WEIGHT LOSS DIETS
I could tell you that I was born into a classic Romanian family where everyone was overweight, where the main concern was food: what we put on the table, making sure we never ran out of food. And yet we weren't poor, we really didn't lack anything, with 2 extremely hard-working parents. And I could tell you how I inevitably ended up weighing over 100 kg. 112.6 kg, to be exact. And how I lost the weight, and what the “miracle” was that worked for me.
But... in practice, realistically, it wouldn't help you.
Yes... maybe, for a moment, it would inspire you… it's a lovely story about an overweight woman who lost the weight and, look, even became a nutritionist. I know, because I used to love stories like that too.
Realistically, what will help you is my expertise in nutrition: the 2 degree programs I completed, one in food science and one in human nutrition, a Master's in reproductive biology and fertility nutrition, many specializations in the management of patients with obesity, specific courses and seminars, and the nutritional protocols I know and will apply only according to your characteristics, your needs, your tastes, your job, your environment and many, many other things you will share with me at our first meeting.
What I can 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.
My way of working
Step 1
First of all, I want you to want it: to walk through the door of my practice or to meet online, to feel that the time has come to do something for yourself, that you are ready to become the best version of yourself.
Step 2
You book a nutritional assessment. I pay special attention to this first meeting, which will be the basis for structuring your personalized diet, if you wish. The nutritional assessment is a complete, individual assessment of you from a nutritional point of view, which may include factors such as age, sex, weight, height, physical activity level, health status and personal goals. In this first meeting we will get to know each other, and I will try to understand your way of life, your habits, what you like and, above all, what you don't like. We will take a history of your lifestyle and of how you feed your body. At the end of this meeting, we will set a goal, whether you want to lose weight, want a diet specific to your condition or a fertility diet, or simply want to improve or change your lifestyle.
Step 3
YOUR PERSONALIZED DIET. Based on the information provided in the nutritional assessment, I will try to create your diet or, better said, your initial diet plan. Why do I say initial? Because moving from one lifestyle to another isn't easy. It needs gentle steps and patience, until together we build your own way of life and reach the goals we have set.
How it works
About 7 days later, once I have drawn up the initial diet, we will have our next meeting. In this meeting I will explain your diet plan and give you all the information you need to begin this journey back to yourself.
My initial nutrition programs always include a weekly meeting, precisely to see, observe and check 2 things:
whether what we are doing, we are doing well, and whether your metabolism responds to what we put into practice
whether you like it. Yes, a diet must be something you enjoy, because if you don't enjoy a diet, if it isn't built on your tastes, sooner or later you will give it up. I can't promise chocolate cake every day, but we can certainly find alternatives, approaches and solutions that suit you and that, in a way, are a mirror of you.
How long it takes
It's the question I never know how to answer. It depends. It depends on each person, on your goals and on many factors. For a change to truly be a change, it needs phases, time and patience. In principle, once we have reached the goals set at the first meeting, we will start a maintenance and consolidation program. We will then decide together how often to meet: every 2 weeks, then every month, then every 3 months. Maintenance and consolidation are perhaps the hardest phases of this process of lifestyle change, because this is when the change is really built, together with the way we look at nutrition.
I put a lot of focus on this delicate phase, precisely so that we don't lose the results we have achieved and so that the new habits take hold. And I will be there for you, with all my nutritional expertise, to support you.