• Fad diets are not sustainable in the long run
• Restrictive diets are exhausting - mentally and physically
• Diets are not prioritized properly
• Diets ignore the fact that eating is a pleasure
• Diet will not make you happy and will not solve your life problems

What separates a good nutritionist from one who doesn't care about your health, just about your money? First and foremost sincerity, setting realistic goals and expectations and keeping a distance from the fashionable miracle diets that keep coming up again and again.

A person who offers truly competent nutritional advice is not going to beguile you with visions of losing a dozen pounds in a few weeks or sculpting a six-pack in a month. Instead, it will help you make permanent changes in your eating habits, and you'll learn to distinguish between what has a real chance of succeeding and what's just pipe dreams. Today we bring you a list of things that only a good nutritionist can tell you. Note: Some of these truths are very uncomfortable...

1. Diets are not sustainable in the long run

People who seek nutrition advice and have gone through (and failed at) various fad diets often feel bad and say they don't have the willpower to lose weight. And yet, in most cases, it wasn't the person that really failed, but the diet: too restrictive or too impractical to sustain over the long term.

2. Restrictive diets are exhausting - mentally and physically

Very strict diets with certain rules (“eat only thing X at Y o’clock”, “eat only vegetable soup all day”, “eat only high-protein foods for three days in a row”, etc.) are not only very difficult to maintain ( because what are you going to do when your friends invite you to dinner?), but they also don't teach proper eating habits. Worse still, not enough calories weakens your body instead of strengthening it, and it teaches you to listen to it and properly receive signals of hunger and satiety.

3. Diets are not prioritized properly

Many people turn to a nutritionist to shed unwanted pounds, but in setting this goal one must not lose sight of the fact that the essence of Nutrition should be about achieving and maintaining optimal health, not the wasp waist. Remember that there are no "good" or "bad" foods, only the wrong way to handle them. A competent nutritionist should consider nutrition as well as other aspects of lifestyle , particularly sleeping habits and coping with stress or physical activity.

4. Diets ignore the fact that eating is fun

Even people who say that they eat to live and not live to eat will not deny that eating can be a great pleasure. Depriving him of it—whether through unreasonable calorie restrictions or by choosing only “super healthy” but not very tasty and filling foods—is a recipe for failure.

5. Diet will not make you happy and will not solve your life problems

Fancy miracle diets are very often advertised with the promise that following their indications, to put it simply, will lead to the attainment of happiness.The practice usually looks different: The strict, almost religious rules of unreasonable diets burden the psyche and burden, not happy. Every "sin" against a diet causes a bad conscience and at the same time hurts our self-esteem, so that a possible health benefit (or rather: pounds lost) seems insignificant compared to the psychological damage the diet has caused. Remember: Nutritional counseling is not psychotherapy, but at the same time nutrition shouldn't make you feel guilty!