THE MINDFUL NUTRITION METHOD™ COURSE
Transform your relationship with food.
Transform your relationship with food through mindfulness, self-compassion, and balanced eating habits — without restrictive dieting.
A self-paced course for women ready to break free from food obsession and build lasting confidence with eating.
by Registered Dietitian McKel Kooienga, MS, RDN, LDN
THE PROBLEM
What's really happening
You're tired of thinking about food constantly.
You swing between "being good" and "falling off track."
You feel out of control around certain foods.
You avoid social situations because food causes anxiety.
You feel guilty after eating.
You're disconnected from your body's signals.
You know what balanced eating looks like — but you can't sustain it.
Because you've been taught to control food. Not to trust yourself with it.
THE SHIFT
What actually works
When you stop trying to control food and start learning to trust your body again, everything changes.
You rebuild the connection between your mind and body. You remove the "good food/bad food" mentality. You create eating habits that feel natural, not forced.
This is what the Mindful Nutrition Method teaches.
Not another meal plan.
A complete system for building confidence, ease, and freedom with food through three foundational pillars.
THE THREE PILLARS
Mindful Mindset
Reframe the thoughts that keep you stuck. Remove food guilt and the all-or-nothing mentality. Cultivate self-compassion and a positive relationship with food and your body that lasts.
Mindful Eating
Learn to listen to your body's hunger, fullness, and satisfaction cues. Build balanced meals without counting, tracking, or restricting. Overcome overeating and emotional eating by reconnecting with what your body actually needs.
Mindful Living
Design your daily routine and environment to support your habits effortlessly. Learn time-saving meal prep strategies. Create systems that make nourishing yourself easy, even when life is busy or unpredictable.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Module 1: Define Your Vision Create a clear vision for your health that taps into your true motivators — so aligned choices feel natural, not forced.
Module 2: Reframe Your Thoughts About Food Break the all-or-nothing mentality. Remove food rules and guilt. Build a positive mindset for balanced eating without restrictive dieting.
Module 3: Gain Confidence in How to Nourish Yourself Master the simple system for building balanced meals — no counting, tracking, or off-limit foods. Learn what to keep stocked so you can make nourishing meals all week long.
Module 4: Use Your Hunger Cues to Guide What, When, and How Much to Eat Learn to read your body's hunger, fullness, and cravings cues. Understand the different types of hunger and how to navigate stress, cravings, and emotional eating.
Module 5: Practice Being Present During Your Meals Stop mindless eating and overeating. Use the 4-step mindful eating exercise to connect to your meal experience and find joy in nourishing yourself.
Module 6: Design Your Routine to Make Your New Habits Effortless Build your routine so it makes it 10x easier to follow through on your habits. Learn how to maintain habits without needing to be perfect — even when life is busy or your schedule changes.
Module 7: Enjoy Cooking and Create Ease in the Kitchen Discover the time-saving strategy for meal prepping that could save you 5+ hours a week. Learn simple hacks for streamlining your time in the kitchen so you have delicious meals all week long.
Module 8: Cultivate a Positive Relationship with Food and Your Body Develop self-compassion. Track non-scale wins. Remove negative self-talk and body image issues that could pull you back into unsupportive eating habits.
Module 9: Embrace Your Feel-Good Weight Discover what your balanced weight is and how to find and maintain it — so your weight isn't drastically fluctuating and you feel at peace in your body.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
✔️ 9 comprehensive training modules with streaming video and audio lessons
✔️ Expert-designed tools, worksheets, and downloadable resources
✔️ Journal prompts, habit trackers, and habit builders
✔️ Built-in accountability, milestone markers, and reflection exercises
✔️ Email check-ins to keep you on track
✔️ Mobile app for on-the-go learning
✔️ Closed captions on all lessons
✔️ 1 year of access to all materials
Total course time: ~9 hours of streamlined content (no hour-long lectures — everything is to the point with clear action items)
Your pace: Complete on your timeline over 12 months
WHO THIS IS FOR
This course is for you if:
✔️ You're ready to let go of dieting and remove the stress around food
✔️ You want to stop obsessing over what to eat vs. what not to eat
✔️ You're looking for freedom around food and confidence in your body
✔️ You want to find joy and enjoyment with food without guilt
✔️ You're self-motivated and ready to do the work independently
✔️ You prefer learning at your own pace without weekly deadlines
This course is NOT for you if:
✗ You're looking for a quick-fix or fast way to lose weight in 30 days (this is about sustainable, lasting habit change) ✗ You aren't coachable or willing to do the real-life work beyond just watching the lessons ✗ You have an eating disorder or medical condition not under the care of an MD and RD (this is not nutrition therapy or a substitute for medical treatment)
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Reclaim Your Balance
Pricing Options: The Mindful Nutrition Method™
COURSE VS. COACHING
Which is right for you?
Not sure if you should do the course or work with McKel 1-1? Here's how to decide.
