodegradation anality and they.
Talk to each other.
So if you have brain fog, you've got some issues in your gut, you have acne and you're in your 40s and 50s.
You have issues with your gut.
You know there was.
There's over 80 autoimmune diseases that are connected to your gut and just helping heal now.
This is what I hear a lot.
Especially from older.
But I don't want to change.
I like my Twinkies and I every time someone talks about a twinkie, I think of the movie Wally.
And I laughed hysterically that my children didn't understand why, when there was the twinkie.
For the cockroach.
OK, so I understand.
I grew up in Twinkies, High goes Ding dongles.
I no longer eat those because I know they're not the best for me, no.
I love chocolate.
I have not given up my chocolate.
I have gone to a healthier chocolate.
Because the Tokyo beans are actually full of nutrition and wonderful.
But the whole process which I've done a deep dive on my Instagram of how they've taken the chocolate and they've gotten rid of so much in the nutrients.
And added so much sugar.
And other.
That, yeah, that our taste buds are like ohh this is.
What we like when?
The dark yeah.
Bigger than fat, the two things.
That make you fat?
And the sugar disrupts your gut.
Totally and completely.
You crave it.
So it's all a process of eliminating these things slowly because.
Who else go to the Doctor Who?
Goes to the.
Doctor and they're.
Like, well, you should follow this diet and.
You're looking at it going what?
What do I?
Do and it's kind of a all or nothing instead, how about one thing at a time and just focus on one thing at a time?
One thing I do I do for myself too is I kind of track what I eat.
I don't track what I eat to.
Go ohh I.
Had 1/4 cup this.
With one teaspoon of this and one tablespoon of that.
Don't do.
I don't have.
Time for that.
That to me is like Nope, don't want anything to do with that, but instead.
I had one burger.
Of course I cut it.
Up I had a side of greens I had sauteed red Peppers, onions, green Peppers, yellow Peppers.
I had sauerkraut because we need our probiotics.
I whatever I put in my Burger Bowl, I just don't eat my burger.
With a bun.
I put.
Everything else in there and then I eat that.
And I like to use mustard or Mayo as.
Yep, you can absolutely.
Sometimes I put I I change it up, I just change it up to what I feel like.
But there's a basis to it.
So what if instead of ohh you have this really thick bun you just took the top bun off and you just did a bottle?
And then and then a couple times.
Later, maybe you.
Take the whole gun away, because that buns.
Not doing anything for you except for your.
Taste buds.
Yeah, there is.
And it doesn't even do that anymore.
Bread from the store has zero flavor and almost no texture.
It used to be when I was young that you would get a hamburger and the bun actually supported the stuff in the burger.
But if you have a.
Bun in a burger.
It just like it falls apart.
You're gonna eat it with a fork and a knife anyway, why bother?
Why bother?
It's extra calories and the gluten and the other chemicals that are actually in the bread to keep it fresh.
But it isn't designed to last.
Three weeks on a.
Show so another deep dive that I have.
Done I love.
Doing deep dives.
It's the teacher education.
Thing is about some of the processed.
Foods that we.
Eat and we are eating ultra processed foods.
What does that mean?
It's it's not as close to nature because that's how I finally figured out my gluten free diet.
The closer I ate to nature, the better and easier it was.
I didn't have to look at packaging. I didn't have to try to figure out what does this $20 word mean.
Is it a sugar which there are over 100 names for sugar?
I find that just.
Compounding and then you know, is it a chemical that's made in a factory because the industrial revolution?
Had people working and they were no longer attending and they needed easy things to.
Do and the food.
Industry grew from that and now it is the beast that it is.
There are top 9 allergens that children and adults are allergic to, so if you are eating bread gluten and within an hour your stomach blows up and now you look like you're 3-4 months pregnant.
You probably got some thing.
Well, you got some things going on in your gut, but you might be allergic to blue and part of the gut protocol is that we rest your gut for three days.
That doesn't mean that you don't eat for three days.
You do, but.
You're only eating one meal now.
It can be a big meal, but it's healthy.
There's not the.
Ultra processed foods.
And the rest of the time you are drinking your water and tea, or you can have a coffee in the.
Morning, but they.
We tend to not want to drink caffeine at that time to just again let our system rest.
