Tag: health coach
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Intuitive eating won’t work until you fix this first
Dietitian Lucy Cary explains why intuitive eating isn’t something you teach your clients, but the natural end result of healing instead. “Intuitive eating doesn’t work for me. If I listened to my body I’d be eating Tim Tams for every meal!” If you work with clients who have been restricting, binge eating, or yoyo dieting,…
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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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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…
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Do your clients need a dopamine detox?
Quick dopamine fixes of ultra-processed food, social media, and binge watching TV shows can leave clients feeling ‘addicted’. How do we break the cycle? “There’s something wrong with me,” she said, her eyes pleading with me to help her. “I think I must be addicted to food.” She went on to describe eating while working,…
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3 hidden ways diet culture shows up in your practice (and what to do about it)
Diet culture is more weighing clients. Dietitian Lucy Carey reveals the subtle ways diet culture may be lurking in your practice. “Most of the people you’ll see in the clinic will be coming for weight loss,” the tutor told us. We swarmed around him, our new Student Dietitian badges shining with naivety. “We’ll go over…