PersonalDiets™
Diets designed for Weight
Loss & Improved Health
Who are we? Personal
Dietitian was founded in
1999, and specializes in
providing personalized diets
for both men and women,
custom-tailored to their
specific needs. Going
beyond corporate-based
diet programs, Personal Dietitian
supports their clients with
access to ongoing help from registered dietitians (the
recognized nutrition
experts), counselors and
fitness instructional programs designed by
a certified
personal trainer. Unlike
typical online corporate diet sites that provide a single
approach to users and are limited to computer generated menu
plans, Personal Dietitian's uses a "user
friendly" personal approach by providing individual diet
assessments, and designing diet programs based upon client's
individual diet preferences, health needs, and lifestyle
considerations.
The niche for
Personal Dietitian in the highly competitive weight loss and
diet market is to make expert professional diet help highly
accessible and affordable to all those who want it. It provides
a unique combination of personal, professional expertise with
the user friendly and convenient "24-7" environment of
an internet based program.
Personal
Dietitian surpasses other popular online diet website services because
it doesn't share the inherent limitations of database programs and
computer generated meal plans -"one size fits all" approach.
Instead, Personal Dietitian models its program on the true nutrition
counseling experience, using a proprietary
technology that provides an accurate and scientifically valid
assessment of an individual's current eating habits.
"Assessing a person's current diet habits is the first and most
critical step in providing a successful diet plan, and it's missing in
all the programs I've seen on the web," observes Carolyn Classick-Kohn,
MS, RD, founder of
the A Personal Dietitian Company.
The
PersonalDiets™
plan includes a complete support program which offers a
variety of checks and balances including dietitians, counselors
and a well developed membership support program including
everything needed to assist clients (personalized grocery lists
and meal planning support, an online fitness program-online
exercise video program, over
250 recipes and 200 convenience meal information, a credentialed
counseling support staff and even a counseling referral
inventory and peer support program to cover emotional
support issues inhibiting success.
Clients are kept on track via the Right-on-Track support program
which includes a weekly focus which provides
relevant guidance based upon whatever point the client is
at in the Right-on-Track program. This helps Personal
Dietitian members to stay focused and breaks down the skills
needed for successful dietary and lifestyle changes into
manageable goals.
Personal Dietitian leads online diet companies!
Personal Dietitian is one of the leading diet,
weight loss and nutrition companies on the Internet.
There are many online diets and diet programs who make claims regarding their custom diets but few deliver.
Our ability to develop on a large scale program that
provides custom diets that are personally designed to
our member's specific needs gives them the
personal expert attention they require at prices they can
afford and truly out mode the diets offered by our
competition.
The
Perfect Combination:
An unmatched personal approach and technology that delivers!
Professional, personal recommendations, regarding current diet practices are completely ignored by the automated online diet programs offered by leading
competitors in the online diet community (eDiet and Weight Watchers), to their
detriment.
Diet competitors lag behind Personal Dietitian in this very critical area, offering
their users not much more than an automated diet (one-size fits all) and automated support with
little or no real human assistance - leaving most, if not all of their support to
technicians.
After
a client purchases a diet they begin our program by submitting
to us their current diet habits. "This is just one
area that
distinguishes us from our competition...",
says Carolyn Classick- Kohn,MS,RD, chief
dietitian.
"Computers
can do a lot these days but they can't completely
consider personal needs. This type of judgment
must be left to experts (meaning dietitians and
doctors specializing in nutrition). Any diet program
that provides meal plans or other simple output via
a database cannot be considered a
"personal" plan unless it's supported by
ongoing access to true nutrition experts, and the
ability to modify the program to the person's needs
as they progress. Without this, you've lost the
human touch and expert guidance that so many people
need to be put their diet into practice. "When
a dietitian evaluates a person's diet strengths and weakness, makes recommendations and gives a diet, they
are based
upon sound judgment and careful review. When
Personal Dietitian provides a diet plan, we know we've given
our clients a real chance for success along with the
opportunity to access our team of experts as they
put their diet into practice - our
online competition just doesn't match up in the area
of personalization.
Another problem
with many online diet programs is an over reliance on structured meal plans
and very little flexibility for applying them in a
real life situation. Meal plans are very beneficial but
don't help a person learn to make their own good
choices and it can become a crutch.
We use meal plans too but it's only a small part of what we do.
In
addition to providing
a customized diet,a meal plan and an
exchange diet plan, our diets go even further. By utilizing an interactive expert diet support programming ("called Right-on-Track") dieters are given the access they need to expert diet counselors who provides ongoing support as needed. Because of this,
PersonalDiets™offers member clients a realistic user friendly weight loss program. Registered Dietitians and both
our staff and licensed counselors are available to offer expert
diet, motivation and personal support for its members 24/7, 365
days a year.
Carolyn Classick-Kohn, MS, RD founded
PersonalDiets™; her
experience as a consulting dietitian in both a commercial, and medical clinic setting gives her
the unique professional
knowledge and experience to understand what individuals need to be
successful in weight control.
Her experience counseling patients with obesity, heart disease, high
blood pressure, and high cholesterol in a university clinic and research
setting along with her commercial weight loss consulting experience gave
her the necessary background to develop the diet, diet programs and
meal plans.
The Personal Dietitian
Team
The Personal Dietitian Team
is an exceptional group of
men and women with the
professional experiences
necessary to develop and
prepare healthy
diet and weight loss for the
internet community.
The Management Team
President, Co-Founder,
Nutrition Expert
Carolyn Classick-Kohn, MS,RD
Co-Founder and Staff
counselor Craig Alan (Kohn), credentialed
teacher
Counseling Support
Licensed Counseling Support Julie Lang, MFT/MFCC
Others
on the Personal Dietitian Team Registered and licensed dietitian consultants make up the remainder
of our company's referral base and are located through out the US. These
dietitians offer a wide variety of specialized diet consulting services
directly to our clientele.
Our
Philosophy
We develop each plan to match each person's needs and will
continue to strive to help every person achieve a successful
outcome.
Personal Dietitian’s company name is the result of the
philosophy and the reality that: Diets
are better when tailored personally and professionally to the client's
individual needs.