Rooted Reset · 12-week cohort · the Cycle Overlay Method
Your bad food days might not be food days.
You’ve cut gluten, cut dairy, done the elimination properly — and you still can’t explain why the same lunch is fine one week and ruinous the next. That isn’t a discipline problem. You can’t measure a food reaction on a baseline that moves.
Twelve weeks. Four triggers, not forty.
The fit call is twenty minutes and free. If I don’t think I can help you, I’ll say so and I won’t take your money.
- 11 years
- as a registered dietitian — the first six in a hospital GI clinic
- 7 cohorts
- 83 women through the programme so far
- roughly 90%
- of those women completed the twelve weeks
- 15 seats
- per cohort, 3 cohorts a year, every one screened on a call
Why nothing has worked yet
It’s a scale sitting on a boat.
Every elimination diet on earth assumes one thing: that your baseline is stable. Remove a food, feel better, the food was the cause. Clean logic — as long as the deck isn’t moving.
A lot of women notice their gut symptoms cluster in the week before their period. So the same meal can produce a terrible day on cycle day 24 and nothing at all on cycle day 10. Every reading you took was real. Every reading was also wrong, because the deck was moving underneath you.
So we don’t test food first. We chart your symptoms against your cycle days until we can see whether that’s your pattern, subtract those weeks from the analysis, and only then reintroduce foods one at a time. Fix the measurement. Then test.
The three-week trap
“It worked for three weeks and then it just stopped.”
If that sentence is yours, you already have the evidence and nobody has explained it to you.
Three weeks is shorter than one cycle. A three-week trial measures across a single hormonal window and calls it an answer, which means the result was always going to be noise — no matter how strictly you held the line.
This is the experiment that costs women another six months. The free option isn’t cheaper. It’s slower. If you want to test gluten, test it properly: chart first, then challenge it in a window where the reading means something.
How the twelve weeks run
A fixed sequence, because the sequence is the product.
Everyone else tests food first. I refuse to draw a single conclusion about food until we’ve charted your cycle and subtracted those weeks.
- 01Weeks 1-4
Calm
Stop the baseline moving.
A 60-minute 1:1 kickoff sets your protocol - a modified low-FODMAP baseline plus sleep and meal rhythm - and you start charting symptoms against cycle day on the Cycle Overlay Chart. Modified, not full elimination, and built to be cooked alongside a family dinner.
- 02Weeks 5-10
Reintroduce
Test food only where the reading can be trusted.
A 1:1 checkpoint at Week 5 builds your reintroduction schedule around your own chart. Foods are challenged one at a time, with a dose, a timing, a cycle-window placement and a clear pass or fail read. This is the half of the work the free handout skips.
- 03Weeks 11-12
Root
Leave with it written down.
A 1:1 checkpoint at Week 11 turns everything you learned into a maintenance plan you can run without me: your confirmed list, your thresholds, your hormonal-week playbook, and what to do when a new symptom shows up in eight months.
Group calls run Tuesdays at noon Pacific and every one is recorded, so a missed week costs you nothing. Your four 1:1 hours — kickoff, Week 5 and Week 11 — are scheduled around you.
What’s included
Four hours with me, and everything written down.
Ten deliverables across twelve weeks. The daily charting takes about ninety seconds; the protocol is built to cook as one family dinner rather than a second dinner for you.
- 01
Week 1 kickoff
60-minute 1:1
Full history and a review of every experiment you have already run - the gluten cut, the elimination, the panel - taken seriously in one sitting instead of moved past in a sentence. Your Calm-phase protocol is set live on the call.
- 02
The Cycle Overlay Chart
Tracker, all 12 weeks
Daily symptom scoring plotted against cycle day, reviewed at every checkpoint, so hormonal weeks can be subtracted before any food conclusion is drawn. Charting takes about ninety seconds a day.
- 03
Calm Phase Protocol
Written protocol, Weeks 1-4
A modified low-FODMAP baseline plus sleep and meal-rhythm structure. Deliberately modified, not a full elimination, and written to be cooked as one dinner for the whole table.
- 04
Weekly group calls
12 sessions, Tuesdays noon Pacific
Live teaching and Q&A with a cohort capped at 15. Every call is recorded and posted, so a missed Tuesday costs you nothing - and hearing fourteen other women describe the same three-week pattern is the fastest end to “the problem must be me.”
