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Do you want to get rid of your diabetes, hypertension or heart disease? Did your doctor advise you to lose weight but left you to figure out how? Do you want to go vegan but wonder if it’s all too hard?
If you’re ready to drop those extra pounds, transition to a cruelty-free diet, or just want to feel better, David’s science-based approach can help you achieve the results you are looking for.
Finding tasty replacements for your favorite animal-based foods, learning how to adopt healthy eating patterns and identifying triggers that make you crave unhealthy foods can be challenging, which is why you need a qualified expert to help you make the change.
As a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with a Masters of Science in Nutrition, David stays up to date with the latest scientific literature to know what works.
Plant-Based Weight Loss
David is an expert in vegan diets and offers personalized plant-based nutrition counseling for weight management. Backed by scientific qualifications, David will work with you to develop a customized meal plan that fits your food preferences and lifestyle in order to lose weight. Forget the fads, David recommends a slow and steady approach to plant-based weight loss so that it can be sustained for life. His evidence-based practice will ensure you transition to an effective, long-term plant-based diet.
Using Nutrition to Manage Chronic Disease
Good nutrition is crucial to preventing and managing a range of serious health problems and chronic conditions including obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Type 2 diabetes and heart disease are almost entirely diet-related, David’s personalized meal plan can have a transformative impact on the health of clients suffering from chronic disease and allow them to live longer and happier lives.
Going Vegan for Good Health and Cruelty-Free Eating
Whether you’re trying to lose weight, manage chronic illness, adopt a cruelty-free diet or just want a healthier lifestyle, David will develop a unique nutrition plan to suit you. He understands that each client has different needs and circumstances and provides individualized counseling, food coaching and customized solutions to deliver results. He can create you a meal plan including simple and enticing recipes and a shopping list to make it quick and easy to transition to your new, healthier way of life. David will help you to identify problem areas and develop effective strategies to achieve your desired outcome.
Nutrition Counseling
Nutrition counseling is ideal for setting you up for success on your journey to a more healthful diet. David’s accredited approach to nutrition counseling helps clients to set achievable and sustainable dietary goals that deliver results for life. Your first full consultation will assess your overall health and eating patterns and identify the best approach for you to deliver long-term results. Counseling is available at clients' homes (Northern NJ), via Skype or telephone. Northern NJ clients can also take advantage of personalized supermarket shopping sessions to learn tricks and tips to replace animal products with healthy and sustainable plant-based alternatives. These sessions will help you learn to shop for healthy food, cut through confusing food labelling and recognise so-called health foods that aren’t actually good for you.
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What you will receive on your first visit
At your first session David will assess your lifestyle, diet, nutritional status and health goals to lay the framework to develop your personalized eating program. It includes a review of your medical history and a discussion about what you are hoping to achieve through dietary change. It looks at your current weight and past diet history as well as your food preferences. The findings are used to create your customized seven-day meal plan tailored around your preferred foods. It includes all meals and snacks for the week along with a breakdown of calories, carbohydrate and fat content. The handy menu planner comes complete with recipes and a shopping list.
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What you will receive on your follow up session
At your next visit we will develop targeted strategies to help you achieve your healthy eating goals and stick with them. David’s innovative motivational approach will help you to “own” your healthier future and inspire you to strive to success. Together we will dig deep into your problem areas and develop effective strategies to overcome them.
Topics may include:
- How to get all your nutrients on a plant-based diet
- Dealing with cravings
- Recognizing satiety (when you are full)
- Foods for lowering cholesterol
- Tasty and convenient alternatives to animal-based foods
- Staying on track while on vacation or traveling
- Mindful eating
- Goal tracking