Join forces with my esteemed colleague John Canlas and me, Leonila Campos, as we navigate the dynamic terrain of dietetics, revealing the career secrets that empower us as health professionals. From John's unexpected journey into nutrition to my own cultural crusade against one-size-fits-all dietary advice, we're laying out a roadmap for anyone looking to make a real impact, whether it's in a hospital, a school cafeteria, or the intimacy of a private practice. We're tearing down the stereotypes and showing just how diverse and essential our roles as dietitians can be, not just in clinical settings but in every nook of the nutritional world.
Snacking doesn't have to be your dietary downfall, nor should mealtime feel like a maze of guilt and complexity. Together, John and I unpack the psychology behind your midnight fridge raids and the cultural ties that bind us to our cravings. We'll share our proven strategies for maintaining a balanced diet that respects your taste buds and cultural heritage. You'll also get a peek into our personal kitchen hacks for marrying convenience with health, ensuring that you can navigate the perils of a busy lifestyle without sacrificing the joy of eating well.
Feeling overwhelmed by the cacophony of diet advice on social media? You're not alone. That's why we emphasize the lifesaver that is professional dietary support, cutting through the noise and tailored to your unique journey. We examine the misleading allure of fad diets and underscore the importance of building habits that last a lifetime, not just a swimsuit season. So, grab your grocery list and let's plan your path to wellness with the support of a dietitian's expertise—because achieving your health goals should feel like a triumph, not a trial.
John Canlas, Dietitian
Thank you for listening. Please subscribe to this podcast and share with a friend. If you would like to know more about my services, please message at fueledbyleo@gmail.com
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Join forces with my esteemed colleague John Canlas and me, Leonila Campos, as we navigate the dynamic terrain of dietetics, revealing the career secrets that empower us as health professionals. From John's unexpected journey into nutrition to my own cultural crusade against one-size-fits-all dietary advice, we're laying out a roadmap for anyone looking to make a real impact, whether it's in a hospital, a school cafeteria, or the intimacy of a private practice. We're tearing down the stereotypes and showing just how diverse and essential our roles as dietitians can be, not just in clinical settings but in every nook of the nutritional world.
Snacking doesn't have to be your dietary downfall, nor should mealtime feel like a maze of guilt and complexity. Together, John and I unpack the psychology behind your midnight fridge raids and the cultural ties that bind us to our cravings. We'll share our proven strategies for maintaining a balanced diet that respects your taste buds and cultural heritage. You'll also get a peek into our personal kitchen hacks for marrying convenience with health, ensuring that you can navigate the perils of a busy lifestyle without sacrificing the joy of eating well.
Feeling overwhelmed by the cacophony of diet advice on social media? You're not alone. That's why we emphasize the lifesaver that is professional dietary support, cutting through the noise and tailored to your unique journey. We examine the misleading allure of fad diets and underscore the importance of building habits that last a lifetime, not just a swimsuit season. So, grab your grocery list and let's plan your path to wellness with the support of a dietitian's expertise—because achieving your health goals should feel like a triumph, not a trial.
John Canlas, Dietitian
Thank you for listening. Please subscribe to this podcast and share with a friend. If you would like to know more about my services, please message at fueledbyleo@gmail.com
My YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0SqBP44jMNYSzlcJjOKJdg
Hey, hey, welcome back to another episode in the Simple Nutrition Insights podcast. I am your host, leonila Campos, registered dietitian, and today I am excited to have a colleague of mine, john Canlas, who's also a registered dietitian. So let him introduce himself and your job title and what you do, and then we can start with the conversation.
