Our affordable programs are available for clients with varying requirements: Whichever you choose, you are on your way toward making more informed choices.

Metabolic Test ala carte

A 30 minute consultation including a 10 minute Korr Medical metabolic test, review of the results and tips on how to utilize that information in order to maximize your fitness goals.

The Metabolic Starter

A 60 minute consultation designed for those who are just getting started on a weight loss or fitness plan or anyone who has hit a weight plateau. Knowing your metabolic number takes the guess work out of the “calorie in” part of the equation. In addition to the Korr Medical metabolic test, this consultation includes a spot check of your 4-5 day food journal so you leave knowing how close or how far off you are from eating within your metabolic calorie budget.

The Basic Nutrition Consultation

If you’re simply looking for a professional opinion on your nutrition regimen or are considering making some minor body composition changes, we offer a 60-minute consultation that includes body fat analysis, food journal review, and overall nutrition recommendations.

The General Plan

Looking for something a bit more comprehensive? Perhaps you’ve hit a plateau and don’t know where to go from here? This 90-minute consultation includes a thorough assessment, body fat analysis and basal metabolic rate test. You’ll be given recommendations and meal plan suggestions based on your goals and metabolic test results.

The Customized Plan

If you have health issues, any type of significant body composition goals, or want to learn how to finally develop a healthy relationship with food, this customized plan is designed specifically for you. It includes two 60-minute appointments to start. After your assessment appointment, you come back in about one week for your tailor-made meal plan. You tell us what you like, where you like to eat and we listen. It’s your plan and only yours!

We all know that to lose weight there is no magic bullet or pill. We must take in less calories than we burn. But do you know how many calories you actually burn in a day?

Do you know precisely the number of calories you need for efficient fat loss?

Your Basal (or resting) metabolic rate (BMR) is the amount of energy expended while at rest. This represents the energy requirements for maintaining life, such as the maintenance of temperature, heart rate, breathing and nerve transmission. This continual work makes up about 60-70% of the calories we burn each day. Knowing your BMR will take the guesswork out of determining your precise calorie needs for fat loss, muscle growth or to maintain your ideal weight. Eliminating calorie guesswork translates into maximum calorie consumption while achieving faster results.

We use the Metacheck, by Korr to measure your resting metabolic rate.
It's a simple 10 minute breathing test and the results are available immediately after completion.

We all know that nutrition and lifestyle practices have direct effects on our health and well-being. We’re here to prove to you that even professionals with tight schedules can make all the right choices with minimal sacrifices of time.

Living Proof nutrition plans are strictly individual, tailored to a lifestyle involving frequent wining and dining, airplane meals, travel, and all the other vicissitudes of today’s commonly hectic pace of work and leisure. We’ll measure your metabolism, calculate your body composition, find out what you like to eat and what you hate, and design a realistic plan that doesn't feel like deprivation.

You’ll learn what the best choices are at your favorite restaurants, what to select from salad bars and how to eat on vacation, all while still occasionally splurging.

What can I expect with The Customized Plan?

Your 60-minute initial assessment will include analysis of your body composition (fat mass versus lean mass), Body Mass Index (BMI) and Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) to determine your current condition and daily caloric requirement. We will analyze your RMR utilizing a simple 10-minute breathing test. We will also discuss your health status, review your most recent blood work and ask questions to assess your current relationship to food. From this assessment appointment we will learn about your eating habits and the goals you want to achieve through our nutrition program.

A second meeting will provide valuable information and tools, including menus, restaurant guides, shopping lists, and more, that will help you successfully navigate most food situations. We will continue to be with you every step of the way with regular meetings that assess your progress, address any obstacles you are facing, and more.

What is RMR?

Your Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) is the amount of energy expended while at rest. This represents the energy requirements for maintaining life, such as maintenance of temperature, heart rate, breathing and nerve transmission. This continual work makes up about 60-70% of the calories each of us burns each and every day.

Why do you measure RMR?

