Brandi Powell, MS, RD

03/28/2023

I go to hang with some third graders today! I may have met some future dietitians 🤓

11/08/2022

Part 2: How can parents support their child with an eating disorder? My colleagues and I discussed this and the Empowered U parent workshop we developed on 2 podcasts recently. Here's the second one (ep 18)...

Welcome to Mind Dive, Menninger's podcast for mental health professionals, with Robert Boland, MD, senior vice president and chief of staff, and Kerry Horrell, PhD.

11/08/2022

How can parents support their child with an eating disorder? My colleagues and I discussed this and the Empowered U parent workshop we developed on 2 podcasts recently. Here's the first one...

‎Show The SeasonED RD, Ep Parents Are Not The Problem – (Even if they think they are) - Oct 15, 2022

02/25/2022

A different way to think about dieting…

I once read a study published by The New England Journal of Medicine in which 300 people were followed on three different diets: the low-carb diet, the low-fat diet, and the Mediterranean diet (healthy fats, some dairy products, abundant fruit and vegetables). After 2 years of tightly controlled dieting, the dieters lost an average of 6 to 10 pounds.

And, it turns out, that in the years after the study, everyone who participated in it gained back most of the weight they lost. Two years of strict dieting and the end result is that you lose 10 pounds that you then gain back? There’s gotta be a better way to spend your time.

There is.

It’s called: Live the life you have. Love the body you’ve got. (This is not the same as: Give up and binge).

Part of the reason that diets don’t work is that when we are obsessively focused on our weights, we are not focused on doing what we love. On loving what we love. We are thinking about what we will look like when we lose weight. We are spending our days on counting calories or fat grams, as if we have forever to be alive, forever to turn to what we truly love.

Every one of us has a terminal illness: it’s called life. Although we want to believe that death only happens to other people, it only takes a second or two to realize that the D word is going to happen to us, too. Suddenly, it’s our life that is at stake.

Ask yourself how you want to live.

Ask yourself what you would do with your time if your days were numbered (because they are. You just don’t know what the number is!)

And, oh: ask yourself what and how you would eat.

Rather than focusing on dieting and depriving yourself, which we all know does not work, turn your attention to what you love. Because if you love your life, you want to take care of your body. If you love your life, you don’t want to spend it making yourself sick or uncomfortable. Even if you knew you only had 6 months to live, you might eat differently, you might even begin exercising every day but it wouldn’t be because you were ashamed of your body. It wouldn’t be because your thighs weren’t thin enough. It would because you didn’t want to miss a minute of the time you had left.

This is an excerpt from "Stitches of Our Lives." Head to my website to read the full article. https://geneenroth.com/articles/

01/06/2021

Dieting season is upon us! Learn more about better ways to relate to food instead...

Instagram series! Join Evelyn Tribole, coauthor of Intuitive Eating, for a 10-day series unpacking each of the IE principles. Follow her at

12/01/2020

Do you feel addicted to sweets? Can't get enough pizza? Check this out:

Speaking about or diagnosing addiction to food — as opposed to drugs or alcohol — can be controversial. Here's what you should know about the theory of food addiction and the foods we tend to consider "bad."

10/23/2020

Does your child obsess about Halloween candy? Read this...

Your child will learn to manage sweets and to keep them in proportion to the other food he eats when you let him have them regularly at meals and snacks.

08/23/2020

So true!

04/09/2020

I fried something for the first time tonight! Even though I stopped dieting over a decade ago my early career was influenced by diet culture including “good and bad food” messages. Due to this history, the messiness of frying and being intimidated by the process, I had never attempted it myself. I’m happy to say my fried shrimp turned out great! See the photo in the comments.

Now I’m challenging you to cook something new. You got this!

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03/26/2020

I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during these unprecedented times. I am thankful I can offer virtual sessions.

02/04/2020

Probiotics vs antibiotics...who will be victorious?!?
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11/18/2019

I picked up some dragonfruit and persimmons at Katy Asian Town today 😋 Now I just have to wait for them to ripen...