adriabani
adriabani
| Forum role | Member since | Last activity | Topics created | Replies created |
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| Member | Mar 2, 2010 (16 years) |
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Bio
For the past 15 years, Adria has been finding ways to transcend the unhealthy eating environments of her youth and help others to do the same.
From 2002-2009 she worked as a public school teacher for underrepresented children in Oakland and Sacramento and served as a board member for the Washington Neighborhood Center, a non-profit community organization providing artistic, academic, and athletic programming to low-income youth of color. She completed a Master's in Psychology at San Francisco State University in 2010, with research focusing on eating habits and obesity.
Adria's driving philosophy for wellness is to recognize the importance of emotions and psychological experiences in healthy eating and exercise. She is concerned that most nutritionists and trainers try to achieve wellness through physical behavior changes that fail to take the complexity of the mind-body connection into account. It is her mission to help people 'reprogram' their minds, bodies, and habits to enjoy a lifetime of staying fit.
Overcoming her struggles with weight has been the impetus for her nutrition work. Growing up, she ate mostly processed food and rarely engaged in physical activity or participated in family meal times. After dramatically changing her eating habits as a teenager, she began trying to understand why so many families struggle with raising healthy-weight children. Through personal experience, research, and working with others who have had similar struggles, she has discovered a way to be healthy for life, and wants nothing more than to share this discovery with others.
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