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.
Magan Ake, RN · Functional Nutrition & Metabolism Specialist
COACHING
You’re eating healthy and 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 where I come in.
But you’ve got to be open to doing things differently. If what you were doing was working, you probably wouldn’t be here.
MY APPROACH
I teach you how to fuel your body for your goals and your training. We put structure around your meals, work on eating enough, and get consistent. 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 plan: repeat your lifts, improve your technique, and get stronger over time.
You’ll know 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.
Exhausted, dealing with brain fog, constipated or bloated? Hair shedding, cold all the time, or your libido has left the chat?
I look beyond your nutrition and workouts. Your medical history, medications, dieting history, sleep, stress, and digestion all matter. I look at your symptoms alongside your lab work to decide what needs attention first. Then I build your program around those priorities.
FUNCTIONAL NUTRITION & METABOLISM
Maybe you’ve been told your labs are “normal,” but you still don’t feel good. Or you want more information, but you don’t know what to ask for or how to get it.
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 go through your results line by line, looking for patterns alongside your symptoms and history. All of that helps me decide what needs attention first and further customize your plan. 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 ↗
I also help you ask better questions of your medical team about your thyroid, hormones, and HRT. I’m not here to replace your doctor.
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 enough food, structured strength training, sleep, recovery, and consistency. Scale weight is one piece of information. I’m also looking at your energy, how your clothes fit, how you feel, your digestion, sleep, and stress.
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 women, I thought getting the look I wanted meant more cardio and less food.
That clearly wasn’t working. 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. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and given medication, but I still had symptoms and 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.
Years of under-eating, overtraining, too little sleep, and asking too much of my body had started to add up. It was more complex than that, but these were important pieces no doctor had ever discussed with me. Addressing them 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. Poor nutrition, too little sleep, high stress, being sedentary, and not having enough muscle add up over time. Eventually, the body says “enough.”
I wanted to work on the prevention side and help people take a more proactive role in their health.
I use an evidence-based approach, my education, and years of experience to help you get unstuck. I meet you where you’re at, and we layer in changes little by little.
You don’t need to become an expert in nutrition, training, metabolism, or hormones. That’s my job.
Your job is to communicate honestly, be open to learning and doing things differently, and put the plan into practice.
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.