About the founder and coach
Sarah Aitken, RN, MS, WHNP/FNP, MHP, NBC-HWC
As a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, as well as a Family Nurse Practitioner, a National Board Certified Coach, a functional nutritionist, an Accredited Metabolic Health Provider, a Lifestyle Medicine provider, a wife and a mother, I’m passionate about health. I developed the Diabetes Game Changer program to apply my expertise and experience to helping people—like you and me—who have spent too much time trying to manage their metabolic health (and in my case my weight) by following useless advice.
My personal story:
I never remember a time in my life when I did not struggle with my weight (until the last few years, anyway!). Apparently, I was born wanting to eat - my parents called me “munchy” when I was a baby. The name stuck and I lived that reputation through my entire childhood, and most of my adulthood as well. I was the “fat one” in a family of skinny people, and we all were eating the very same foods.
I developed gestational diabetes with my pregnancy, which I knew meant I had a greater than 50% increased risk of developing diabetes later in life. A few years later, blood tests revealed that I had gone from high normal blood sugars to pre-diabetes. It did not help that I had a huge volume of medical knowledge. It did not help AT ALL to think, “I should know better. Why can’t I do this?”
But when I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes, my new thought was “Hell No. There’s got to be a better way. This ends now.”
And so I embarked on a rigorous investigation of the physiology of obesity and diabetes, as well as the neurological and emotional factors that make sustained change challenging for most of us. I wanted to find the challenges and make them understandable and reversible. I believe I have accomplished that task. It worked for me, and it works for my clients!
I learned two major things: first, how to correct the function of the “obesity” hormones (Insulin, Ghrelin and Leptin) by eating differently (but not by deprivation), and second, that my brain is working exactly as it should, but not in a way that is helping with the problem at hand. The brain can change and so can the body, and there lies the magic. Through an eating strategy that kept my blood sugar and insulin levels low, and with the aid of guided coaching, I transformed my physiology, my neurochemistry and my thought process to support sustainable changes that have led to keeping the weight off.
The incredible combination of correcting the function of my hormones and working on my brain through coaching has allowed me to get the weight off (99 lbs from my all-time high) and to reverse my pre-diabetes completely. I am now on a medical mission to help other people get those same results!
Come work with me. I’d love to help you, too.
Sarah Aitken, RN, MS, WHNP/FNP, MHP, NBC-HWC
Certified Life and Weight Loss Coach, National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, Accredited Metabolic Health Provider
At my all-time high weight, about 100 pounds higher than today, decorating Christmas cookies, probably eating quite a few, and again with the diet coke!
Before I learned how to do this! Notice the pie AND the diet coke….apparently they don’t cancel each other out!
I changed my game.
Family friendly.
When I talk about “family-friendly” — there’s a reason for that! Our loved ones are with us on the journey.
When you dive into the Diabetes Game Changer program, you will quickly see it’s a program that is flexible and that integrates perfectly with family life, without requiring that others change or that you prepare separate meals for yourself. The food you eat, the mindset you learn, all the work you do to improve your health and modify your thinking will bring positive changes, not just for you, but for the whole family.
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