‘Limerick City & County Council recently worked with Food Choice and in particular with Oliva Beck the Senior Operations Manager and Senior Registered Nutritionist with Food Choice to deliver their 6-week Food Choice Nutrition Programme  for staff. The programme offered employees a chance to take part in a consultation with Olivia. It was an excellent programme and Olivia was excellent in delivery. The advice offered was very practical and impartial with everyone given an opportunity to ask questions and Olivia was so generous with her time – often running over on the agreed timeframe for each session. It included easy recipes to follow with useful guides and tips. This company have been a pleasure to work with and the quality of this programme has been excellent. They were very flexible and accommodating with their information sessions which we ran online during lunch to accommodate as many staff as possible. We would have no reservation to recommend them to others in need of a similar programme.’

“It was a great learning experience and a definite eye-opener to nutrition. It allowed me to be aware of my diet and keep an eye on my daily intakes. As far as my daily nutrition goes, the feedback from this program has shown me the correct way to approach my diet and so I plan to maintain this as I want to see improvements, not just in my daily life, but also for gym performance.”

“It was really useful to chat with a professional to remind me of food choices and the support in understanding what my intake of protein and carbs should be like. By gaining awareness of the contents of certain foods, I started making more conscious decisions about what I eat. It was good to dedicate the time to learn this.”

“The 6-week program was excellent, there was loads of learning and in my case unlearning’s about food. Being able to reintroduce previously perceived “bad foods” such as nuts & avocados. To not being afraid of certain food and to enjoy them in smaller doses! There were some really good tips and tricks around food, mindfulness and general wellbeing and great easy recipes to follow. Olga was such a pleasure to work with, very professional, knowledgeable and most of all realistic in her advice. I thoroughly enjoyed our weekly catch ups.”

“The way the programme was delivered by Olivia was motivating. Keep doing what you all are doing – it’s definitely helping people like me that’s been struggling to lose weight and constantly feeling guilty about not being able to stick to diet programmes.”

“It was a great learning experience and a definite eye-opener to nutrition. It allowed me to be aware of my diet and keep an eye on my daily intakes. As far as my daily nutrition goes, the feedback from this program has shown me the correct way to approach my diet and so I plan to maintain this as I want to see improvements, not just in my daily life, but also for gym performance.”

“Olivia was brilliant and gave me food for thought on choices of foods to replace other foods and still feel like I’m not missing out.”

“Eye opening and informative!  Very positive rather than a finger-pointing exercise.  Far more do-able in terms of small changes rather than an overhaul of everything at once. Realised that weight loss is not an overnight event – it is a process and I feel empowered to do this going forward.”

“Good information, useful recipes, I’m happy that the sessions were not focused on weight loss or restriction, as requested. Good information on easy ways to add in more nutritious choices without cutting things out totally. The sessions made me more conscious about the choices I was making and to think more about what options where available to me. I want to continue making small and manageable improvements to my diet and to my eating habits. main goals are to increase vegetables, increase protein and reduce cholesterol levels in the long term. These are ongoing improvements.”

“I really enjoyed the programme. It helped me to make better choices for eating healthy and provided me with some new recipes to incorporate into my weekly plans. It also helped me to start exercising more frequently. I stopped the mid-day snacking on the most part, and choosing healthier options. My nutrition goal was to make healthier snacking choices and go back to making healthier dinners. I have done this and plan to keep that up.”

“Very enjoyable and helpful to understand better my eating habits and how to improve them in order to become healthier, fitter and have more energy. The programme helped to understand the better choices to make for healthy eating habits. It has been a great reminder. This programme has been great and I hope to continue maintaining healthy habits and pay more attention to portion sizes and the ingredients used for the cooking. This is a very good programme to encourage healthy habits, get a better understanding of size portions, food types and the weekly follow up is great to keep on track and commit to the programme. Thanks Daniel for your help and encouragement on these past few weeks.”

“It has been a great experience, I’ve learned a lot from it and any questions I had were answered. Also, the weekly check ins were very helpful to stay focused on making changes. I have made a number of changes over the past few weeks including the following: Started taking a Vitamin D supplement, started measuring carbohydrate intake particularly at dinner, potatoes, pasta etc, increased fish intake, now having at least one portion for dinner each week, aiming to get two where possible as recommended. Focused more on increasing carbohydrates when coming up to a race to improve performance. Increased fruit and veg intake particularly at lunch time or adding as a snack. I plan to maintain the changes I’ve made the last few weeks as they were introduced one at a time it was much easier to manage and I feel now I can sustain these. Yes, I feel I have made a lot of positive changes as a result of this experience that I plan to maintain. Excellent programme I would highly recommend to anyone, thanks Daniel for all the great advice.”

“A very positive experience where I got advice from Daniel on food swaps. I learnt about alternatives and to add more fish in my diet, as well as taking a Vitamin D supplement during winter months. I joined the programme to improve eating habits to prepare for the menopause, we had a webinar during the course that I attended which was very informative, and I aim to maintain the tips and habits I have introduced during those 6 weeks.”

“It was really useful to chat with a professional to remind me of food choices and the support in understanding what my intake of protein and carbs should be like. By gaining awareness of the contents of certain foods, I started making more conscious decisions about what I eat. It was good to dedicate the time to learn this.”

“I found the programme very informative.  Olivia was very good and encouraging throughout the 6 weeks. Information was excellent from the programme, very easy to follow, and Olivia answered all questions and was always very encouraging. Thank you.”

The 6-week program was excellent, there was loads of learning and in my case unlearning’s about food. Being able to reintroduce previously perceived “bad foods” such as nuts & avocados. To not being afraid of certain food and to enjoy them in smaller doses! There were some really good tips and tricks around food, mindfulness and general wellbeing and great easy recipes to follow. Olga was such a pleasure to work with, very professional, knowledgeable and most of all realistic in her advice. I thoroughly enjoyed our weekly catch ups.