Speaker 2:Thanks for having me, leonila. My name is John John Canlis. I am a registered dietitian and I have been a registered dietitian since, I think, let me count 2014. So about 10 years, or very close to 10 years. Currently I have a private practice on my own, based in the San Francisco Bay Area here in California, and I've been doing that for about two years, like I started building up slowly. Before that, I was in various roles. I was. Majority of my career was in management, so I was a director manager, patient service manager, and then I worked in prison for a long time, for I think two and a half years, and then that's actually when I started building with my private practice. So I took little jobs here and there while I was building my private practice, and now I'm doing it full time.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Well, welcome to the podcast. And yeah, it's amazing how dietitians can go in different areas right, not only like hospital or which most people think of. Dietitians are like, oh, or food service right, like my food sucks. But we can do a lot more than just like those clinical roles, which are super essential. Or we can go in like different areas right, like food service or, you know, the prison system, or private practice, or renal or cancer. So first question how do you decide to become a dietitian? Right? Because I want the listeners to know that there's not a lot of men that are dietitians, right, I don't have the statistics, but I can find out and put them in the show notes. There's not a lot of dietitians that are male, and then there are also of a minority group, right, so I think that is also important. So why did you become a dietitian?
Speaker 2:You actually looked it up, leonela, before this. Over 90% are women. It's probably higher than that. Over 90% are women and over 90% are white. So that makes me a very, very rare specimen in the dietetics world.
Speaker 2:So how I got into dietetics or being a dietitian my first choice was exercise science because I wanted to be a personal trainer. And then in college, as I started digging into it, I realized you don't technically quote unquote need a degree to be a personal trainer, you just need a certificate. And then I wanted something in healthcare because my mom was a nurse, my family was a nurse and they always encouraged me to be in healthcare for job stability. And I didn't want to be a nurse, I didn't want to be anything other than healthcare. But I knew I liked eating well and I liked food, but at the same time I wanted to be something stable.
Speaker 2:So I looked a couple of careers while I was in college and I landed on a dietician. And the reason why I landed on a dietician is because it's kind of close to taking care of others, like a nursing or personal trainer, but at the same time it's not really hands-on, like you're really physically touching them. And I knew in healthcare. There would be like a solid base for a job, and that's where I started. That's when I kind of started my path as a dietician. I don't regret being a dietician, I love it. I like talking about health, passionate about eating and eating well, and, yeah, I've been doing it for a long time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, awesome, that's really amazing how we come into these roles, right Into these careers. Because it was similar to my story, right, my grandma has diabetes and so she would share, you know, her anger not anger, but like frustration as to, okay, they're just telling me to, you know we're Mexican, so they would tell her, oh, just stop eating tortillas and rice and beans so you can manage your diabetes. And telling that to someone that these are the food that they grew up with. It's obviously very frustrating. Right To them it's like, well, what am I going to eat? Like that's all I eat. So, you know, I saw that frustration and in my mind I was a sophomore in high school and I said, okay, there has to be a career, career that you know that, where nutrition is like the focus, right, I had no idea that it was such career and so.
Speaker 1:I looked into it and I knew Fresno State um has a good program. So I said, okay, you know what, I'm just gonna go to Fresno State and do an you know major in nutrition. And I never changed my career. I never even had the thought of, oh, I want to do something else.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you didn't consider any trainer or other health fields.
Speaker 1:No, Because I said, if I decide to change careers, then I would rather go and become a surgeon. Right, I wanted to do something drastic like a brain surgeon, become a surgeon. Right, I wanted to do something drastic like a brain surgeon. But then, you know, I got more into our upper, our grad classes right, medical nutrition therapy, and I really loved it. Right, because that's where we really talk about how important nutrition is for our health. Right, for prevention and management of these chronic conditions. And I really loved it and I said, okay, this is what I want to do.
Speaker 1:Right, and until this day, I love being a dietician. I love, like you said, you know, talking to people and taking care of people, not in the sense of, okay, let me, you know, cure you, but in that sense, right, but just being able to talk to them and figure out, okay, how can we help this person to feel better or achieve their goals. Right, I think that is so rewarding. Um, and, like you know, like you, I went before becoming a prior practice dietitian. I did different roles too.
Speaker 1:It was uh a women, infant and children program, community nutrition I did corporate wellness, skilled nursing facilities, dialysis, diabetes, education. So there's so many ways where we can go, but always in the back of my mind I want to have my own private practice, Right?
Speaker 1:And so I started yeah, I started in 20, at the end of 2019. And then we know what happened after that. So, job security right, Like, okay I have, this is what I want to do, but I want to make sure that I'm also, you know, bringing in some income from other sources too so yeah, it's amazing how our past, you know, take us with different experiences.
