![]() My learning is not done, and I am sure I will continue to make mistakes today, mistakes that I hope to learn and grow from. ![]() I know that I caused very real harm to people both before I became an intuitive eating dietitian, and as I was learning about the paradigm. Please know that I have made all the mistakes I talk about in this post, and this is not some kind of holier than thou sort of thing. This post is also informed by my own mistakes in practice, especially when I was first learning about intuitive eating and Health at Every Size. This post is also informed by years of clinical supervision, including with one of the authors of Intuitive Eating, and many, many, many, conversations with my peers, including those who identify as fat. Because if they didn’t desire losing or controlling their body size at some level, they’d already be a pretty intuitive eater. This post is informed by years of working as a non-diet dietitian with clients in large and small bodies, struggling with everything from active eating disorders and disordered eating to various medical conditions to general nutrition concerns, pretty much all of which had some desire for weight loss. ![]() As a provider in a thin body, I am positive I have many blind spots. This is a working document, and I am definitely not THE authority on intuitive eating. If you’re a non-diet RD, feel free to add comments or email any additional nuance, spaces for clarity, or other suggestions. When those conversations inevitably come up again, I wanted to create a resource that had as much information and nuance as I could pack in to simply link and share for those who were interested in learning. Then seasoned non-diet practitioners provide free education and respond why it’s not an appropriate use for intuitive eating, people get defensive, others chime in “why can’t we all just come together?” (as if groupthink is an appropriate answer), people accuse others of being “attacking”, people start responding with passive aggression….and y’all, I am sooooooo exhausted with it. There’s this dynamic that keeps happening in dietitian facebook groups/online communities, where one person asks a question or shares an article/post implying or outright saying it’s OK to use intuitive eating in weight loss counseling. It’s also for those who are already in this community and need a resource for educating their peers.Īnd tbh, this post is also for me. Today’s blog post is one that’s geared at dietitians, for those who are new to the world of non-diet, weight inclusive practice, and have questions about working with clients who desire weight loss.
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