Looking for Functional Nutrition consultations in Lisbon?
Looking for a nutrition or weight loss consultation in Lisbon? At Shift You, we defend that in maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and a balanced body and mind, exercise and the foods we eat have the main roles.
That’s why we offer this specialty at Shift You, which we believe will make all the difference for a healthy and well-being life.
What is Functional Nutrition vs Weight Loss?
From a scientific point of view, nutrition is a biological process in which men use food to assimilate nutrients and perform their vital functions.
But we know that currently the pleasure of food has replaced basic needs, and together with the sedentary lifestyle on which our society is based, it has brought us a series of complications, one of which is the difficulty in losing weight.
Nutrition focuses on how this type of complications or diseases can be prevented or reduced through a healthy diet where weight loss will be a consequence.
Malnutrition, food allergies and intolerances, or the inability to lose weight are different for each person, hence the importance of consulting a nutritionist and adapting the diet to each person and lifestyle.
What is the Functional Nutrition consultation indicated for?
Weight loss is one of the main reasons that lead someone to a nutrition consultation, but it is not the only one.
- Heart diseases
- High Blood Pressure
- High Colestrol
- Allergies
- Diabetes
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Celiac disease
- Obesity
- Pregnancy
- Have a food allergy or intolerance
- It is irregular when going to the bathroom
- Have heartburn or reflux
- Have tried all existing diets and do not lose weight
- You’re doing well and can’t lose weight
- Want to lose weight in a healthy way
- Always thinking about food
- Eats too much or is always making snacks
- If you have an emotional relationship with food
How is a Functional Nutrition consultation at Shift Care?
Assessment: Brief conversation and collection of information on weight history, family illnesses and diseases, food allergies, tastes, sleep habits, exercise and food, etc.
Intervention: Next, the patient’s objectives and observations about what has been shared before will be discussed, in order to understand the starting point and the goal of arrival.
Planning: In this phase, a plan is developed, which will vary taking into account the objectives and people. Some people prefer a complete plan, others a list of measurable changes, the important thing is to adapt it to be achievable for each one.
Each consultation lasts 50 min and the number of consultations will depend on the case of each patient.
What are the benefits of Nutritional Monitoring?
Information on nutrition and weight loss is available today with a click. It has never been easier to know what to eat. However, it remains very difficult to achieve weight loss goals or change in eating habits.
In a nutrition consultation, it is not just a list of what to do or not to do. Food is only part of the equation. The important thing is behavior change and this is where the nutrition consultation will help:
- Identifying barriers and working on them
- Not to feel that you are alone in the process
- Having someone reliable available
- To have the necessary emotional support
- Creating an appointment with yourself