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My Honest Experience With Nourish

Day 4: $100 Savings Challenge – Pause One Subscription

My Honest Experience With Nourish

Are you wanting to make healthy changes in your diet but don’t know where to start? Struggling to hit your health goals or feeling overwhelmed by trying to stay on track?

This One Small Step Is Quietly Transforming My Health (and It’s Covered by Insurance!)

Two months ago, I made a decision that I honestly didn’t expect to have such a big impact.

I signed up to meet with a Nourish dietitian. Not because I had a big health goal or some drastic change in mind, but because I was feeling a little stuck. I had been working out more, trying to be mindful of what I was eating, and wanting to better support my body through this full season of life.

I figured it couldn’t hurt to get a little expert insight, especially since Nourish is fully covered by insurance under our plan.

Honestly, I expected to get a few helpful tips on calories and macros. I didn’t expect it to shift so much of how I view my body, my energy, my relationship with food, and even how I approach rest and recovery.

But it has. And I’m so grateful. Let me tell you more about my honest experience with Nourish…

What Is Nourish?

Nourish is a virtual platform that connects you with a registered dietitian — someone trained to help you with everything from emotional eating to hormone health to energy levels and gut issues — all from the comfort of your own home.

Instead of handing you a one-size-fits-all meal plan or strict list of foods to avoid, your Nourish online dietitian walks with you step-by-step. They listen to your goals. They help you build habits. They offer insight on how nutrition, sleep, stress, and movement work together. And they empower you to nourish your body well, without shame, restriction, or overwhelm.

Why I Signed Up (and What Happened Next)

To be honest, I was hesitant at first. I wasn’t sure I needed a nutritionist online. I wondered if my health goals were “big enough” or if it would be worth the time.

But I also knew I wanted to take better care of myself. I felt a little foggy some days. I wanted accountability and clarity, and deep down, I wondered if I was giving my body what it needed to thrive.

That first call with my Nourish dietitian? It blew me away.

She helped me understand how the stress and depletion of the last few years — pregnancies, nursing, fostering, adopting a child with disabilities, caregiving, running a business, and raising six kids — had left me running on fumes. She walked me through how under-eating and under-sleeping were actually slowing down my metabolism and affecting my mood and hormones.

She didn’t guilt me. She didn’t overwhelm me. She encouraged me and gave me clear, simple steps I could take that very week.

What I’m Learning

Every session has been eye-opening. Not because of some radical overhaul… but because of how freeing and healing it’s been to undo old beliefs.

My dietitian has helped me:

Identify and challenge long-held beliefs about food and weight.
Realize how often I’ve equated worth with a number on the scale.
Shift from restriction to nourishment.
Take baby steps toward what she calls “food freedom” — where food supports your life, not controls it.

It’s emotional work, too. But so, so worth it.

Making the Most of Your Nourish Sessions

If you decide to sign up (which I highly recommend if you’re curious!), here are a few tips to make the most of your online nutritionist consultation:

Track your eating, movement, and sleep for a few days ahead of your first call (I used MyFitnessPal and my Oura ring).
Bring questions or struggles you want help with — even small things like “I snack all day and feel tired after lunch.”
Share your health history (I even brought my bloodwork to our second session!).
Be honest and open — this isn’t about perfection, it’s about progress.

How Much Does a Nourish Session Cost?

If you’re wondering what a Nourish session might cost, here’s the exciting news: 94% of users pay $0 out of pocket when they use insurance!

I have been sharing about Nourish for the past 6 weeks or so, as I have been using it and benefiting from it, and I would say that number they give is quite accurate as the majority of my audience is also finding that Nourish is covered by their insurance, too.

That said, every insurance plan is a little different — some may have a small copay or coinsurance — but Nourish does everything they can to keep your costs low and offers a simple insurance coverage calculator to help you know what to expect ahead of time.

Here’s what you need to know:

Most people pay nothing. Yes, really! The majority of users don’t pay anything out of pocket because Nourish is in-network with hundreds of insurance plans across all 50 states.
You can check your coverage easily. Nourish makes it super simple to verify your insurance and see if there may be any copays or fees.
No surprise bills. What your insurance says is what you’ll pay — no hidden costs or unexpected fees. All appointments are backed by the Nourish Guarantee to provide a no-surprise billing experience! Note: One of my followers was told that her insurance would cover Nourish and then that ended up not being the case. Nourish zeroed out her balance and didn’t charge her anything for the two sessions she had because of their Nourish Guarantee.
Paying out of pocket? If your insurance doesn’t cover sessions, the self-pay rate is $145 per session — and you’ll know that up front.

