About Zelda Okia, M.D.

Are you a busy, ambitious professional looking for a weight loss program designed specifically for you and your needs? A program that takes a holistic approach to your body, your needs, your schedule, and your life? You know that frustrating feeling of doing all you ca

Are you a busy professional woman looking for a weight loss program designed specifically for you and your needs?

A program that takes a holistic approach to your body, your needs, your schedule, and your life?

You know that frustrating feeling of doing all you can to eat properly, exercise, get enough sleep, and yet you continue to see no change in your weight?

Or perhaps, you have experienced some weight loss success on a particular diet or eating plan, only to have the weight return with a vengeance after you finish the diet?

Believe me, I know the struggle.

During my teens and through my twenties, I never worried about my weight. I was naturally thin and engaged in various physical activities including ballet, gymnastics, volleyball, and swimming.

But as I reached my mid thirties and into early forties, I noticed my weight begin to slowly increase and become more difficult to keep it off. 

My first job out of training also did not help. I sat at my desk looking into a microscope for long hours during the day.

The job was also pretty stressful and I found comfort eating muffins and drinking lattes to keep me going through the afternoon.

As I entered my late 30’s, I developed low back pain that eventually led to a ruptured disk that required surgery. I gave up running. In 2008, I changed jobs to forensic pathology.

When I started my job in forensic pathology, I weighed my highest.

I did not look overweight and no one noticed the weight gain, but I noticed, and for me the weight gain was obvious.

Additionally, genetics was not in my favor. My mother, grandmother and aunts were overweight. I figured that my fate was also to be overweight...

In early 2018, I discovered Weight Loss Coaching.