Our wellness staff team is dedicated to helping you achieve a healthier lifestyle!
Nutrition Consultations
Are you always "on the go" and find yourself snacking from the vending machine? Do you struggle with finding the time and energy to prepare a healthy meal?
Let us teach you how to make healthy choices when it comes to meal preparation and snacking. Learn how to use the Food Guide Pyramid, what serving size really is and how to make the right choice while eating out. We will assist and support you by looking at your diet using weekly food diaries and making suggestions for healthier alternatives.
Nutrition consultations are available by appointment, free of charge for YMCA members.
Nutrition 101
A nutrition education and weight management program, designed to give basic education to individuals that are interested in maintaining their ideal body weight and for those individuals that would like information to assist them in losing less than twenty pounds.
Individuals will be able to:
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Evaluate fad and fraudulent weight loss programs
- Verbalize and understand the Food Guide Pyramid
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Calculate their individual daily caloric, protein, fat and carbohydrate needs
- Choose healthier food selections at restaurants
Individual consultations are available by appointment. Group sessions are also offered for Nutrition 101, visit our events calendar to find out when our next session is scheduled.
Registered Dietitian Services
Lindsey Stromberg, is a registered dietitian. A registered dietitian is a food and nutrition expert who has met the academic and professional requirements and passed a national exam to qualify for the credential “R.D.” Registered dietitians can administer medical nutrition therapy for a variety of medical conditions. Private, individual counseling is provided. Lindsey will help you design personal menus and make recipe revisions.
Reasons to be seen by a registered dietitian include:
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High blood pressure: Improve both diastolic and systolic numbers
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High cholesterol: Lower bad cholesterol and improve good cholesterol
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Diabetes/gestational diabetes: Improve blood sugars by providing menus and helping improve your A1C counts
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Weight loss: Lifestyle changes and how to eat by receiving personalized menus
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Compulsive/overeating: Simple tips to help decrease overeating
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Gastrointestinal disorders: Cope with constipation, Crohn's disease, GERD and many others
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Sports nutrition: Ideas provided to help improve physical performance
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Fatigue: Simple ideas to help rejuvenate our life
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Pregnancy: Control portion sizes as well as weight gain during pregnancy
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Exercise: Basic and advanced ideas to help you start a regime
Or anyone interested in a nutrition consult
Available by appointment.
Program cost:
| YMCA Member |
$50/hour |
| Program Member |
$65/hour |
YMCA Healthy Lifestyle Program
(Developed by Stanford University)
Whatever your goals are...weight loss, exercise, stress management, smoking cessation...achieve and maintain them once and for all! This unique, research-proven program developed by Stanford University teaches you how to set long and short-term goals. Draw strength from others as you connect with a group of ten people who will journey along with you during this 10-month program. Take control and learn how to make positive, life-defining choices and begin your path to a better spirit, mind and body NOW!
Call for next session dates.
Program cost:
| YMCA Member |
$149 |
| Program Member |
$199 |
YMCA Weight Management Program
Through interviews, assessments and classes, YMCA experts will help you set goals and find your personal health journey. YMCA Weight Management is NOT boot camp. Our health experts will meet you where you are in your health journey and find solutions that work for you. You may find that just walking more or choosing healthier snacks is your first step to a longer, happier, healthier life.
Available by appointment.
Program cost:
For more information or an appointment, please contact:
| Kathryn Martin |
| Wellness Coordinator |
| (704) 716-4723 |
| kathryn.martin@ymcacharlotte.org |