Nutrition Coaching

Just as a personal trainer helps you understand what types of exercise your body needs for results, a nutrition coach can help you gain an understanding of your own nutritional needs. Eating right helps you maintain a healthy weight and reduces the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure, some types of cancer, and type 2 diabetes. Your MHealthy Nutrition Coach will help you develop an enjoyable, sustainable personal eating plan suited to your lifestyle.

MHealthy Nutrition Coaches are registered dietitians, degreed nutrition experts you can trust. Whether you're unsure of how to balance your caloric and nutritional needs, trying to make sense of conflicting nutritional information or just looking for support in your continued weight loss efforts, an MHealthy Nutrition Coach will help you in a non-judgmental, confidential way. You can benefit from MHealthy Nutrition Coaching if you are over 18 years of age and:

  • You're looking for individualized support to lose weight
  • You need direction to help you eat more healthfully
  • You want a registered dietitian to help you make sense of nutrition information
  • You need help identifying healthy choices at the grocery store or when dining out

Frequently asked questions about MHealthy Nutrition Coaching Services:

What do MHealthy’s Nutrition Coaching sessions include?

Nutrition Assessment — This is a structured conversation with a registered dietitian to evaluate your eating habits, your current lifestyle and health status.

Personal Goal Setting — Your MHealthy Nutrition Coach will help you identify strategies to reach your goals, whether you want to lose weight or gain weight, increase energy, improve health or reduce the risk of disease, or you just want help sorting through all of the nutrition information.

Personal Eating Plan — Based on your nutrition assessment, lifestyle issues and goals, your MHealthy Nutrition Coach will help you create a new way of eating that you can sustain and enjoy for a lifetime.

Healthy Eating information — You'll receive nutrition information tailored to your needs. Individualized attention and guidance move you towards success in reaching your healthy eating goals.

Optional Follow-Up Visits — Success achieving and maintaining your goals is much more likely when you meet with your MHealthy Nutrition Coach again to celebrate your progress, discuss barriers you face and receive support and encouragement. Follow-up visits may also include an individualized grocery shopping tour or dining out experience with your MHealthy Nutrition Coach.

Nutrition Coaching Options:

Healthy Eating Checkup: This 60 minute initial appointment focuses on assessing your current lifestyle and eating habits in order to identify your healthy eating strengths and areas that need attention. Your current health, activity level, habits, and beliefs will be considered as we develop a plan to meet your goals. This session prepares you to make positive changes and move forward with a healthy eating plan and is the prerequisite to the follow-up appointments.

The Healthy Eating Check-Up is available at a reduced price when you also purchase an MHealthy Personal Training package or service.

Follow-Up Appointments: Be successful at maintaining healthy lifestyle changes with follow-up appointments. Follow-up appointments are purchased in packages of three thirty-minute sessions that can be used over the course of a year to provide on-going support. You can choose to use these meetings in a variety of ways:

  • Three One-on-One Support Sessions: Use the appointments to help you stay on track and address any questions or concerns you may have about how to achieve your goals. You can also use the time to learn more about making healthy choices when eating out (bring menus from your favorite restaurants) grocery shopping, label reading, creating recipe make-overs, handling seasonal eating challenges, or other areas of your choice.

  • Individualized Supermarket Tour: Meet your Nutrition Coach at an Ann Arbor supermarket of your choice for an hour-long tour that is personalized to you and your health needs. You have the complete attention of your coach and can ask all the questions you want. This hour-long tour takes two of the three thirty-minute appointments. The third appointment is used as a One-on-One Support Session.

  • Individualized Dining Out: If you have difficulty making healthy choices when you eat out, take your Nutrition Coach along to point out healthier options. Visit any Ann Arbor restaurant for an in-depth discussion of the menu and assistance with ordering a healthy meal. Your Nutrition Coach leaves when your food arrives. Individualized Dining Out takes two of the three thirty-minute appointments. The third appointment is used as a One-on-One Support Session.

How do I choose the program that's right for me?

Nutrition Coaching Packages: MHealthy offers different packages to suit your specific needs. The Healthy Eating Checkup is a good place to start, as it is the prerequisite to the other Nutrition Coaching options. Upon completing it, you may wish to discuss your options for ongoing support with your Nutrition Coach. MHealthy offers discounted rates for enrolled U of M students, U-M staff and retirees, and MFit Fitness Center Members. Gift Certificates are available at the MFit Fitness Center desk at the Ann Arbor Ice Cube or by calling MHealthy’s main office at 734-975-3024.

Nutrition Coaching Location:

MHealthy has a nutrition coaching office at the MFit Fitness Center at the Ann Arbor Ice Cube located at 2121 Oak Valley Drive in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

How do I get started?

To schedule an appointment or for more information contact the MHealthy Nutrition Coach at 734-975-3060 or by e-mail at mhealthynutrition@umich.edu.