What I do not do

I do not name target weights. A number named at the start replaces every other criterion for the rest of the work — even once sleep, digestion and energy have long since improved. Where a weight matters medically, the doctor raises it, not me.

I do not hand out lists of forbidden foods. They work for three weeks and leave behind a guilt that has nothing to do with eating any more.

I do not diagnose and I do not treat illness. Nutrition counselling is not a medical profession in that sense, and where a medical assessment belongs alongside this, I say so in the first conversation — not the fifth.

And I promise no cures. That is not only a stance; German law (the HWG) says so plainly. Anyone promising you otherwise is promising something they are not allowed to promise.