Teaching Science of Nutrition & Art of Healthy Living
Heather Gilliam, MPH, RDN, CSOWM
My mission as a Functional Medicine Dietitian is to share medically-sound, practical nutrition information and advice at no cost, targeting those without access to a Dietitian. My educational guides are available in English and Spanish and will present both the science of nutrition and the art of healthy living, so that you can design a style that works for you in the long term. These days we are all seeing how important it is to strengthen our immune systems. Everything on my website aims to do just that!
Nutrition Transformation Educational Guides
Healthy eating habits are a part of honoring our bodies that ultimately fuel our visions and ambitions. This empowers us with self-love that then can be directed towards the world. Bodies and lives can be transformed with nutrition choices. Download my free guides to get started on the path of nutritional transformation to find your power.
Weight Management Workshop
Uncover your personal barriers to long term weight management and learn specific strategies to address each one
Held in person at:
POW Physical Therapy Clinic
1889 Knoll Drive, Ventura
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 6pm-8pm
Led by:
Heather Gilliam, MPH, RDN, CSOWM
Functional Medicine Dietitian
Certified Specialist in Obesity and Weight Management
$50 (attendees will also receive discounts on other services and products)
SPACE IS LIMITED TO 10 ATTENDEES — sign up now by emailing me through my contact page →
Come visit me at the Farmer’s Market In the Oaks Mall parking lot Thursdays, noon to 5pm! I’m available to answer questions and my Super Seed (organic hemp/chia/flax) is currently 30% off!
Weight Management Workshop
Gut and Skin Health
Our Transformational Service Offerings
One-on-One Consultation with Heather Gilliam
This is a personalized service in which I would review (with client’s permission) client's medical history and lab results to optimize my assessment and plan for the client. Any medical condition and lifestyle barriers can be tackled. Meeting is preferably in person, but can be via telehealth.
Group Workshops & Classes
I have many workshops already developed that I update frequently. Program development is a passion of mine, so I would enjoy developing a program for your special interest or special population. These would be conducted preferably in person, but can be via telehealth.
Private Grocery Store Tour
This would be performed in the client’s grocery store and would include ideas for a shopping list & meals, although we will likely focus on the types of foods and drinks that the client buys most often. I will educate client on label reading, best choices, and how to tell what they are really buying.
Weight Management Workshop
Identify personal barriers to weight management and learn practical solutions to keep weight off permanently with Heather Gilliam. Each client receives specific guidance and printed nutrition guides.
Educational Guide Development
Within this service, I would develop any type of educational material requested. Eight examples of my original creations are shown on the home page, if you would like to get an idea of my creative vision and scientific perspective.
Whatever I can do to help. I’m open to whatever services are needed and quite experienced in most areas of nutrition.
I’m open to whatever services are needed and quite experienced in most areas of nutrition. Please email me at heatheragilliam@gmail.com to get started.
Quick Transformational Tips
Diagnosis
Know that many times a new diagnosis like Diabetes or High Cholesterol can be a blessing because it puts us on a new healthy path, a new trajectory with new opportunities to feel healthier and happier.
Motivational Tool
Write out your "Consequences & Motivations". This is your honest view of what will happen to you if your nutrition habits don't improve. Then, conversely, what is waiting for you if you make significant, small changes that you can live with. Have this list somewhere where you will read it daily.
A Nutrition Meditation
Stay positive. Good food is nourishment and premium fuel. Feel it nourishing you and lifting you up. Recognize the healing that is taking place. Eating healthy food is a privilege. It provides true freedom. Develop a food mantra that you recite when you make food choices.
Eating Habits
Ask yourself why you're eating each time you eat. Note the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger. What is the emotion? Why is it there? What's the healthiest way to handle it?
Quick Tip
Keep individual 8oz wild caught salmon filets in freezer. Each week, marinate/defrost one overnight in the fridge, and bake the next day. Snack on, throw in a salad or taco, mix in quinoa, etc to make sure you get your fish in over the course of the week.
Quick Tip
Make a "super seed" mix with chia seed, hemp seed, and ground flaxseed meal. Refrigerate the combo in a shaker bottle and sprinkle some on everything you eat.
Self Care
Value self-care as part of your daily routine because it supports everything we strive for. Consider getting in nature, playing music, lighting candles, time with friends, eating well, and gratitude journaling to help you avoid alcohol, isolation, and negative thinking.
Exercise
COMMIT to exercising once or twice a week, and build upon that after you've established a consistency of success with once or twice a week.
Portion Control
To help with portion control, try putting your silverware down between bites, using smaller silverware, or sipping water between bites.
Weight Management
Stay off the scale. Focus on how your clothes fit around the waist & how you feel.