- 05
Week 5 reintroduction checkpoint
1:1 session
Your chart is read aloud with you, the pattern - or the absence of one - is named, and your personal reintroduction schedule is built around it. This is the appointment the whole programme exists to deliver.
- 06
Structured Reintroduction Schedule
Written protocol, Weeks 5-10
Food by food: dose, timing, cycle-window placement, and a clear read on each. You have already done the hardest phase - a full elimination - and never reached reintroduction, which is the actual point.
- 07
Week 11 maintenance checkpoint
1:1 session
Your confirmed list, your hormonal-week playbook, and what to do when something new shows up months from now. You are buying the end of guessing, not a 12-week babysitter.
- 08
“What's Actually Yours” short list
Written file, Weeks 11-12
One page: confirmed triggers, cleared foods, quantity thresholds where they matter, and the foods that were never the problem. Fridge-door sized. Shareable with your husband.
- 09
Physician Conversation Sheet
Written file
Plain-language wording for what to ask your own doctor to check and how to describe your charted pattern in a 12-minute appointment. Educational naming of markers only - no ordering, no dosing, no diagnosis.
- 10
Cohort recording library
Files, all 12 weeks
Every group call recorded and indexed by topic, available for the full programme, with a stated catch-up path if you miss two weeks.
What you leave with
One page. Four foods. A threshold beside each.
How much — not never again. That distinction is the whole difference between a short list and a longer list of foods to fear.
It comes with the foods that were never the problem written down too, because permission for everything else is the part nobody ever gives you. Fridge-door sized. Shareable with your husband.
And a hormonal-week playbook: the window where your baseline runs higher, so you stop blaming lunch for it.
Week 11 deliverable
What's Actually Yours
Confirmed - four, not forty
Onion
Yours. Under a tablespoon, cooked, is fine. Raw is not.
Wheat, in volume
Yours, with a threshold. One slice reads clean. Two slices plus pasta the same day does not.
Apple
Yours. Half, with a meal. Not on an empty stomach.
Lentils
Yours in the week before only. Fine on cycle days 1-20. Skip in the window.
Cleared - never the problem
- Dairy
- Gluten as a category
- Broccoli
- Coffee
- Garlic, cooked
- Beans, rinsed
- Tomato
- Avocado
Your hormonal week: scores run higher on cycle days 22-28. Nothing new gets tested in that window.
Included alongside
The five things that decide whether you finish.
Each of these exists because of a specific reason women abandon this work in week three. They are named here rather than buried, because the objection is the point.
The Three-Week Trap
1-page briefing + short video
Why a three-week gluten trial cannot return a trustworthy answer: three weeks is shorter than one cycle, so the result was always going to be noise. It also pre-empts mid-programme impatience, because it teaches why fast, dirty answers keep failing you.
Answers: “I'll just try cutting gluten myself first.”
Your Forty-Food List, Triaged
Written review, delivered in the Week 1 kickoff
Bring your IgG or sensitivity report. It gets read with you, mapped against what is actually testable, and set aside with a plain explanation of why it produced forty suspects and no method for clearing a single one.
Answers: The shame of having “failed” a test you paid for.
Feeding Four: Family Dinner Bridge
Recipe and swap file + one group-call module
Calm-phase and reintroduction-phase meals cooked as one dinner for the household, with the swaps isolated to your plate. The second dinner is the number one reason a protocol gets abandoned in week three.
Answers: “I can't do another diet while I'm cooking for four people.”
Restaurants, Field Trips and Real Life
Playbook file, unlocked at Week 5
How to order without reading the menu online first, and how to travel and chaperone without mapping the bathrooms in advance.
Answers: “Even if this works, my life won't actually change.”
Full recording library + catch-up path
Existing, formalised
Every Tuesday call recorded and indexed, with a stated protocol for catching up if a bad month at work takes two weeks out of your twelve.
Answers: “I don't have time.”
What I don’t do
The refusal is the method.
A panel hands you forty suspects and no way to clear a single one. If you already have one, bring it — we read it together, map it against what’s actually testable, and set it aside.
- I don't run IgG panels or hair mineral tests.
- I don't order labs.
