Compulsive Eating Dietitian and Nutritionist
Registered dietitian and nutritionist for compulsive eating
Registered dietitian and nutritionist for compulsive eating behaviour provides support, guidance and various interventions to help manage the behaviour and develop a more positive relationship with food.
Before we explore how our dietitian and nutritionist for compulsive eating can help, a little background information is necessary.
Dietitians on Compulsive Eating
When trying to name our overeating struggles, we come across terms such as emotional eating, compulsive eating, mindless eating or even binge eating disorder (BED).
The core subjective experience is similar in these behaviours: people often eat when physically not hungry, consume amounts in excess of what their body would require, often resulting in discomfort.
They also commonly report a lost sense of control when it comes to the decision to start or stop eating.
While compulsive eating may offer instant gratification, most engaging in the behaviour report feelings of guilt, shame and powerlessness when reflecting on the experience.
Whereas clients affected by BED can receive a medical diagnosis through meeting specific diagnostic criteria, those struggling with milder compulsive eating find it harder to get the treatment they need.
At JM Nutrition, our ED and DE dietitians strive to fill this gap.
How can a compulsive eating nutritionist and dietitian help?
A registered dietitian and nutritionist who specializes in the management of compulsive eating can help in the following ways:
- Work with a dietitian for compulsive eating to figure out triggering factors leading to compulsive eating and enabling factors keeping disordered eating alive despite your best efforts to overcome your struggles.
- Notice what happens before, during and after compulsive eating episodes paying particular attention to eating behaviours, such as skipping meals, dieting, and other contributing factors, such as over- or under-exercising, hormonal changes, sleep deprivation, work-life balance, social connections.
- Explore body image struggles, dieting history or mental health conditions making you more vulnerable to overeat .
- Work with a dietitian for mindful eating or intuitive eating support to reduce the urge to overeat.
- Reconnect with your body’s internal signalling of hunger and fullness.
- Commit to structured eating to ensure nutritional adequacy and balance, thereby limiting cravings and blood sugar fluctuations as risk factors for overeating.
- Learn powerful urge surfing techniques to resist giving in to the temptation of overeating.
- Meal planning to help implement consumption of versatile and nutritious meals.
- Take stock of high-trigger or binge foods in your diet and learn strategies to reincorporate them with confidence to ultimately achieve food liberation.
- Address possible hoarding of foods or other secretive eating habits.
- Overcome eating past your physical comfort level thereby limiting chances of becoming sick after binging episodes or ward off the onset of illnesses linked with overeating.
- Regain food peace, body acceptance and part ways with dieting mentality for good.
- Review your vitamin and mineral supplementation practices in hopes of correcting possible micronutrient deficiencies.
- Incorporating gentle body movement practices, in hopes of ameliorating body image disturbances and mood issues.
- Learn how to optimize sleep habits to support eating confidently and competently.
- Provide ongoing support, as well as health and nutrition coaching.
- And more.
Related Services
In addition to working with a nutritionist and dietitian for compulsive eating behaviour support, you can also receive nutritional counselling in other areas.
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- Outline how the process works
- Discuss your goal(s)
- Explain how billing and pricing work
- Address concerns about insurance
- Help you select a practitioner
- Answer any other questions
- And more
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Where to Find Our Dietitian and Nutritionist for Compulsive Eating
We offer on-site services at the below office locations with Ontario dietitians, Nova Scotia dietitians and British Columbia dietitians.
Please note: practitioner availability at each location is subject to change.
Office Locations
Virtual support for compulsive eating
You can also work with our online dietitian and nutritionist.
We provide services virtually to the residents of other provinces: Alberta, Saskatchewan, MB, New Brunswick, NL, PEI, Quebec and the territories.
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