About

Hi, I’m Kristen and I’m on a mission to demystify the nutritarian lifestyle and make it doable for everyone!

It’s time for the nutritarian diet to go mainstream!

I started my eat to live journey looking to lose weight after my second pregnancy.  My parents had discovered Dr. Fuhrman on one of his PBS specials back in 2011 and they both achieved amazing results from adopting the high-nutrient lifestyle.

I decided to take the plunge when my youngest was 6 months old.  I was completely unprepared, I struggled a lot, but I didn’t give up!  I lost 21 pounds those first 6 weeks (without working out) and I gained a new approach to my dysfunctional relationship with food.

After those 42 days at 100% I experienced what I like to call “the nutritarian feels.”  A mental state of clarity, focus, optimism and peace around food that I had never felt before in my adult life.  After years of struggling with binge eating and self-diagnosed food addiction the Eat to Live approach began my path to recovery.

Along the way I gained happiness, purpose and passion.

And now I’m sharing that passion with you!  I love writing articles and creating easy-to-make recipes that are going to have a positive impact on your mission to live healthier using Dr. Fuhrman’s plant-based approach.

Hello Nutritarian is all about the practical application of the nutritarian plan in your hectic life.  It’s the very place I was searching for when I started this journey almost 6 years ago. Now I hope this will be your place!  A place to get inspired, to get organized and take action!

If you’re brand new to this lifestyle head over to the START HERE page.

Also, make sure to sign up for my weekly email chats so you can get my free 38-page guide, The 7 Day Salad Cleanse plan sent straight to your inbox for free!  It has a printable weekly schedule, exclusive recipes and a shopping list and it’s perfect for when you’re just starting out.

Want to know even more?  Scroll to the top of this page and click on the “Explore More” menu to learn about my personal weight loss journey and explore helpful FAQs!

I started blogging in 2011 as a seriously overwhelmed 26-year-old, first-time mom.

Recently graduated from law school, and unexpectedly pregnant, my hubby and I moved clear across the country to California when my son was only 2 months old.  My friends, family, and most importantly, my mom were all back in Florida.

I created my first blog, MyMommaToldMe.com, with the hopes of making it a forum for moms to ask questions and get advice from other moms.  I soon realized that this magical (and very helpful place) already existed and it was called BabyCenter.com!  Ooops!

Soon, My Momma Told Me became my creative and intellectual outlet from being a homesick and uninspired stay-at-home mom.  I shared crafts and DIYs and wrote articles on topics that interested me–you can find all of these archives here.  Blogging literally pulled me out of one of the hardest times of my life.

In 2013, I started a journal on the blog where I confessed every, often embarrassing, detail of my first 52 days on Dr. Fuhrman’s plan.  Within a few months those journal entries became the most popular content on the site.

At the same time, I was digging into making the nutritarian approach my forever lifestyle–and was realizing just how difficult that was to do.  I found that the more I learned about the lifestyle the more I wanted to share and connect with others who were doing this too–so I continued to write about it and create easy and tasty recipes!

In early 2016, I started exploring weekly food prepping as a means to keep me on track in my nutritarian lifestyle.  I wrote an article called The Eat to Live Food Prep Guide that quickly became my most popular post to date.

I knew from that tremendous response that there were other nutritarians out there who wanted to start batch-cooking too.  Over the next year, I perfected an easy 10-prep system and wrote my very first premium ebook: the Nutritarian Food Prep Power Plan!

In 2017, thanks to the amazing success of the Power Plan, I was able to completely re-brand and re-design my first blog into Hello Nutritarian.

Over the next year, I founded and grew an exclusive Facebook support community for those readers who joined the Power Plan program.  Today I’m happy to boast we have over 1,600 members and growing daily!

In 2018, Hello Nutritarian experienced explosive growth thanks to the popularity of my weekly prepped fridge posts on Instagram!  My fridges were featured by Shape Magazine, Whole Foods, BuzzFeed and Pop Sugar Fitness to name a few highlights.  In January, I had my very first print article in a PlantBased magazine called “Clean Eating.”  In March I was interviewed by Body & Soul AU (you can read the interview here) and in April I was interviewed by The Daily Mail (you can read the interview here).

