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About Zonya Foco – Nutritionist and Health and Wellness Speaker:

Zonya Foco, America's Nutrition Leader, is on a mission to win the war on obesity, type-2 diabetes and heart disease. A master of inspiration, motivation and visual humor; Zonya reaches millions of people each year with a common-sense approach to healthy eating through her TV show, Zonya's Health Bites, best-selling cookbook, Lickety-Split Meals for Health Conscious People on the Go!, co-authored health novel, Water with Lemon, and national speaking engagements.

In January 2008 Zonya joined Bob Greene on a national tour as a guest nutritionist and presenter for Oprah & Bob’s Best Life Challenge, providing entertaining and educational cooking presentations. As a nationally recognized expert on nutrition and wellness, Zonya has partnered with Health Alliance Plan (HAP) of Michigan to develop and present HAP’s award-winning Weight Wise program, launched in 2004.

As the only Registered Dietitian (RD) and Certified Health and Fitness Instructor (CHFI) in the country to have earned the prestigious Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, her boundless energy inspires audiences across North America to stop dieting and start living the healthy life they deserve.

Before launching her speaking, writing and publishing career in 1994, Zonya received her bachelor's degree from Eastern Michigan University and then worked for eight years as a clinical nutritionist for the Michigan Heart and Vascular Institute at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor. It is from these clients that she discovered the need for a countertop coach cookbook and in 1998 wrote Lickety Split Meals for Health Conscious People on the Go, filled with easy recipes and healthy tips for everyday families. In 2008, Zonya reworked the recipes and tips and created Lickety-Split Diabetic Meals (published by American Diabetes Association) to help those with diabetes in their quest for a healthier, happier life.

In 2005, Zonya's Health Bites began making converts to healthy eating across the nation. This 30-minute program airing on public television incorporates smart grocery shopping and lively cooking segments with practical exercise.

Launching Water with Lemon in 2007, Zonya joined forces with novelist Stephen Moss to introduce a new genre–the health novel–bringing readers an inspiring story of personal transformation that teaches her eight core habits for mastering diet-free, guilt-free weight loss for life.

In addition to spreading the word through her own books and TV show, Zonya has appeared on local newscasts across the country, nationally-syndicated daytime talk shows and QVC. She has been published in the popular magazines Prevention, Today's Dietitian, Total Health, and Fast and Healthy Cooking.

What Zonya Foco Talks About:

The Power of One Good Habit
Discover how the tiniest, most painless habits, when done daily can add up to a huge change in the way you look and feel. Make a different choice here, add a little movement there. Without dieting or deprivation you can rev up your metabolism to lose 50 pounds or take 50 points off your cholesterol in just one year!

The math is really quite simple. It's you plus the complete adaptation of one good habit after another that adds up to success, which adds up to a lower number on the scale and a much healthier you!

Eating Right on the Run
Join Zonya, author of Lickety-Split Meals cookbook, as she blasts through the no time to eat right roadblock. From the fast-food window, to desk-drawer delights and even healthy briefcase bites, you'll learn about the best speed-feed to keep you energized and focused.

Zonya also shares her unique strategy for keeping your kitchen stocked with her top 15 must-haves, and her virtually work-free solution for weekly menu planning. Discover one minute mini-meals and family dinners you can have on the table just 15 minutes from the time you walk in the door. You're only 90 minutes away from becoming an expert at eating right on the run!

Too Fickle to be Fit?
Are you in a fickle relationship with your fitness commitment? Are you falling short of your goal to live a healthy lifestyle? Are you eating the right foods in the right amounts but still fighting extra pounds, low energy or aches and pains?

Learn Zonya’s secret weapon to turning your healthy lifestyle goals into the success you crave. Always attentive to healthy eating habits, in this presentation Zonya focuses on the often-ignored and under-valued habit of – EGAD – EXERCISE! You may think you’ve heard it all before, but you’ve never heard it like this! You will learn how to think differently about exercise, be inspired to try activities you never dreamed you’d like, and learn about people just like you who have found an activity they now wouldn’t live without. When you learn how to make exercise as much a core habit as brushing your teeth, you won’t forget to do it or go a day without it. You will finally lose those extra pounds, discover energy you thought was lost to your youth, and move with renewed agility and strength when you commit to be fit.

Excelling at Your Career without Undermining Your Health
How you eat directly affects your energy, stamina, productivity and resistance to disease. And a demanding career and hectic family life can crowd out the opportunity to exercise regularly and eat right on the run. So it’s Zonya to the rescue with simple things you can do to sneak in exercise and consume foods that work like high-octane fuel to increase your energy and thinking ability.

You’ll get the competitive edge with Zonya’s nine-point eating plan for optimal energy and health while you climb the career ladder. Discover desk-drawer delights and briefcase bites that will help trim your waistline while dropping your risk for the big killers like heart disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes. You can be your best possible self at work and at home. Right now is a great time to start!

Surefire Solutions for De-stressing and Balancing Your Life
You have a good life…. but maybe you just have too much of a good thing. If you’re too busy, too tired and too stressed, Zonya has surefire solutions that will bring balance to your life and a bounce to your step.

When you’re ready to get a grip, Zonya will show you how to start by simply letting go. So take a deep breath and get ready to laugh out loud as you learn the restorative power of saying the word no. If, on the other hand, you have trouble saying yes to exercise, Zonya will share her secrets for ways to make working out work for you. (Yes, you really can sneak exercise into your daily routine.)

Stress is more than a state of mind; it’s a person without a plan for actually living stress free. Now’s the time to settle back as Zonya serves up stress-reducing strategies to simplify your life. Find out what ingredients a stress-free kitchen must-have; learn what foods can turn the tables on your stress level; and reclaim your right to live a healthy, vibrant life filled with energy and joy.