Lose weight for the LAST time without the obsession
I combine Diagnostic Nutrition and Brain Science to help you overcome emotional eating, reach your healthy weight and live vibrantly over 50.
Where You Are Now
If any of these sound like you, you’re in the right place…
You’re always on a diet, or way off a diet.
You’re stuck in the cycle of starting and stopping; you do well for a while and then life happens and you find yourself falling back into old habits.
You go to food when you’re not hungry.
And you find yourself sabotaging your weight loss efforts. You wonder why you can’t get this part of your life together. Food is always on your mind.
You’re in perimenopause or menopause...
And what worked before is no longer working. You’re eating well and doing “everything right” but you’re not getting any results… and it’s FRUSTRATING
Excess weight is not the problem...
it’s the SYMPTOM of a problem
The ACTUAL problem is much deeper and usually revolves around using food for emotional reasons, compulsive eating, and your body not functioning optimally due to poor digestion, poor gut health, parasites, sluggish liver, low thyroid, or hormone imbalances.
The last thing you need is another diet telling you to follow a strict meal plan, count your calories, and step on the scale each week to be “judged” if you have been “good” or “bad”.
Knowing “what” and “when” to eat is such a small part of the solution.
Emotional eating and overeating can cause stress on the body, poor digestion, hormone imbalances, and gut dysfunction.
BUT stress in the body, poor digestion, hormone imbalances and gut dysfunction, also LEADS to emotional eating, sugar cravings and stress eating. This can be a paralyzing cycle that prevents you from losing weight.
The Brain + Body Connection
You must work to solve the actual underlying problems if you ever want to get to a healthy, happy weight and keep it off.
That is what I am here to help you with.
Weight loss is the natural consequence
of taking care of your body in the right way.
Let me help you end the fight against
your body, food, and YOURSELF.
Hi! I'm Tanja.
I am a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Kinesiologist and High Performance Coach and I created Fit + Vibrant LIVE IT for women just like you.
I combine diagnostic nutrition and brain science to help you stop emotional eating, regain energy, and reach your healthy weight so you can live vibrantly.
I want you to know what it’s like to feel good in your body.
I’ve seen women living life from the sidelines, not fully engaging in life because they don’t feel comfortable in their body. And I know what it’s like to be obsessed with food, stuck in the cycle of emotional eating and feeling like a failure.
We have one life to live, and I want you to look back at your life and know that you fully LIVED.
That’s why I created Fit + Vibrant LIVE IT. To give you the tools, personalized coaching and support, based on body and brain science, to optimize your health and live your healthiest, fullest life.
You deserve to feel good.
I care about your health and I care about you.
-Tanja x
Welcome to Fit + Vibrant LIVE IT
The Last Weight Loss Program You'll Ever Need.
How we will work together:
Let’s face it, this is not your first time trying to lose weight. You’re probably skeptical… which is a really GOOD thing. I want you to be skeptical. I want you to ask questions. I want you to understand WHY this time really is different.
When I asked my members how this is different from other weight loss programs they’ve done in the past (and they had done them all!) they said:
Fit + Vibrant LIVE IT combines psychology (brain science) AND physiology (body science) to help you optimize your health, overcome emotional eating and lose your weight for the last time, without the obsession.
We do it through interactive course work, and a small group and 1-1 hybrid coaching model so that you don’t get lost in the crowd.
Let’s break down why both the BRAIN SCIENCE and BODY SCIENCE are absolutely necessary for you to lose weight permanently.
The Brain Science
Overeating and going to food when you’re not hungry is not the problem; it’s the symptom of the problem. Unless you uncover why you go to food when you’re not hungry and harness the power of your brain, you’ll be stuck in the cycle of dieting, feeling deprived and self-sabotage.
In Fit + Vibrant LIVE IT we’ll work together to remove the barriers, challenges, roadblocks and anything else that can get in the way or have tripped you up in the past: emotional eating, stress eating, boredom, feeling deprived, hitting a plateau, vacations, special events- parties, birthdays- no support at home, when you don’t feel like it anymore.
You’ll learn how to get consistent and stay consistent, and enjoy the journey so that you never have to choose between ‘life’ and ‘being healthy’. Let’s leave white-knuckling it and feeling deprived behind.
The Body Science
Weight loss is the natural consequence of taking care of your health. However, what YOUR body needs to be optimally well is unique to you.
So many women are told that everything is ‘normal’ or that they need to live with their symptoms of fatigue, weight loss resistance, low sex drive, malaise, bloating, achy joints or poor sleep. They are often given a band aid solution such as antidepressants or antacids, or told that they just need to eat less.
