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Some tips on becoming a nutritionist or making the decision to become a nutritionist is first
to besides what you are doing right now which is talking to me a little bit, talk to a nutritionist,
find out what they do, find a nutritionist who works in a hospital, find a nutritionist
who works with weight loss programs in a medical setting, maybe an outpatient clinic and find
a nutritionist who is in a private practice, so get a good dispersement of different types
of nutritionists and talk with them and find out about what they do. The other thing that
I really think is important is for you to start reading so start reading some various
nutrition books. You can read Dr. Swhwartsbein, you can read Nutritional Healing. You can
read all different kinds of books about healthy nutrition and learn about it and see whether
it is something that really strikes your interest. The other thing that I would do is I would
personally make efforts if I were you before becoming a nutritionist to be as healthy as
you can be and to find out if that is something that you really love doing because I have
found out that in order to be not just a nutritionist but a good nutritionist, people need to be
able to see that you practice what you preach. Now I have worked in dozens of different facilities
and I have worked with other nutritionists and believe it or not a lot of them aren't
particularly healthy individuals and it always struck me as very odd but I think that what
I found from my clients telling me is that I've made a bigger difference in their lives
because they can see that I'm doing what I tell them to do and that goes a long way.
My personal biggest challenge since I've been a nutritionist in kind of getting through
the field is getting trained into the field as a very conventional kind of what I call
food guide pyramid nutritionist which is a very basic USDA education believing that 8
to 11 servings of carbohydrates are the right way and going from that to learning about
what real nutrition is and how to really make a difference in peoples' lives.