Jennifer Schonborn AADP

Jennifer knows what shes talking about!
I came to her in a time in a time of need — i was physically sick and felt like an old man in a young person’s body.
Taking a plunge in her program helped accelerate my potential as a person. Eating healthy leaks into so many areas of your life that you cant even comprehend! Your relationships are better, your mind is stronger and your outlook on life is more positive.
After working with Jen for 6 months, I have such a clear understanding of food and our relationship with it. I found my youth again and feel much better about taking on life’s challenges. I also found myself after every session wondering what knowledge she was going to share with me on the next session.
Jen was always prompt to answer any question that I had and she was very professional.
There are so many lies, misconceptions and fallacies when it comes to our food, which on the surface, seems like it should be so basic and universal. However, when we search up about nutrition on the internet, we are overloaded with contrasting information about subjects like juicing, fad diets and supplements. Where do we even start? And why are we not educated on this?
I have tried educating myself about nutrition with the internet and I have been down the wrong path many times. Listen, if you want to figure this out once and for all, Jennifer is your best bet.

Jennifer was wonderful to work with. She listened to my needs and offered solutions that were practical and simple to integrate into my daily life. She gave me the tools to manage a healthy lifestyle. For that, I am eternally thankful!

Jennifer is the real deal. There is so much misinformation about what is truly healthy food, but Jennifer helped cut through all the misconceptions and setup a diet that works for me and my family. I have limited time and find I have a hard time keeping to a regimen. Jennifer was like my nutrition trainer helping me with everything from trying new healthy recipes to setting weekly and daily goals. She always set me up to succeed with doable milestones catered to my specific needs.
When I first started to see her I was in a rut. But in the first few weeks, I felt like I was making progress and I’ve never looked back.
Highly effective and highly recommended!
Thanks Jennifer!

I cannot say enough good things about my experience with Jennifer. She truly listened to what I was saying and gave me interesting challenges to see how my body was reacting to different foods. I never felt as though I was being judged or told to do something that would be a huge change in my daily life. Through the program I gained a large amount of knowledge about food and diet. I have lost a large amount of weight without having to change my life style, just make more thoughtful choices. I highly recommend her services. Thank you for everything!

I initially signed up with Jen because I was tired of wading through website after website of trendy diets, magic pill supplements, 25 minute beach workouts and cross fit insanity. I wanted to cut through all the crap and learn the absolute truth about how to eat healthy and get fit. I kept hearing about processed foods, organic foods, whole wheat, gluten free, juice press… etc., but didn’t fully understand how they effected our bodies… until I worked with Jen. Jen answered my questions about these various foods, and taught me a whole lot more! Now, I eat healthier than I ever have, I sleep better, and I have more energy during the day than before I started the program. It’s a program that I can stick to for the rest of my life because I’m not starving myself of any one thing. A key point that led me to work with Jen is the fact that she doesn’t push vitamins and supplements. I had read during my research that some nutritionists will try to sell you supplements. Jen’s approach was (is) based around proper diet and exercise and she doesn’t try to sell you anything beyond that. I highly recommend using her.

I signed up to participate in Jennifer’s weeklong detox program, hoping that it would help me to lose a few pounds, reset my eating habits, and identify any hidden food sensitivities. My fears of being hungry and losing energy were unfounded – I felt sated and had enough energy to keep up with my busy schedule thanks to Jennifer’s support. I lost 5 pounds over the course of the detox week and my adult acne cleared up, and I lost 4 more pounds in the weeks after the detox. My plan is to keep the weight off and my skin clear by following the healthy holistic diet and lifestyle that Jennifer promotes

Jennifer taught me how to feed and care for my family (myself included) in ways I had always thought were beyond my grasp. I had resigned myself to a sugary diet for my older son with special needs who would eat nothing else, ordering takeout three to four days out of the week, and endless variations on egg/​cheese/​bread for my vegetarian husband who ate no vegetables. When my son came home with 10 cavities after a traumatic dentist visit, I knew it was time for a change.
Within two weeks of our first appointment, I was able to cook mostly at home, shop for the entire week (an achievement my husband likens to splitting the atom), get my older son to try new foods, and learned how to prepare vegetables deliciously. I had also resigned myself to getting colds 3 – 6 times a year and have not been sick once since our first session early March.
Simply put, Jennifer has changed my life.