And then we also doing bone broth, because bone broth has so many good qualities, I add a little bit of pink Himalayan salt to it with MCT oil.
So the MCT oil helps to fill.
And be full now.
It is amazing how much better you feel after that.
And then as you start to introduce food, you just make sure, OK?
I'm not eating gluten, right?
Now, which is really easy for.
Me. I've taken dairy away.
Because they're but a lot of.
People's bodies don't.
Like dairy, now cows dairy is.
Is a whole.
Another podcast, but then you have go and some people can do goat milk and cheese better than they can do cows.
And none of it needs to be pasteurized, because the pasteurization process takes it all apart and puts it back together.
So you have none of the nutrients in there that actually allow your body to digest.
Stuff we do drink.
I drink goats milk for years because I raised goats.
Now I had a dairy farm, a goat dairy, but.
We do.
Cow dairy because we have a local dairy and it's like direct from the.
Cow to the fridge.
And it still has all the pieces in it.
That you need.
To actually digest it, don't drink a.
Lot of it, but my husband.
He likes milk and he doesn't like goats.
And you.
Well, if you were raised where you drink.
Milk all the.
Time like in the 70s, there was the saying.
You got milk and the milk mustache.
In the early 80s, right?
I have a dairy intolerance.
There's so many ways that I found.
That out, but.
I would have.
From drinking milk that's pasteurized.
Right.
Now one of my best friends, her grandparents, were the biggest dairy farmers in the area, and one day they had unpasteurized milk and we all tried it and it was like.
It was weird.
But it struck me as wow, what I drink from the store does not taste like that.
And then if you go to Europe.
I came back and went.
I'm not drinking.
Any of this stuff again?
So that.
So it's a.
Process one thing at a time, but when?
You rest your gut, you start.
To heal your gut.
But in three days, you're not going to heal it all the way.
It took years for you to break your.
Gut and just.
Listen to your body say.
I don't feel good.
Please stop and.
For you to be able.
To go ohh, this is what you've been trying.
To tell me and start to heal.
So it's a process.
So on the American diet.
We feed our.
And it gets out of whack. So you should have a healthy gut of bacteria, 80% friendly, 20% unfriendly.
And you have to have the unfriendly we don't want to kill all the bacteria because the friendly needs the unfriendly.
It's like they getting it.
They need something to practice.
Just fine.
There you go.
Basically, but because of the standard American dial was Ultra processed high sugar, I mean high sugar.
It's actually flipped. We have 80% bad and 20% good and This is why we see the rise in chronic diseases.
OK, now there is an awful lot of terms out there and one of them.
Is leaky gut and.
People you know throw it around.
And what does that mean?
Well, inner intestines are lower, large intestines.
There is a mucus lining membrane.
It's real tight.
So it keeps the food in there.
Keeps the bacteria in there.
Can't get into your bloodstream unless it is absorbed and it's gone through the process that your body designs.
Well, when you have a leaky gut.
For whatever reason, things start to break apart, and then there's these holes and the food and the bacteria are starting to go into your system, your bloodstream, without going through that filter process.
The rest of your body back up into the small intestine and it's causing havoc.
What are some signs that people could recognize that this is happening to them?
And that's.
Thank you.
So you might, especially in women, as I said it was, we're getting to that certain age you have unexplained weight gain and you're like I'm eating healthy.
What's going on?
You have some raging hormones going.
On and there's a whole.
Different thing that men don't have to worry about that as women, we do.
You could have some thyroid issues.
They're linking a lot of thyroid issues to.
That doesn't mean that you don't have still need medicine for your thyroid.
It's the point is to kind of reduce brain fog, acne, dental issues.
I had bleeding gums until I started to go gluten free and started cleaning up my diet and my hygienist.
Was like what are?
You doing? That's different.
And I thought.
And I never connected that until this last year as I'm diving into school like.
Ohh that's why so that's something good.
Maybe you're the hygienist will quit telling you.
You need to floss more.
Constipation. Diarrhea.
Your mood again, those hormones way up.
Way down it, you know, life is ups and downs, but you want to have that even keel to be able to respond to things.
Not being able to handle high stress.
It affects your gut.
So now they're connected.
Nutritional deficiencies generally, blood tests only goes so far unless you ask them to do deeper.
But if you do a stool test, you'll get a lot more out of that arthritis and joint pain.