Speaker 2:It's so flexible to diet being a dietitian, because a lot of people do really think that it's just a hospital. Even sometimes when I look at the Facebook groups, you know I get people. I see people asking what kind of careers there are. But if you think about it, there's so many ways to be a dietitian sports dietitian, private practice, reno, working in prison. Most people never even know you could work in prison as a dietitian.
Speaker 2:You know private practice, corporate eating disorders. There's so many ways to go about being a dietitian. And if you have dietitian potential dietitians to listen to here, just know you're not just. If you don't like the idea of being in a hospital, just know, there's so many ways to be a dietitian right, thank you for sharing that, and that's absolutely true.
Speaker 1:Right, when you think about wherever food is in that area, you can be a dietitian there. Right, that is now social media dietitians or dietitians that work with like different brandings or different companies, like you said, sports dietitians. Literally, you can do anything Seriously, you can go wherever you want to go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1:Yeah, awesome, so okay. So you became a dietitian. Right now you have your private practice, um, and one of the things that we talked about, right, um, before, uh, the podcast started, is some of the, the common trends, maybe some of the common struggles that people have more so when they're trying to lose weight.
Speaker 1:Right, that, that weight management, which is the population that you also work with, and so what are some of the things that you see as a trend right, that you have experience or that your clients have experience, and how can we have a solution for that?
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, a good question. So the majority of the population I work with is weight management, and then the next most common population that I work with are type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes, and this is in no particular order, like I'm just going to name one by one and tell you kind of like what I think might help or not help. But the number one, one of the things that I see for a lot of my clients struggling with trying to lose weight, is snacking. Like they snack throughout the day. You know, and usually when I start digging deeper on what it is why they snack or what makes them snack, I can attribute it for a lot of things, but the most common thing is they don't have balanced meals. Like they don't. They skip their breakfast. They either skip lunch. I always tell my clients coffee is not breakfast, so don't just have coffee. Or Starbucks frappuccino is not breakfast, so try not to do that and usually that will help them snack less. Another thing I see for a lot of my clients when they snack throughout the day is their meals. When they're not balanced, they tend to be very carb heavy or very fat heavy. You know, when I say carb, it could be just a frappuccino, it could be just a piece of bread For my Hispanic clients. I'll ask them what their breakfast is. I'll say coffee, and then sometimes I'll say just bread and coffee. I'm like that's it. It's like what do you have more? And I'll start to give them the ideas with kind of to make sure they feel full for breakfast, even for lunch. You know Another thing, another reason why my clients struggle with snacking is their environment or their household.
Speaker 2:Sometimes in your household there's snacks, like, for example, I work with a large Hispanic population and sometimes they live with their families. So if one person is trying to lose weight, their grandma or their mom have snacks there. So it makes it more difficult to say no, because they're trying to eat healthy. But everywhere there's some cookies, there's some breads, there's some fried foods and it makes it really difficult. So I tell my clients you know the environment may not be conducive, but I want to make sure you at least cover your bases by having your balanced meals and never skimping out on protein and fiber. When it comes to balancing meals, do you have a similar experience, leonila?
Speaker 1:I love that you're talking about that, because that's exactly what we talk about with my clients too. Because if you're not having these balanced meals and I've done a couple of episodes already on what balanced meals mean, but think of it the five food groups, why we have our fruits, our vegetables, our grains, our protein and our dairy or high calcium, high vitamin D foods and, yes, having high protein food right First thing in the morning. Even if you're not a morning person or a breakfast person, the first meal that you're going to have has to be high protein, high fiber right.
Speaker 1:Fruits, veggies, because that's what's going to stabilize your blood sugars, right, that's what's going to help you with your hunger levels. And so, yeah, I agree with you, right, if you're snacking throughout the day, because sometimes we also ask clients, right, or patients like, so how many meals do you have? And they say, oh, one or two, okay, but what else are you having? Right, like, where are these calories coming?
Speaker 2:from.
Speaker 1:Snacking right, and, yes, we don't see them as a meal, but they still count, right. And so we're not saying or at least you know, I can ask you that question too that snacking is bad right, but we have to be intentional about our snacks. Right, we have to also make them balanced. So I agree with you 100 right that if we just are mindlessly snacking throughout the day, um and not, they're not balanced, and then we're not having these balanced meals and, yes, we're going to continue to be hungry throughout the day, which, yeah, I like what you said being intentional with, with with snacking, because to me I neither say good or bad, it really depends on the context.
