Dietitian Support
for Weight Loss, Sydney
Personalised nutrition plans for perimenopause,
GLP-1 medications and metabolic health.
If you've been eating well but still not seeing the results you expect, you're not imagining it. Weight loss often requires more than healthy eating alone. There are real biological, hormonal, and lifestyle reasons why what worked before may not work now.
At Noi Clinic in Crows Nest, dietitian Caroline Shannon works as part of our multidisciplinary team to help you understand what your body actually needs. She builds a nutrition plan that is practical, evidence-based, and sustainable for the long term.
Available in clinic at Crows Nest, Sydney and via telehealth, Australia-wide. No referral required.
Does this sound familiar? “Weight loss, perimenopause, and why it feels so hard"
Many people we support are health-conscious and motivated, yet weight loss still feels inconsistent, overwhelming, or impossible to maintain. They often tell us:
"I can lose weight, but I just can't maintain it."
"Eating healthily hasn't translated into the weight loss I expected."
"What I used to eat to lose weight just isn't working the same way anymore."
"The advice is so conflicting. I don't know what to eat anymore."
"I struggle with cravings and eating when I'm not even hungry."
"Thinking about food feels all-consuming and exhausting."
These experiences are extremely common and reflect a combination of genetic, biological, hormonal, and behavioural factors, not a lack of effort. What is often missing is a clear explanation of what is actually happening and what matters most with nutrition to focus on right now.
Generic nutrition advice is unlikely to work long-term because it does not take into account these factors that matter most. Noi Clinic Dietitian support is about understanding your specific needs, so we can identify what has changed for your body and build a nutrition plan around it.
Why nutrition for weight loss is more complex than it sounds.
Eating well is very important, but often not enough on its own for weight loss. Weight is determined by energy balance, and energy requirements are constantly changing. Many of those changes are outside your control.
Your energy requirements are influenced by:
• Genetics
• Age and life stage, such as perimenopause
• Hormones and metabolic health
• Muscle mass and body composition
• Activity levels — planned and incidental
• Home and work environment
• Sleep quality and duration
• ADHD and neurodiversity factors
• Medications and medical conditions
• Insulin resistance and blood sugar regulation
• Appetite hormones and food cravings
• Emotional and behavioural eating patterns
You may benefit from dietitian support if you…
Are struggling with your weight and aren't sure what approach is right for you.
Can lose weight, but find maintaining it almost impossible.
Are navigating perimenopause or menopause and feel like your body has changed overnight.
Have metabolic concerns, such as insulin resistance, high cholesterol, elevated blood pressure, or type 2 diabetes.
Are taking or considering a prescription weight-management medication such as a GLP-1 receptor agonist and want to make sure your nutrition is working with it and that you’re losing weight safely.
Are living with ADHD or neurodiversity that affects your eating patterns, impulse control, or consistency.
Are struggling with cravings, emotional eating, or eating when you're not physically hungry.
Are preparing for bariatric surgery or recovering from it and need specialist nutrition support.
Feel overwhelmed by conflicting nutrition advice and don't know what's right for your body.
Have a health condition that affects what you can eat or how your body responds to food.
Our individualised approach
to nutrition for weight loss and
metabolic health.
Our dietitians don’t rely on rigid meal plans, food guilt, or one-size-fits-all advice. We work to understand the bigger picture — your goals, current lifestyle, eating habits, appetite patterns, health history, and the factors influencing your relationship with food over time.
Personalised nutrition plan
Built around your goals, health history, food preferences and lifestyle, not a generic meal plan. It is reviewed and updated regularly as your needs change.
Metabolic & hormonal support
We understand how hormones such as insulin, cortisol, thyroid function, and oestrogen changes may affect your weight, and how what you eat can positively influence them.
Safe, sustainable weight loss
We support fat loss, muscle and bone preservation, and health optimisation, including a healthy relationship with food, not just the number on the scale.
Weight maintenance
Reaching your goal is one thing, but staying there is another. We provide the strategies and ongoing monitoring to support long-term maintenance, not just initial weight loss.
Behaviour-focused eating
Support to understand your eating patterns, including cravings, emotional eating, and non-hungry eating and build consistent habits that genuinely fit your life.
Collaborative, wraparound support
Where needed, your nutrition care is integrated with our GP and psychologist for coordinated support across weight, health, eating behaviours, and emotional wellbeing.
What to expect at your
first dietitian appointment.
Explore our range of services designed to help you move forward with confidence, wherever you're headed next.
Your goals — weight, health, and what matters most to you — We begin by discussing what you actually want to achieve. Weight loss is often part of it, but so is improving health, such as cholesterol, energy, confidence, and understanding what and how to eat, and feeling better in your body. Your goals influence everything.
How your food choices are affecting your results — We explore how your current dietary habits and choices are influencing your goals and what practical, realistic dietary changes can make a meaningful difference. No lectures. No forbidden food lists.
Your full history — not just what you eat — We explore your weight and dieting history, health conditions and medications. We also look at lifestyle factors that influence your eating habits and energy needs, such as activity, stress, sleep, work and family. No judgment, just understanding.
How your body's nutritional needs have changed — As the body moves through life stages such as perimenopause and menopause, energy requirements, and how the body responds to food genuinely shift. We explain what is changing and why, so your plan works for where your body is now.
Understanding what is getting in the way — We identify the real barriers to change, whether it’s time, energy, habits, emotions around food, life stage, or simply confusion about what to focus on. Naming these clearly means we can actually build strategies around them.
Your personalised nutrition plan — Caroline will create a tailored nutrition plan built just for you — your goals, your preferences, your life. Practical, realistic, and updated regularly as things change.
