Nice to meet you, I’m Molly
I help women feel confident in their food choices, great in their bodies, and ready to take on whatever comes next.
Feeling Overwhelmed and Frustrated by Food?
Man, have I been there.
I grew up as an overweight kid — one of three in my whole grade — alongside my two super-slim older sisters. (At one point, pediatricians were lecturing my mother simultaneously on how to get my sister to put on weight and how to get me to drop pounds. It’s a wonder she kept her sanity.
Maybe she didn’t. Sorry, Mom!)
And here’s the thing — I wasn’t eating junk. We were, quite literally, the house all our friends avoided coming home to after school because of our complete lack of tasty snacks. My amazing super-mom cooked from scratch most nights after coming home from work. We had a great garden in the summer.
And so we have: healthy foods, home cooking, two slim daughters…
and me.
Resume head scratching.
As life continued, I never achieved my “ideal” body — but I also didn’t feel quite as heavy as I had when I was younger. The kindly-intentioned adults around me would say I was big-boned.
Thoughts of food were always ran in the back of my mind, like a loud TV one room over. I learned to live with it, through high school and college, and into my working life. Eventually, I started to identify this show as a food show, and connected it with my love and fascination with both food and restaurants. I’d been working in restaurants on the side of my 9 to 5, and decided it was time to take the leap.
So I took the very worst next step…
And I went to The Culinary Institute of America to become a chef.
It was not the “being a chef” part that made this a bad decision. It was “being a chef while still feeling incredibly uneasy about my relationship with food” that made this a uniquely poor choice for me.
After culinary school, my career progressed - restaurants, then to agency consulting, then over to start-ups, and I got to do some very interesting multinational work. (Ask me about putting fresh avocados in frozen coffee at a chain you’ve definitely heard of. Or promoting cream cheese in Dubai with the State Department in the background. It’s a thing.)
As happens with too many of us, as my career trajectory went up, my levels of health went down. Stress, hours, travel, and constantly being surrounded by food were making me feel and look worse than I had in years. Not to mention my overall disposition: “constantly irritable” would be the nicest way to put it.
The last diet I ever went on was the one that finally gave me control.
Oddly, it was a hyper-restrictive keto diet that shifted everything for me. On keto, everything I felt in my body directly disproved years and years of diet and nutrition misinformation.
I tripled my fat intake, and I did not put on bodily fat. In fact, I lost it.
I stopped eating sugar and this did not intensify my cravings, it squashed them.
In 3 months, I cleared my metabolic slate.
In a year, I lost the 40 pounds I didn’t need.
More importantly, I turned off the background noise of my food TV and learned to recognize my own body’s cues.
In my new state of health, I finally realized it was time to make a bigger change than my own eating patterns.
I wanted to learn more about what really happened in my health journey, so I earned my Health Coaching Certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
15 years of culinary experience informs my unique approach
Years of working in the $100 billion foodservice industry showed me many things about how this modern food landscape shapes our health.
The best news is that great nutrition and great flavor are not mutually exclusive: the most nourishing and delicious recipes are deeply rooted in food traditions.
My coaching combines my expertise in nutrition and wellness with my passion for creating flavorful, healthy meals.
Imagine feeling confident around food, energized in life, and in control of your health.
Here’s how we can work together to achieve your health goals:
Decide to make the change: the first step is committing to your current and future health.
Establish the framework: together, we’ll create your personalized plan that fits your unique needs and lifestyle.
Enjoy the journey: meaningful change is not a quick fix, and it doesn’t happen overnight. However, progress is every step along the way as you learn to implement the changes you’ve always wished for.