Speaker 2:But for a lot of my clients that snack, when they snack, they tend to snack not as mindfully as they should, because sometimes when you skip breakfast, you tend to hungry over the day so they'll grab whatever's available. Sometimes it'll be like a cupcake or like a lot of nuts or just whatever's there because you're hungry, because you didn't eat your balanced meal. So when I tell my clients that, if I ask, is snacking good or bad, I kind of have to tell them what in the context is Like. If you're snacking with cupcakes and muffins from Costco, then those are like 500, 600 calories and maybe you should probably try to minimize that.
Speaker 2:You know, if snacking is like for me, one of the things I recommend, leonela, is to, you know, snack on something that is filling, like berries or grapes, and I try to pair it up with some type of protein. Especially if they have blood sugar problems, like type 2 diabetes, I try to encourage them versus, you know, they sometimes they'll go to Starbucks and they'll have coffee, they'll have their frappuccino and they'll sip it throughout the day and that makes them not hungry. So it's really in the context of our conversation and it depends on the client how, how, uh how, how their meals are structured and that's kind of like well, I'll, I'll develop a specific plan for that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, that's amazing too, that I love that. You said you know it's not bad, good or bad right, and I think that's one of the things that, um, as dietitians, we can agree. Um, probably, I want to say at least 99% of the time is that we're never going to say that food is bad, or why you do is good or bad right. Again, like you said, it's in the context of what is happening, and food is never going to be bad right or it's never going to be in that context. Good Food is just food, unless it is literally like healthy. You know it's poisonous and it is bad, but just in general, right, food is just food. It is because of how diet culture has placed, you know, the no, these habits, but the way that we view food, that when we do eat it we feel so guilty, right, and so then it just creates this whole issue, this whole other issue that we might go into it, we might not, I don't know. But, yeah, snacking is one of them. So, yeah, I agree with what you said.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and another thing that I see for a lot of my clients, leila, that struggle to lose weight is they go out to eat often Like they go out to fast food, doordash restaurants, and one of the things that make it difficult for people to eat at home are a couple of things. One they don't prepare in advance, so they wait until the very last, they wait until the end of the day and they cook their meals Either when they're tired then they decide that they're going to cook a whole meal for that day. Another thing that I see for a lot of my clients when they do go out to eat is when they go to restaurants, they're extremely hungry. When they do DoorDash, they're extremely hungry, like they'll skip breakfast or lunch or the script one of the meals. But the time they get hungry on the way to, on the way to their home, they're so hungry they have to go to a drive through to get something, so they'll tend to overeat and a lot of the things that I recommend for a lot of my clients. When they're going out to eat, I ask them how are their habits or how are they preparing their meals?
Speaker 2:Because for a lot of my clients the struggle they prepare meals on the day of, and some of these clients they have families so they're making their own meals and they have to make their own kids meal and the kids picky, then they have to make their own meals and the kids meal and they rather feed their kids so by the time that they eat by themselves. It's. It's a struggle. So I tell them have you thought about kind of, um, you know, planning your, your, your days? I kind of like have a flexible planning. You know, this doesn't have to be complex, it doesn't have to be really, um, you know, very, very detailed, but something to get you through your day. And as dietit we kind of have type A personalities so we have to kind of plan things ahead. But a lot of people are not like that. Do you have the same experience?
Speaker 1:I love that you said that, because you're so right. Right, we have to have a list, and like okay, then we do that. Okay, great, let's move on to the next thing. And it has to be perfect, of course, now, course, now. I mean, I'm learning to be like no, it's okay, just get it done, at least you have something to work with. But you're right, I do see that with my patients too right, and that's something that we work with as well. Like, let's have a plan, right? If you don't have a plan, when you're very hungry, it's going to be so difficult to make that decision, that educated decision, because your brain is like who cares? I need to eat now, so I don't care what your goals are.
Speaker 1:I don't care that you're trying to be healthy right now. I want you to feed me because I'm extremely hungry and so having that plan right.
