nutrition & lifestyle

overview
topics
procedures

Overview:

Have you just gotten a frightening diagnosis and don't want to begin a regimen of harmful drugs or painful surgery? You know it's time to make a major change in the way you take care of your body but you don't know where to begin. Or have you been overweight for a while and are now realizing that there must be a more effective and loving approach to achieving optimal body composition? I'm here to tell you there is another way through Nutrition and Lifestyle Coaching, where the focus is healing YOU as a whole person, not fighting with your symptoms of disease. I teach you how to take your power back to be an active participant in your healing and work with your healthcare providers to get the results you want.

There is a staggering amount of information about nutrition and diets available, each method claiming to be the answer to permanent weight loss and optimal health. But most diets are commercially driven and the information available is either vague or conflicts depending on the source, which makes it hard for anyone to know what nutritional plan is ideal for his or her body. What works for one person may not work for another, and may actually make a third person worse. According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, author of "Take Control of Your Health," the United States currently spends nearly $2 trillion a year in health care and 2 out of every 3 Americans are overweight. Clearly, the "experts" have dropped the ball shown by the fact that by and large our country is very sick and unhealthy!

I can help you quickly cut through the nonsense and deliver the information and techniques you need to heal. As a certified metabolic typing advisor I can determine your specific metabolic type so that you will know exactly the ratios and types of protein, carbohydrates and fats you need to eat to bring your body back into balance.

Different metabolic types need different nutrients to keep them in balance. When you eat right for your metabolic type you will:

Have good physical energy all day
Achieve and maintain a healthy body weight and composition
Have normal hunger and appetite
Eliminate cravings for junkfood
Experience emotional stability and good mental focus
Watch the diseases you have suffered with become non-existent or lessen in severity.

If you are not following the appropriate diet for your metabolism you are wasting both your money and your time. Learn how to maximize your efforts at the gym and your performance in your life by feeding yourself the right way for your body.

Each metabolic type requires different nutrients, and the same nutrient that is beneficial for one type can cause a harmful reaction in another type. For example, on the list of side effects for a given drug or vitamin you might see “may cause lowered blood pressure or may cause elevated blood pressure”. This is because different metabolic types react differently to the same chemical compound. Ingesting the wrong nutrient(s) robs energy from your body, energy you could be using for more productive endeavors.
Thus, in addition to your diet, I will recommend whole food-based (not synthetic) supplements that are formulated for your specific metabolic type.

The sad truth is that due to the state of our environment and specifically our soils, the nutrient content of even organic food is dramatically less than it used to be. Supplementation with additional nutrients is necessary. The Ultra Life Inc. supplements that I will incorporate into your program are, like your diet, customized to your specific metabolic type.

Topics:

With lifestyle coaching, I address important topics such as:

Stress
Exercise
Sleep and circadian rhythms
Toxins in the home and office
Cleanses
Food preparation techniques
Food shopping tours and how to select high-quality organic food
Reduction of electromagnetic stress
Meditation/relaxation techniques
Fungal and parasite infections
Food and chemical addictions
Adrenal fatigue and low thyroid
The importance of proper breathing
Complementary health therapies such as acupuncture, chiropractic, massage.

There may be subtle or gross imbalances in your lifestyle which are silently sabotaging your efforts to get in shape, lose weight or be free of pain or fatigue. I give all my clients a thorough assessment so that I may coach them through whatever is standing in the way of optimal health.

Long distance nutrition and lifestyle consulting are also available. Call to find out about how you can use this program wherever you are.

Procedures:

The Nutrition and Lifestyle Coaching (NLC) program is sold in packages of four-, six- or eight-week programs. The changes that you will make on this program are so profound that it is important to implement them over an extended period of time. You will begin with the metabolic typing test, which is an online test that takes about an hour to complete. The results will tell us exactly what foods are appropriate for your metabolism, and they give us an accurate starting point for the ratios of protein to carbohydrates to fats that you should consume.

You may then download from this website the written assessments including: the 10-day Diet, Exercise and Sleep Diary, the Lifestyle Questionnaire; the Health and Lifestyle Awareness Questionnaire, the Health Appraisal Questionnaire, and the Health History form. The assessment process may seem long, but it is vital in helping me determine the best way that I can serve you.

Once I have all of your online and written assessments, and your payment in full, I will process them and we will schedule a time for your initial one-hour consultation. During our first consultation I will give you a comprehensive metabolic typing report, and I will guide you through it and answer any questions or concerns you may have. All subsequent follow-up appointments are an hour long as well. Included in the price of the program is unlimited e-mail and text message access to me.

rate card

(Rates valid through 2009)

4 week program = $795
6 week program = $1,095
8 week program = $1,395
Couples pricing is available upon request

new clients!

All new clients are entitled to a complimentary 30 minutes of uninterrupted time on the phone with me to discuss any related topic regarding health, fitness, nutrition, stress, digestion, sleep, metabolic typing, holistic healing, metaphysical medicine or anything else. You must schedule this consult one week in advance. Please be prepared for your consultation—I want you to get the most value you can out of it. Please submit your specific concerns and questions to me by email at jackie@theorganicexperiencenyc.com at least 48 hours in advance of your consultation.