Meet Our Coaches

Whitney Marema, is a nurse practitioner with certification in Functional Medicine, allowing her to bridge conventional medicine with a lifestyle approach to disease, troublesome symptoms, and dysfunction. She provides post-operative care and coaching for bariatric patients as well as functional medicine evaluations and treatment for individuals seeking to find and treat the root cause of their complaints and dysfunctions.

She has 25 years of experience working in the field of obesity with her specialty being the post-operative bariatric surgery patient. She works at the University of Florida, St. Augustine as a nurse practitioner and is the founder of The Bariatric Success Method, an online coaching program for bariatric patients experiencing weight plateaus or weight gain following bariatric surgery. In this 4-month coaching program, she guides patients through diet and lifestyle choices that help to balance hormones and maximize the “tool” of bariatric surgery in order to achieve their weight loss goals and become their own “bariatric expert”.