You’re eating healthy and getting your workouts in, but your body is not responding. Maybe you’re in your 40s and what used to work isn’t working anymore.
Should you eat less? Work out more? Fast? Do more cardio? Is it your hormones? Is it your thyroid? Are you in perimenopause?
Trying to figure all of this out on your own can be exhausting. This is where I come in.
MY APPROACH
I teach you how to fuel your body for your goals and your training. We create structure around your meals and work on eating enough. We also work through the all-or-nothing thinking that keeps sending you back to restriction.
You don’t need muscle confusion or different workouts every day. You need a structured strength training plan where you repeat your lifts week after week, improve your technique, and get 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 influencer’s page, wondering what workout to do or whether it’s even working.
If you feel like you’re doing everything right and your body is not responding, this is where I look beyond your nutrition and workouts.
FUNCTIONAL NUTRITION & METABOLISM
YOUR HISTORY
Have you been dieting for the past 20 years? I need to understand what you’ve put your body through, what you’ve tried, and how you feel now. Your medical history, medications, sleep, stress, and digestion all affect where we start and what we prioritize.
YOUR LAB WORK
Maybe you’ve been told your labs are normal, but something still feels off. I order comprehensive lab work that goes beyond the basic things you’ve probably had checked at routine visits.
That includes a comprehensive hormone panel, a full thyroid panel, not just a TSH, fasting insulin and other metabolic health markers, nutrient status, inflammation, liver function, and a full iron panel including ferritin.
I review your results with you line by line and look for patterns alongside your symptoms and history. 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 PLAN
I use an evidence-based approach, my education, and years of experience to build your nutrition, workouts, and daily habits around what we need to prioritize.
I’m not trying to replace your doctor, but a seven-minute appointment with them can only cover so much. Coaching gives us much more one-on-one time to actually work on your lifestyle and the things that play a big role in your health. I help you ask better questions about your thyroid, hormones, and hormone replacement therapy, and advocate for yourself during your appointments.
You get an explanation of why we’re doing these things, weekly feedback, and support putting them into practice.
You may not need to lose ten more pounds.
You probably just need more muscle and less body fat.
If you want to look leaner, more athletic, and “toned,” the answer isn’t simply weighing less. It’s building muscle and losing body fat.
That takes eating enough food, structured strength training, sleep, recovery, and consistency over time.
The consistency piece is huge. If a plan is so restrictive that you can’t stick with it, you end up starting over and over. Your plan has to be realistic for your life. That’s how you build habits you can keep doing, and sticking with them long enough is what changes your body.
Scale weight is just one piece of information. I’m also looking at your energy, how your clothes fit, how you feel, your digestion, sleep, and stress. I take all of that into account to make sure we’re moving in the right direction.
CLIENT RESULTS
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 women, 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. My libido was non-existent. The harder I worked, the worse I looked and felt.
I had the hormone levels of a postmenopausal woman. I was also given a diagnosis of hypothyroidism and sent out the door with a prescription. But I still had all the symptoms and a 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.
Come to find out, years of under-eating, overtraining, too little sleep, and asking too much of my body, both 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 my many years of appointments. Addressing these things was a big part of my transformation.
My nursing background is another big part of why I’m here. I spent years caring for people with chronic disease and saw how much lifestyle can contribute. Poor nutrition, too little sleep, high stress, being sedentary, and not having enough muscle compound over time. Eventually, the body says “enough.”
I wanted to work on the prevention side of things and help people take a more proactive role in their health to avoid ending up like the patients I took care of every day. I believe you can change when you’re ready to do things differently. You don’t have to have it all figured out before we start. I meet you where you are, and we work on getting a little better as we go.
You don’t need to become an expert in nutrition, training, metabolism, or hormones. That is my job.
Your job is to communicate honestly, be open to learning and doing things differently, and put the plan into place.
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.
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.