Questions I get every week, answered plainly.

There is no single answer, and anyone who gives you one without asking about your life is guessing. What I can tell you is the shape of it: most meals do better with a protein source, a fiber source and something you actually want to eat. Start there, and we work out the specifics together in an appointment.

The reason this question is so hard to answer on the internet is that the answer depends on your schedule, your budget, what you can cook, who else you're feeding and what you have already tried and hated.

No. Those foods carry a lot of the fiber in a normal diet, and they are usually the first thing a plan removes and the first thing a person misses. We work on the version, the portion and what sits next to them on the plate — not on removing them.

A plate of rice and beans with a protein source and something green next to it is a good meal. It does not need to be replaced with cauliflower to become one.

This is the question I get most often right now, and the honest answer is that the major nutrition and cardiology bodies do not consider ordinary seed oils harmful in a normal diet. If you prefer olive oil, use olive oil. The oil in your pan is not what is standing between you and feeling better.

What is worth noticing is where these oils usually turn up — in food that is fried, packaged and easy to eat a great deal of. That is a conversation about the food, not about the oil, and it is a much more useful one.

No. Some people naturally eat within a narrower window and feel fine; others get to the afternoon starving and eat everything in sight. Restricting the clock is another form of subtraction, and it is not the tool I reach for.

If your eating pattern already works for you, we keep it and build inside it. If you're skipping meals because you're busy and then struggling at night, that is usually the thing worth fixing first.

No food on its own is good or bad. A food can be a poor fit for a particular goal, a particular meal or a particular medical situation, and that is a different sentence with different consequences. Moral labels make people hide what they ate, and I cannot help with what I do not know about.

Yes. Dessert is food, not a moral event, and a plan that treats it as a failure is a plan you will abandon. We find a way for it to be part of a balanced week rather than the thing you resist all day and then eat standing up at eleven at night.

I can write one, and sometimes seeing a week laid out helps. But a document is not the work. Most people already own a meal plan they never followed, because it was written for somebody with a different schedule and a different family. What we build is structure you can repeat: templates, swaps and additions you adapt yourself.

Weight is something many of the people I work with want to change, and it is a legitimate thing to want. What I can offer is evidence-based nutrition counseling and a plan built around adding fiber and protein to food you already eat. What I will not do is promise you a number or a timeframe — nobody can honestly do that, and the promise is how the last plan lost your trust.

I also won't tell you that wanting to lose weight is the problem. That is the other extreme, and it leaves a lot of women with nowhere to go.

Mostly listening. We go through how you eat now, what your week actually looks like, what you have already tried and what you are not willing to give up. Then we build your first Add List: three specific additions in meals you already eat, with the reasoning behind each one.

It depends on what you are working on. Some people want a check-in every couple of weeks at the start and then monthly; others need one appointment now and one in eight weeks. We decide together, and we can change it.

Honesty about how you eat, and a willingness to try three small things and report back. That is genuinely it. You do not need to arrive having fixed anything first.

Yes, and it is a growing part of my practice — I am a recent mother myself. The framing is energy, structure and food that survives a day with no time and no sleep. It is not about a timeline for your body, and I will not set one.

Yes, all of them, by video. Eligibility for one-to-one counseling depends on the state you are physically located in during our sessions, because dietetic licensure is granted state by state. We confirm that with you before a first appointment is scheduled.

Fees are confirmed with you in writing before anything is scheduled, along with what the appointment includes and how follow-up works. Ask in your request and you'll have the answer before you commit to a time.

The request form on this site is a general enquiry form, not a patient portal, so please don't send medical details or diagnoses through it — a name, an email address and a sentence about what you'd like help with is all it asks for. Clinical information belongs in the appointment itself.

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