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Our blog brings together certified dietitians, clinical psychologists and eating disorder experts from Montreal to offer practical, research-backed advice on eating disorders, disordered eating, sports nutrition, and intuitive eating.

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How to Challenge the Dieting Voices

Learn how to challenge harmful dieting voices and reconnect with your body through Intuitive Eating. Discover how this approach supports eating disorder recovery by replacing ...

Mastering Carb Loading: Fueling Your Endurance Event for Peak Performance

Learn how to carb load effectively for endurance events while balancing performance and wellness—especially if you're recovering from or navigating an eating disorder.

Reflecting Realities: The Battle Against Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Explore how body dysmorphic disorder, often linked to eating disorders, affects mental health, self-image, and daily life—and how to seek support and healing.

The Factory Analogy – Explaining the Concept of Weight Restoration

Learn how weight restoration works in eating disorder recovery through a powerful factory metaphor. Understand restriction, renourishment, and healing.

What Is a Forbidden Food Part 1: The Concept of a Forbidden Food

Explore the concept of forbidden foods in eating disorder recovery and learn how to identify and categorize them to improve your relationship with food.

ARFID or Food Preferences? 3 Ways to Differentiate Between the Two

Learn how to tell the difference between picky eating and ARFID, an eating disorder that can impact growth, nutrition, and emotional well-being.

How to know when you’re full – Exploring different levels of fullness

Learn how to recognize different levels of fullness and how reconnecting with your body's cues can support eating disorder recovery and a healthier relationship with ...

DBT and How It Can Help With Eating Disorder Recovery

Discover how DBT skills like mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance can support eating disorder recovery and help break harmful behavior cycles.

Understanding your Hunger

Learn to understand your hunger cues and how they relate to eating disorders. Watch our video to explore each level of hunger and its impact ...

Part 4: How ED Recovery Can Help

Explore how eating disorder recovery helps reverse physical and mental health complications. Learn about treatment options, recovery outcomes, and why every journey is valid and ...

Part 3: The Consequences of Binge Eating Disorder

Learn how binge eating disorder (BED) affects both physical and mental health. Explore the differences between binge eating and overeating, and why healing your relationship ...

Part 2 : The Consequences of Bulimia Nervosa

Explore the physical and emotional health consequences of the eating disorder bulimia nervosa. Learn how purging behaviors like vomiting and laxative use impact the body—and ...

How to Meet Your Needs When You Have No Appetite

Struggling to eat without an appetite? Learn how to nourish your body when hunger cues are unreliable—due to stress, medication, or an eating disorder. Tips ...

Part 1 : The Consequences of Anorexia

Anorexia nervosa is a serious eating disorder that can lead to medical complications affecting the brain, heart, digestion, and bones. Learn how early recovery can ...

Trauma-Informed Care Part 2 – Inclusive Care

Inclusive and trauma-informed care are key to effective eating disorder treatment. Learn how creating safety, honoring diverse lived experiences, and addressing systemic barriers can make ...

Hidden Diet Culture Messages Are Everywhere

Diet culture is everywhere—and it’s fueling eating disorders. Learn how wellness trends hide harmful messages, and how to spot and resist them to heal your ...

The Hut – A Trauma-Informed Analogy for Eating Disorders and Eating Disorder Recovery

Discover a powerful trauma-informed analogy for understanding eating disorder recovery. Learn how the “Hut” symbolizes protection, and how healing means safely stepping back into life’s ...

Navigating Cultural Foods When They’re Fear Foods

Navigating fear foods during the holidays can be tough when you're in recovery from an eating disorder. Learn how fear foods develop and how to ...

5 things to put in place to diminish binges

Discover 5 practical strategies to reduce binge eating and improve your relationship with food. Learn how restriction leads to binges and how to break the ...

Emotional Eating

Explore the link between emotional eating and eating disorders. Learn about causes, effects, and healthier coping strategies to manage emotions and build a balanced relationship ...

Principles of Intuitive Eating for Athletes

Explore how athletes can practice intuitive eating by balancing structure with body cues, optimizing performance, and enjoying food through flexibility, mindfulness, and practical strategies.

How Embodiment Practices Support Eating Disorder Recovery

Discover how embodiment practices like breathwork, yoga, and sensory awareness can support eating disorder recovery by rebuilding mind-body connection and interoceptive awareness.

How to help your child be food and weight neutral

Learn how to support your child in developing a neutral relationship with food and body image. Discover practical tips for weight-neutral parenting and preventing disordered ...

