Hey there!

I'm Tracy Fettinger, a former public school educator turned plant-based lifestyle educator and author. I'm also certified in Plant-based Nutrition. But really, who cares about all that?

 
It’s really more about MY personal STORY.

I started just where you are. I grew up eating the standard American diet. I was “healthy” according to the food pyramid, but I was definitely not functioning optimally. I was on that same upward trend we all seem to face…you know - weight increases as age increases. I checked all the numbers on those little nutrition labels and thought I was eating right.  I was fairly active, and like most under loads of stress. Then one day I ended up in the hospital and after a week of test after test got what at the time was a frightening diagnosis… 

 

“Mrs. Fettinger, you have Multiple Sclerosis.”  

 

Faced with the “facts” that I would continue to debilitate and be on meds for the rest of my life I started searching.  I read everything I could get my hands on and started watching documentaries about health. It was a confusing world with lots of contradictions to say the least.

 

THEN I WATCHED FORKS OVER KNIVES AND MY LIFE CHANGED!

 

Of course it didn’t happen overnight, but I started taking steps down a new path on my health journey which led down a rabbit hole of learning as much as I could about self-healing through plant-based nutrition and lifestyle changes.

 

After just a few changes I started feeling so much better and was hooked. It went against almost everything I “knew”.  I mean you have to have meat for protein and dairy for calcium or there will be major health consequences, right?  The media really does play a huge role in what we think we know!

 

This paradigm shift gave me three gifts. 

 

Not only the permission to not have to eat the animals I love for protein and calcium, but evidence that I'd actually be healthier and leaner with plant protein and calcium sources that my body can more easily use. I had a choice to stop eating animals and be healthy. The power to fight the disease that debilitates so many and actually THRIVE instead of just survive was on my plate! My genes – my diagnosis - are not my fate. 

 

I wasn’t perfect - still am not. I take it one small sustainable step at a time. After all health is NOT a destination but a journey! And you know what…..

I maintain a healthy weight without really trying, have so much extra energy that I, the one who used to fain asthma to get out of any kind of running as a teenager, started jogging in my 40s, and I'm living a vibrant, active, joy filled life in alignment with my values.

 

Huge bonus, many of my family are much healthier too. Though they are not 100% plant-based, they've benefitted from being plant strong discovering they feel better on so many levels, reducing many medications, and completely cutting others. 

I want this for YOU, your families, and pretty much everyone on the planet. I want a healthy family and planet for your grandchildren’s grandchildren!
 

​Discover more of my story here! 

 

 

Credentials:

• BS Education - Florida State University

•  Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate - Cornell University & the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies