Hiring a nutritionist should be about more than just weight loss. It should be about building a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. But how do you know if the person you're hiring will truly support your long-term goals? In today’s episode, I’m sharing 5 crucial questions you need to ask before signing on the dotted line.

I’m exposing the world of nutrition coaching and why so many people feel like they’ve failed after working with multiple nutritionists. While nutritionists could be well-intentioned and certified, many in the industry focus on quick fixes like meal plans and calorie counting that don’t support long-term, sustainable health changes. 

I’m going to walk you through 5 important questions that will help you identify if a nutritionist truly understands what you need for lasting success. Plus, I’m sharing a bonus question that gives a glimpse into how a nutritionist should push you toward your real health goals. If you’ve struggled with weight loss, yo-yo dieting, or feeling like no nutritionist can get you the results you want, this one is for you.

Conclusion:

You don’t need another meal plan or calorie-counting formula. Choosing the right nutritionist is about aligning your long-term health goals with a health coach who understands the work that goes into sustaining a healthy lifestyle. Use the five questions I share here to find the right fit and get results that stick.

In This Episode:

00:00 Introduction

06:10 Problems with top-rated certifications for nutritionists

15:53 Why calorie counting and weight loss goals fail

23:23 Question #1: Do you require calorie counting or meal plans?

25:02 Question #2: How do you support my relationship with food?

25:59 Question #3: How and when will we communicate?

27:14 Question #4: What do you know about blood sugar stabilization?

28:59 Question #5: How do you support behavioral changes for sustainability?

30:21 Bonus question: Does the nutritionist challenge your weight loss goals?

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Transcript: 

[00:00:00] Carrie Lupoli: What if I told you that the person you hire to fix your health or get you to your weight loss goals might have absolutely no idea how to help you keep the results? I just spent time behind the scenes in nutritional groups and what I saw stopped me in my tracks. They were smart. They're certified, they're well meaning health professionals asking questions that reveal.

[00:00:20] Carrie Lupoli: These nutritionists have almost no framework for long-term transformation. They know how to hand out meal plans. They know how to calculate macros or your calories. They know how to tell you what not to eat, but when it comes to behavior, your mindsets, your relationship with food, blood sugar, balance, what happens when motivation fades?

[00:00:44] Carrie Lupoli: Crickets. They don't know what to tell you. They don't know what to do. So in this episode, I'm gonna pull back the curtain. I'm going to give you the five questions you have to ask before you ever hire a nutritionist. They're not like cute questions. They're not surface level questions. They're questions that are [00:01:00] immediately gonna tell you whether or not this person's gonna help you build a life or just land you in another short term diet in disguise.

[00:01:07] Carrie Lupoli: And if your goal is weight loss, I've got a bonus question that might change everything for you. So if you've ever lost weight and gained it back, if you've ever hired a nutritionist before and felt like you were the failure because you hired a professional. If you've ever wondered why nobody is talking about blood sugar behavior and truly helping you to sustain a lifestyle, this one's gonna hit.

[00:01:31] Carrie Lupoli: So press play, because once you hear this, you'll never hire support the same way again.

[00:01:39] Carrie Lupoli: So I am never the first nutritionist that somebody comes to work with, but I am always the last. Why? Why is that? Why do so many people start working with a nutritionist and then either say it didn't work for them, they give up and then they're coming to me? Another nutritionist, like [00:02:00] what makes 'em think it's gonna be different this time?

[00:02:02] Carrie Lupoli: Well, I am going to pull back the curtain on what goes on in the nutrition coaching world and why so many people struggle with success even though they're working with a nutritionist. We think we're, we're hiring a nutritionist and therefore all nutritionists are the same now, and I know that we know that that wouldn't be true, but.

[00:02:25] Carrie Lupoli: We don't know what to look for, what to ask, and how to know that a nutritionist is really going to work for us for the long term. You shouldn't have to hire multiple nutritionists in order to be able to reach your goals like. It just, it shouldn't be like that. And so this is part of the reason why people get so frustrated and upset because they're like, I've already tried it all, and we believe we've already tried it all because we've already hired multiple nutritionists.

