Uncovered Nutrition

individualized nutrition to help you uncover peace with food, your body & your health

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Understanding your needs and how to meet them is the first step to improving your relationship with food and your body. Adequate nourishment and using food and movement to improve your day creates more opportunity to dive into healing negative food and body beliefs that make us feel stuck or distract us from fully enjoying life.

Uncovered Nutrition focuses on bringing warmth, understanding and creativity to your nutrition journey. You should feel seen where you are and hopeful for where you want to be. Uncovered Nutrition aims help clients improve health now while spending less time thinking about food & more time living in freedom down the road.

Food can be way easier but getting there can be overwhelming.

Uncovered Nutrition helps you take the first step with confidence.

  • At Uncovered Nutrition “real” is the priority. Real nutrition, real health, real long-term improvement for real people living real lives. Nutrition uncovered from the gimmicks of dieting, the constant preoccupation with manipulating your body, the pressure of impossible appearance standards and the overwhelm of nutrition information online. Desa practices individualized nutrition counseling to improve health without sacrificing your relationship with food, your body, or movement. We do not exist to perfect our bodies but caring for our bodies may allow us to experience more fullness and enjoyment in life.

    The mission of Uncovered Nutrition is to help you establish sustainable health behaviors while healing your relationship with food & your body so you can invest more of your time, energy, and effort doing the things you were created to do.

  • At Uncovered Nutrition, every aspect of your health is a priority. Food and nutrition are key players in health, but must work in combination with joyful movement, mental health, and emotional health to create longevity and enjoyable daily habits.

    We incorporate intuitive eating  and weight neutral nutrition counseling. Compromising nutritional adequacy or the relationship with food and movement for the sake of weight loss is not offered at UN.

    Nutrition counseling is a collaborative effort. We enjoy incorporating client feedback and preferences to create solutions to nutrition roadblocks. Client autonomy is always respected. UN  provides professional recommendations and guidance but does not aim to micromanage or demand client change or progress. UN practices mental health informed nutrition care and makes collaboration with other providers a priority.

  • Uncovered Nutrition resources are for anyone that finds them beneficial. Nutrition counseling is offered to residents of VA, DC, MD, NC, CO, and CA. Clients that are ready to commit to & actively participate in regular appointments gain the most from nutrition counseling.

    Desa’s specialty populations are disordered eating, eating disorders, diabetes, and polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome.

    UN may be for you if you:

    • Need a dietitian for eating disorder recovery

    • Want support in managing blood sugar concerns and PMOS without strict eliminations

    • Want to feel more confident and less confused about your diet and exercise

    • Feel you are exhausted from battling food and body image every day alone

    • Are tired of going around in circles with diets only to feel like a failure each time

  • “The Intuitive Approach has given me a glimpse of being free from obsessing about "food" and my lack of control.  I feel I am on the road to "recovery" from an eating disorder...  I am hopeful to achieve a healthy mindset and body as the end result of pursuing this with the help of a Nutritional Counselor.  She has been an essential tool to what success I have experienced and I hope to achieve being an Intuitive Eater!”

    -Uncovered Nutrition Client

  • “Carbs are bad. That’s what I’ve heard my whole life, so every time I tried to “be healthy,” they were the first thing to go. Desa finally taught me different. Through her course not only did I learn why carbs aren’t bad, I also learned how to eat them in a healthy manner.”

    —Nutrition Foundations Student

  • “Desa really helped me be able to put words to the struggles I’ve had with food. It’s always been a topic I’ve felt ashamed to speak about and really didn’t let other people into. After working with Desa, I’ve been much more comfortable speaking about my struggle with body image and food. I’m so thankful for all that I learned from her!”

    — Uncovered Nutrition Client

  • “I am 61 and have had the diet mentality for 90% of it. I feel like I am tapping into the root of my eating disorder...feel progress, hoping for victory. [I am] divorcing myself from diet mentality while grasping what my hunger cues are.”

    —Uncovered Nutrition Client