The Balance Factor •Testimonials
What people are really saying about The Balance Factor App!
"Science and delicious finally meet in the middle!"
"Love, love, love this!!"
"Love this...BF crushes the BS!"
"...learning how to eat well couldn't be easier.."
What you have to say about our app..
Balance Factor user since 2018!
Shelley Y., Age 60
When you don’t feel good about how your body looks, the way your clothes fit, or you don’t have the energy to do the activities you want to…something is wrong.
Things are “out of whack”.
Your perfect machine of a body is trying to tell you something. You think that by skipping meals, eating only “low fat foods”, just having a smoothie for lunch, and going to bed hungry that you will lose weight and feel better. Wrong!
By using the Balance Factor program you will learn that when you eat enough calories and keep your blood sugar levels in the appropriate range your body will start to feel and function better, and you will be on your way to achieving and maintaining a healthy body size.
The Balance Factor is an incredible tool that will help you truly understand how to balance the fats, proteins, and carbohydrates (called macronutrients) in your diet so you get the nutrients you need. You will be amazed that you can eat what you want, as long as it is balanced with other appropriate foods, and you don’t feel deprived. Unhealthy cravings for foods that don’t even really satisfy you will slowly disappear.
The Balance Factor program is not a quick fix – that’s because there isn’t one! It takes effort and patience by you but with the tools and resources you are given, you learn to listen to what your body truly needs and that’s when the magic happens.
I’m a Believer!
Gary J.
“I’ve always been a crappy eater – never enough, never consistent (too busy), and what I did eat was lots of fast foods, junk foods at TV time, and the like, but I was generally fit and in good health.
But in January of 2020, I got an eye opener at a too long ignored routine physical exam: my fasting glucose (sugar) levels (6.3) had jumped up and put me in the risk area for diabetes, and my cholesterol numbers (Chol 6.4 / LDL 4.13 / TG 1.90) were now exceeding current medical guidelines. And my weight had been creeping up bit by bit over the years in spite of my exercise regimes: not so you’d notice, but a couple of kilos/pounds year by year, every year. Yikes! So my doctor gave me some warnings and said we’d better check again in a couple of months.
I had been working with Shannon helping her develop a smartphone app that embraced her ideas and she suggested that I myself should give it a try… to work on getting my blood work numbers down, better control of my weight, and overall better health. I wasn’t entirely convinced of all her theories, but I thought I’d amuse her: eat more? (ridiculous) and mix and match foods each meal to get a zero or lower ‘balance factor’ number (impossible)
So: I started using her Balanced Cafe app to measure, monitor and advise me: it told me how much to eat (wow: probably 25% more than I had ever eaten daily), and matching up meal ingredients to get that ‘balanced’ number. I never changed what I ate, just how much and how I combined them in each meal to get a better ‘balance factor’ value.
It wasn’t easy at first, forcing myself to eat more, and more regularly, and working up meal choices that netted each meal to get a better ‘balance factor’. But funny things happened: I now felt ‘full’ by the end of the day, and as time went on, didn’t have the desire for the junk food at TV time. I didn’t notice any weight changes but after about 3 months stepped on the scales and found I had dropped over 5 kilos! (12 pounds) And better yet, those golf slacks that I couldn’t wear any longer because I was popping the snaps – I discovered they weren’t popping any more!
Better yet, I completed another blood test after 5 months and found:- my glucose levels had dropped dramatically (from 6.3 down to 4.8), and I was now in the lower part of the ‘ideal’ range!
- my cholesterol levels (Chol 3.94 / LDL 2.11 / TG 0.82) had cut in half!
- And now, I’m down 8 kilos! (18 pounds)
Shannon, her theories, her Balanced Café app, and her enthusiasm in getting more people on a great routine to manage their eating habits and general health – well, it doesn’t happen instantly (no instant gratification), but her program philosophy works! As the classic rock group (the Monkees) said in their song – “I’m a Believer! “ – Thank you, Shannon!”