This post was written and submitted by EDRDpro member Caroline L. Young, MS, RD, LD, RYT. Connect with Caroline at caroyoung1121@yahoo.com or on her website at http://www.thewholeyogird.com Ever since I knew I was going to become a registered dietitian (RD), I dreamt of merging my yoga background with my nutrition expertise – a fusion of Eastern…
This post was written and submitted by Shelby Gordon. Connect with Shelby by emailing her at shebyl@fitflexibleandfluid.com If there were an award for dieting – I would win it, hands down. I’m beyond an Olympic medalist, World Champion, PhD, or Rhodes Scholar in dieting. I could win a Nobel Prize. I first realized I was…
Media and research most often paints eating disorders as a thin-young-white woman’s problem. In such a climate, it will not come as a surprise that resources for – and even conversations surrounding – people of other gender identities experiencing eating disorders are few and far between. The truth is that eating disorders are not one-size-fits-all…
This post was written and submitted by Kailey Adkins. Connect with Kailey on Instagram and Facebook @thedisordereddietitan or online at https://thedisordereddietitian.weebly.com/ Hello All! This post will provide some background on, as well as my personal experience with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. “Let’s start at the beginning, a very good place to start” The Sound…
“Food, no matter how pure, cannot fill the space in your soul that longs for love and spiritual experience. If you are trying to use it for this purpose, you may have gone astray on your journey.” Steven Bratman, MD Can the pursuit of healthy eating be taken to an unhealthy extreme? Conversations around orthorexia…
This post was written and submitted by Ryanne Mitchell, LPC. There is a goal that can stop recovery in its tracks. This goal tries to disguise itself as something “healthy,” while in reality, it is serving illness. In eating disorder recovery, this is the “goal weight,” sometimes called “ideal weight.” I’ve heard patients in and…
This post was written and submitted by Hannah Frazee. Hannah is a junior at the University of Iowa who is rooted in the Health at Every Size paradigm and is especially interested in studying how systemic oppression impacts health outcomes. You can connect with her on Instagram at @haesrd2be Health at Every Size (HAES) practitioners…
“Contrary to my original assumption that eating disorders were somewhat cordoned off from the dietary mainstream, working in this field allows me to draw on my broader experience and interests in 12-step recovery and social justice on an individual level.” – Ian Cohen, RDN We are excited to introduce you to EDRDpro member Ian Cohen,…
The transition to life as a college student represents an exciting, and often incredibly overwhelming, time. Alongside new friends, a new schedule, new classes, and a new environment, students face the added challenges of independence around food, limited money, social pressure, and a lot of attention to the bodies and body changes. As Claire Mysko,…
This post was written and submitted by Emily Taylor, RD, LDN. Emily Taylor works as an outpatient clinical dietitian in the Greater Boston, MA area. She is a generalist with interests in eating disorders, diabetes management, and IBS/GI symptom management. She is also a recent alumna of the University of Connecticut Coordinated Program in Dietetics,…