Services
Weight Management
Kim empowers you with weight management tools so you can attain and maintain the right weight for your body and live your life with sustainable, health-promoting habits. These tools include menu plans, recipe design, grocery shopping skills, thoughtful supplementation and regular monitoring of progress for accountability. Are you curious about low carb eating, high protein/ high fat diets or perhaps you are exploring a Ketogenic diet/ Kim will explore all types of eating plans with you. She believes in a custom approach to eating not a one-size-fits-all approach to weight loss or weight gain. She will create a custom plan that's right for you and help you incorporate it into your life.
Medical Nutrition Therapy
Medical Nutrition Therapy, often abbreviated as MNT, is an evidence-based medical approach to treating chronic conditions with an individual specific nutrition plan designed and managed by a registered dietitian. What we eat is an important part of everything we do. Food gives our bodies and minds the fuel to think clearly and live healthy fulfilling lives. MNT can be the most effect way to prevent, reverse or minimize the associated complications of chronic conditions, such and Pre Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes and obesity. MNT is a covered service for most all major insurance programs including Medicaid and Medicare.
Eating for Digestive Health
Kim can help eliminate or lessen symptoms of heart burn, constipation, diarrhea, bloating/gas, weight loss or weight gain, fatigue, skin problems, chronic unhappiness, and poor sleep using nutritional approaches such as FODMAP diet, food elimination, and thoughtful supplementation. She will identify specific digestive health concerns, design a customized plan that meets all nutritional requirements, and monitor your progress.
Areas of Specialization
Children with Complex Health Needs
Kim has 20 years of experience working as Pediatric Nutritionist with families who have children with complex health care needs such as premature birth, neuromotor disorders, failure to thrive, food allergy, developmental disorders, and Autism Spectrum Disorder. She has built collaborative teams that bring together primary care providers, gastrointestinal specialists, developmental specialists and feeding and swallowing specialists. This whole-child approach is the best way to address complex health care needs effectively. Collaborative visits can be held at home, school or medical providers offices.
Nutritional Wellness Programs
Kim is passionate about coaching individuals, families, and organizations experience wellness as an active process of becoming aware of and making choices that will achieve and support a healthy and fulfilling life.
Kim is a dynamic speaker who engages her audience with relevant, evidence-based interactive seminars. She shows that food can be the best medicine by offering samples of specific health-promoting foods. Participants leave with practical tips that they can immediately incorporate to improve their well being. Seminar topics include:
- Crush your Craving....How and Why I Should Quit Sugar
- Gut Health
- Improved Immunity
- Portion Distortion
- Inflammation - Use Nutrition to Turn it Off
- Nutrition and Hormones - What's the Connection?
- Menu Planning to Lose Weight, Eat Better and Feel Amazing
- Thoughtful supplementation https://www.nutrametrix.com/kimlovelyrd
By the end of each program, individuals understand and embrace the concept that "you are the source of your own success."
About Kim Lovely, MPH, RD, LD
Kim Lovely is a registered and licensed dietitian. Her education includes a Master’s Degree from The University of Michigan, Clinical Nutrition Residency Program from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition from Mount St. Vincent University. Kim has been a practicing as a pediatric nutritionist and wellness nutritionist for 20 years. She has provided specialized nutrition to children with special healthcare needs and their families statewide, and has a reputation for being able to bring together an effective team of collaborative health care providers.
Kim’s lifetime passion for nutritional wellness and fitness has led her to her own personal goal of coaching one individual at a time reach and sustain their best lives possible through a whole foods diet, thoughtful supplementation, and a personalized approach to fitness. She provides:
- Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) for a broad range of diagnoses including gastrointestinal disorders, elevated blood lipids (cholesterol), pre-diabetes, overweight/underweight, and feeding disorders in children (tube feeding).
- Effective fitness/activity plans
- Kim's approach to supplementation is to do it thoughtfully and individually. She and her family use Nutrametrix Isotonic Neutraceuticals and if you wish she will provide access to the best supplementation to promote your health. https://www.nutrametrix.com/kimlovelyrd
- Menu planning, grocery shopping, food preparation
- Wellness therapy/counseling
- A healthy dose of accountability to motivate people to make and sustain change aimed at promoting the best possible results.
Payment for Services - Insurance Coverage
Adult and Pediatric Medical Nutrition Therapy by a registered dietitian or nutritionist is covered by most commercial health insurance plans and Medicaid/Medicare. Kim accepts and direct bills Anthem/Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Health, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Health Care Inc., Cigna, Tufts Health Plan, and WellSense Health Plan. Prior to the visit you may contact your insurance company to determine if nutrition services are covered, how many visits are allowed per year, and if a co-pay is required. Before the visit please request an insurance referral from your primary care provider so that visit will be covered.
Insurance co-payment, if required, will be billed following visit. Additional options for payment include; payment in full at the time of visit by check, cash, credit card or Health Savings Account (HSA)/Flexible Spending Account (FSA). Kim can provide an itemized insurance claim form If you prefer to pay for the service and submit for reimbursement from insurance or if you need evidence for use of HSA/FSA.
Preparing for Your Visit
Prior to your visit, relevant health information and nutrition concerns will be collected to make the most of the first visit. The initial visit will likely take one hour. During this visit Kim will:
- Review relevant medical diagnosis, medications and supplement use.
- Review typical dietary intake and activity routine.
- Answer questions and concerns.
- Create individual goals, recommendations and a plan.
What to Bring
- 2 to 3-day food log
- Insurance card
Visits are scheduled based upon client/family preference of time and location. Follow-ups can be in person or virtual using a HIPAA compliant tele-health platform.