On October 10, 2018, I launched the updated 2nd edition of my premium food prep program, the Nutritarian Power Plan.  I doubled the page count (it just over 320 pages), adding absolutely everything I’ve learned in helping over 3,000 readers implement the program in their busy lives!  The Power Plan is the crown jewel of Hello Nutritarian and allows me to provide amazing, ad-free and membership-free content to readers around the world.

What are my plans for 2019?  I’m ready to put my “big girl” pants on and step in front of the camera for you!  I’ll be digging into video content and growing my YouTube channel with more quick recipe videos and longer informational videos–so stay tuned!

Hello Nutritarian has been my biggest dream-come true. It combines my passion for eating to live, with creativity and connecting with people to effect positive changes in all of our lives!

I am completely humbled and amazed by this journey and I’m so excited to share even more great things to come.

The Serious Stuff

If you’re here right now, there’s a good chance you’re looking to get healthy and you’ve struggled in the past. Let me just say that the whole struggling thing is my jam.

My entire life I’ve been a binge eater and self-diagnosed food addict.  From when I was 8 years old and smuggling diet pills in a cigar box under my bed to when I fell in love with eating nutritarian but couldn’t manage to turn it into my forever lifestyle.

See I wanted to do something for you.

I wanted to be living proof that you could just have the lifestyle of your dreams overnight.  I wanted to go “poof!” and now I’m a nutritarian forever.  No struggles, no set backs, just a clear trajectory to perfection.  Because I thought those were the inspiring stories that made readers want to take action living this way.

So, for years I didn’t talk about my struggles.  I kept them hidden behind the articles and helpful printouts and the beautiful recipes.

Now I know better and I see what my struggle is worth.  Since opening up about my binge eating and food addiction I’ve been blown away from the response from readers who are also in this struggle.  I’m better able to serve you in your own struggles when I let all of my truth be out front and center!

My story is about being dedicated to the path and about embracing the pain and struggle of change.  Over these almost-6 years I’ve changed strategies, I’ve developed habits that worked with my life, I’ve redefined success.

I’ve fought hard to change the patterns that led me to fall off the wagon.  And I fell off the wagon a lot. I educated myself, I kept searching for the answers I had, even as they changed.  And through all those actions over all those years I forged new life-promoting habits.

I was no Cinderella story, my friends—and you should always be weary of those.  My path was grimy and my struggle was intense.  I had early victories and crippling regressions.  My tenacity was always there even when my old destructive habits sprang up, lit it on fire and trampled it through the mud.

The point here is I FEEL YOUR PAIN.  I know that it’s real.  I know you want better for yourself and I also know something you might not know yet: That you are 100% capable of achieving the change you want for yourself!

The very first step is taking action changing your habits.  And I have everything you need to get going in that department on my Start Here page here.

But just know if you resonate with my story above I have lots more tools to share with you in the months to come.  In 2019 I will be sharing a new line of content specifically tailored for food addiction recovery.  Make sure to subscribe to my weekly chats where I share more about this struggle and what I’ve found works to affect positive change in recovery.

The Fun Stuff

When I’m not in the kitchen working on a new recipe or hanging with my two kiddos you can find me holed up in my home office, blogging, writing or being crafty!

And, here’s a little bit more about me that I don’t often post about:

• I’m overly-competitive at board games.
• I have more fun than my kids do at Disneyland.
• I’m an emoji and exclamation mark abuser.
• I am embarrassed to admit I can read teen trilogies within a week’s time.
• I sometimes get too passionate during discussions. (Okay, okay, it’s all the time.)
• I talk with my hands.
• (I blame those last two on my Cuban side.)
• Oh yeah, I’m half-Cuban.
• I love meeting new people.
• Sometimes I go too long without showering and my husband has to intervene. (There’s always something more interesting to do!)
• I somehow managed to graduate from law school but have yet to be barred.
• I always feel guilty that I don’t floss enough.

And I’m so, so glad you found Hello Nutritarian!

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