Nutrition Counseling
Eating Right
Are you struggling to lose weight and keep it off?
Would you like to have more energy?
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Do you want to gain more muscle definition?
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Do you want to know how to eat to fuel your sport and perform at your best?
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Do you need to change your eating to improve your health or manage a medical condition?
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Do you want to finally make peace with your body and food?
Eating right to solve any of these problems may seem easy, but in the real world can be difficult, confusing, and tough to navigate. Take advantage of Gabbi's nutrition expertise and practical experience to find the solution that works for you. Gabbi will listen to your unique needs and guide you with the personalized education, tools, and eating approach that suits your life and enables you to reach your goals.​​​
Gabbi's Approach as a Registered Dietitian
A Registered Dietitian and Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics who overcame a lifetime of struggles with food and weight, Gabbi knows that what you eat is more than just a vital part of managing your weight and getting results. Your nutrition is a key factor in your lifestyle, wellbeing, energy, exercise, stress, health, and happiness.
Whether you want to lose weight, build muscle, have more energy, manage a medical condition, fuel exercise/ sport, or just feel better, Gabbi helps you find the nutrition plan that yields the results you want and teaches you the habits you need to feel good about food and your body.
Gabbi's extensive training as a Registered Dietitian & Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics will help you separate nutrition fact from fiction and dispel confusing myths about what really works for lasting results. She gives you specialized and comprehensive advice to complement your fitness program, get the best possible results, and address any specific medical needs.
Gabbi also brings a high level of empathy from her personal experience as a client who worked long and hard to overcome an eating disorder and a lifetime of struggles with food and weight. Gabbi not only teaches you sound nutrition information and personalized eating strategies, but can relate to your real-life challenges.
Gabbi starts by learning all about your medical and health history, current eating habits, food preferences, and the struggles you're facing. Then she teaches you about what to eat and how to combine foods in ways that work for you so you can lose fat, build muscle, keep your energy up, reduce cravings, improve your health, and eliminate any negative symptoms.
Using a compassionate and individualized non-diet approach, Gabbi works with you to devise a personalized nutrition plan that provides plenty of options and incorporates your favorite foods. Your plan is tailored to your lifestyle, goals, likes, and dislikes, as well as your special needs and cultural preferences.
Gabbi will also help you overcome real-life challenges like navigating the grocery store, eating out, cravings, and emotional eating. She focuses on helping you developing nutrition habits that enable you to reach your goals, see results, enjoy your food, and developing lifelong healthy habits.
No more diets, quick fixes, deprivation, or lack of personalization - Gabbi will teach you a healthy, enjoyable way of eating that helps you eat the right foods, look and feel your best, and make peace with your body for life.
Areas Of Specialization
Gabbi Berkow specializes in nutrition counseling for:
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Weight loss
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Eating to have more energy
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Eating to fuel exercise
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Eating to build muscle
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Sports nutrition and nutrition for dancers
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Binge eating
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Emotional eating
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Eating disorders (bulimia, orthorexia, binge eating disorder, anorexia nervosa)
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Diabetes and pre-diabetes
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Cardiovascular disease (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, Congestive Heart Failure)
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Digestive and gastrointestinal issues (IBS, SIBO, Celiac disease, acid reflux, and more)
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Hormonal imbalances/ Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
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Anti-inflammatory regimens
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Autoimmune conditions
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Osteoporosis/ low bone mass
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Vegetarian/ vegan diets
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Anemia
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Pregnancy and breastfeeding
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Metabolism & Body Composition Testing:
Gabbi offers metabolic testing that can precisely determine how many calories you need in a day to lose (or gain) weight, tone up, and build muscle. She also offers highly accurate and advanced body composition testing, providing measures of your body fat, muscle mass, water, and other components that make up your total body weight.
Gabbi uses the InBody 570, the most accurate and state-of-the-art body composition analyzer that can be used in an office setting. Your body composition encompasses how much of you is fat, muscle, water, and the other components that make up our body weight. Your body composition is a more accurate picture of your health status and weight changes than your total weight number, as differentiating between muscle and fat helps to ensure optimal progress (losing fat while retaining or building muscle).
With a quick and easy test that only involves standing on a scale for less than 5 minutes, the InBody 570 measures your:
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Body weight
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Body fat (mass and percent)
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Muscle mass
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Water and hydration status (total body water as well as water inside and outside of your body cells)
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Resting metabolic rate (how many calories you burn at rest)
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Fat distribution throughout your body (how much fat you have in your arms, legs, and torso)
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Muscle mass and strength distribution (how much muscle you have in each arm and leg and in your torso, and a measure of muscle strength in each area)
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Visceral fat level (amount of fat beneath your abdominal organs that can increase inflammation as well as risks of cardiovascular disease and diabetes)
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Trends in weight, body fat, and muscle mass over time
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Gabbi thoroughly reviews all of your InBody 570 results with you. She uses the results to precisely determine:
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How many calories you burn in a day
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How many calories you need to eat to lose weight, gain muscle, or maintain your weight
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Precise targets for fat loss and muscle gain
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Differences in muscle strength between your arms, legs, core, and right and left sides to be corrected in your strength training program
The comprehensive, personalized data provided by the InBody 570 can help optimize your results from your nutrition and exercise programs while enabling you to precisely monitor changes in your body fat and muscle mass over time.
Insurance Coverage
Gabbi Berkow accepts insurance for nutrition counseling. Coverage of nutrition counseling is dependent upon your specific insurance company and plan. Gabbi will verify your insurance coverage and benefits for nutrition counseling prior to your initial session.
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Gabbi is in network with the following major insurance companies:
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Aetna
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Cigna
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Blue Cross Blue Shield
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United Healthcare
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Oxford
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The Empire Plan
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Oscar
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Multiplan
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If your insurance company is not listed above, you may be eligible for coverage of nutrition services if you have out-of-network benefits. Gabbi will verify your benefits for you.
Please email a picture of the front and back of your insurance card and your date of birth (as well as the primary card holder's date of birth if your name is not on the card) to gabbi@gabbiberkow.com so that Gabbi can verify your benefits for nutritional counseling.
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Nutrition sessions can be done in person, over the phone, or through secure online video calls for your convenience.
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Contact Gabbi for more information and to arrange your personal nutrition session today!