Why I Recommend It

If you’re:

Feeling stuck with your health goals
Battling low energy or brain fog
Walking through a tough postpartum season
Wanting to build a better relationship with food
Or simply needing some gentle accountability…

I highly recommend checking out Nourish. This is one of the most grace-filled, personalized things I’ve done for myself in a long time.

Ready to try Nourish?

Head here to check if your insurance covers it: Nourish Dietitian Program

If it does, you’ll get access to a caring, credentialed online dietitian covered by insurance who will walk with you, encourage you, and help you create a life that feels vibrant, nourished, and whole.

One Last Personal Word…

I had to share this text I sent to my accountability group a month ago. I still cannot believe that our insurance is paying for me to hire a dietitian — and I cannot believe how much it is changing my life and challenging me in such good ways.

Whether you’re dealing with postpartum changes, low energy, hormone shifts, or stress eating — Nourish takes a whole-person approach. Your dietitian helps you connect the dots between nutrition, sleep, mood, and overall wellness.

Day 4: $100 Savings Challenge – Pause One Subscription

It’s Day 4 of the $100 Savings Challenge and today’s was a much simpler project — and quite easy to do! But it’s little things like this that can add up to a lot of savings!

See more below on what I did for today’s project…

Before we get to the challenge, one simple way we saved today was to bring our own snacks on a road trip. Remember that great deal on Kind Granola Bars we shared recently?

I brought a bunch of them on today’s trip to Atlanta (we’re spending the next week here for a big baseball tournament for Silas) and that’s what we ate on the road instead of stopping to get snacks. (If you wanted to save even more, you could make your own granola bars. But I stuck with store bought today since I had gotten such a great deal!)

And now, onto the $100 Savings Challenge! If you haven’t signed up for the $100 Savings Challenge, be sure follow the directions to sign up (there are prizes!!):

How To Participate in the $100 Savings Challenge

Go sign up for the $100 Savings Challenge to get your free 14-day plan.
Every week day of the challenge, I’ll be posting on Instagram, Facebook, and here on the blog as I work through the challenge myself.
I will invite you to do the daily challenges with me and to share your successes! Every day that you complete the challenge and submit it, you’ll be entered to win one of 5 $100 Amazon gift cards we’re giving away randomly at the end.
You can participate every day or just some of the days — whatever works for you! But every day that you participate and fill out the simple form, you are entered to win!

Day 4 Challenge:

Pause or Cancel 1 Subscription: Cancel or pause a streaming service, app, or membership for the month. (Save: $10–$20)

I highly recommend regularly looking over your subscriptions to see what you are paying for and make sure you are using that app, regularly watching that streaming service, and utilizing your memberships really well.

Another thing I regularly do, is to put reminders on my calendar to cancel subscriptions and/or make sure I’m actually using them. Oftentimes it’s just $5/month here and $7.99 a month there, but that adds up to a lot of money spent over the course of a year!

So when I sign up for something that is a subscription, I put a reminder on my calendar to check in 25 days to make sure I liked the membership/subscription and am finding it valuable enough to keep using. If not, that gives me time to cancel before it auto-renews!

We had just recently gone through every line item in our budget to make sure we wanted to keep all of the subscriptions and memberships, but today, I went into my Amazon account and checked to make sure I knew when the auto-renewal dates were for the free Amazon Music and free Kindle Unlimited offers I had signed up for and made sure they were on my calendar.

I also went into Amazon Subscribe & Save to see what subscriptions we had and made sure I wanted to keep them (I do this regularly because I often order items via Subscribe & Save to get a discount and then cancel once my order ships.)

I cancelled my subscription to the Kind Granola bars and Finish Dishwasher Pods today. I’m going to count that as $20 in savings since it will guarantee I don’t somehow forget and get charged full-price for these items in August and September.

So we’re currently at $45.25 found/saved so far with the challenge. How much have you saved/found so far as part of the challenge?

Enter to Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card (we’re giving 5 away!)

Go sign up for the challenge here! And just for fun — and to motivate you to join us for the challenge — if you do today’s challenge and fill out the form linked here, you will be entered to win one of 5 $100 Amazon gift cards I’m giving away at the end of the challenge!

Note: We may possibly share a few of the best entries over the course of the challenge, so by submitting the form, you are giving us permission to possibly post your entry. If you’d rather we don’t post it, please note that on your entry.

Did you participate today? I’d love to hear how today went for you!