[00:02:54] Carrie Lupoli: I had one client who hired a combination of nutritionists and dieticians. 12 [00:03:00] of them. 12 of them before she came and worked with me. And so this episode is dedicated to you finding a nutritionist. Now I know I'm a nutritionist, is like, care, why wouldn't we just come to you? You can come to me. But at the end of the day, A, I can't work with everyone.

[00:03:17] Carrie Lupoli: And B, we all are in the good fights. I coach and certify nutritionists so that they can build their own businesses. I, I have this whole belief of abundance. I have a belief that if we could. All do the things that we need to do. We can help people get healthier. If my passion is to help people truly become the healthiest versions of themselves, then I gotta make sure that everybody out there that wants to do the same thing has a way to do that.

[00:03:47] Carrie Lupoli: And so for you, I want you, if you are going to work with a nutritionist, I am going to share with you five interview questions that you have to ask before you ever consider working with a [00:04:00] nutritionist. This is going to help you figure out if this is the person that's truly going to give you the sustainable lifestyle that you say you want.

[00:04:11] Carrie Lupoli: And I'm gonna have a bonus question for you that's kind of gonna be that telling moment as to whether or not this is the person that. Is for you. Now, what I will warn you about with these five questions is that it's gonna make you think about what you really want because, uh, let's be honest, we live in a society where weight loss is the goal.

[00:04:34] Carrie Lupoli: Like if you go to your doctor and you're quote unquote overweight, the response is you need to lose weight. The weight loss industry is not also a health industry, and that is a thing that we need to remember. We have really convoluted the definition of what it means when something is working. And the concept of weight loss being the root [00:05:00] cause of everything else that's going on.

[00:05:02] Carrie Lupoli: When I ask clients like, why do you wanna lose weight? They'll often give me all sorts of reasons around peace, about food, confidence, health. But we don't realize that going after weight loss. Is not necessarily going to give you the path that gets you to the other things that you say you want. So part of this process is gonna be you getting super clear on what you say you really want, if you're considering working with a nutritionist or if you're just considering going on this health journey.

[00:05:32] Carrie Lupoli: At all. So if we're ready to dive in, I am not just going to give you these five questions. I'm going to actually be a little controversial here, which is something I do on a regular basis. I am going to, without giving you. The actual people's names or the organization. I am going to literally take you behind the curtain so you can see some of the questions that other nutritionists ask, other nutritionists [00:06:00] for support on, and I think you'll be shocked by what you see and what you hear in terms of what they are asking for support with.

[00:06:11] Carrie Lupoli: A really interesting business and as somebody that certifies other nutritionists, I know that's a little bit of the wild, wild west, and yet I also know that some of the top rated certification programs in the country. Teach in a way that is not conducive for nutritionists to truly get sustainable results with their clients.

[00:06:36] Carrie Lupoli: In my book, from Corset to Crown, disrupting everything you've been told about weight loss, confidence, and self-worth, I unpack the. $150 billion weight loss in industry, which because of the pharmaceutical rise with Ozempic and Manura and all the GLP ones, it's actually grown even more. It just depends on whether you consider it a [00:07:00] weight loss industry or the pharmaceutical industry.

[00:07:03] Carrie Lupoli: And so it's closer to like a $600 billion industry, but it's, it's literally doubling. Like every year it just, it's insane how much growth is happening to an industry that does not have our best interest at heart, and that is constantly failing us. Let's be honest. There is a crazy statistic that the average woman starts and stops six diets a year.

[00:07:27] Carrie Lupoli: A year. What are we doing? Well, we're trying to constantly go after this elusive goal of this ideal body and weight loss. 'cause we believe that that's what's gonna get us happiness. So nutrition coaching businesses, um, or certification companies are part of the problem in a lot of ways because while, and I have many, many certifications, I have a certification from this one company I'm gonna talk about here.

[00:07:55] Carrie Lupoli: I. Know that the concept of a [00:08:00] lifestyle change is what they say they teach, but when you actually kind of peel back the curtain, you realize we're just talking about another diet. That's what we're talking about here, and I really don't think we know how to teach anything other than dieting. And so I am going to share with you from.

[00:08:19] Carrie Lupoli: A company that has, oh my gosh, they have 500,000 followers. I'm in a coaches community with almost 60,000 coaches, and I'm gonna read to you some of the questions that they're asking, and then we're gonna get into the interview questions that I think you need to ask before you hire anybody. So I'm gonna read to you this one post, and this is what really got me thinking.

