Live Free, Laugh Hard Fitness
Fitness and Motivational Consulting by Dr. Iina Ester Antikainen
New Orleans, LA
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Nutrition Intervention
Nutrition intervention without the other lifestyle change components is appropriate for those people who are already regularly physically active but have trouble losing weight and for those seeking to help reverse lifestyle related illnesses linked to nutrition, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol among others. The nutrition interventions are designed personally based on each clients likes, dislikes, and considering their lifestyle.
Dr. Ester's nutrition interventions are based on the leading scientific evidence on healthy eating and it complies with the recommendations of major health organizations, inlcuding the World Health Organization, American Heart Association, & American Cancer Society. Her nutrition program is not a fad diet or a body building based diet but rather focuses on balancing caloric intake and macronutrients to a healthy level and then examining any possible micronutrient deficiencies. She does not prescribe meal replacements or supplements but rather focuses on natural, whole foods based eating pattern.
Additionally, her nutrition intervention is based on a baby-steps approach to change . You will not be asked to change your lifestyle overnight, unless you feel ready for it. You are in control of which foods to remove or add to your weekly eating pattern based on the health analysis of your current diet.
$90+/session
Most programs include 5-10 sessions based on your prior knowledge, discipline, and level of interest.
Basic Nutrition Education Components:
1) Assess your current knowledge on nutrition and health
2) Food log to assess the current nutritional status of your diet
3) Personalized nutrition and health education
4) Behavior modification techniques to increase motivation to comply with nutritional changes
5) Targeting nutritional behaviors: grocery shopping, cooking, & eating out
6) Mastering foodlogging and other self-monitoring techniques
7) Targeting problem behaviors: food addiction, binge eating, compulsive eating, alcohol abuse, emotional eating
8) Target any current lifestyle related illnesses or work to prevent illnesses based on family history of disease.
Review by L.S in New Orleans December, 2019:
"This morning was my weekly session with Iina Ester. Even though we were meeting at my house, I was late, and wearing a SUBLIME hangover along with the party clothes I'd crashed in the night before. Her reaction to all this was who she is: laughter and love.
There is no negative judgement from Iina throughout our work; only acceptance of who and where I am at this moment, and encouragement as I move towards who and where I've said I want to be in the next moment. She doesn't try to mold me, but she'll listen to my thoughts and wishes, and then give me tools to use in order to mold myself. We've been working together 10 months, and everything has improved. My figure, my cash flow, my home life, my confidence, my peace. My relationships with people.
Each session is different. Sometimes we meet in City Park and work out in the sun. Other times we sit in my livingroom and figure out how to schedule my time and budget my cash. Sometimes the psychological work of changing who I am can be very intense, but she's right there with me, grounding me. And sometimes she'll kick my ass if I really need it...but *only* if I really need it.
Today's session was spent stretching on the floor (due to said hangover) and discussing how to confidently express ideas and give direction in creative settings. About halfway through, I said to her, "Iina...I'm really starting to like myself."
And that's what Iina does. She gives you the best version of yourself. And she does it with grace, and with style."
To schedule a consultation or to learn more,
please email Dr. Ester at iina@livefreelaughhardfitness.com
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