experience with nutritional counselor/dietician

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tagnard - 12 Jan 2009 14:27 GMT

I'm interested in hearing about people's positive and negative
experiences with a nutritional counselor and/or dietician.
Specifically:

Did the counselor have a private practice, work out of a fitness
club,
a hospital, or where?

Did the counselor seem sympathetic to your personal condition
(fitness, lifestyle, diet, etc.)?

Did the counselor take a personal interest in your situation?

Did the counselor help you improve your health?

Did the counselor, you, or both of you help set your personal goals?

Did you reach your goals in the timeframe set?

For how long (months or number of sessions) did you see the
counselor?

How much, monetarily, was the aid you received worth? Not how much
did
you pay, but looking back, how much would you be willing to pay now?

What was the best part of your experience with the counselor?

What was the worst part of your experience with the counselor?

Thanks!

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Kate XXXXXX - 12 Jan 2009 15:35 GMT

> I'm interested in hearing about people's positive and negative
> experiences with a nutritional counselor and/or dietician.
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> club,
> a hospital, or where?

NHS practitioner. I saw her at the clinic held in out local cottage
hospital.

> Did the counselor seem sympathetic to your personal condition
> (fitness, lifestyle, diet, etc.)?

Very. She was impressed with what I'd done already, and helped me
understand why certain things had certain results.

> Did the counselor take a personal interest in your situation?

Yes. She made quite a few notes to help her with others in the same
situation I was in.

> Did the counselor help you improve your health?

Not much! Well, not directly... But she increased my understanding and
confidence in what I was doing.

> Did the counselor, you, or both of you help set your personal goals?

Both.

> Did you reach your goals in the timeframe set?

Yes.

> For how long (months or number of sessions) did you see the
> counselor?

Once. I hit the goal and my surgeon didn't see the need for me to see
her again.

> How much, monetarily, was the aid you received worth? Not how much
> did
> you pay, but looking back, how much would you be willing to pay now?

No idea. Being NHS, I don't pay up front anyway. It gets paid through
taxes...

> What was the best part of your experience with the counselor?

Being told I was doing it right and to carry on, with a little tweaking
here and there... She helped me didtch any remaining guilt about the
odd chocolate here and there.

> What was the worst part of your experience with the counselor?

I felt I'd wasted her time. She didn't think so.

> Thanks!

Note: I did not ask to see the dietician. My surgeon thought it might
be useful, although he was aware that I was already shedding weight with
the aid of Weight Watchers. I hit the surgeon's target weight loss
about three weeks before surgery, and continued to do so at the same
rate afterwards. Surgery had little, directly, to do with weight loss:
more a case of weight loss triggering the need for the surgery!

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