We change dietary habits with aid from psychodieticians

Do you struggle with an extra weight and cannot lose it although your diet is restrictive and you exercise regularly? An answer to your problem can come from the relatively new branch of medicine, psychodietetics, that has undertaken the challenge from the global obesity issue. Obesity has grown into a real epidemic and we can see people affected by it almost everywhere. The “disease” affects not only adults: it spreads even onto children. Changing one’s dietary habits is not enough to beat the overweight. The person needs to get to know themselves and their unique problems. Who a psychodietician is and why should we seek dietetic consultation?

You keep trying but you just cannot lose weight
Many patients can reach their weight loss goals by following adequate diets and by exercising. Others give up to soon because they cannot see an immediate effect. Still others lose weight fast but get “large” again with similar ease. Since purely physiological approach was unable to explain this inconsistency, medicine needed to look for something “holistic”. Hence, today we have a “psychodietician”: a combination of a psychologist and a dietician. Psychodietetics deals not only with appropriate nutrition but also with building and keeping a psychological balance in all aspects of the patient’s life. Such aid is recommended for both those who struggle with overweight and those who wish to improve their dietary style. Among others, the psychodietician has unique qualifications for resolving or alleviating problems related to a patient’s acceptance of their body constitution. At the aesthetic medicine clinic of Dr. Parda, this specialist helps the patient understand all mechanisms controlling their body and keeps supporting the patient in changing their dietary habits.

Valuable dietary advice
The clinic of Dr. Parda has a psychodietician – an expert in the fields of nutrition and clinical dietetics – who offers nutritional consultations to both adults and children struggling with all kinds of dietary problems. The consultations are recommended particularly for those who need support and motivation in pursuing their goals, including those who have tried out various methods to get their weight down but failed.
The psychodietician formulates personalized dietary plans serving various purposes: from a “simple” loss of weight to an advanced support of pharmacotherapy in various diseases, such as Hashimoto. The specialist tailors plans for patients, in terms of the number and nutritive value of meals, to match the patients’ diets to their lifestyles including occupational requirements.
Each such plan is balanced to deliver the right amount of energy, so the intervention can act gradually, hence safely, in two ways: build or beat the weight, as required. A wholesome and balanced diet designed by Dr. Parda’s psychodietician can improve the look, mood and the overall health condition of the patient. On the top of that, the aesthetic medicine clinic of Dr. Parda offers something more elaborate: the groundbreaking ZLipo cryolypolysis system for elimination of unwanted adipose tissue and for non-invasive body modeling. More on this in the next blog.