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 Nutrition
Counseling & Weight Loss Services
Maria Faires, RD will guide you in eliminating fad diets by
providing scientifically backed strategies that are both realistic
and convenient. She will help you develop an integrated strategy
to maximize your nutrition.
Weight Management for Adults, Children
and Adolescents
Many people struggle with weight control. Maria’s focus is on
enjoyable, healthy eating, that you can really live with.
Anyone can lose weight by using a program based on fads or prepackaged
food, but most people regain the lost weight soon after. Maria’s
programs are based on an understanding of how the body really
works. She focuses on helping you understand your hunger, kicking
up your metabolism via exercise, choosing satisfying
meals, and avoiding emotional eating. Her goals are to help
you improve your health, body-image, and sense of well
being.
No Fad Diets!
Sure, you can lose weight rapidly with fad diets. Have you ever
considered what you're really losing? You're mostly losing your
lean tissue (muscle) and water, which is the tragedy of these
types of programs. Muscle is essential since in addition to
making your body work more efficiently, muscle also gets the
credit for creating shape and beauty. Maria has endeavored
to develop a practice that will help people work toward achieving
a healthy weight, not only in the short term, but most
importantly to achieve long term weight maintenance.
Weight loss is not just a simple matter of restricting
calories, it involves a total lifestyle change focusing on regular
exercise, portion control, and the ability to continually to
learn to change patterns of behavior that have led to weight
gain so that you can look towards a permanent loss of weight,
and not engage in what is referred to as "yoyo dieting". Maria
works towards helping her clients develop healthy eating habits,
begin an exercise program, and help motivate them to continue
lifelong change.
Losing weight is a difficult process for a lot of people.
Reasons for the difficulty involve changing of lifetime habits
or patterns of eating, learning to lose weight, and eating healthfully
even during adverse life events. Most people tend to overeat
because of emotions, both good and bad. It is with this understanding
that she provides one on one counseling to help overcome and
change negative habits.
Maria stays abreast of all current information concerning
weight management and methods of exercise by attending regular
conferences. These provide her with state of the art knowledge,
delivered by top professors of Nutrition, Kinesiology,
Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Medicine, and Alternative Medicine
from major Universities. Her plans are based on solid research,
published in peer-reviewed journals.
Learn how to eat healthy on the run; learn how to cook tasty
and healthy meals; and, learn how to shop in the super market.
A healthy, nutritionally balanced eating plan will give you
the energy your busy life demands and put more life in your
years.
Healthy Nutrition Plans for Athletes,
Fitness and Vegetarians
For wellness and prevention, healthy eating plans will
keep your energy level high and keep you meeting your needs.
You can get a complete in-depth nutrition assessment or a nutrition
check-up just to be sure that your diet is meeting your nutritional
and lifestyle needs.
Medical Nutrition Therapy
Many medical conditions require changes in your diet. Maria
can help you understand your special diet and how to live with
it, and help you reduce medical complications.
- Control of cholesterol
or triglycerides: Learn
about foods that help to lower cholesterol,
and lower your risk of heart disease.
- Hypertension: Find out how you can help
reduce your blood pressure
with or without medication.
- Diabetes: Learn about
the diet and exercise changes you can make
to reduce your dependence on medication
for Type 2 diabetes.
- Metabolic syndrome: Metabolic syndrome
is a combination of abdominal obesity, elevated
triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, and/or
high blood pressure. It is associated with
increased risks for developing cardiovascular
disease and type 2 diabetes. It can be reversed
through diet and other lifestyle changes.
- Pediatric, adolescent nutrition:
Programs for weight control or eating for
sports performance.
- Other Medical Conditions: support for
managing medical conditions such as Crohn's
disease, celiac disease, ulcerative colitis.
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Specialized Services
- Body Fat Testing
- Phone Consultations
- On-Line Consultations
- Lectures, Seminars, Group Classes
- Pantry Make Over -- redo the cupboards and the refrigerator
with healthy foods.
- Supermarket Tours --Learn what to look for in the grocery
store to make it easy to eat fast and healthfully.
Scheduling Nutrition Consults
Nutrition consults give you the information you need. Nutrition
is an essential part of overall health and fitness. Knowing
about nutrition isn't always enough: you have to learn how to
apply it to your life and how to change your eating patterns.
Nutrition consults can be scheduled at my studio or in your
home. Maria suggests signing up for a minimum of four sessions
for yourself, and six sessions if you have a family including
children.
Fees
Please
contact Maria Faires, RD for information on the services
and fees that meet your needs.
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