Like I said before, the autoimmune disease, there's like over 80.
Identified and that does include things like IBS.
Eczema SIBO, which is bacteria in the small intestine and can happen after you do like antibiotics, so you have to be careful with that.
But your western?
Doctor Medicine doesn't always diagnose it as.
That and psoriasis.
So there is.
A multiple of different things and you can't go.
Ohh my thyroid is just cause my.
Gut is leaking.
It's a combination of different things and starting and of course always working with your doctor.
What I.
Would do as a gut.
Health specialist I'm the one that is here encouraging you to talk to your doctor, encouraging you to discuss with your doctor a different tests and such.
But also I'm the one that can come into your kitchen with you via zoom via Facebook groups to be able to say here let's do this.
Let's help you make a menu plan for the week.
Well, we're just going to focus on how can we add one more serving of vegetables.
How can you drink?
More water as opposed to pop soda.
How can you?
Because we're all individual.
I can't eat a lot of.
Cauliflower, I'm not gonna.
Go for a cauliflower pizza.
Right.
So what else can I do instead?
So that's the kind of thing.
And of course, when you're in a group like a Facebook group, you've got the support, you've got, the other women in there that they get it, they understand or you're leading the way and you're pulling them up with you to be.
Able to say.
Ohh my gosh, this is what I was experiencing and this is now that I've done this and this is I'm on the other.
Side of it.
Brain fog, I believe I said.
Brain fog, you know?
And you're just like, I know I should know this, and I can't think that is alleviated.
I can always tell when I.
Had too much of something or another because of how my brain reacts.
And and how if I have I'm starting.
To get fatigued.
Although I'm in an area where it's like over.
100 degrees.
So afternoon siestas are just, you know, what you need to do when.
It's that hot, right?
Even though you're in?
Air conditioning.
Yesterday I had something I hadn't had in a while.
I had a certain.
Type of pizza.
It wasn't called.
And within an hour, my gut hurt.
I I was just like, OK, for whatever reason, right now I can't eat this.
My body is not reacting to it well and so just drink a whole.
Bunch of water to help.
Kind of flush that out.
I'm working with a gal.
Who I keep get trying to get her to go get tested for SIBO, which is an easy breath test.
So it's like and those of us that have had children when you did the sugar test is basically.
What they're doing?
But you breathe out and it measures, so it's measuring the bacteria in your small intestine, which you're not so really supposed to have.
And it's measuring the sugar because it's not.
Supposed to go to.
The large supposed.
To pass through and go.
So that's how you decide, Sibos decided.
You have to take.
That that horrible.
Glucose drink. I'm not sure.
I could drink that anymore.
It was so bad.
It was.
It's horrible.
I've been told that it's different.
It's not like that by some people that have done that.
I'm like ohh good because man, that was everything.
To get that out, I.
Can't even imagine that.
It's like.
A positive thing.
To do to your body just taking the test.
Dumping all that glucose into your system at one time?
I don't know.
Is just sugar.
It's just sugar.
It's just sugar.
I was.
I liked when I went to do that for my youngest and I had this array of flavors and I'm like.
Those aren't even flavors.
It's still the same nasty let's.
Just go with.
Regular and I have I have some.
I don't even remember what I had.
I had something to chase it to help pull away from the I drink a lot of water.
I always have.
But to pull away the flavor cause I.
Knew it was going to be nasty.
And then I got hurt.
For the first time in my life.
But if you're having those pains and you've gone through all the other checks to go and say, hey, I think I have this because then there's a whole protocol that is totally separate to be able to heal from SIBO and it it is a serious disease.
But like I had said before, each of us have our own individual gut microbiome.
And so we respond to foods differently.
So when you go to that doctor and you get that list, it's just a generic thing.
When you work with a gut.
You got you, you know.
Like, OK, you can't eat.
Cauliflower like that? Great.
Let's look for something.
Else that your body says exactly.
People can't eat broccoli, supposed to be a great thing, but it's not a great thing.
Nothing is a great thing for everybody.
Exactly, exactly.
And the doctors, your doctors only doing what they were taught.
You know, if you're lucky enough to have a doctor that has gone back to get a.
Lot of education on nutrition.
And looked outside of Western medicine and then that's.
You can go to a functional medicine doctor.
Will your insurance pay for it?