Eliminating the guesswork translates into maximum calorie consumption while achieving faster results. We all know that there is no magic bullet or pill for weight loss. We must take in fewer calories than we burn. But do you know how many calories you burn in a day? Do you know how much energy you need for efficient fat loss? Whether you’re trying to lose fat, gain muscle or maintain your ideal weight, you can now eat the right amount of calories to achieve and maintain your ideal body composition.

How much is a consultation?

Consultations range between $100 and $360. Call 212-308-2990 for pricing details.

Natural Power-Fu Salad: Is one of my dietary staples. It resembles tunafish salad, but is vegan, all natural and literally contains ONLY tofu, eggless mayonnaise, carrots, celery and spices. It’s divine and so convenient.

Kavli Golden Rye Crispbreads: Are only 30 calories each. All natural, fat and cholesterol free; an excellent bottom to so many toppings. Try them topped with Power-Fu salad, cheese, hummus or avocado & tomato slices.

Organic Optimum Slim: My favorite cereal. In 1 cup you get 9 grams of fiber, 9 grams of protein, only 7 grams of sugar and zero chemicals. Its tasty, crunchy and the energy it gives you will last until lunch!

Bella bars: “Raw is the new luxury.” A great slogan for one of the best bars on the market. They’re specs read something like this: raw, vegan, around 200 calories, 4 grams of fiber and delicious!

Your Body Your Life bars: What bar do you know of that has 40 antioxidants, omega 3’s, 6 servings of fruits & vegetables and still manages to taste like a candy bar? Yum and yum!!

Amy’s frozen organic meals: Since 1987, before the word organic was a household name, the first Amy’s Kitchen frozen meal was sold. Now, 24 years later Amy’s is still #1 in popularity and sales in the world of frozen meals. All of the items are vegetarian, but not just for vegetarians. I know plenty of meat eaters who enjoy them regularly. It’s a treat to read the ingredients and find them all to be organic with no artificial ingredients.

Applegate Farms: The only cold cuts, hotdogs and hamburgers I’d eat if I were a meat eater and here’s why. Their mission: Taste. Strive to make the best tasting products with no shortcuts and only natural ingredients. Truth. Conduct our farming practices with integrity and treat our animals and land with respect. Trust. Tell all of our story. Provide transparency into our industry and to our consumers.

Health Source Pharmacy: Not just a pharmacy, but a full service health food store. I visit the location on 1st Avenue & 55th Street every Monday to stock up on Power-Fu salads for me and Jon. They are always fully stocked and if there’s something I’d like that they don’t carry, Tony, the friendly guy at the register, always orders things for me and calls me when they arrive. Why go anywhere else?

Josie’s: I’ve been a fan of Josie’s for almost a decade now. It’s natural and organic menu features free-range meats and poultry, eco-friendly seafood and a plethora of vegetarian menu items. The ambience is classy, yet casual. It’s the perfect eating spot for any occasion.

Zevia: The geniuses behind Zevia have set the bar extremely high for anyone else to make a better stevia sweetened , zero calorie soda. They carry 12 incredible flavors, including caffeine-free cola, Dr. Zevia, ginger ale, Mountain Zevia and one of my favorites, lemon lime twist.

What’s better than preparing a homemade meal that’s delicious and nutritious? If you want to eat healthier, but you’re not sure where to begin, visit this page often for exciting nutrient-rich dishes that will awaken your taste buds and trim your waistline.

For clients who would like to lean how to cook healthy and delicious meals, you may wish to visit New York Food Coach, where head chef and founder Jessica Taft can show you how to prepare healthy meals in proper portion.

