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Kelsey Cherry
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Kelsey Cherry
With 10 years of nutrition and wellness experience as a registered dietitian, McKel Hill has been where you might be right now.
She knows what it’s like when you don’t feel like yourself but also what it’s like to feel really great—it took her hitting rock bottom to have a health “ah-ha” moment.
Whether she was missing stress management tools to chill out or something in her diet was off, causing gut issues, as a true scientist in the head and artist at heart, she figured out the holes in her own lifestyle through trial and error.
“Taking care of ourselves is not only vital to how we feel but how we show up in the world for others,” she says. “There’s so much more to being healthy and happy than micromanaging nutrition, it’s a full spectrum of wellness that we need to nurture.”
Here, Hill gives us the story of her journey.
Launching Nutrition Stripped:
Nutrition Stripped started as a creative outlet in 2013, a blog where I could share healthy recipes that educated readers about the nutrition science of those foods, and health articles.
When I started this journey, I had about 80 readers a month (most of whom I knew). Over the years I’ve reached 1.5 million a month. We have people in our community who are all over the world, yet everyone has a universal goal: To be healthy, no matter what their unique definition of health is.
Nutrition Stripped has always been science-based with a component of what I call “the art of healthy living”—it’s those things that can’t be measured as precisely, like joy, love, support, and the things that make us feel good.
We need both sides, and my passion as a dietitian is to change the way people learn about nutrition, making it fun, accessible, and something you can apply to your real life.
Fast forward to our present day as a company, and we’re a growing start-up with online education courses, including our best-selling program that’s helped thousands called the Master Meal Planning program; a private practice where I coach clients around the world; a cookbook by HarperCollins; and—most importantly—an ever-growing free resource for people to learn about nutrition on nutritionstripped.com.
We have many exciting things in the pipeline of growing the company, and I’m so grateful for our Nashville community in supporting our mission.
For more of Hill's healthful tips and tricks, visit nutritionstripped.com.