About Anna Tai, RD, LD, CHT.
Registered Dietitian + Certified Hypnotherapist
I started out as a pediatric dietitian (Board-certified Specialist in Pediatric Nutrition) helping parents with kids with rare genetic disorders and also kids with feeding disorders, oral aversion, extreme picky eaters, etc, with great success. Then I started seeing adults for weight loss and soon saw the disappointment in that the conventional weight loss advice of eating less and burning more does not work for most women struggling with weight loss.
It's actually causing more harm, leading to nutrient deficiencies, binge eating, food cravings, gut issues, food sensitivities, hormonal imbalance, auto-immune diseases, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and low confidence. That’s when I realized dieting is the real metabolic disorder.
With my unique holistic nutrition therapy approach, I was able to help these women achieve the significant weight loss they'd never seen in years. And yet everyone eventually reverted back to their old eating habits after 2-3 months.
I was baffled??!!
It took me a while to realize that these women are actually struggling with poor relationships with food and emotional eating disguised as “I have a sweet tooth,” “I love junk food,” “I love sweets,” “ice cream is my weakness,” and using food as therapy for their stress, anger, resentment, sadness, boredom, safety, love connection, protection, etc. That's when I realized that nutrition therapy alone does not work in the long run.
What these women really need is an understanding of their deeper unconscious emotional relationship with food and eating, and their weight and body issues. That's when I became a certified hypnotherapist to help my clients achieve the most amazing rapid transformational results they deserve.
My mission is to help women struggling with weight loss realize that their weight is not their real problem. And that their weight is the symptom or physical manifestation of their deeper emotional wounds. Nutrition therapy alone does not heal emotional eating or a relationship with food that is built on stress and self-blame.
These women were not thriving, they're just barely surviving and coping with food. Food was never the problem. Food was tool for comfort, relieve, regulation and survival.
That realization changed my entire approach. I became a certified hypnotherapist and started combining emotional healing with holistic nutrition therapy. And that's when things start to shift - cravings and urges to binge calm down, hunger cues come back, digestion improves, weight loss becomes easy and sustainable. But more importantly, food is no longer a battle.
My work helps women rebuild trust with their body and create changes that last without diet rules, restriction or self-blame.
What I Discovered After 20+Years as a Dietitian
Over the years, I noticed the same pattern over and over again…
Women who struggled the most with food don’t lack nutrition knowledge. They already knew what they “should” be eating.
What they were struggling with was something deeper.
They were:
• skipping meals all day long, pushing through stress and exhaustion on an empty stomach
• taking care of everyone else’s business without skipping a beat while ignoring their own needs
• at the end of a long day, food feels like the only sanctuary or “treat” for a job well done.
• poor relationship with food disguised as “I have a huge sweet tooth,” “I love junk food,” “Eating calms me down,” “I can’t live without [your food addiction]," and my personal favorite, “I’m addicted to food.”
This pattern weren’t due to a lack of discipline or willpower or because you love food so much.
They were the result of stress, undereating, and emotional depletion.
Conventional nutrition advice does not address any of these, but keeping telling these women to “push harder,” because “you’re not trying hard enough.”
And that’s why all those diets you’ve tried in the past keep failing them.
Over the years, I shifted my work to focus on the deeper drivers of eating behavior.
Because lasting change doesn’t come from stricter food rules.
It comes from understanding the biology and psychology behind your patterns.
My approach focuses on three things:
Stabilizing energy during the day
When women stop under-fueling their bodies, their metabolism and brain function change dramatically.Breaking the evening craving cycle
Nighttime overeating often happens when the body is trying to catch up on an energy deficit created earlier in the day.Rebuilding a peaceful relationship with food
When stress, guilt, and restriction disappear, food stops feeling like a battle.
This work combines nutrition science with behavioral change techniques that help shift the patterns driving eating behaviors.
Because knowledge alone doesn’t change habits.
Understanding how the brain forms patterns does.
A New Approach to Eating & Metabolic Health
Why This Approach Works?
Many of the women I work with have spent years feeling ashamed of their relationship with food and their body.
They believe they lack discipline.
But in reality, they’ve been operating under extreme pressure for years.
When their bodies finally ask for relief, food becomes the easiest outlet.
Once we address the real drivers behind those patterns, something remarkable happens.
Cravings calm down.
Energy stabilizes.
Food stops taking up so much mental space.
And women finally feel in control again.
Not through restriction, but through understanding their bodies.
What Becomes Possible
When women understand how their bodies actually work, everything shifts.
Food stops feeling like a daily struggle.
Energy becomes steady instead of crashing in the evening.
Cravings lose their power.
And for the first time in years, they feel calm and confident around food.
That’s the work I help my clients do.
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My Credentials
Registered Dietitian
since 2004
Now accepting new patients in the following states:
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas, Virginia
Certified Hypnotherapist
since 2020
Board-Certified Specialist in Pediatric Nutrition
2009- 2024