These symptoms (fatigue, weight loss resistance, low sex drive, malaise, bloating, achy joints or poor sleep) are not the problem, they are the RESULT of the problem.
Rather than trying to treat symptoms, we’ll work together to build simple habits to optimize your health, reduce cravings and improve your energy.
This time, we’re going to do things differently. Unlike complex, restrictive or one-size-fits-all plans that you’ve done in the past, I’m going to help you lose weight and get results on YOUR terms with foods that you love and in a way that works for your lifestyle.
And, because you’ll also be upgrading the way you THINK, and you have a real coach (not an internet bot) to support you every step of the way you’ll be able to implement these habits without relying on willpower.
For the Women That Choose to Go Deeper We Dive into Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN)…
With the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN) Process, I test, I don’t guess, to assess how your body is functioning. I identify healing opportunities and underlying causes of dysfunction and create a personalized protocol (including behaviour changes) to support the body’s innate healing ability.
It’s time to stop the cycle of trial and error or piecemealing together advice you find on google or from different specialists. Together, we’ll look at ALL aspects of your health and implement a holistic, comprehensive plan to optimize wellness for YOUR body
The 3 Step Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Process
1. Intake + Assessment
- Comprehensive questionnaire and personal health history
- Functional labs (assessing hormones, digestion, immune system, detoxification, gut health, oxidative stress and metabolism to identify healing opportunities.
- Start making lifestyle changes while waiting for lab results
2. Results + Recommendations
- Once results have arrived, we will schedule your Results & Recommendation session (approximately 2 hours).
- We go through lab results in detail so that YOU understand what they mean
- Implement your comprehensive, personalized plan based on your lab results
3. Ongoing Support
- I support you through the process.
- Instead of a DIY program where you just get a handout of what to do, we meet biweekly for 1-1 coaching to track progress, to do any troubleshooting.
- The ultimate plan for coaching, support and accountability
Your Investment
Fit Vibrant LIVE IT
$2297 USD
or $2757 CAD (taxes inc)
- ✔︎ 6 Month Coaching Program
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✔︎ The Fit + Vibrant Online Course
Get my step-by-step course to gain control over food, make healthy eating simple, and overcome the barriers that have tripped you up in the past. -
✔︎ Weekly small group coaching calls
Smash through barriers, stay committed to your goals and get personalized coaching every week in our small group live coaching calls (current call schedule is Tuesdays at 10:30AM PT, Wednesdays at 2PM PT and Wednesdays at 5PM PT). Can't make it live? No problem! Many of our members watch the recording. You will have the opportunity to ask questions ahead of time. -
✔︎ Private 1-1 coaching calls
Get laser focused on your path forward as you charge toward your goals with 3 private coaching calls. -
✔︎ Exclusive Fit + Vibrant You Planner
Stay consistent with your goals and move forward without the overwhelm with your physical planner, sent to you in the mail. -
✔︎ Daily Coaching Notes
Build a positive mindset for change by starting each day with a coaching voice note, delivered to your inbox each morning. -
✔︎ Get support every step of the way
You'll never be on your own. Ask questions and get support via personalized voice notes to your inbox. -
✔︎ Community + Accountability
Be a part of the most amazing community of women who understand what you are going through and are ready to support and encourage you. You will also be invited to partner up with one other woman in the program for additional accountability and support (optional). -
✔︎ BONUS: Fit for Life
Tone your muscles, increase energy and reduce aches and pains with this step-by-step online workout plan for all fitness levels. Designed by a team of Kinesiologists, Fit for Life is a safe + effective strength, mobility + cardio training program for women over 50. -
✔︎ BONUS: Tanja’s Favorite Recipe Guide
Start feeling GOOD right away! Take the guesswork out of what to eat with over 50 energy boosting, fat burning recipes. Get inspired with these quick, simple, delicious and nutritious recipes
Fit Vibrant LIVE IT + FDN
$3797 USD
or $4556 CAD (taxes inc)
- ✔︎ 6 Month Coaching Program
- ✔︎ Everything you get in Fit + Vibrant LIVE IT plus...
