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Type 2 Diabetes Nutritionist in San Francisco, CA

Personalized nutrition coaching to help you balance your blood sugar, improve your A1C, and maintain steady energy, without restrictive diets or rigid food rules.

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Sustainable nutrition coaching to support blood sugar and everyday life.

Living with Type 2 diabetes involves more than avoiding sugar. You are making decisions about meals, carbohydrates, timing, movement, energy, medication, and long-term health – often while trying to manage work, family, travel, and everything else in your life.

Generic instructions can leave you knowing what you are “supposed” to do without knowing how to make it work consistently. Personalized coaching helps turn broad recommendations into meals and habits that fit your needs, preferences, schedule, and medical plan.

I support adults with Type 2 diabetes in San Francisco and online who want a practical, nonjudgmental approach to nutrition and lifestyle change. Coaching complements, not replaces, the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment provided by your physician and licensed medical team.

Type 2 Diabetes Nutrition Coaching May Be a Fit If You Are:

  • Newly diagnosed and overwhelmed by conflicting advice
  • Unsure how to build balanced meals or choose carbohydrates
  • Experiencing hunger, cravings, low energy, or energy crashes
  • Trying to make changes without preparing separate “diet food” for yourself
  • Taking diabetes medication and wanting stronger daily nutrition habits
  • Working toward health goals established with your medical provider
  • Struggling to maintain routines while traveling, dining out, or working long hours
  • Looking for accountability without blame or perfectionism

If you have elevated blood sugar but have not been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, visit my Prediabetes Nutritionist page. For earlier metabolic concerns, explore Insulin Resistance Nutrition.

A Practical Approach to Diabetes Nutrition

There is no single meal plan that works for every person with Type 2 diabetes. Your cultural preferences, schedule, medications, hunger, digestion, activity, health history, and goals all matter.

Depending on your needs and the guidance of your medical team, our work may include meal composition, protein and fiber, carbohydrate quality and portions, meal timing, grocery planning, dining out, movement habits, sleep, stress, and strategies for consistent follow-through.

The goal is not to label foods as morally good or bad. It is to help you understand your options, make informed choices more often, and create routines that support the health goals you and your healthcare team have established.

I do not prescribe or adjust medication, diagnose complications, or replace medical nutrition therapy when it is required. If your needs fall outside my scope, I will encourage you to work with an appropriately licensed provider.

What Working Together Looks Like

Confirm fit and understand your goals

During the free discovery call, we discuss your diagnosis, current challenges, medical support, and what you hope coaching will help you change.

Review your daily patterns

We examine meals, timing, hunger, cravings, energy, sleep, stress, movement, digestion, and the recommendations you have received from your healthcare team.

Build your personalized routine

We translate your goals into realistic meal and lifestyle actions. Your plan should work at home, at work, in restaurants, and during imperfect weeks.

Coordinate, monitor, and adjust

We review what is working and refine your habits. Your medical provider continues to monitor your condition and medications, and collaboration is encouraged when appropriate.

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Hear It From Our Happy Clients

