Category: Nutrition
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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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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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Being good all day then binge eating at night? Try this
This tried-and-tested binge eating hack will transform the way your clients (and yourself) perceive binge foods “I’m really good for most of the day. It’s the evenings where I lose it. I’ll open a packet and it’s like I can’t stop eating until it’s all gone. I try really hard not to keep those foods…
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Perfect is out, good enough is in
If you eat like an influencer, exercise like a pro athlete and have a 20-step skin care routine, you’re making a big mistake. Here’s why. Any decent fitness professional will tell you that holding back their over-eager clientele is essential for the client’s own success. If you rock up to the gym (full of enthusiasm…
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Are eating disorders contagious?
From tics to fainting, strange behaviours can spread through social contagion. Eating disorders are not exempt. How can we combat the spread? In 2011, a cheerleader at a small high school in the small town of Le Roy, New York starting twitching and spasming on and off. A few weeks later, the captain of the…
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Overcoming the fear of weight gain
Many clients struggle with the fear of weight gain if they are not restricting food. Here are some practical steps to overcome this. Many of my clients already know they’re stuck in a disordered eating pattern. Talking it through is helpful for them to pinpoint how the restrict-binge cycle is affecting them, but knowing it…
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3 questions that make your clients question their weight loss goals
Weight loss goals usually aren’t helpful at all. But how can you make your clients realize that? These 3 questions are your new best friend. It happens every day. Your client walks into their initial consultation with you and they say, “I just want to lose weight.” Often it’s a goal they’ve been taught to…
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BMI is broken – and it’s hurting people
BMI is a flawed proxy health measure, but its frequent use can feel out of your control. What can you do to mitigate the harms of BMI? Once upon a time, a woman in her 30s nervously shuffled into her doctor’s office. Her obsession with her weight was at an all-time high and she knew…
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Disordered eating signs no one taught us
Dietitians, nutritionists and health coaches often get zero training on disordered eating, so not knowing the red flags is actually normal When I was studying, I was told that disordered eating was a specialty and if I wanted to learn more about it, I would have to pursue that myself after I graduated. Considering it…