Wellness coach and Signal Mountain resident Wendy Glass is starting two new five-week sessions of the Restart program, which educates participants on how to make their bodies feel better by feeding them “real” food.
A morning class will be held Thursdays at 10 a.m. beginning Sept. 28 and an evening class will be held Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. starting Oct. 3. Both classes will be held at Bachman Community Center, where Glass has taught five sessions of the class since January.
“They’ll learn more about their relationship with food,” she said of participants in the five-week program, which includes a three-week detox in which people eliminate from their diets all processed foods and sugar, replacing them with more nutritious whole foods. “It will help them to learn more about their bodies, and may help them to feel better than they’ve felt in a long time.”
Preparing participants for the detox is the focus of the first week, followed by a week each of learning about the digestion process, the effects of sugar on the body and the truth about fats. During the final week, students celebrate their success and learn how to continue their progress.
“It helps you learn the science behind what’s really going on in your body,” said Glass, explaining that during class, she goes into detail about the digestive process, including how it starts in the brain, what happens to food once it’s swallowed, and why rest is important for proper digestion.