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Eating Disorder Recovery

First things first: You CAN recover from an eating disorder.

We treat eating disorders and disordered eating with care, compassion and understanding. We know the challenges of staying in the disorder and also of being in recovery.

Food can become a battleground when you’re struggling with an eating disorder. Working with an Eating Disorder Nutritionist is an essential part of the recovery process. In a collaborative approach, we’ll develop a personalized plan that addresses your specific needs and goals based on your history, health status, and current symptoms.

Here are some key areas we’ll focus on:

Nutritional Assessment:

We’ll get a clear picture of your current eating habits and identify any nutritional deficiencies.

Meal Planning:

We’ll create balanced meal plans that will help you work towards an ideal diet, one step at a time.

Food Exposure Therapy:

We’ll gradually reintroduce “fear foods” in a safe and supportive environment, reducing anxiety and promoting flexibility.

Mindful Eating:

We’ll develop practices to help you tune into your body’s hunger and fullness cues, fostering a more intuitive approach to eating.

Challenging Negative Thoughts:

We’ll work together to identify and replace negative thoughts about food and your body image, to help facilitate a more positive relationship.

We work with teens and adults in recovery from different eating disorders. To learn more about teen programs, read more here:

Anorexia:

Characterized by severe restriction of food intake and an intense fear of gaining weight, even at an unhealthy, low body weight. People with anorexia often have a distorted body image and see themselves as overweight even when they are underweight.

Bulimia Nervosa:

Involves recurrent episodes of binge eating (consuming large amounts of food in a short period) followed by purging behaviors like self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives or diuretics, or excessive exercise to compensate for the calories consumed.

Binge Eating Disorder:

Defined by recurrent episodes of binge eating without the purging behaviors typical of bulimia. Individuals may feel a loss of control during binges and experience shame or guilt afterward.

It’s important to remember that eating disorders are complex mental health conditions and these are just brief descriptions. If you are concerned that you or someone you know may have an eating disorder, seeking professional help from a qualified dietitian or therapist is crucial.