Voyage ATL with Megan
Check out the recent interview in Voyage ATL with Megan! The time is NOW to get a healthy lifestyle mindset!
http://voyageatl.com/interview/meet-megan-mccarthy-www-healthyeating101-com-buckhead/
Today we’d like to introduce you to Megan McCarthy.
Megan McCarthy is as much healthy lifestyle consultant and advocate as she is chef. Megan will show you how to easily prepare delicious, healthy foods to satisfy your daily needs and appetites. Her enthusiasm and creative culinary experience inspires the confidence you need in the kitchen to nourish your body and delight your soul. Find fun and frolic in the delicious, healthy eating that Megan brings to your table!
Megan is Founder and Chef of Healthy Eating 101, and she teaches Lunch & Learns focusing on health and wellness for employees. Megan also showcases national and regional food brands at trade shows by demonstrating the best ways to make them part of a healthy eating lifestyle. See Megan create fast and fresh meals from local, seasonal edible abundance as Edible Garden Chef at the Atlanta Botanical Garden or in her cooking classes. Voted “Best Healthy Chef” in Atlanta! You can find her real deal food path on her Instagram at chefmegan101!
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
We would all love to have had an easy path along the way of this thing we call life but when we are met with challenges, it truly does make us stronger and more resilient to the inevitable obstacles. We can certainly turn those obstacles into opportunities when we adopt and practice a mindset to meet those opportunities with grace and fortitude. I struggled with my own body image many years ago and decided to meet that opportunity by diving in head first into the food industry as I was pursuing an acting career in comedy. I was a vegetarian at the time and struggled to find foods that were supportive of my choice. I found a “home” at the local health food store near my house in Chicago and learned about nutrition and how I could support this vegetarian lifestyle. It was a great learning curve as I was trying to keep my body healthy and energy up while I was changing the foods I was eating. I truly embraced this natural foods lifestyle despite the aroma of the grassy urban health food store. It was my haven for learning and found myself advising people about what they could do to improve how they felt every day through what they were eating and their lifestyle. I had always loved to make people laugh and decided to combine to the two things I felt most passionate about so I started teaching classes showing people how to transform their eating and food choices with real life stories that seemed to resonate with them. I then created my own cable access show called The Urban Herbal Show, about this healthy urban lifestyle and how to juice, blend and make healthier food choices with what is available at the natural foods store. Organic has come a long way baby.
People love to hold on to their resistance when it comes to changing their eating habits and their overall lifestyle. More often than not, it may take a diagnosis or an unfortunate event to get someone to pay attention to their body and to take this body thing more seriously. The life we are given is not a dress rehearsal! We need to know the way to change our health and well-being and it starts with the food we put in our bodies, the thoughts we dance with in our minds and the love we experience through our spirit. We can find better results to feeling great in our everyday life by learning to cook and choosing healthier options. Learning to take control of our health through our food choices and mindfulness can certainly be better than any medication could almost ever fix. At the end of the day, we all want to feel good and feel whole in our body and we should all know what that is like to live there!
Please tell us about www.healthyeating101.com.
Healthy Eating 101 is celebrating our 10 year anniversary this year! Look for healthy, simple and delicious recipes that tantalize and delight while helping to keep you healthy and feeling great. Many of my recipes are inspired by what is growing in the garden at the Atlanta Botanical Garden as well as what is seasonal and local from the farmers markets. I believe the commitment to this lifestyle is the way you will achieve your overall well-being as we get back to the important things in life that include a healthy happy and humorous lifestyle . I hope to inspire and motivate you to be the best cook in your own kitchen as you have a great time doing it. Life if meant for us to be healthy and happy!
Culinary services include:
- Company Lunch & Learns,
- Corporate Wellness Events
- Recipe Development
- Live Trade Show Events
- Public and Personal Culinary Classes
Including “Girls Night Out” and “Date Night”
Contact Info:
- Website: www.healthyeating101.com
- Phone: 404-692-1015
- Email: megan@healthyeating101.com
- Instagram: Chefmegan101
- Facebook: Healthy Eating 101
- Twitter: Chef Megan