I don't know, but it's certainly worth the money if you have these things and you just don't figure you're just like there's gotta be something to dive deeper.
But why not?
Anymore, you're gonna spend the money.
You're either gonna hire a coach who's gonna walk you through the steps, or you're gonna keep going to your doctor and he's gonna.
Keep telling you the.
Same story that he'll.
He'll try to find a label.
For you, and maybe he'll have if he can find a label for you, then he'll have a.
Protocol of things to give.
You to mask the symptoms.
But masking the symptoms does not solve the problem.
It just allows the problem to get out of control.
To the point where it's doing so much more damage that it's going to cost you way more money to mask those symptoms than you would spend by hiring somebody that can shorten.
The learning curve.
And get you the results.
That you're looking for, which is you.
Know optimal health for.
Wherever you are in.
In the site.
And you, you.
I mean you, Jill, that exactly you absolutely working with someone that can come into your home and it has a group where there's that support that you can go to daily that can help you figure it out.
So it's not necessarily.
An overwhelming experience is amazing, and you learning how to go to your doctor and say no, these are the tests I want.
You test my thyroid, but.
Did you go deeper?
Don't just stop it.
Ohh, we're just testing this.
Go deeper.
OK, you know you.
You did my blood work, but I want these other things within my blood work.
Because every time we've done my blood work up until now, it's the same thing.
Ohh you're just.
A little low on vitamin D you're.
A little low.
And vitamin B.
And those.
Parameters are an average.
Of sick people.
You know you're in the normal range.
Well, normal range.
For sick people, because 80, at least 80% of the population in the United States is ill.
They have some form of chronic disease, whether they acknowledge it or not, and I'm sure that number is actually much higher.
But when you get a result from your.
Doctor on a on a.
Blood test or any kind?
Of test that they do.
And they say ohh, you're within the.
Normal range you always have.
To keep that in the back of your mind, it's not optimal.
Health is not in that range.
Optimal health is in a different range, but.
Because the numbers are so skewed because the population is so ill.
It's an.
It's another reason why you really need somebody who knows what they're talking about and knows who's been trained to look at those tests and say, OK, yeah, it might be in the normal range, but it's not in the anywhere near the optimal range.
You need to do these things and these are the real foods you need to eat in order to correct this.
Situation not take this drug to mask the symptoms.
Get the feeling.
From this conversation that you're more about helping people.
Listen to their body and be able to track the information that their body is telling them in order to help them get optimal results from the foods that they're eating and the decisions that they're making about how they're going to handle different aspects.
Of their lives is that.
Because you know your body better than anyone.
You have lived in it the longest.
You know what you can do and being having a growth mindset is just like, hey, let's try this.
Yes, we've been told all our lives.
Cauliflower and broccoli are good for you.
Well, what if your body is saying?
Yeah, not us.
But you keep eating it because you're told.
It's good for.
You I understand you know.
Doctors are there for diseases, but the system has gotten skewed and now you need to take control of that, especially as a woman, you need to take control of that because it's your body and don't having somebody else saying yeah, that doesn't seem quite right.
Let's dive into this a little bit.
So when you go back to the.
Doctor, you can say OK.
Let's chat a little.
I think doctors are better at critical care than they are at diagnosing and actually solving chronic disease problems.
Mostly because they are.
Ignorant about nutrition and the role nutrition plays in your overall health.
Both mighty my dead spirit.
I got diagnosed with typer.
Ohh I always want yes, I always trip up on it if I don't.
Particular is this.
Think about it first, but.
The thing is.
I don't have it anymore, and in healing my gut, unbeknownst to me.
I took care of that.
But that's not what I was told, and it took more than six months of debilitating pain.
Trying to figure out.
What it was, and then it was like ohh.
Yeah, you just have to avoid this.
And we'll avoid strawberries.
They're my favorite.
And so there's just.
Some simple things that sometimes it's like.
Yeah, that doesn't help.
And yet you can heal things.
I know one thing, especially in.
Alzheimer's is on the.
I don't know how many people have grown up with the thought of once.
If you have the gene for Alzheimer's, there's nothing you can do.
Going to get Alzheimer's?
It's like diabetes and then they call.
It diabetes 3.
Yep, that is a a new term that is coming out is that Alzheimer's is diabetes.
