Topics we may cover in nutrition counselling sessions

 
  • The signs and symptoms of malnourishment

  • The process of beginning to eat and re-nourishing your body

  • Nutrition rehabilitation in eating disorder recovery

  • What kind and how much food your body needs

  • Meal planning strategies/permission to eat

  • Establishing regular eating patterns and a rhythm with food

  • Identifying your physical, emotional and environmental triggers for binge eating, purging or restricting

  • Metabolic rate and the effect of eating disorders/disordered eating/chronic dieting

  • Nutrition principles (facts and fallacies)

  • Meal support strategies for loved ones/family members

  • How to feel comfortable eating in social settings

  • How to shop and cook for self/significant others

  • How to begin to reduce fear around certain foods

  • Plan for food exposures (before, during and after) and in session support

  • Hunger and fullness signals

  • How to honor physical and emotional hunger

  • Self-compassion and it’s role on your journey towards a better relationship to food/body