Nutrition Coaching is a process of structured conversations and learning activities aimed at helping you create a new way of eating that you can sustain and enjoy for always . . .
Within the framework of healthful living - a balance of nutrition, exercise, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health - you choose the goals you want to achieve and your coach is there to support you.
Coaching is not limited to weight management or food choices. Coaching focuses on the areas that will be the most beneficial to you and your family: finding ways to expand the foods your children eat, implementing a family meal time, improve your sport performance. The topics for coaching to enhance personal or family health are endless.
Coaching is the most flexible type of support for working toward healthful living. You are in charge. As your coach, Cindy will provide information, support, and encouragement on your journey. Cindy will also guide you in an understanding and confidential way, as we build your personal plan and keep you focused on your goals, so that you can achieve and enjoy lasting results.
Through this unique coaching process, you will:
- assess your eating habits and your lifestyle
- build a personalized plan
- acquire skills and tools to cope with the challenges of changing habits
- develop your nutrition savvy
My mission is to provide accurate nutrition information and support to clients, thus helping promote long term health and wellness.
As a dietitian, I will guide you in your food choices, meal plans and eating pattern. The nutrition and health habits you've established did not happen overnight and neither does healthier change would happen overnight! I pride myself on my philosophy that I provide a REALISTIC approach to health improvement by CARING about my clients.
Cindy obtained her Bachelor of Nutritional Science with a major in Dietetics from McGill University in Montreal.
She did one year of dietetics in hospitals and community setting where she worked mainly with eating disorders and weight management patients.
Cindy has worked as a nutrition counsellor for underprivileged pregnant and breastfeeding women at the Montreal Diet dispensary and at the Women's Clinic of Harborview Medical Center
Cindy is also currently working at the Providence St Peter Hospital in Olympia, consulting acutely ill patient. Cindy is also training for the San Diego Rock'n'Roll Marathon. She already completed three marathons and two Olympic distance triathlon. Because of this involvement, she developed skills in sport nutrition and she is helping her peers choosing the right food to improve their performance.
As a registered dietitian, Cindy is able to provide Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) for the nutritional management of numerous medical conditions such as pregnancy (including normal pregnancy, gestational diabetes, insufficient or excessive weight gain), weight management and eating disorders. Many health insurance companies will cover the cost of MNT with a medical diagnosis and a referral from one's primary care physician.