Speaker 1:Like you said, it doesn't have to be like a strict plan, or it doesn't have to be like this long plan for at least an idea. Okay, wednesday it's my busy day. Let me make something for Wednesday, right? Or at least knowing what you want to make, so you know you get ready and have the ingredients available because you're so. Right. When you are hungry and you either go to the store and I think that's something that a lot of people have heard right, don't go to the store hungry because you're gonna to buy things that you don't want to buy, but because you're hungry, you buy them. Same thing when you're hungry and you're going through the drive-thru or you're ordering on DoorDash, right, you're going to order more than what you would otherwise order if you're not that hungry, right.
Speaker 1:And so I think having that plan is very helpful.
Speaker 2:I see that too, especially for a lot of parents too, when they're tired and but their kids are hungry, they rather just drive through the fast food places or DoorDash because by the end of the day they're all they want to do is rest. But you know, I tell them to be more proactive when it comes to being grocery and a lot of them which kind of brings me to my third point is not planning ahead. Like I asked my my, my clients and my patients do you know your schedule for the next week? Because for the most part, unless there's, unless you have a very unpredictable life, a lot of your schedule is very planned. Like you go to work, you go home, you have kids at this day, you pick up your kids at this time, you have your bedtime, x, y and Z, so for the most part it's predictable.
Speaker 2:And I say to them if your meals are more predictable, then you have more predictability when it comes to planning your meals. You have more predictability when it comes to planning your meals. A lot of my clients don't really have a hard time kind of conceptualizing that. So I tell them your meals doesn't have to be rigid, but you do have you have to have to keep it flexible. You know, and what I see for a lot of my struggles with that are parents. You know parents, and what I see for a lot of my struggles with that are parents. You know parents, and maybe you can answer me this, like for you as a dietician and a mom how do you prepare your meals?
Speaker 1:I'm curious how you, how you do your food. Yeah, oh, my goodness, you're putting me on the spot, just kidding. No, the same way, right? So I have to have an idea of what my week is going to be like. Usually, like you said, there's not a lot of things that come up to me. Right, I have a schedule. I already know my schedule ahead of time, and I usually do my shopping on the weekend and I make sure that I have the ingredients that I need for my meals.
Speaker 1:Right, I don't always meal prep for all my meals, but I know, okay, what I want to make, right, and I have that on my mind. And so the day off, okay, this is what I'm making and then I get it ready. But the same thing with my clients, right, make sure. Okay, let's figure out what's going to work for you and how your week is right, because the less obstacles that we have, the less challenges that we have going into our week, right, the more successful we are going to be. And so if we don't have that awareness, if we don't plan ahead, right, it's going to be again difficult to make a decision on the spot. Right, it's just hard because we're not, like, trained for it, right, it's like, ooh, okay, I know what to make when you're stressed and when you're tired and when you're a parent and you have to feed the kids and pick them up. Yeah, you become last. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2:You become last. And another thing I tell my clients is if you don't want to cook on the day of because you're tired is if you don't want to cook on the day of because you're tired and I understand how commuting plus working and sometimes you have a stressful job you have to have the ingredients for the meals that you think you might want. Keep it simple, especially if you have kids, because having different meals I had a client one time she had to cook like four different meals one for her, one for her husband, two for her, two different kids. So I told I asked her no wonder it's so. It's hard for you to maintain this.
Speaker 2:So one of the things I I recommended to my client was that have a look a week ahead. Like you know, your kids are not going to want two different things. Your husband can take care of himself, so let him be it. You don't have to worry about him. So that leaves you, instead of four meals, now you can do three meals. And for your three meals, I told this client you know you make sure you have the ingredients available with you at all times so you're not like weighing it on the day to day.
Speaker 2:And another thing that I tell my clients or for any of my patients is cooking in batches, like kind of like meal prepping, but not in a way that you see it in a fitness meal where you have like seven meals ahead of time just cooking in batches. And because a lot of my clients they'll just cook for the day of when, instead of you can cook for two or three days ahead. And that makes things kind of simpler to kind of make sure they are consistent, because what I find for a lot of clients is they'll do well but they kind of fall off. So cooking in batches reduces that chances and making sure having a flexible plan throughout the week, because your schedule is for the most part it's pretty predictable week by week, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that you mentioned that usually clients do so well. The first part of the week, right? Or, if you've seen them every two weeks, the first week, right, because they're like okay, I'm ready, let's go. They're motivated, and then something happens, right. And then the second week is like, oh man, like I didn't do anything this week, right so have you had that experience too?
