The objective of a private consultation is to understand your health and eating habits, to ensure that you gain a practical understanding of natural healing with food and to develop a customized plan for you. This mutual understanding is essential for establishing goals and effective dietary guidance.
Goals: 1. Understand the diagnosis of your health concern(s), the severity of the condition and its associated history. 2. Understand your mindset, motivations and support for change. 3. Collect accurate diet history in order to develop a successful customized plan. 4. Gain a practical understanding of healing principles and their associated benefits. 5. Build achievable goals and a customized plan that fits your lifestyle. This is crucial to boost likelihood of long-term compliance and natural healing.
Your Health History 1. How would you define your health concern(s)? How would you define your overall health? Do you have any food allergies? What is your history with allergies of any kind? If you are taking drugs, are there any food/drug interactions to avoid? 2. What is your height and weight? How has your weight changed over the last 10 years? What is the overall history of your weight? 3. Do you or anyone else in your household smoke? 4. On a scale of 1 (very low) to 10 (very high), how much do your health problems concern you? How much do they affect your daily life? How do you see them affecting your future? 5. What attempts have already been made to resolve the problems? What were the results? How do you feel about those results? 6. How motivated are you to change your diet in an attempt to resolve your health concerns? How convinced are you that dedication to this diet will help you to resolve your health problem? What motivates you the most to use diet in treating your health concern? Which foods or food groups will be the hardest for you to avoid? Do you feel prepared to be patient and persistent with this lifestyle change?
Your Diet History 1. Review the diet history for the last week. How has your diet evolved over time? 2. Determine the frequency of consumption for processed foods, colas, alcohol, coffee, meats, nightshades, refined carbohydrates. Review what these food groups represent. 3. Which of the above food groups are your favorites? Which ones represent the greatest obstacles for elimination from your diet? 4. Determine the frequency/preferences for the best food choices of whole grains, vegetables except for nightshades, fresh fruit, vegetable soups, sea vegetables, Japanese types of condiments. 5. Do you like asian cuisines? What is it about asian cuisines that you like best? Do you like Japanese cuisine? 6. How will a diet change for you impact your family? How are your children involved with your diet? How would your diet change be accepted and supported in your family? 7. How do you usually cook and eat at home? i.e. do you cook with gas/microwave/electricity or mostly bring meals in from outside the home? How often do you cook and eat at home? To understand your proximity to good food resources, where do you live? Do you like to cook or have someone prepare meals for you at home? 8. How often do you eat meals prepared outside of the home? Why do you choose to eat out versus to cook? Which restaurants do you frequent and what do you select there? If you were to put restaurants into cuisine categories, which categories would be your favorite and least favorites? 9. How do you eat at work? What are your current eating habits at work and how easy/difficult will it be to change your work eating habits? To understand your proximity to good food resources, where do you work? 10. How much do you travel? How do you eat when travelling? Do you usually travel with or without your car? How often do you travel overnight? 11. How much alcohol do you consume and why? How hard would it be to not drink alcohol for 3 months? 12. How much coffee do you drink? How hard would it be to quit drinking coffee for 3 months?