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Receive a personalized fueling plan that will help you reach your health, weight & performance goals!

Nancy Clark, MS, RD, CSSD specializes in helping active people--

• fuel themselves optimally for high energy, enhanced performance, good health, and weight management.
• overcome eating disorders and disordered eating practices, so they can find peace with food.

Nancy has more than twenty-five years of experience with helping both casual exercisers and competitive athletes resolve their questions and concerns about food, weight, and eating for energy. She counsels clients of all athletic abilities and ages (from middle school through college and beyond, including new moms, Baby Boomers, women struggling with menopause, and seniors. Her private practice is located in Newton Highlands, MA 02461 (just off Route 9, about 1.5 miles east of Route 128/95 and also easily accessible by the MBTA Green Line "D").

Clark's Nutrition Checkup is helpful for active people who--

• Realize that nutrition is the missing link in their training program
  
• Feel chronically fatigued and routinely lack energy to exercise at their best.
  
• Struggle with weight issues (including mid-life fat gain) and dislike their body image.
  
• Routinely go "on" and "off" diets, only to regain the weight they lost.
  
• Exercise rigorously, compulsively, and/or excessively.
  
• Obsess about food and have undesired eating binges that seem out of control.
  
• Have a slow metabolism and seem to maintain their weight on very little food.
  
• Have high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure - or relatives with these conditions.
  
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Nutrition services include:

• Determining calorie needs, ideal weight, and if desired, percent body fat.
  
• Assessing nutritional adequacy of daily eating patterns.
  
• Teaching what and when to eat to optimize performance.
  
• Developing meal patterns that maintain a high energy level all day long.
  
• Making personalized diet plans for successful weight reduction.
  
• Helping transform eating disorders and food obsessions into peaceful fueling.
  
• Addressing stress as it affects health, eating and weight.
  
• Planning special diets for hypoglycemia, heart disease, diabetes, weight gain or loss.
  
• Listening to your concerns and answering your questions about fat, cholesterol, fiber, fast foods, sodium, vitamins, supplements, anorexia, bulimia, weight plateaus, menopause, low blood sugar, sports nutrition, carbohydrate-loading, fluids, pre-competition meals, triathlon food -- whatever nutrition concerns you have!

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To make an appointment:
Instead of struggling with nutrition problems by yourself, try a professional approach that will help you feel better about your food choices, eating habits, energy levels, and body weight—and successfully win with good nutrition. Although technically speaking, I am a registered dietitian, I see myself as a listener and a food coach. I enjoy helping people resolve their food and weight concerns, and tranform them into effective fueling practices.

To arrange an appointment with Nancy, call 617-795-1875 or email her at nclarkrd@rcn.com. Nancy strives to meet with new clients within a week or two of requesting the initial appointment.

• A standard Nutrition Check-up generally requires 1.5 hours. Fee: $210 per 1.5-hour session (based on $140/hour). The fee is generally not covered by health insurance, except for Tufts HealthPlan.
  
• The Weight Reduction and Eating Disorders packages include the initial visit (1.5 hours) and 1.5 hours of follow-up education and support. Fee: $399

To invite Nancy to speak to your students, athletes, employees, or professional group:
Call 617-795-1875 or send and email to nclarkrd@rcn.com. Nancy enjoys speaking about fueling for performance; taming the cookie monster; losing weight while maintaining energy for exercise; understanding the sports food scene.

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