Andrea
Andrea brings over a decade of coaching experience and a deeply personal passion for health and fitness. She’s helped clients do everything from lose weight and clean up their nutrition to run marathons and, yes, even touch their toes. But for her, the most meaningful wins are the ones where someone finally feels confident in their own skin.
With a background in college softball, roller derby, figure competitions, and marathon running…including qualifying for the Boston Marathon… Andrea knows what it means to chase big goals. As a long-time vegetarian and holistic nutritionist, she’s also well-versed in how food choices fuel both performance and long-term health. She loves helping clients find doable, sustainable habits, especially when it comes to simplifying nutrition or fitting training into a busy, family-filled schedule.
Andrea’s coaching style is rooted in support, structure, and contagious positivity. She’s the coach who’ll cheer you on every step of the way…and also help you map out your schedule to make sure it actually happens. Whether you’re chasing a pull-up or learning to eat without guilt, she believes the best changes happen when you take it one win at a time.
Credentials:
Certified Personal Trainer (CPT)
Holistic Nutritionist
Pilates Mat & Reformer Instructor
When I’m working out, I can eat intuitively; I’m hungry for protein, and genuinely don’t want much sugar.
But if I slack off on exercise, then my appetite changes, and I want all the sugars and carbs now!
Back on that working out then!
Like a lot your work. Always looking forward to your next video or post. Keep it up!
Hunger is the result of the hormones running in our body. We need to give them a chance to do their job. Sugars tell our body that we should save for meager times and they suppress the satiety sensors. To get it back, cut sugars, e.g. rice, pasta and fruits and use as energy sources the fats from butter or cold pressed oils.
It will take time to get used to it, but you will know when you are hungry and when to stop eating. No need to count, just relay on your own body. Just don’t feed it with distractions.
I’m glad you found something that worked for you. That is key. And as you mention “it takes time to get used to, but you will know…” But that knowing is LEARNED. In this post, you’ll notice I don’t say we SHOULDN’T learn to eat intuitively or that it wasn’t possible just that it had to be learned. And after working with as many people as I have, I’ve found the easiest way to LEARN how to listen to your body is through tracking. Tracking makes us conscious of what we are consuming which most of my clients weren’t aware of the makeup of their food. So tracking made them aware so they could eventually listen to their bodies. 🙂
My concern is we have a 14 year old with disordered eating. He was so obsessed with counting calories and training hard he became orthorexic and could have died. He still gets psychological help. He eats lots again but he is told not to track his food for good reasons. He wants to track his micros. We have been told to keep telling him to listen to his body and just eat!! So not sure what else to do in his case as he wants to train again and build muscle for his basketball etc.
Hi Ramona. I think a little education about macros, how food can be fuel and even helping him get involved in learning about proper fuel and healthy cooking could teach him to love and appreciate his body and enjoy food. But while your son also can’t eat intuitively it is important to know when tracking may not be right. I would listen to the people guiding him and keep him away from the tracking as it seems to lead him specifically down a not so healthy path.