Does anyone know of a service that does tailored diet and exercise plans, with the ability to have one on one client online sessions?
I'm not looking for pre-packaged foods or recipes. Just someone to help me write out a food plan for a few weeks - I have a million diet requirements, which makes me a pain-in-the-ass type of client.
Yes, I have MyFitnessPal and a fitbit.
I have been to a dietician before (years ago), and their advice was (and I quote) "stop eating chips at lunch" and "do more exercise". I used to have grilled fish and chips about 3 times a week and I walked 30min to and from work already.
To me, that was a huge waste of my time, and so I am looking for someone who would "sit down" with me (preferably online) and help me whack out a plan.
Does anyone have a personal recommendation? Or success with an online diet service?
What's the point if you're not going to follow their advice?
Here's a free plan based on decades of personal research. :)
Stop consuming:
Soft drinks
Alcohol
Lollies
Chocolates
Sweet pastries
'Fast (i.e. 'junk')' 'food'
Pizza
etc
Start consuming:
2-3 litres of FRESH water (preferably not from the tap) per day.
Eat FRESH food, salads with salmon (not tuna it has too much mercury), steamed veges, oats with fruit etc etc.
You get the plan, or you can go visit a nutritionist, there are plenty of them around and they can tailor something to you persona situation but if you don't want to do the basics then you'll just be wasting your time.
Walking is a good start but get a gym membership and get tot eh gym 2-3 times a week. A lot of them even have a nutritionist on hand as well as trainers who can give you a program to do. Probably cost you 1 feed of grilled fish and chips a week to get a membership.
All the best.
Thank you for your reply - this is a lot of the same general advice I get. Especially from the last dietician, who wonderfully accused me of lying about my diet.
I mean, cutting a small portion of chips out of my diet won't make a significant impact. And YES, I swapped the chips for salad. My weight didn't magically drop off.
Food is a big part of my problem. I don't eat a lot of that stuff you listed.
I had my gallbladder removed years ago and I cannot have:
I am doing 30min cardio/aerobics everyday at home. I will be adding 30 min weights to this as well.
Yes, I have had my thyroid and hormones tested.
I was hoping someone might have had a good experience with a dietician or one of these online diet services.
Walking is not really enough. Walking is good general advice and is a part of a healthy lifestyle. But your body will quickly adapt and it won't get the heart rate up enough. What you want to be doing is 30mins of strenuous activity multiple times per week. Look into HIIT cause basic weight training may not be enough.
@Drogo: Back when I saw the dietitian (a number of years ago), I was walking 30min to and from work each way. I know it's very light exercise, but it was better than nothing.
Right now I'm doing different tabata videos on youtube (no laughing!) and that's about 30min high intensity. A major downside to getting my heart rate up is that I pass out (yes, I have seen many doctors), which is why I can't really go to a gym.
From my understanding, weight loss is something like 80% diet and 20% exercise?
@ssx: "From my understanding, weight loss is something like 80% diet and 20% exercise?"
Alot of people will have their own opinions and you could split it any way you want. And metabolism and the body adapting to eating frequency is a whole other subject. But basically, it comes down to energy in vs energy out. You just need to look at elite athletes and the amount of stuff they eat (not always healthy!) to realize diet may not play as big a part as you'd think. It's a mental game too.
Hopefully you can find the right person to talk you through it!
OK cheers, the extra info about your gall bladder might factor into things and that's a bit out of my wheelhouse. What I can say with some degree of confidence is that there is a healthy long term solution out there, you just might have to hunt around for it and be patient in the meantime. I've fixed a couple of things for myself that doctors said wouldn't be fixed (and some took many years but came good evetually) so don't give up.
Normally a decent personal trainer could do what you want, however, it sounds like you have special dietary requirements which complicates things. A personal trainer can only suggest based on the following info https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/guidelines, anything else that complicates it is beyond their scope of practice.
So you'd need to see a dietician (not a nutritionist) that also has qualifications as a personal trainer.
This is super helpful to know - thank you.
Pretty much any decent personal trainer or dietitian should be able to do that for you.