Claire M. Lebrun, MPH

Offers practical advice about calorie-​counting but not a lot of value-​add beyond what you can gather online (i.e. provides handouts on calories associated with foods, handouts on mobile apps to calorie count, handouts on mobile apps to log food journals, etc.)
Biggest gripe was the lack of «bedside manner». As soon as we started talking, she began staring at her computer screen as she typed everything into her MSword document. I’m all for meticulous patient notes but the lack of eye contact and the apparent interest in completing the form over understanding the patient convinced that I’ll be looking elsewhere.

Update to the other reviewer… Claire chose not to take me seriously because I was not a whale (less than 40 lbs. overweight) and treated my concern as overreaction. I saw Claire twice and had already wasted $ 50 (my copay); not worth wasting more while she milked my insurance for a year. Successfully lost 40 lbs. after seeing a Cornerstone Nutrition dietician in less than 6 visits. Much more comprehensive and supportive. I guess if you know absolutely nothing walking into a nutritionist’s office and are grossly obese, why not jack up insurance for others by letting Claire bill you for a year while spouting information available via Google?

i’m not sure what experience other people had, but in the last year and a half, I’ve lost around 150 pounds while seeing Ms. LeBrun.
Re: the other poster’s experience… you see Ms. LeBrun once per month, so four weeks would be one meeting. In that one meeting, yes, the first meeting was nothing but discussing caloric restriction and protein intake. In the next meeting, we added some nutrition support. Next meeting, calcium supplements. Next meeting, we discussed glycemic index, and so on. Every meeting built on the one before.
If you went to physics class, you wouldn’t go to one class and declare the professor a failure because you don’t understand fission. Ms. LeBrun gives you one tool at a time, and yes, the most important tool of all is caloric restriction, so yes, it does come first. But it’s not the full extent of the expertise, and it’s not going to work for everyone standing alone. Everyone is different, obviously. But caloric restriction is also, obviously, the thing to try first, and so she does.
Yes, I’m lucky. But I wouldn’t have been able to do it without Ms. LeBrun. The more I got into watching my diet, the more questions I had. Sugar alcohols? Alternative flours? Citrate vs. carbonate of calcium? Ms. LeBrun answered my questions and made sure that every time I came to a fork in the road, I had enough information to make the choice that’s right for me.