This thesis is about nutritional counseling. People who want to lose weight, can seek
help from a dietician. The effect of dietary counseling interventions are not always satisfactory, to
which the desired weight loss fails to appear. It is possible that the way we dieticians do our work,
may not always include the obese clients perceptions? Mikhail Bahktin worked with a complex
dialogue concept for developing possible understandings of human utterances. Perhaps his
dialogical approach used in conjunction with dietary advice, could contribute to a new design of
how we do nutritional counseling?