Lauren DiSessa - Fitness, Nutrition, & Wellness

Lauren DiSessa - Fitness, Nutrition, & Wellness Fitness, Nutrition, & Lifestyle Coaching

09/25/2026

I’ve been pretty silent on social media lately… I just don’t have any brain power to share the chaos in my life right now, but I also am unable to show up inauthentically and just post about random things that aren’t important or really don’t have a connection to where I am truly at right now.

It’s been hard. This journey started almost 1 year ago with news from our landlords that I wasn’t expecting. Once we started looking for buildings, my gym feed was flooded with happy gym owners… opening gyms, building bigger spaces, and just full of high expectations. It felt good to know I wasn’t the only one, but it also made me feel inadequate. I was like… I don’t know how to do these things and I certainly don’t have piles of money to spend hundreds of thousands to create these mega gyms I was seeing.

But I think that’s the part we don’t always see. We see the announcement, the new space, the finished product… but not always everything it took to get there. And maybe that’s part of why I haven’t known what to share, because I’m still very much in the middle of it.

This process has been grueling from the very start. It’s tested me at every turn and now I finally feel like I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Throughout the process, I’ve had to remind myself… I prayed for this.

When it started seeming like I had to consider the possibility that I didn’t even want to speak into existence… that we might have to close… I wondered where all our people would go and how they’d be left without the support our community provides.

But I told God, I will do whatever you want me to do. And if that meant closing the doors, even though I couldn’t understand it then… I would follow His plan.

Less than 24 hours after that acceptance, 1 Greenwich Place came on the radar. A building I had previously ignored from first glance…

For so many reasons, which I hope I’ll get to share at some point, this space has been the biggest blessing. It made a way when all other doors slammed.

Let’s normalize just posting one photo, like the old days of insta.As a business owner and therapist, sometimes I feel p...
09/04/2026

Let’s normalize just posting one photo, like the old days of insta.

As a business owner and therapist, sometimes I feel pressure to nail my social posts because they mean something important to me and I want them to reach the people that need to hear them. It’s important to me to have my *tiny* platform speak authentically.

However, sometimes that perfection and overthinking can prevent me from just writing and speaking what’s on my heart.

Here’s your soft reminder to just act. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just the act of showing up imperfectly has so much freedom.

So enjoy this picture of me in one of my happiest places and I hope you feel joy like this during your holiday weekend.

08/20/2026

Supplements are supplemental.

They can fill gaps. They can make things a little easier. They can support what you’re already doing but they can’t do the heavy lifting.

They won’t outwork poor nutrition, inconsistent training, lack of sleep, or habits that aren’t supporting your goals.

Build the foundation first and then supplement from there.

Questions on how to move more, fuel better, and build the base? Send your girl a message 🙋🏽‍♀️

Today, I walked into our new space to check on the work progress. We’ve finally moved from the demo phase to the buildin...
08/18/2026

Today, I walked into our new space to check on the work progress. We’ve finally moved from the demo phase to the building phase.

As I walked through the doorway, I felt overwhelmed with gratitude… I thought “who am I that God blessed me with this opportunity” and smiled. I felt humble and happy.

I am in awe every time I walk into the space and see something new torn up, improved, or built. Even in its nothingness, it’s beautiful. I can’t wait to see it filled with people- moving their bodies, supporting one another, and “stretching” their minds.

There were many valleys through this process (and there will be more) but I’ve never been more focused and clear on our mission through Elevate Elevate Athletics and Elevate Wellness | Counseling & Wellness. It’s on my mind constantly of how to continue to improve our space and services to reach those in need of support.

Support with starting a new health journey.
Support with optimizing health for longevity
Support with demystifying “how to” of it all…
Support with dealing with difficult seasons
… just to name a few

The tag for Elevate is Move. Grow. Heal. Because you can’t engage the process of intentional movements without experiencing growth. That growth can open doors for bigger healing- intended or not. I’ve had many transformative experiences through movement that helped me build confidence, resilience, and strength. It supported and rebuilt walls of me that had been crumbled down. That movement when coupled with proper mental health support is an enemy to all evil that drive negative mental health outcomes like depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.

