If you’re reading this page, I’m guessing that you became a dietitian because you want to help people to be healthy. Your practice likely goes something like this:

• Your clients may choose to come to see you or clients may see you grudgingly (because their doctor or wife told them to come).

• Your clients want to make changes. Maybe they want to lose weight, or they’re scared about a recent diagnosis or new blood work.

• However, despite their initial motivation, they don’t make any changes.

• Or, they enthusiastically make the changes, only to fall off the wagon and return to their old habits a few months later.

Leaving you to secretly wonder if you could be doing a better job in supporting people to eat healthier.

In short: Yes! There’s lots of wisdom out there to guide you.

You CAN feel CONFIDENT in your ABILITY to help your clients create REAL EATING CHANGE.

I know about that self-doubt because I’ve been there too. In fact, I’ve always been super curious about people’s behaviour – what makes us human beings tick. I’ve spent my 29 years in our nutrition field searching to understand why people make their food choices. In undergrad, my favourite course was cultural aspects of food. My second favourite course - family systems. My masters research investigated women’s relationships with food and their bodies. Since then, I’ve continued to look outside of dietetics to find answers. I’ve searched far and wide. Pulling information from psychology, sociology, behaviour change, neuroscience, feminism, economics, and more to apply to my practice.

Now I’m giving back to our profession by sharing with you the best of what I’ve learned.

That’s why I’ve created this year-long deep dive into factors that influence people’s eating habits.

What' I’m calling a “facilitated book club”.

To save you the 29 years of work. So you can be better at understanding why people don't change their eating habits (even when they say they want to). So, as a profession, we can have a bigger impact on people’s health. Because we’re up against a lot. We know that the healthcare system doesn’t give us enough time. And we’re up against so-called ‘expert’ advice (a.k.a. misinformation) promising quick fixes from books, Tiktok, friends/family, other health care providers (just to name a few).

I’m facilitating our deep dive into the factors that influence people’s eating habits. You’ll know why people make the food choices that they do. Because it’s likely not the reasons that your clients think (“excuses” such as lack of time, laziness, lack of willpower, and lack of motivation, aren’t the real reasons why changing eating habits is difficult for clients). With this deep knowledge, you can help your clients overcome these barriers and help them actually stick to their new healthy eating habits as a long-term lifestyle.

To be transparent, this isn’t about surface-level tips & tricks that don’t help in the real world of providing nutrition counselling to clients with complicated lives. Quite the contrary. This book club is for those of us who truly want to understand, and help, our clients.

• We’ll be digging into the depths of human behaviour and what influences it.

• We’ll be discovering how we can help clients cut through their barriers and experience change.

• Expect intelligent discussions with fellow practitioners on these essential (and fascinating) topics.

• Expect practical strategies for implementing these techniques into practice with your clients.

• The result: Each month, you have new tools. The tools you need to maximize your limited time - to really help your clients create long-term, healthy eating habits.

What You’ll Get:

1. You effectively support clients in adopting long-term healthy eating habits (and, breaking bad habits) because you skillfully apply behavior change strategies and techniques.

2. You guide clients to drop quick-fix diets in favour of long-term healthy habits because you understand how the psychological impact of past failed diets/weight loss attempts impacts their current behaviours. And, you understand the pervasive impact of diet culture in shaping (and harming) clients’ relationships with food and their bodies.

3. You tailor your recommendations to your clients’ individual needs because you understand how the brain works (including ADD/ADHD and anxiety).

4. You support your clients to create eating habits that meet their physiological health needs and celebrate their culture because you understand the layers of food’s cultural significance.

5. You successfully direct your clients towards evidence-based advice instead of the so-called Influencer “experts” because you’ve learned successful persuasion techniques.  

 Dietitian Facilitated Book Club - The Details

• The Dietitian Facilitated Book Club runs from April – March

• Each month: You’ll read a book that’s had a big impact on my practice. And, you’ll complete a case study, based on the thousands of real-life clients I’ve served over the years.

• At the end of the month, as a group, we’ll meet, to discuss the book and how we can apply it to our practices. While I’ll facilitate the discussion, we can enrich our practices by learning from the wealth of our collective experiences. Discussions will happen on Zoom. There’ll be 2 options to join in: the last Thursday of the month at 7:00-8:00 pm (Pacific time) or the last Friday of the month at 11:00 am – 12:00 noon (Pacific time). Your choice which discussion you attend. Can’t make a live discussion? We’ll post the recordings on our exclusive RD Facilitated Book Club Member’s website so you can listen in at your convenience.

• Each month, there’ll be additional resources so you can continue exploring the topics.

Spaces are limited to allow for quality discussions.

Dietitian Facilitated Book Club 2024-25 Meeting Dates:

• October 24th & 25th, 2024 (to avoid Hallowe’en)

• November 28th & 29th, 2024

• December – Winter Break (no readings or meetings)

• January 30th & 31st, 2025

• February 27th & 28th, 2025

• March 27th & 28th, 2025

 Be more effective at helping your clients create change that they can stick to. Join us.

The 2024-2025 group is currently underway. Stay tuned in the new year when we’ll open registration to participate in the 2025-26 group.