Bonnie Tragakis and Claire Duckmanton are dynamic health coacheswho share a love for eating nourishing foods, finding balance intheir lives, and making peace with cooking for their finickyfamilies. With their passion for all things food, Claire and Bonnielaunched Food Becomes you – a venture to help people make their wayback into the kitchen in a practical way while guiding them throughthe minefield of mysterious food marketing and health messages wehear every day. Coming from very different viewpoints (Claire eatsmostly plants; Bonnie eats everything!), Bonnie and Claire give youa balanced approach to what many consider a difficult way ofeating.  This motivating program helps you reconnect withwholesome, minimally processed, real food and move away fromcalorie-counting, a dieting mentality, and the less-than-optimalfood choices widely available in the supermarkets.  Practicaltips, loads of recipe ideas and a firm grounding in eating forhealth are the cornerstone of their approach. With their combined knowledge, warm approach, and sense ofhumor, Bonnie and Claire share a passion to inspire you tochange your life through food!

Welcome to Food Becomes You! What startedas a project with me and Claire has blossomed into a full-blownpassion – we love to help people connect with real, whole,close-to-nature food, as well as identify the “stuff” that gets inthe way of eating these foods and truly nourishing ourselves. Mypath to this passion began with a lifelong obsession with food,starting with an eating disorder as a young person, and continuingwith disordered eating most of my life. When I finally made a trueconnection between the food I was choosing and how I was feeling, Iwas able to stabilize my eating and fall in love with food in a newway. No longer tied to restrictive eating habits and food-industryprescribed boxes and meals, I branched out to organic options,grass-fed meat and mouth-watering, made-from-scratch recipes. Thisnew-found love of food and my awakened awareness led me to theInstitute for Integrative Nutrition, Claire, and Food BecomesYou!The first thing people notice about me ismy English accent, even though I’ve lived in New England for almost20 years!  I have always loved food, so arriving in the Statesto boxed cake mixes, pasta with delightful packets of orange cheeseand the aroma and ease of Dunkin Donuts had me absolutely convincedthat my husband and I had made the right decision to move here.I loved it all… until I started putting on weight,experiencing mood swings, and feeling anxious too much of the time.I turned to Weight Watchers to help me lose pregnancy weight – andreturned to it time and again to re-lose the weight that just keptcoming back.  I had been a vegetarian on and off my entireadult life, but not a healthy one. I loved bread, cheese, eggs,quiche; everything that wasn’t green. One day I came across a vegancookbook and decided to work through the recipes. After eating moregreens and smoothies, I started feeling better; my mood swings andanxiety decreased and the weight came off…and stayed off! I decidedto attend the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, met Bonnie, andthe rest is Food Becomes You history!  My passion is to helppeople connect to an eating style and healthy lifestyle that is theright fit for them in a fun and realistic way.FindClaire and Bonnie at www.foodbecomesyou.orgor onFacebook at https://www.facebook.com/FoodBecomesYouLLC/You canemail them at [email protected]