1:1 COACHING
Functional nutrition and strength training for people ready to get out of the chronic dieting cycle, build muscle, improve their metabolic health, and stop starting over.
A plan built around your health history, your goals, and your life. Weekly check-ins and support from me to help you follow through.
Magan Ake, RN · Functional Nutrition & Metabolism Specialist
COACHING
You’re eating healthy. You’re getting your workouts in. But your body is not responding. Maybe you’re in your 40s, what used to work isn’t working anymore, and you’re wondering what the problem is.
Should you eat less? Train more? Fast? Do more cardio? Is it your hormones? Is it your thyroid?
Trying to figure all of this out on your own can be exhausting. This is what I specialize in.
MY APPROACH
I teach you how to fuel your body for your goals and your training. I help you put structure around your meals, eat enough, and build consistent habits. You learn how to make choices that support your goals and work through the all-or-nothing thinking that sends you back to restriction.
You don’t need “muscle confusion” or different workouts every day. You need a structured plan with clear progression: repeating lifts week after week, improving your technique, and getting stronger over time.
You’ll walk into the gym knowing what to do, how hard to work, and what to track. No more sitting in the parking lot scrolling through your favorite TikTok influencer’s page, wondering what workout to do or whether it’s even working.
If you feel like you’re doing everything right and you aren’t seeing progress, I look beyond just nutrition and workouts.
FUNCTIONAL NUTRITION & METABOLISM
Exhausted? Brain fog? Constipated or bloated? Hair shedding, cold all the time, or your libido has left the chat? These are all things to be considered.
I look at your symptoms alongside your lab work to make informed decisions about your plan and recognize what needs more attention.
YOUR HISTORY
Your medical history, medications, diet history, training history, sleep, and stress all matter to me. I need to understand what you’ve put your body through, what you’ve tried, and how you feel now. All of that affects where we start.
YOUR LAB WORK
I arrange for you to get lab work and help you understand the results. I look beyond the basic markers you’ve probably had checked at routine visits. I include a comprehensive hormone panel, thyroid testing beyond TSH, fasting insulin, and other markers of metabolic health, inflammation, nutrient status, liver function, and more.
I go through your results line by line, looking for patterns alongside your symptoms and history to better understand what may be going on. The goal is less guesswork. I don’t want to be throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.
• Labs need to be done at a Labcorp facility. Find a Labcorp near you ↗
YOUR NEXT STEPS
I bring your history, symptoms, and lab results together to decide what needs attention first. Then I build your program around those priorities. You get a plan that addresses how you feel as well as the body composition changes you want to make.
I work alongside your medical team, helping you understand your results and ask informed questions about your thyroid, hormones, and HRT when indicated. My role is to connect that care with your nutrition, training, and daily habits, helping you feel better while working toward your strength and body composition goals.
This plan is made specifically for you. You get an explanation of why we’re doing it and support putting it into practice.
BODY RECOMPOSITION
You may not need to lose ten more pounds.
You probably just need more muscle and less body fat.
“I need to lose 10–20 pounds.” “I’ll be happy when I weigh ___.” I hear this all the time. Sound familiar? The scale only tells you how much you weigh. It doesn’t tell you anything about your body composition, how strong you are, or how healthy you are internally.
If you want to look leaner, more athletic, and toned, the answer isn’t simply weighing less. It’s body recomposition: building muscle and losing body fat.
We’ve got to make sure you’re eating enough to build muscle and following a structured strength training program. That means repeating the same lifts week after week, focusing on improving technique, training effort and intensity, and getting stronger over time. We also want to stay active outside the gym and make time for sleep and recovery.
I’m also looking at your energy, how your clothes fit, how you’re feeling, and your digestion, sleep, and stress. Scale weight is just one piece of information. I take all of this feedback into account to make sure we’re moving in the right direction. Improving your internal health can help your body respond better to nutrition and training, so you get more out of the work you’re putting in.
One of the biggest pieces of this is consistency: sticking with a plan long enough for your choices to compound. My program isn’t about extreme restriction or fad diets. We build habits you can sustain and make part of your lifestyle. This is how we get you out of the chronic dieting and restriction cycle. Remember, what you’ve been doing isn’t working, so we’ve got to be willing to do things differently.
