To be honest, I never intended to enter the field of Nutrition. My intent was to work in Finance, and I spent my first two years in college majoring in Business and Finance. It was during those years that I realized something had changed within my body and with my metabolism. Despite following a very healthy diet and exercising regularly, my weight and midline began to increase. Being a very analytical, methodical person, this body change "didn’t add up!" In time, I changed my scholastic focus from Finance to Nutrition Science in order to find the answer to the personal nutrition issues that plagued me! Throughout the years that followed, I became a very well-respected Registered Dietitian and Diabetes/Obesity specialist. I worked in teaching hospitals and Diabetes Centers within hospitals teaching traditionally accepted diets sanctioned by the American Medical, American Diabetes, and American Dietetic Associations. Like my patients, I followed the diets I taught. Like over 45% of my patients, I was unable to lose weight and keep it off. Quite honestly, it wasn’t until 18 years into my career that I finally found the answer to the question that originally plagued me. By the time I discovered the answer, I had spent 18 years following and teaching "perfect" diets. And yet, at the time of my discovery, I was struggling with weight, cholesterol, blood pressure, and…..the last straw…..Diabetes. My patients now tell me that I was destined to find myself in this field as I was one person who was committed to focus my total energy and continue searching until I found the answer. As it turns out, millions of unsuccessful, frustrated dieters have the same questions. The Metabolism Miracle is the only answer.  

Although I was always employed as a Registered Dietitian and later a Certified Diabetes Educator and Weight Loss Specialist, I came to realize that despite tremendous effort, over 45% of weight loss patients (including myself), could not lose weight and keep it off. As time went on I opened a home office away from the hospital to begin to work on discovering and eventually developing a program to treat the large number of dieters who could not succeed on traditional diets. Surprisingly, I came to find that these frustrated dieters had overlapping commonalities including medical history, weight history, family history, signs and symptoms as well as very similar lab data. I worked diligently to combine this similar data with the most current research on weight and weight- related health problems. Little by little, I developed a program to match the very different metabolism of those with this alternate metabolism. I would eventually coin this metabolism as Metabolism B. (Metabolism A would be reserved for those with traditional metabolism upon which all current diets are based). The Metabolism Miracle is the first and only program that got to the root of the problem…a diet that helped calm over-production and insulin and "reprogram" the pancreas to function normally. After years of researching, designing, drafting, and teaching this 3 step program, it was finished. The Metabolism Miracle was born and to date, over 3,000 patients have been successful using this program. It was originally taught at my Nutrition Center in Morristown, NJ, and after years of success, I decided to bring this amazing program to the masses. It is the only weight loss method that allows these millions of people to lose weight, keep it off, and actually improve their cholesterol, triglycerides, blood sugar, blood pressure, and overall health. I now have two distinct methods to teach weight loss….traditional calorie- based for those whose bodies can benefit from it and The Metabolism Miracle for those with Metabolism B.

Although the book shelves are sagging with half-baked weight loss programs, diets written by physicians, fad diets concocted by celebrities, ..no program to date focuses on all the specific needs of people with Met B. These millions of frustrated, previously unsuccessful dieters need a program that puts all the pieces of their metabolic puzzle together into one practical, realistic, and successful program. No other weight reduction program is written expressly for all of the unique metabolic needs of the millions with Metabolism B. The cause of weight gain for those with Met B is not excess calories or inactivity. The root cause of Met B is a hormonal imbalance! Those with this alternate metabolism have a genetic predisposition to overproduce insulin, a fat-gain hormone. They didn’t cause this metabolism, they were born with the potential for it!

I was always employed by respected hospitals and health care systems and the physician base in these areas had come to know and respect me. When I began to develop The Metabolism Miracle, I was already practicing traditional nutrition for over 15 years. I actually developed the Nutrition Programs for the Diabetes Centers of 2 hospitals. When I decided that I had enough data to support The Miracle, I set out to run my own private practice and to use this method for appropriate weight loss patients. The results were overwhelmingly positive…not only regarding weight loss but for improved health. As the area physicians came to see the results, in weight loss and improvements in cholesterol, hypertension, and Diabetes…..and as their patients began to require less medication for their health issues…..more and more came on board. My business now flourishes from both physician and patient referrals…..and The Metabolism Miracle is the #1 program that I teach.

I’ll start by saying that the long term success rate for traditional weight loss over a 5 year period is approximately 2%! If a patient has Metabolism B and adheres to the guidelines that are designed to easily fit into the fast paced world of the Twenty First century,there is over a 90% success rate. Sometimes a patient with concurrent problems such as certain medications (steroid hormones, certain psychotropic meds) or with other factors such as under-managed thyroid disease will have difficulty with weight loss due to these outside factors.

What has been your biggest challenge regarding the program?

My biggest challenge initially is getting a person who has failed at every other diet attempt to "believe" that this program WILL actually work. People with Met B can never succeed on traditional weight loss programs, and these individuals have grown to believe that they, themselves, are the problem…..their lack of will-power, their lack of discipline. It takes an initial leap of faith to entertain the idea that perhaps they were not to blame….that they didn’t fail at their program, the program failed them. I ask those patients who are skeptical to give the program 1 week, and, if they don’t already see and feel the difference, let me know and we’ll try something else. To date, less than 5% of my patients have not gone forward!