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Nutrition & Dietetics vocabulary · Counseling Clients

Stick to

Meaning in nutrition & dietetics, with examples

phrasal verbCore term

In nutrition & dietetics, stick to means: To continue following a plan, diet, rule or decision without stopping or changing it, even when it becomes difficult.

In Turkish: uymak, sadık kalmak, sürdürmek

How it is used

The everyday, spoken way to talk about adherence. Clients say 'I can't stick to diets' or 'I stuck to the plan for two weeks'. Dietitians ask what would make a plan 'easier to stick to'. The past form is 'stuck to'.

Example sentences

  1. What would make this plan easier for you to stick to during the work week?

  2. Strict diets are hard to stick to, so we focus on small changes.

Common collocations

  • stick to a plan
  • stick to a diet
  • easy to stick to
  • stick with it
  • adherenceThe degree to which a person actually follows an agreed treatment, diet or plan over time, such as eating according to a meal plan or taking supplements as prescribed.
  • meal planA written plan that shows what, when and how much a person will eat over a day or a week, usually prepared to meet specific health or energy needs.
  • behavior changeThe process of changing habits and actions, such as how a person shops, cooks or eats, in a way that lasts over time. In nutrition it is often the main goal of counseling.
  • eating habitsThe usual ways a person eats: what, when, where, how much and how fast they eat, together with the routines and feelings connected with food.

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