Why Work with a Weight-Inclusive Dietitian?
If you're tired of dieting and the pressure to lose weight, struggle with body image, or have a strained relationship with food, working with a weight-inclusive dietitian might be the solution you've been looking for. This approach focuses on overall well-being and centers your lived experiences and identities.
1. Learn Weight is Not a Behavior
A weight-inclusive dietitian recognizes weight is not a behavior. They can help you move away from restrictive diets and instead support you in creating lasting, healthful approaches to food that focus on nourishing your body. We focus on health behaviors that are accessible to you and your lifestyle.
2. Experience a Weight-Bias Free Zone
By working with a weight-inclusive dietitian, you know you can enter the session space without fear of judgement. A weight-inclusive dietitian is trained to help you navigate your health goals without the pressure of diet culture. You’ll receive compassionate care without negative body image reinforcement.
3. Learn to Break Free from the Diet Mentality
Weight-inclusive dietitians help you embrace food freedom, letting go of restrictive thinking. Through an intuitive eating approach, a weight-inclusive dietitian can help you learn to trust your body, honor hunger cues, and enjoy food in a guilt-free, balanced way.
4. Approaches Meant for Long-Term Well-Being
Using evidenced based approaches, your dietitian can teach you how to approach health with the long term in mind. Rather than burning out on fad diets and the never ending cycle of yo-yo dieting, you will learn interventions that are sustainable for you in the long term.
5. Improve Mental Health and Body Image
Achieve a healthier relationship with food, your body, and movement. Weight-inclusive interventions are shown to improve psychological measures of health. Not only that, but for those in eating disorder recovery, a weight-inclusive dietitian is absolutely critical to maintaining recovery and a long-term a healthful relationship with food.
Final Thoughts
A weight-inclusive dietitian can help you achieve the goals that are important to you, affirming your identities and values along the way. They take into account your life, environment, genetics, and so much more to help paint the full picture and meet you where you are at.
