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The RiaTea Vintage Weight Loss Center

RiaTea Products have become a vital resource in Talladega and surrounding counties, helping to minimize obesity and improve health outcomes in our community. Over the past eight years, we have hosted five citywide weight-loss challenges with 100 participants each, producing countless success stories—including a top winner who lost 30 pounds in just 30 days. These challenges have built not only healthier habits but also a strong, loyal customer base committed to living “fancy” and well.

The RiaTea Vintage Weight Loss Center is a unique, welcoming, and innovative facility that inspires fitness, nutrition, and total wellness. In addition to producing and selling our signature all-natural teas, we provide nutritional consultations, a free private gym for customers, stress management techniques, and custom meal plans. Our center doubles as both a community health hub and a pick-up location for RiaTea Products, making wellness more accessible to local residents.

What makes our business significant is our holistic, community-first approach: we don’t just sell a product—we deliver transformation. By combining practical tools, encouragement, and accountability, we are changing lives “one fancy step at a time.” Looking ahead, RiaTea’s vision is to expand nationwide, placing our products on shelves across the country to help even more individuals experience the benefits of potent, all-natural wellness solutions.

Maria Mcelderry

President CEO

A petite country yet contemporary woman with an innovated niche to discover God’s creative human anatomy and natural nutrition since the age of 21, furthered her education in undergrad with sociology and research and minor in psychological research BA at Talladega College, and studying dietetics and food nutrition at Jacksonville State University MA, both in the state of Alabama. She began writing free meal plans for the city, surrounding counties, communities and state for individuals with severe obesity, chronic constipation, high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol as she studied the body and its natural needs extensively using the methods of cause and effects of natural remedies. Also known as fancy woman the “obesity slayer”, an innovated and fun approach for children and young adults to eat healthy and drink fancy. In 2016, she created RiaTea all natural green teas in her home and sold them along with giving away free meal plans. In 2017 she purchased a location and established “RiaTea Vintage Weight Loss Center” with a city ribbon cutting where everyone “drink fancy”. The weight loss center offers free nutritional consultations, hold city weight loss challenges with monetary rewards, weight loss prescriptions, free custom meal plans, free gym, nutritional assessments, and the house and manufacturing of “RiaTea Products”. 9 yrs in business and a lifetime to help each customer one at a fancy time, now offered on different platforms.