Functional Health Coach in Atlanta + Virtual Health Coaching for Busy Professionals

Feel Better. Perform Better. Without Guesswork.

A personalized, data-driven health coaching strategy to improve weight, digestion, steady energy, and overall performance without guesswork so your body supports your professional and personal success.

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Trusted by high-achieving professionals—functional, lab-led coaching that turns data into clear next steps.

Functional Health Coach in Atlanta + Virtual Health Coaching for Busy Professionals

Feel Better. Perform Better. Without Guesswork.

Health coaching for busy professionals and career-focused adults who feel off despite normal labs, struggle with stubborn weight, cravings, digestion, or energy crashes, and want a clear, data-driven health coaching plan that fits real life.

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Trusted by high-achieving professionals—functional, lab-led coaching that turns data into clear next steps.

Maria Horstmann, MBA, FDN-P, BCFWP, functional health coach and founder of Be Fab Be You

Feeling Off Despite Normal Labs? You Are Not Imagining It.

If you are a high-achieving professional and career-focused adult, you may be used to pushing through. You keep showing up, handling work, family, deadlines, and responsibilities. But lately, your body may be sending signals you cannot ignore anymore.

If you are looking for health support when tests are normal, the answer is not always another random diet, supplement, or workout plan.

If you are looking for health support when tests are normal, the answer is not always another random diet, supplement, or workout plan.

You can have results that look “fine” and still feel tired, foggy, bloated, inflamed, or stuck. Symptoms are signals. They deserve context, not dismissal.

More effort is not always the answer. Sometimes the next step is understanding what your body is trying to tell you now.

I have been there and experienced it all

You Deserve a Guide Who Understands High-Pressure Success and Real-Life Health Strategy

When you are building a career, leading a team, growing a business, caring for family, and trying to keep your body together, generic advice is not enough. You need someone who can help you slow down, look at the right clues, and turn confusing symptoms and data into a practical path forward.

That is the value I bring. After 25+ years in corporate finance, I understand the pressure of long days, deadlines, travel, stress, and the habit of putting your health last because everything else feels urgent.

Today, as a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P), Board Certified Functional Wellness Professional, personal trainer, speaker, and former corporate finance professional, I help high-achieving professionals connect the dots across symptoms, habits, labs, stress, digestion, blood sugar, recovery, movement, and real life.

As a functional health coach in Atlanta working virtually with busy professionals, my role is not to hand you another rigid plan. It is to help you understand what your body may be signaling, identify patterns, prioritize what matters, and implement realistic strategies you can actually follow.

Think of this as data-driven health coaching, health optimization coaching, and practical implementation support from an energy and performance coach who understands that your health has to work inside your real life, not inside a perfect schedule you do not have.

This is also health coaching for career-focused adults who want their body, brain, and habits to support their ambition instead of quietly draining it.

Does This Sound Like You?

If you are like many of my clients, you are not dealing with one isolated issue. You are seeing patterns that keep stacking up.

Stubborn weight or belly fat that will not budge

Cravings, snacking, or feeling out of control around food

Afternoon energy crashes or caffeine dependence

Brain fog, poor focus, or feeling less sharp at work

Bloating, constipation, reflux, or unpredictable digestion

Poor sleep, waking up tired, or feeling wired and tired

Stress overload that affects mood, appetite, and recovery

Hormone shifts, PCOS-like patterns, PMS, perimenopause, or low libido

Poor workout recovery, low stamina, or trouble building muscle

Normal tests, but you still do not feel normal

What worked before may not work the same way today. Stress, sleep, digestion, blood sugar, hormones, recovery, and muscle mass can all change how your body responds.

These patterns are not character flaws. They are clues. The goal is to stop treating each symptom like a separate problem and start looking at how your body is responding as a system.

Explore the Right Path for Your Health and Performance

Functional Health Coaching

Improve weight, digestion, cravings, energy, and performance with data-driven functional health coaching built for busy professionals.

GLP-1 Transition Support

Protect muscle, support digestion, and build the habits that help you maintain progress beyond the medication.

Blood Sugar Balance

Calm cravings, reduce energy crashes, and understand how food, stress, sleep, and habits affect your glucose patterns.

Functional Blood Chemistry Analysis

Feel off despite normal labs? Understand your bloodwork, spot patterns, and identify smarter next steps.

Hormones + PCOS and PMOS Support

Support hormone and metabolic patterns affecting weight, cravings, brain fog, energy, cycles, and confidence.

Online Personal Training

Build strength, confidence, muscle, and consistency with live coaching that meets you where you are.

Services for Corporations & Groups

For Organizations, Teams, and Events

Corporate Wellness

Food Demos + Workshops + Wellness Fairs + Team Series + Coaching

Experiences designed to help employees improve energy, focus, resilience, and practical daily habits through performance health coaching. Led by a former corporate professional who understands workplace pressure.

Speaking Engagements

Keynotes + Workshops + Podcasts

Interactive sessions that connect stress, recovery, metabolic health, and performance in a practical way so energy, confidence, and focus become more reliable. Actionable steps that help people stop guessing and make progress.

Why Work With Maria

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Corporate + Leadership Coaching Lens

I understand high-pressure careers because I lived corporate life for 20+ years and now coach professionals on health, performance, and follow-through.

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Data-Driven Clarity

We use symptoms, habits, functional labs, CGM data, and tracking when helpful to connect the dots and reduce guesswork.

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Functional lab-Informed Strategy

Her method is built on the D.R.E.S.S. protocol (Diet, Rest, Exercise, Stress, Supplementation) a system that’s helped hundreds regain control of their energy.

