Photo coaching, by RDs
One photo of the plate, sent like a text to a friend. Your registered dietitian replies the same day with one suggestion - kind, specific, and never a lecture. No calorie counting, no apps to learn, no shame in either direction. Two weeks free, then decide.
Why photos work
Writing down everything you eat is accurate for about eighteen days, then life happens. Photographing the plate takes four seconds and no honesty gymnastics - the camera is simply there, like a friend at the table who happens to be a dietitian.
And one suggestion at a time is the whole method. Not seventeen changes - one, chosen because it matters most for your labs and looks easiest to live with this week. Next week, the next one. It is slow the way good cooking is slow, and it compounds the same way.
The method
The practice
Founder, RD
Dr. Alma Reyes
RD with a doctorate in nutrition behavior - the person who proved the practice's method in her dissertation. Replies to photos herself; the kindness is not an act.
RD
Peter Chou
Registered dietitian, restaurant-eating specialist. Sends back suggestions that begin "great plate" about 40% of the time, which clients find suspicious and then motivating.
RD
Gloria Nkemelu
Registered dietitian, cooking-for-one specialty. Her photo replies include what to add to the plate you already have, not the plate you were supposed to have.
Client care
Danny Fitzgerald
Onboards every client: how to send the photo, what a same-day reply looks like, and the quarterly progress review scheduling. Also guards the no-supplements rule.
Plans
Everyone starts
Full service, free: photo, reply, and the four-week review rhythm. Decide afterward; no card required to start.
Free 14 days
$120per month
Most chosen
Photo replies six days a week, the one-suggestion method, and a four-week progress review with your RD on video.
$39010 weeks
For the lab-results year
The full method plus labs reviewed (with your okay), physician coordination, and the before-and-after plate review clients frame, half-jokingly.
$210per month
Two plates
For couples - both send photos, both get replies, one shared progress review. Roughly half our households.
All prices USD. We are nutrition coaching, not medical treatment; your physicians' instructions come first, and with your written okay we share progress with them. HSA/FSA receipts provided - many plans accept coaching.
How it works
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Danny helps you send one plate photo the first day. The reply arrives the same day, from a person with a name.
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A photo a day or when you think of it. One suggestion comes back - sometimes "great plate," which counts.
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A video call with your RD: the patterns, the wins, the one thing to adjust. Plate photos from week one and week four, side by side.
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Clients stay an average of nine months, then leave knowing the method. That is the goal - graduation, not dependence.
Client stories
"I have been lectured by professionals since my thirties. Dr. Reyes replies to my diner breakfast photo without sighing and suggests the fruit on the side. I have lost fourteen pounds and gained a person who treats me like an adult."
Marion F.
64
"The restaurant-week suggestions were the surprise - Peter knows every menu within walking distance of Government Center. My blood pressure numbers and my lunch group both approve."
Sy L.
58
"Cooking for one since Walter died, and I had quietly stopped eating vegetables. Gloria noticed from the photos before I said a word. The add-one-thing method put this kitchen back to work."
Ellie R.
79
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Contact
A sentence about what brings you here - labs, a milestone, an empty-nest kitchen. The two weeks start whenever you send the first photo.
TEL (617) 555-0195
Hours Mon-Fri 8am-6pm ET