Welcome to Nutrition Digest – Food for Thought. Thoughts to Digest.

Hi and thank you for stopping by Nutrition Digest! Here, you will find a little bit about “everything food and nutrition”.

But to start, I wanted to do a little meet and greet and give you an insight into me. You can find all of my professional qualifications and experiences in the Our Dietitians section of my website www.metrodietetics.com.au, but here is a little bit about my personal experiences and what got me to where I am today:

I didn’t always want to be a dietitian or a nutritionist…I had no idea that there was even such a profession! (That was how naïve I was). Coming from an Asian family background I was brought up thinking that the only way to be “successful” in life is to become a doctor, or a lawyer, or an accountant…

I personally had no idea what I wanted to do…I knew I wanted to work WITH people…I knew I was passionate about health…but that was as far as I got.

So, when university offers came out and I was accepted into Law School, something didn’t seem to fit. In a long epic saga, I managed to switch out of Law and into Nutrition and Dietetics.

Four years came and went.

I learnt a lot, but felt that I had no idea where all of that was taking me. I knew I wanted to help people (Yes, I AM aware how cliché that sounds…but I do actually mean it).

I wanted to ACTUALLY make a difference.

I wanted to see each person as a person, not a bed number in so-and-so ward. I wanted to watch their transformation physically, psychologically and emotionally as they made breakthroughs in their health, fitness and psyche. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to be involved in it, or perhaps even responsible for it.

This hunger for helping people drove me to start my own private practice “Metro Dietetics”.

I have not looked back since.

People often wonder why I would give up a secure full time job to work on something that has no security whatsoever. They would doubt whether or not I had the experience and maturity required to establish a successful practice all by myself. For a long time I shared the same doubts. But the answer did, over time, achieve a level of clarity.

Having my own private practice gave me the starting block, the blank canvas, the empty platform I desperately needed to make the difference I have always wanted to make. I engaged in a LOT of self-learning and reflection to constantly better myself, my knowledge base and my skill set.

Now, 5 years later, I am STILL learning, and I don’t think that will stop any time soon. I strive to apply new research, new methods and new approaches to helping each and every individual that comes to me for assistance. I am not afraid of bending the rules, or challenging the status quo, especially if this means I can help my clients advance in ways that others could not.

So there you go – a bit about me.

Happy Digesting!