Speaker 2:yeah, actually I, I, I do it. I I've had that struggle, um, but I try to um kind of make up for that. Not every week for me is going to be perfect, and I tell my clients that, like not for you to get results, you don't have to be perfect like all seven days and um you know to to get results. And I tell them my struggles too, because with my kids and my wife, um, my wife's not a dietician, but I am. So I have the type A personality so I have to predict the things, I have to kind of watch for things and I'm used to that, so I have to kind of predict things ahead as things go.
Speaker 2:So what I do for me I keep my things simpler. Like, for me, for my lunch today is an avocado sandwich with a Greek yogurt, but for dinner, my dinner is already predicted for the next three days, and for my wife as well. For kids it can be a little bit more complicated, especially if they're picky, and that's where a lot of my energy will put in For me. I'm very simple. So what my strategy is for me if you like simple things, you want to make sure those things are available for you so you can put things together in 10 to 15 minutes, versus gathering the ingredients, cooking them, chopping them up for one hour and then, by the end of the day, you still have to get ready your kids so having that simple simplicity, so that way you can predict things, is going to be helpful in reaching their weight loss goals Awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you for sharing those tips, because it is so important to keep it simple, right. A lot of the times, again, we tend to complicate things and we have a goal and we want to do these complicated plans and complicated strategies. When it's like, let's start with the basics, right, let's focus on that and let's see how things go, uh, and let's go. It's your pace, right, what? That's what?
Speaker 1:Also, I work with my clients and I tell them this is, this is your plan, right, I'm here as a guide, I'm here as a mentor, but essentially, you have to tell me what's going to work for you, and if you don't know at the moment, that's okay, let's go with it for the. And if you don't know at the moment, that's okay, let's go with it for the first week, second week and then, when you come back, then you can give me feedback, tell me what worked for you. But I think that really helps because we're not food police, right. We're not like at least I'm not. I'm not like this strict person that is going to be like really upset at you for not doing your plan, right. I'm here as a guide, right, I'm here as someone that is going to help you achieve your goals, but you're putting in the work Right.
Speaker 2:So I think that is important and I say that to my clients too, especially in our first session, you know, because most of them have never worked with a dietitian and I tell them you want more of as a guide, counselor, mentor, so we can come up with a plan together, because a lot of them sometimes they think dietitian, oh, what am I going to do? Are you going to tell me what foods to eat? Are you going to give me a meal plan? Tell me the calorie count? You know I don't technically say no to all of those, but I tell you, you know, those can be all of our choices. So by the end of our session we can come up with a plan that works for you at your own pace, because everyone does it differently, right, you know. Someone can do it really really quick, someone can do it at an average pace, some can do it slower, for whatever reason.
Speaker 1:So I like pace. Some can do it slower, for whatever reason. So I like what you said doing it at your own pace, right, yeah, um, because we, that we see more success that way, right? Versus like um, yeah, here's a plan, right, uh, a one size fits all. Uh, we know that that's not going to work, um, and it is just going to be a disservice for that specific person Exactly. And you know, we're not the ones doing it, so we're not the ones like struggling with it. Versus like creating this plan together and like coming together and and be essentially on the same page and checking in to make sure that that you're doing well.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep.
Speaker 1:So that, um, that absolutely helps. Um, let's see. Yep, so that that absolutely helps. Let's see. Okay. So what would you say to a client that you know is struggling to they really put a plan together right for them or sticking to a plan? How do you work with them in? You know, working through those struggles?
Speaker 2:them in, you know, working through those struggles. So if they've been trying to formulate a plan over and over, I'll ask them what made you not seek help before this? You know what was stopping you. And then the most common answer that I get is because oh, I think I thought I could do it on my own, or I thought I could figure things out, or I could. I try these diets, you know, like the keto or carnivore. You know, usually that's my, that's their go-to.
