To ensure we can provide personalised and effective eating plans, a thorough assessment in your your first appointment is essential. This includes:
- Assess your nutrition needs based on your medical history and lifestyle
- Review your normal eating patterns, dietary intake and symptoms
- Agree realistic goals that will improve your health and well-being
- Assess your current motivation and barriers to change
- Understand your food preferences to help us tailor our advise
- Review your weight and dieting history
Your initial appointment is 90 mins long. After the assessment, we will have 20-30 minutes for your personalised strategies.
To help speed up this assessment and save more time in your first appointment for the fun stuff (talking about what you are going to eat) please download and complete our diet and Symptom Assessment form using the button below. You can download to your computer and fill in electronically or print it out and fill it in.
Review appointments
The review appointments will incur a small gap payment and usually covers 1 or 2 topics or dietary changes including a explanation of why the changes will help, lists of the best foods to choose and eating plans to help you put the advice into action. As you progress we review what went well and the areas you found challenging so we can give you other strategies to try.
A word about change. If changing your habits were easy, then you wouldn’t be here (reading this). Change is hard for most human beings. Especially change that may take some patience before you start to see results. We know from evidence and experience that small consistent changes which you build upon over time are the ones that are most likely to ‘stick’. If the change you are planning is too big or unrealistic for you right now, then you may well be setting yourself up to fail (which can leave you feeling a little unmotivated – we have all been there!).
At My Nutrition Clinic we will set you up with a plan and keep adjusting it as you progress. This ensures you develop the the lifelong behaviours and habits that will see you reach your goals… and stay there!!