- ✔︎ Comprehensive lifestyle assessment and functional diagnostic questionnaire
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✔︎ Functional lab screenings
Assess hormones, immune function, digestion, detoxification, metabolism and oxidative stress to identify healing opportunities -
✔︎ Detailed Results + Recommendations session
Recorded interpretation of lab screenings where I take you through each lab and show you that your symptoms are not ‘all in your head’ -
✔︎ Customized protocol
Know exactly what to do for YOUR body with your personalized protocol including nutrition , lifestyle, supplementation, lifestyle and exercise recommendations -
✔︎ Biweekly 1-1 coaching calls
3 months of biweekly 1-1 coaching for support as you implement your protocol - ✔︎ Discount off professional grade supplements
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✔︎ GI MAP
Paid in addition to the course tuition (pricing varies by location: $350-$429) -
✔︎ Option to add on Food Sensitivity Screening
(MRT or IGg; price varies by location) - ✔︎ Space is extremely limited
Here's What's Waiting for You on the Other Side:
✔︎ Get to your (or be on your way to reaching your) happy, natural weight without the obsession
✔︎ End the restrict/quit/overeat cycle and gain control over emotional eating
✔︎ Have confidence knowing the things you are doing are right for YOU and YOUR body AND that you have the tools to keep going to life
✔︎ Start creating the life you want and fully LIVE your life instead of using food as a pacifier
Real Women. Real Transformations.
Catherine now right tools to help her get her CONFIDENCE and freedom back... AND she's losing weight
Sharron lost 17 pounds and has reached a weight she didn't think was possible AND no longer fears or obsesses around food.
Lana has learned the skills to lose weight AND keep it off throughout the stressful times in her life, for the first time ever.
After decades of struggling with perfectionism, and the 'all or nothing' mindset around food, Denise mastered her mindset, discovered what works for her body and lifestyle, and is maintaining her goal weight.
"We uncover overcome WHY we struggle with our weight. I'm gaining confidence that this is what leads to permanent success. I've lost 11 pounds in the first 6 weeks. I am already making changes in how I think of myself and my future self. It makes me excited to think of that. " -Nelly
Which Program is Right for Me?
Fit Vibrant LIVE IT
is right for you if you answer any of these sound like you:
- You know what to do, but you’re stuck in the cycle of starting and stopping; you can’t seem to get consistent.
- Start the day strong but ends it in the pantry saying tomorrow will be a new day
- Food and weight loss are always on your mind and you want freedom from the obsession so that you can focus on other parts of life
- You struggle with emotional eating (eating when you’re not hungry because of boredom, loneliness, entertainment, because it just tastes so good, etc.)
- You are ready to challenge your past patterns, take new actions and get different results
- You’re ready to invest in yourself (you’re worth it!) even though it may feel scary or overwhelming at times
Fit Vibrant LIVE IT + FDN
is right for you if you answer any of these sound like you:
- You’re ready to go all IN to achieve optimal health and want to leave nothing to chance. After all, why settle for fine when amazing is on the table?
- You don’t feel like yourself anymore; you know something is not right but have not figured out the answers (or you’ve been told that everything is ‘normal’)
- You value the additional personalized support and 1-1 coaching
- You are stuck in the cycle of trial and error; you’ve seen other health practitioners and feel like you’re spinning your wheels
- You don’t seem to get results even when you try to eat well (even if it’s for short periods of time)
- You struggle with other symptoms such as insomnia, digestive issues, and fatigue
- You really want to figure out this ‘health’ thing once and for all
Neither program is a good fit for you if:
- You want a quick fix and are not willing to work on your mindset or change behaviours
- You’re a woman under 40
- Have no time or bandwidth to make a change. Getting to your happy, healthy weight isn’t a full time job, but it does take some effort and intention to make a change.
- You have untreated depression, anxiety or an eating disorder. I’d love to work with you eventually, but please get help from a physician first!
- You would rather hide behind excuses or blame your circumstances rather than take responsibility for your choices
- You are not open to being coached
Join a Community of Amazing Women who are Transforming their Lives...
"At 79, I started working with Tanja. I'm down 25 pounds, I'm stronger, more energetic and I simply feel so much better I'm working out, I'm stronger and my mobility has improved!"
-Bettejean
After a lifelong struggle, Karen qualified for gastric bypass surgery. She learned how to THINK differently about food and for the first time ever, was able to keep it off.
Margaret is down 17 pounds without dieting.
Ann overcame the all or nothing thinking and found FREEDOM around food.
Geraldine got to her goal weight, fits into her 'skinny' jeans WITHOUT dieting.
Karen is happier, more energized. I feel healthy again AND has lost her weight.
At 68 Carole overcame her addiction to food and lost 27 pounds.
Brenda has lost the mental weight, and is losing her physical weight.
FAQ
Got more questions? Schedule a discovery call.
Some people are able to use their Health Spending Account or health account through their workplace.
Regardless if you get financial help, our clients tell us that the investment is small compared to the life transformation they achieved.