CLIENT RESULTS
Body recomposition doesn’t happen simply from eating less. Building muscle is the work.
I want you to be strong, healthy, and confident and build a lifestyle you can maintain long after you move on from working with me.
I’m an RN, personal trainer, and functional nutrition coach in my 40s. I know what it’s like to experience hormone changes, have thyroid issues, and think you should be able to figure it all out on your own.
I’ve always been active and eaten healthy. Like many people, I thought getting the look I wanted meant more cardio and less food. That clearly wasn’t working for me. My hair was falling out. I was bloated, puffy, and exhausted. I could fall asleep anywhere. I had no libido. The harder I tried, the worse I looked and felt.
My hormone levels were those of a postmenopausal woman. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and given thyroid medication, but I still had symptoms and a whole lot of unanswered questions.
I wanted to understand why I felt so bad when I thought I was doing everything right. That sent me down the functional nutrition rabbit hole. I started putting the pieces together: years of under-eating, overtraining, too little sleep, and asking way too much of my body inside and outside the gym had started to add up.
It was more complex than that, but these were important pieces no doctor had ever discussed with me in all of my years of appointments. I started addressing them, and those changes were a big part of my transformation.
My nursing background is another big part of why I’m here. I spent years in the hospital caring for people with chronic disease and saw the toll it takes when people put their health on the back burner. Poor nutrition, too little sleep, high stress, being sedentary, and not having enough muscle add up over time, and eventually the body says “enough.” I wanted to help people prevent chronic disease and take a more proactive role in their health before they reach that breaking point.
I use an evidence-based approach, my education, and years of experience to create a plan to help you get unstuck. I’m going to meet you where you’re at and layer in changes little by little.
I do my best work with people who are fed up with starting over and open to doing things differently. This is not another version of the same diet and workouts you’ve done before. You have to be open to changing how you approach nutrition and training. After all, if your current approach was getting you where you want to be, you wouldn’t be reading this.
You don’t need to become an expert in nutrition, training, metabolism, or hormones. That is my job. Leave the planning up to me. Your job is to communicate honestly, be open to learning and doing things differently, and put the plan into practice—to execute.
BEFORE YOU APPLY
Yes, absolutely. For many of my clients, fat loss is the goal. I build the plan around gaining muscle and losing body fat, while also addressing nutrition, sleep, stress, digestion, and recovery.
Those things matter for your health and your ability to train, recover, and follow through consistently. The goal is better body composition. The process may look different from another restrictive diet, and you need to be open to that. If what you’ve been doing isn’t working, repeating it isn’t the answer.
Building muscle is what gives you that “toned” look, with low enough body fat for the muscle to show. You have to have muscle to look toned.
That means training in a way that builds muscle and getting your nutrition dialed in. Your strength program, food, daily activity, and recovery all support that goal.
A diagnosis does not mean your body is broken or that progress is off the table. I’ve dealt with thyroid problems myself, and I coach people with thyroid concerns. I take your diagnosis, symptoms, medications, energy, and recovery into account when building your plan.
The approach may need to look different. I focus on what you can do and what you have control over, while you continue the medical care you need. Your diagnosis is part of your history. It does not define everything you’re capable of.
More information: American Thyroid Association · International PCOS guideline
Hormone changes can affect your sleep, energy, appetite, recovery, and where you carry body fat. They can change how you feel and how you show up in your daily life. I take that seriously and account for your experience when building your program.
If you’re interested in hormone replacement therapy, I help you prepare questions and work with your healthcare provider to discuss whether it’s appropriate for you. Your provider assesses the benefits and risks and handles prescribing.
No. Your program is customized to your experience, how many days you can train, your equipment, and any injury history or current limitations. You can train at a commercial gym or at home with dumbbells. I build around what you have access to.
During the first 10–12 days, I get to know your history, goals, what you’ve tried, and what your life looks like. You fill out intake forms, and I use that information to build a plan customized to you.
Then we check in every week to review progress, how you’re feeling, what’s working, and what isn’t. I make adjustments, and we solve problems together. You also have ongoing messaging support with me in the app between check-ins.
Start with the coaching application so I can learn about your goals and what you need help with. We’ll talk through options and pricing before you decide. Have a question first? Message me on Instagram or email me.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Have questions first? Message me on Instagram or send me an email.