What’s the biggest challenge with weight loss as a whole?

Yes, dieting is not easy, but for most people losing weight is not impossible; keeping it off seems to be.

It’s a complex problem with many causes, but a big one among them is how we go about it.

With diet, as with exercise, and many other things, we don’t know exactly much effort it will take to get results; so we work as hard as we can, capitalizing on the motivation of the moment.

You know where I’m going with this: Maximum effort is only effective in short bursts.

So what’s the alternative? What does sustainable change actually mean?

We start by optimizing the big, foundational pillars of a healthful diet.  These are the sort of upgrades that are easy to live with. We get you consistent with the basics:

1. Meal Structure

2. Eating Timing and Habits

3. Food Choices, Meal Planning and Preparation

4. Eating habits, Awareness, Mindfulness, and Emotional Eating

Often, cleaning up these core diet areas is all that’s needed to get a handle on weight. And those basic adjustments don’t feel like dieting. In other words, they are sustainable.

Instead of ‘falling off the wagon’ because you stop ‘the diet’, basic habit tweaks can be strengthened over time, because they’re not that hard.

But what if the basics aren’t enough?

We continue. We layer in weight management strategies systematically, until we find the personal combination that starts to move the needle.

This will usually be some mix of:

• Calorie or macronutrient tracking or food journaling

• Following a detailed meal plan

• Practicing time-restricted eating

• Implementing a specific, well-defined diet pattern, like low-carb, plant-based, paleo, or low fat.

The important difference is that we slowly titrate in more effortful dietary tools.

This allows you both to figure out the minimum viable effort necessary, all the while strengthening new habits one at a time.

Unlike jumping into big changes with maximum effort and subsequent burnout, we work together to build your personal and sustainable tool kit.

Progressive dietary adjustment is easier to keep up, but harder to implement; unless you have a strategic partner.

Over multiple sessions, we will develop a plan of action.

I will help you set the pace and reign in the impulse to do more faster :)

There is no commitment to complete any number of sessions, but it generally takes 4 sessions to progress through the stages (between 2 to 3 months), with an option to extend as needed.

Sessions are covered by insurance plans that include benefits for Registered Dietitians.