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Why Choose A Registered Dietitian?

No other health profession has the background & expertise to adequately provide medical nutrition therapy.

From a cost benefit perspective, nutrition intervention by a R.D. is much less expensive than hospitalizations that may result from poor & inadequate control & management of some medical conditions.

The R.D. is the only health professional specifically trained to access patients nutritional status and provide nutrition therapy individualized for eating habits, lifestyle, budget nutrient needs required for the patients diagnosis.

Lisa's Promise to You

Education is the key to success.  I will teach you how to improve your labs, decrease your medications, attain a healthy weight & improve your physical fitness levels ONE STEP AT A TIME!

Making changes is a process rather than an event & I will let you change at your own pace.

I promise to give you the personal guidance & attention to help you succeed, using an enthusiastic, yet gentle, approach.

I will help clear up confusion created by the media, inaccurate books, fads and false advertising.

I will help improve the quality of your life by teach you how to take charge of your diabetes & heart disease.

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Abstinent Eating

HEA 1510

Lisa Checking In:

LISA CHECKING IN
MAY 2013

I WILL BE ON VACATION SUNDAY MAY 19 THRU FRIDAY 24TH
TO SPEND SOME TIME IN A CABIN IN THE WOODS/MOUNTAINS IN GATLINBURG WITH MY HUBBY AND FRIENDS (AND MY FUZZ FACED CHILDREN!)
FOR MY OAHOW AND OTHER CLIENTS WHO HAVE SPONSORS, YOU AND YOUR SPONSOR MAKE THE DECISIONS WHILE I AM AWAY. 

   One of my best friends has had a major brain aneurysm and after last rites were performed by the priest she has started to slowly come around.  Continued prayers for Sharon are appreciated!!!
Update on Sharon- prayers are being answered and she is now in an AMERICAN HOUSE in her own “apartment”.  She is off tube feeding, eating well,  and continues to do PT.   She’s talking (for those who know her she could give me a run for my money on talking ability!  Haha)  she’s making sense most of the time and her memory is great.  Her right side is getting stronger and left side still in progress.  It has been  “new normal” for me to not have her around all the time to bounce ideas off and vent to when I want to pull my hair out.    
I will be revamping all my handouts for abstinent eating because I have to legally change some wording on things. If there is something you knew was there before and isn’t not, just email me and I will send it to you.  Everything should all be reposted soon.  J  Bobbie and Dave Hamel of UB associates, my new web people have been phenomenal!

Welcome to my SUMMER 2013 OCC Students.    
 And to my former students…KEEP IN TOUCH! Many have and I really enjoy it.  
 
Hello to my new clients, local and out of state!

I will be adding a new icon to my site just for diabetes.  I have so many handouts I’ve created I’d like to keep them all in one place on my site as I update things.
 
 

Continuous thanks to Julie (RD) my former intern now assistant and Thank you Cassandra (future RD) my EMU goddess for helping me out so much. And Future RD’s Sarah, Andrea, and Allison for their behind the scenes work too.  You all help me keep my sanity!  (and they have way better handwriting than me!)  

 

I also have the link to Michael Prager’s weight release (and other substances) success story chronicled in Fat Boy Thin Man. What an inspiration.  I’ve talked to him on the phone, emailed and am honored to be a resource in his book.   This link is from my Nov 2010 nutrition tip.     
  
I am teaching a nutrition class at OCC (Oakland Community College- Royal Oak campus)
 I am teaching from 9:00 -12:00 and 1:00-4:00 every THURSDAY this semester.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!  Back to my normal schedule there.  So THURSDAYS are for my students and I won’t have as much cell phone or email availability. Thanks for your patience and understanding ahead of time.  J
  It’s a 3 credit required class for all nursing students and allied health fields.  I have a lot of stories and situations I’m able to share with them it is going very well.  I had wanted to teach college for a while now, so it’s a dream come true.  Can’t believe this is my 12th semester already. I hope my students feel the same way J  Thank you for your love notes on the back of the final exams. 

