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so this is dr. Berg and we’re going to

do a little video on debugging weight

loss we have Connie with us and I want

to kind of go through kind of your

history when you were I guess in high

school what did you weigh about 115 for

number of years

it’s like petite so here you are going

along and then when did you start

noticing that you started to gain some

weight well I had two children and then

a relationship with my husband who was

psychotic yeah um started to just push a

lot of stress and just trying to survive

day to day became stuck on survive yeah

you were actually in flat a fight

because we did a little test and it your

body is in flight-or-fight that’s that

adrenal stress and so what what age did

you notice that the weight started when

you started gaining weight well when you

live with someone that has emotional

disorders when you’re in a safety net of

family there’s a feeling of security at

about 34 we’ve been married

number of years and the children started

to get older and we moved away from that

safety net of my father’s presence and

it just became very crazy at that time

with a lot more happening and it just

wasn’t ever a relaxed setting

it was always pins and needles you never

knew how that person was going to react

to anything you did it was like jump

through this hoop and you know one

hurdle after another but the hurdles

always got moved out a little further

yeah until you were the one that was led

to believe you were the nut right yeah

that make you feel like you’re crazy

then you so you had this marriage that

was um not great actually it was it was

terrible so you had that and then you

had I think it was like within a matter

of was it a year that you

nineteen loss of people that you lost

yes many people started just exiting

aunts uncles grandparents and it was

just an incredible number of people that

left this world very quickly and very

rapid succession and after my husband’s

passing he committed suicide I moved to

Ohio to just get out of Dodge I couldn’t

be around those surroundings any longer

I had two children there in Michigan but

I needed to leave and in my leaving and

coming to Ohio to work there was just

more stress and more changes and my body

just wasn’t able to cope anymore and

more and more weight every year just

continued to pile on and then health

issues started to crop up with well

diagnosis of post-traumatic stress

disorder which was just from all of the

traumas of my past and living with this

man and then female issues going forth

with you know looking at either having

hormone replacement therapy or

antidepressants because of the

depression and the mood swings and the

anxiety and it was just you know they

wanted to give me one drug after another

and I just kept backing away from it

because I don’t believe in that type of

process that’s not for me I wanted to do

it naturally but naturally I I went out

and walked every day and I could try to

eat right and nothing was making the

sympathetic system work with me it was

working against me at every turn

yeah you told me about that because what

happened is that you you tried pretty

much everything on the planet and then

low-calorie diets you know who Keller

does yeah I know it’s like well they say

that you know just eat less and exercise

more you’ll be fine

so you eventually got to a point where

you’re just kind of stuck and I think

somehow you kind of stumbled on some of

the videos that I had and then

that you you’re watching those for a

while then you quote you came out from

Ohio and you’re here for like a week so

what we found was we you’re in flight a

fight so we began to do acupressure

which is a stress extraction technique

and tell me kind of what you’re feeling

as we’re doing this well um I kind of

felt like I was and one of those those

air filled jumping bouncy type things or

that I was kind of like zipped into one

of these sumo wrestler suits and I was

just kind of bouncing off the world I

think I mentioned to you the other day

that no one would go to a sports event

with me because if you sat in the

bleachers with me I was jiggling all the

time I was on constant move constant

just stress movement yeah um my bridge

even even at night I would wake up and

find myself rocking and and moving

because I just didn’t feel good in my

skin it was not a nice place to be

and after the first day here it was like

being unzipped out of that and someone

taking me out of that bouncy just my

body feels relaxed like it hasn’t felt

in years

um it’s I know the trauma is still there

and I’ve worked through the traumas but

now I feel like I’m I’m free it’s it’s

my body is responded now along with

being stuck that’s great because the

physical body is like a sponge and it

holds on the stress and so everyone’s

focus on I’ll change your diet change

your diet exercise more but on top of a

body that is a stress bucket it doesn’t

work so basically it’s a very common

story where you have a stress trigger

that is needs to be removed so so if

anyone’s trying to lose weight and

you’re going along and then all of a

sudden you start gaining weight and it’s

not

coming off there’s always a something

that occurs just before that in your

situation it was living with a

psychopath and you had 19 losses in a

very short period of time that’s a

tremendous shock to your system so how

can the hormones work it shuts

everything down so you can be on the

diet forever so I’ve had people go on a

vacation

removing the out of the environment from

all these people and eat poorly and lose

the time awake so we know the stress

will just tear you down so I think

that’s great

Connie so I’m so so glad that you got

out here but now we now you can start to

heal you know and you’re going to be

able to sleep in

well the techniques that you use here

are phenomenal to very quickly allow

that sympathetic nervous system to let

go it’s amazing I was I’m still in awe

because I’ve done massages and saunas

and

anything that I could do to relax the

body but until this this has been just

amazing that’s great well thank you very

much you’re welcome thank you