Nutrition Coaching
Eat for the body
you're building.
Nutrition coaching at Tally Body is not a meal plan you'll abandon by week three. It's a coach helping you build habits that fit the way you already eat, adjusting as your body and your life change.
The Approach
The plan you can keep beats the plan that looks perfect.
Most people who come to Tally Body for nutrition help have already tried the strict version. A plan printed off the internet, a list of foods they weren't allowed to touch, a few weeks of white-knuckling it — and then a return to exactly where they started, plus the feeling that they were the problem.
They weren't. The plan was. A plan that requires you to eat differently than any human being actually eats will work for as long as your willpower holds out, and not one day longer.
We build the other kind.
Nutrition coaching here starts with what you're already doing: your schedule, your cooking ability, your budget, the food you actually like, and the constraints you're not going to be able to change. From there we make small, specific adjustments — the kind you can still be doing in a year.
You'll get targets that make sense for your goal and your training, guidance on how to hit them with real food, and a coach reviewing your check-ins and changing the plan as your body responds. Nothing is off limits. Nothing is a moral failure. Nutrition is a skill, and skills are learned through practice and correction rather than punishment.
And when a week goes sideways — a holiday, a work trip, a stretch where cooking simply didn't happen — you don't start over. We look at what actually got in the way, adjust for it, and keep going.
How It Works
Four steps, and none of them start with a cleanse.
You don't need to clean up your eating before you're allowed to start. The whole point of coaching is that you don't do that part alone.
Apply
A short application covering your goals, your training, your schedule, and anything that shapes how you eat — allergies, preferences, cooking situation, travel.
Consultation
We talk through what you've tried, what stuck, and what fell apart. Honest answers here are worth more than impressive ones — the plan is only as good as the information behind it.
Your Starting Plan
You get targets built around your goal, your training load, and your week — plus two or three specific habits to focus on first. Not fifteen. Starting small is what makes it hold.
Check In & Adjust
Regular check-ins where we review how the week actually went, what your body is doing, and what needs to change. The plan keeps moving as you do.
The Method
Habits first. Targets second. Real life built into both.
Every client's plan is different, but the thinking behind all of them is the same.
Habits First
Change a few things well before changing everything badly.
We start with a small number of specific habits — protein at each meal, a repeatable breakfast, a plan for the hours you usually get caught out. Each one gets practiced until it's automatic before the next is added.
This is slower on paper and considerably faster in reality, because nothing has to be rebuilt every time motivation dips.
Why it worksNothing to restart
Flexible Targets
Numbers that guide you, not numbers that own you.
You'll have targets that support your training and your goal, with room built in. Hitting a range across a week matters more than hitting a number exactly at every meal.
If tracking isn't right for you, we coach with portions and plate-building instead. The tool should fit the person.
Why it worksSustainable by design
Real Life Built In
Restaurants, travel, holidays, and bad weeks are part of the plan.
You're going to eat out. You're going to travel. There will be a birthday, a wedding, a week where everything runs late. A plan that can't survive those isn't a plan — it's a pause button.
We build strategies for them ahead of time so they stop feeling like failures and start being ordinary.
Why it worksNo off switch
Food is not a reward you earn or a debt you repay. It's fuel for the body you're building.
Tally Body — Nutrition CoachingSetting Expectations
Know what you're signing up for.
Coaching works best when nobody is surprised. Here's the honest version of what this is — and what it isn't.
What it is
Coaching
- Targets and habits built around your goal, your training, and your actual week
- Regular check-ins with a coach who reads them and responds
- Adjustments as your body, schedule, and training change
- Guidance for eating out, travel, and the weeks that go badly
- Education, so you eventually need the coaching less
- A plan you help build, not one you're handed
What it isn't
A quick fix
- A list of foods you're forbidden to eat
- A crash diet, cleanse, detox, or fat-burner protocol
- Medical nutrition therapy or treatment for a medical condition
- A guarantee of a specific number by a specific date
- Something that works without your honest input each week
- A punishment for the way you've been eating
Tally Body provides nutrition coaching and education for generally healthy adults. It is not medical or dietetic care, and it is not a substitute for advice from your physician or a registered dietitian. If you have a medical condition, take medication affected by diet, are pregnant, or have a history of disordered eating, please work with your healthcare provider — we're glad to coach alongside their guidance.
What's Included
Everything that comes with nutrition coaching.
Every nutrition client gets all of the following, whether or not they also train with Tally Body.
