Where Nutrition Meets Cultura
You deserve individual support from someone who gets it. As a Mexican-American dietitian, I’m here to help you build healthy habits without the guilt, restriction, or pressure to eat like someone you’re not.
Why Would You Work With a Dietitian?
Working with a dietitian gives you the opportunity to customize a nutrition foundation catered to your preferences, lifestyle, and interest. Instead of hopelessly looking for answers online, a dietitian gives you real answers to support your unique physiology.
Establish a nutrition foundation that works for you
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Working with a dietitian can help quiet the noise and rebuild trust with your body. Eating should feel less like a battle and more like something you actually enjoy. You deserve to be the one in control, not food.
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Regain control around food
You've followed meal plans, tried every diet trend, and maybe even given up tortillas. So why isn't it working? The truth is, most people have plenty of nutrition information. What's missing is knowing how to actually apply it to your life, your schedule, and your plate. That's exactly what working with a dietitian gives you.
Learn how to eat, not just what to eat
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I’m Leslie, your Mexican-American Dietitian
I grew up with a complicated relationship with food. Because no practitioners looked like me or understood my background, I learned to see my own cultural dishes as "unhealthy." On my healing journey, I was told to swap Mexican red rice for plain brown rice and to avoid "greasy" Mexican food. On top of that, there was no escaping the name-calling in my family with nicknames like “gordita” and “llenita,” along with the pressure to lose weight before my quinceañera — pressures that showed up not just in society at large, but within our own culture.
It took me years to unlearn all of that and heal my relationship, not just with food, but with my cultura.
Real change goes beyond the plate. Together, we'll heal your relationship with food, find balance without sacrificing the cultural dishes you love, and help you feel like yourself again.
Who I Work With:
Weight management
Prediabetes
Type 2 diabetes
PCOS/PMOS
High cholesterol
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
People who want to improve their relationship with food
People who want to establish overall healthy eating patterns
Why work with me?
1:1 nutrition coaching supports you every step of the way. You'll have access to a nutrition professional, in and out of sessions, to guide you through this process. My approach never asks you to give up the foods you love. I understand firsthand how confusing and frustrating it can be to be told you need to avoid your cultural foods to improve your health. With all the misinformation online, I'm here to give you practical guidance that fits your lifestyle — not everybody else's. Because at the end of the day, my priority is helping you feel good physically, mentally, and culturally.
My 3-month Cultura Reset Program goes beyond meal plans and macros. It's a space to heal your relationship with food, improve lab values without restricting the foods you love, and help you feel like the best version of yourself.