Tag: Nutritionist
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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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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…
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Screen-free eating, step by step
Screens have become a frequent meal-time companion. But how we break the habit of eating with our phones and move toward mindful eating? Meals as a family are a treasure-trove of health benefits and building connections – a ritual I adore. But there’s one thing that can ruin it for me, and that’s my phone.…
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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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Chew your smoothies
“Don’t worry, you’ll be back to having your healthy smoothies in no time,” the midwife said to me. Say what now? I was pregnant with my first baby and throwing up several times a day. I had just told the midwife that sucking on Gingernut biscuits in the morning was helping a little bit. Apparently…
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No, I won’t weigh your daughter
“She just doesn’t understand that she can’t be like her friends. They all go out and get chocolate bars and junk food and I just need someone to make her understand that she’s not a normal teenager. Dancers can’t do those things.” The woman on the phone kept up her diatribe, hardly drawing breath. “I’d…
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Seven ways to spot a dodgy dietitian/nutritionist
“A dietitian came into work to talk to the personal trainers,” he told me. Even over the phone, his voice had a certain strained-quality about it. I pictured a group of fit trainers, eager for solid nutrition advice to pass on to their clients, gathered around a young, white lady (my imagination went with the…