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Kristina Isaac, RD

Nutrition support for women recovering from an eating disorder, disordered eating, chronic dieting, or simply desiring a more peaceful relationship with food.

01/06/2026

I truly believe that there is incredible freedom to be had 💛
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01/01/2026

Happy New Year 🎉
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I like resolutions and goals. And I think that goals concerning food and body can be good, in so much that they give life rather than take away from life.
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What gives life to some might take life from another, so this is specific to you and your situation. Again, comparison distracts from our unique needs.
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Here's to goals that give 🥂
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12/18/2025

This time of year provides many opportunities to compare your plate and body to friends, family members, and complete strangers.
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Before you go to far down the comparison road, peek at these reminders ☝️.
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Comparison doesn't change your needs or preferences, or the work your doing to heal how you view food and your body. It will steal your presence and joy.
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12/11/2025

I'm still not sure why holiday dinners happen in the middle of the afternoon, but I'm guessing you have at least one. And it can throw you for a loop when you're working on supportive structure in your eating.
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Here are a few tips to consider on these days. The biggest thing, eating throughout the day. This stays the same day-to-day. Come to your meal hungry, but not famished.
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Another way to approach these days is to simply shuffle meals and snacks. Make sure you can check off 3 meals and 1-3 snacks, depending on your normal.
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At the end of the day, remember that this is one day (or maybe three because this month is special 😉). You can slide right back into your normal the next day. No compensation required.
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12/04/2025

If your December looks anything like mine, the Christmas parties and celebrations have started and keep going all month long! And, for some, this can cause considerable stress - cue skipping meals, over-eating, and/or preoccupation with food.
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The number 1 tool in your toolbox is regular, nourishing meals. Skipping meals (restriction) will never (ever) set you up for success.
👉🏻 Instead of freedom, you feel preoccupied with food all. day. long.
👉🏻 Hunger becomes ravenous, making it hard to tune into fullness or feeling satisfied.
👉🏻 Eating is based on how much you think you can or should have, rather than what your body is telling you.
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What if you tried something new this year?
👉🏻 Nourishing your body regularly throughout the day.
👉🏻 Having balanced meals (carbs + protein + fat) even on party days.
👉🏻 Enjoying favourite Christmas foods regularly throughout the month.
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If this sounds scary or just impossible, I'd love to chat.

(P.S. If the lie isn't obvious, we should also probably have chat 😉).

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11/19/2025

Contrary to what we may hear these days, our bodies were made to use carbs.
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Now, the brokenness of our world and bodies introduces all kinds of nuance and special circumstances. But it doesn't change the fact that carbs were created good and our bodies were designed to use them.
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I know there are a million 'buts'... but lets sit with this truth for a bit first.
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11/06/2025

I've been thinking about this phrase a lot lately -

***"Not now" doesn't mean "not ever."***

I think we could find a way to apply it to every area of life. But lets chat about exercise.
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I just ran my first half marathon distance. 14 years ago, exercise was a hard no. I was allowed to walk to and from classes or go on a leisurly walk, but anything structured just didn't work with €D recovery. Exercise served my €D instead of serving my body, and that's not how it's supposed to go. I needed a full break in order to heal.
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But, just because it was a 'no' in that season, didn't mean it would be a 'no' forever. If you find yourself in this place, know that this is true for you too. A break from intentional exercise could be the healthiest thing for you. "Not now" doesn't mean "not ever".
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For the record, I'm all about finding ways to incorporate movement into recovery. But that movement needs to serve you - it can't be a means of manipulating your body or compensation for eating.
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(And for those of you wondering where the final 0.05 km is - after 19 weeks of training I still didnt realize a half is 21.1 🤦🏼‍♀️ So I walked the last 0.05 😆).
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10/29/2025

There's no right answer here, but there is one that comes with having a peaceful relationship with food.
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If you find yourself answering "a", "b", or "c," getting to "d" doesn't happen overnight. But it can happen as you:

🍬 learn to nourish your body (aka. eating enough),

🍭leave dichotomous thinking behind (e.g. "good food" and "bad food"), and

🍬practice unconditional permission to eat alongside gentle nutrition.

And if all that sounds confusing yet intriguing, we should chat 😉
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10/22/2025

It is extremely difficult (impossible?) to renew an undernourished mind. I think we all want to change how we think about food before we change how we eat. But in the case of restrictive eating patterns (even if that ends in a binge), changing how we eat will pay huge dividends in changing how you think about food.
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I know my little diagram is pretty complex, so let me break it down 😉 When it comes to having a renewed mind and a nourished body, its a positive feedback loop. Renourishment supports renewing your mind according to Gods truth. And a renewed mind supports the hard work of challenging restrictive habits and patterns of eating so that you are living in line with His truth about who you are and his good gift of food.
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disorder recovery

10/15/2025

Reflecting on my own recovery, seeing what other recovered or "normal" eaters ate was SO helpful. It gave me permission to explore food that was satisfying and tasty. It gave me ideas to expand variety. And it reminded me that I wasn't alone - there were other women out there enjoying a turkey sandwich for lunch and ice cream for dessert.
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So here are a few meals and snacks from the last little bit. Some were so tasty. Some were 'meh.' All of them fuelled my body. (Now if I could only remember to take the picture before I eat, these could happen more often 😉).
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10/01/2025

And this is true for all €Ds - AN, BN, BED, and EDNOS.
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So why use BMI as part of the defining characteristics or diagnosis? Well, it can be an indicator of severity (but not always), meeting diagnostic criteria can be a requirement for insurance providers (in the US, not Canada), and it can help providers monitor recovery.
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BUT there are a whole host of other symptoms aside from weight! If your weight doesn't fit the image attached to a certain disorder, your situation is no less serious.
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If you are preoccupied with food, if how you feel in your body affects how you eat (or vice versa), if you are experiencing guilt and shame when eating - seek help. Open up to a trusted friend or mentor. Find a healthcare provider who understands €Ds.
But don't dismiss your struggles based on your weight. 💜
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09/24/2025

May I encourage you to soak in these words for a minute? (Romans 12:1-2)
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God's word is our greatest defense against the lies of our enemy. Lies such as:
• If you weighed less, you'd be happier.
• You're weak for eating 'x' food
• You'll never be free from constantly thinking and worrying about food.
These are from him - the one who seeks to steal, kill, and destroy.
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As Christians, we have this incredible gift, this incredible tool at our disposal. We have God's word, which renews our minds in line with his good and acceptable and perfect will.
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So when you despair that you will never be free, when the tapes of guilt, shame, fear, and self-deprecation play over and over in your mind, remember:
• God created man in his own image... male and female he created them. (Gen. 1:27)
• Ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. (Matt. 7:7)
• ...we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. (Heb. 4:15)
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Feast on God's truth. Ask, seek, knock. Take your eyes off yourself and place them on your faithful Father who will certainly finish the good work He began.
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May he renew your mind according to His goodness, acceptable, and perfect will.
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