The HEA 1510 SUMMER 2013 ICON on my website is for my students.  I will be posting their study guides and info there.

I did a Podcast interview with Dr Paula M. Scully which is now running on www.ALLtheRAGEradio.com
The other site is www.DreamBoldLiveBold.com

The questionnaire I use for my new clients (members attending oa or oahow, coffeeshop, 12-step type abstinent programs) is under the icon especially for you.  Let me know if you can’t pull it up, l email it to you.   SICK DAY MEAL PLANS ARE AVAILABLE THERE TOO and now COLONOSCOPY PREPARATION PLANS and now TRAVEL TIPS, TOOL KIT and I just added How to count vegetarian packaged foods.
 
Please note that AS AN ORGANIZATION Overeaters Anonymous, Inc does NOT endorse any particular meal plan or medical professional.   I am not affiliated with them.  I am able to write abstinent or 12-step type meal plans for those individuals who CHOOSE to have their own meal plans.

 I’m also looking for recipes from members to post in this section.  If you have good ones, send them on! I try to pick recipes of the month that are safe for most.
My email is: lisa@lisamerrill.com     (note…2 R’s and 2 L’s in merrill)  

Continuous hello’s to all my new Local, Out-Of-State, Canada, Alaska, Korea, Puerto Rico, UK, French, Japan, Australia, Uruguay, Italy, and Germany   OA and OA/HOW members!  I’ve worked with over 2900 of you now!!!!!  (I’ve kinda lost count now)  
I’m enjoying all the accents and learning about your interesting “local” foods.
By the way, I’m in the Detroit Area…and on EASTERN Time Zone.  
Your before and after pictures are inspirations too!!!  Keep em coming!   I have a bunch of new testimonials to post.

 

Note from Aug 08 Nutrition Tip (just go to the archives)
This is a very powerful letter a recovering anorexic wrote to her eating disorder (ED).  It’s beautifully done and painfully honest.  It will make you understand how this terrible disease gets a grip on people and how hard they have to work to kick it in the butt.  I am also posting it as encouragement for others who are struggling with eating disorders. This letter is used with permission but kept anonymous.   JULY 2010 is another letter from someone else, and this Aug 2010 nutrition tip has more helpful links.

TIPS of the month for JANUARY 2013- FEB/MAR are still in the works
RECIPE-  Island Mahi-Mahi kabobs
EXERCISE TIP-  Ideas for exercise to keep it interesting
NUTRITION TIP-  What is this Raspberry Ketone stuff Dr Oz keeps talking about

 

How to access my archived tips:
For each tip of the month, scroll down to the bottom of that page…you’ll see the bold line then the word Nutrition, Exercise or Recipe Archives…Just click on that and the titles of all my topics for that category will show up.  You can then click on the title you’re interested in and my archived tip will come up.   Some months may be missing because I updated topics or redid some handouts and they were re-posted.    For the archives BEFORE June 09 tips scroll to the bottom of the latest tip of the month and there will be PAST ARCHIVE TIPS and you can click on that.

Remember, I’m always looking for ideas for my site!!! 

If you’ve sent me emails and I didn’t respond (I ALWAYS respond), call me/text me and let me know 734-502-8264.

We’re all a work in progress.  Fitness and being healthy is a journey, not just an event.        
                                                                                      J  XOXO  Lisa

 

PS.  Check out my beautiful fuzz faced four legged “boys” in the About Lisa Section.    I finally put up my photos from my Red Wings Stanley Cup playoff years..and some of my gardens from last year in their earlier days.

I finally got the updated “professional” photo thing done.  I hate sitting for photo shoots.  (Yuck!)  Growing the hair out by the way (to donate again)   Children with hair loss – a local charity.    

 

 

LISA CHECKING IN
MARCH 2013

HAPPY ST PATRICKS DAY!!! 
Too cold here in Detroit for my leprechaun husband to wear his kilt but it is all fun nonetheless.   
 
