Counseling
Tara has helped numerous people achieve their weight loss or performance goals through her emphasis on lasting behavior change. With each individual, she does an assessment of health status, past medical history, medication and supplement usage, weight history, past and current exercise habits, and current eating habits. Goal setting is a fundamental part of the process. Identifying motivations to reach the goals as well as barriers that may inhibit progress is a key step in the behavior change process.
Specialty Areas
Tara is not accepting new patients at this time.
Tara has joined Real Living Nutrition to offer online nutrition counseling. You can sign up for an 8 week weight loss program using a non-diet approach. Each week has a different focused topic with interactive feedback with Tara. To learn more go to Real Living Nutrition.com. Sign up for the Balance Program and choose Tara (code 3039) as your dietitian. Fill out the questionnaires and your first session will begin!
You can also find a dietitian in your area through the American Dietetic Association’s Website, “Find a Nutritional Professional”
If you are professional athlete or just a weekend warrior, how you fuel your body for your sport is vital to success in performance. Learn how to eat during training and competition to feel and perfom at your best. Antioxidant or resting metabolism testing can be added on for an additional charge.
How fast are you aging? Probably faster than you would like. Tara will look at how your current lifestyle affects the rate at which you age and give you practical ways to minimize the affects of aging. You learn how to delay aging from the inside of your body out! Tara will use cutting edge technology to find out what your body's defense is against aging using the Biophotonic Antioxidant Scanner. Also included in this consultation is recommendation for the optimal supplementation and skincare for reduce the signs of aging.
End the viscious dieting cycle and take control of your weight and health. Controlling weight is difficult, but with the right tools weight loss can be rewarding. Learn how to achieve lasting weight loss and reap the benefits of maintaining a healthy weight for the rest of your life. Tara's approach is simple to follow, but more importantly, it is practical. No crazy gimmiks or diets, just real food for your real life. Antioxidant or resting metabolism testing can be added on for an additional charge.
Do you wonder if you even HAVE a metabolism left? Years of dieting or sedentary lifestyles have resulted in a metabolism nightmare for a lot of people. If this sounds like you, there is help available! Learn how to get out of your slow burning life and get on the fast track to burning more calories. Tara will teach you how to burn more calories while you sleep! Included in this consulation is a test of your resting metabolism and calculation of your daily caloric needs. The resting metabolism test can be added on to any other consultation for an additional fee.
Many people are in an energy crisis. If you go through your day wondering where you can lay your head down for a quick siesta, this consultation is for you! Your "To Do" list is too long to waste time being unproductive. Learn how to eat, what to eat, and when to eat to maximize your energy. Antioxidant or resting metabolism testing can be added for an additional charge.
Do you know what your protection is against free radical damage that leads to disease and other signs of aging? Tara can measure your antioxidant status and provide you with a Body Defense Score using the cutting edge technology of the Pharmanex Biophotonic Scanner. You will learn how to improve your body's defense through the optimal intake of antioxidants and modifying other risky lifestyle factors. This testing can be added on to any other consultation for an additional fee.
You have no doubt been seeing ads and reading articles on dietary supplements and wonder which are good and which are a waste of money. Tara will help sift through the confusion by looking at your current health status and lifestyle habits to assess which supplements are best for you. Included in the discussion will be vitamins, minerals, herbals, omega-3's, antioxidants, enzymes, and more. If you are an athlete, sports supplementation will also be addressed. Included in this consultation is a test of our body's antioxidant status using the Pharmanex Biophotonic Scanner.
If you are thinking about becoming a vegetarian or already are following a vegetarian lifestyle, learning how to balance waht you eat is imporant to keep you healthy. Learn what to eat to ensure you are getting the proper nutrients. Tara will help you navigate the grocery aisles to find meat free alternatives. Antioxidant or resting metabolism testing can be added for a small fee.