[00:08:44] Carrie Lupoli: I need to do a podcast episode on this. You need the tools to know what to ask, but I also think we need to really reconfigure what we want and why we want it. All right, so, um, just today, uh, somebody posted that she is currently coaching three [00:09:00] clients that have not had any results. Okay. Their weight keeps yo-yoing.

[00:09:06] Carrie Lupoli: So that tells me right now we are talking about weight loss. Right. I did a search in this group for how many people have a goal of weight loss, and it was just like I, I actually searched goal and I went through and I just looked at literally 97% of every single post that somebody posted about their clients and their goals was weight loss and.

[00:09:35] Carrie Lupoli: One of the things that I constantly talk about is like, why are we not pushing back on our clients to say, do you want health or do you want weight? Because with weight loss goals, it's, it's, they're ego driven. Even though people will say that they want to get healthy, we know that deep down, this is about how we look.

[00:09:56] Carrie Lupoli: And when you're super stressed out on a Monday night and like [00:10:00] life is just life. And there's chocolate cake on the counter. You're gonna say, screw it. I, I'm not gonna lose 40 pounds by tomorrow, so I'm going to eat the cake today. So as I plant that seed, go on and listen to the rest of this question.

[00:10:14] Carrie Lupoli: They stick to their plan on weekdays, but weekends they're not able to keep their plan due to family activities, hanging out with friends or traveled or travel. Okay. There's even more. There's even more to this, but I just want you to hear one of the comments. Now, this is not just one comment. This is like all the comments one person says, I think you know, and they do too.

[00:10:42] Carrie Lupoli: It's time to treat the weekend like the weekdays. When the scale starts moving, they'll be more motivated and then they led them to a link to the website of this coaching certification business that's actually about [00:11:00] quit weekend over eating. If their families support them, then, then it's time for them to consider having a conversation about what support really looks like, not only during the week, but on weekends as well.

[00:11:12] Carrie Lupoli: Okay. Now I have a lot to say about this because this is a perfect example of how we blame ourselves. We are not allowed to be able to have fun on the weekend. We're not. It's, it's like if you can be perfect on the weekend and then you have to go or weekday and then you have to go per, you can't go on the weekends, things change, then it's your fault.

[00:11:44] Carrie Lupoli: I gave you a plan. Here is a meal plan. Here is how you have to show up. And if you're not gonna do that, well then there's not much I can do. And it's saying we like, [00:12:00] they're not allowed to deviate. They have to be perfect and I am looking at right now, there are 70 comments on this post, and it is one after another after another is that they try making them intermittent fast.

[00:12:21] Carrie Lupoli: Oh my gosh. Have them track their food on the weekend. Have you ever had them try tracking on a Saturday? Weight loss isn't about trying harder, it's about trying smarter. Right? And I love that. But then they're saying they just have to eat less, right? Oh gosh. Here's another one. Challenge them to a month of weekend deficits.

[00:12:47] Carrie Lupoli: I mean, it just goes on and on and on and on. Okay. So. That is like she's, even as she goes on and talks about this question that she's asking to these other [00:13:00] coaches, she's like, I have been doing constant coaching on prioritizing protein and getting their fiber in and planning ahead. I even reframed it for them, where if they could just be 75% on point on the weekends, that would be better.

[00:13:17] Carrie Lupoli: And she said, I don't wanna lower their calories more, but I don't know what to do. I am at a loss. And it's just a, it's sad 'cause I want every nutritionist to be successful, but this is dieting. This is not, is it? Is it just dieting? But it's, the conversations underneath it are continuously talking about dieting.

[00:13:46] Carrie Lupoli: Here's another one. This one is from today as well. I mean, there's so many different comments here. Can you advise me, please? And they go on to talk about how they have a client who's a 57-year-old woman who asked to [00:14:00] work with me to lose weight, tried lots of dieting before, and worked with a trainer. And she goes on to talk about all the different things she's tried.

[00:14:10] Carrie Lupoli: She knows everything. And she's used my FitnessPal and said that even with a calorie counting, she did not lose weight. I don't know how I'm going to be able to help her. She's already done it all. She has done blood work and has elevated lipids and triglycerides, even ex uh, high glucose. My intuition is telling me not to work with her because I don't think she's going to be successful.

