Individual Consultations
The goal of Dietitian Services is to provide you with useful strategies to help you meet your dietary or health goals. Thus our motto – Coaching you to optimal nutrition.
Initial consultations are one-to-one with an Accredited Practising Dietitian. The Dietitian will ask you what your hopes and goals are and what knowledge, skills, meal plans or strategies you would like to have by the end of the session.
The initial consultation takes between 40 and 45 minutes. The Dietitian will ask questions about your current eating patterns, health, exercise and lifestyle to get an understanding of your personal circumstances.
Please feel free to bring along anything that will be useful such as a list of questions, a food or exercise record, food packets, list of medications or multivitamins, blood sugar diary or recipe books. Support people (significant other, family member) are welcome to come in with you for the consultation.
The Dietitian will then provide you with practical strategies based around your lifestyle aimed at improving your eating patterns and health. The advice is personalised to fit your lifestyle and often the strategies are a joint effort between Dietitian and client.
Nutrition Advice
- Infant and childhood nutrition
- Childhood overweight and obesity
- Pregnancy nutrition
- Nutrition for Teenagers
- Vegetarian nutrition
- Nutrition requirements for over 70s
- Weight management
- Obesity surgery – lap bands, gastric sleeve
- Diabetes – type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes
- Heart health, high cholesterol, Mediterranean food
- High blood pressure
- Gut problems – irritable bowel, trial of low FODMAP diet, constipation, coeliac disease, reflux oesophagitis, eosinophilic oesophagitis, diverticular disease
- Kidney disease
- Eating disorders
- Food allergy and intolerances
- Nutrition in cancer
- Malnutrition
- Nutritional deficiencies – iron deficiency, vitamin B12 deficiency
- Individualised meal plans based on your nutritional genetic profile
Pregnancy Nutrition
Cathie Lowe is an Endorsed Prenatal Dietitian. She likes to work with pregnant mothers early in pregnancy so that you can enjoy your pregnancy without experiencing or minimising common side effects (like gut issues – constipation, nausea), helping mums-to-be that have had previous bariatric surgery, help get the balance of nutrition for the baby to grow for mums-to-be that have issues in the past with too much weight gain in previous pregnancies (book an appointment as soon as you know you are pregnant) and helping pregnant women manage gestational diabetes.
- Optimal nutrition for sporting requirements
- Body composition – increase muscle mass, lower body fat
- Nutrition strategies to increase muscle mass
- Nutrition strategies to lower body fat composition
- Nutrition strategies for training to prevent fatigue from inadequate nutrition
- Nutrition requirements for competition days
- Planning meals for travelling to competition