Choose the Mindful Nutrition Method Course if:
- You're self-directed and motivated to do the work independently
- You want to move at your own pace
- You prefer learning through video lessons, tools, and self-application
- You're ready to transform your relationship with food through self-study
Choose the Mindful Nutrition Way 1-1 Coaching if:
- You've tried programs before but need accountability to follow through
- You want personalized guidance specific to YOUR eating patterns and challenges
- You're ready for deep transformation with ongoing weekly support and coaching calls
- You need more than content — you need someone to guide you through the process
"This has helped transform my life...I feel happier and healthier, which is my goal."
“I was constantly going back and forth from restricting, to then completely the opposite end of that spectrum, I was binging a lot. I had really been mostly focusing on my weight and my appearance, and working through the Method, I really feel like it's helping me see that it's not just about that, or not even mostly about that, it's how I feel, how I'm living my life every day.
Changing my focus from just losing weight and my appearance to how I'm feeling and how I'm showing up for my days has really been a huge difference. It's really taken the stress off of food for me.
I really truly believe that this has helped transform my life. I have gone from feeling miserable and honestly depressed and very stressed around food to now feeling excited to cook and to eat, there's not so much worry, I feel more alive. I feel happier and healthier, which is my goal.”
— Kristin O., New Mexico
"What's really shifted is that I'm more conscious of what I'm doing and more present and that's had such a positive impact to stop overeating."
“Before joining the method, I was frustrated with food and I had a very bad relationship with food.
I had issues with binge eating, so one thing the method has helped me with is understanding my personal and specific reasons why I would overeat and the connection between emotion and food.
It stems from family history, issues of self-confidence and self-worth, and even what happened this week. Breaking it down and exploring how that affects my eating has been really helpful….I could really tune into those moments when I was highly stressed and frustrated, and angry, and how that translated into what I was eating…
What's really shifted is that I'm more conscious of what I'm doing and more present and that's had such a positive impact to stop overeating. If you're looking for help, then this is a very supportive and warm environment to shift your own self-worth and self-awareness.”
— Ann B., New York
"I really feel like I am at this point in my life, the healthiest that I've ever been."
“I was thinking about food all of the time. It consumed so much of my mental energy was just thinking about how am I going to eat, what's the right way to eat, how do I get into the best physical shape?
I just feel so much better now. I really feel like I am at this point in my life, the healthiest that I've ever been.
I feel like I am so much more in tune with what I need to nourish myself both externally — how does my body look and feel — and also internally — giving myself the time to really recharge and show up in a way in the world that I've always wanted to show up.
I’m looking at my health as physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, all of it, and that's something I've never done before with myself or my health.”
— Kelsey M., Washington D.C.
"It's a mindset change. Now I don't feel the need to get it right 100% of the time, or saying 'you can't have or shouldn't have.' Now I know it's 'What do you need to get that balance?' It's so different."
“I had all of this nutrition knowledge about what I should and shouldn't be eating, and what was good foods or bad or treats, but I was rarely consistent.
It sounds really dramatic when I say this, but I think it made me feel worthless...I'm not getting it right means that I’m constantly failing at something. And when you feel like you're failing at something and not being your best self constantly, it kind of makes you feel you're out of control or lacking discipline, which is all really negative and really chips away at you and your confidence. That feeling of worthlessness was there for years.
It's a mindset change. Now I don't feel the need to get it right 100% of the time, or saying 'you can't have or shouldn't have.' Now I know it's 'What do you need to get that balance?' It's so different. I genuinely don't think you would find anything that would do this for you other than the Method,”
— Pippa M., United Kingdom
Frequently Asked Questions
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How is this different from The Calm Plate course?
What if I need more support than a self-study course?
Meet McKel
Hi, McKel here.
As a mindfulness-based Registered Dietitian, I've worked with thousands of women over the past decade who went from feeling out of control with food to feeling fully confident and empowered by their food choices.
That's why I created the Mindful Nutrition Method — to teach you the same methodology I've used with thousands of clients to help them find balance with food.
It is possible for you to overcome these struggles and create balanced eating habits. You deserve to be free from food and diet obsession, maintain a balanced weight, cultivate a positive relationship with food and your body, and enjoy food fully without guilt.
I'd be honored to help you get there.
— McKel Hill Kooienga, MS, RDN, LDN Founder of Nutrition Stripped
What could change for you?
Imagine if food felt calm instead of chaotic.
Imagine trusting yourself around food — no more guilt, no more obsessing, no more swinging between restriction and overeating.
Imagine having the mental energy you currently spend thinking about food available for the things that actually matter — your family, your work, your life.
This is what becomes possible when you learn to nourish yourself with mindfulness, balance, and self-compassion.
Reclaim Your Balance
Choose how you'll invest in your health
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The Mindful Nutrition Method™
Break free from food obsession. Build lasting confidence with eating. Transform your relationship with food through mindfulness.