[00:14:42] Carrie Lupoli: This is where, first of all, it's a weight loss goal. Her blood work is all problematic. We have to focus on the things that matter, and she's already. Done everything and she even uses my [00:15:00] FitnessPal to track her food. At what point are we gonna realize that that's not the formula? And just because she's tried everything, this is what we do.

[00:15:10] Carrie Lupoli: We try diet after diet, after diet. Diets are literally the same. Wolf in different, she's clothing. So just because you tried fasting and then keto or uh, noom and then Weight Watchers, they're all the same. They're all requiring deprivation, punishment, perfection in a meal plan, as if your life is a script, and then when life shows up or when you wanna have fun, or when you don't wanna have to think about it so much.

[00:15:41] Carrie Lupoli: Well, it was your fault, you fell off the plan. And that's what I just, I have a, uh, a heart for every single human to get healthy. And this, it can't be this hard to get healthy. So I told you, I did a search for goal, and it's literally like this person said, how do you retain your clients? [00:16:00] One of my first clients who was very excited and committed, worked with me for a month, and she saw results and I got good feedback from her on our weekly calls.

[00:16:09] Carrie Lupoli: Her goal was to lose all the pregnancy weight. And now she is my, my program requires a 12 minute commitment. She's now ghosting me and I've tried to, I've tried to follow up with her and she's not responding. This client traveled for a month. She told me she'd follow the plan while she was away and continue with me when she got back, but I haven't heard from her because first of all, it's about weight loss, right?

[00:16:38] Carrie Lupoli: Secondly. She was excited and committed to work because we get this burst of motivation. I'm ready to lose the pregnancy rate. I'm ready to lose weight. Motivation is like rocket fuel when you have it. Oh, we should use it, but it's not a strategy because if you've ever said, I'm working out tomorrow morning at five o'clock in the morning, and you lay your [00:17:00] clothes out and you're like motivated, and then five o'clock comes and you're like, I am so not doing this.

[00:17:06] Carrie Lupoli: W we aren't giving our clients a strategy of really getting deep into what they want and why they want it, but also truly helping them understand what health looks like. What's the healthiest version of you? Do say, think and believe, and we should be able to travel and still be able to be healthy. It shouldn't be a requirement that we have to be home following a plan grocery shop all the time and literally have enough.

[00:17:34] Carrie Lupoli: Thing else except a focus on our food. Like it's not gonna work. It's not that tricky, but it's, and this is why, it's because of our cultural conditioning about what the definition of something working is. What results are we talking about? Weight loss. That's it. And when your goals are weight loss, you're always gonna plateau because weight loss doesn't, just isn't a formula.[00:18:00] 

[00:18:00] Carrie Lupoli: Caloric deprivation, caloric intake isn't a formula. I so many people are gonna be mad at me. And do, you know, like if you talk about calories and calories out and how many calories you're supposed to have a day, and all of that kind of stuff, like, first of all, we, we have to know this, and I know we do that.

[00:18:19] Carrie Lupoli: Uh, 350 calories of Oreo cookies is not the same as 350 calories of say, Turkey, almond, and apple. It's just not. And, uh, yet we focus on calories, calories, calories, calories, calories. I, I have no idea how many calories I take in. And this is the thing, nobody really knows the formula. They don't. In fact, in all of the certifications that I've done, really in a quest, because I actually was first introduced to the concept that I teach around blood sugar stabilization and PFC three, eating a protein, fat and carb every three hours.

[00:18:50] Carrie Lupoli: It's just like so simple. Um, I mean, it's more nuanced than that, but that's how simple it is. I learned that first, and then I got all my other nutrition coaching degrees because I was like, oh. How [00:19:00] or certifications, because I was like, how? How do people teach calories? 'cause I was never taught initially how to coach calories.

[00:19:06] Carrie Lupoli: And as I went through 'em all, I'm like, this is really hard. This is so impossible. This is like a lot of math. And then I realized nobody does the math. There is a calculator that you can buy with a membership of whatever certification that you're doing that you just enter in their weight and their height and what their goal is, and then they're gonna spit out a caloric intake.

[00:19:25] Carrie Lupoli: And nutritionists have to pay for that service because nobody knows the math other than that. And do you know that your movement is only 10% of your caloric, uh, burn? Like so if we're thinking like, I burn calories and I, and I eat calories, they're not the same. And two, only your exercises only counter about 10% of that.

