If you answer yes to any of the following you may benefit from working with a dietitian:

• Indigestion/Acid Reflux

• Diarrhea and/or constipation

• Bloating, gas, or constant uneasiness

• Unable to lose weight

• Significant amount of unexplained weight loss

• Food sensitivities or allergies

• Sick often

• Low energy

• Want to improve metabolism

• High cholesterol

• Skin irritations

• Anxiety

How Nutrition Preferred Helps:

• Provides assistance in planning meals and snacks

• Looks at full nutrition profile to identify food sensitivities and/or allergies

• Takes in the big picture of you as a person to see how sleep, stress, and exercise are affecting your gut

• Teaches you how to eat for your best gut health no matter where you are!

• Ability to order stool testing and bloodwork to find any abnormalities that could be the cause of any issues

Number of Sessions Recommended for Long Term Success:

• The number of sessions needed will be based on where your gut health is currently. Typically minimal of one initial and 2 follow up's have the best success.

If you answer yes to any of the following you may benefit from working with a dietitian:

• Have a fear of certain foods or food groups

• Constant yo-yo dieting

• You’ve been diagnosed with an eating disorder or think you have anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, orthorexia

• You may not be sure if you have an actual eating disorder but you know you have some unhealthy habits around food and/or exercise

• All you can think about is food during the day

• The thought of your next meal and eating gives you anxiety

• Your relationship with food is all-or-nothing, meaning you’re either “on” or “off” with your eating plan

• Your mood swings based on how you feel about weight and body image

• You over-exercise, especially around times when you feel you might have eaten too much or ate something that wasn’t what you planned to eat

• You think you should “be on a diet” and have bad body image but know deep down diets don’t work

• You just have no idea how to eat.

• You're in recovery for an eating disorder and want to make sure you get the support you need

How Nutrition Preferred Helps:

• We provide assistance in planning meals and snacks

• We teach you how your body works and increase your knowledge of metabolism so you can gain trust in your body

• We teach you about your hunger and satiety cues and what they really mean

• We provide nutrition education once we figure out together what you want to work on

• We help you understand eating disorder thoughts and behaviors

• We talk about body image and what that means to you as well as work. on body neutrality/positivity

• We talk about food and feelings and how to understand emotional eating

• We take down diet culture so you feel confident in what you eat

Number of Sessions Recommended for Long Term Success:

The number of sessions needed will be based on where you are in your journey with gaining and maintaining a healthy relationship with food. Usually an initial with at least 5-10 follow ups weekly or twice a month is recommended.

If you answer yes to any of the following you may benefit from working with a dietitian:

• You are constantly going on and off diets

• You feel like losing weight would be beneficial to your overall health

• Wanting to learn more about Intuitive Eating or ready to ditch diets

• Are unsure of what is the right or wrong way to eat anymore because of all of the different diets out there

• Would like to be more regular about eating healthy

• Are wanting a practitioner that will accept and respect the inherent diversity of body shapes and sizes and promotes a flexible, individualized eating based on hunger, satiety, nutritional needs, and pleasure, rather than any externally regulated eating plan focused on weight control.

How Nutrition Preferred will help:

• We provide assistance in planning meals and snacks to meet your needs and likes

• We teach you how your body works and increase your knowledge of metabolism

• Go over the importance of gut health for both weight loss and prevention

• Bust nutrition myths and answer any nutrition related questions

• Set short term and long term goals with ways to meet them

• Ability to order stool testing and bloodwork to find any abnormalities that could be the cause of any issues

Number of sessions recommended for long term success :

Depending on where you are in your weightless journey and how much support and accountability you need, I usually recommend the initial session and at least two follow ups.