Carla, a dietitian whose practice is on Vancouver Island, recently completed her re-certification and shared these comments:
“The Craving Change® approach has helped me truly understand how difficult changing habits can be, and has made me more aware of my own habits and able to empathise with my clients while offering them proven strategies for improving their relationship with food. I plan to use the ‘Non-food Rewards’ worksheet with dialysis patients who are having difficulties managing their renal diets due to a difficult relationship with food. By working on rewards and comforting behaviours which allow them to feel less unhappy about their chronic disease while avoiding intake of foods which increase symptoms and comorbidities, I hope to help them transition to better management of their disease(s).”
“I feel the most important outcomes of the Craving Change® may well be a person’s feeling of control over his/her food choices, improvement in frequency of negative self-talk, and fewer negative emotions about the relationship with food. As a dietitian, I feel that I would have been more effective in the past had I had this resource several years ago.”