[00:19:42] Carrie Lupoli: So like, what are we doing? And also, the more you exercise, the more you strength train, the more fuel you need for food. It is an impossible equation. No wonder these poor nutritionists are so. Stuck. Here's another one that happened. This was a few months ago. I'm, as I just [00:20:00] go through this search, I have a client who's a 25-year-old female.

[00:20:02] Carrie Lupoli: She came to me with a goal of weight loss and then goes into, uh, she's food logging and it's talking about how many calories she's, she's taking in and, uh, she's not making quote unquote progress. Uh, but forget all that other stuff. She came to me with a goal of weight loss, and this is one of the things I see in these groups all the time.

[00:20:26] Carrie Lupoli: My, my client said they wanted to lose weight. We never question that. We never push it. We silently agree that that is appropriate. And so if we never push that in, our clients, like they're never going to think differently about what they want and why they want it. And so when we are just constantly around, calories in, calories out, my goal is weight loss.

[00:20:48] Carrie Lupoli: And we as nutritionists just blindly say, well, they're our client. I just give 'em what they want. We're not giving 'em what they need. And I know this because in my very first year of being a nutritionist, I had 252 [00:21:00] clients. I read about this in my book and I taught them how to live without counting calories, without tracking a single piece of food.

[00:21:07] Carrie Lupoli: It was incredible. They were like, oh my gosh, this is amazing. I'm never gonna have to diet again. This is like the best thing ever. And within one year, every single person fell off. Every single person. Literally I was like, I had a 0% success rate. Even though if you had asked me, I would've been like everybody was successful because I looked at success is multiple ways, right?

[00:21:28] Carrie Lupoli: Like energy cravings, confidence, um, their own belief about like what was important, weight loss, blood work, all that stuff. And yet they all fell off. And I realized I, I was a behavior specialist for 20 years before I became a nutritionist, and I realized I hadn't put any true behavioral science behind what I was doing as my first kind of realization as to why.[00:22:00] 

[00:22:00] Carrie Lupoli: They weren't successful long term, and my second realization was that they all had goals that were about their ego, about weight, about if they lost a weight, they could take a picture and feel more confident. They could be confident if they felt like they could get to the number that they were in college, that they would just feel better about themselves.

[00:22:21] Carrie Lupoli: It's a piece that we are looking for. It is a ability to feel worthy. That's what we're really looking for. And when we dig deep into that now and we start off with a strong why, it is very different when you show up at home at a Monday night and you're super stressed and you no longer need the chocolate cake to be able to deal with that stress.

[00:22:47] Carrie Lupoli: That we understand what we are doing, why we are here, and have identified with a blueprint, a literal blueprint, like a literal four squares that they write. What does the healthiest version of me do, say, [00:23:00] think and believe. When weight loss is the goal, it will never be fast enough. We'll always plateau and we will always lose interest until we are so frustrated with ourselves that we then have to move back into frustration, deprivation, and punishment mode.

[00:23:13] Carrie Lupoli: But when we literally can write out what does the healthiest version of me do, say, think and believe. That's what I want every nutritionist to do with you. Start with that. Okay, so now that I've given you kind of a behind the scenes look, let's go over these five interview questions. Number one, before you say yes to a nutritionist, it is number one, do you require me to track and count calories and will you give me a meal plan?

[00:23:40] Carrie Lupoli: When I, uh, I'm always asked like, are you gonna tell me what to eat? Are you gonna gimme a meal plan? And I always say like, if anybody just gives you a meal plan, run for the hills. Your life is not a script, you are not a meal plan. None of my clients. Are ever handed a meal plan, they're handed an education.

[00:23:57] Carrie Lupoli: They understand how food works in their body. They [00:24:00] understand blood sugar stabilization, and then they develop the plan for themselves based on the education, and then we support them in that. And does it need to change? Yes. When I travel, my food looks different than when I'm home and cooking, but I absolutely know how to be empowered to make the decisions that are going to help me continue.

[00:24:21] Carrie Lupoli: To move, and it's not about one week or one month, but it's about consistency over time. And so that question about do you require me to track my food and count my calories, I mean I, I just know that how you lose weight has to be how you maintain it. How you get healthy has to be about a lifestyle and you cannot count calories and track all your food forever.

