Dietitian

Food provides nutrients for our activities, growth, and functioning. In a modern developed society, food is expected to be enjoyable and burden-free, often carrying a social component in shared meals with family or friends.

There is often a thin line between disordered eating and eating disorders. Disordered eating may include some or all symptoms from well-known eating disorders but lack the consistency and distress that would extend to a diagnosable disorder. It may present as restricted or selective eating, overeating, binge eating, and weight-compensatory behaviours such as purging or using laxatives.

Binge Eating Disorder and Bulimia Nervosa are associated with the compulsive consumption of large quantities of food, even in the absence of hunger. This has become a common problem alongside so-called “intermittent fasting”, where all daily food (and often much more) is consumed between 3pm and 10pm or later. Bulimia Nervosa also includes self-induced purging as a main weight-compensatory behaviour.

Eating disorders are usually marked by poor awareness of food choices, nutritional value, and optimal quantities. Most importantly, the relationship with food is affected by a frequent sense of guilt and secrecy around eating itself, which makes that relationship adverse and unnatural.

The impulsive nature of Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, and sometimes Anorexia Nervosa links them to other adverse habits and addictions, such as excessive alcohol or caffeine consumption.

Your dietitian will support you in understanding your existing eating habits and help you build a healthy relationship with food. Together, you will develop a sustainable grocery shopping habit and your own meal plan, one you can self-navigate in future and tailor to your work, study, physical activity, and sport.

What’s included

• Binge-eating behaviour modification
• Meal plan management
• Diet and lifestyle regulation
• Building nutrition awareness

Typical wait time: 2 weeks