Speaker 2:So if someone that is listening to this and is wanting to get results, but for some reason you've struggled many, many times, my best advice from a time efficiency standpoint is seek the help of a qualified professional, a registered dietitian, to kind of get you a formula to plan. Because when I talk to my clients, they'll say, oh, I saw this in social media, I read this, or I saw that. You know, I tried this. I heard that if you blend a banana, it's not the same as eating a whole banana. I tried eating, I tried using Noom, I tried using this. You know, like this is our first, first time having conversation, and then these are like the things I hear over and over again, whereas if you just got help, you know, a year or two ago or several months ago. You've been further off. So first advice really you seek the help of a qualified professional.
Speaker 1:Yeah and I can't. I'm not in social media so much or TikTok, but you know, sometimes I do see it when it comes up, you know from a client, or I see it on the news and I'm like what is happening? Um, and yeah, I've had experiences with clients too that say you know, you are my last resort, right, or I've done everything. That you know everybody has done and I'm like, but why you could have saved so much time you could have saved so much time you could have saved so much money, your sanity and just seeing results like long-term results.
Speaker 1:But I don't know. I don't know if it's because not a lot of people know that dieticians are able to help with those issues or because they think, oh, I need something quick and I need, I need to see the results right away.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But you and I know that it's not. That's not the case all the time. Right, we're not going to see results instantly, right From one week to the next, like we're perfect now, I don't need you anymore. It's not like that, like we're perfect now.
Speaker 2:I don't need you anymore. It's not like that. Yeah, a lot, of a lot, of a lot of clients do not a lot, but there's many of them that want results fast, like because they, like you said earlier in our conversation, they've been bombarded with a diet culture oh, lose 30 pounds in 30 days or drop 12, drop 12 pounds in 12 days or whatever the catch or the hook is. You know it's like the business coaching side that you make six figures in six months or something like that. And you know dietitians are not immune to this business coaching side and people are not immune to because people want quick results and unfortunately, you know that's what grabs their attention and that's what people gravitate to. But you and I know it's takes longer than that, especially if you have not so good habit turning into them, turning them into better habits. It's going to take some time.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, absolutely, and working through them and just thinking, like you, you didn't get to this point overnight.
Speaker 1:Right, it took a while.
Speaker 1:It took lots of doing things, maybe lots of different behaviors, to get to this point and in order for you to be successful long term, right, the sustainability of it, you have to think of it that way too. Like it's going to take me that long, maybe, maybe a little less, but I think I think letting clients know that, hey, you're not going to have a quick fix here, because what I'm going to give you is the tools and skills that you can use forever, right Versus quick fix. And see ya, right, I got your money Bye, because you know, again, we got into this profession to help people right and to see them success and, overall, to give them health right and to give them longevity, because essentially that's what comes down to you right, like, do you want to live your life suffering or, you know, getting these conditions because maybe you're trying wild things, or do you want to create these healthy habits that essentially you can use anywhere you go for the rest of your life, and I think that is important for clients to know that.
Speaker 2:Yep habits and a lot of things, a lot of the behaviors. Doing them over and over is really what's going to set them apart versus yo-yo dieting. And it sounds simple, but it's true, I mean. Simple doesn't always mean easy, but it's very doable.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. I love that. Simple is not always easy. We can simplify things, but you still have to do the work. Is easy so we can simplify things, but you still have to do the work. Um, and I think having that guidance from a um, a professional right, from a dietitian, um, is going to make things easier in the right way.
Speaker 1:Right because you are so right, there's so many crazy wild things out there that you know, oh, you try that, you'll see weight loss, or you try that and you won't have diabetes anymore. And we're like what? No, like, there's not one, there's not scientific research backing that up. Two, that can be extremely dangerous. So don't do that. But you know, sometimes when people are so desperate and they struggle so much and they have these pains and aches, you can, you're going to try anything, right, anything that someone tells you that is going to help you. But just knowing that you have to go to the professional, right, you have to go to someone that has studied for years, right, it's not that we just got a certificate. Like, literally, we went to school four plus years and we did over 1200 hours in in an internship and we had to do a board exam. So it's not that, again, it's not that we got a certificate.
Speaker 2:we're like oh, we're dietitians yay right that's probably one thing that I would tell my clients or potential people that are listening to this. You know, go to a professional and just seek professional help and that'll make their journey smoother. It's not going to guarantee it's not, there's no guarantees but it'll make things easier and kind of smoother, versus kind of be stuck in the cycle of trying, failing, yo-yo dieting and all that so I would agree with that one as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you mentioned something right now. Really good that you say I'm not going to guarantee X, y, z. Right, because that is extremely true. So we can give you the tools, we can give you our knowledge right, we can help you create a plan. But if, at the end of the day, you don't execute the plan, then we're just staying at the same spot, right, we're not changing anything because we can do the plan for you. That would be pretty good, right, but it would be extra work for us, but we cannot do the work for you. Like, that's something that you have to execute. And so if, at the end of the day, you know you're maybe not ready, that's okay, right, but being honest with yourself, I'm not ready for this right now, but I know that I can come back to you when I'm ready and we can do it. But if you just stuck there, right, and you're like I have the tools, have everything that I need, but I don't want to do it, right or whatever the case may be?
Speaker 1:where are we going?
Speaker 2:like we are not gonna go anywhere we can't force someone to not do the work. It's you know, but it it so exactly? The results are not guaranteed, but I try to kind of change their mindset on that, because I tell my clients well, do you feel like going to work every single day? I mean, there's days where you don't feel like. Do you feel like taking care of your kids every day? I'm sure not all of them will say yes, you know so, but do they frustrate you? But? But you still show up, right, and I'm like that's the kind of like, the same mindset, not everything that you're going to do. You're going to like there's days where you do well, there's weeks you do well and there's weeks and days that you don't do well, but you show up because your future, you is going to want that better life, better health, better future for your kids. And sometimes it takes a lot of convincing or sometimes it feels like therapy, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a lot of repetition, which is totally okay. Right Again, we're here for you and, in the end, we want the best. We want the best. You're coming to us for a reason. Right Again, it could be because we're the last resort and you're like I just need some guidance. Or maybe you're like I've never worked with anybody and I've never done anything, but I want the guidance from a professional, perfect. Right Again, we're here to support and guide you in your goals. Yeah, any final thoughts that you want to provide to the listeners that have these weight loss goals or that they're finding themselves stuck? Any final thoughts that you want to provide?
Speaker 2:Just for final thoughts. If someone listening to this has been struggling all their life, know that it's very possible for you to get help and get assistance. I think you and I, Leonel, I think we accept insurance, so having insurance is a huge benefit when it comes to getting help, because it's kind of already paid for and you get that support and that accountability. So if you've been struggling for most of your life and you've never gotten professional help and professional help that include Noom or MyFitnessPal, because that's separate my suggestion if you're struggling for a long time, seek help, get professional help, because that can make a big difference in your outcome in the long term.
Speaker 1:Yeah, awesome. Thank you for sharing that. And so if there is anyone that wants to work with you or wants to reach out to you, where can they find you?
Speaker 2:They can find me. I have a website called wwwjohncanlisrd or you can just Google John Canlis Nutrition and all my fax information and my phone information's there and all the insurance information's there you can verify, or I have the script to kind of verify insurance there. It's all laid out pretty well so you can Google that and then start from there and see if we can work together.
Speaker 1:Awesome, and you also do telehealth right Like virtual appointments, is that?
Speaker 2:right? Yes, I do telehealth. So if you don't like coming in person, you can do telehealth at the comfort of your home, to make it easier for you.
Speaker 1:Perfect, and I'll add those details in the show notes so if you're busy or driving, you can always go back to the show notes and find it there as well. John, thank you so much for joining me today and that you know. I'm glad that you were able to talk about these things. I'm sure we'll do another episode on more cultural things you know, maybe diabetes and just mystifying some of the myths right that come with that. So we'll definitely probably have to do another one. Thank you so much for coming and for joining me, thank you.
Speaker 1:Emilia, you're welcome. All right, my friends, thank you so much for joining me in today's episode. I'll talk to you. We'll see you in another episode. Take care. Bye-bye for now.