[00:24:40] Carrie Lupoli: So we gotta figure out another way. And this is why people call me like this unconventional nutritionist. There's gotta be another way. The amount of hours that we spend tracking and counting is like keeping us from doing the things that really matter. So that's their first question. Do you require me to track and count calories and will you give me a meal plan?

[00:24:57] Carrie Lupoli: Now, they may say, well, you don't have to if you don't want to, but you won't see as [00:25:00] much success. That's not the right answer. Okay. Question number two. What is your approach in supporting my relationship with food? Because a meal plan is not gonna get into the psychology of the relationship between food and my body that I have had for decades.

[00:25:18] Carrie Lupoli: What do you know about that? If you're gonna pay somebody a chunk of money to help you actually improve your lifestyle, then they have to know about all the aspects of lifestyle. And the relationship with food in our body has to do with our identity. It has to do with our belief systems. And if we don't have somebody on our team that understands that this is never gonna stick, this is why that one client of mine, Nicole, had 12 nutritionists and dieticians.

[00:25:46] Carrie Lupoli: I had another client, Donna, who had four before me, but one of them had taught her blood sugar stabilization. And it still didn't stick because that piece of it has to be a part. Question [00:26:00] number three, how and when will we communicate? As I was going through all of these posts, I realized it's like a weekly check-in.

[00:26:09] Carrie Lupoli: Well, I am sorry, but literally just this morning when my dog puked on my floor while I was on a call and my daughter texted me and said she needed me to call her right away 'cause something happened at school. There was a moment of stress and chaos that if. If I had a relationship with food in my body, if my MO was stress eating, I would need somebody to be able to support me to go through that stress.

[00:26:42] Carrie Lupoli: So, once a week check-in is is fine, but if I can't communicate with you on a regular basis, even voice memo back and forth. Then I, I, I'm not gonna be able to have realtime coaching. And realtime coaching is pivotal because we have to be able to learn [00:27:00] how to pivot the way that we identify with how we typically handle situations that lead us to the inconsistency and the struggle with our relationship with food and how we respond to stress.

[00:27:13] Carrie Lupoli: Okay. Question number four, what do you know about blood sugar stabilization? That question is like a money question. Now I just told you about Donna who learned about blood sugar stabilization and then did not stick with it because she was not given the mindset work, the belief system work, the behavioral science work, all of that.

[00:27:32] Carrie Lupoli: But at the core, she was taught about blood sugar stabilization that. Is so important. That is the, that is the root cause of your weight gain, of your stubborn weight, loss of your hormonal imbalances, of all of the metabolic disease, of your blood work, everything. The root cause is blood sugar dysregulation.

[00:27:50] Carrie Lupoli: We've had clients that say, well, you know. You're expensive. And I'm like, well, I guess it's your, your definition of what expensive means, because to me it's way more [00:28:00] expensive way. I have, I have a, a neighbor literally across the street from me who pays $660 a month on this diabetic medication. And not just for diabetes, but all the other metabolic disease that goes along with it.

[00:28:11] Carrie Lupoli: And I'm like that not only is that monetarily expensive, but that's expensive on your entire ability to live. The cost is insane. I get that. People will say, like, Carrie, I could just, I have a nutritionist in my insurance company and, and I that they pay for that. Okay. Ask 'em these questions first because what's the point of doing something there?

[00:28:34] Carrie Lupoli: There should be nothing that's more prioritized than truly taking a hold of your health. I didn't say weight, I said health, and this is why I have a children's nutritional literacy, uh, book coming out and program because. We gotta start teaching this when they were young. 30 something like 38% of teenagers are now pre-diabetic.

[00:28:53] Carrie Lupoli: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So we have to learn about that. Okay. [00:29:00] Question number five. How do you support the behavioral aspect of a lifestyle change? None of these coaches are such good people. They don't want people to join for a month and then ghost them. They want. To know that they have been able to change somebody's lives for the long term.

[00:29:17] Carrie Lupoli: But if we are not focused on behavioral change and the science of that, then it's not gonna happen. Even if you're teaching all the right things of what to do, because how many of us have ever said, I know what to do, I just don't do it. I mean, let's be honest. All of us know, even, even higher nutritionists, you've gotta eat in a way that's likely serving your body more than you're doing right now, and you've gotta move your body more.

