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Confused about what to eat?

Let us help you sort it out! It’s never too late to make a change or to start feeling better about your health. Don’t settle for feeling tired, sluggish, or worn out! You CAN take control of your nutrition and feel alive again!

We will review your current eating pattern based on your health goals/concerns and put forward some recommendations that you can implement. Having support is essential and key to achieving change. We provide your own dedicated dietitian coach who will help you stay on track giving you the BEST chance for success! Get personal support from experts who care.

 

Receive Personalized Nutrition Support:

  • Clear up the confusion about what, when and how much to eat.

  • Achieve optimal wellness through balanced nutrition.

  • Become more energized.

  • Speed up your metabolism and feel less sluggish.

  • Gain confidence in your food choices.

  • Learn to meal plan and eat in more often.

  • Create a healthy lifestyle so you can feel your best.

  • Establish new eating habits and learn to incorporate healthy, delicious food that nourishes your body.

  • Learn how to implement mindful eating techniques and tune into your bodies natural intuition.

Need Nutrition Help?

Our Dietitians will do a nutrition assessment and provide you evidence-based medical nutrition recommendations on how to manage the following conditions:

  • Acne
  • ADHD - Nutrition inadequacy related to selective eating/ sensory symptoms
  • Amenorrhea
  • Arthritis
  • Asthma
  • Candida Yeast Infections (reoccurring)
  • Celiac Disease
  • CHF (Congestive heart failure)
  • Chronic fatigue syndrome
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Clinical nutrition deficiencies
  • Constipation
  • Crohn's Disease
  • Diabetes
  • Diarrhea
  • Diverticular Disease
  • Dyslipidemia
  • Endometriosis
  • Eczema
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Food allergies /intolerance
  • Gallbladder disease
  • Gastroesophageal reflux disease 
  • Gastroenteritis
  • Gastrointestinal pain - gas/ bloating
  • Gastrointestinal pain - visceral hypersensitivity
  • Gestational Diabetes
  • Gout
  • Hemorrhoids (piles)
  • Hypertension
  • Hypertension
  • Hyperthyroidism
  • Hypoglycemia
  • Hypothyroidism
  • Indigestion/ dyspepsia
  • Inflammation
  • Insomnia
  • Insulin resistance
  • Iron deficiency anemia
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
  • Kidney Stones
  • Lactose intolerance
  • Malnutrition 
  • Menopause 
  • Metabolic Syndrome
  • Migraine
  • Morning sickness 
  • Multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Non- Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
  • Nutrient loss related to food restriction
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Osteopenia
  • Osteoporosis
  • Pancreatitis
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Pre-diabetes 

  • Protein deficiency
  • Psoriasis
  • Reflux/regurgitation
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Rumination syndrome
  • Sensory processing disorder (texture, smell, taste)
  • Ulcerative Colitis
  • Underweight 
  • Weight concerns

Our Approach

We recognize there is no 1-size-fits-all when it comes to your nutrition. We take an individualized approach to best support your health goals. We will work alongside you to help you with:

  • Building out a personalized eating structure that suits your lifestyle.
  • Normalizing eating and food habits and beliefs about food.
  • Learning how emotions are linked to your eating habits and interfering with your health goals.
  • Provide accurate advice on eating, food and health myths.
  • Empower you to manage your health by understanding how to grocery shop, read nutrition labels, and prepare meals that you/your family enjoy.
  • Provide you with cooking tips, meal prep guidance, recipe modifications, and snack ideas.
  • Advocate and/or communicate with your primary healthcare team, doctor or specialist.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are your fees?

Dietitian: $190 for 80 min initial assessment and $135 for 50 min follow-up appointments. Therapy services are $135 for 50 mins.

Do you direct bill?

Yes, fill out your form here, and we will let you know if we can direct bill your appointment.

Clients are responsible for knowing their coverage details, understanding their benefits, and keeping track of their usage from their insurance company. 

