6 Things Your Nutritionist Wishes You’d Stop? (Part 3) by Joan Kent, PhD
6 Things Your Nutritionist Wishes You’d Stop? (Part 3)
by Joan Kent, PhD
Here are the final 2 things your nutritionist would probably prefer that you stop.
- Cleaning the Hotel Room Before Housekeeping Arrives
This happens frequently. Clients expect me to reprimand them for the “bad” stuff they’ve been eating. (I never do that, but that’s a separate topic.)
They reschedule appointments because they weren’t following my recommendations. Then they eat well for a week or so – and keep a food log that shows how well they’re doing.
Yet the reasons the clients were not implementing can reveal the pitfalls, the moments that threw them off-track. Postponing the appointment till they’re sure they’ll get a gold star misses those valuable discovery points.
I’ve also had clients cancel follow-up appointments – arguably the most important appointments. Follow-ups give us a chance to discuss what has been working and what hasn’t, and make key changes so the client can move forward from there.
- Letting Too Many Cooks Spoil the Food Plan
A new client came in after meeting with her physical therapist. She presented a week’s worth of food logs, based on her PT’s recommendations. I suggested several changes that I felt certain would benefit her health, but she was reluctant to follow them – because the PT had suggested something else.
Despite my excellent track record over many years, I get much worse results when clients try to squeeze my recommendations in and around what they’ve been told to do by their PT, their doctor, their dentist, the pool boy.
When it comes to your nutrition, you’re free to do whatever you choose. You can wing it. You can follow steps you’ve found on websites. More nutrition stuff is online now than ever before. You can combine plans and follow the Paleo diet 2 days a week, the Mediterranean Diet on 2 different days, a vegan diet for 2 days, and have a pepperoni pizza and beer binge the last day. Whatever you want.
But you might miss vital nutrients by eating too much of some things and too little of others. You might skip over key brain chemical info that would make your life easier and healthier if you knew it. You might find your appetite out of control and not know why. You might have intense cravings and not know why.
Food is not as casual as we sometimes treat it. Your nutritionist wishes you’d stop treating it as if it were.
I’m available to help with aspects of your health and wellbeing that are directly related to my specialties: diabetes, pre-diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, persistent low moods, mood swings, cravings, ADD, and more. Just visit www.LastResortNutrition.com and grab your free Empowered Eating Consult. Find out how a few simple changes can make a big difference in your health and how you feel.
Brought to you by Dr. Joan Kent, best-selling author of Stronger Than Sugar: 7 Simple Steps to Defeat Sugar Addiction, Lift Your Mood and Transform Your Health.
