Gestational Diabetes Dietitian/Nutritionist & Coach
Charlotte, NC & Virtual
Stop the food fight.
manage your gestational diabetes & feel good in your pregnancy.
Are you:
Newly diagnosed with gestational diabetes?
Frustrated with traditional nutrition advice for gestational diabetes management
Feeling scared about eating carbs?
Finding it difficult to have positive body image and nourish your body after your diagnosis?
Confused about how to maintain your recovery or intuitive eating while managing your gestational diabetes?
When you receive a diagnosis of gestational diabetes, you're often inundated with advice to “watch your weight”, exercise, cut carbs, or eat “healthy.” It can feel overwhelming, and it's often difficult to weed out the sound advice from the misinformation. Instead of learning to nourish your baby and body, in the way that feels right for YOU, you’re given a set of rules to follow about what, when, and how much to eat.
Diet culture may say things like: “Only eat X grams of carbs a day,” “You shouldn’t allow yourself fruit during this pregnancy”, or “You can’t eat regular cookies while pregnant.” Does any of this sound familiar?
Regardless of your relationship with food and your body prior to your gestational diabetes diagnosis, it can be HARD to ignore the diet culture voices that are all around you. Know that you are not alone in feeling this way, and you don’t have to listen to those messages! The problem is not with you, it's with the weight-focused, one-size-fits-all approach to diet, exercise, and GD management.
You deserve better.
You can trust your instincts. You can trust your body. You deserve to feel at peace with food.
If you’re ready to leave diet culture behind and build a more intuitive relationship with food while balancing your blood sugar during pregnancy, I would absolutely love to work with you.
Our areas of expertise include:
Gestational diabetes management: Learn how to manage your blood sugar without restriction.
Weight-inclusive nutrition: come as you are and learn intuitive eating basics for diabetes in pregnancy to nourish the body you have now.
Healing your relationship with food: find peace with your body and food during pregnancy.
Our current medical model is hyper-focused on fetal outcomes, and often forgets there is a human growing a baby involved in the equation. It also often uses shame and regimented diet patterns to stabilize blood glucose — instead, we empower every client we work with to pursue optimal nutrition using a flexible, mindful, body positive approach.
You deserve a peaceful relationship with food and your body. You deserve to be free of the diet rules that have taken over your life and damaged your mental and physical health. You deserve to be nourished, no matter your body size.
Managing your gestational diabetes diagnosis is important, but your mental and social health are equally as paramount.
Using an intuitive eating approach, we can work together to manage your gestational diabetes. In our sessions we’ll discuss:
How to use gentle nutrition to fuel your pregnancy
Sustainable habits that take into account your individual needs & preferences
Ways to take care of your expecting body with simple, evidence-based lifestyle shifts
How you can use intuitive eating to manage your gestational diabetes and achieve truly holistic health for your body & mind
Let’s chat about how we can work together as you navigate your gestational diabetes and pregnancy journey. We can’t wait to see you thrive.
