About Jena
Interview with Jena & FAQ
Please Take a Moment to Read this Before Hiring Jena.
How long have you been doing what you do and how did you get to be a Weight Loss Coach?
Before an eventual breakthrough that set me on my current path, I struggled for a decade with a very painful relationship with food and my body. I ate compulsively and binged, or deprived myself of food altogether. My unhealthy eating patterns and food choices interfered with my digestion and my metabolism, which deteriorated hand in hand as the years went by. For me the outcome was twenty pounds of weight gain, but also constipation, poor skin, lethargy, mood swings, and a sense of sluggishness throughout my entire system.
Possibly even more painful than the over-eating was the bad body image and low self-esteem I endured. This consisted of an endless cycle of negative self-talk that interfered with my ability to be present with the world. I felt that my body wasn’t good enough, could never be good enough, and that therefore I wasn’t good enough and in essence was fundamentally flawed.
A defining moment in my life happened seven years ago.
It was a time when I was still bingeing on peanut butter by the jarful and eating chocolate chip cookies in family size quantities!
Just when I thought I had hit rock bottom and it could not get worse, I heard my body telling me: “listen to me!” For the first time, I began to tune in and hear my body’s voice. As I learned to translate what was really at the foundation of the craving for cookies, I adapted my food and lifestyle choices accordingly, and was able to at last satisfy my previously insatiable hunger, at its root.
I was so happy about this, that weight loss became less and less my focus, and instead I focused on inhabiting my body gracefully, naturally, and without struggle.
It was a delightful surprise when I looked in the mirror and found my body becoming lighter and firmer!
I began dressing differently, I began relating with men differently, and I began interacting with the world differently. My commitment to my health became stronger and stronger because after all these years of struggle there was NO WAY I wanted to keep any of this a secret!
As my nutrition and health coaching practice began to grow and thrive, I kept attracting women into my practice who didn’t want “yet another food plan to follow.” They wanted to work on coming to peace with food and awakening the wisdom in the their bodies, causing a slimmer body to be a natural side-effect.
I have since made a commitment to dedicate my life to helping other women get the body of their dreams in healthy, lasting, pleasurable, natural ways through my workshops, products, teleclasses, webinars, online community and private coaching programs.
In 2007 I opened the Jena Wellness Center in Manhattan, a beautiful haven for the feminine approach to weight loss. It’s the kind of place that makes you gasp with both delight and relief as soon as you enter, a tranquil escape from a busy city.
I have come a long way from the years when I hated my body and distrusted my instincts. Now, enjoying food without reservation or fear, and without restriction or control, without having to worry about my weight, is built in to my existence.
And though it feels like a miracle, it is not. It’s a journey that I have walked, which you can walk too. The path awaits you. Come join in, and let me hold your hand as you make the first step.
Who are your clients exactly?
I work with women just like you – busy, smart, working women, entrepreneurs, corporate success stories, mothers, business owners, performers, etc. who are really good at what they do, yet struggle with weight and body image.
How are you different from other “weight loss coaches?”
My philosophy at its foundation makes the distinction between the masculine strategies for weight loss and the feminine strategies for weight loss.
The “masculine strategies” for weight loss are generally the ones we hear all about in magazines, diet books, and pop culture at large. They include: food restriction, a.k.a, dieting, calorie counting, diet pills, punishing exercise, reliance on willpower, and surgery. For 95% of women, these strategies do not provide the desired result of long-term weight loss. Instead, these methods frequently lead to a short-term drop in weight, only to be followed by a rebound, where the original weight, and often much more, is put back on.
My approach differs in that I focus on what I call the “feminine strategies” for weight loss. They include learning to listen to your body and enjoy it, learning how to relax, cultivating your sensuality, seeking the “soul lesson” out of the experience, and finding pleasure in food and life. This approach fosters deep change that permeates food choices, exercise preferences, and many other lifestyle factors, affecting your metabolism and leading to natural, effortless weight loss without even trying.
I ONLY work with women who are at the end of their tether with dieting and deprivation techniques. In other words, I don’t consult with people who are looking for a disciplinarian to help them impose an oppressive, restrictive food regime upon themselves.
What that means to you is that I am very focused on anything and everything that works for the modern woman to lose weight without selling her soul. What you get with me is no-nonsense, undiluted expertise on what works for busy women with a lot on their plates. And of course, a generous dose of fun, compassion, humor and encouragement is part of my recipe for success.
