Hi, I’m Molly the dietitian. Thank you for visiting my website!
I am a registered dietitian working as a clinical dietitian, primarily outpatient, at a Top 100 Hospital. I have many professional goals that I would like to achieve over the course of my career. My current short-term goal is to become a certified diabetes educator. Becoming a CDE (certified diabetes educator) is required for my job and I am excited for the new challenge and experience it will bring.
I started my road to becoming a dietitian by attending Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL) from 2005-2009. I sadly graduated with no dietetic internship. Within a month of graduating, I was offered a last-minute internship and eagerly accepted! I enrolled in Marywood University’s (Scranton, PA) Distance Dietetic Internship. Rockford Memorial Hospital and Crusader Community Health (Rockford, IL) generously accepted to provide me their sites for my internship. The distance internship was intense but I completed the program in summer of 2010. On August 23, 2010, I drove up to Madison, WI and passed my RD exam! Within the same week, I landed a job in a tiny town in Illinois. It wasn’t my calling. I was there less than 2 months before starting my current job that does suit me.
With this website you’ll get an insight to the work a dietitian does, follow me as I expand my career, the stereotyping/stigmas that I experience due to “RD” being tacked onto my name, learning about the dietitics field, and of coursebeing able to see what the RD eats!
Thanks for finding my blog! I can’t wait to read more about you and your RD job! Only 27 hours left until I will know where my internship will be!
I’m so glad I found your blog!! I love that you are as obsessed with pumpkin and oatmeal as I am
I can’t wait to see what you will post next…happy blogging (and eating)!!
Congrats on your job. Like the blog!
I am a new RD too! My career sounds just like yours…I am working in clinical also! I am enjoying your blog
Congratulations on the job! I’m a dietitian living and working in Australia and I blog at http://onechicchickpea.blogspot.com
Nice to see another dietitian in the blog world! Looking forward to following you
I was raised in Rockford! Nice to find a foodie from back home!
Hey lady I just found your blog and am glad I did! I used to be on the RD track in school but wasn’t sure about it so I am now majoring in PH. I am looking forward to reading more though and finding out if perhaps I would like to get on that track once again
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I love the name of your blog- fabulous! I can’t wait to read more
Best of luck in your endeavors! My blog is http://www.DivaDietitian.com Come visit me there 
I’m so excited that I found your blog! I’m from IL, went to EIU for my undergrad, and am currently doing my dietetic internship in Kentucky. Can’t wait to read more of your posts! Have a good week!
Congrats on landing the internship! It’ll be over before you know it. Take advantage of all of your learning opportunities. Perfect time to ask “dumb questions.”
I just found your blog and am so excited to keep reading! I am a dietetics student at JMU and am applying for internships currently. Your “RD exam” questions will be so helpful as well as all your insight into your work!!
Best of luck during the internship process. The waiting is the hardest part!
Glad to have found your site … Can’t wait to read more!
I just found your blog and love your writing style!! I really enjoy that you post about your job as a dietitian because that’s what I want to be in a few short years
Hi Molly
I am so happy 4 U . I am your classmate. If you still remember me. I was not lucky to accept in last minute internship so ended up doing my masters and internship. Now going to give my RD exam. I was surfing and ending up at your blog….and Your pictures…i was like wow ….you were my classmate…I am so happy that you are now successful dietitian….Hope to see you one day …..i am on a road to become RD now — If you can give me any advise what need to be study i will be very thankful to you
Hey Riddhi! Yes I remember you! I think I stared at the back of your head for 4 years since you always sat up front of each class. Glad you landed an internship+masters program! My two pieces of advice would be to study your weakest subject and know foodservice formulas. As long as you study, you should do great! Let me know how it goes.
I just wanted to drop a note and say thank you for the information you post. I used your post on PES today for an assignment and it was immensely helpful.
I noticed you went to NIU which is also my boyfriend’s alma mater. The internet makes this such a small world
Molly- I stumbled across your website in search of RD’s wearing labcoats in the Dietetic profession. Anyhow, found out we have some things in common. I was actually born in Rockford, IL. Anyhow- I liked your take on keep searching for the right fit, I feel I’m living that scenario right now. I am actually a seasoned Dietitian having been the lead RD at a small community hospital for the last 10 yrs. in the Midwest to quit to move to a warmer climate. Having convinced my family it was the right move I actually hate myself for leaving a well paying RD job where I was my own boss. We all make bad mistakes- The grass isn’t always greener!! ANyway- now I’m doing longterm care as a Consultant for a firm who is now suddenly dictating we wear labcoats. Just note I sit in a room all day charting on residents (very little interactions with anyone). I am not only not use to being dictated to but I’m not use to having no interactions with patients either. I know I am providing a needed service to be in compliance with State regs. and I’m not paid horribly but I just don’t feel my setting dictates a Labcoat to be worn. Am I overexaggerating? I’d like to know other RD’s opinions. I thought Labcoats were old school? I haven’t worn one for 18 years.
How interesting that you were born here! Small world. I usually only wear my lab coat while I do inpatient work/on the floor. When I am at the diabetes center/nutrition center or cardiac rehab, I usually don’t wear my lab coat. My impression of the purpose of a dietitian’s lab coat is for pockets (defintely needed!) and to distinguish ourselves when we’re running around on the patient floors. I would likely be in the same boat as you. I wear the lab coat as necessary only. It comes off the minute I hit my desk. #bummer