Before your visit, please call your insurance company and ask:

  • For nutrition help: Is registered dietitian for nutrition counseling covered? 
  • For therapy or counselling help: Are registered social workers covered for counseling/therapy?
  • Do I need a physician referral or prior authorization? (usually for Blue Cross & Claim Secure)
  • What is the yearly plan coverage amount?
  • Is there a co-pay amount (Ex. They pay 80% you pay 20%)
  • Do I have a deductible to meet before insurance pays?

Insurance company phone numbers:

  • Manitoba Blue Cross: 204-775-0151
  • Canada Life: 1-800-957-9777
  • Green Shield/SSQ: 1-888-711-1119
  • Chambers: 1-800-665-3365
  • Maximum Benefit: 1-800-893-7587
  • Claim Secure: 1-888-513-4464
  • Medavie (National Blue Cross): 1-888-873-9200  OR 204-775-9261    
  • Sirius Benefits: (204) 488-7600
  • Peoples Corp: (204) 940-3900

***Manitoba Blue Cross: Requires a medical illness or health condition to be present for coverage (even if your plan doesn’t require a referral).

These insurance companies have dietitian/therapy coverage, but do not allow for direct billing: Sunlife, Manulife, DesJardins and Equitable Life.

Finding out these details will help ensure you get the most out of your health insurance benefits and avoid financial surprises!

Do I need a doctors referral?

No, you can self-refer. However, your insurance company may require a physicians referral to use your health benefits. ***If you have Manitoba Blue Cross, then your insurance requires a medical illness or health condition to be present for coverage. 

If your insurance company requires a referral for coverage, we require this in advance to your appointment to make sure we can direct bill for you. If you have obtained a referral, you can email it to our office at admin@alittlenutrition.com. We will review it and make sure it satisfies insurance requirements. If you do not have a referral, and your insurance company requires one, you can easily obtain one at either of these Walmart Medical Walk-In Clinics: Taylor, Kenaston or Lakewood.  Doctors or medical clinics can fax your referral directly to us at 1-204-515-7479.

How many appointments do I need?

Most of our clients report seeing remarkable changes in their eating and health after 3 to 5 appointments spaced out over 3 to 6 months. However, some clients require appointments every 2 weeks until they can get the hang of their new pattern of eating and to work through the challenges they are facing. Some clients only need 1 or 2 appointments. Your dietitian or therapist will give you a recommended treatment plan at your initial appointment.

***If you are working on healing your relationship with food or recovering from an eating disorder treatment length time will vary and usually requires more frequent appointment times. 

Do you provide meal plans to follow?

Yes and no. It will depend on your nutrition or health concern.

  • If you are struggling with an eating disorder or your relationship with food, we may work with you to develop a mechanical meal plan to help stabilize your eating and health. The goal would be to move away from this and learn to eat intuitively when indicated. 
  • For others, we will help you learn the necessary skills to make an individual or family meal plan and provide assistance to you each step of the way. We believe teaching you “how” to nourish yourself is far better than handing you a meal plan that you will likely only be able to follow for a few weeks. We help you learn the skills of meal planning, meal prep, grocery shopping and preparing simple meals that you enjoy.
  • Still want a meal plan? If you subscribe to our email list, we send out meal plans for recipe inspiration on a regular basis, but these are intended to help our clients stay excited about eating well (and is not a rigid meal plan).
Do you offer blood test to determine vitamin deficiency & hormone levels?

Dietitians don’t have access to ordering lab work in Canada. If you are looking to find out about food sensitivities we do not recommend the one from naturopaths (IgG tests) as they are only 50% accurate and leave many people more confused about what to eat than before the test. Alternatively, if you are having GI issues, we would recommend getting the blood screening test for celiac by your family doctor.

We work with clients to find out their food sensitivities by doing a nutrition assessment and detective work based on their symptoms. We have a variety of approaches to help you with symptom management and would help you put together an eating plan that would aim to reduce symptoms and suit your lifestyle and food preferences.

Can you help me lose weight?

We are here to support you with your weight and body concerns. However, to be fully transparent, we cannot guarantee weight loss because your weight is not a behaviour. Weight loss may be an OUTCOME of behaviour and can be based on how one nourishes their body, lifestyle, genetics, activity level, hormones, DNA, previous dieting history and relationship with food. 

