Follow-up Consultations
Follow-up appointments are encouraged as part of the assessment and healthcare process providing opportunity for extension of your nutrition care plan and further educational interventions to address your top nutritional and lifestyle priorities.
Additionally, these sessions as designed for monitoring health outcomes, evaluating progress, ensuring nutritional sufficiency, fostering accountability, supporting behaviour change and health-related decision making. These appointments are important in being able to provide high quality care and assistance with implementing and sustaining dietary therapies and lifestyle interventions. The number of these appointments will depend upon the complexity of your health issues and circumstances, nutritional needs and your ability to implement, practise and sustain positive behaviour change.
The exact number of sessions you will need to address your top nutritional and lifestyle priorities and achieve optimal health outcomes will be unique to you. Successful learning and behaviour change are processes that depend on a number of different components. It cannot be expected you reach your health goals without sufficient support. Your individual needs vary depending on: your health status, nutritional status, medical history, medication profile, biochemical profile, genetics, stage of life, physical activity level, severity of stress, mental and emotional state, sleeping habits, support networks, behavioural skills and many other factors.
Generally, 5-10 consultations will be recommended over a course of 6-12 months from your initial consultation to enable the development and refinement of personalised care. This will be extended on as you progress, modified if ineffective or adapted if your health priorities or circumstances change. Improving your health takes more than following a prescribed dietary plan – it’s about implementing self-care practices and sustainable behaviour change that become your way of life.