Her Story with Our Friend & Health Expert- Ashley Koff RD
Today, we are meeting Ashley Koff RD, author of Your Best Shot: The Personalized System for Optimal Weight Health: GLP-1 Shot or Not!
Tell us about you!
Today, I am a highly successful (on my terms) practitioner who’s helped thousands of patients and practitioners optimize their weight health - GLP-1 shot or not. But I am also my first patient. A young adult who battled her belly in a society that served up weight loss as a goal that made me increasingly unhealthy. At my rock bottom, belly up at a bar following a 7 day raw goat’s milk only cleanse (you read that right!)I met a practitioner who told me the most important thing “it is not what you eat or don’t eat, your body doesn’t have what it needs to run better.” That and our conversation about my choices, my history and my body - not my weight - changed my life. I went from disempowered, failing and fat, to empowered, succeeding and strong. It hasn’t been all roses (OMG perimenopause), but it has led to me fulfilling my life’s purpose: to help anyone I can to get and stay weight healthy. And now in a world with GLP-1 medications, I am sharing this protocol for two key reasons: If you are someone who chooses to use it as a tool, you also need weight health optimization to become weight healthy. And if you choose not to or it is not an ongoing tool you use, you need weight health optimization to get and stay weight healthy. My book and the online resources is a playbook for optimizing weight health for patients and practitioners.
Tell us about your book!
Patient stories - and my own - help introduce you to weight health as the better goal for longevity, and to meet your weight-health hormones (GLP-1, GIP, PYY, CCK) the ones that regulate it. Whether seeking to lose fat, make muscle and bone, silence cravings, optimize blood sugar, cholesterol, quell inflammation, you can’t achieve any of these without optimally functioning weight health hormones. My book gives you the quizzes to assess your own hormones, the resources to identify choices that will help them run better, the guidance and (online) live human support to make your plan work for you.
What type of impact do you hope to have on those you meet/speak to?
When we are battling our bodies. When we feel disempowered from trying. When we feel resource-time, money, hope- depleted from invested efforts. We can not fulfill our life’s purpose. And the deck has been stacked against us. With guidelines and recommendations that don’t help our bodies run better, we keep trying to help our operating system (our body) work efficiently and effectively without the tools to do so. Until now. I’m giving you a playbook to take Your Best Shot at weight health today and tomorrow. It is not a diet. It helps you vet all the tools - medications, supplements, treatments - saunas, fasting and cold plunges oh my - to find what your body responds to better. And how to pivot when life throws you lemons or limes!
What advice would you give to yourself from 25 years ago?
You will meet someone in a very odd situation. Because of your wounds (and tequila post hot yoga), you will use humor to build a wall and brush him off. But you will also keep his card. And you will muster your last ounce of hope to go see him. Having faith in yourself and your strength is something that no one can take from you. And you - not him, not anyone else - have charted this course for you because of those. Be proud of you. Love you.
What does BEAUTY mean to you?
When you see someone/thing fulfilling their life’s purpose, their soul sings. That is beauty to me. Whether it is nature doing its thing or a human or an animal. It takes your breath away because it feels so simple, so aligned, so peaceful.
What do you love most about owning your own business?
It challenges me to stay my course.
Who or what inspires you?
My patients and the people I meet on my journey.
What would you like our Beauty Boost members to know?
You are apart of an incredible network. I love seeing how you all support each other and create community through shared experience. Beauty Boost has brought so much to my life professionally and personally, I am grateful that you support it because I know what that support means to others.
What is your favorite quote?
Jimmy Buffet - if we couldn’t laugh, we’d all go insane
Contact Information
https://thebetternutritionprogram.com/your-best-shot/#Order
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