Angel's Pasta	Baltimorean Beans and Rice	Chickpea, Lentil and Vegetable Stew
Dark Chocolate Chunk Granola Cookies	Bahamian Baked Grouper	Poached Eggs Over Rice
Superfoods Spicy Tofu Salad	Actually Delicious Turkey Burgers	Tuscan Vegetable Soup
Salmon and Asparagus in Foil Packets

	The China Study T. Collin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell “The most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted.” Anyone interested in improving their health and increasing their chances of living a longer, more vital life will benefit from reading this book.
	The Blue Zones Dan Buettner “Lessons for living longer by people who have lived the longest.” This book gives you a sneak peek into the lives of those who’ve lived past their 90’s and did so while remaining active, social and without weight gain. The book tells you how you can do it too!
	The Okinawa Diet Plan Bradley J. Wilcox, M.D., D. Craig Wilcox, Ph.D., and Makoto Suzuki, M.D. “Get leaner, live longer, and never feel hungry.” You will learn the fascinating longevity secrets of the Okinawans and how to apply them to your day-to-day life. This book is chock full of recipes and other practical suggestions.
	Mindless Eating Brian Wansink, Ph.D. “Why we eat more than we think.” An eye opening reality check on how we relate to food and what we can do to control overeating.

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They call it “the aging process”, a prettified term for a less pleasant reality, supposedly inevitable: that getting older means getting fatter and softer, weaker and slower, less often healthy, more often sick.

Weight gain, back and neck pain, declining bone density, falling energy levels, decreased cardiovascular capacity—these are the common symptoms of underlying decay.

At Living Proof we don’t deny the prevalence of these problems, just their inevitability. The truth is that for most people, the chain of decline commonly associated with aging ultimately has a single root cause: loss of muscle tissue. Preserve (or even increase) muscle tissue and the vicious circle can be turned virtuous. You get stronger and leaner, bone density increases, mysterious pains vanish, a feeling of well-being sets in.

Preserving and increasing muscle tissue is easier than you might think. All it takes is a 20-minute workout, just once or twice a week. The system is called High Intensity Training and is built on three principles: intensity (this much is obvious), brevity, and infrequency. The goal is to get stronger, leaner, and tighter without adding any bulk.

For more details, keep on reading, but first of all remember this: our equipment is state of the art, our ambience private and personal. You won’t sweat in our climate-controlled workout room, and you don’t even have to change clothes (unless you want to).

The bottom line: you’ll be in and out in half an hour.

What can I expect?

Often only 20 minutes and never more than 25 minutes, your workout will be brief. Working out on the MedX strength-training machines, you will perform one set per exercise with each set lasting no more than 90 seconds, often less. Each workout normally consists of five to seven exercises.

Can such a brief workout be effective?

It’s efficient. A traditional workout may call for three to five sets of 10 repetitions for each exercise. When you allow for rest periods between the sets, each sequence of three to five sets takes at least 10 or 15 minutes to complete. But that quarter hour will normally entail no more than about 100 seconds of actual work. Our 90-second set lasts about as long and is usually more demanding.

Is once or twice a week enough to achieve results?

No system of strength training will work well unless you give yourself time to recover. Gains in strength occur not during the workout, but afterwards, as your body responds to the new demands you’re putting on it. Interrupting the recovery undermines the response.

A once-a-week workout of sufficient intensity yields all the health benefits that strength training can produce. Twice-a-week schedules produce more rapid changes in body shape and are also indicated in some special circumstances, including rehabilitation, high cholesterol, hypertension and obesity, among other conditions.

What exactly is “high-intensity” training?

You can’t workout just 20 minutes once or twice a week and expect results unless you work near or at your muscle capacity. This training focuses on performing weightlifting exercises to the point of momentary muscle failure in order to maximize the amount of muscle fiber recruitment. The principals of high intensity training are brevity, infrequency and intensity. As strength increases, weight will be increased progressively to provide the muscles with adequate overload to stimulate further improvements. Due to the intense weight resistance of this protocol, workouts are infrequent and brief.

What kind of results can I expect?

You should notice significant changes within six to eight weeks. Most people gain muscle tissue while losing fat. The scale may spit the same number back at you, but you'll look different and feel different. Many women drop a dress size; men take their belts in a notch. Since you're leaner and firmer, people may ask if you're on some kind of diet, even before your weight has changed. You'll feel better because you're stronger. Even if you can't yet leap tall buildings in a single bound, you will scoot up stairs that used to leave you breathless. Once these initial changes set in, the rest is up to you. Here, as in most things, your goals are your own to set. How long it takes to reach the destination depends on where you want to go.