What type of personality do you work best with and what is expected of me?
The Pleasurable Weight Loss approach, be it through workshops, webinars, products or private coaching sessions, was created for women who are excited about losing weight, without handing their life over to the food police. This means not living your life in disgust with your body, in terror of food, or lamenting weight loss as a burden and uphill battle. My approach was created for you to put new strategies into place within a few months, which will eventually lead you to losing the weight you need to shed, and stopping the yo-yo “weight loss weight gain” cycle for good.
Being a high achieving go-getter myself, I’m known to work best with other high achieving go-getters who are super-ready to get going and want to know exactly what steps to take to get freedom from the diet game and the body of their dreams.
Consider what you’ll do with me to be an action learning course. You will have my full support to take consistent action, in a pleasurable and enjoyable manner, with a very different mindset, while you achieve this incredibly exciting goal: sustainable weight loss, without denial or deprivation.
For what type of person is this program NOT going to work?
Please know I’m very selective in whom I work with. I cherry-pick my clients, choosing to (gently) turn away people who aren’t suited for my programs and won’t get the results for which they would have signed up for. (It wouldn’t be fair to them.)
What exactly is the Pleasurable Weight Loss approach and what does it include?
Losing weight to unveil the body of your dreams, and then sustaining it longterm, begins with understanding your body, your cravings, your lifestyle, not to mention the food that passes your through your lips, and then creating a life where all of these elements work in symphony.
1. Live Without Measuring
I don’t like the D-word (“diet”), nor do I talk about food in terms of calories, ounces or grams, measurements that are difficult or impossible to live by. Instead, I help you gain a clear, intuitive sense of the quantities and portions that suit your needs, how to know when you are full, and stop there without feeling deprived.
2. Redesign Your Relationship With Food
Without healing your relationship with food, emotional eating can destroy any weight loss plan. I specialize in getting to the root of the matter, teaching you how to upgrade your relationship with food to one that supports the attainment of the body of your dreams.
3. Learn Performance Eating for Busy Women
When your energy is low, it’s very easy to sabotage your waistline with the habit of reaching for a sugary or fatty snack to provide a quick pick-me-up burst of energy. (I used to do it myself!) What I call “Performance Eating” is about having plenty of fuel to take on the demands of work and other responsibilities, as well as a generous surplus for everything else you want to enjoy: exercise, relationships, spirituality, sexuality, and creativity. I will teach you how to eat to have all the energy you want.
4. Implement Therapeutic Eating
Weight loss can be increasingly difficult if mood swings send you to the candy jar, if you are not sleeping well, if your thyroid is out of balance etc. Learn to use “food as medicine,” what I call “Therapeutic Eating,” to heal your body’s imbalances and deliver significant improvements across the breadth of your health concerns. For example, certain foods boost your metabolism so that weight loss is a natural shedding of excess, some assist good sleep and others generate stable energy and mood balance. This empowering context for understanding how to use the power of food as a healing tool, and which exact foods will help your body, gives you a whole new relationship with food for the rest of your life.
5. Become a Master of “Fast & Fragrant Meals”
Unless eating well becomes easy, fast and convenient, then back-sliding is inevitable. When time is of the essence, what I call “Fast and Fragrant Meals.” “Fragrant,” meaning so delicious that the aroma enters your nostrils and fills you with pleasure and delight. And “Fast,” referring not to fast food, but fast for you to whip up in your busy life. “Fast and Fragrant Meals” are healthy meals, that betray neither your taste buds nor your waistline, and take only 15, 20 or 30 minutes to prepare. I will share with you time-saving tricks for shopping for and preparing yummy and delicious food, so that you can nourish your body amidst your busy and full life.
6. Heal your Metabolism and Burn Fat
Stress, be it about work, relationships, money or how you look, activates a response in the body whereby digestion is impaired, metabolism becomes sluggish and at is stored not burned. Consequently stressing out about dieting or exercise, stimulates the opposite to the desired effect–weight is gained not lost. Relaxation, on the other hand, supercharges your metabolism and allows pounds to fall away effortlessly. I will show you how to fire up your metabolism so that you can enjoy the foods you love and lose weight at the same time.
