Welcome to Waterside Nutrition
Your journey to becoming the healthiest version of you begins now! Waterside Nutrition specializes in nutrition for weight loss, as well as chronic disease management and prevention. If you are exhausted from trying every diet or health trend out there, you’ve come to the right place! I am here to offer you more than just a quick fix. Together we will create a personalized plan that will sustainably address the root of your struggles, and lead to lasting change. You deserve to achieve the health and happiness you have been seeking!
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Kaitlyn Mears, OTR/L
Occupational Therapist

I’m Kaitlyn, the owner and founder of Waterside Nutrition. Im an occupational therapist specializing in nutrition to helping individual with weight loss and manage as well as prevent chronic diseases. With almost a decade of clinical experience, I provide personalized nutrition plans and lifestyle guidance tailored to your unique health needs.
I proudly serve clients throughout Sarasota and Manatee counties, offering both in-person consultations and remote services for those in surrounding areas. My mission is to empower you with the knowledge and tools to achieve optimal health with the proper nutrition and sustainable life style changes.
Are you ready to live as your healthiest self? Scroll down and schedule your initial consultation with me. I can’t wait to meet you!
Waterside Nutrition
Waterside Nutrition takes a functional approach and places all emphasis on finding and addressing the root cause of a problem. You may not suffer from an “illness”, but even stubborn weight loss has a root cause. Nutrition is powerful and is usually the catalyst for good or poor health, and you get to decide your outcome. With optimal nutrition you can lose weight as well as heal and reverse disease. Life long pharmaceuticals and pending procedures do not have to be inevitable.
Conventional Medicine
The goal of conventional medicine is to diagnose and then treat through evidenced- based practice. It emphasizes the use of pharmaceuticals and surgery to treat illness. Unfortunately, this is a bandaid approach; root cause is not the focus. Our current medical system does not consider the context of the patient, and instead places them into a diagnosis category. Conventional medicine is a business and healthy people are bad for business!