Full-time grandmother regains mobility and heart health through mindful nutritional guidance

Teppera Lowery (00:00) my life has changed since I've started using MedChefs. This started about six months ago, and I was barely able to leave the house. I have several stairs to my building. I wasn't really able to drive my car - It's a stick shift. I wasn't even able to watch my grandson because it was too much for me and he's eight years old. But since then, within two months, I've started getting up and down the stairs at the drop of a dime. I've started taking care of my grandson who spends weekends with me. Hello, my name is teppera. I live in Oakland, California, and I am a full-time grandmother. I started the MedChefs program at the suggestion of a doctor who thought it would be helpful in supporting my heart health and my kidney health, and my all around physical well-being, There was no hesitations to start with the program. You look it over, you read, you look at recipes, you find different flavors to mix with different tastes, and you do a lot of cleaning of fresh fruits and I'm teaching my grandson what I'm doing and he helps me do some of and cutting and I think it's really just a good idea for the whole family. I have tried dieting, have tried exercise, I have tried everything. The MedChefs program makes you somewhat accountable for what you eat, but they never make it punitive. They don't say, "oh, don't have something that you like." It's not to torture you, It's to just guide you. And then the longer that you're using the program, the more that sugar is just too sweet or Certain things don't sit with your body well and you can tell that you fed your body the wrong thing. My actual body can feel it. garbage weighs me down now. It makes me less active and that's one thing I don't need to do is start being less active. The app is so easy to use once you start using it. At first it was kind of daunting and I didn't hold space for it in my head, but now it's very helpful and there's so many recipes. You could just type in what you want and then it'll pull up everything that might be in that suggested list. And then you just follow the recipe. You might be using things you never used before like turmeric or curry or something like that. it's most definitely a very good guide. Better than any other guide I've ever seen. It makes sense. It doesn't make you feel like you can't be happy with what you're putting in your body also. I use the MedChefs app to track the data of whether or not I ate my MedChefs meals. I'm honest about it and sometimes I score low but I am paying attention to what I'm doing. I would recommend the program to friends and family members because I already have. They have some of the health problems that I do, and I think that that would help them. It shows you how to eat what you like, but maybe substitute your jasmine rice with cauliflower Suggestions like that. It's a very little thing. It changes very little. and it makes bigger changes in your physiology of your body, and even in your mind because you're being mindful while you do the act of cutting up everything that's fresh. while you do the act of carrying on, making sure you get everything you're supposed to on your plate.