Working with Shanti has been one of the most empowering and supportive decisions I’ve made for my health. I trust her completely—not just with my goals, but with my overall well-being. Her deep, science-based understanding of physiology, especially when it comes to female and athletic bodies, is truly unmatched. She meets you exactly where you are, tuning in to your personal needs while offering practical, meaningful guidance that leads to real change. What sets Shanti apart is her whole-body, natural approach. She’s not someone who pushes a Western medicine fix for everything—she’s incredibly attuned to the body’s natural rhythms and honors the simplicity and wisdom of how we’re built. She challenges me in the best ways, always pushing me toward actual growth while being emotionally supportive and truly caring along the way. And honestly—her approach works. I’ve been dealing with insulin resistance and hormonal shifts, and in just two months I’ve experienced a major, positive transformation in how I feel and how my body functions. I first worked with Shanti before my wedding and reached my goals, and came back to her when I decided to come off birth control. The results have been even more powerful the second time around. If you’re ready to take real action and make sustainable, lifelong changes for your health, I can’t recommend Shanti enough. She’s the real deal.
Leah W.
Leah W.
“What intrigued me about working with Shanti was the interest she takes in how your belly and digestive system reacts to the foods that you are currently consuming. Is your digestive system happy? Since I am an emotional person it was helpful to approach it from my belly’s perspective rather than with my head/heart/emotions. Of course, they all came into play, it was just better to give my belly a chance at the start! I have been working with Shanti for about 4 months and have made some big changes. Do you want to hear something super cool? Since I was a kid, I have had trouble sleeping. For the past 4 years, I have taken some sort of sleep-aid every night. Since June, I have not had to take anything and have been sleeping 8 hours a night, uninterrupted. That is from changing my diet. Unbelievable how powerful it is.”
Emily P.
Emily P.San Francisco, CA
“I didn’t realize how much better I could be feeling until I started working with Happy Belly Health®. Getting individual support for the things my body needs has been something I always wanted but couldn’t find until I found Shanti. I think everyone deserves to invest in making themselves their best self, and Shanti helps you get there unlike anyone else.”
Claire H.
Claire H.SF, CA
“Changing the way I eat has been challenging, but sure worth the trouble. I’ve lost 40 pounds and no longer have heart burn and indigestion. I get to have lots of fun with my wife now. Thanks, HBH!”
Jim Z.
Jim Z. New Hampshire
“My energy level has definitely improved and is more consistent. I have massive cravings for greens. I would highly recommend working with Happy Belly Health®.”
Nga P.
Nga P.San Francisco, CA
“I’m optimistic about my nutrition for the first time in my life! I’ve already lost 6 lbs.”
Zoe T.
Zoe T. Fairfax, CA
“If you are tired of all that yo-yo dieting, struggling with food, and feeling like a failure (like I was), then I strongly recommend Shanti and Happy Belly Health. This is an entirely different kind of experience – and a very good one! At least it was for me.”
Kathy S.
Kathy S.Sheridan, MI
“Thank you, Shanti for your support, knowledge, professionalism, creativity and sunny disposition. I’m doing the Curb Your Cravings® program and I’m not on a diet. I eat a lot of really good food and have a tremendous amount of energy. Also, since giving up caffeine and sugar, my mood swings have gone away. My boyfriend is very happy about that!”
Alexandra P.
Alexandra P. Chico, CA
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Why People Trust Happy Belly Health

Science-Informed Guidance You Can Actually Use

I combine advanced training in functional medicine with nationally board-certified health coaching to bridge the gap between knowing what may support your health and making those changes work in everyday life.

Understand the Why

Together we will explore how nutrition, digestion, stress, sleep, and daily habits may be influencing how you feel, without reducing your experience to a generic protocol.

Turn Recommendations Into Action

A doctor or naturopath may help identify what needs attention and provide recommendations. Knowing what to do is only the beginning. I support what happens next: translating nutrition goals into meals and daily routines, troubleshooting real-life obstacles, and adjusting the plan so it remains realistic.

Personalized to Your Life

Your plan is shaped around your symptoms, history, preferences, schedule, and goals, not pulled from a standardized template.

Support That Evolves With You

Together, we’ll work through real-life barriers, adjust strategies as needed, and build sustainable routines that support lasting progress.

Advanced Training & Credentials
  • Functional Medicine Advanced Certification, School of Applied Functional Medicine
  • National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC)
  • Certified Quantum Coach

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Type 2 Diabetes Nutrition Coaching FAQs

Not necessarily. Carbohydrate type, amount, timing, meal balance, medication, activity, and your individual response all matter. Your medical provider’s guidance should be considered when building a personalized approach.

No. Medication decisions and glucose monitoring belong with your prescribing clinician. Coaching can support nutrition and lifestyle habits, but it does not replace medical treatment.

Yes, when collaboration is appropriate and consent is in place. Coordinated care helps keep nutrition coaching aligned with your diagnosis, medication plan, laboratory monitoring, and broader health needs.

This page and program are written specifically for adults with Type 2 diabetes. People with Type 1 diabetes require specialized medical and nutrition care. We can discuss your needs during the discovery call, but I will not accept work outside my training or scope.

Nutrition and lifestyle habits can influence blood sugar, but no specific result can be guaranteed. Your physician should monitor A1C and other clinical markers. Coaching focuses on helping you consistently apply habits that support the goals established with your healthcare team.

Build Habits You Can Live With

Managing Type 2 diabetes should not mean living in constant fear of food. Let’s create a realistic nutrition strategy that supports your medical plan and fits your everyday life.

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