About Me
If you want to learn more about me, you’re in the right place! Read on to find out why I created this website and how I could help you.
My nutrition journey
Welcome to offadiet.com! An internet haven for people who’ve had their fair share of struggles with diets and the negative feelings that they can stir. A website that fights the diet mentality and promotes balanced eating for wellness and for physical, mental, and emotional health.
Here we are always OFF any weight loss diet. We recover from them, focus on nutrition that helps the body and mind thrive, and re-discover life without dieting.
My name is Eleni and I’m really happy you’re here. I created this website to help you stop your perpetual cycle of dieting and get on good terms with food and your body again.
I am a Certified Nutrition & Dietetics Technician with an internship on clinical nutrition. Ever since the beginning of my studies in the nutrition field I’ve been looking for ways to cultivate a different approach to the subject of nutrition. One that would not involve extreme limitations, feelings of deprivation, distorted body image, and so many other negative impacts of a diet on a person’s life, that usually backfire and bring the opposite results than the ones anticipated. And it is important to point out that I’m talking about weight loss diets and not other kinds of special diets with a specific purpose.
As a woman who spent many years of her life clouded by the diet mentality, and also as a parent of two girls who wanted them to grow up with a healthy attitude towards food, I took the word “diet” out of our vocabulary a long time ago. And I am on a mission to help as many people as I can do the same.
As a nutrition professional, as a person who respects diversity and human rights, and as a woman who has experienced weight stigma both directly and indirectly, I am against any kind of weight or size discrimination. I openly fight weight bias and weight stigma, as well as the diet culture which I believe to be the root cause.
As a non-diet nutrition coach, I created the off a diet approach which aims to promote health at all levels, help you rethink and reassess deeply rooted opinions about body image and nutrition, and reclaim a balanced relationship with food and your body.
My Yoga Journey
I started practicing yoga more than ten years ago. From the very beginning, I could feel that it made a difference not just in the way that my body was moving and functioning but also in the way I would think about and react to my life events. It also positively affected my relationships with my people and that with food and my body.
During the pandemic, I would always turn to my yoga practice to find relief from difficult emotions and comfort. In 2022, I decided to dive deeper into the philosophy and practice of yoga and I am now an RYT 200 Yoga Teacher, certified by Yoga Alliance.
My Digital Footprint
I absolutely love the written word! I read anything expressed in writing. In the online world I write articles and content for social media posts. I am also into web design and copywriting, particularly for sites in the health, wellness and exercise industries.
I have had an internet presence for over a decade with various blogs on healthy eating and cooking. I decided to make this website because I needed an internet home from where I could inform people about the non-diet way to eat and live, and to help those who have had a rough time because of the diet culture. If you want to learn more about my education and work experience, you can visit my LinkedIn profile.
I welcome you here and I urge you to browse through and look for the information you need. If you decide that you need my help, I would be happy to answer your questions or guide you through any stage of your off-a-diet journey.
