Sugar-Free & Thriving_ Overcoming Addiction and Losing Weight – Christine Trimpe on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger
Release Date: 05/01/2025
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info_outlineIn this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger, FCAH, RBHT (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) speaks to Christine Trimpe about her journey to lasting weight loss, breaking free from sugar addiction, and creating a sustainable, faith-informed wellness method rooted in whole foods and metabolic health.
For the transcript and full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/christine-trimpe
Highlights from today's episode include:
Christine Trimpe 05:01
they want to lose the weight, and that's a great thing to get healthy. But what they don't realize is how highly addictive sugar and refined carbohydrates. And, you know, food that is high in sugar, it's addictive, and they don't realize that.
Christine Trimpe 05:46
But it also includes starch or starchy vegetables and the factory foods, like, if you look at food ingredient labels, you'll see that there's sugar in almost everything in the grocery store, right? And when you go up and down the aisles. So I'm talking about sugar, grains, starchy vegetables.
Manon Bolliger 16:53
we are bigger than our physical 3d dimension, you know. And often what initiates change and desire to move forward is that inner knowing that there's something more, right? And then, and that always calls in values, right?
ABOUT CHRISTINE TRIMPE:
Christine Trimpe is a transformative wellness leader dedicated to empowering professional women to reclaim their health and vitality through her faith-based, holistic approach to weight loss. As the founder of The SugarFreed Me Method and a certified SUGAR® Licensed Practitioner, Christine helps clients achieve lifelong healing from sugar addiction and food-related struggles. Her clients experience dramatic transformations, including sustained weight loss and breakthroughs in physical, emotional, and spiritual health, with over 80% retention in her programs.
After a personal 100-pound weight loss journey, Christine created a method that goes beyond conventional dieting, integrating faith, emotional regulation, and metabolic health principles. Christine’s own story—marked by a significant health journey, an embrace of ketogenic eating, and a breakthrough lifestyle change—has inspired thousands since she first shared it on her blog and across social media. Her journey has been highlighted in leading wellness magazines, including Woman’s World and First for Women, and featured on DietDoctor.com, where she was named a top low-carb success story.
Christine’s extensive career in corporate America, paired with her BBA degree, uniquely equips her to guide women in tackling complex health challenges and finding balance in all aspects of life. Her upcoming book, SugarFreed 2025, follows her acclaimed devotional, Seeking Joy; 2021, which received the Christian Market Book Award and Christian Indie Award.
Christine and her husband Rob have been married for over three decades and enjoy life in Metro Detroit, where she leads worship, hikes the outdoors, and loves time with her family and pets. With her passion for exhortation, faith, and generosity, Christine’s mission is to equip women to overcome years of weight struggles, embrace freedom from sugar addiction, and ultimately live with joy and purpose.
Core purpose/passion: Helping women overcome sugar addiction and food related struggles. It's not about their weight, it';s about them feeling better overall about their health and wellness routines and equipping them with tools to overcome all of their health challenges.
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ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER, FCAH, RBHT
As a de-registered (2021) board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver.
My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books: 'What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship' and 'A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress'. I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goals.
So, when I share with you that LISTENING to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience".
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* De-Registered, revoked & retired naturopathic physician after 30 years of practice in healthcare. Now resourceful & resolved to share with you all the tools to take care of your health & vitality!