Bio

Melissa is a Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist and owner of Melissa Mitri Nutrition. Melissa specializes in helping women achieve sustainable weight loss without the yo-yo weight cycling of strict diets. She helps women who struggle with emotional eating, helping them to find healthier coping mechanisms, improve their relationship with food, and finally lose the weight for good.

Melissa also teaches women how to nourish their bodies during pregnancy, manage pregnancy symptoms that can affect nutrition, and support them to achieve a healthy weight gain. She helps women lose the weight after pregnancy in a healthy, sustainable way. Melissa also helps women who are breastfeeding assure they assure they are getting enough of the proper nutrients needed for baby's development, and help moms manage the often intense cravings as a result of breastfeeding.

Melissa’s approach to nutrition counseling is completely judgement-free. She helps her clients by first determining the root cause of their eating habits, addressing proper nutrition and creating balanced meals, and then setting up a plan to maintain consistent healthy habits. She incorporates a lot of mindful and intuitive eating techniques in her sessions, helping her clients get to a point of maintaining a weight that feels good for them, that they can happily maintain without so much restriction.

Special experience

Extensive experience in weight management as well as postpartum weight loss

Lived experiences

I am a mom of 2 toddler boys, and throughout pregnancy and in raising infants and toddlers, I have a lot of firsthand experience of the challenges of eating well and focusing on yourself during this time. I myself have learned so much and developed strategies that have helped me adopt sustainable healthy habits and maintain my weight for over 2 years. I help my clients to develop these same strategies so they can be their best self for their children.

Additional Information

I am so passionate in helping moms achieve a healthy lifestyle.

Location

Milford, CT

Fee

$180 for initial session, $90 for follow up sessions

Do you focus on serving the perinatal community?

No

Appointment Types

Office

Phone / virtual / remote