The Holistic Dietitian UK

24/11/2025

Monday night thoughts 💭

How many times haven't we heard someone saying 'Are you suppose to eat that? " or" As a Dietitian, you are not supposed to eat ice cream. ". I have been told this once... 😅

I think food is more than just keeping us alive. Food is fuel indeed, it's something we need and want to have daily, but we often take it for granted. Not everyone is able to put food on the table, let's just remember that.

I am a registered Dietitian who believes that food should be enjoyed in all shapes, colours, flavours, tastes. I get it, things might be a little bit different at times when it comes to an athlete, or a bodybuilder, and they are other examples out there too. Someone who wants to keep their diabetes under control or get into remission, for example, might need to rethink their dietary intake, sugar and saturated fats, salt and other aspects. But food can still be cooked in a way that it's enjoyable, tasty, exciting, and brings us together.

Plates won't always look as per National Guidelines, but we can do our best to be as close as possible to them, for most days. We can try having more fruits and vegetables, eat more fish, cut down on salt, stay hydrated, cut on added sugar, be mindful about portion sizes.

Other days... Well, we can enjoy our friend's birthday, our mum traditional recipe, or friend's dinner party.

23/11/2025

Prepping meals was fun today 😇

In about 1.5 hours I managed to create some nourishing meals for the next couple of days, tried to use as much as I could from all the ingredients and play around recipes. It would have been even faster if my Spotify playing wouldn't have given me reasons to dance but hey, it was good enough 😁

In the pictures below you can see :

📍 Roasted apples with cinnamon fora bit of warmth into my breakfasts
📍 Salmon and rice, with extra broccoli and kimchi to nourish the gut microbiome
📍 Chicken noodles in red Thai sauce + Asian frozen vegetables
📍Mixed vegetable soup. Will add croutons too
📍Leftover chicken with leftover vegetables

What will you cook for the week ahead? 😊

Hope this will give you a but of inspiration, I know it can be stressful sometimes to prepare meals. As Romanians would say 'Noi ce mai mâncăm astăzi? "

22/11/2025

Despre fibre 🥝

Veți vedea ca postările mele vor fi bilingve, în general 😅. Unele în limba engleză, altele în limba română, dar sper eu informative și pentru toată lumea interesată de diverse patologii și sfaturi nutriționale.

Am ales să vorbesc despre fibre deoarece deseori am fost întrebată de familie, prieteni sau alte persoane care mi-au scris în online de ce toată lumea e interesată de fibre, ce sunt, câte avem nevoie și în ce alimente le găsim. Unele persoane au fost sfătuite sa mănânce mai puține fibre, mai ales în urma unor operații la colon sau în primele săptămâni după formarea de stoma.

Bineînțeles, aceste imagini descriu foarte succint și sper eu pe înțelesul tuturor câteva informații de bază în ceea ce privește fibrele alimentare.

Dacă aveți întrebări, va stau la dispoziție!
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18/11/2025

Photo dump ✨

I have been quite busy recently, juggling a busy full time job and trying to find balance in my personal life. Flue season it's also here and it hasn't left me alone neither!

But despite all the troubles, I enjoy my current job as UGI Specialist Dietitian: lots of learning, decisions making, problem solving and time management, cups of teas, coffee, therapy dog, biscuits, fruits and vegetables.

Also I have been lucky enough to travel a bit recently, see new places, eat good food and get inspired! I think creativity plays such an important role, opens up the mind and gets us ready to receive the new into our life.

What do you think about being creative?

P.S: In line with recent nonsense seen: when the body says no you better listen, burnt out is real, no matter who you are.

#ᴘʜᴏᴛᴏᴅᴜᴍᴘ

20/09/2025

🌱 Life update:

But I think what I really want to talk about it it's Liverpool... My Liverpool dream team ❤️

When I left London, I wasn't sure how my journey is going to be, how far I'll go. I was excited for the new experiences, but also reserved. Now I know it's been one of the best decisions of my life.

As a Surgical Dietitian, I have been covering a complex caseload of surgical and colorectal inpatients referred for nutrition support pre and post-surgeries. Throughout my dietetic career, I have developed valuable skills such as active listening, critical thinking, MDT work, organisational and analytical skills, confidence in managing complex patients and working well under pressure, in depth knowledge in different medical conditions.

But I think I am the most grateful for this experience as I met the warmest people in Liverpool who made me valuable every day. My colleagues were everything I could have asked for: very knowledgeable, helpful, paying attention to each other's needs (professional and personal), caring and empowering. I was genuinely happy to go to work every day and to make a difference. I have left Liverpool due to career opportunities, but now I am happy to meet my friends outside work, discuss life updates and be there for each other, in good and bad. ❤️

✨Cheers to the new chapter: UGI Specialist Registered Dietitian, Greater Manchester

04/06/2024

I cannot believe it's been over a year since I started working as an Acute Dietitian. ✨

Along the way I've had the pleasure of meeting some incredible people who have encouraged me, lifted me up when I needed it , and offered me new perspectives. They have shown me that effective communication, time management, problem solving skills, using clinical judgement, and working independently but also together for a common goal are fundamentally important.

During my day to day practice as a Dietitian, I support inpatients and outpatients by delivering the best care possible. I couldn't be more fortunate for choosing this career, and I look forward to new challenges in the upcoming weeks from now.

