Richelle Tabelon, RD

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Richelle Tabelon, RD

Registered Dietitian & Nutrition Consultant Richelle is contagiously positive, and passionate about nutrition and healthy living!

She is known for her comprehensive approach that encompasses physical, mental and spiritual well-being. You can count on her for sound professional expertise and practical ideas to make good nutrition easier. You can also count on her to find a way to balance in your favourite fun foods (hers is traditional Ukrainian foods like perogies). Richelle started her nutrition career more than fifteen years ago at the Vancouver Island Health Authority Calgary Registered Dietitian, Richelle Tabelonwhen she worked across weight management, pediatrics, heart health, geriatrics, digestive issues and more. There, she spent several years working at the Diabetes Education Centre providing individual counselling and group sessions in weight management and how to manage healthy blood sugars. While living in BC, she also worked as a health promotion Dietitian at the Victoria Native Friendship Centre. After a move to Edmonton, Richelle worked at the Royal Alexandra Hospital on medical and surgical wards as a clinical dietitian. Finally settling in Calgary, she has been providing a wide variety of nutrition counselling services in preventative health, chronic disease, emotional eating and weight management education. Over her career she has developed skills and a special interest in working collaboratively with psychologists and physicians regarding disordered eating, anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder recovery. Richelle has a trusted ability to encourage her clients to eat more mindfully, intuitively and overall improve their relationship with food and their body. Richelle completed her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition at the University of Saskatchewan and interned with the Vancouver Island Health Authority and Regina Health District. She is registered with the College of Dietitians of Alberta, Dietitians of Canada and the Canadian Obesity Network. Richelle is also a certified Craving Change™ expert specializing in strategies for problematic and emotional eating. Outside of her nutrition career, Richelle has volunteered in West Africa and served in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve for 10 years. As a busy mother of three young boys, Richelle is always active and enjoys the outdoors with her family. In her spare time she loves to run and has completed both half and full marathons.

09/12/2023

🌿Chicken Shawarma bowls from cookbook were a hit with our family tonight! Highly recommend giving Suzy a follow and getting her cookbook for meal inspiration!

07/25/2023

🍋Lemon jalapeño and viola appys!
These are so simple to make they have become an annual treat! I use whipped chive cream cheese on cucumber rounds. (topped with my husband’s home grown hot peppers and edible flowers).

05/19/2023

Pac Choi! Finally harvested from our unheated greenhouse this Spring. The stems and leaves are super tender and tasty! Great to stir fry, steam or add to soups.
This miniature Pac Choi is actually called “Toy Choi” which I grew from seed from .

04/09/2023

✝️Happy Easter!!!
Pandan flavoured iced cupcakes with my first flower to bloom this year - edible “Rose antique” violas.

02/15/2023

Lent starts next week on Ash Wednesday! Here’s a reflection to explore fasting…

“Man does not live by bread alone…” -Matthew 4:4 With Lent quickly approaching, the practice of fasting is an important topic to reflect on. Fasting is an age-old practice for many religions.…

01/14/2023

Great article written by a fellow dietitian…

If you made any New Year’s resolutions about healthy eating this year, have you already abandoned them? You’re not alone if when deciding on making changes, you have bitten off more than you …

08/22/2022

🌸Here are a few of my edible flowers grown this year. There are so many options if you grow your own! (from non-treated seeds and know they are not sprayed)
Do you grow any edible flowers?

07/20/2022

💜We planted kale for the 1st time this year and I’m loving the variety in our greens!
💚What’s your favourite leafy green?

06/04/2022

🌱My first garden lettuce is ready!
This year I’m experimenting with a mini polytunnel - so far it’s protected my lettuce from snow and frost! (I’m hoping for hail protection and will try a later planting of lettuce in the fall.) I think it’s a keeper in our crazy Calgary climate.

04/17/2022

🌼Happy Easter!!!
“Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the JOY of Christ risen.” -St. Teresa of Calcutta
I used some of my pressed edible flowers from last summer to decorate our eggs this year! (They are easily glued on with a sugar/water mixture.)
I hope you all have a wonderful Easter Sunday!

02/24/2022

🍋 I get asked by many clients for new fish meal ideas- how about Salmon cakes?!
I adapted this recipe from allrecipes.com - “Scrumptious Salmon Cakes” and we ate them with lemon and tzatziki. Yum.
What are your favourite ways to eat fish?

01/10/2022

New eBook: Christ-Centered Self-Care🌺 Do you practice self-care?
I find “Self-care” talk often lacks in the spiritual realm. If mentioned at all, prayer or meditation may be listed as one of many ideas. However, if we ask, God can be at the center guiding us with all areas of self-care.
I’ve been inspired to work on this new project this year so I thought I’d share it here as well! Feel free to preview…

Happy New Year! For 2022 I will be sharing a new eBook: Christ-Centered Self-Care, releasing a new chapter and reflection each month for the first half of the year. Here is the introduction to give…

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