Nutrition and Prescription Weight Management Medication
Prescription weight-management medications, such as GLP-1 receptor agonists, can be an incredibly effective tool, but medication alone is not enough. Without adequate nutrition, you risk losing muscle and bone mass, negatively affecting gut health, missing key nutrients due to reduced appetite, and regaining weight when the weight management medication is stopped. This is where our dietitian makes a critical difference.
Caroline specialises in supporting people taking weight management medications to protect muscle and bone mass, optimise gut health, maintain adequate protein, fibre and micronutrient intake, manage side effects, and build eating habits that optimise the medication's effectiveness that last well beyond it.
If you are taking or considering a prescription weight management medication such as a GLP-1 receptor agonist, dietitian support is especially important. Nutrition and medical care work best together — our dietitian and GP work as a team to make sure both are optimised for you from the start.
Bariatric Surgery Nutrition.
Thinking about surgery or have already had it? Nutrition before and after bariatric surgery is critical for your outcomes, recovery, and long-term success. Caroline provides tailored support at every stage.
Pre-surgery preparation
Optimising nutrition and body composition before surgery to improve outcomes and recovery
Post-surgery support
Texture progression, protein and fibre targets, supplement management, and preventing deficiencies long-term
Long-term weight maintenance
Sustaining results and preventing weight regain — especially important through perimenopause and other life changes
Nutrient monitoring & supplementation advice
Lifelong nutrient monitoring and individualised supplementation are recommended following bariatric surgery. Caroline provides personalised advice to help prevent deficiencies that can be serious and permanent if left unmanaged
Our Areas of
Dietitian Support
Caroline has specialist experience supporting patients with the conditions commonly associated with weight management challenges:
Women’s health
Perimenopause and menopause weight changes
Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome - previously known as PCOS
Weight management for fertility and preconception
Insulin resistance
Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes
Metabolic syndrome
Cardiovascular disease and high cholesterol
Fatty liver disease (MASLD)
High blood pressure
Hypothyroidism
ADHD and neurodiversity-related eating patterns
Disordered eating and eating disorders, such as binge eating
Sleep apnoea
Weight-related joint pain
Individualised vitamin and mineral supplementation
Ongoing Nutrition Support
Nutritional needs change significantly across life stages. An ongoing relationship with your dietitian that adapts as your body, lifestyle and health needs change, such as through pregnancy, perimenopause, medication adjustments or life after bariatric surgery, is recommended to adjust dietary requirements accordingly.
Review appointments with Caroline are an opportunity to adjust your plan, keep you accountable and motivated. With a focus on building consistent habits and adapting strategies as your appetite, life stage, and health needs evolve.
Nutrition and Weight Maintenance
Reaching your “goal weight” is one thing, but staying there is another. Most nutrition programs focus entirely on weight loss and stop there. Many people reach a weight plateau, or weight maintenance by default, without a clear understanding of nutrition at this point. At Noi Clinic, long-term weight maintenance is a central focus of Caroline's work from the very beginning.
Weight maintenance is a central focus, not an afterthought.
Coordinated care across the whole team.
Your nutrition care does not happen in isolation. At Noi Clinic, Caroline works as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary team, meaning your dietitian, doctor, psychologist, and surgeon work from the same picture of your health, not in separate silos.
This is particularly important when you are taking weight management medication, preparing for or recovering from bariatric surgery, or navigating complex eating behaviours that benefit from both nutritional and psychological support.
With consistent dietitian support, our patients commonly notice over time.
With the right understanding and nutrition support, patients often experience:
Sustainable weight loss and improved weight stability
Greater clarity about what to eat and why
Reduced confusion about conflicting nutrition advice
Improved metabolic health — cholesterol, blood pressure, glucose, and insulin sensitivity
Reduced appetite, cravings and emotional eating
Improved energy and day-to-day functioning
A healthier, less complicated relationship with food
More confidence in maintaining weight long term
Individual results vary. Nutrition and weight management outcomes depend on a range of medical, behavioural and lifestyle factors. Realistic expectations will be discussed with you at your initial consultation.
Find out exactly what your body needs, and why what you've tried before hasn't worked.
Book an initial dietitian consultation with Caroline Shannon and receive evidence-based dietary support tailored to your body, lifestyle, health needs and long-term goals.
No referral required. Medicare rebates may apply with relevant Medicare plans. Telehealth available Australia-wide.
FAQs
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Our dietitian has over 20 years of experience in weight management and a clear understanding of what is required for long-term success. Caroline works as part of our medical weight management team, alongside a GP and psychologist, which means your nutrition care can be integrated with your medical and psychological care when needed. This allows for a level of coordination and personalisation that is difficult to achieve in a standalone nutrition setting.
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Most people who have seen dietitians previously were given advice that didn't account for the complexity of their situation — hormonal changes, appetite dysregulation, emotional eating, medication effects, or the specific challenges of their life stage, including a focus on weight maintenance. Our approach starts with understanding why previous attempts have not worked, and builds from there.
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Our dietitian has specialist experience in women's health such as perimenopause and menopause weight gain, weight management for fertility and preconception, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and prediabetes, PMOS (Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome), weight management for fertility and preconception, ADHD and neurodiversity-related eating, disordered eating and binge eating, cardiovascular disease, fatty liver disease (MASLD), hypothyroidism, and nutrition support before and after bariatric surgery.
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Yes. Caroline provides practical, compassionate support for emotional eating, cravings, non-hungry eating, and the habits and patterns that make consistency feel difficult. For patients who would benefit from deeper psychological support alongside nutrition, Caroline works closely with our psychology team
