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Lucy Carey | Disordered Eating Dietitian
📍 Nutrition professionals & coaches
🍝 Guide your clients from disordered eating > intuitive eating
Regulate the nervous system & form a healthy relationship w/ food
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23/09/2025

I got myself jailed on Instagram this year. For over a month my content was not allowed to be shown to non-followers, I was not allowed to monetize and I’m still not allowed to go Live...

Why? I posted a video talking about a famous nutrition study and it went viral... And Instagram was not impressed. It’s a study I’ve talked about before and what I said was 100% true…

Maybe it was the mention of the fingers that got chopped off… Or the fact I started the caption with the provocative sentence “How to develop an eating disorder”…

I want to know what you think! Head on over to today’s blog post and let me know - did I deserve jail time for this? Or did Instagram lose the plot over nothing?

What do you think? Was I out of line with this take on eating disorders? It was going viral, of course. Raking in hundreds of thousands of views in a matter of days. Every time I opened the Instagram app on my phone, I was flooded with hundreds of notifications of comments, likes, and shares. […]

16/09/2025

I see a lot of clients who have been through some serious 💩

And although most of them have engaged in some form of therapy over the years, there’s always one thing they’ve never considered and that’s this:

Food can help them heal.

I know it sounds bonkers, because my clients usually feel like food is the problem they’re trying to fix, not the solution to their issues… But I swear, if you do it right, eating can actually help to heal from trauma.

Is it some magic bullet that cures PTSD? No, of course not. But it is a layer that can help.

It all comes down to how you’re eating. And this is something that I try to incorporate in my own life, even though I haven’t been through anything anywhere near as horrible as some of the stuff my clients have had to deal with. But sometimes I don’t think my body knows the difference between being late for work and being chased by a bear…

Eating issues can arise after trauma... but have you ever considered how food might be able to help you heal?

02/09/2025

Retired tennis superstar Serena Williams has lost a lot of weight (about 14kg). And you can tell. It seriously took me a minute to recognize who she was when I saw the pictures.

And now she’s come out to say that she had been trying to lose weight for yonks and the missing piece of the puzzle for her wasn’t diet or exercise, it was taking a GLP-1 weight loss medication.

She’s even becoming a celebrity ambassador for a company that sells these drugs…

And believe you me, I have some opinions on this.

On her endorsement of them, on the admission that she had wanted to lose weight even at the height of her tennis career, on how GLP-1s are being advertised and used…

Yeah, I’ve got thoughts. If you want to have a lil gossip sesh with me, head on over to today’s blog post.

She says she wants to reduce the stigma around taking GLP-1s, but is that really what she’s doing? Tennis great Serena Williams has been both lauded and loathed for her muscular figure throughout her career. But over the last year or so, that famous silhouette has been shrinking. When she opened u...

20/08/2025

“You’re telling me it’s not about willpower then.” He was looking at me though the we**am like he couldn’t quite believe no one had ever told him this before.

“That’s right, this is pure biology. You’re trying to fight thousands of years of evolution; that’s just not going to work.”

“Because you can’t fight biology.”

“Exactly.”

He scrunched up his face in confusion. “How come no one has ever told me this before?”

“I think that’s because there’s no money to be made in it. Instead of selling you another diet or exercise program, what I’m telling you to do is free.”

His jaw dropped at that one. But he nodded. He knew the solution to his binge eating wasn’t a strict meal plan, because he had tried that before and it didn’t work (at least, it didn’t work for long).

If you (or your clients) feel like you can’t keep certain foods in the house, because if it’s there, you’ll eat it all…

If you make healthy food choices all day long, but you lose it at night and eat half the pantry…

If you know exactly what you should eat, but you feel like you don’t have enough willpower or self-discipline to resist what you shouldn’t eat…

This blog post is for you.

This tried-and-tested binge eating hack will transform the way your clients (and yourself) perceive binge foods.

21/07/2025

I recently had a slight freak out over my weight.

