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Eating Disorders
Nutrition counseling for eating disorders incorporates trauma-informed care, therapeutic approaches and counseling techniques in order to provide a space where individuals can better understand how their experiences, their perceptions and their coping impact their relationship with food and their body.
Disordered Eating and Dieting
Practicing through a lens of inclusivity and Health at Every Size Approach ⓒ, we believe in focusing on all aspects of health and wellness beyond weight. We welcome individuals who have been at war with food and their bodies and seeking to better understand the root of this and heal.
Nutrition for Sports Performance
Appropriate nutrition that it tailored to an athlete's sport, training cycle and competition is as important as practicing their sport. Fueling for Recovery offers nutrition education and nutrition counseling tailored to each athlete's reality to ensure that nutrition is optimized to meet training demands.
Underfueling and RED-S
Underfueling can have drastic consequences on an athlete's physical, mental and emotional health. It is imperative that athletes understand their bodies needs and explore the barriers to appropriate fueling.
Role Of The Treatment Team
Fueling For Recovery strongly believes in a multidisciplinary approach to treat various conditions and provide quality care. If we do not offer a particular service at the practice, we collaborate with professionals in the area.
Eating disorders are serious psychological conditions that affect millions of people in the U.S. According to research, approximately 9% of the U.S. population will experience an eating disorder in their lifetime.
Eating disorders currently found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders:
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
- Binge Eating Disorder
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Other Specified Eating and Feeding Disorder
A common misconception is that eating disorders are easy to recognize or only affect individuals in smaller bodies, or that they primarily affect women. In reality, eating disorders do not discriminate—they impact people of all sizes, ages, genders, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds. If you find that food is a source of distress, control, or coping and occupies a significant part of your life, you could be affected.
While eating disorders are identified using diagnostic criteria from the DSM V, many individuals struggle with disordered eating. A 2018 study found that 58% of adolescent girls (aged 13-18) were engaging in practices in order to lose weight .
Disordered eating refers to a range of irregular eating behaviors that may not meet the criteria for a specific eating disorder, but may drastically impact an individual’s physical or mental health. These behaviors can include
- Chronic dieting
- Skipping meals
- Extreme focus on healthy eating
- Overeating
- Feeling guilty about food choices
Disordered eating can lead to harmful consequences over time, including emotional distress, poor body image, and potential physical health issues. At Fueling for Recovery, our team of professionals do not believe that one needs to get better at controlling their food intake. Instead, we take an exploratory and individualized approach to better help you understand where your food rules and beliefs come from and develop a relationship with food that is sustainable.
Appropriate nutrition is as vital to an athlete’s performance as their sport-specific training. Tailoring nutrition to match an athlete’s sport, training cycle, and competition schedule is key to optimizing their overall performance and recovery.
Fueling for Recovery provides personalized nutrition education and counseling that aligns with the unique demands of each athlete’s reality. This tailored approach ensures athletes are properly fueled to meet the physical demands of their sport, from daily training sessions to peak competition performance.
By focusing on individualized nutrition strategies, athletes can enhance their endurance, strength, and recovery. Our team of dietitians works with you to help you achieve your athletic goals without restriction, counting or feeling anxious about the foods that you choose. We strongly believe that by educating and supporting the athletes that we work with, we are able to empower them to feel confident and informed in meeting their body’s needs for training.
Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S), a concept introduced by the International Olympic Committee in 2014, highlights the critical issue of insufficient energy availability to meet the demands of both optimal health and athletic performance. This condition affects athletes of all genders and ages, often resulting from inadequate fueling relative to the energy expended in training and competition.