We are a gym that doesn’t just value mental health. We are THE GYM that embodies, promotes, and supports it with parallel services, easy access to mental health services and referrals (where people actually call you back). We don’t just talk about it casually. Our approach is multi-faceted and we’ll support them through their movement, growth, and healing in all phases of their journey. If you want whole body health and healing, this is the space for you.

If we haven’t met yet, I hope this brings you hope. If we’ve already met, thank you for your trust.

Some fitness beliefs just refuse to die. ☠️I meet with people on a daily basis to talk about their health, workout routi...
08/12/2026

Some fitness beliefs just refuse to die. ☠️

I meet with people on a daily basis to talk about their health, workout routines, and nutrition habits and all of these still come up DAILY.

And the problem isn’t just that they’re outdated… it’s that a lot of them are keeping you stuck chasing the same results you’ve been trying to get for years. Running the hamster wheel, stuck in the same place.

Swipe through. I have some thoughts. 👀

Carbs are not the enemy. 🍞

Seriously. Bread isn’t the problem. Rice isn’t the problem. Pasta isn’t the problem.

What I see far more often? Women eating less and less, cutting carbs, adding more exercise, and wondering why their body still isn’t responding the way they want, often because they’re not just under-fueled, but also under-muscled.

And no, you probably haven’t “broken” your metabolism. But chronic restriction and under-fueling can lead to metabolic adaptation… your body becomes more efficient, energy expenditure can decrease, training and recovery suffer, and continuing to eat less isn’t necessarily the answer.

Carbs fuel training. They support recovery. And if you want to build muscle, perform well, and create sustainable changes in body composition, your body needs to be adequately fueled.

You don’t need more intensity. 🥵

I know… you love the sweat. The calorie burn. The feeling that if you leave completely exhausted, you must have had a “good” workout.

But feeling wrecked and getting results are not the same thing.

If your goal is to get stronger, build muscle, improve your body composition, and actually feel good in your body, constantly chasing intensity can work against you.

Your body needs enough of a training stimulus to create change and enough recovery to actually adapt to it.

“I can’t have that food in my house.”

I hear this ALL the time.

But avoiding the food isn’t actually fixing your relationship with it. This is a repeating, viscous cycle.

The more rules you create around what you can and can’t eat, the more guilt and shame you feel when you inevitably “break” them.

The food isn’t the problem. The rules you’ve built around it might be. I know the food noise is pervasive but the rules aren’

08/10/2026

This is more than a new name. It’s a bigger vision for what health and wellness can look like.

Shelton Athletics gave us an incredible foundation… a place to build strength, confidence, relationships, and a community that has helped so many people become stronger versions of themselves.

Now, we’re building on that foundation.

Welcome to Elevate.

Elevate Athletics will continue the work you already know us for: strength, longevity, performance, expert coaching, and a community that supports you.

Elevate Wellness expands that mission beyond the gym through mental health counseling, therapeutic movement, wellness programs, and support for people at every stage of their journey.

Different paths. One shared purpose: helping people move, grow, heal, and become their strongest selves, inside and out.

This is our next chapter. And we’re just getting started.

HYROX MIAMI ✅4th PRO RACE ✅PR? ❌Not every race story is going to end with a PR, but there will always be lessons and thi...
04/06/2026

HYROX MIAMI ✅
4th PRO RACE ✅
PR? ❌

Not every race story is going to end with a PR, but there will always be lessons and things to be proud of.

Lost some weeks to injuries during ski season but still felt the strongest and fastest of any race this far.

On the floor, things felt smooth and executed well, but the number did not reflect. We left too much in the tank of the first half of the race despite having our best run total of any race so far and kicking off around 7pm 😳

We ran over the finish line and we knew this finish felt very different. In previous races, around the same result, we were wasted after- felt like every ounce of fitness and heat was used. In Miami, we walked away smiling, cooled down, and went about our night.

Although disappointed in the result, it felt good to know the fitness is there… now we just need to GO for it, trust our bodies, and the training.

Feeling amped to start the next training block for HYROX NYC, solo Pro. Once again, switching the approach… hope you’ll following along to see how this affects the result!

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