Hi, I'm Emma,
I'm a qualified nutritionist specializing in personalized diets, and I help you become the best version of yourself. I'm here so that together we can build your personalized diet, a diet through which you take care of yourself.
PERSONALIZED DIETS AND NUTRITION PROGRAMS
If your priority is you, I'll help you take care of yourself through nutrition and lifestyle.
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Diet, weight-loss plan, meal plan and so on are just words. Behind them is you. With your needs, your wishes and your dreams, but also your habits, your perceptions and your own health conditions. It's you: unique and one of a kind. The good and the not so good.I see nutrition as the purest way of taking care of yourself. Through nutrition, as far as you can, respecting your tastes, respecting yourself. No pressure, with kindness. And I use nutrition, my knowledge and my professionalism to help you.
To tailor, to build your diet together. A diet like a dress: made to measure. A diet that doesn't feel like a diet, full of restrictions and frustration. Not a sheet of paper you borrow from someone else, from your sister or your best friend. A diet that is yours alone, which we will build together and refine, little by little. A diet that becomes your own way of life, through which you take care of yourself.
What can I do for you? Put in your hands, in your power, the information, the tool, the path to get back to yourself, to your best shape. A diet through which you love yourself.
How do I do it? First of all, I want you to want it. To walk through the door of my practice, or to meet online. You need to feel that the time has come to do something for yourself, that you are ready to become the best version of yourself.
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First, we will have an initial meeting. I pay special attention to this first meeting. A meeting where we get to know each other, where I will try to understand your lifestyle and your habits, what you like and, above all, what you don't like.
We will do a nutritional assessment and a history of how you feed your body, and we will look at your clinical parameters and health conditions; based on these, we will set a goal together. Using the information I gather in the nutritional assessment during this first visit, I will try to tailor your diet to you. Or, better said, your initial personalized diet plan.
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Why do I say initial? Because moving from one lifestyle to another isn't easy and needs gentle steps. Patience. Until, together, we build your own way of eating.
My initial nutrition programs always include a weekly visit. So we will meet week after week.
Why? Precisely to see, observe and check 2 things: first, whether what we are doing, we are doing well, and above all whether your metabolism responds to what we apply; and second, whether you like it.
Yes, a diet must, first of all, be something you enjoy. This is my creed, what I believe in when I do personalized nutrition. Because if you don't enjoy it, sooner or later you will grit your teeth, stick with it for a week, two, three, and then, little by little, you will go back to your old way of eating and this diet will become just another attempt. How many is that now? With no result.
I can't promise diets full of chocolate cake, but we can certainly find solutions, alternatives and approaches that suit you and that, in a way, are a mirror of you.
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How long does it take? It's the question I'm asked most often, and until now I have never known how to answer it.
It depends. It depends on each person and on many, many factors. For a change to truly be a change, it needs phases, time and patience.
Yes, the first phase is setting the goal, creating your personalized diet and putting it into practice. Whether the goal is weight loss or a health condition.
Maintenance and consolidation, on the other hand, are fundamental stages in this process of lifestyle change. That is where the change in lifestyle is really built, and whether we then meet every 2 to 3 weeks, then every month or two, I will be there to support you, so that you don't slip back and don't lose the results you have achieved.
And let's be honest: how many times have you lost 2 or 3 kilos and then put them back on because you didn't know what to do? You didn't know how to keep that result and, little by little, you regained them, maybe with a few extra.
Let's get to know each other and, together, with patience, build the best version of you.
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If you've landed here, it probably hurts, or it's starting to hurt. That beautiful dream of a baby is starting to become painful. I want to help you understand how nutrition, science and my professional expertise can help you.For a few years now, and especially during the COVID period, chance, coincidence or destiny brought to my attention a number of women, couples, ladies, young women and even men who had fertility problems.
But that wasn't the reason they came to me as a nutritionist. They came either because their gynecologist had told them that excess weight might be the cause of their infertility or of their difficulty getting pregnant. Or because their diabetologist had explained that they had insulin resistance and needed to bring their blood sugar back to normal levels. Or for various other reasons, such as amenorrhea or hormonal imbalances, or all of these together. But the reason they came was never to improve their fertility through nutrition as well.
This is my goal: to show you how nutrition can, and must, play a part in improving reproductive quality, whether natural or assisted.
As it happened, some of the couples who came to me were also preparing for in vitro fertilization. And that's when I felt unprepared. Yes: unprepared. Not up to the expectations and hopes these people were placing in my hands.
Even though, at the time, I already had years of experience and expertise in nutrition, as a graduate of 2 degree programs, one in food science and one in human nutrition, and of numerous seminars and courses.
