Healthy Lifestyles

Dine Out | Take Out

Dining out with friends & family or having a fun night in with take out are important activities to maintain our social connections as well as decompress after a long day. However, it can be tough to find healthy options when relying on others to prepare our food. Portion sizes, unknown ingredients, and limited visibility into food preparation are just a few of the complicating factors.

Nutrition counseling addresses these problems by working with you to craft a personalized plan to mitigate these challenges in light of your health & fitness goals.

Our Nutrition Counseling for Dining Out | Ordering Take Out is ideal for:

• Health and Fitness Enthusiasts
• High School & College Athletes
• Professional Athletes
• Weight Management Clients
• Chronic Disease Patients

Healthy Weight

Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is a challenge. Healthy weight is important for normal growth and development, healthy aging, active lifestyles, and disease prevention and management. Healthy weight can be achieved and maintained with the professional guidance of a Licensed and Registered Dietitian.

Individualized one-on-one counseling is provided to help patients and clients achieve desired and medically required weight loss or gain. As part of healthy weight counseling, food and nutrition education, food purchasing guidelines, food preparation tips and recipes, and physical activity recommendations are provided. Learning about food and understanding how to eat takes time. Multiple visits are recommended for best results. Seeking help early and often helps with managing weight.

Nutrition counseling is highly recommended for patients who take doctor-prescribed weight loss or weight gain medications. Nutrition education improves weight loss or weight gain results, and better ensures that weight losses or gains achieved while on medication are maintained after the medication is discontinued.

Underweight status is as equally unhealthy for the human body as overweight and obesity. Lower or higher than normal body weight and body fat affect the entire body, and increase the risk of poor bone, heart, hormonal, brain, and reproductive health. Individuals suffering from underweight, overweight or obesity report and statistically demonstrate reduced self-esteem, health, and quality of life. Underweight counseling addresses swallowing and feeding challenges, eating disorders, picky eating, food intolerances and allergies, physical activity patterns, sports training and competition, gastrointestinal conditions, chronic disease management, mental conditions, and growth and development concerns. Individuals of all ages benefit from medical nutrition therapy related to underweight status.

Overweight and obesity counseling works to achieve healthy and sustained weight loss for disease prevention and/or management. According to the Weight-Control information Network (WIN), an information service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK) and National Institutes of Health (NIH), overweight and obesity may increase an individual’s risk of cancer, depression and other mental health disorders, diabetes, fatty liver disease, gallbladder disease, growth and development abnormalities, heart disease, high blood pressure, infertility, kidney conditions, osteoarthritis, pregnancy complications, sleep apnea, stroke and other health conditions. Many overweight and obese individuals suffer from one or more of the above conditions.

Smart Shopper

One of the key drivers of our health and wellbeing lies in what we eat - increasing the importance of our choices at the grocery store. Reducing and avoiding artificial food preservatives/additives/coloring, allergens, refined sugars/sweeteners, and saturated fats is important in giving our bodies the right building blocks and fuel it needs for daily life as well as our fitness endeavors.

Our Smart Shopper counseling will demystify food labels, help you identify problematic ingredients, and educate you on whole food alternatives, so you can make better food choices that support your physical fitness and athletic performance & wellness goals.

Our Smart Shopper Counseling is ideal for:

• Health and Fitness Enthusiasts
• High School & College Athletes
• Professional Athletes
• Weight Management Clients
• Chronic Disease Patients

Sleep Education

Sleep is essential for brain function, chronic disease management, hunger regulation, healthy food selection, fitness performance and regulation, weight control and maintenance. Both sleep quality and sufficient amounts of sleep have significant impacts on athletic performance, mental health, physical fitness, overall health and weight status.

Nutrition counseling works with you to understand your physical fitness and athletic performance goals and craft a personalized sleep strategy to support and realize those goals.

Our Sleep Education Counseling is ideal for:

• Health and Fitness Enthusiasts
• High School & College Athletes
• Professional Athletes
• Weight Management Clients
• Chronic Disease Patients

Sports Performance & Recovery

Sports performance and fitness are important to many individuals attempting to maximize results on the field or in the gym.

Proper nutrition is central to optimal athletic performance. However, inadequate food intake, fad diets, junk food, and/or over-supplementation can stress the body and undermine desired outcomes. Athletes who receive nutrition counseling experience higher performance and report better results during training and in competition.

Nutrition counseling for sports performance and fitness focuses on adequate calorie intake and balanced diets for proper muscle development and recovery, strength and endurance.

Our Sports Performance & Recovery Counseling is ideal for:

• Health and Fitness Enthusiasts
• High School & College Athletes
• Professional Athletes
• Weight Management Clients
• Chronic Disease Patients