I’ve always been the one who brings home the stray
When I was a little girl, if there was an injured animal within a mile of our house, I found it. I’d bring it home, patch it up, and keep it until it could manage on its own. My mother was extremely patient.
That instinct never went anywhere. It just ran out of animals and moved on to people.
Then it got personal
In my late teens and early twenties, I was living a life that was quietly wrecking my body. By the time I decided to turn it around, I was forty pounds overweight and depressed, and I had no idea where to start.
I started with boxing. It gave me somewhere to put all of it. I trained, I fought a couple of amateur bouts, and by the time I walked away from the ring I was running, lean, and in genuinely good shape.
And something was still off.
The gut issues I’d had since my early twenties hadn’t gone anywhere. If anything they were getting louder. Then my thirties and forties arrived, and hormonal changes started doing things to my body I had no reference point for. On paper I was doing everything right. In my body, I wasn’t.
The part where I stopped waiting
For years I brought my symptoms to appointments and came away with “take this,” “just do this,” or some version of “everything looks fine.” Rarely an explanation. Often no improvement. I didn’t want another quick answer — I wanted to understand why I felt the way I did and what my body was trying to tell me.
And nobody teaches you this. Not in school, not anywhere. We live inside a culture where the unhealthy choice is the cheap one, the fast one, and the one on every corner — and then we act surprised when it wins.
I’ve had a rebellious streak since I was a teenager, and this is where it finally came in useful. I refused to accept feeling unwell as normal. Eventually I said enough is enough, and went and did the work myself — studying, certifying, testing, changing one variable at a time and tracking what my body actually did in response.
In my early forties I turned that attention to gut health and cellular health. That was the shift. I dropped to the best weight I’ve ever been, and I felt better in my forties than I had in my twenties.
Then friends started asking what I was doing. So I showed them. It worked for them too. That’s how Whole Body By Design started.
Finding the time, when there wasn’t any
Getting healthy didn’t happen because life got easier. It happened because I built a schedule around it.
There was a stretch when my alarm went off at 4am so I could get my workout in before anyone else was up. I ran on my lunch breaks. Then it was dinner, baths and bedtime, all by myself, before I sat down at the dining room table to do my own schoolwork for my bachelor’s degree.
It was hard. Some days it was really hard. But it taught me that your health doesn’t need more time than you have. It needs a plan that fits the time you’ve got. That’s a big part of what I do now: helping you build a routine that works with your real life, so your health stops landing at the bottom of the list.
For men and women, late 20s into your 60s
I coach men and women from their late twenties into their sixties. Some want to get fit for the first time. Some want to get strong again after kids. Some want to protect their health as they get older. For a lot of men, it’s the belly that won’t budge even though they still train. The years change, and the plan changes with them, but the goal is the same: a fitter body, a stronger mind, and habits that protect you for life.
I’ve lived the midlife side of this myself, so I understand it from the inside. But the habits that protect you at fifty are built at thirty, and it’s never too early, or too late, to start.
Nobody’s health happens in isolation, either. When one person changes how they eat and live, the whole household feels it, and the changes stick far better when everyone is pulling in the same direction. So I coach couples and family members side by side, and I build plans that work around the family table, kids included.
Why pay for pieces?
People pay a personal trainer for workouts and a subscription for diet plans. Each one covers a piece, and when you stop paying, the results usually stop too. I’d rather you pay once for something you keep: training, nutrition, mindset and daily habits in one plan, at one monthly price, with me teaching you how and why it all works. That’s a lifelong habit, not a rental.
Walk while you can. Live while you can. Run while you can. Move while you can.
One day you won’t have that choice. Until then, it’s yours.
Your body is your gift, so don’t forget what you have been given.
How I actually work
No default diet plans. Ever. I don’t have a program I hand out and hope your body cooperates with. I build around your body, your history, your schedule and your kitchen — because a plan you can’t live inside isn’t a plan, it’s a countdown.
Your labs are part of the conversation. If you have recent bloodwork, we go through it together and I use it to shape where your nutrition and training should focus. I don’t diagnose from it, and anything that belongs in front of a physician goes in front of a physician.
Mindset is half the work. Making daily lifestyle changes takes more than just doing things differently. It takes a shift in how you think about your health, and that shift is harder than any workout. I’m there to give you tips and guidance to reshape how you think about food, movement and yourself. I do it through our check-ins: asking questions regularly, listening to where you are, and digging into the challenges that are holding your progress back.
You learn as we go. My background is in education before it was ever in nutrition, and it shows. I’m not interested in you depending on me. I want you reading your own body accurately enough that you don’t need to ask me what it’s telling you.
Your first month
Week one is me getting to know you. We track what you eat, how you sleep, and how you actually live — not the tidied-up version.
Week two you start moving. You get your first set of goals and a routine built to fit you.
Every week after that we track, we look at what your body did, and we adjust. And I explain the reasoning behind every change, so you’re building habits you can carry for the next forty years instead of borrowing mine for twelve weeks.
What I’ll ask of you
Honesty, and a real willingness to change something. That’s it — but I mean both.
If you’re not ready, I’m not the right person, and I’ll tell you that on our first call rather than take your money and watch it go nowhere. You have to want this.
Changing habits you’ve had for thirty years is not easy. It may be one of the hardest things you ever do, and that is exactly the point — it takes real strength to change your mind, your kitchen, your routine, and your idea of what you’re capable of.
Strong is not the new skinny. Hard is the new strong.
You are capable of doing more than you believe you can do.
What I’ll give you back is someone who won’t go easy on you, because I’ve watched too many people settle at a fraction of what they’re capable of.
What I am, and what I’m not
I hold a Master’s in Education and a certificate in Functional Nutrition Counseling, with more than twenty years of training — my own and other people’s — behind me.
I am not a physician. I do not diagnose or treat disease. My job is to educate you and to help you build realistic habits that support your health, your independence, and how long you stay capable. I work alongside your medical care, on the things that shape how you feel every day: what you eat, how you move, how you recover, and the habits underneath all three.
Done consistently, that is what keeps people feeling better, moving better, and staying capable for longer. It also makes you a far better participant in your own care — you walk into appointments able to describe what is actually happening in your body instead of hoping someone guesses.
Let’s talk
Start with a free 30-minute call. Tell me what’s going on and I’ll tell you honestly what I think is driving it — and whether I’m the right person to help.
I help you build a plan. I help you build lasting habits. I help you build your health back.