If you’re wondering if Fit + Vibrant LIVE IT is right for you if you have very little weight to lose, or are at your goal weight, but you want to stop obsessing and worrying about food all the time, the answer is YES. If you’re asking if it’s right for you because you have diabetes, 100+ pounds to lose, are in your 80s, are a shift worker, or from another continent from me, the answer is YES.
Fit + Vibrant LIVE IT is a 6 month program. There are options to continue with our Alumni Membership for those who wish.
Yes. We have women join from all over the world. As long as you have access to the internet, you can join. We can access lab testing in most countries as well. If you have any questions, please email support@tanjashaw.com or book a discovery call.
This is like asking ‘how is an elephant different from Hawaii. They are COMPLETELY different. Diets tell you what to eat and when to eat it. Except you already KNOW what you could do or should to lose weight… you’re just not doing it consistently.
I teach you to identify and overcome the REAL reason you struggle with food.
Most women in the program are in their 50s or 60s. We also have women who join in their 40s (and 70s and beyond)
100%- as long as you show up and do the work. We have women who join in their late 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.
Because the program and coaching is online, we do use some technology. The course content is on my website (I’ll set you up with access) and I have a video that walks you through the course. It’s pretty intuitive though! You’ll need to use Zoom and email. Facebook is optional. I have a step-by-step outline on how to download and login to Zoom. Some women need a bit of extra help to get started, but once they do it once, they find it easy.
Yes. We have bonus workout modules, but Fit + Vibrant LIVE IT is not a fitness program. I teach you how to THINK differently. Even if you cannot do any physical activity at all, you can still do this program.
Many of our women have supportive spouses, and many do not. Your spouse’s support is not required for you to change your life. And if you have failed so many times in the past, don’t expect that your spouse will believe that this time will be different (even though it will be!)
Instead of saying “Hey, I want to join this program and even though I’ve failed so many times in the past. You know how hard it is for me to lose weight. What do you think?” say something like “I’ve just completed a short training, and for the first time, it makes so much sense. I already feel so much better, and I want to keep going. I want to take care of myself. I want to finally end this struggle with food and diet so that I can feel happier and I would love your help and support. Are you open to that?”
Most women continue into our Alumni program because they LOVE having the coaching, support, and ongoing learning.
Yes. If you’re interested in added FDN to your membership please email support@tanjashaw.com and we can chat about what that could look like for you.
You’re human, and it’s perfectly normal to be afraid to start again. So many of my members have told me that they filled out the form multiple times before hitting ‘submit’.
Yes. You will get private coaching from our coaches in both programs, and biweekly 1-1 calls in the LIVE IT + FDN option. On the small group coaching calls, you can choose to simply observe without being coached on the call. We have many women who don’t want to talk in public and choose to watch the program without a lot of interaction with others. If you are looking for personal connection on a small level, we offer the chance to be paired with a partner if this would be a good fit for you.
With that being said, changing your lifestyle does require time and energy/bandwidth.
From a time perspective, most women attend one coaching call per week (approx 1 hour) and do about 20-30 minutes of training/ course work each week. The pace is flexible and there is no behind.
Yes. Tanja, along with her team, coaches the weekly group calls, and the 1-1 calls. Plus, you’ll receive a coaching note from her each and every morning.
Fit + Vibrant LIVE IT works for all eating styles because it is not a diet. We have women who are vegans, vegetarians, have food allergies/intolerances and some who are following other specific diet plans.
In the FDN program, we work closely together to determine the best eating style to fit your preferences and lifestyle while helping you reach your goals.
You are able to watch the replays. Many of our women watch the replays. You are still able to ask questions ahead of time.
If you’ve had a GI MAP by Diagnostic Solutions or DUTCH test in the past 60 days and have not yet started a protocol, you may use those test.
Although we advocate food and lifestyle changes first, supplementation is one small part of the FDN process. Most women budget between $100-$150/month for supplements. We work with each person to create a plan that matches their budget.
No. We invest a HUGE amount of time, energy, and money to support you every step of the way and we know that our winning strategy works 100% of the time for those who do the work.
We are 100% committed to your success. That’s why you need to take 100% responsibility for your results.
If you don’t feel committed to this program and are not ready to make the investment in yourself, please take more time to make a decision as we do not offer refunds once you are signed up. We want you to be all in on this journey with us!
The podcast has a lot of great information, thank you for listening!
But that’s the biggest difference: the podcast is information, working with me is COACHING and SYSTEMS.
I lay out the path to get from where you are now to where you want to be and coach and support you every step of the way.
You can ask questions and work through YOUR specific challenges with someone who knows you, and cares about you.
Awesome! You can email support@tanjashaw.com or book a discovery call.