Obesity

Sport dietitians are experts in using meal timing, macronutrients, fibre, and movement to improve body composition, hunger, fuel and overall health. In addition to performance nutrition, we have training and experience working in healthcare, including obesity and chronic disease management.

You don’t need to be an athlete or even be active to benefit. We meet you where you’re at and use proven strategies to help you feel better, build sustainable habits, and achieve lasting results.

We make sure the weight you lose is fat, rather than muscle and that you are building eating habits that support results that last. A dietitian helps you build a structured nutrition plan to optimize your energy, prevent nutrient deficiencies and manage side effects. This includes prioritizing protein and fibre and practicing mindful eating, so you can maintain your progress without regaining weight.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common condition and in most cases, it can be improved or even reversed with the right nutrition strategy. The key is identifying and adjusting the underlying eating patterns contributing to it. Your dietitian will help you make sustainable changes to your meals and snacks to support liver health, improve body composition, and achieve lasting weight management.

Part of our intake process is to review your diet history, what worked and what went wrong.  We can learn from our past mistakes to ensure that we set achievable and sustainable meaningful dietary changes and build in support and accountability.  Most plans rely on restriction and willpower. We use a structured, evidence-based approach that addresses behavior, physiology, environment and sustainability.

You won’t. You will get a customized plan designed to fit your real life including restaurants, events, and travel. We teach you how to navigate these situations without undoing progress.

Yes, there will always be room for a date night.  We will give you strategies specifically for dining out so you can enjoy meals without feeling restricted or losing control.  We also help you plan delicious recipes to enjoy cooking together at home. 

No, we don’t typically recommend calorie tracking. For many people, especially those with a history of dieting, tracking can feel restrictive and increase food-related stress or “food noise.”  If tracking feels helpful, we offer a simple photo-based journaling app. This allows you to build structured eating habits throughout the day, without the pressure of weighing or counting everything.

No. Highly restrictive approaches often backfire. Instead, we build a flexible framework that includes the foods you enjoy so your plan feels realistic, satisfying, and sustainable.  For your favorites that are very challenging to portion control, we set you up for success by planning a structured way to introduce these foods in a measured way. 

Diets make it easy to lose weight but also really easy to gain it all back because they aren’t designed to last. We focus on building consistent habits and structure, so your results are sustainable, not temporary.

Your metabolism is affected by your age, activity, muscle mass, gender and yes – the number of restrictive diets you have been on. Sport dietitians are uniquely trained to design nutrition strategies that protect muscle mass and minimize metabolic slowdown, so your body continues to respond effectively.

We prioritize steady, sustainable fat loss over rapid, short-term results that don’t last. In some cases, we first focus on improving foundational habits before expecting any weight loss. Your dietitian will set realistic expectations based on your individual goals, health, and lifestyle.