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A team of experienced registered dietitians who educate, dispel myths & inspire understandings of food, body & eating. Cash pay and insurance based options.

Patricia Ford, Doctor of Public Health and Registered Dietitian, wants to help put joy and love back into your dietary lifestyle. Her mission is to educate, to dispel nutrition myths, to motivate for excellent health and self-nurturing through nutrition, and to inspire a new understanding of the creativity and joy of food.

10/19/2026

🎙️ Our New Podcast Is Here: Stories with Food 🎙️

We are so excited to announce the launch of Stories with Food, a new podcast co-hosted by Dr. Patty Ford and Dr. Doug Richards!

We all have a story with food. Some parts are shaped by family, culture, memories, and joy, while others may be influenced by rules, fear, or messages we’ve picked up along the way. Stories with Food is a place to explore those stories through conversation, science, psychology, and a little perspective shifting.

And there’s a new episode coming every monday!

Just in time for Halloween, we’re talking about your story with Halloween candy and the fear, rules, nostalgia, excitement, and meaning that can get wrapped up in something as simple as a piece of candy.

Because there are plenty of things meant to scare us in October. Food shouldn’t be one of them.

🎧 Subscribe to Stories with Food LINKED IN BIO!

It’s about helping you understand what’s relevant to your health, labs, symptoms, goals, preferences, and relationship with food.

Eat informed. Eat nourished. Eat without fear.

10/18/2026

Medical Nutrition Therapy isn’t about handing you another list of foods to fear.

It’s about helping you understand what’s relevant to your health, labs, symptoms, goals, preferences, and relationship with food. So you can stop the constant googling.

Eat informed. Eat nourished. Eat without fear.

10/16/2026

Nutrition fear loves absolutes:

NEVER.
ALWAYS.
TOXIC.
BAD.
DANGEROUS.

Good nutrition education usually requires more context.

Sometimes there IS a medical reason to limit, modify, or avoid a food.

But that decision should ideally come from evidence and your individual needs, not a frightening Reel.

This week, when you hear a scary nutrition claim, pause before changing your diet.

Ask:

What is the evidence?
And does it actually apply to me?

💾 Save this as your reminder to investigate before you eliminate.

10/15/2026

Nutrition science is rarely as dramatic as social media makes it sound.

Context matters.
Dose matters.
Your overall eating pattern matters.
And YOU matter.

This October, before we become afraid of another ingredient, let’s pause and ask:

FEAR…or FACT?

💬 What’s one nutrition claim you’d like us to unpack?

10/11/2026

Medical Nutrition Therapy For Food Fear

Your "do not eat" list is always growing

Pretty soon you’re left wondering…

What CAN I eat?

This is where individualized nutrition support matters.

At Imagine Wellness, Medical Nutrition Therapy helps you separate:

🔬 evidence from internet claims
🩺 medical needs from wellness trends
🥣 helpful structure from unnecessary restriction
🧠 informed choices from food anxiety

Sometimes a food truly does need to be modified for a medical reason.

Sometimes it doesn’t.

The goal isn’t to convince you that nutrition doesn’t matter.

The goal is to help you understand when it does.

Eat informed.
Eat nourished.
Eat without fear.

📤 Share this with someone who’s exhausted by all the conflicting nutrition rules online.

And if food has become confusing or frightening, visit the link in bio to learn about Medical Nutrition Therapy at Imagine Wellness.

10/10/2026

This is exactly why more nutrition information isn’t always better.

Sometimes it creates:

😟 anxiety
🌀 overthinking
🚫 unnecessary restriction
📱 constant searching
🥗 an increasingly smaller list of “safe” foods

Nutrition knowledge should expand your ability to care for yourself, not shrink your world.

Sometimes the healthiest next step isn’t another food rule.

It’s learning which rules you never needed in the first place.

❤️ Does nutrition information ever leave you feeling MORE confused instead of less?

10/08/2026

If learning about nutrition has left you afraid of:

🍞 bread
🍬 sugar
🥛 dairy
🍝 carbohydrates
🧂 sodium
🍫 dessert
🧪 ingredients you can’t pronounce…

We need to talk.

There is a difference between being informed about nutrition and becoming fearful of food.

You can care about ingredients.

You can care about disease prevention.

You can have medical nutrition goals.

AND you can still have flexibility, enjoyment, and peace around eating.

Those things don’t have to compete.

🎃 This October, we’re leaving the fear to the haunted houses.

💾 Save this for the next time a scary nutrition headline shows up in your feed.

10/06/2026

Scroll through social media long enough and you’ll hear:

“Never eat this.”
“This ingredient is toxic.”
“That food causes inflammation.”
“Those foods are destroying your gut.”
“This is the one food you need to eliminate.”

And suddenly grocery shopping feels frightening.

Nutrition information should help you make informed choices—not make you afraid to eat.

At Imagine Wellness, I want you to learn how to:

🔎 EAT INFORMED : understand the evidence, not just the headline.

🥣 EAT NOURISHED : give your body the nutrition it needs.

💛 EAT WITHOUT FEAR : leave room for flexibility, enjoyment, culture, and real life.

Because healthy eating isn’t about eliminating every food someone on the internet told you to fear.

It’s about understanding the bigger picture.

💬 What’s a food or ingredient social media has made you unnecessarily nervous about? Tell me below. We may debunk it this month.

10/04/2026

Through Imagine Wellness Coaching + our newsletter, we help you build a health toolkit you can return to throughout different seasons of life.

Maybe yours includes:

💧 hydration
🌾 fiber
🥣 meal structure
🚶♀️ post-meal walks
😴 sleep
🧠 stress support
🤝 connection
📱 digital boundaries
💛 flexibility around food

You don’t need to do all of them perfectly.

You need to understand which ones help YOU feel grounded—and know how to come back to them when life shifts.

That’s the goal:

Not perfect health. A sustainable relationship with your health.

📤 Share this with someone who’s tired of feeling like they’re always starting over.

And if you’d like help identifying your own health anchors, visit the link in bio to explore Imagine Wellness Coaching and join our newsletter community.

10/03/2026

Imagine that.

Not constantly wondering:

“What should I try next?”

But instead knowing:

“These are the things that support me.”

That’s what we’re working toward.

Not dependence on another program.

Not constantly chasing health information.

But confidence in your own health toolkit.

❤️ If you’re ready to stop starting over, leave a 🌿 below.

Address

12 Nevada Street, Suite B
Redlands, CA
92374

Telephone

(240) 277-6826

Website

http://drpatriciafordwellness.com/

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