Together with my colleagues we created this amazing board to explain why it's important to refer patients to Dietitians.

Proud to be a Dietitian!

Happy Dietitian's week! 🎊🎉👏

20/03/2024

📝 Webinar gratuit adresat studenților la dietetică, proaspăt absolvenți sau dieteticieni cu experienta.

📍Topic: 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚̆𝐫𝐢 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐚̆𝐫𝐢 𝐝𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫, cu RD Iustin Bilibou

21 Martie 2024, Ora 7 PM

Pentru detalii, vizitati Societatea de Științe în Nutriție .

𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐢𝐭 pentru studenți la dietetică, proaspăt absolvenți, dieteticieni la început de drum sau practicieni experimentați. 💡

📍Topic: 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚̆𝐫𝐢 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐚̆𝐫𝐢 𝐝𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫, cu RD Iustin Bilibou (Cygnet Healthcare & Behavioural, Northwich, UK)

Când: 21 Martie 2024, Ora 7 PM

Unde: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88495427460?pwd=iRaJTLBaiUX3r8iQIPi4Ui7FXVbMYX.1

Meeting ID: 884 9542 7460
Passcode: 772009

Acest webinar este coordonat de 𝐆𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐮𝐥 𝐝𝐞 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐫𝐮 “𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭̦𝐢“, din cadrul SSN. 🎓

Vă așteptăm live alături de noi!

29/10/2023

📚 CPDs in Dietetics: who, why, when

As a Dietitian, I found CPDs extremely helpful as this is the only way I can be up to date to the latest nutrition and dietetics scientific based research. Also, as part of the HCPC standars of proficiency it is our legal responsibility to update skills and competencies and provide the highest standards of care for the patients.

Who and why: All dietitians/dietetic assistants will benefit from regular CPDs. It's a good way to learn something new, to gain professional and interpersonal skills, to revise something you weren't so sure about it or to connect with other Dietitians from your area of expertise, share your knowledge and learn from other's experience.

When: as an acute Dietitian I found it useful to register myself to specific CPDs which help me improve clinical practice. For example, enteral nutrition is something I apply daily when needed-principles, tolerance issues and complexities, route of feeding, when, for who. I found this study day useful as it made me feel more confident in making decisions and think about enteral nutrition earlier. Also, if you want to get your answers around how to design a feeding regimen, what to consider, how to monitoring EN complications and drug nutrient interactions this is the best way to learn.

There are lots of CPDs out there: free (Mynutriweb,Feed companies-Abbott Nutrition, Nutricia, Pepsico), for a fee, although if you work for a NHS Trust and it's applicable for your role most likely you will get funding (BDA, ESPEN, BAPEN).

Hope you'll find this useful 😊

Seen an interesting study day? Register yourself as they get booked very quickly.

Yours, Ioana RD

11/10/2023

🎉Mental health awareness

I went to the gym today and I saw all of these notes on the mirror-such a powerful message I had to share it with you.

Remember-you are not alone, we are not alone!

Thank you for creating this and for reminding us that health needs to be seen as a whole and going to the gym is more than looking good!

With our awareness awakened, anything is possible!

22/09/2023

CPD vibes ✌️

One of my interests in dietetics is mental health therefore this study day has offered me a more in depth understanding of how to help and do the extra mile for clients with mental health, learning disabilities or eating disorders.

Thank you .

P.S. Very excited for the next BDA study day happening today 😱

19/09/2023

✨Pe 17 septembrie a fost sarbatorita Ziua Mondială a Siguranței Pacienților ca recunoaștere a rolului crucial pe care pacienții si familiile lor îl joacă in fiecare zi.
S-a dovedit (si e ceva ce observ zilnic) ca atunci când pacienții sunt tratați ca parteneri în îngrijirea lor, se obțin câștiguri semnificative în ceea ce privește siguranța si satisfacția lor.

Catava dintre obiectivele Zilei Mondiale a Siguranței Pacienților 2023 au fost urmatoarele:
• Creșterea gradului de conștientizare la nivel mondial cu privire la necesitatea implicării active a pacienților, a familiilor și îngrijitorilor acestora în toate mediile și la toate nivelurile asistenței medicale pentru a îmbunătăți siguranța lor.
• Implicarea liderilor din domeniul sănătății, a organizațiilor, a societății civile și a altor părți interesate în eforturile de implicare a pacienților și a familiilor în politicile și practicile pentru asistență medicală sigură.
• Împuternicirea pacienților și a familiilor să se implice activ în propria îngrijire
• Colaborarea pentru a face asistența medicală mai sigură

📝 Ca si dietetician simt nevoia sa impartasesc aceste lucruri cu voi, tocmai pentru a semnala cat de importanta este implicarea voastra in propria ingrijire, stare de bine, lupta impotriva comorbiditatilor si prevenirea acestora.

26/08/2023

This week has been fun 😁

Clinical caseload was busy but managed to get everything done on time and ran to the gym after, although I took it slowly with the training. I believe we all need those kind of days when all you want to do is take a step back, relax and reflect, focus on your mental health and wellbeing. I kind of had that week. And I also cooked a leek and speck quiche to die for 😭

Hope you'll all have a great long weekend 💫