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Built for Real Life

Your plan fits your schedule, stress load, travel, family demands, and capacity—not someone else’s perfect routine.

Fitness + Metabolic Lens

Strength, body composition, blood sugar, digestion, stress, recovery, and energy are connected.

Implementation Support

Coaching helps turn information into realistic action, consistency, and smarter course correction.

Your energy, digestion, sleep, recovery, and body composition affect how you perform at work and in life. This is performance health coaching in practical terms: helping your body support the life, leadership, and goals you are working so hard to build.

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The Horstmann Method and What's in for You

improve fat loss -> cravings -> digestion -> energy -> performance

This is health optimization coaching designed to help you know your body more, get clarity, and get unstuck. We investigate what is happening, integrate symptoms with data and lifestyle patterns, and implement strategies you can adjust as your body responds to improving fat loss, cravings, digestion, and energy.

You do not need another random plan, extreme diet, or supplement pile. You need to understand what matters most, what to prioritize, and what to adjust next.

Step 1. Investigate: Guessing → Knowing

Understand what may be driving your fatigue, cravings, stubborn weight, digestion issues, or poor recovery by reviewing symptoms, habits, history, lifestyle, and available data.

Step 2. Integrate: Confused → Clear

Connect the dots across energy, digestion, blood sugar, stress, sleep, recovery, labs, movement, and real life so your symptoms finally start to make sense.

Step 3. Implement: Stuck → Strong

Turn insight into realistic action with nutrition, movement, recovery, and lifestyle strategies you can follow, adjust, and sustain.

You do not have to figure it all out alone. The right process helps you stop chasing symptoms and start building a plan that fits your body, your goals, and your real life.

Brian Mendel

Co-Founder, Central Auto

Real Clients. Real-Life Progress.

Maria will help you change your life! She helped me change mine and was an incredible motivator, listener, and coach. I discovered and reversed why I comforted myself with food and unhealthy behaviors. I lost 30 lbs and have kept it off with the new habits, but more important than the weight loss, I have gained an entirely new appreciation for myself and a confidence that has improved many aspects of my life.

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Mary Severs

Maria will help you change your life! She helped me change mine and was an incredible motivator, listener, and coach. I discovered and reversed why I comforted myself with food and unhealthy behaviors. I lost 30 lbs and have kept it off with the new habits, but more important than the weight loss, I have gained an entirely new appreciation for myself and a confidence that has improved many aspects of my life.

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Mary Severs

At 55 y/o my joints were aching, my diet wasn’t working anymore. First, Maria taught me that weight loss is physical and mental. She pushed me to do things I’d have never done on my own. She saw potential in me and wanted me to see it too. I lost 28.4 lbs in her 90-day Blood Sugar Program. Maria also taught me to love myself more and put myself first. It’s not always easy, but I’ve realized that I’m worth it. She’s truly my life-saving coach.

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Ready to Stop Guessing and Start Connecting the Dots?

You don’t need another plan that ignores your real life. You need clarity, strategy, and support that helps you understand your body and take the next best step.

Work with an energy and performance coach who combines data-driven health coaching, functional lab-informed insight, and practical strategy to up level your day-to-day performance. Here’s how to begin:

Frequently Asked Questions

Standard labs can be helpful, but they do not always explain why you feel off. Many high-achieving professionals are told everything looks normal while they still struggle with stubborn weight, cravings, poor sleep, low energy, brain fog, or digestion issues. If you are looking for health support when tests are normal, my work helps connect symptoms, lifestyle patterns, and lab data in plain English so you can identify smarter next steps.

Your body may need a different strategy than it did years ago. Stress, sleep, digestion, blood sugar, recovery, hormones, muscle mass, and life demands can all change how your body responds. More discipline is not always the answer. Better information and better course correction usually matter more.

My approach is coaching-led, data-informed, and built for busy professionals. We look at patterns across symptoms, habits, bloodwork, digestion, blood sugar, stress, recovery, and lifestyle instead of handing you another generic plan. When I use the phrase root-cause health coaching, I mean looking for patterns and possible contributors within a coaching scope, not diagnosing or treating disease.

Not always. Some clients begin with current bloodwork, health history, symptoms, habits, and lifestyle patterns. Functional lab testing may be helpful when we need deeper insight, but it is not the first step for everyone. The goal is to choose the right level of information for your situation, not overwhelm you with testing.

Yes, from a coaching and lifestyle support perspective. I do not prescribe or manage GLP-1 medications, but I can help you think through nutrition, digestion, strength training, muscle preservation, bloodwork patterns, and long-term habits that support weight maintenance and body composition.

During our session, we identify what is most relevant for your goals, symptoms, and current season of life. From there, I may recommend coaching, bloodwork review, functional lab testing, CGM-based support, training, or another next step. The purpose is clarity, not pressure.

Yes. Many clients come to me after trying a lot of things. The next step may not be trying harder. It may be understanding what your body needs now, what is no longer working, and how to simplify your strategy so it fits your life and goals.

Yes. If you already have recent bloodwork, I can help you review it through a functional, pattern-based lens and explain what the markers may suggest in plain English. This does not replace medical care, but it can help you ask better questions, understand trends, and identify lifestyle opportunities.

Yes. Stress can show up physically, not just mentally. For many busy professionals, stress is connected to cravings, bloating, constipation, poor sleep, energy crashes, brain fog, belly fat, and slower recovery. That does not mean stress is the only issue, but it is often a major pattern worth investigating.