Is Beauty Skin Deep or Gut Deep with our Guest Shelli Belleci

Women Wired for Wellness hosted by Dr. Nisha Chellam

Our guest today is Shelli Belleci who speaks about her “beautiful awakening” to life of health and wellness. Interestingly it is so apt her book is called

Beautiful Awakening

You can buy it on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Awakening-Shelli-Belleci/dp/0692125183/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1545682928&sr=8-1&keywords=Shelli+Belleci

This podcast is about Shelli who as a young woman struggled with self-image, health issues, difficulty fitting and finding true health all leading to her journey to becoming a plant-based wellness coach.

Shelli started having what is considered currently normal “hormonal” issues as a young teenager needing hormone management with oral contraceptive pills. Initially she was happy as she is petite by nature, and having curves was a welcome change.

However, in her early college days she struggled with self-image and body image leading to an eating disorder which she describes as over-eating and inducing the vomiting to maintain her weight.

She was caught up in the superficial happiness scene involving drinking, eating mindlessly and she felt “terrible” most of the times. She defines this moment when she decided she needed to change as “dying inside” like if she did not change, she would really die and would not be able to sustain the lifestyle she currently lived.

Her friends knew something was not working for her, but she was unwilling to accept it initially. She however did want to break away from this self-destructive cycle and wanted to take control of her health.

It was challenging but well worth the change.

She noticed that as young women go through this phase of eating a lot and then exercise a lot to help themselves, it is a constant struggle and is almost ignored as it is so normal to see this happen.

Dr. Nisha Chellam is a Board certified Internist who is also board certified in Integrative and Holistic medicine. She believes that diminished health and vitality can be reclaimed by just about any proactive person at any age. Dr. Chellam practices functional medicine in Novi, Michigan where she incorporates Nutrition, Fitness, hormone balance, and permanent weight control. Every week, Dr. Nisha gives you tips on how to take control of your health because YOU are your best doctor.

Dr. Chellam’s best-selling book, “Transform Your Thyroid” teaches you how to overcome fatigue, depression, weight gain and more and is available on Amazon.com.