I’m Maja
Babic
MSc in Food Technology, Health, Wellness & Nutrition Coach, and founder of MAJAMAYO.
I created the MAJAMAYO METHOD™, built on five pillars of health: nutrition, physical activity, stress and sleep, emotional and social wellbeing, and avoiding risky substances. Its goal is to develop healthy, sustainable habits that become a natural part of everyday life.
TURNING POINT
Let me start with a confession.
I spent years studying food. I earned my master’s degree in Food Technology and understood how food is made, from raw ingredients and processing to the product on the shelf. Then I spent nearly two decades in marketing, where I learned the other side of the story: how products are presented and sold, and how people make decisions.
Yet none of that answered the one question that mattered most: how do you help people change the way they eat, not for a few weeks, but for good, so that healthy habits become part of their everyday lives
Knowledge about food was never the problem. All around me, especially in corporate environments and later while working with company employees, I kept seeing the same thing: people who know what they should eat and do, but struggle to turn that knowledge into everyday habits. Stress, lack of sleep, a hectic pace of life, too little movement, and emotional eating often make that change even harder.
At the same time, I was seeing more and more insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure, conditions closely linked to what we eat every day and how we live. The data only confirmed it. We all know that smoking is harmful. Yet many people still don’t take the importance of what we eat every day seriously enough.
It became clear to me that health cannot be viewed through food alone. The way we eat is connected to how we move, how we sleep, how we cope with stress, and how we feel in our own lives.
The turning point came in 2013, at a professional conference in Florida focused on nutrition, health, and the role of lifestyle habits in preventing chronic disease.
There, I encountered lifestyle medicine for the first time and realized something that changed my professional path: knowing food is not enough. Movement, sleep, stress, and our relationships with others affect health just as much. And change doesn’t happen when we know what we should do, but when it becomes part of our day.
To find out how knowledge can become something people can truly use in everyday life, I turned to further education: a certification through Mayo Clinic, the Harvard Medical School Executive Education program “Health and Wellness: Designing a Sustainable Nutrition Plan,” and the Food as Medicine and Food for Longevity programs at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
Each added an important piece of the puzzle: the science of nutrition and longevity, an understanding of the psychology of behavior change, and the skill to build a plan around the individual, not a one-size-fits-all template.
Out of this, I created MAJAMAYO and the method I work by today: five pillars of health, a plan built around the person, and habits they can actually live with. Because health isn’t built on what we know, but on what we do every day.
How I work today
I work with individuals and companies, in Serbia and internationally. For clients abroad, I offer 1:1 online programs, including clients in New York. My deepest focus areas are longevity, women’s health across life stages, and metabolic health, and a large part of my work is also weight management and habit change. My approach is evidence-based, and my recommendations are shaped by the goals, life stage, and daily routine of the person I work with.
I give talks and workshops for companies and professional audiences, and I speak regularly about nutrition and health in the media. I also keep up with the latest in lifestyle medicine through international training and conferences, including those of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
The nutrition plan I create isn’t a one-month meal plan. It’s a strategy that fits your schedule, your tastes, and your commitments. I believe healthy habits should fit into your life, not the other way around.
OUR TEAM
Behind every change stand people.
The nutrition plan I create isn’t a one-month meal plan. It’s a strategy that fits your schedule, your tastes, and your commitments. I believe healthy habits should fit into your life, not the other way around.
Licensed psychologist, Master’s in Human Resource Management, and integrative psychotherapist with ten years of experience working with people. She is a certified PCM (Process Communication Model) trainer.
Her approach draws on humanistic psychology, object relations theory, self psychology, intersubjectivity theory, and body-oriented and systemic psychotherapy, with an emphasis on respect, kindness, and equality in the relationship with the client.
With clients, she works on personal and professional development: she helps them explore what truly matters to them, change patterns that no longer serve them, and build the skills to become the most balanced version of themselves.
Gala Isidora Randjic
PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR CHANGE
He began his career as a sports physiotherapist for a handball club. At the same time, he trained in reflexology, Ayurvedic treatment, and shiatsu massage, and in 2009 he began studying French aromacosmetics with the brands Thalgo and Decléor.
He deepened his interest in aromatherapy through training in natural cosmetics formulation in Zagreb, and then continued his education in phytotherapy.
He launched his own line of natural cosmetics, which he uses in his own massage practice in Mostar. Since moving to Belgrade in 2014, he has run two natural cosmetics lines in Serbia and works as an expert consultant for spa centers in Serbia and Croatia.
Vanja Kosanjic
PHYSIOTHERAPY AND AROMATHERAPY
Specialist in obstetrics and gynecology with more than three decades of clinical experience. She worked for twenty years at the “Narodni front” University Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, and in 2009 she founded the specialist gynecology and obstetrics practice “Medison Plus” in Zemun.
For more than a decade she has taught at the university level, first gynecology and obstetrics, and then personalized medicine and pharmacogenomics at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade.
She has been an invited speaker at international medical conferences on regenerative medicine, high-risk pregnancy, and reproductive health.
Dr Amira Fazlagic
GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS