Exam Room Nutrition: Where Busy Clinicians Learn About Nutrition
As a clinician, your patients are asking:
“What should I eat for diabetes?” “How do I lose weight?” “My child is so picky. What do I do?” But here’s the problem—you probably didn’t learn much about nutrition in school. The National Academy of Sciences recommends 25 hours of nutrition education for med students. Most of us? We got maybe 5.
Enter Exam Room Nutrition. Hosted by Colleen Sloan, a PA and RD with over a decade of experience, this podcast gives you clear, actionable strategies to tackle those tough nutrition questions with confidence—even when you’re pressed for time. From picky eaters to diabetes management, I’ll renew how you approach nutrition.
Exam Room Nutrition: Where Busy Clinicians Learn About Nutrition
42 | 7 Traps of Goal-Setting and How to Avoid Them - A Provider's Guide to Helping Patient's Lose Weight: Part 6
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According to James Clear, "bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change."
Today's episode will:
- Teach you how to guide your patients in creating a system for change, that will actually work.
- Show you how to lead your patient to set achievable goals.
- Learn the 7 traps of goal-setting and how to avoid them.
- Walk through a simple exercise to do with your patients that make achieving their goals doable!
What sets your patient's heart on fire when they think about their future? What gets them excited? Is it a number or a metric? I honestly doubt it. It's probably a feeling or a result of achieving that number. Patients probably imagine the way they feel: free, confident, loved, happy, energetic, sexy. That's the magic of goal-setting.
If you're a primary care provider looking to enhance your nutrition counseling skills or simply seeking a refresher, join me as we make our patients healthier, one exam room at a time!
Listen to Beyond BMI to see why measuring metrics beyond weight are crucial.
Grab the companion PDF at examroomnutrition.com/weightloss, and let's confidently guide our patients towards their best lives in 2024.
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Disclaimer: This podcast is a collection of ideas, strategies, and opinions of the author(s). Its goal is to provide useful information on each of the topics shared within. It is not intended to provide medical, health, or professional consultation or to diagnosis-specific weight or feeding challenges. The author(s) advises the reader to always consult with appropriate health, medical, and professional consultants for support for individual children and family situations. The author(s) do not take responsibility for the personal or other risks, loss, or liability incurred as a direct or indirect consequence of the application or use of information provided. All opinions stated in this podcast are my own and do not reflect the opinions of my employer.