After interviewing various nutritionists I selected Jennifer because she is easy-​going and listens to her client’s needs. I learned a tremendous amount of information by working with her, not only about nutrition, but about myself and my own habits.
She really highlighted the mind/​body connection which brought things full circle for me. Since working with Jen, I practice mindfulness, wholesome nutrition and green smoothies are now a staple in my diet!
I always felt refreshed and energized after a session with Jen and left ready to incorporate all the new things I’d learned. Years later, I can still send her a quick e-​mail about a nutrition related question and find her blog and her recipes to be very useful.
If you are considering a lifestyle change and want to incorporate healthy, mindful eating practices into your daily routine, I would highly recommend working with Jen.

Working with Jen for 6 months was a terrific experience. I had a huge change in my life (style) just prior to meeting her, and I was looking for someone or something to get me back on track. Once we started talking, she truly helped get not just my diet and food habits in check, but pretty much my day-​to-​day life as well. I’ve taken away some great long-​term solutions to my food shopping, cooking, eating, sleeping, and exercise routines. I just feel overwhelmingly better all around compared to 6 months ago, and I really have Jen to thank for it.
J Zwielich — Northport, NY

My thought in starting with Jen was that no one ever reaches peak performance in anything without a coach. This is true in sports, music, business … so why not health? Paying Jen to coach me on eating and living healthy in general accomplished just that. Instead of years of broken promises to myself, I made good changes that stuck. Measurable, too … 180 to 160 lbs. in six months.

Jennifer helped me kick my sugar and caffeine habits, opened my eyes to new veggies and grains, and made insightful connections between nutrition and everything else in my life. I was amazed by the depth and breadth of her knowledge. Our sessions never failed to be informative, interesting, and fun.

I’m really glad I stopped by to talk to Jen at my work’s health fair back in the Fall of 2012. Taking her 6-​month program has been one of the most valuable ‘courses’ I’ve ever taken. It’s so nice to have all the info I needed to make meaningful changes in my life provided to me each week in an easy to understand and practice manner. I was able to find out more about how I see food in my life and make tweaks to make life better and richer. I lost weight, learned to plan my meals, added small but healthy changes to my daily life, learned about myself (not just food wise) and how to improve my quality of life overall. I highly recommend it!

After several failed attempts to get my health and weight under control, I realized early this year that I needed to ask for help, since doing it on my own wasn’t working. So I got a personal trainer, and found Jennifer, who I describe to others as being my «food therapist.» It was incredibly cathartic to vocalize my issues with food, and it really helped me understand myself better. Jennifer is always prepared for each meeting, and after discussing your progress gives you these incredibly useful and enlightening tools and suggestions tailored to address your needs. Jen introduced me to remarkable new methods to handle not just food issues, but stress and sleep problems, among others.
My biggest triumph with Jennifer was discovering my gluten sensitivity, which had been plaguing me with terrifying digestive issues for over a year. She put me on a food sensitivity diet for two weeks, and my life without gluten is now better than ever. Some people go years before they figure it out, but thanks to Jen, my suffering was cut short.
All in all, I lost about 30 pounds while seeing Jennifer, and gained what I call a «food conscience.» It’s like a mini Jen in my ear, cheerleading me on and letting me know I can make the right decisions. Signing on with Jennifer is not like working with a traditional nutritionist. She really takes the time to help you help yourself, instead of creating meal plans and using a tape measure and in that way doing the work for you. Jennifer really is a counselor, and I promise your time with her will be quite enlightening and incredibly beneficial.

«I originally signed up with Jennifer because my gastroenterologist said he couldn’t help me after several tests revealed that all the pain, discomfort, and general GI distress I had been experiencing for what seemed like forever ‘must just be IBS.’ The anti-​diagnosis was frustrating, and I knew there must be a way to control my symptoms, so I sought out a program that would address nutritional issues as well as my own issues around food. All my life, it seems that I have been struggling in one way or another with a sensitive stomach and/​or my weight, and I had had enough.
I decided on the 6-​month program with my fiancé, and not only was it a really good experience for me personally, but it did a lot for my fiancé and, I think, for our relationship. It was incredibly helpful to me to have him sitting there while I discussed my food issues and strategies with Jennifer, and for me to hear about what would be helpful to him in terms of getting healthier. After years of feeling like I needed to deal with my stomach issues alone, I suddenly had 2 people who were supporting me, and it was great, and I believe that it brought us closer together as a couple.
Jennifer helped me to determine what does and does not make me feel good every day, which was a major goal for me, and the results were pretty surprising. I also learned to become a ‘natural’ eater, which was something that had seemed completely beyond me, pretty much my entire life. After helping me to find foods I can eat comfortably, Jennifer introduced me to techniques for eating which led me to slowly learn how to sense when I am full. This was something I had never understood before, and was jealous of other people for knowing. It is such a relief to know that I am now truly in control of myself at meal times, and that this is something I will be able to rely on for the rest of my life.»