My goal is to help you to start having a better connection with your body. This is vital because your body needs to last for the rest of your life, and no one knows it better than you. There is no one size fits all when it comes to diet and nutrition.

I want to remind you that I did not have a good connection with my body until I met my personal trainer at twenty-six years old. Our training sessions were fun and intense, and because I admired my trainer, I listened and held on to every word she ever said to me. To me, our time together was more than just moving my body and doing the exercises she told me to do. I wanted so badly to create a healthier lifestyle, which meant understanding what my body needed.

My first rule of thumb when starting to connect with your body is that you should start eating more slowly, and paying attention to hunger cues like when you are overly full or satisfied. This is known as eating until you are 80 percent full. This sounds easy, right? It’s not. Not many people know their hunger cues; many of my clients are blown away by this exercise because they don’t realize how disconnected they are from their body.