Dietitian Consultations Near Illovo & Melrose Arch
Personalised nutrition guidance with Lila Bruk, registered dietitian, at Blubird Medical Centre in Blubird Shopping Centre.
Practical support for your goals, health and everyday eating habits. Choose an in-person, online or telephone consultation.
Book a First Consultation Need help? Call 011 880 9156
Honours in Nutrition & Dietetics (UCT) · Masters in Nutritional Sciences (Stellenbosch)
Your first visit
About 60 minutes to discuss your goals, health history, eating habits and lifestyle, with body composition assessment where appropriate.
Your personalised plan
Your eating plan is discussed at the first follow-up, usually within one week. Follow-ups provide ongoing guidance and support.
Support that fits
Consultations for weight management, gut health, diabetes and sports nutrition, tailored to your individual needs.
Finding the practice
Blubird Medical Centre (Blu Medical), first floor of Blubird Shopping Centre. Near Illovo and Melrose Arch, at Fort St and Atholl Oaklands Rd, Birnam, Johannesburg.
Head to the first-floor medical suites. Allow time to find the practice before your appointment. For help with the entrance, parking or access, call 011 880 9156.
More about the consultation and follow-ups
First consultation (~60 minutes)
The first consultation involves:
- Discussing your goals, your health, activity levels, and lifestyle and eating habits.
- Assessing medical history, current medications and vitamins
- Discussing family history of different conditions
- (Weight loss or gain clients) Assessing weight history, previous diets or eating plans
- (Weight loss or gain clients) Assessing weight and body composition (i.e. body fat %, muscle mass, body water %, etc) using the InBody 270. The intention is to track muscle preservation, visceral fat trends and metabolic health markers to ensure weight loss is not compromising lean tissue
- Discussing relevant blood tests that may be required. If blood tests are required, the dietitian will give you a blood test form with the appropriate tests marked.
- If you are interested in DNA Testing, the test would be purchased and the test (via finger prick test) would be conducted in this session .
First follow-up consultation (~30 minutes)
- The first follow up takes place within 1 week of the initial consult and involves going through and discussing your new eating plan.
- You are provided with an individualized eating plan tailored to your lifestyle, health, weight, nutrition and health goals
- Vitamin and other supplementation advice will be given
- Note: If you have done the DNA Testing, we would go through your results in this session and your eating plan would be based on these results. The consultation for going through the DNA results is generally approximately 45-60 minutes and there would be a small additional charge above the regular follow up charge.
Second and subsequent follow-up consultations (~30 minutes)
Regular follow ups are extremely beneficial to assist you with staying on track. Follow ups are usually scheduled every 1 to 2 weeks and are the ideal opportunity to:
- Review your progress via full advanced body composition analysis
- Provide ongoing support and monitoring
- Incorporate programme changes as needed
- Receive further guidance & motivation
- Clarify any questions or concerns that may have arisen.
- Review your goals and monitor your progress
- Establish new goals and achievements
- Discuss new ideas, questions or concerns, and to add/build new concepts, while providing continued support and motivation.
- Adjust the meal plan and review portion sizes.
- Eating out strategies and recommended food choices at restaurants and fast food restaurants.
- Strategies for staying motivated and overcoming challenges.
- Addressing of emotional eating.
- Theory regarding how different foods impact your medical health (for example how different foods impact your blood sugar, blood pressure, bone health, cancer risk, digestive health, cholesterol levels etc.)
- Sports nutrition advice (where applicable) on what to eat/drink before, during, & after exercise, as well as sport supplementation advice
- Vitamins, minerals, herbs, and dietary supplements - advice and recommendations.
- Meal planning strategies, grocery lists, quick food preparation tricks, and ideas for breakfast, lunch, suppers and snacks.
- Learn to read food labels and choose foods complement your goals.
- Recipe makeover - Adapting and adjusting your favorite recipes into healthy alternatives that suit your new eating plan.
Book your consultation online or call 011 880 9156.