About Me

About me:

My name is Jenna, and I am married with 2 young kids. After years of being the nutrition guru for my family and friends, I decided to take the plunge and start my own coaching business. 

For most women, losing weight is about more than just a number on the scale. We want to feel good in our clothes. We want to go to the pool and water parks and not feel self-conscious about wearing a bathing suit. There is an overwhelming sense of shame and hopelessness that most women get after having kids. This feeling tends to force us into thinking, “Well, this is just what my body looks like now.” 

What if I told you, it doesn’t have to be? Our bodies are capable of amazing things, the most amazing of all is the ability to change and adapt.

My Story:

When I was a sophomore in high school, I was overweight and disgusted with myself, so I decided to do something about it. I was completely uneducated with no guidance, but I knew that cardio burned many calories, so that’s what I did. This turned into eating a very low-calorie diet and running every day. I joined a gym just so I could use the cardio equipment. I didn’t know it back then, but I was in the depths of an eating disorder. I was 6’ 2” at 150 pounds, my hair was thinning, I had no muscle mass, and my metabolism had bottomed out. 

After starting college, I gained the “freshman 15” and then some. Thanks to my slow metabolism, I couldn’t eat anything without gaining weight. I was depressed, stressed out, and at an all-time low. It was around this time that I met my husband at the gym. He started coaching me on the importance of building muscle and eating protein, which was everything I had been lacking. I credit him with saving me. I started building muscle, speeding up my metabolism, and started to feel better about the person I saw in the mirror. 

This is when I decided to learn everything there was to know about nutrition and fitness. I quickly learned that there is a lot of misinformation out there, and it’s hard to decipher facts from fiction. Carbs are bad, Keto is the best diet, everyone should be vegan, intermittent fasting is best, artificial sweeteners cause cancer; no wonder people have a hard time finding a place to start. 

We rely on scientific studies, but a lot are poorly conducted and don’t control for all variables. Also, they tend to make incorrect correlations. The media loves to report on it, though, because it’s click-worthy. For example, fasting is not some magical process that speeds up your metabolism and makes you lose weight. The reason it works for some people is because you are restricting your eating window, which causes you to consume fewer calories than normal. It is not superior to a normal calorie-restriction diet, and reliable studies have shown this. But your Instagram influencers want to convince you otherwise. I’m here to cut through the B.S of it all. 

There are a lot of psychological factors when it comes to nutrition and weight loss. It would be easy to tell everyone to only drink water, never eat junk food, work out 5 days a week, and get 8 hours of sleep every night. If it were that easy, over half of Americans wouldn’t be obese. I’m here to help you find a healthier way of eating in the hopes that you will pass it on to your family and break the cycle because we all deserve to have a long and happy life.