It's wonderful to have someone hold me accountable and guide me through the proper steps to achieve my goals. My coach is teaching me how to have a healthy approach with my nutrition and how to maintain that long term. I am super thankful for her steadfast direction and knowledge!

Before I started with Black Iron Nutrition I was convinced that the only way I could see results would be a lifetime of restriction. I felt tired and hungry all the time, and I was struggling in the gym. I knew my nutrition was the culprit, but didn't know how to fix it after trying diet after diet. Now, thanks to my coach I'm eating more and feel the strongest, healthiest, and happiest I've been in a long time!

I have found over the last several months that the consistency alone, even without changing macros, has been a huge help with my mental well-being and self-confidence because I have been able to maintain my weight, while steadily increasing my numbers in Olympic weightlifting.

Within a year of being with BIN, Lauren has taught me more than I ever imagined or thought I needed to know. I've improved not only my daily nutrition, but my relationship with food, my sleep habits, my performance in the gym, my self confidence, and most importantly my relationship with myself and my body.

I have genuinely never had such a great relationship with food or my body in my life. I used to beat myself up for “falling off the wagon” and would be so restrictive afterwards I was miserable. It was unsustainable and honestly just unhealthy.

I've never felt better in my life! My coach encourages me to focus on consistency over perfection. She's helped me to understand the importance of giving myself grace when life happens. I've gained tools and knowledge with Black Iron Nutrition that will stay with me for life.

I had tried more approaches to eating/“dieting” than I’d even care to admit. Diana patiently taught me to institute consistency and stability in my nutrition. My body changed, undoubtably, but my mindset shifted far more. Gone are the days of beating myself up for eating and constantly trying to eat less.

My coach answered my relentless swarm of questions with thorough, educated responses and always taught me the “why” behind the changes and decisions we were making as a team. Knowing the “why” had always been so important to me. The amount of knowledge I have gained is incredible and makes the journey that much better for me.

In the short amount of time that we have worked together she has helped me get back to creating habits that suit the lifestyle that I want to live! I enjoy cooking and meal prepping again and experimenting with new healthy recipes weekly, I have the energy and passion to get in some sort of daily movement and I am starting to get back some of the confidence I had lost along the way.

I truly think everyone could benefit from having a nutrition coach at some point in their life. You learn about so much more than just food. There are SO many factors that can affect your weight/body composition, and having a nutrition coach can help you make small lifestyle changes that will only benefit you in the long run.

For years, I took the "less is more" approach towards food until I started with BIN last year. My complex relationship with food began at the age of 10. Both classmates and adults taunted me day after day, week after week, and month after month about my weight. That led to a downward spiral of food restriction, hours of cardio, and me taking drastic measures to make myself smaller.

The reason why BIN coaches excel at their jobs is because they listen and they care. From the first day I started worked with Ryann she set me up for success by listening to my goals and developing a plan to help me achieve them.

It feels impossible to summarize all of my wins into one nice quotable sentence. The mental growth that my coach took me through will never be able to be put into an eye-catching "I lost 15lbs with BIN" quote, and that's the best part about BIN. It's about lifelong mental shifts and habits that will carry throughout your entire life, giving you the tools to reach any goal even after your time with BIN is over.

From day one your team has been fantastic. Communication about how the waiting list process works was amazing, giving me other options in case I wanted to get started right away, and then how in depth the process for admission was is just incredible.

Working with Ryann for the last 7 months has been life changing. Not only am I eating more than I thought could be “allowed”, I have lost weight and inches while gaining strength and stamina.

During the 6 months with my coach, I not only got leaner and stronger, but I gained a confidence I didn’t even know I was capable of feeling, and learned so much about my body and food!

I can't believe the progress my coach has helped me make, and the relationship with food that she has helped to mend; I mean, I eat 3100 calories a day now!

Through their guidance and through BIN's program I have learned to look at food in a completely new light. I no longer see foods as "good" or "bad", I don't dread social situations, and I am now confident in my ability to fuel myself with the nutrients that I need in order to succeed athletically.

Something that always made me feel stand offish towards the health community is the shame of enjoying our lives especially when it came to food. Not once I have felt this way in the last year. I was always given goals that were right for me and never once felt scolded for having a less than perfect week. My biggest thing I will take away though is how much my mental health has improved.

When I first signed on to work with BIN, I thought that it would be as simple as getting macros. But it was so much more than that. They helped me understand that my TRUE goal -- getting stronger and gaining muscle -- was going to require “eating the part.” BIN helped me repair my relationship with food and, during the process, taught me so many lessons about life.