ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mariam Forgan, born in Cape Town South Africa, studied a BSc in Dietetics at the University of the Western Cape and is a Registered Clinical dietitian who has worked at well known hospitals such as Redcross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Tygerberg Academic Hospital and now Kingsbury Life Hospital.
Mariam also decided to study further after being involved as an assistant and trainee in a Life Training and Enlightenment workshop for the last 15 years. She holds a special interest in Life Coaching and is accredited in NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming), EFT (Emotional Release Technique), CBT (Cognative Behaviour Therapy) and Psych K.
For as long as she can remember Mariam has always been interested in 'wellbeing' as a WHOLE. Which included Soul, Body and Mind.
She herself has walked a journey of forgiveness, self love and healing, having had an emotional relationship with food and used to be a former binge eater.
She has assisted many people understand and overcome their own sabotaging relationships with food because of this experience. This has paved much of the way in her journey and her profession.
Working with clients requiring behavior modification and having emotional eating tendencies, Mariam is one of the Tygerberg and Kingsbury Life Bariatric surgery dietitians.
Her office is based in the Kingsbury Medical Suites, Claremont, and she works closely with one of the most brilliant Endocrinologist and Specialist physicians and friend - Dr Jocelyn Anne Hellig,
Pic: On my wedding day...
By working so closely with such a diverse population of patients, and offering support groups for diabetics, emotional eaters, bariatrics and weight loss, she has learnt a lot about the dynamics that effect a persons lifestyle and how dietary habits, belief systems, ones emotional state of mind as well as environmental factors are all interconnected and contribute to a persons overall wellbeing.
This is why she does not refer to herself as a dietitian, but as a lifestyle interventionist for sustainable change.