What We Can Work On - How This Coaching Works
Your priorities guide our work together. These may include:
- Building eating habits that support weight management, muscle strength, and energy.
- Making nutritious meals practical for your budget, preferences, and daily routine.
- Following your physician’s nutrition and activity recommendations.
- Developing consistent habits around food, movement, and sleep.
- Identifying obstacles and finding manageable ways to work through them.
- Organizing questions about nutrition and health for your medical appointments.
Before Our First Coaching Session
To help me understand your starting point, please share:
- Your two most recent sets of lab results, including the dates and reference ranges, if available.
- Relevant physician notes, including nutrition or activity recommendations and restrictions.
- A seven-day record of your usual food and drinks, including approximate portions.
- Your current medications and supplements.
- What you most want to improve and what has made change difficult for you.
I’ll provide instructions for sharing your information securely. You do not need to obtain new tests just for coaching.
Together, we choose a starting point. We review your goals, routines, and your clinician’s guidance, then agree on practical steps that fit your life.
As we continue, we review what is working, address obstacles, and adjust your habits. Your health information provides context for coaching; the medical interpretation of your lab results and treatment decisions remain with your licensed healthcare professionals.
With your permission, and if your physician wishes to participate, I can coordinate with them to support their nutrition and lifestyle recommendations, share updates on your progress, and clarify questions that arise during coaching.
IMPORTANT!
Odyssey80 Coaching provides education, coaching, organization, and personal support. It does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment and is not a substitute for care from your physician, registered dietitian, psychologist, or other licensed health professional.
When medical issues arise, part of my role may be to help you understand information, prepare useful questions, and communicate more effectively with your healthcare professionals.
Coaching Services and Your Location
Requirements for nutrition and health coaching vary by state. Odyssey80 provides coaching within the scope permitted where you are physically located during each session. Available services may therefore vary by location. Please let me know if you will be traveling or attending a session from another state.
Health Is Part of the Journey
What would better health make possible for you? More energy for family, strength for everyday activities, or the confidence to begin something new?
Odyssey80 focuses on nutrition and everyday habits that support those goals, including food choices, movement, sleep, and routines that fit your life.
Together we choose practical changes, at your pace. We notice how you respond and build on what works. Your preferences, resources, and healthcare team’s recommendations guide the process.
Education and Experience
I am a Precision Nutrition Level 1 Certified Nutrition Coach, with previous experience in patient health education, patient care coordinator, and coordinating continuing education programs for healthcare professionals at a major medical center.
My background includes presentations to healthcare audiences on medication adherence and behavior change, along with more than a decade of independent study in neuroscience, metabolism, sleep, and healthy aging.
I continue studying nutrition and metabolic health, including coursework through Peterson Academy. This ongoing learning supports my work, while my coaching remains focused on nutrition education, practical habits, and support for following your healthcare teams’ recommendations.