Make peace with food.
Trust your body.
Diets and restrictive eating plans don’t work. I’m Steph Hopkins, MS, RD — a Boulder-based dietitian helping adults and families shift from self-control to self-care around food.
“There is a way to honor our bodies’ inherent wisdom through self-care and compassion.”
— Steph Hopkins, MS, RD
What I offer
Thoughtful, one-on-one nutrition counseling.
You deserve a happy, healthy relationship with your body and the food you eat. Whether you’re an adult exhausted by diet culture or a parent navigating feeding struggles, there’s a gentler path.
All foods fit. No “good,” no “bad,” just food.
For Adults
Intuitive eating, step by step.
Break the cycle of chronic dieting. Learn to trust hunger, honor fullness, and build a calmer relationship with food in 4- or 7-session packages.
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For Families & Kids
Raise competent, joyful eaters.
Shift mealtime from a battleground to a connection. Grounded in Ellyn Satter’s Eating Competence model — practical tools for every age.
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My approach
Food freedom, backed by evidence.
Intuitive Eating
Relearn the internal cues you were born with — hunger, fullness, satisfaction — without the noise of diet rules.
Satter Eating Competence
A practical framework for raising kids (and adults) who feel at ease around food, from infancy on.
Health at Every Size®
Care that respects body diversity and separates health from weight, with no shame or judgment.
Body Positivity
Space to question the cultural messages you’ve absorbed and rebuild trust with your body.
Is this right for me?
Common questions
- What is an anti-diet dietitian?
- An anti-diet dietitian helps clients build a healthy relationship with food without using diets, calorie counting, or weight-loss prescriptions. The work focuses on rebuilding trust with hunger, fullness, and satisfaction cues — usually grounded in frameworks like Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size®, and the Satter Eating Competence Model.
- Do you do weight loss?
- No. Weight loss is not a goal or an outcome I track. Many clients see their weight stabilize as they end the diet-binge cycle, but the focus of the work is freedom from food preoccupation, not body change. If weight loss is your primary goal, I am not the right fit and I’ll tell you so directly.
- Are sessions in-person or virtual?
- All sessions are currently virtual — one hour each, conducted over a secure video platform. You can meet with me from anywhere in the United States.
- Who do you work with?
- Adults who are tired of dieting and ready for a different relationship with food, and parents of kids of any age (infancy through adolescence) who want feeding strategies that don’t involve pressure, bribes, or weight talk.
Ready for a conversation?
Reach out and we’ll find a time to talk about what’s been hard, what you’re hoping for, and whether we’re a good fit.