Nutrition and athletic performance often go hand in hand. While it’s typical to see athletes watching and managing what they eat, consuming fewer calories than their body requires to perform at their activity level can lead to a very serious condition know as  Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports (RED-S), or what had previously been know […]

In a world where we are constantly being told to change our bodies it makes sense that in terms of body trust, we may be lacking. Diet culture does it’s best to keep us stuck in this cycle of wishing our bodies were different.  So what’s up with the desire for body change? Our societal […]

In our society today we are flooded with the thought that thinness equals health. Either spoken out loud or through more subtle ways. The idea that weight is synonymous with health can lead to bias and stigmatization that is incredibly harmful. It’s called weight stigma and it’s real and pervasive.  what is weight stigma? Weight […]

So you’ve started to focus more improving your health, maybe through trying new foods or engaging in different types of movement. But it can feel like a difficult line to walk between working on improving health and developing an unhealthy relationship with food.  With many of our eating disorder clients, it starts with small changes […]

Set point theory, which is really more fact than theory, is how we explain body diversity, and why so many (95%) people regain weight within 3-5 years after an initially “successful” dieting attempt.