Training
Nutrition and dietary counselling
Dietary counselling forms the base of every session, whether the question is a stubborn digestive complaint or a slower shift in how a household cooks on weekday evenings.
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About the practice
About the practice behind Healthy Lifestyle Energy Boost
A small, founder-led nutrition practice working online with adults across Slovenia — in English and Slovenian, with an emphasis on habits that hold up over years rather than weeks.
The practice in short
This is a small, founder-led nutrition practice
Consultations are delivered online to adults across Slovenia, in English and Slovenian, with an emphasis on habits that hold up over years rather than weeks. The sections below cover who runs it, the professional background behind the work, and how guidance is put together.
If you are looking for a certified nutritionist in Slovenia who will read your food diary before suggesting anything, that is the whole point of this practice. Every plan starts with what you actually eat on an ordinary Tuesday — work lunches, family dinners, the biscuits at four o'clock — and works forward from there through the current prehranske smernice and your own medical context.
Below the introduction you will find the professional background, what the practice covers and what it explicitly does not, how sessions run across two languages, and how pricing is settled before you commit to anything.
Who runs the practice
Healthy Lifestyle Energy Boost is run by a certified nutritionist working remotely with clients across the country. The practice exists because too much nutrition advice in Slovenia arrives as a photocopied diet sheet, disconnected from what the person actually eats, works, and can afford.
The working model is deliberately small. Fewer clients, longer relationships, more attention per plan. You speak to the same person at the first session and at the six-month review, which matters more than it sounds: a plan that gets handed between practitioners between appointments loses the thread of why each recommendation was chosen.
That also means the practice is not for everyone. If you want a menu printed for the next thirty days and a phone number to call when you get bored of it, this is not the right shape of service. If you want a structured conversation about how you actually eat, week after week, and someone to review the plan against reality rather than against a textbook, that is what happens here.
Professional background
The training behind the consultations is in nutrition and dietary counselling, with continuing work on digestive health, metabolic conditions, and behaviour change. That continuing work is not a credential roll call — it is reading the current research in areas that come up in appointments, and updating plans when the guidance shifts.
Alongside the formal training sits practical experience with the questions people actually bring. What to eat for breakfast when nothing appeals in the morning. How to read a food label in a Slovenian supermarket without standing in the aisle for ten minutes. How to handle a family dinner when you are the only one changing what is on your plate. Those questions are not soft — they are where most nutrition plans succeed or quietly fall apart.
We do not claim clinical authority that belongs to doctors. Where a case needs a physician, a gastroenterologist, or a registered dietitian working in a hospital, we say so plainly and, where you ask, help you frame the question to bring to that appointment. A nutrition consultation is not a substitute for a diagnosis, and it is not presented as one.
Focus areas
Digestion, metabolic health, behaviour
Continuing work sits in three overlapping areas: digestive comfort, metabolic markers like cholesterol and blood sugar, and the behaviour change that decides whether a plan lasts past the second week.
Everyday questions
The practical side of eating
Breakfast when nothing appeals, a supermarket label read in ten seconds, a family dinner you did not choose the menu for. Practical experience with those moments is part of the job.
How guidance is put together
A plan that could be handed to any client unchanged is not a plan
Each plan starts from your intake form, your food diary, and your own description of the problem. From there we work through the current guidelines, your medical context, and the practical limits of your week.
The order matters
Guidelines come after the assessment, not before it, because the same recommendation lands differently on someone with IBS and someone training for a half marathon. A dietetik can recite a reference list; the harder work is deciding which of those references applies to the person sitting in front of you at nine in the evening after a long working day.
Every plan goes through four stages, in this order. Nothing after step two happens until step one is actually done.
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Assessment first: what you actually eat across a normal week, how you feel after meals, and what the food diary shows that you did not expect.
Intake
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Medical context: your diagnoses, medications, recent blood work, and anything your doctor has flagged. This shapes which guidelines apply and which do not.
Context
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Plan: built around your actual week — the working lunches, the dinners you do not control, the evenings you cook alone.
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Follow-up: a review point where the plan meets reality and gets adjusted, rather than abandoned quietly at week three.
ReviewScope
What the practice covers, and what it does not
Typical work covers digestive comfort, food intolerances, weight management, blood sugar and cholesterol support, and building healthier eating routines. Clients with IBS, GERD, high triglycerides, or a diabetes diagnosis are common — as are clients with none of those and a simple wish to eat better than they currently do.
We do not sell supplements as the core of treatment, run detox programmes, or promise a fixed number of kilograms by a fixed date. Where a supplement question comes up, it is discussed on its merits and referred back to your doctor where relevant.
Inside the scope
- Digestive comfort and food intolerances
- Blood sugar and cholesterol support
- Weight management over months, not weekends
- Everyday eating routines that survive a working week
- Clients with IBS, GERD, high triglycerides, or a diabetes diagnosis
Outside the scope
- Supplements sold as the core of treatment
- Detox programmes
- A promised number of kilograms by a fixed date
- Clinical diagnoses, prescriptions, or prescription adjustments
- Replacing your doctor, gastroenterologist, or hospital dietitian
Nutrition consultations are not a medical treatment, and nothing here is intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any condition. Speak to your doctor about your medical care.
