Dietetics & nutrition
Eat Love Live dietitians support body autonomy and are passionate about recovery from diet culture, disordered eating and eating disorders.
We aim to make individuals feel safe and empowered and hold space for them to unpack the nuance of their relationships with food and their bodies, and the many influences that have aided in developing these relationships in a non-judgmental way.
IS AN EAT LOVE LIVE DIETITIAN RIGHT FOR me?
| As Accredited Practicing Dietitians, we work with a wide range of conditions including:
| Our areas of interest are non-dieting health management, disordered eating and eating disorders and all Eat Love Live team members are experienced working with these difficult issues. We regularly undertake further learning activities to ensure we are providing optimal care to you your family The journey to recovery from an eating disorder can be a long and bumpy ride but one that is achievable. We work with clients, their treatment teams and support network to help improve acceptance and flexibility with food; leading to physical and mental health benefits (one baby step at a time!) Often when we work with people who are trying to implement health behaviours to improve their overall health or decrease the risk of disease, and those on the journey of recovery for an eating disorder; we find we end up discussing similar concepts. These can include body acceptance, activity for pleasure, breaking ingrained eating habits and food beliefs. As such, information on this website will focus on these things and hopefully many people will find it helpful. We look forward to working with you soon, |
OUR APPROACH
Our dietitians work from a non-dieting and Health at Every Size ® Paradigm.
The Health At Every Size® Principles are:
- Weight Inclusivity: Accept and respect the inherent diversity of body shapes and sizes and reject the idealizing or pathologizing of specific weights.
- Health Enhancement: Support health policies that improve and equalize access to information and services, and personal practices that improve human well-being, including attention to individual physical, economic, social, spiritual, emotional, and other needs.
- Respectful Care: Acknowledge our biases, and work to end weight discrimination, weight stigma, and weight bias. Provide information and services from an understanding that socio-economic status, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and other identities impact weight stigma, and support environments that address these inequities.
- Eating for Well-being: Promote flexible, individualized eating based on hunger, satiety, nutritional needs, and pleasure, rather than any externally regulated eating plan focused on weight control.
- Life-Enhancing Movement: Support physical activities that allow people of all sizes, abilities, and interests to engage in enjoyable movement, to the degree that they choose.
This definition is from Linda Bacon’s Health at Every Size Community
Want to understand more about diet culture, Health at Every Size ®, non – dieting nutrition counselling, focusing on health rather than weight?
Have a look at the Blog, links and resources section on the website and follow our Instagram and Facebook feeds where we regularly post interesting articles and links.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN AT A SESSION WITH AN EAT LOVE LIVE DIETITIAN?
The Eat Love Live dietitian will spend the initial session getting to know you. This will involve some questions from us and some from you. We hope to provide a safe space for people to share their experiences with food, activity and their bodies. We recognise how difficult this can be and that these experiences have shaped the relationship you have with food and body today. Our dietitians recognise the role that social relationships, mental health, chronic disease and trauma have on our ability to care for ourselves. We are unable to treat this but have adequate skills to discuss these in a safe way; refer you to appropriate mental health practitioners and work alongside them.
We aim to clarify what you want out of the relationship with an Eat Love Live dietitian by your expectations and goals.
The Eat Love Live dietitian will ask questions about your medical history, physical and psychological symptoms and concerns; Information about past dieting, current eating patterns and activity levels. This will help determine a course of action for us to take together including topics you may want more information about, and planning for health behaviour changes in the direction of your individual goals.
The Eat Love Live dietitian provides accurate, easy to understand information about nutrition helping to differentiate fact from fiction.
If change was as simple as attaining knowledge there would be no role for our dietitians!
Our skills lie in helping you to:
- Explore and understand your relationship with food, health and your body.
- Arming you with the tools to be able to evaluate the plethora of health information bombarding you daily.
- Assisting you in understanding your barriers to change and overcoming these.
- Ongoing motivating and collaborative support during the journey of change.
It is hard to know how many sessions is optimal for each person and this is something we can discuss further during assessment.
The dietitian can provide information and support to individual's family, friends or loved ones at their request; so that the person feels supported in between sessions.
Please contact the Eat Love Live team members to discuss your needs and ensure that you feel you have a good connection with them. An initial assessment session is a great opportunity for you to assess if you feel you will be able to have beneficial relationship with us. If you feel that we are not a good fit we can help link you in with likeminded dietitians.
Having the right health professional to support you is very important.
Health professionals are a bit like shoes- if the fit isn't right- you won't use them!
Initial assessments are 60 mins and review sessions can be 30 – 60 mins as needed.
We require that all clients be linked in with regular medical support to ensure their ongoing medical safety.
We require clients to be engaged with or planning to engage with psychological support to ensure that we are providing safe, ethical and evidence based support.
WHAT IS AN ACCREDITED PRACTISING DIETITIAN?
Accredited Practising Dietitians' (APD) are recognised health professionals with the skills to convert scientific knowledge and research into practical strategies to improve health through diet and lifestyle.
APD's work with individuals, groups or at a public health level. They have the skills to use nutrition and lifestyle modification to treat clinical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, allergy, gastro-intestinal issues and weight management.
APD's must have undertaken university study accredited by the Dietitians Association of Australian and abide by DAA Code of Professional Conduct and Statement of Ethical Practice.
Ready to work with an Eat Love Live dietitian?
Meet our team of dietitians here and book an appointment online. Alternatively, fill out a pre-assessment questionnaire, tell us a little about yourself and what you are looking for and we will help you connect with the practitioner most suited to your needs.