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Hi I'm Andrea Nakayama and welcome to Get Your Big Ask in Here, where functional physiology
meets holistic health and nutrition. Today's Big Ask is from Marcia. Marcia wants to know
how to motivate a teen to change their habits. She's working with a client who doesn't eat
breakfast in the morning and who snacks late at night, on things like chips or things that
aren't healthy for her and that are probably disrupting her digestive system. Motivating
a teen to change their dietary habits is pretty hard, unless they have a very clear physiological
pain point, unless they're actually in pain then they're motivated to change. So with
this teen it may be moving into "what is the problem for her?"-- Marcia noted that she
didn't eat breakfast. Is this troublesome for the teen? Is not able to focus in school,
at college? What's happening for her that she's not eating breakfast, and does she care?
What really needs to happen here is to figure out "where is the problem for the client,
herself?" and from there move into her situation, what's troubling her, and then from there
you can build on how to make incremental changes that will adjust her lifestyle to meet what
is her goal, not yours as the parent or practitioner. Why don't you give me your Big Ask by writing
it just down below.