Pregnancy, infancy and early childhood are periods of rapid physiological growth and development. Insufficient nutrition during these critical growth and developmental periods places infants and children at risk of impaired emotional and cognitive development and adverse health outcomes. As a result, many programs and services educate pregnant and postpartum women about the importance of good nutrition and encourage them to feed their children and families healthy and nutritious foods.

It's a familiar story: You pledge to honor a daily elliptical routine and count every last calorie. But soon, you're eating cupcakes at the office and grabbing happy hour mojitos, thinking, Oops, diet over.

I’ve helped people exactly like you - smart, ambitious, put together - figure out the one thing that eludes them: Their ideal weight. If you’re like lots of people I help, you don’t like how you look, avoid pictures like the plague, have a closet full of clothes you can’t wear, feel tired a lot, have tried working out, have tried cutting calories, have tried literally everything.