- I will never hand you a longer list of foods to fear.
- I don't promise symptom outcomes, because nobody honest can.
- I don't diagnose - that's your physician's job, and I'll help you talk to them.
Price
$1,800
or 3 x $650 ($1,950 total)
Nobody is enrolled without a fit call first.
Money probably isn’t your objection — skepticism and time are. You’ve already spent more than this in fragments: the panel, the courses, the probiotics, and four years of experiments run without guidance.
What’s different here is that this is the first purchase in the sequence with a defined exit. Four 1:1 hours with a registered dietitian who spent six years in a hospital GI clinic, twelve live calls, and a written short list at the end.
And you don’t have to start here. Download the guide, chart two weeks, and see whether the mechanism holds on your own body before you spend anything.
The payment plan runs $1,950 across three months. I’m not going to apologise for the spread — it’s standard, and it turns an $1,800 decision into a $650 one.
Risk reversal
The Two-Week Process Guarantee
Finish the first two weeks and keep your log. If the process isn’t for you, tell me by day 14 and I refund you in full.
I’m not guaranteeing your symptoms, because nobody honest can. I’m guaranteeing that you’ll do two weeks of real charting, that a qualified RD will read it with you, and that the protocol, the reintroduction schedule and the maintenance plan you leave with will be specific to you and written down.
If I don’t deliver the process, you don’t pay for it. The only thing I ask is that you actually chart — that’s the part that shows both of us whether this is going to work.
Who this isn’t for
I’d rather say no on a free call.
Cohorts are capped at 15 and I screen every one, because completion is what protects the work. Here is where I’ll tell you no:
- You live in California - I'm not able to take you on for this offer.
- There's an active eating disorder in the picture. This is the wrong tool and I'd be doing you harm.
- You need medical management rather than nutrition work.
- Your presentation isn't gut-dominant.
- You can't find ninety seconds a day to chart. That isn't a character flaw - it's the wrong season, and I'd rather you came back.
Questions
The ones I actually get asked.
How is this different from the free low-FODMAP handout I already have?
The handout is the elimination phase alone - the half that makes people miserable and teaches nothing. Reintroduction is the product. It's also the half that needs someone reading your chart with you, because a food challenge run in the wrong week gives you an answer you can't trust.
I don't have the time. I work full-time and I have kids.
That's the objection I take most seriously, so let me be precise. Four hours with me across twelve weeks. One live call a week at noon Pacific, and every one is recorded - you can miss two in a row and be fine. The daily charting takes about ninety seconds. And the Calm protocol is built to cook as one family dinner, not a second dinner for you.
Shouldn't I get proper testing first?
A panel hands you forty suspects and no method for clearing one of them. I don't run IgG panels or hair mineral tests and I don't order labs. What I will do is give you plain wording to ask your own doctor for a conventional workup, and read whatever report you already have with you.
I've already eliminated so much. Can I really handle more restriction?
The Calm phase is a modified low-FODMAP baseline, not a full elimination, and it lasts four weeks before we start adding things back. The deliverable at the end is a short list and permission for everything else - the direction of travel is fewer rules, not more.
What if I do all twelve weeks and nothing changes?
I can't promise your symptoms will change - nobody honest can. What I guarantee is the process: two weeks of real charting, a qualified RD reading it with you, and a protocol, a reintroduction schedule and a maintenance plan that are specific to you and written down. If I don't deliver that, you don't pay for it.
Noon Pacific doesn't work with my schedule.
Every group call is recorded and indexed by topic, and the recording library stays available for the full programme. Your four 1:1 hours - kickoff, Week 5 and Week 11 - are scheduled around you.
What if my cycle is irregular, absent, or suppressed by an IUD?
Bring it to the fit call. It changes how we read the chart and it's one of the things the twenty minutes exists to work out honestly, rather than something to guess at from a web page.
I'm probably too complicated a case.
Maybe. That's what the fit call is for, and I'll tell you if I think that's true. Cohorts are capped at 15 and I screen every one, which is exactly why I'd rather say no on a free call than take your money and hope.
Twenty minutes, and an honest answer either way.
My only job on the call is to work out whether this is right for you. Before anything else, I’ll ask what you’ve already tried and roughly when each thing stopped working.