I want to get toned. Won’t this workout make me bulkier?

No way. The idea that if you want to get toned, you should do lots of repetitions with light weights is one of the most widespread misconceptions about strength-training. The truth is pretty much the opposite: the best way to gain strength without adding bulk is to lift the heaviest weight you can handle slowly and in low volume. High-volume strength training, i.e. a lot of reps, will add bulk if the weight is high enough. If it isn’t, you’ll just be burning some calories while doing little or nothing for your muscles.

How much does it cost?

Individual sessions are $75. Packs of four sessions are $300.

Call 212-308-2990 for questions about pricing.

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Pilates is one of the most highly effective forms of exercise for overall body conditioning and relaxation, an innovative mind-body regimen that has been praised by ballet master George Balanchine, professional football and hockey players, and novice practitioners alike.

Pilates will teach you to move more effectively from your core, the deep center of your body. You will improve your posture, cultivate leaner muscles, and gain greater body awareness and alignment. When you connect your movements with your breath, you will begin to move with less effort and more fluidity.

The conditioning you will gain from Pilates will safeguard you from future injuries. Along with your better body will come a better mind and a better life!

Under the direction of Allison Black, our Pilates studio offers one-on-one sessions utilizing the classic Pilates equipment, including the Cadillac, the Reformer, the Wunda Chair, and a number of smaller props like the Magic Circle.

Our Pilates runs the gamut from male and female professionals and athletes to injured and elderly individuals. Pilates can help improve your tennis or golf game and make running less painful.

Every body benefits from Pilates!

Our Pilates studio offers Classic Pilates, Pilates Stretch and Pilates for Athletes.

Classic Pilates

The Classic Pilates program is a standard hour-long basic, intermediate or advanced session based on your level and ability. You will learn classic machine and mat-based routines and will advance through the series as your ability improves. Classic Pilates provides a sound body and mind, a strong core, lean muscles and more body awareness.

Pilates Stretch

The Pilates Stretch is a 30-minute session that emphasizes stretching and muscle elongation. This is the perfect program for individuals who may feel intimidated by the hour-long session or who may wish to add stretching to their workout regimen without undertaking a full Pilates practice. If you are bound with tight muscles, Pilates Stretch will enhance comfort and flexibility.

Pilates for Athletes

Pilates for Athletes is an hour-long hybrid program that integrates Classic Pilates with Pilates Stretch to assist athletes with strength building and flexibility. Pilates for Athletes is a custom program based on your specific requirements and dependent of the type of athletics you perform.

Living Proof offers Pilates exercises both at the studio and on-site at your office.

Joseph Pilates created a package of light conditioning exercises for busy clients called the “businessman’s lunch.”

The program takes a mere 10 minutes on the Pilates Spine Corrector and will strengthen the core, align the spine, and leave you feeling lifted. We can bring the Corrector on-site so you can perform these exercises right in the office. We can also demonstrate Pilates exercises that require no equipment at all-including some moves that can be done just sitting at a desk.

What is Pilates in a nutshell?

Joseph H. Pilates created this innovative fitness regimen in Germany in the early 20th Century. Based on the principles of concentration, control, center, flow, precision and breathing, Pilates improves flexibility and core strength to create a more comfortable and balanced body.

What kind of equipment is used?

Pilates utilizes sophisticated and versatile equipment that will support and improve the effectiveness of your workout. The most common pieces of Pilates equipment are the Reformer, the Cadillac, the Wunda Chair, the Barrel, resistant bands and circles. Each apparatus serves a specific purpose and may support multiple exercises. You can perform well over 100 exercises on the Reformer alone!

What benefits can I expect?

One of the biggest rewards is that you will be able to go about your daily business with much less discomfort. Other benefits include:

• Greater body awareness
• Greater strength and muscle tone
• Better posture
• Improved flexibility
• Increased joint mobility
• Lower stress level
• Less pain from chronic ailments

How much does it cost?

Pilates sessions range in price from $60 to $90, and we offer discounted packages of sessions. Call 212-308-2990 for pricing details.

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