[00:29:37] Carrie Lupoli: Like if you literally just broke it down to those two things. We dunno that we're not doing that. And so a nutritionist that does not understand behavioral change when it comes to a true sustainable lifestyle is not gonna actually get you what you say you want. All right, so let's go over those five questions.

[00:29:56] Carrie Lupoli: One, do you require me to track and count calories? And will you give me [00:30:00] a meal plan? Kind of like two questions in one. Number two, what is your approach to supporting my relationship with food? Number three, how will we communicate and when? Number four, what do you know about blood sugar stabilization?

[00:30:16] Carrie Lupoli: And number five, how do you support the behavioral aspect of this lifestyle change? Now I have a bonus for you. It's a little bit like a trick question and it's not even a question, it's a statement, and I want you to see how they respond. Okay? You ready? If they say, well, what are your goals? What is your goal?

[00:30:37] Carrie Lupoli: My goal is to lose weight. Right. Just say that. Just say that. And I wanna know if they push you. I wanna know if they ask you more. I want, I wanna know if they try to reframe you to true deep health, that's gonna tell you so much about whether or not this is the person that you should be working with.[00:31:00] 

[00:31:00] Carrie Lupoli: And to my fellow nutritionists, this is not a like, just like I say to clients this, none of this is your fault. You have been taught all wrong. Like we have been taught all wrong as humans from the weight loss industry, the pharmaceutical industry, our healthcare system, like literally the food industry.

[00:31:17] Carrie Lupoli: It's all working against us. And we have been bamboozled into believing the lies that we have been sold. But as nutritionists, we kind of have to, we have been given a, um. Wolf in sheep's clothing where it looks like the marketing is about a lifestyle. The marketing of your certification is about truly helping people, and they're even telling you that there's behavioral change and lifestyle shifts and mindset work, but when at the core it is still around tracking deprivation being perfect and your.

[00:31:54] Carrie Lupoli: Strategy is reliant on them to be perfect without [00:32:00] actually questioning what they want and why they want it, without focusing on what it truly means to be healthy and what does it mean when something is working well then. We're never gonna get to what we want, but we just as nutritionists have babo bamboozled as well.

[00:32:16] Carrie Lupoli: And I think I'm just so lucky. I'm so blessed that I was given a perspective first as a nutritionist with a 'cause when I. I mean, I got into this work because this approach changed my life so clearly I wanted to get certified learning that same exact stuff. But if I hadn't known better, I could have easily just been like, I wanna teach this to others.

[00:32:38] Carrie Lupoli: Gone and got a nutrition certification, assuming they were all the same. And as I have learned over the last 12 years, that couldn't be anything but true. I, I think I'm the only one that has a certification that actually isn't about caloric deprivation. M my coaches have no idea how to tell their clients how many [00:33:00] calories to eat.

[00:33:01] Carrie Lupoli: Now, do we know about calories? We understand calories of course, but it is a, um, it is just such a focus, which is a result of the diet industry. So let's all get out of that crazy spinning cycle, shall we? You now know questions to ask before you hire a nutritionist and nutritionist. If you are listening, you now know some of the things to start thinking about, and it really is awareness.

[00:33:24] Carrie Lupoli: Once you can become aware of these things, you'll start to do things differently and automatically see more success with your clients. All right, so go ahead and hit subscribe because every single week I bring you another perspective on truly what it means to be the healthiest version of yourself. And if you are so inclined, get yourself.

[00:33:40] Carrie Lupoli: To my books I have, uh, from Corset to Crown, which is an amazing nonfiction for adults, mostly women, around how to literally disrupt everything you've been told about weight loss, confidence, and self-worth. You can go to kerry lippo.com/corset to Crown, or if you are interested, and I shouldn't say, or I shouldn't say, and, and if you're interested in how [00:34:00] we can teach this to the, to our kids, a very simplified way of understanding blood sugar stabilization.

[00:34:06] Carrie Lupoli: Powering them to want to make the right choices or to make choices that are going to serve their body more than just serving their soul or more than mindless eating, then go to pfc pals.com. Uh, it's just an amazing journey to be able to help people truly succeed for life. We'll see you next time.