Do you think about food and your body all the time? Do you feel stressed and out of control around food? We are a team of supportive, non-judgmental eating disorder dietitians that can help you make peace with food and your body.
What Is Disordered Eating?
Disordered eating behaviors may be present without someone meeting all of the criteria for a specific eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia. However, disordered eating behaviors can have just as large an impact on a person’s mental and physical health. If you have experienced any of the following, you may benefit from working with an eating disorder dietitian.
- Frequent stress and anxiety surrounding food, chronic dieting, preoccupation with controlling the types and amounts of foods eaten
- Loss of control around food, compulsive eating, or eating large quantities of food at a time
- Purging or compensating for food eaten through excessive exercise, vomiting, or restricting additional food intake
- Guilt and shame surrounding food and body size
Eating Disorder Recovery & Healing Your Relationship With Food
With our expertise, we will reduce your stress around food, set personalized goals and provide support and accountability as you heal.
If you’re ready to end the cycle of pain and frustration around food, your body and your mental health, we would like to help you. Our gentle and shame-free guidance will support you every step of the way. Registered dietitians and nutritionists at No Diet Dietitian have helped countless people heal their relationships with food and their bodies, and we can help you too.
We know it requires a lot of bravery and vulnerability to work with an eating disorder dietitian. To support you, our team meets with clients weekly to provide Medical Nutrition Therapy and we collaborate with your team of healthcare providers for an integrative and holistic approach to healing.
Call us to schedule here for a healthier and happier you.
What Is It Like To Work With An Eating Disorder Dietitian?
Eating disorder dietitians provide support and guidance through a patient’s recovery journey. The initial visit with an eating disorder dietitian will include a holistic health assessment to understand your unique concerns. The nutrition specialist will take a holistic view of your health history to understand your concerns and current eating behaviors, and perform an assessment of your relationship with food and body in order to create a plan that is just right for you. Everyone’s recovery journey is different, but most people will need weekly nutrition counseling visits for an extended period of time in order to address the logistical, mental, and emotional obstacles they are facing. With a dietitian, you will address how to implement a balanced eating plan while also learning how your food attitudes, beliefs, and fears shape your relationship to food and eating.
We Can Help You Heal Your Body & Mind From Eating Disorders
Eating disorders vary, and not everyone with disordered eating will fit neatly into one category, with some people exhibiting one, or elements of many at different points in time.
- Anorexia Nervosa is characterized by weight loss (or lack of weight gain in children) or inability to maintain an appropriate weight for age and height, as well as intentional food restriction, and fear of weight gain. Anorexia nervosa may also include purging (vomiting) or binging.
- Bulimia Nervosa is diagnosed when someone feels an inability to control their eating, binging on food and then compensating by purging behaviors which can include vomiting, laxatives, and excessive exercise.
- OSFED (Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorder) is the most common eating disorder with approximately 3.8% of women and 1.6% of men being diagnosed with the disorder at some point in their lives. A person with OSFED does not fit into the exact diagnostic criteria for the other eating disorders, but the severity of the disordered eating (such as atypical anorexia nervosa) may be just as great.
- Binge Eating Disorder is the second most common eating disorder, which is diagnosed when a person regularly binges on food, and is accompanied by intense guilt and shame. They will often feel a compulsion to eat due to emotional reasons, often eating without hunger or pleasure.
- Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is diagnosed when someone limits the type and amounts of foods they consume, but the restriction is unrelated to fears of fatness or body size. Restriction may be related to sensory issues (texture, smell) or fears of the potential consequences of eating (vomiting, choking).
We Partner With Your Mental Health Provider to Support Your Healing
Eating disorders are not just a nutrition issue, they are a serious mental health issue and recovery is most effective when someone has support for both. Eating disorder dietitians will work as a team with therapists, doctors and other providers to give you the support you need to heal your relationship with food. Anxiety and depression are common with eating disorders. If you are not currently working with a therapist, we may be able to provide assistance in finding someone who can address your mental health concerns.
Heal Your Relationship With Food
Do you spend a lot of time thinking about your body? Do you feel shame or guilt when you eat? Our intuitive eating counselors can help.
Dietitians can play a vital role in helping you establish a solid foundation for long-term eating disorder recovery, expand your understanding of vital nutrition-related concepts, eliminate self-defeating behaviors, normalize eating patterns, restore your weight and heal your relationship with food.
Freedom to eat food without guilt or shame
There is life beyond your eating disorder. We have helped countless people learn to nourish their bodies and minds, and find food freedom. If you are ready to take the next step and live a life without food guilt and shame, schedule an appointment with No Diet Dietitian today!
Written by our Registered Dietitian and board certified specialist, Christine Weiss.
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