One of my best friends has had a major brain aneurysm and after last rites were performed by the priest she has started to slowly come around.  Continued prayers for Sharon are appreciated!!!
Update on Sharon- prayers are being answered and she is in a fabulous Rehab facility.  She’s talking (for those who know her she could give me a run for my money on talking ability!  Haha)  she’s making sense most of the time and doing 3 hours of PT per day.  Her “bad” side is starting to get some feeling/cramping which is great. Her “good side” is getting strong again.  Eating more and tube feeding hopefully a thing of the past.   It has been  “new normal” for me to not have her around all the time to bounce ideas off and vent to when I want to pull my hair out.    
I will be revamping all my handouts for abstinent eating because I have to legally change some wording on things. If there is something you knew was there before and isn’t not, just email me and I will send it to you.  Everything should all be reposted soon.  J  Bobbie and Dave Hamel of UB associates, my new web people have been phenomenal!

Welcome to my WINTER 2013 OCC Students.    
 And to my former students…KEEP IN TOUCH! Many have and I really enjoy it.  
 
Hello to my new clients, local and out of state!

I will be adding a new icon to my site just for diabetes.  I have so many handouts I’ve created I’d like to keep them all in one place on my site as I update things.
 
 

Continuous thanks to Julie (RD) my former intern now assistant and Thank you Cassandra (future RD) my EMU goddess for helping me out so much. And Future RD’s Sarah, Andrea, and Allison for their behind the scenes work too.  You all help me keep my sanity!  (and they have way better handwriting than me!)  

 

I also have the link to Michael Prager’s weight release (and other substances) success story chronicled in Fat Boy Thin Man. What an inspiration.  I’ve talked to him on the phone, emailed and am honored to be a resource in his book.   This link is from my Nov 2010 nutrition tip.     
  
I am teaching a nutrition class at OCC (Oakland Community College- Royal Oak campus)
 I am teaching from 9:00 -12:00 every WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY this semester.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! So these AM’s is for my students and I won’t have as much cell phone or email availability. Thanks for your patience and understanding ahead of time.  J
  It’s a 3 credit required class for all nursing students and allied health fields.  I have a lot of stories and situations I’m able to share with them it is going very well.  I had wanted to teach college for a while now, so it’s a dream come true.  Can’t believe this is my 11th semester already. I hope my students feel the same way J  Thank you for your love notes on the back of the final exams. 

The HEA 1510 WINTER 2013 ICON on my website is for my students.  I will be posting their study guides and info there.

I did a Podcast interview with Dr Paula M. Scully which is now running on www.ALLtheRAGEradio.com
The other site is www.DreamBoldLiveBold.com

The questionnaire I use for my new clients (members attending oa or oahow, coffeeshop, 12-step type abstinent programs) is under the icon especially for you.  Let me know if you can’t pull it up, l email it to you.   SICK DAY MEAL PLANS ARE AVAILABLE THERE TOO and now COLONOSCOPY PREPARATION PLANS and now TRAVEL TIPS, TOOL KIT and I just added How to count vegetarian packaged foods.
 
Please note that AS AN ORGANIZATION Overeaters Anonymous, Inc does NOT endorse any particular meal plan or medical professional.   I am not affiliated with them.  I am able to write abstinent or 12-step type meal plans for those individuals who CHOOSE to have their own meal plans.

 I’m also looking for recipes from members to post in this section.  If you have good ones, send them on! I try to pick recipes of the month that are safe for most.
My email is: lisa@lisamerrill.com     (note…2 R’s and 2 L’s in merrill)  

Continuous hello’s to all my new Local, Out-Of-State, Canada, Alaska, Korea, Puerto Rico, UK, French, Japan, Australia, Uruguay and Germany   OA and OA/HOW members!  I’ve worked with over 2800 of you now!!!!!  (I’ve kinda lost count now)  
I’m enjoying all the accents and learning about your interesting “local” foods.
By the way, I’m in the Detroit Area…and on EASTERN Time Zone.  
Your before and after pictures are inspirations too!!!  Keep em coming!   I have a bunch of new testimonials to post.