It was just a bit more than I thought it would be. Not even a lot. Just a little bit. And I still freaked out.

Yes it IS embarrassing to admit it that it bothered me. As a disordered eating dietitian I feel a certain pressure to be 'above' things like this, you know?

But I also survived growing up in the 90s and early 2000s… Do you even remember how bad diet culture was at that time?

I watched Tyra Banks shaming supposedly plus-size models because they didn’t look heroin-addict-thin. My friends at high school would drink water before eating to fill their stomachs up so they wouldn’t eat as much. Every movie and TV show had a fat kid that was made fun of for always eating.

And I went down a dark path at 18 years old and came very close to anorexia myself…

Maybe diet culture seeped into my very DNA when I was developing or something, because when I weighed myself those diet culture thoughts I thought I had buried came right back up like bad sushi.

And I’m grateful they did.

Let me say that again: I’m grateful they did.

Because it made me stop and take stock of where I’m at. And it gave me a chance to practice the things I tell my clients to do every day. (And reminded me why I won’t be opting to weigh myself again).

Because I’m not an 18-year-old America’s Next Top Model fan anymore. I actually have the tools I need to understand why I gained weight, deal with the mental side of it, and get my body back to its happy place WITHOUT going on a diet.

If you want to know the 7 things I did when I gained weight, I’ve laid it all out in today’s blog post.

Weight gain can be triggering when you're healing your relationship with food - here are 7 practical tips from a disordered eating dietitian

15/07/2025

The teens who caught Tourette's...

During lock downs, a strange illness spread through TikTok. Repeating words, odd facial movements, involuntary jerking of the arms and legs…

It wasn’t true Tourette’s Syndrome; it was the “TikTok tics” and it spread right through the phone screen to infect mainly vulnerable teenage girls.

It was a case of social contagion, where real symptoms developed in response to repeated exposure to videos where people were displaying tics.

Just like you yawn when someone next to you does, these teen girls started to involuntarily mimic the videos they were watching.

Social contagion has been responsible for cases of functional tics like this one, mass fainting, suicides… and, of course, disordered eating.

But how can we stop disordered eating spreading through friend groups and sports clubs, how do we combat toxic social media influences, and how on earth can we help our clients to resist an involuntary mechanism in their mind that is pushing them to mimic disordered behaviours?!

Today’s blog post jumps right in.

From tics to fainting, strange behaviours can spread through social contagion. Eating disorders are not exempt. How can we combat the spread?

10/07/2025

My stomach seemed to inflate the second I put my knife and fork down.

My very skin felt like fat was being injected underneath it, making everything squishier than normal.

My logical mind knew that I couldn’t gain weight so fast... but that was overshadowed but the panic that was taking hold of me.

I needed to get rid of this food right now. I shouldn’t have eaten so much!

This kind of overwhelming panic is what drives your clients to purge, to restrict harder tomorrow, and to get stuck in a restrict-binge cycle that lasts years, even decades...

And a lot of the time, it’s not that they’ve even binged. They’ve simply eaten until fullness. But they haven’t let themselves feel full in such a long time it's become a foreign feeling.

It doesn't feel safe at all. In fact, it can feel unbearable.

So how do you help your clients get through the discomfort without panicking? How do you teach them to tolerate feeling full?

Today’s blog post dives into the practical strategies my clients find most successful.

If your clients have been restricting for a long time, fullness can feel foreign and trigger panic. How can you help them get through it without spiraling?

01/07/2025

I was starting to think I'm a failure because I’ve hit 35 years old and I’m not a millionaire... That’s how much the algorithm was getting to me.

It started with following a few accounts for online entrepreneurs, and some nutrition accounts in the food freedom space, but in the space of half an hour I had been sucked into the comparison game.

Everyone else seemed to be doing it better than me, reaching more people than me, making more money than me...

Thankfully, I was forced off the app to have a call with one of the amazing students in my online course Disordered Eating Coaching Academy. And I realized that I may not be a millionaire, but I was helping this colleague to find her passion and run her business with purpose and a streamlined process - and I’m good at it, too.

