Are you a NUTRITIONIST?
HisProdigalSon
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Hello, I have a friend who lost a bunch of weight, overshot her goal, and has been under-eating ever since.
She has mustered the courage and confidence to try and gain a bit of weight back, but is quite scared. If you are a REAL nutritionist / dietician, willing to give her some advice via MFP messages, I would greatly appreciate it.
Please message me and I will gladly and gratefully put you in contact with her. Thank you so much.
She has mustered the courage and confidence to try and gain a bit of weight back, but is quite scared. If you are a REAL nutritionist / dietician, willing to give her some advice via MFP messages, I would greatly appreciate it.
Please message me and I will gladly and gratefully put you in contact with her. Thank you so much.
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A psychologist might be who she should actually see. Good luck to your friend.0
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I don't think you should locate a nutritionist via an internet forum. Can you look under your Yellow Pages?0
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Not nutritionists, but there are a fair number of folks in the 'Gaining Weight' forum who are also underweight and are trying to gain. Reasons range from various eating disorders to losses from physical illness to habitual under eating. It's not all people looking to bulk.
Maybe have her look at past posts there, or post a question herself. If she is clear about the issue, I'm sure there will be someone there who can help her cope with her fears because they've been there themselves and can help her get back on the right track.0 -
Thank you for all the good recommendations.0
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Typically nutritionists or health coaches charge even online.0
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If she's an adult, she needs to do this herself. If she's not an adult, she needs to get off of MFP and talk to her doctor.0
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I was pestering you for the paper copy version haah!
BUT honestly no, it's usually waaay far down the search.
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go for the dietician not nutritionists you can become a nutritionists by taking an online course and paying 25$.0
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I was pestering you for the paper copy version haah!
BUT honestly no, it's usually waaay far down the search.
What's far down, on what search? You enter your city/state or zip, and "nutritionist". It's pretty simple, I am surprised it's possible not to know this...?
Or maybe I'm old-fashioned?
I don't have a paper copy of the Yellow Pages.
They do still give them out...every maybe two years or so (not sure, I don't keep track) one lands in my driveway and I send it to recycling. But I go on yellowpages.com all the time to find businesses and such. Google isn't as pin-pointed, will bring up other businesses that are nowhere near my area even with the city/state entered in the search, etc. But I supposed the OP could do it either way - or rather, the friend could. Either way, I just personally wouldn't recommend looking for some stranger on the internet who says s/he knows a lot about nutrition. So that's the bottom line...IMO. Find an actual professional, would be my suggestion.
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I meant just that it isn't a top search option since they don't pay much into Google ad words, not on the actual Yellowpages website.
I was pestering you for the paper copy version haah!
BUT honestly no, it's usually waaay far down the search.
What's far down, on what search? You enter your city/state or zip, and "nutritionist". It's pretty simple, I am surprised it's possible not to know this...?
Or maybe I'm old-fashioned?
I don't have a paper copy of the Yellow Pages. They do still give them out...every maybe two years or so (not sure, I don't keep track) one lands in my driveway and I send it to recycling. But I go on yellowpages.com all the time to find businesses and such. Google isn't as pin-pointed, will bring up other businesses that are nowhere near my area even with the city/state entered in the search, etc. But I supposed the OP could do it either way - or rather, the friend could. Either way, I just personally wouldn't recommend looking for some stranger on the internet who says s/he knows a lot about nutrition. So that's the bottom line...IMO. Find an actual professional, would be my suggestion.
I find it easier to Google to get the actual websites for said item or Google to read their reviews.
And they dropped a white pages off at my doorstep last week and I just recycled it
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I was pestering you for the paper copy version haah!
BUT honestly no, it's usually waaay far down the search.
What's far down, on what search? You enter your city/state or zip, and "nutritionist". It's pretty simple, I am surprised it's possible not to know this...?
Or maybe I'm old-fashioned?
I don't have a paper copy of the Yellow Pages. They do still give them out...every maybe two years or so (not sure, I don't keep track) one lands in my driveway and I send it to recycling. But I go on yellowpages.com all the time to find businesses and such. Google isn't as pin-pointed, will bring up other businesses that are nowhere near my area even with the city/state entered in the search, etc. But I supposed the OP could do it either way - or rather, the friend could. Either way, I just personally wouldn't recommend looking for some stranger on the internet who says s/he knows a lot about nutrition. So that's the bottom line...IMO. Find an actual professional, would be my suggestion.
I'd use yelp.com before yellowpages.com0 -
lishie_rebooted wrote: »If she's an adult, she needs to do this herself. If she's not an adult, she needs to get off of MFP and talk to her doctor.
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Heh. I loved that commercial.
Right, don't know why I didn't think of Yelp. My husband is married to it, cheek-and-jowl. Also a good idea, yes. And both are better ideas (IMO) than asking strangers on the internet, "Are you qualified for X? If so, please tell my friend what to do with her body."
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Ugh. I haven't read this thread. I'm just chiming in to say I really hate the word "nutritionist". Anyone can call themselves a "nutritionist". In the United States, a registered dietitian is a professional designation for individuals who have met specific requirements, academically, in clinical practice, have passed specific certification exams, participate in ongoing continuing education and have registered with the appropriate certifying authorities.
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Had a breakfast meeting last year at a place I hadn't been. Looked up the address, thought I knew where it was exactly. Got there and it wasn't there. Chech phone. Phone not in bag. #%^*. Get out of car and walk in Walgreens. Ask the only employee there if she's heard of the place. No. Pulls out a yellow pages. Paper. No lie. It's like the twilight zone. I allowed plenty of time to get there, but now, as she is turning pages in the restaurant section in slo mo, seconds are whipping by. Call the place on a landline for cross street. Felt like a time warp.
Apologies for the tangent. Fwiw, the friend should find her own dietitian. You can affirm that's a good idea.0
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