7. Clean Up Your Whole Health
Weight loss is just the tip of the iceberg. As you bring the factors that are destabilizing your weight into the light and re-equilibrate your food and lifestyle choices, other significant improvements in your health typically occur, hand and hand. Low energy, sleep issues, mood swings, anxiety and depression, menstrual issues, cravings and emotional eating and digestive issues all improve, just to name a few.
These are the steps of the Pleasurable Weight Loss approach that I’ve created after working with thousands of busy, woman over the last 8+ years to help them fit into their favorite clothes and feel fabulous in their bodies, at last.
In addition to these 7 approaches, you will learn hundreds and hundreds of ways to find time to take care of yourself, reduce your cravings, make eating well fun and exercise pleasurable, boost your metabolism, and create a life that makes sustaining the weight loss you’ve achieved a piece of cake. 
Does this really work?
Yes! The result of our work is an approach to weight loss that, over time and with your dedication, works consistently to bring your body into balance and allow you to shed the excess weight that you no longer need. (See Client Success Stories)
What results can I expect?
You can expect to:
* Make your cravings vanish
* Lose weight without cutting out your favorite foods
* Uncover what really works for your body in real life
* Discover exercise you love, that fits into your busy schedule
* Learn to cook easy, delicious meals that melt away the fat from your belly
* Enjoy a positive, self-image and attract people who see you in the same light
* Feel confident that no one is thinking about how fat you are
* Look into a closet full of clothes you love, that fit your perfectly and make you feel hot
* Exude a level of confidence that will make your friends say, “Wow, I want to be like that!”
* Attract all the attention from men you want, and feel confident and safe doing so.
* Feel confident that your weight is not holding you back in life in anyway
* Feel energized and free from lethargy
* Lower your risk of diabetes and heart disease
* Have all the energy you need to create the huge life you long for
* Master time-efficient methods for eating healthier and living well
* Stop feeling like a weight loss failure and become your own success story
* Have more fun than you’ve ever had
* Work smarter, not harder, at weight loss and learn how easy it can really be
* Become an expert in the weight loss strategies that work for your unique body
* Boost your metabolism so that excess weight falls off you
* Heal emotional eating patterns
* Reclaim the body you know is waiting for you underneath
Can I contact some of your former clients to see what its like to work with you?
Yes, I encourage you to! Please go to the
How quickly can I expect results?
Obviously, this depends on how long you’ve been neglecting your body and how much attention you pay to the recommendations I give you. That said, virtually all clients see results within the first couple of months in the form of a new relationship with food, fewer cravings, better body image, and at least 1 size lower.
Will I recover the investment I put into this coaching program?
Yes! Many clients I work with are business owners, freelancers, service professionals, and entrepreneurs, and they are excited to report the distinct correlation between feeling better about their body and an increase in their earning power. Self-acceptance and self-appreciation are key ingredients in attracting opportunity and wealth, and the results of this program are not only “priceless” in the impact they have on your well-being and happiness, but can contribute to recouping the cover the investment made. I want you to stop reading for just one moment to ask yourself, “What would a lifetime of freedom from the weight loss carousel be worth to me? How much more revenue could I make if I was not bogged down by guilt, shame and heaviness?” Chances are, that amount will more than cover your coaching investment… something to think over.
What you’re getting with this work is a series of awakenings or AHA moments” that will move your weight loss process forward faster than you would on your own. Expect to get a lot of these as well as the resources you’ve been looking for and haven’t found until now. That’s what you’re investing in, results, not just more “information.”
How can I get an idea of your methods for free to see if it’s the right solution for me?
A way to sample my approach is by subscribing for access to my free video series “The Feminine Strategies for Weight Loss.” You can gain access by entering your name and email here:
Jena, based on everything I’ve read and heard about you, I know you’re the one I want to learn from. How do we get started?
Great! Did you know that one of the most prominent characteristics of successful people is that they take action? They take educated risks, are decisive, take action, and they move forward towards success faster as a direct result of this. It’s a well-known fact these people make decisions based on their gut instinct. So, that being said, since this feels right for you, then go for it!
The first step is to set up a one hour introductory session with me, either by phone or in person in New York City, $250. In this session you will get a solid understanding of what’s been holding you back from what you want and we’ll start laying out your personal action plan.
I can’t wait to see you succeed and am honored to be the one to help you. Let’s get going!
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