 

Note from Aug 08 Nutrition Tip (just go to the archives)
This is a very powerful letter a recovering anorexic wrote to her eating disorder (ED).  It’s beautifully done and painfully honest.  It will make you understand how this terrible disease gets a grip on people and how hard they have to work to kick it in the butt.  I am also posting it as encouragement for others who are struggling with eating disorders. This letter is used with permission but kept anonymous.   JULY 2010 is another letter from someone else, and this Aug 2010 nutrition tip has more helpful links.

TIPS of the month for JANUARY 2013- FEB/MAR are still in the works
RECIPE-  Island Mahi-Mahi kabobs
EXERCISE TIP-  Ideas for exercise to keep it interesting
NUTRITION TIP-  What is this Raspberry Ketone stuff Dr Oz keeps talking about

 

How to access my archived tips:
For each tip of the month, scroll down to the bottom of that page…you’ll see the bold line then the word Nutrition, Exercise or Recipe Archives…Just click on that and the titles of all my topics for that category will show up.  You can then click on the title you’re interested in and my archived tip will come up.   Some months may be missing because I updated topics or redid some handouts and they were re-posted.    For the archives BEFORE June 09 tips scroll to the bottom of the latest tip of the month and there will be PAST ARCHIVE TIPS and you can click on that.

Remember, I’m always looking for ideas for my site!!! 

If you’ve sent me emails and I didn’t respond (I ALWAYS respond), call me/text me and let me know 734-502-8264.

We’re all a work in progress.  Fitness and being healthy is a journey, not just an event.        
                                                                                      J  XOXO  Lisa

 

PS.  Check out my beautiful fuzz faced four legged “boys” in the About Lisa Section.    I finally put up my photos from my Red Wings Stanley Cup playoff years..and some of my gardens from last year in their earlier days.

I finally got the updated “professional” photo thing done.  I hate sitting for photo shoots.  (Yuck!)  Growing the hair out by the way (to donate again)   Children with hair loss – a local charity.    

 

 

 

 

LISA CHECKING IN
FEBRUARY 2013

I WILL BE UNAVAILALBE on WED FEB 27th and FEB 28th and will return calls and emails on the Friday march 1.
For OA and OAHOW members, you and your sponsors take the reins while I am gone.

One of my best friends has had a major brain aneurysm and after last rites were performed by the priest she has started to slowly come around. Continued prayers for Sharon are appreciated!!! I’m sorry if it’s taken a bit longer to respond to phone calls and emails and this is why. I’ve been at Beaumont ICU a lot.

I will be revamping all my handouts for abstinent eating because I have to legally change some wording on things. If there is something you knew was there before and isn’t not, just email me and I will send it to you. Everything should all be reposted soon.  Bobbie and Dave Hamel of UB associates, my new web people have been phenomenal!

Welcome to my WINTER 2013 OCC Students.
And to my former students…KEEP IN TOUCH! Many have and I really enjoy it.

Hello to my new clients, local and out of state!

I will be adding a new icon to my site just for diabetes. I have so many handouts I’ve created I’d like to keep them all in one place on my site as I update things.

Continuous thanks to Julie (RD) my former intern now assistant and Thank you Cassandra (future RD) my EMU goddess for helping me out so much. And Future RD’s Sarah, Andrea, and Allison for their behind the scenes work too. You all help me keep my sanity! (and they have way better handwriting than me!)

I also have the link to Michael Prager’s weight release (and other substances) success story chronicled in Fat Boy Thin Man. What an inspiration. I’ve talked to him on the phone, emailed and am honored to be a resource in his book. This link is from my Nov 2010 nutrition tip.

