Food is the ultimate fuel for our sports, activities, exercise & adventures. For people who lead an active lifestyle, there has to be an appreciation for the physical demand on your body and the necessity to balance & match that demand with adequate fuel, or nutrition. Food is also fuel for (1) our brain, and thus school, work, emotional capacity, mental health, and (2) our organs, which is why food is important even when we are not actively exercising or moving on a regular basis. Like water and oxygen, we need food to live. And there is nothing we need to do to earn it.

It is my goal to make food as enjoyable for you as possible. That does not mean that you need to enjoy cooking, grocery shopping, or meal prepping. It does mean finding a way of eating that works with your life and lifestyle. We all experience anxiety from a multitude of sources … food should not be one of them. Food, at its biological core, is meant to be pleasurable, because it is the core signal of survival for our bodies.

I spent over 10 years of my life being afraid of food, of what it would do to my athletic performance, my heath, my body. I collected food rules and food fears like they were going out of style (as if), and the more I collected, the more “in control” I felt, but the less in control I ultimately was. I believed my ”self control” would bring me happiness, an athletic edge, and self confidence, but it did nothing but degrade my physical and mental health one sneaky day at a time. We live in a society that glorifies weight loss, dieting, and excessive exercise; fear-mongering of food drowns out true nutrition science and healthy eating practices. I pride myself on helping my clients find food freedom and move away from being afraid of food, even if they didn’t realize it beforehand. Clients and athletes find they are happier, healthier and better athletes when food freedom is part of their lives.