Can you be healthy without good nutrition? The answer is NO.

Nutritious food feeds and provides the proper building blocks for cells. Healthy cells make healthy blood, healthy organs, and a strong body.

So, of course, what you eat has a HUGE impact on:

• Your energy level
• What you weigh
• How often you get sick and how you recover
• How long you live
• Preventing chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc.
• Quality of life

It is confusing because there is so much information out there. So many philosophies, diets, and rules… paleo, vegan, low carb, keto, pescatarian, macros, intermittent fasting, just to name a few. We get tired of trying to figure this out… trying and failing yet again to get nutrition and healthy eating right.

In my practice, I first start with testing your metabolism. I take a look at body fat, basal metabolic rate, and lean body mass. I can then put together a customized eating program based on your activity level and your health goals.

Not only do I teach you how much you need to be eating, I teach you what foods to increase in your diet and what foods to limit. Understanding how food effects inflammation is crucial to changing how the body works from the inside out.

Nutrient density is the key to building a strong and healthy body. We will show you how to incorporate this into your busy life, without a lot of difficulty.

Can you be perfect all the time? NO. That is why we teach you how to include flexibility in your plan and live a little, while staying within a framework of healthy eating, most of the time.

We provide customized meal plans, easy meal planning tips, a healthy cooking class, recipes, and so much more to equip you to reach your health destination.  Education is key.

Hormones are powerful messengers and work in a beautiful harmony when they are all balanced. Chronic stress, poor sleep, poor eating habits, and lack of exercise all contribute to the symphony getting out of balance and not “sound” right.

Lifestyle is medicine. Improving nutrition, exercise, detoxification, and the stress response are huge steps to improving hormone balance.

In our practice, we use a combination of a detailed metabolic questionnaire and bloodwork if needed to find out which hormones are out of balance. From there, we will recommend a customized supplement protocol to balance body chemistry quicker, while lifestyle changes are being implemented to heal inflammation.

Do we have to exercise to be healthy? Yes! And here’s why:

• A healthy outlet for stress
• Improves mood and balances brain chemicals
• Builds lean body mass which burns more fat
• Social opportunities (group classes, running groups, etc.)
• Aids in weight loss and weight maintenance

Over 53% of women and 44% of men fail to make it past three weeks of a structured exercise and diet program? Why such a high failure rate?

Problem #1: Misleading Information

Most of us fail, even when loaded with motivation, because the information presently available concerning proper exercise and diet is flat out wrong. It’s nothing but a “crapshoot” for most of us, when trying to decipher all of the conflicting information. Further, food manufacturers constantly take advantage of the current confusion about health and fitness.

Problem #2: We don’t invest time into ourselves.

Even though we know exercise is important, we don’t prioritize it like we do other areas of our lives.

So, what works?

First of all, putting the time in is just as important as what you choose to do. We teach our practice members how to lose body fat and change their physique with proper resistance training and cardiovascular activities.

We teach a specific workout regimen in our lifestyle program. We give you the right information plus a system for using the information – and it works!