Three, why are they linking it to that?
Because it is linked to sugar, we are such a highly sugared from the ultra processed foods society.
Now that Alzheimer's has risen.
One, if you have the gene, you have the gene, it doesn't mean you're gonna get it.
You have to unlock it, and then you can slow the process.
I have a grandmother that ended up with dementia.
So do I have that gene?
I don't.
Know I refuse to go get tested.
Or because what will that do instead?
I prefer to live a healthy lifestyle in order to do what I can to.
Prevent that from happen.
And there are so many studies that are starting to come out, Doctor Amon.
From the aiming clinic, who is a brain specialist.
Trying to think of another.
One that just talked.
The model health show Sean Stephenson just talked about a new study that was coming out, so it is a continual study thing that is happening, and that's amazing.
But just by changing your diet, you reduce.
Buy it like 40% to 50%, possibly even 60. Like I said, these studies are just starting to come out. Your chances of developing Alzheimer's. Why not? It's a simple just one small change at a time.
And you can make the changes easily.
So what's the one thing that you hope?
Our audience takes away from this call today.
Changing your lifestyle.
Is not an all or nothing.
It is just one small change at a time.
One thing.
And it just snowballs.
You do one thing one thing, one thing, one thing, and eventually you're going to look back and go.
Ohh my gracious.
Look at that.
I don't eat like that anymore.
And you continue.
To do that, because you feel better.
Having a gluten allergy.
Well, can't you have a?
Little bit well.
No cause I.
Really like how I.
Feel and I don't want to.
Feel like anymore and.
But I'm always, you know, open to certain things like sourdough.
I've been told if it's prepared a certain way with certain flour, I should be able to eat it.
And I'm very excited once I.
Find it.
To try it.
We take into eating.
I make sourdough bread every other week and my husband loves tortillas.
And so I make tortillas from scratch.
And we don't use Crisco.
Because Crisco is just plastic.
And it's just a small, simple change now I.
Don't have the patience to do sourdough.
I don't have the room.
I have a very small kitchen either, but I tried to do sourdough during the pandemic because I was doing science experiments with the.
Kids and I thought, well, let's try.
It and again I don't.
Have the patience for that.
There are bakeries and.
Things that do that.
So just trying to find a specialized thing to do.
So what I do is I'm working with women in groups.
To be able for them to have a community of women to support themselves and each other zoom call so I can be in the kitchen one-on-one or group and be able to go. Ohh yeah.
What would be a better swap your mayonnaise?
Your Hellman's mayonnaise is all gone.
You're gonna go to the grocery store to buy more.
What would be a better swap now that you need more for you to get instead of helmets?
That is the gradual 1.
Thing at a time.
It can be.
I'm trying to think of something that I just did and I'm like, you know what?
There's gotta be a better option than what I've been doing and just some research and went ohh.
How to make mayonnaise it's super easy.
And then it has.
Thick blenders with a whip on that and a Mason jar.
And the eggs, them all are well.
Little lemon juice.
But some, some, some people, some women, don't have the time or patience for that, and that's cool.
There are still better options.
For you to get.
Or do away with the mayonnaise only for special occasions.
Buy a smaller jacket you know.
There's different things.
But also I help with meal Prep.
How can you meal prep?
So if you're working a nine to five job and you have kids and you have these activities and how do you meal prep so that you can put these.
Hoping meals together, you can have a healthy lunch.
You have something in the morning.
I intermittent fast which you know is out there too in the morning and it's much later until.
I have something.
But what can you do?
How do?
You fix that and it's all based on.
How does your body react?
What does your body do?
And just being able cause you want it easy when you're home and you're tired from a day's work or traveling or running around like the chauffeur that you.
Might be still.
You want it simple to throw together.
So those are things that I help women do.
So how can they?
Get in touch with you.
They wanted to reach out.
So across all platforms, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook. I am Melissa Crossett coaching.
At all of those.
You can certainly e-mail me at Melissa Cross at coaching at Gmail.
And I believe that's all the platforms.
We'll put those links in the show notes, which it's been great chatting with you.
Today you've been.
A wealth of information.
I really appreciate it.
Oh, and thank you for having me.
I definitely am passionate because as women we.
Just we know our bodies best and to become your own best health advocate is.
It's empowering and we need to do that.
Right there.