Emotional Eating Nutritionist and Dietitian
Registered dietitian and nutritionist for emotional and stress eating support
Our registered dietitian and nutritionist for emotional and stress eating support provides various personalized nutritional and lifestyle interventions to help manage the behaviour, working to build a healthy relationship with food.
Before we explore into how our dietitian and nutritionist for stress and emotional eating can help, a little background information is crucial.
Dietitians on Emotional Eating
While it is difficult to clearly define emotional eating, some characteristics are worth mentioning to help differentiate this type of eating from physical hunger driven food consumption.
With emotional hunger:
- Eating serves the purpose to cope with challenging emotions, such as stress, anger, boredom, sadness or loneliness.
- Triggers may include relationship conflicts, work or other stress, fatigue, financial pressure, health problems rather than physical hunger.
- People often want to reward themselves or avoid having to face challenging emotions, situations or people.
- Tends to come on more suddenly and it has a sense of urgency to be satisfied.
- Specific food cravings need to be honoured, with clients often gravitating toward comfort foods.
- People do not feel satisfied with a full stomach, and often eat until uncomfortably full.
- Affected individuals often feel guilty, powerless and ashamed of their eating habits, often looking to reduce intake following an overeating episode in hopes of correcting the lapse.
- People often yo-yo diet, have rigid food rules and experience body image dissatisfaction.
How can an emotional eating nutritionist and dietitian help?
Working with an eating disorder dietitian to curb emotional eating is no doubt an important step in recovery.
A registered dietitian and nutritionist who specializes in emotional eating and stress eating support can help in the following ways:
- Assess your current relationship with food and outline areas for improvement.
- Dispel various common myths and misconceptions around food.
- Demonstrate the difference between hunger and craving.
- Help learn to trust self with hunger and fullness cues, thereby consistently meeting nutritional requirements.
- Help implement various stress management techniques: meditation, breathing techniques, spending time in nature, listening to relaxing music, engaging in creative/expressive work et al.
- Assist you in mapping out personal triggers for emotional eating and proactively begin to overwrite coping with them through emotional eating – find substitute behaviours that help buffer stressors that are not food related
- Have a dietitian and nutritionist demonstrate how to use a hunger and fullness scale and rate meal satisfaction; aim for distraction-free meal consumption.
- Aim to implement consistent eating routines and maintain food adequacy, without skipping meals and undereating.
- Underscore the importance of keeping a food and mood journal to observe underlying patterns.
- Optimize sleep habits – often sleep deprivation drives food seeking behaviours with higher reward value (high sugar, fat and salt content options appear more rewarding when stressed and sleep-deprived).
- Pick the brain of an emotional eating dietitian and nutritionist during the counselling sessions.
- Provide ongoing support, as well as health and nutrition coaching.
- Additionally, work with you can work with a dietitian for adolescents, mental health nutritionist, weight loss dietitian , PCOS nutritionist and more.
- Receive counselling from a women’s health dietitian.
- Work with a sports nutritionist and dietitian to balance your fitness and sporting needs with a healthy relationship with food.
- And more.
Related Services
In addition to working with an emotional eating nutritionist and dietitian to help manage behaviour such as stress eating, you can also receive nutritional counselling in other areas.
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Schedule a free, no-obligation phone consultation during which we can:
- 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 Emotional 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 emotional and stress eating
You can also work with our dietitians and nutritionists online.
We provide services virtually to the residents of other provinces: Alberta dietitian, Saskatchewan, MB, New Brunswick, NL, PEI, Quebec and the territories.
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