Social media can warp our perspective so much that our self-worth takes a hit.

In fact, it’s exactly what the algorithm is designed to do.

In today’s blog post, I’m diving into why the algorithm pushes the wrong content at you, and what you can do to reclaim your life without quitting social media entirely.

Social media use and disordered eating patterns often go hand in hand. Why is that, and what can we do about it?

16/06/2025

When someone tells you they’ve lost weight, what is your initial reaction?

If it’s “Congratulations”, you’re not alone. Society has drummed into us that weight loss is something to strive for, and we praise those who achieve it.

But we shouldn’t.

Because we might actually be love-bombing someone who is engaging in disordered eating behaviours…

Or telling someone they look great when they’re grieving, or suffering an illness…

And reinforcing the idea that your worth is related to your weight…

Today’s blog post is an oldie but a goodie: Stop Praising Weight Loss

Breaking the habit starts with awareness, so be sure to have a quick read if this blog post from the vault.

P.S. This applies to yourself as well. I’m sure all of us are guilty of saying things like, “Well at least I lost some weight!” after having a stomach bug, etc.!

Weight loss is a hard thing to achieve. Period. So when you see someone who’s transformed their body I understand there’s a pull there to say, “Wow, you look great, that’s amazing that you’ve lost 10 kilos!” But I think we’re dangerously missing the mark by praising weight loss. I pers...

10/06/2025

My burger disappeared down my gullet in under a minute, I drained my drink, and then my legs started tapping up and down. I felt compelled to get up quickly and start ticking off more of my never-ending To-Do List, even though I knew I should be enjoying this time with my kids...

This was a classic sign that my nervous system had shifted into more of a fight-or-flight state, and I was having trouble calming down.

I needed to shift from the sympathetic nervous system into more of the parasympathetic. I needed to activate rest-and-digest mode.

Today’s blog post is all about why nervous system regulation matters so much, and what practical steps you can take with your clients (and yourself) to calm down their system.

Because the fact is, most health professionals are introducing nutrition interventions to an already stressed body - and that’s why they don’t stick.

If you're not talking about regulating the nervous system, you should be. Your clients cannot heal when they're in survival mode.

02/06/2025

Is coffee the real cause of your anxiety???

It’s a pet peeve of mine the way people say, “My Anxiety”. Like it’s part of who they are. Something they have no control over. This language makes it part of their identity...

But for my clients, their “anxiety” could go by another name completely: a dysregulated nervous system…

I’ve managed to cure my clients’ “anxiety” time and time again with simple fixes and I’m outlining them all for you in today’s blog post.

This is powerful. And it’s not hard to do! No money and very little time required…

Why your morning coffee might be to blame for your anxiety symptoms, and how a simple language shift can change everything.

27/05/2025

I was pacing back and forth, in the dead of night, whilst my baby slept soundly in bed. Up and down the lounge I walked, eyes glued to my pedometer.

I had to get 10,000 steps. It didn’t matter that it was nearing midnight and I had an infant who had never slept through the night, and that it was something of a miracle that he was even sleeping right now.

I had to email through my steps to work tomorrow, as part of the annual walking challenge, and what would they think if I hadn’t done 10,000 steps? I was the dietitian, I was part of the Healthy Lifestyles team for goodness sake. I would be exposed as a fraud…

It was at that exact moment that something clicked inside my head.

This. Was. Stupid.

This health tracker was not healthy for me in any way, shape or form. I should be asleep right now.

I’m sure you can see why I usually have a bit of a hate-hate relationship with health trackers…

But I thought maybe a trial of a continuous glucose monitor would be a fun experiment? It was like 6 years after the pedometer thing, so surely I wouldn’t go down that obsessive route again. I was so much older and wiser.

Or was I?

Jump on over to the blog to find out what happened!

Dietitian Lucy Carey explains why continuous glucose monitors and other health trackers may not be the God-send they are made out to be

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