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I’m Cathy
I’ll teach you a macro-based approach to eating that will speed up your metabolism, reduce your appetite, and help you burn excess fat while maintaining muscle mass.
I USE AN INTEGRATIVE NUTRITION COACHING APPROACH THATS MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE
What works for one person may not work for another. Instead of being handed a prepackaged meal plan, a restrictive diet, or a list of dos and don’ts you can’t stick with, you’ll be encouraged to clarify, acknowledge, and tap into your internal motivation to change the way you eat. We’ll start by assessing what’s currently working and areas where improvements can be made.
I’ll help you navigate nutrition and health information, weeding out what doesn’t make sense for you, while focusing on evidence-based, scientifically sound information you can actually use to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
Together, we’ll identify obstacles to change and create strategies to move forward toward your goals. I’ll support you by tracking your progress and holding you accountable for your commitments. I’ll teach you skills and strategies you can use to immediately begin having lasting results.
With my background in both chemistry and dietetics, I’ll provide you with reliable resources about nutrition and healthy behavior changes. This will help you cut through the noise, skip the fads, ignore the media hysteria, and dismiss the conflicting information found online—so you can focus on the basics of enjoying good food and good health.
MY STORY
I’m a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach. I’m a former chemist who loves eating, cooking, and baking.
I went back to college later in life to begin a new career in nutrition, driven by my desire to help others embrace the joy of feeding themselves and their families nutritious meals they can look forward to sharing.
Along the way, I discovered that I’m really good at helping people achieve a healthy weight, improve their health, and keep their sanity in the process!
It’s been an honor and a pleasure to work with hundreds of kids, teens, and adults as they reached a healthy weight, improved their health markers, discovered the joy of eating wholesome foods, and built the confidence to make lasting positive changes to their health and wellbeing.
I look forward to working with you!
WHAT IS INTEGRATIVE NUTRITION COACHING?
Integrative Nutrition Coaching is an approach that puts you at the center and addresses the full range of physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and environmental influences affecting your decisions about what and how you eat.
You are coached through developing goals and strategies which take into consideration your unique conditions, needs, and circumstances.
My coaching effectively motivates and supports health behavior change through a structured partnership between you and myself. I am like a “personal trainer” except the focus will be on your whole self, not just your weight.
I will help you develop and realize your optimal health vision through inquiry, personal discovery, and accountability.
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FUN FACTS
I BET YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT ME:
- I live just 5 miles from downtown Raleigh, NC, at Lake Johnson. This is my backyard (well, kind of – it’s a city park).
- I was nearly 50 before I even heard the word “dietitian.” It was in Tel Aviv, Israel, where I took a cooking class from cookbook author and dietitian Orly Zviv.
- I rarely buy bread. I make sourdough bread, and I’m so spoiled by it that I can’t bring myself to pay for bread that isn’t as good.
- I’m a Gen Xer. I had a necklace with a house key, drank from the hose, ran around unmonitored, and played with Jarts…all of the things.
- And yes, I also find myself standing in front of the open refrigerator, wondering why I’m there!
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
REGISTERED DIETITIAN NUTRITIONIST (RDN), Commission on Dietetic Registration/Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED HEALTH & WELLNESS COACH (NBC-HWC)
DUKE INTEGRATIVE HEALTH COACH PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, Foundations and Certification Classes, Certified by Duke Integrative Medicine
CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENT WEIGHT MANAGEMENT Certificate of Training, Commission on Dietetic Registration/Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
OBESITY INTERVENTIONS FOR ADULTS Certificate of Training, Commission on Dietetic Registration/Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
B.S. in CHEMISTRY, North Carolina State University
B.S. in FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES / FOODS and NUTRITION, (ACEND accredited DPD program), North Carolina Central University
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