My Story
Hi, I'm Amanda—a New Orleans-based nutrition and wellness coach helping women build a confident, lasting relationship with food and their bodies.
This work isn't something I stumbled into. It's something I lived my way into, through my own struggle, a community that grew around a shared question, and a realization that changed everything about how I understood what women actually need.
I never wanted to make women dependent on me. I wanted to give them the confidence to trust themselves around food and in their bodies.
Building this practice wasn't a straight line. It started in a kitchen and grew through six years of showing up, learning, and watching what actually moves women forward.
What began as sharing meals online (people wanted to know how I'd lost 60 pounds while still eating the way I grew up eating in New Orleans) slowly became something I hadn't planned for. Women were following along, trying the recipes, and still feeling stuck. That's when it became clear: it was never about the food.
Aligned was built on that realization. The women who find their way here don't need more recipes or another plan to follow; they need someone who understands what's keeping them stuck. Someone who will stay with them until they find their way through.
THE WORK
Everything here is personalized, behavior-centered, and built around your life.
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FULL BIO
Amanda holds a Bachelor of Public Health from Tulane University, where she also pursued graduate studies in Public Health Nutrition. She spent three years working with a local New Orleans farmers market, an experience that grounded her academic training in the reality of how communities actually eat, shop, and access food.
Six years ago, Amanda lost over 60 pounds. She has kept it off ever since. But the number is the least interesting part of that story.
Food in Amanda's home was never about deprivation. Born and raised in New Orleans, food has always been culture, connection, and craft for Amanda. It's a truth she learned from her grandmother, Mrs. Ellen Jones—a professional chef and restaurateur who understood that a well-made meal was one of the most generous things one person could offer another. It was a teaching she passed down to Amanda. Mrs. Jones died from diabetes in 2017. They shared a close bond, and in many ways, this work is a love letter to her. She carries both of those truths into her work: that food is one of life's most meaningful gifts, and that the cycle of chronic illness, which runs quietly through so many families of women, doesn't have to be the inheritance we pass down.
She works exclusively with women. Because until 1993, women were routinely excluded from research, clinical trials, and health conversations that should have always included them. The advice women receive today is still largely built on a male physiological standard. Amanda's methods are built around the female body, its rhythms, its responses, its actual relationship with stress, hormones, and change.
After six years of one-on-one work, her conviction is unchanged:
every woman who finds her way here already has more in her than she realizes. The work, all of it, is learning to trust just that.
Before I was a coach, I was a woman who tried everything and still went to bed feeling like her body was the problem. I have walked this road, and I know what it takes to find your way through. However long it takes you, I will be there. I lead with patience and I’ll never up on you.
I'd be honored to be in your corner.
