05/02/2023
What’s what thing all of these have in common?? 🤨
They have all been on the “what have you tried before to reach your nutrition/health goals” section of our intake forms.
Here are our thoughts:
🥦 For actual long-term changes to stick, it requires realistic, sustainable, and individualized lifestyle changes.
🥦 It is also crucial to obtain the “why” behind everything - the changes, the nutrition, how your body works, and the lifelong benefits making sustainable changes will bring.
🥦 This also usually entails finding the root of why you aren’t already doing these things. Mindless, stress, emotional, disordered, sadness, happiness, etcccccc eating habits are all things that need to be addressed.
🥦Same with past events, childhood eating trauma, body image issues, restrictive eating, and incorrect nutrition advice. It all has to be properly dealt with so you can move forward.
All of the plans mentioned have elements that MIGHT be science-based and healthy, but as a whole each plan is flawed in its own way. Whether it be extreme restriction, promoting disordered eating, one-size-fits-all, or completely missing the mark on the mental side of eating (which is A HUGE part) there is not one plan that has it all.
When you work with a registered dietitian, possibly a therapist, personal trainer, physical therapist, and others on your care team to create an INDIVIDUALIZED, REALISTIC plan to get you to your goals…. That’s when things stick 🎉