We know that HEALTH is not solely determined by ones weight. We believe a persons healthy weight is achieved by creating a balanced relationship with food, joyful movement and rest. When we care for our bodies through balanced nutrition, movement and rest, our weight will naturally settle at is most comfortable weight range. This range has been determined by our DNA – our heredity, or our “natural weight”. 

We provide an alternative to restrictive dieting by offering weight neutral care. That means we help clients move on from focusing on the number on the scale to what actually matters. That might be lowering your blood pressure, having more energy to get around, or just feeling good about how you are nourishing yourself and/ or family. We can choose to appreciate the body we are living in, adopt good health habits and let our weight fall where it will naturally.

Why we do not weigh clients

All THE REASONS WHY WE DON’T WEIGHT CLIENTS – You are so much more than a number!

  • Seriously, who likes to be weighed? The act of being weighed creates a lot of anxiety with most folks, and doesn’t initiate a positive relationship with your dietitian? Being weighed can contribute to feelings of low self worth.

  • Most people who have ever been on a diet, done a wellness program, or participated in a commercial weight loss program can tell you that their experience with the scale is traumatizing.

  • The number on the scale doesn’t reflect your health or the hard work you put into being a healthier person.

  • Anticipated “weigh ins” can loom heavy on folks minds prior to a appointment.

  • Nothing ruins a nutrition session faster than being weighed and the number not being what one may hope for or expect. Folks may have worked really hard at shifting their health habits, meal planning, eating out less, and moving more. However, the number on the scale can make one feel like a failure if it isn’t what was expected.

  • Weighing yourself frequently can contribute to an unhealthy relationship with food and your body, create stress, and isn’t even that accurate.

  • The number on the scale is external data or cue. We know that focusing on external cues are barriers to getting back in touch with internal cues, like hunger/fullness, how food makes you feel, and satisfaction.

Additional Nutrition & Health Services

Eating Disorders

Therapy / Counselling

Intuitive Eating: Improving Relationship With Food

Digestion, Food Allergies + Intolerances

Infant, Toddler & Kids Nutrition

Fertility, Pregnancy, Hormones, Bone Health + Inflammation

Workplace Presentations

Online Support Groups

Insurance Accepted

 

What Our Clients Say

★★★★★

Professional, personal, educated, and individualized care. Each of the staff at A Little Nutrition are amazing! I’ve worked with them for a variety of issues and concerns over the years and I am very grateful for the service and guidance they provide myself and my family.”

Jacqui Giesbrecht

★★★★★

IBS sufferers, listen up!
Wonderful, caring professional who can help you figure out what you can eat and in what amounts. Madelaine also helped me become more aware of my body’s hunger/satiety signals as well as learning to identify stress and emotional eating. High praise for these wonderful dietitians and their well-run business.

Claudia Keating

★★★★★

Talked with Jessica, she was excellent, very patient, compassionate & professional. She explained medical information very clearly and in easy terms to understand. I definitely would recommend her to family & friends ‼️
Thank you 😊.”

Lauren Andrushko

★★★★★

I would recommend this service to anyone out there who has always wanted answers to their nutritional questions, but were too shy or afraid to ask! Susan is easy to talk to, there truly are no silly questions, and she makes you feel very comfortable about whatever it is you are enquiring about.
Since working with Susan for the past year or so
I have noticed quite an improvement in my health. I don’t walk around bloated ,gassy or uncomfortable. My only true regret is not having done this sooner !
We all owe it to ourselves to have the best quality of life.
I’m grateful that I took the initiative to get answers to the questions I had, I can now enjoy other areas of life more fully!

Dragana Viallet

You Don’t Have To Lose Another Day Missing Out On Feeling Great!

If not knowing what to eat is holding you back from the life you crave, we believe you deserve better.

Let’s go beyond the typical restrictive dietary advice and live your best life!

A Little Nutrition Inc.

103-605 Des Meurons St. Winnipeg, MB R2H 2R1

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