I think one of the toughest things for me to deal with as I learn more about this profession is that the average person doesn't want my help. And even the people who ask for help often aren't accepting of what you tell them because its usually not quick or easy. I know I can't just start going around telling everyone what they're consuming is slowly killing them and that their diet is probably the root of most or all of their current or future health issues. Unsolicited information-giving like that will get you an unfavorable label really fast.
Which brings me to topic 2...the fact that most of this advice is totally unwanted by most of my coworkers. After all, we get discounts on all these inflammation-inducing artery-hardening gut-scrambling products they sell here. When I see someone I work with feeling like crap but buying a Diet Coke instead of the giant water they clearly need, I want to help them! But I'm going to have to live my life now constantly reminding myself how difficult the food industry has made it for people to even be able to have the realizations they need to have about nutrition (although the soda for water swap should be fairly obvious no matter who you are...) and remembering that I can't force a healthy life on someone no matter how much I care about them or the ridiculous amounts of good I can see a healthy paleo-inspired diet would do them.
Maybe with age and experience you develop a better handle on how to get through to people who desperately need your input but won't take it? I'm so exhausted by the thought of this battle already, but maybe I just don't have all the right armor yet.
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