Hi. I’m Tina

Tina Corrado is an avid writer, home cook and artist, who is wild about walking and has a dedicated yoga practice. She is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and she even had a health coaching + cooking business for 4 years. While she has also substitute taught elementary school in NYC and English conversation classes in Mexico— healthy living, cooking, sharing stories and movement continue to be a core part of her daily life.
Tina has been forever transformed by curiosity, learning and creating new habits throughout her self-propelled 150 pound plus weight loss and maintenance over the last 24 years.
A seasoned digital and graphics design producer and project manager for 19+ years, by trade, she’s worn a lot of hats and continues to work on large scale design and video projects as a contractor.

When she’s not in New York, Tina is caretaking for her family in Myrtle Beach, SC and enjoys visiting Oaxaca, MX for continued art and health inspiration. Four years ago, one decision and a few miracles changed Tina’s life. She is grateful for the grace that she has been given to live fully and with her heart. To transform in more ways than one. She’s also found that the best possible plan is to let go and let God do his work.

1 week post op appreciation: Today I was able to change my bandages and see all of my incisions in the morning light. I can add them to my scar collection; reminders of how I was put back together again. My body reminds me of cracked pottery— t

The story of my thighs is long and labored. Thunder thighs, a haunting playground chant. They were large, proportionate to my body, round and carried all 320 pounds of me at my highest weight. When I was heavy they weighed me down, but I walked when

The last few days have been full of family, grocery shopping, cafe time, lots of driving, doctors appointments, walks and views of the big, beautiful, southern sky — but mostly time and love — the most precious gifts of all. And Toms firs

💌 Dad and I 💌
When so much has changed but you try to make the best of the small moments.

The most perfect Valentines Day 💘💌 Big Jerry proposed to Evelyn Grace many moons ago at Joy Tang Chinese restaurant in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Obviously she said yes. Whether the answer was the result of true love or the panic of being proposed to in p

Getting dad to eat high protein pancakes 🥞 that he did not know were loaded with whey protein isolate, yogurt for his gut health and good old, Fairlife milk and egg whites. Tried a flavored yogurt I love to make, but he wasn’t buying it. Other

6 weeks post op. Throughout my whole entire life stretch pants (I’m really dating myself here) and underwear rolled down and were uncomfortable. I have spent numerous hours hiking up underwear and or leggings — at work, when I stood up, d

First 48 hours at home. We’re all still alive and getting along. Yesterday I made it through a full day of mom’s Hallmark movie marathon and we landed on Ted Lasso for evening watching. The weather was cold today, but I got on a nice walk

The end of January brought with it more healing and a lot of wonder puppy kisses. Many movie nights and series watched with my aunt and uncle, who have been very patient and generous caretakers as well as 5 star Uber drivers as I waddled in and out o

For a large part of my young adult life, and into the end of my junior year of college, I wore men’s clothing because plus size clothing (at the time) was scarce. unaffordable and not very fashionable. My grandma made my skirts, hemmed men&rsqu

It’s been 15 days since surgery and I’ve finally taken a good look at myself. Seeing my body, not as an obese woman or with loose skin, has been emotional, mind bending and hard to describe. To see the physical manifestation of what I&rsq

To all of the Tina’s I have been, and all of the Tina’s I have yet to become — I wanted to say thank you. I’m sure there will be 20 more versions of her to come in the next 45 years, but I pray this one — right now &mdas

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

—Virginia Woolf

Free play and making art, using it as therapy, has become a practice in my life. As has journaling and exploring spirituality. From healing past emotional and psychological trauma to my own body image post weight loss; continuing to research strategies and methods to heal through creative living is something I am deeply interested in continuing to study not only in myself but others. When we build practices that support our lives, instead of going back to what we know as support, we can grow and remain curious. This, for me, has become the secret to living and no longer waiting. Well, and learning to forgive myself and others too.