Built around your goal, your training load, your schedule, and your preferences — then revised as your body responds.
Two or three specific habits at a time, practiced until they're automatic. The order they come in is chosen for you.
You report how the week actually went. Your coach reads it, responds, and changes the plan where it needs changing.
How to build a plate, shop for a week, and keep a short list of meals you can make without thinking about it.
Restaurants, airports, hotels, and holidays planned for in advance rather than apologized for afterward.
The goal is a client who can feed themselves well without a coach. Everything is explained, never just prescribed.
Inside a Check-In
The week gets reviewed, not graded.
A check-in isn't a confession. It's the information your coach needs to make the next week work better than the last one.
You send what happened: how the habits went, how training felt, your energy, your sleep, your appetite, and anything that got in the way. Numbers are part of it, but they're never the whole picture — a week where you slept four hours a night tells a very different story than the same week with eight.
Your coach reads it and responds with what changes and what stays. Sometimes that means adjusting a target. Sometimes it means holding everything steady and giving the plan another week to show its work. Sometimes it means dropping a habit that isn't fitting your life and replacing it with one that will.
What it never means is a lecture about the days that didn't go well.
Honest check-ins are the ones that move the plan forward.
Common Questions
Questions people ask before they start.
Do I have to train with Tally Body to get nutrition coaching?
No. Nutrition coaching is a standalone service and plenty of clients use it on its own — including people who train somewhere else, train on their own, or aren't training much yet.
If you do train with Tally Body, the two are built to support each other: your targets are set around the work your program is asking you to do.
Do I have to count calories or weigh my food?
Only if it suits you. Tracking is one tool, and for some people it's the fastest way to learn what they're actually eating. For others it's stressful and it doesn't last.
If tracking isn't right for you, we coach with portions, plate-building, and habits instead. The results come from consistency, not from the app.
Will you send me a meal plan?
Not the rigid kind — a printed seven-day menu tells you what to eat for a week and teaches you nothing for the fifty-one that follow.
What you get instead is targets, meal-building guidance, sample days and structures you can rotate, and help turning the food you already like into meals that fit your goal.
Are any foods off limits?
No. There's no banned list and no food that makes a week a failure. Foods differ in how well they help you hit your targets and how full they keep you, and that's a matter of strategy rather than morality.
What we work on is how often, how much, and what surrounds it.
What if I have allergies, dietary restrictions, or I don't eat meat?
That's normal and it's built in from the start. Allergies, intolerances, religious or ethical restrictions, foods you simply hate, a partner or family you cook for — all of it goes into the plan rather than getting worked around later.
Tell us on the application so the first version already fits.
How fast will I see results?
Most clients notice how they feel — energy, hunger, training quality — before they notice the scale, often within the first few weeks. Visible change takes longer and depends on where you're starting, how consistent you can be, and what your goal actually is.
Nobody here will promise you a number by a date. What we will do is show you what's moving, and adjust when it stops.
What happens if I have a bad week?
You report it honestly and we work with it. A bad week is information, not a reason to start over — and it's usually the most useful check-in of the month, because it shows exactly where the plan doesn't fit your life yet.
Nothing resets. We adjust and keep going.
Is this the same as seeing a dietitian?
No. Tally Body provides nutrition coaching and education for generally healthy adults — habits, targets, and skills to support training and body composition. It is not medical nutrition therapy and it does not treat medical conditions.
If you have a medical condition, take medication affected by diet, are pregnant, or have a history of disordered eating, work with your physician or a registered dietitian. We're glad to coach alongside their guidance.
How much does it cost?
Pricing depends on whether you're doing nutrition on its own or paired with training, and on how much contact you want. It's covered plainly on the consultation call — there's no obligation to sign up on it.
Start with the application and we'll go through the options together.
How do I start?
Fill out the application. It takes a few minutes and covers your goals, your training, your schedule, and how you eat now. From there we'll set up your free consultation.
Still have a question? Ask it on your application — it gets answered on the consultation call.
Apply
Start your nutrition coaching application.
A few minutes now saves half the consultation call. Answer honestly rather than impressively — nobody is being graded, and the more accurate the picture, the better the first version of your plan fits.
Application received.
Thank you — it's with your coach now. You'll hear back within two business days with times for your free consultation call.
If it's urgent, or you don't see a reply, email liqueantigone@gmail.com and we'll pick it up from there.
Ready when you are