Dietary
Foundations

Weather you’re looking to adjust your diet for sustainable weight control, or optimize your nutrition around weight loss medications, we need to strengthen your diet foundations.

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 and Balance

2. Eating Timing and Portions

3. Food Choices, Meal Planning and Preparation

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

Strengthening these core diet pieces is essential to get a handle on weight longterm, even with medications.

Meanwhile, we identify and correct nutrient gaps.

Whenever you eat less, you run the risk of missing out on essential nutrients.

In order to maximize nutrition on fewer calories, we will:

• develop a protein-forward dietary strategy to help preserve lean tissue during weight loss

• target the foods and supplements that restore the suboptimal nutrients in your usual diet

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 layer in dietary tools, one at a time, so you can find the minimum necessary effort that you can realistically live with, without losing yourself in the process.

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