Tag: Lifestyle Medicine
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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…
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Finding joy in movement: exercising beyond weight loss
Exercise is often seen as a tool for weight loss, but Dietitian Lucy Carey argues that this mindset often backfires. “Do you actually want to go to the gym?” I asked her. She was looking at the floor and I had a feeling I already knew the answer. She had an energy about her that…
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Nature’s therapy: forest bathing
The answer to stress, burn-out and low energy might not be in the doctor’s office, but in the trees of the forest. “I just feel like I need to go off-grid or something. Like, hike into the forest and just camp out for few days, you know? I always feel better when I’m in the…
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Permission to binge
You may think the answer to beating binge eating is more willpower and restriction, but Dietitian Lucy Carey says permission to binge is key. “You’re kidding me,” she said, mouth agog. “Absolutely not,” I replied. “I’m deadly serious. You need to give yourself permission to binge. If that need overwhelms you, I want you to…
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Overcome your fears while fast asleep
Could your nightmares actually lessen your daytime fears? Dietitian Lucy Carey explores the role of dreaming in fear reduction. I clambered down the stairs, clutching my newborn to my chest tightly and praying the sound of running feet on the floors above us would muffle our own scramble to safety. My heart beat wildly as…
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The man whose donor heart tried to give him bulimia
Are memories stored in our organs? And if they are, do organ transplant recipients get the memories of their donor? He was the grumpiest fellow I’d ever met, and I was unimpressed. I tried a couple times to exchange pleasantries but after another minute or two, I gave up and stopped trying altogether. I turned…
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The 3 most common nutrition coaching mistakes
Dietitian Lucy Carey explores the most common nutrition coaching mistakes that she sees in her practice (and that she’s made herself). Let’s dive right in, shall we? In my opinion, these are the 3 most common nutrition coaching mistakes that coaches of all levels of experience make. I’ve made them all myself, so I’m not…
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Why nobody sticks to their diet
If diets are the answer to weight loss, why does nobody stick to them? Dietitian Lucy Carey explains the diet trap. The first real diet I tried was the lemon detox diet. It is just as terrible as the name suggests. You basically consume nothing but a lemon-flavoured beverage for a week or so. No…
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Mindful eating this festive season
Mindfulness has huge benefits to health and has exploded in popularity. So how can we transfer mindfulness to how we eat? He was giving me the side-eye. My six-year-old was unimpressed that I was reading emails off my phone at the breakfast table. He was perhaps too polite to point it out verbally, but he…
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The benefits of binge eating
The reason you binge eat is because you get a benefit from it. Dietitian Lucy Carey explains how this works. The exam was a week away. I had been studying for this for months, I was only going to get one shot at passing it, and the pass rate was 80%. Boy oh boy was…