If you want to lose weight....
Original Poster: WushuPadawan001
Forum: Weight Loss
Posted On: 08-10-2005, 02:24
Orginal Post: WushuPadawan001: So I?m sitting down typing away an essay next to two girls talking about how they want to lose weight. I tried to ignore them but felt I should jump in: they had NO IDEA what they were talking about.
Thus this is a shout out: If you want to lose weight please oh please get a trainer, read a book, go to a fitness website, talk to a physician or athletic friend. Don?t think that dropping meals and pills will work (pills just make you poop ? Tom Cruise uses them).
Be healthy, live strong.
Oh one more thing
Nutritionist: A person who is interested in nutrition, may have some education (Me).
Dietician: A person who has gone to school to study nutrition and has a medical degree (Not Me).
Post: nbotary:
"I'm thinking about changing my diet - I need to just let things go... " - Bloodybirds
Ben - please don't tell me that you are proclaiming yourself as a nutritionist. A nutrionist still has to go to school and get certified. We'll discuss that tomorrow...>
Post: WushuPadawan001:
Not what I meant?.but I understand the confusion. I should have been more clear.
What I?m trying to get across is that there are a lot of people who market themselves as nutritional experts when they really have very little training or none at all (I know this because I have an overweight friend who spent a lot of time looking for professional dietary advice and found more frauds that legits). Though the term nutritionist is defined as a person who is an expert in nutrition that title is not protected like ?Doctor? where it is required that you have some kind of medical degree. Dietician on the other hand is a specialist in the study of nutrition, i.e. an MD in the nutritional field. On the other hand a nutritionist can train and be tested to get a license similar to that a personal trainer practices for. Then again, PT?s are not always regulated. Of course that?s not to say that a nutritionist could not have a MD in another medical field.
Thus any person who has any kind of knowledge be it moderate like me or exceptional like a professional can be called a nutritionist (though I don?t want people to think that I am claiming to be a nutrition expert. I have attended several seminars on the subject but not nearly enough to give any kind of professional advice).
It?s a tricky subject. All I want to get across is that when looking for a professional dietary consultant be sure and check if the person is licensed or has a medical degree. After all you don?t want to get health advice from an amateur who only has a small amount of knowledge (Me).
I hope that clears up the confusion.>
Post: angryrocker4:
If you want to be rich do what the rich do, if you want to lose weight do what bodybuilders do, not dieticians or any of that crap. And most trainers are crap as well, you wont get good results unless you educate yourself and bust your ass to learn the stuff and understand it. Then you have to learn your own body and no "trainer" is goin to be able to help you out with that. Good for a spot and a form check and thats it.......Im a promoter of self education and experience, so I dont like the whole "trainer" thing, its laziness I think and settin you up for failure eventually.>
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