59. Eating Less and Cutting out Foods is NOT the Solution with Rita Utterback

Yeah.

So I want to point out the one thing that you talked about is like the practitioner that kept telling you to remove more and more and more foods.

I kind of feel for that practitioner.

As you know, some of our clients are very complex.

And there's a lot of things that are going on.

And so when your client's not seeing progress, it's very easy to be like, hey, we just need to remove more foods.

Let's take out more things because that might give them that little glimmer for both the client and the practitioner to be like, oh, yes, we're making progress.

But ultimately, it's doing more damage at the end of the day.

So what are your thoughts on the restriction that some different practitioners are putting on clients out there? And is there a purpose? And how do we know when the purpose has been blinded by society telling us what to do too? Oh, well, a lot of

people might not like my take on this.

But I personally don't really believe in elimination diets.

I almost never use them with my clients.

I've never put a client on low FODMAP.

I've never put a client on the endo diet.

I've had some clients trial low histamine as they're working on like trying to calm their symptoms, but it's never like, Hey, definitely cut all these foods out of your diet.

A lot of the women I work with already have like a very like friable relationship with food.

They've come from a history or restriction.

They already are restricting and I need them to be adding foods in versus taking away.

But even like my sickest clients, like even the ones that have the most histamine reactions or whatever, when you start like actually digging deeper beyond just the reaction itself, It's very evident that it's not the food.

Nine times out of 10, when I'm digging deeper into my clients who have histamine reactions, for example, it almost always comes back to their blood sugar or stress.

Once we start looking at their habits and we're talking, I found out they've skipped breakfast.

They've gone seven to nine hours in between breakfast and lunch.

or they just didn't have lunch at all, or they're not under eating.

And this isn't going to be the case for everybody, but it's like, if I were to just cut foods out in an instance where somebody is already not eating enough and they're under eating and that's what's killing their symptoms, like how is that going to help them? So my approach is, I know my clients, some of them probably hate me for it, but I ask so many questions and I'm like going into the nitty gritty of your day to day.

Like, I want to know what you do from the time you wake up, the time you go to sleep.