But from your experience, after you had done all those things and really dialed in those other pieces, in retrospect, do you have any understanding behind the why that was the missing piece for you? Yeah.

Yeah.

And I feel like this is not part of the conversation a lot.

And to your point, looking at all the physical things is so important.

So please do that.

And I did that.

And you got to get those dialed too, because sometimes it can be something like that, that you can fix pretty quickly and feel great.

Maybe as she's doing that, is there sort of a time frame that she'd expect? Like, OK, I'm going to do it for this long and I'm going to feel this sort of way or sort of like so she can check in and know that she's on the right

Mm-hmm.

And workout recovery was an, a big one for me.

Um, sleep has been pretty good, but that's very common for sleep to get disrupted around this age, and it's just a complicated time.

And as a holistic coach, I'm designed to look at the person holistically.

So yes, we have wildly fluctuating hormones, not just estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, the quote, unquote sex hormones, the misnamed sex hormones.

[laughs] But a lot of other hormones get disrupted as well.

Um, so that's definitely part of the issue.

Mm.

Yeah.

Everyone.

So they, they realized I was getting emotional.

People were coming up asking for pictures, and they pulled me into a stairwell.

I sat down, and I was really upset, and you know, I was supposed to win, and they're so excited, and I was like...

I just couldn't believe it.

And I think I just said, you know, I, like, choked up the w- I was like, "Do you guys, like, do you guys still love me?" And I mean, from adoptive parents, like, right, even you thinking like...

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