MEET ALANA KESSLER, MS, RDN
Be Well by AK’s mission is to guide you through a transformative journey to integrated worth, self-love, and your highest value self. Through identity shifting guidance and deep support, you will develop the skills to confidently and joyfully embrace the richness of life and eating with self belief and trust.
As a registered dietitian, clinical nutritionist, and expert yoga & mindfulness teacher with over 20 years of experience, I specialize in taking an individualized, lifestyle-based approach, backed by science. I help you overcome food and dieting anxiety and emotional overeating as a coping mechanism so you can reclaim your joy living, your self worth, and permanently lose unwanted weight without dieting.
After secretly struggling with emotional eating, bulimia, losing and regaining weight many times, and finally shedding 40 pounds for good, I discovered what no diet, mindset reframe or quick fix will ever teach: you don’t overeat and diet obsessively because you’re weak or vain — it’s because you never felt safe to express what you truly feel or need, and you learned early on that being yourself could cost you love and belonging.
My work rewires the nervous system patterns born from that silencing — self-abandonment, perfectionism, and people-pleasing — so you can release both the emotional weight of the past and the physical weight on your body, and finally feel at home in yourself without diets, rigid rules, or sacrifice.
Your journey is unique. I’ll help you uncover and heal your eating patterns and belief systems to truly transform your life.
“Alana has been the first nutritionist that I have worked with that has gone above and beyond with a personalized approach of meal plans and constructive feedback. Her unique view of all aspects of nutrition is what brought me to her practice and I am not disappointed!”
—JONATHAN C (Client 2018)
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Alana Kessler, MS, RDN E-RYT is the founder of Be Well by AK. She’s a graduate of NYU (‘03) with a Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science in Clinical Nutrition (‘08)
In 1999, as a freshman in college, she began practicing yoga and meditation as a way to help her heal from severe bulimia , which she finally did on her own in 2009 through combining the various healing modalities she now teaches in The Sober Eating Movement.
Throughout her recovery and after, she continued on to train as an Ayurveda Specialist, Functional Nutritionist and Weight Management expert.
She’s an accredited member of the CDR & American Dietetic Association and an E-RYT (Expert Registered Yoga Teacher) through Yoga Alliance.
Alana continues to advance her expertise, frequently attending classes and seminars in clinical nutrition, yoga, meditation, psycho-spiritual psychology, and alternative wellness methods.
Alana has been most notably featured in Vogue, Muscle and Fitness, Women’s Health, Bustle, Reader’s Digest, & appeared on Good Morning America and The Dr. Oz Show.