So I did what I always do: I read, I researched, I learned, and I discovered that there is a specific nutrition for fertility, whether natural or in vitro. Measures that can and should change infertility.
And this subject is so vast that one of the most important universities in the world, Sapienza University, set up a Master's in Reproductive Biology and Fertility Nutrition.
And yes, because I deeply love what I do, and to offer the best diets to the people who turn to these techniques, I enrolled and earned this diploma.
Today I am one of the first nutritionists in Europe specializing in fertility, and the only specialized nutritionist in Romania. And I put all my nutritional expertise into helping you, both of you, to beat infertility.
The road to a baby can be painful. I'm here to help you with specialized nutrition.
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HOW DO I LOSE WEIGHT, HOW DO I GET THIN, WHICH DIET WORKS… That seems to be the general perception of nutrition and lifestyle. But nutrition means much more than that. Nutrition is, first and foremost, the way you take care of yourself and of your body's needs.What do I do if I have diabetes and need to manage my blood sugar? What do I do if I have thyroiditis, always feel tired, eat little and still gain weight?
What do I do if I have irritable bowel and everything I eat causes me discomfort?
What do I do if I always feel bloated, I'm constipated, I have reflux, heartburn, I have... I have... I have...?
These are questions whose answer can't be whatever diet is in fashion.
That's why, when there is a health condition, with symptoms that invade and erode your quality of life, the answer can't be a weight-loss plan.
The answer can only be a personalized diet designed by a professional who has studied nutrition, not just weight-loss plans, and who has the ability and professional expertise to meet your needs, to help you improve your quality of life and to help you manage your symptoms.
That's why the choice is yours.
YOUR HEALTH BELONGS TO YOU, AND YOU DECIDE WHOSE HANDS YOU TRUST IT TO.
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I work with nutrition first of all for myself, to take care of myself and to manage my own relationship with food. That is also why I fell in love with nutrition. Then my passion became my profession.
I first studied Food and Gastronomic Sciences at San Raffaele University in Italy, then went on to Human Nutrition Sciences at the same faculty. I later specialized in infertility, as one of the graduates of the first Master's in FERTILITY NUTRITION AND REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY at one of the best universities in the world, Sapienza University of Rome. I have studied and I will always keep studying, because nutrition is a constantly evolving science, which is why I keep myself informed and attend seminars, courses and congresses on nutrition and food. Because for a passion to become expertise, it needs a great deal of study, precisely so that I can offer you the best professional support on your journey towards your personalized diet, whether you want to change your lifestyle or you are hoping for a baby.
What is my way of working? I strongly believe in personalizing the diet, because we are not all the same, and what suits you may not be good for me. For more details, see here.
“Nutrition is the way you take care of yourself.”
Emma Di Bello, qualified nutritionist specializing in personalized diets
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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The nutritional assessment, or first visit, costs 250 lei (RON). After that, if you wish and depending on the goals we set, we choose a program. A program includes 5 sessions, costs between 1,000 and 1,500 lei and is paid in advance.
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Because when you choose to follow a nutrition program and want a personalized diet, I will create a diet just for you, devoting my time and expertise to it, and if you change your mind, I won't be able to use it for anyone else.
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The first visit, the nutritional assessment of your lifestyle, lasts at least 1 hour, sometimes longer (especially fertility assessments). Follow-up meetings last between 30 and 45 minutes.
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Because moving to a new way of life takes steps, phases and information. It isn't a simple process. It takes work, and I will be by your side to support you through it. I'm not after short-term changes, results that look good but don't last; I want to build a real change with you, and that takes time.
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It's a question I can't answer. One program may be enough, or two, or more. It depends on many factors, but the main goal stays the same: to help you tailor your own lifestyle.
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Because I don't use standard, generic, one-size-fits-all diets. Based on the information you give me during the first visit, the nutritional assessment, I will go home and work out the best meal plan for you. A personalized diet that I will explain and put into practice with you in the following meetings.
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To get an idea of the different personalized diets I can support you with, click here.
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No. I don't believe in miracles, weight-loss pills or other wonders. I believe in nutrition, science and expertise.
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Of course. All you need is a phone, computer or laptop and a stable connection.
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Oh... it was a hard but necessary choice that I had to make after a few unpleasant incidents. I see it as a sign of mutual respect: respect for you on my part, and respect for me and my work on yours.
If you can't make it to the meeting, I offer you the option to do it online, or even to move the time of the meeting, if someone can swap with you. If something comes up in your schedule, just let me know 24 hours in advance and we will reschedule, no problem at all.
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Send a text message to +40 773 894 940 or a WhatsApp message.