At Cape to Cape Nutrition, Faye offers individualised nutrition assessment, education and support to help you improve your wellbeing through food choices. Starting with your current eating pattern, she will work with you to develop a realistic, tailored eating plan to empower you to achieve and maintain your individual nutrition goals, supporting you to overcome challenges to changing your eating habits.

During your initial 60 minute appointment, Faye will complete a thorough nutrition assessment with you, taking into account your medical and family history, your occupation and lifestyle, physical activity levels, medications or supplements, your usual food intake and preferences, eating attitudes, beliefs and behaviours, and any food intolerances or other dietary requirements.

You will receive feedback on your current nutritional status and be able to discuss potential areas for improvement. Depending on your needs, Faye may provide education on the important role of diet in health, help you work towards a more positive relationship with food and your body, and help you build practical skills in meal planning, shopping or cooking.

Based on your individual health goals and your readiness and ability to change, together you will decide on the specific actions you will take to modify your eating behaviours and/or relationship with food. Having a clear, achievable plan, which addresses your unique barriers to taking action, is the key to increasing your motivation and confidence to achieve your goals.

As an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) for over 20 years, Faye is skilled in assessing your health and nutrition status and translating the latest nutrition science into practical advice, so that you can make positive and lasting changes to your eating behaviours. With so much conflicting nutrition information at our fingertips these days, Faye can help you sort through the nutrition hype and provide you with credible advice that works, free of gimmicks, fads and expensive products.

As an APD, Faye has completed post-graduate university training and undertakes ongoing professional education and training, so you can be confident you are receiving dietary advice based on the latest nutrition research and evidence-based guidelines.

APDs are the most qualified healthcare professionals to provide nutrition advice, which includes medical nutrition therapy to treat diet-related disease. In fact, APDs are the only nutrition professionals recognised by the Australian Government and Medicare, and as such you may be eligible for rebates for your appointments.

See below for more details on how Faye can help with particular medical conditions.

Experience and research shows time and time again that diets just don’t work in the long-term. Dieting is exhausting, stressful and impossible to maintain from a biological, emotional and social standpoint. In fact, diets often do more harm than good and over time are associated with weight gain, disordered eating and body dissatisfaction.

If you have been on diets in the past, you may be all too familiar with the frustrations of regaining any weight lost (often with interest!), as is the case with about 95% of dieters. Starving your body, and depriving yourself of your favourite foods is simply not sustainable. It is likely to lead to feelings of being out of control when exposed to “forbidden” foods, which we inevitably are, and result in overeating and associated feelings of shame and guilt.

The non-diet approach provides an alternative to dieting for people with body weight concern. It takes the focus off the pursuit of weight loss and instead focuses on achieving improved health outcomes through healthy behaviours. At the core of the non-diet approach is the focus on responding to internal eating cues, (physical hunger and fullness and the pleasure aspects of eating), self-care and a non-judgmental, nurturing and grateful attitude towards yourself and food. This is also referred to as Mindful Eating or Intuitive Eating and encourages the use of all your senses to guide you in making food choices that are both satisfying and nourishing, without feelings of guilt, shame or deprivation.

There is an emerging body of research which shows that the non-diet approach can lead to improvements in health measures such as blood pressure and cholesterol levels, as well as sustained increases in physical activity and diet quality.  Furthermore, this approach has been shown to significantly improve measures of disordered eating, depression, self-esteem and body image, when compared to traditional dieting.

Ditching diet mentality can take time, especially if you have had a long history of yo-yo dieting. Faye is trained in the non-diet approach and can support you throughout your intuitive eating journey, where you will learn life-long skills for flexible healthy eating.  By combining your intuition with nutrition, you can start to trust your body again to guide your eating decisions, rather than relying on external food rules or strict meal plans. You will notice how different foods make you feel, without judgement, and become more aware of your physical hunger, fullness and satisfaction cues to guide your decisions to start and stop eating.

Tuning in to this inner wisdom can change your relationship with food, permanently. It can help you understand and overcome emotional eating and food cravings. It allows you to enjoy eating food that you feel like when you are hungry, eat until you are comfortably satisfied, and build your confidence to select the types and amounts of foods to best nourish your body, mind and soul.

Ultimately you will feel calm and relaxed around all foods, and enjoy eating, guilt-free!