Conscious Nutrition: Changing Your Diet to Power Your Life
“The quality of our food determines in large part the quality of our lives.”
“Food is man’s only truly reliable medicine and foods do cure, just the same as wrong foods and drinks may kill us.”
Do you need to lose weight, even a LOT of weight?
Do you find yourself skipping meals and then becoming ravenously hungry?
Are you suffering with inflammation, fatigue, hormonal issues, pain?
Is food taking the place of serenity in your life?
Than you have come to the right place
my friend!
My name is Tanya Lewis and not only do I love food, I love knowing that the delicious food we eat is also what creates our health.
My goal is to help you find the foods, habits and mindset that creates your healthiest self. You know that feeling when you look great, you feel great and you walk out your door feeling great!
Conscious Nutrition is where we develop an understanding of the place of food and eating in our daily lives. This is an essential therapy for anyone with chronic digestive issues, food cravings, loss of appetite and weight challenges.
I want to provide you with a complete understanding of how food affects your health, your daily symptoms, even your emotional experiences.
You will walk away with guidance, tips, support and knowledge to create the change that will bring you power in your life, the power to feel great, to achieve your goals and to heal your body.
So often we turn to pain killers, antacids, Pepto-Bismal or Miralax because our digestion is so chronically compromised. Whether we are talking about the stomach, the small intestines or the colon, we are talking about how our body is handling the food we eat.
This is because we have failed to understand the essence of “feeding”. We may eat, but that doesn’t mean we are feeding ourselves. All of us understand that a donut isn’t the healthiest option, but we aren’t eating it for its nutritional value. We are eating it because we feel we deserve a treat, because we are in a rush and need something in our stomach, because we are dealing with grief, because it’s too delicious to pass up! The feelings and emotions that surround our food choices are often what drives our symptoms as well.
The Science of Your Evaluation
Depending on your needs, I may utilize various tests to evaluate your digestive strength, your mineral needs and your immunity responses.
The Calcium Cuff Test - calcium is one of the most essential minerals we require. So many people may have perfectly normal blood calcium levels, but the story can be very different in the tissues themselves. This easy blood pressure test shows us if there is deficiency in the body tissues.
Salivary pH Test - pH can influence nutrient absorption, digestive efficiency and overall metabolic function. We may not even realize how important our pH is. If you have a very acidic salivary pH, you are deficient in essential fatty acids which are the building blocks for Vitamin D, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and cortisol. Too much inflammation? Foggy brain? This might be why!
The Zinc Test - zinc is not just essential to our immunity, it is a determinant for stomach acid. Living with GERD? Can’t make it through the night without Pepcid? Simply increasing your zinc may make all the difference.
Trace Mineral Hair Analysis
This incredible scientific resource has been used by numerous agencies and offices to determine the levels of stored minerals and heavy metal levels in the human body.
I love this test because it really makes it clear what you are missing and what you have too much of in your daily diet. I will often recommend this to get a baseline of why you may have uncomfortable and chronic symptoms and why your diet may be failing you!
My Process of the Nutritional Evaluation
Conscious Nutrition is designed around evaluating your current daily diet and helping you make the changes to give you the very best health that food can provide.
To this end, we discuss what you love and what you hate, what you crave and what you have to force down. We will compare nutritional needs with your health history and discover the physical and emotional traps that keep you from feeling fabulous.
We may utilize some testing such as Trace Mineral Hair Analysis to give us more information about your health. But we will definitely work together to create tools, plans, shopping lists and ideas to match your nutritional needs with your lifestyle and time constraints.
The most important thing to realize is how much your food choices are why you are tired, why your hair is thinning, why your muscles and joints ache, even why you feel anxious. But none of this is your body sabotaging you, it is your body responding to deficiencies, imbalances and coping mechanisms that have been established for a long time.
Each appointment will review and support positive change, gradually providing you with a mindfulness about how your body handles food, why it craves certain foods and how to make healthier choices for what you need every day.
You can look forward to quick and easy recipes to make healthy food easy at home.
How and why your body gains or loses weight.
Where does intermittent fasting fit in.
Finding the links between the food you eat and your decision-making, your mood and your memory.
The idea of creating a journal of how you react to your food choices and create a food list of incompatible foods with your digestive system and your thoughts/feelings.
Slowly integrating new foods and more nutritional options into your daily diet.
Exploring different eating plans and their methods.
Conscious Eating Appointments with Tanya
Initial Appointment - up to 60 minutes $95.00
Return Appointment - 30 minutes $75.00
Conscious Weight Loss In Person/Remote Support Session - 30 minutes $75.00
Conscious Weight Loss 30 days of Email Support - $150.00