I am teaching a nutrition class at OCC (Oakland Community College- Royal Oak campus)
I am teaching from 9:00 -12:00 every WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY this semester. I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! So these AM’s is for my students and I won’t have as much cell phone or email availability. Thanks for your patience and understanding ahead of time. 
It’s a 3 credit required class for all nursing students and allied health fields. I have a lot of stories and situations I’m able to share with them it is going very well. I had wanted to teach college for a while now, so it’s a dream come true. Can’t believe this is my 11th semester already. I hope my students feel the same way  Thank you for your love notes on the back of the final exams.

The HEA 1510 WINTER 2013 ICON on my website is for my students. I will be posting their study guides and info there.

I did a Podcast interview with Dr Paula M. Scully which is now running on www.ALLtheRAGEradio.com
The other site is www.DreamBoldLiveBold.com

The questionnaire I use for my new clients (members attending oa or oahow, coffeeshop, 12-step type abstinent programs) is under the icon especially for you. Let me know if you can’t pull it up, l email it to you. SICK DAY MEAL PLANS ARE AVAILABLE THERE TOO and now COLONOSCOPY PREPARATION PLANS and now TRAVEL TIPS, TOOL KIT and I just added How to count vegetarian packaged foods.

Please note that AS AN ORGANIZATION Overeaters Anonymous, Inc does NOT endorse any particular meal plan or medical professional. I am not affiliated with them. I am able to write abstinent or 12-step type meal plans for those individuals who CHOOSE to have their own meal plans.

I’m also looking for recipes from members to post in this section. If you have good ones, send them on! I try to pick recipes of the month that are safe for most.
My email is: lisa@lisamerrill.com (note…2 R’s and 2 L’s in merrill)

Continuous hello’s to all my new Local, Out-Of-State, Canada, Alaska, Korea, Puerto Rico, UK, French, Japan, Australia, Uruguay and Germany OA and OA/HOW members! I’ve worked with over 2750 of you now!!!!! (I’ve kinda lost count now)
I’m enjoying all the accents and learning about your interesting “local” foods.
By the way, I’m in the Detroit Area…and on EASTERN Time Zone.
Your before and after pictures are inspirations too!!! Keep em coming! I have a bunch of new testimonials to post.

Note from Aug 08 Nutrition Tip (just go to the archives)
This is a very powerful letter a recovering anorexic wrote to her eating disorder (ED). It’s beautifully done and painfully honest. It will make you understand how this terrible disease gets a grip on people and how hard they have to work to kick it in the butt. I am also posting it as encouragement for others who are struggling with eating disorders. This letter is used with permission but kept anonymous. JULY 2010 is another letter from someone else, and this Aug 2010 nutrition tip has more helpful links.

TIPS of the month for JANUARY 2013- FEB are still in the works
RECIPE- Island Mahi-Mahi kabobs
EXERCISE TIP- Ideas for exercise to keep it interesting
NUTRITION TIP- What is this Raspberry Ketone stuff Dr Oz keeps talking about

How to access my archived tips:
For each tip of the month, scroll down to the bottom of that page…you’ll see the bold line then the word Nutrition, Exercise or Recipe Archives…Just click on that and the titles of all my topics for that category will show up. You can then click on the title you’re interested in and my archived tip will come up. Some months may be missing because I updated topics or redid some handouts and they were re-posted. For the archives BEFORE June 09 tips scroll to the bottom of the latest tip of the month and there will be PAST ARCHIVE TIPS and you can click on that.

Remember, I’m always looking for ideas for my site!!!

If you’ve sent me emails and I didn’t respond (I ALWAYS respond), call me/text me and let me know 734-502-8264.

We’re all a work in progress. Fitness and being healthy is a journey, not just an event.
 XOXO Lisa

PS. Check out my beautiful fuzz faced four legged “boys” in the About Lisa Section. I finally put up my photos from my Red Wings Stanley Cup playoff years..and some of my gardens from last year in their earlier days.

I finally got the updated “professional” photo thing done. I hate sitting for photo shoots. (Yuck!) Growing the hair out by the way (to donate again) Children with hair loss – a local charity.