Meet your Trainer

Tara Merko, C.F.P. Certified Nutrition Wellness Specialist and Eat Play Love Fitness Vacation's Lead Nutritionist

Tara Merko is owner and lead trainer of Tara Merko Fitness and Nutrition, and has now embarked on a new journey—Eat Play Love, fitness retreat's Nutritionist. She has an extensive background not only as an Elite Personal Trainer, but as a certified Nutritionist for over a decade.

Tara understands that not everyone is able to maintain the “perfect” diet and lifestyle, and that being said that is her favorite part about her job—helping people fit in healthy choices, and helping them to adapt. No one-person is one-hundred-percent all of the time, and she uses this to help people, not hinder them.

Whether your challenge is looking for healthy choices, finding the perfectly balanced snack, or just getting some easy recipes under your belt, Tara will make this happen for you. She has years of experience in dealing with client's dilemmas, as well as her own (being a busy mom, business owner and entrepreneur has left her minimal time to focus on cooking a three-course meal, but she still has lots of tricks up her sleeve to help her continue her passion for clean eating).


Tara is currently certified with Can Fit Pro as a Nutrition and Wellness Specialist. Simply put, she has all the book knowledge to set you up on a no-fail plan, but she also has hands-on experience to make sure it can be tailored to each individual need. She uses her knowledge and passion for nutrition to keep her clients on the cutting edge of clean eating. If you haven't heard of it, she has.

Tara Merko
“Eat to live, Love to eat!”