Working in English and Slovenian
Sessions run in either language, and written materials follow your choice. That matters for Slovenians who work in international companies and read health information mostly in English, and equally for people who want to discuss personal health in their first language — the one they actually think in when something is bothering them.
Clients join from Ljubljana, Bled, Maribor, Koper, Celje, and smaller towns. Some are Slovenians living abroad who want nutrition advice they can trust in a familiar language. The timezone is set for Central European Time, so evening appointments after work are the usual slot.
Before you book
What a client brings, and what we bring
You bring your history, your meals, your constraints, and your honesty about what you will and will not do. We bring structure, a plan that fits those answers, and a review process that catches problems before they become abandoned plans.
The most useful thing you can do before a first session is write down what a normal Tuesday looks like. Not an idealised version. The real one, including the biscuits. That page does more work for your first appointment than any questionnaire we could send you.
Book an initial consultationYou bring
Your normal week, honestly
What you eat on an ordinary Tuesday, what you skip, what you would fight to keep. Constraints too: budget, cooking skill, family, shift work, anything that decides whether a plan survives contact with real life.
We bring
Structure and a review point
A plan built from your answers, not a template — and a scheduled review where the plan is measured against what actually happened. Adjustments happen there, in conversation, rather than quietly in your head.
Fees, packages, and how pricing is structured
Pricing is quoted per session and per package, confirmed before you commit to anything. The free intro call exists partly so that cost is settled before the first paid appointment. There is no subscription and no automatic renewal, which means nothing is charged because a month went by.
Payment is arranged by invoice or bank transfer before the session. No card details are taken on this website.
- Intro call
- Free, before anything else
- A short conversation to check that the practice fits what you are looking for, and to settle the fee structure before any appointment is booked.
- Single session
- Quoted before you commit
- A one-off consultation for a focused question: a digestive complaint, a label-reading habit, a specific dietary change you want done properly.
- Package
- First consult plus reviews
- The usual route for longer work: an initial consult, a written plan, and follow-up appointments at agreed intervals, including the six-month review.
- Renewals
- Nothing automatic
- No subscription. When a package ends, continuing is a new decision you make, not a charge that arrives on its own.
Questions about cost, invoices, or scheduling are welcome on the contact page before you decide anything.
How the practice relates to the wider Slovenian nutrition field
Slovenia has a compact but serious nutrition sector. Research and public education sit with institutions such as NUTRIS, the Inštitut za nutricionistiko in Ljubljana, which publishes institutional information rather than consumer coaching. Clinical outpatient work happens through services like DC Bled Nutrition Consulting, which explicitly handles diabetes, IBD, cholesterol, GERD, allergies, intolerances, and IBS.
Private practice sits alongside those. Practitioners like Ajda Strnad of Nutrimentum in Ljubljana, or Lana's Nutrition with its 1:1 online coaching in several languages, reflect how much of the market now works remotely. Healthy Lifestyle Energy Boost belongs to that same remote-first group, focused on long-term habits and sustainable changes rather than short diet cycles.
Where does the practice sit inside that? Somewhere between public information and hospital care: not the institution that publishes guidance, and not the clinic that manages a diagnosed condition. The gap that is left belongs to people who have a food diary, a set of medical results, and a wish to eat better — and who need someone to read both against your actual week.
Public institutions
Inštitut za nutricionistiko in Ljubljana and similar bodies publish research and consumer guidance. They are the reference source, and they do not coach individual clients.
Clinical outpatient services
DC Bled Nutrition Consulting and comparable services manage diagnosed conditions directly, alongside a treating physician. That is a different job from habit building.
Remote private practice
Remote-first practices, including this one, work with adults on eating habits over months. Suited to people who already have a doctor and want the nutrition side handled properly.
A note on how we talk about results
Nutrition works, but not on a schedule you can print on a poster. Digestion often settles within weeks of removing a genuine trigger. Weight and body composition move over months. Cholesterol and blood sugar respond to sustained change measured in quarters, not weekends.
We will tell you what usually happens and over what rough timeframe, based on your situation. We will not tell you it is guaranteed, because it is not, and you would be right not to believe anyone who says otherwise.
If a stage of the plan is not doing what we expected, that is information. We look at it together at the next review and change the plan — not the standard you are being held to.
Where to go from here
Three routes, depending on whether you want the process explained first, the questions answered, or an appointment on the calendar.
See how the consultation works
The intake form, the first session, the written plan, and the review points — walked through in order, so you know what you are signing up to.
Read the walkthroughRead the FAQ
Cost, session length, what happens if you have a diagnosis already, what the practice does not cover, and how the two languages work in practice.
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Send a short note about what you would like to work on, and you will hear back with the next available appointment and the fee settled before you commit.
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Practice
Healthy Lifestyle Energy Boost
Address
Tavčarjeva ulica 12, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia
Hours
Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Contact
[email protected] · +386 4 201 6450