Whole Self Nutrition, LLC

10/02/2025

Gentle reminder for today 🫶🏼

10/02/2025

Check out my latest article for Equip Thank you Hilary Raciti, RDN, CDN, Katie (Parker) Schwartz, MS, RDN, LDN & Stephanie Kile MS, RDN for your insight.

In this article, you'll find:

What is a negative energy balance?

Why does a negative energy balance happen?

The relationship between eating disorders and negative energy balance

How living in a negative energy balance impacts your health

Healthy alternatives to a negative energy balance

Being in a calorie deficit is often praised on social media and elsewhere, but it also carries serious risks. Learn how a negative energy balance affects your body and mind, and why it can contribute to eating disorders.

09/18/2025

✨ Join us at Clarity Fitness! ✨

Whole Self Nutrition will be at on September 27th from 11am–2pm for a special tabling event: Nourishment Over Numbers.

We will have some pre and post workout snacks to help fuel your movement during your workout and support recovery while we chat about health goals that are not about numbers!

📍 Clarity Fitness
🗓 September 27th
🕚 11am–2pm

New to Clarity? Your first class is FREE, so it’s the perfect time to stop by, try a class, grab a snack, and join us in redefining what health really means!

09/11/2025

Did you know that nervous system regulation can help with recovery?

This post is based on an article Caroline wrote for recently. Swipe through this post to see how nervous system deregulation can impact eating disorder recovery and head to the link in our bio to read more about the nervous system and how it relates to recovery!

09/04/2025

How Restriction Changes You: Unpacking the Minnesota Starvation Experiment

Caroline wrote this article for all about this landmark study that has helped shape our understanding of the serious effect of food restriction.

We often talk about this study with clients and their support systems to help them understand how food restriction impacts the mind, body, and emotions.

Swipe through this post to read more about this study and head to the link in our bio to read the full article!

09/04/2025

https://equip.health/articles/food-and-fitness/how-to-stop-undereating

Check out my latest article for Equip!

In this article

What does it mean to “undereat”?

The health risks of undereating

How to stop undereating

Thanks to Stephanie Kile MS, RDN, Crystal Fox and Erin Kuta, MPH, RD, LDN for your expert insight.

Undereating comes with a number of mental and physical health risks. Explore guidance and tips from experts on how to properly fuel your body.

08/26/2025

How to Stop Binge Eating: Spot Your Triggers, Break the Cycle

According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), approximately 2.8 percent of adults in the U.S. will experience binge eating disorder at some point in their lives, which is higher than the prevalence of other eating disorders like bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa.

Caroline wrote this article for on binge eating, swipe through this post to read the highlights and head to the link in our bio to read the full article!

08/20/2025

My latest article for Equip is about binge eating. Thanks to Amy Goldsmith and Victoria Whittington, RDN, LDN for your insight!

In this article

What is binge eating disorder? Signs and criteria

Understanding binge eating triggers

Expert-backed strategies: how to stop binge eating

A sample 7-Day blueprint for recovery

Resources and your next steps

FAQ

Pinpoint your binge-eating triggers and use expert-backed steps to end the cycle. Practical, stigma-free guidance from Equip’s clinical team to start your journey to lasting recovery.

08/12/2025

Whole self nutrition is excited to announce that we are restarting Mindful Meal Mondays with .rd

Mindful Meal Mondays is a supportive virtual meal group that will meet every Monday evening starting this fall!

Mindful Meal Mondays will:
Provide meal support in recovery
Help you face your fear foods
Create a community
Nourish your mind and body
Help provide guidance with mindfulness

Every week, there will be a new meal theme chosen by group members. If you’re ready to sign up, please send an email to Sydney at sydney@wholeselfnutrition.org, and be sure to let her know which meal theme you’d like to explore (e.g. certain meal items like sandwiches or pasta salads, or specific cuisines like Mexican or Italian). Feel free to also send any questions about the group our way!
 
Each group is 45 minutes and $30.

We’re so excited for you to join us!

08/06/2025

Thanks to R. Tucker Reiley, MS, RD and Katie Gilder for your help on my latest article for Equip!

"As a registered dietitian and health writer, I typically rely on recent research to guide my practice and writing. However, there’s sometimes what’s called a landmark study from many years ago that influences the nutrition field significantly enough to guide clinical practice and be a constant in clinician-to-patient conversations. In the field of eating disorders, that study is the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. The Minnesota Starvation Experiment—initially titled The Biology of Human Starvation—was performed by scientist Ancel Keys and his team, and is considered the landmark study that fundamentally shaped our understanding of the wide-ranging and serious effects of food restriction. ..."

In this article:

Overview of the experiment and its findings

The science of restriction: the "why" behind study participants’ drastic mind-body changes

What the experiment tells us about eating disorders

How the Minnesota Starvation Experiment can help you or your loved one in recovery

The so-called Minnesota Starvation Experiment was a landmark study that revealed surprising truths about how food restriction changes people. Learn about the experiment, what researchers found, and what it tells us about disordered eating and restrictive eating disorders.

08/05/2025

Happy Tuesday! Here’s a little reminder for anyone who needs it today 🫶🏼

07/29/2025

Restaurants and Recovery: How to Handle Going Out to Eat⬇️

If you’re living with an eating disorder, going to a restaurant can feel like you’re being tortured—in many ways, restaurants are the ultimate threat to the eating disorder brain, since there’s much less ability to control food and its details (e.g. ingredients, preparation, and serving sizes).

With the right tools and support, it’s possible to reclaim eating out as a joyful part of your life, or your loved one’s life.

Swipe through the post to read more and head to the link in our bio to read the full article for