Our Founder - Bill Coote

Bill Coote is an Australian dietitian with over 30 years experience.  Bill’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Science majoring in Biochemistry & Physiology, a Master of Science in Food Technology and a Graduate Diploma in Nutrition & Dietetics.

From 1971 through until 1976 Bill worked in a variety of Sydney hospitals including Prince Henry (Little Bay) and the Royal Hospital for Women.  In 1976 he moved to Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide as Chief Dietitian of the newly-opened hospital.  In 1979 he returned to Sydney and took up a position as Product Specialist, Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, with Baxter-Traveno.l  In 1985 he established his private dietetic practice which he still runs today.

Following his specialised experience in parenteral and enteral nutrition, Bill developed the formulation for the Dietitians Choice Formulated Meal Replacement in 1985.  Since then he has helped thousands of Australians reach and maintain their healthy weight goals by offering individually tailored weight loss plans and delicious formulated meal replacements  designed to help them stick with their weight loss plan over the long term.

Inspired by the lure of a healthier and more    balanced lifestyle Bill moved from Sydney, with his wife Lyndal (also a qualified Dietitian), to the mid-north coast in 1989. He was struck by the limited health and nutrition resources available beyond the major cities and, in response, he has built a truly modern Dietetics practice - the majority of his clients access his expertise remotely by purchasing their health and nutrition products online and contacting him by phone or email for advice and coaching.

For Bill the motivation behind the launch of Dietitians Own is a desire to counteract the prevalence of amateur and obscurely trained diet, health and nutrition advisors by promoting Dietitians as the most trustworthy source of health and nutrition advice.