Author: eattypelive
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You can’t out-meditate exhaustion
And other things we forget as health professionals… Here’s a hard truth we don’t talk about enough. We can prescribe the perfect mindfulness routine, breath-work sequence, journaling prompts, grounding exercises, or visualization practice… but if our client is running on four hours of sleep and two coffees for breakfast, none of it is going to…
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10 unhinged ways to shut down diet talk these holidays (health professional edition)
This year we’re taking no prisoners If you’re a health professional who spends all year helping clients to break free of their restrictive eating cycles, challenge their food rules, and stop demonizing what’s on their plate, the last thing you want to do is sit through calorie commentary over Christmas ham. And yet – every…
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Letting go of food restriction is like leaving a toxic friendship
A must-read for health professionals supporting restrictive eaters You don’t need to have gone through the same disordered eating issues your clients have in order to help them. But it can be difficult to understand how they’re feeling, so you can easily get frustrated when their progress stalls or they push back against your advice……
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Why your clients aren’t ready for intuitive eating (and what to do instead)
Years of dieting have taught your clients to ignore their body – so how can they eat intuitively? They need a stepped approach… When I first learned about intuitive eating, I thought it was the answer to my prayers. I had been trying to figure out how to walk the line between being healthy and…
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When the body is ready for weight loss… but the mind isn’t
Rapid weight loss looks appealing, but it comes at a dramatic cost They all want it: weight loss. And when dieting hasn’t worked and there are advertisements for weight loss medications on the back of every bus, their social media feeds are saturated with weight loss transformations, and every relative seems to casually mention that…
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Why “Everything in moderation” is the worst nutrition advice you can give
It seems logical and sound, but telling clients to have everything in moderation may actually be the reason they are not making progress Most clients have heard it before and I’m betting you’ve said it (I’ve certainly said it in the past): “Everything in moderation.” It sounds so reasonable. It has this ring of wisdom…
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Binge eating advice that does NOT work
Just because this advice is oft repeated, does not mean it works! These are the most common binge eating mistakes I see in my work Binge eating is becoming more recognized in healthcare, which is great. But binge eating is incredibly misunderstood and most health professionals, even dietitians, don’t get any training on how to…
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If eating breakfast makes them hungrier… it’s a red flag
If your clients say they don’t eat breakfast because it makes them hungrier, this signals a much deeper problem with disordered eating “I never have breakfast. I haven’t had breakfast for years,” says basically every nutrition client you’ve ever seen, right? So you educate them on the importance of breakfast: steadier blood sugar levels, more…
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The video that got me put in Instagram jail
What do you think? Was I out of line with this take on eating disorders? It was going viral, of course. Raking in hundreds of thousands of views in a matter of days. Every time I opened the Instagram app on my phone, I was flooded with hundreds of notifications of comments, likes, and shares.…
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How can food help with trauma?
Eating issues can arise after trauma… but have you ever considered how food might be able to help you heal? I work with a lot of clients who have been through deeply traumatic experiences that I can scarcely imagine. And that trauma manifests in a variety of ways, from headaches and sore stomachs to trouble…