Are You Ready For Gentle Nutrition?

Learn what gentle nutrition means in intuitive eating and how to know if you're ready to apply it. Discover how to nourish your body without ...

Yoga and the Eating Disorder Recovery Process

Discover how yoga can support eating disorder recovery by improving body awareness, reducing anxiety, and fostering a deeper mind-body connection. Learn more about its benefits ...

What does it mean to provide trauma-informed care?

Learn what trauma-informed care means and how it supports individuals with eating disorders by recognizing the impact of trauma on the body, mind, and relationship ...

Do I need to diet because I have PCOS?

Learn how Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is often misunderstood and why restrictive diets, like low-carb plans, can worsen symptoms and increase the risk of eating ...

What does orthorexia look like and how to overcome it

Orthorexia is a lesser-known eating disorder marked by an obsession with “healthy” eating. Learn the signs, cultural influences, and how to seek help to ...

Social Media Makeover : How social media may be lowering your body image and how you can change that

Discover how social media can negatively impact body image and contribute to eating disorder risk. Learn how to curate your feed to support body positivity ...

How to Practice Intuitive Exercise

Learn how to practice intuitive exercise and rebuild a healthy relationship with movement. Discover how diet culture can disrupt your connection to your body, ...

Signs of a Disordered Relationship with Exercise

Struggling with exercise might be a sign of an underlying eating disorder. Learn the key signs of a disordered relationship with movement, how it ...

What Intuitive Eating is NOT

Learn what Intuitive Eating is not and how it differs from diets disguised as wellness. Understand why it's not a tool for weight loss, and ...

What Intuitive Eating IS

Tired of dieting? Learn how intuitive eating can help heal your relationship with food, reduce eating disorder risks, and support long-term well-being.

Why people struggle with weight loss

Think you're failing at weight loss? It may be your metabolism—not your willpower. Learn how dieting can trigger eating disorders and metabolic adaptation.

Cutting Out Carbs? How This Impacts Your Hormones And Health

Discover how low-carb diets like keto and Atkins impact your hormones, energy, and health. Learn why carbs are essential for long-term well-being.

ARFID

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is an eating disorder often seen in children. Learn about symptoms, effects, and evidence-based treatment options.

Family-Based Treatment

Learn how Family-Based Treatment (FBT) empowers parents to support children and adolescents with eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia through home-based care.

What it means to provide gender-affirming care – Part 2

Learn the role of the dietitian in supporting gender-diverse youth with eating disorders through inclusive, gender-affirming care and individualized nutrition interventions.

What it means to provide gender-affirming care – Part 1

Learn why transgender and non-binary individuals face higher risks of eating disorders and how gender-affirming care can support recovery. Part one of this series explores ...

Lost Your Period and Think It’s Great? Think Again

Amenorrhea is a serious but often overlooked sign of an eating disorder, especially in athletes. Learn how low energy availability, restrictive eating, and over-exercising impact ...

What To Know Before Adopting An Anti-Diet Approach

Curious about the anti-diet approach? Learn how it challenges diet culture, promotes intuitive eating, and supports lasting health without focusing on weight loss—from a registered ...

How to talk to your teenager about healthy eating

Learn how to talk to your teen about healthy eating in a way that supports body image, avoids food guilt, and prevents disordered eating habits. ...

How Can ACT Help You Recover From An Eating Disorder?

This blog explores the different ways that Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can help you recover from an eating disorder.

Eating Disorders: How to Recognize Someone Who is Silently Suffering

Eating disorders don’t always have a “look.” Discover how to recognize the often hidden signs of eating disorders and learn how to support someone who ...

Taking Care of Yourself as an Athlete

Learn how stress affects athletic performance and health. Understand the signs of RED-S, chronic stress, and how balanced nutrition and recovery can help.

5 Signs your Child May Have an Eating Disorder

This blog explores common signs that a child or adolescent may be experiencing an eating disorder.

Eating Disorders : Fact or fiction?

The purpose of this blog is to help clarify what are, and what are not, myths or common misconceptions surrounding “eating disorders”.

This Pride Month, Let’s Talk About Eating Disorders

June is Pride Month, a time to celebrate and support the LGBTQ2+ community — and also raise awareness about issues like eating disorders, which disproportionately ...

Diet Culture Part 3: How to notice and pushback against diet culture

Learn how to push back against diet culture by challenging harmful beliefs about weight, food, and exercise. Embrace body respect and Health at Every Size.

Diet Culture Part 2: How dieting impacts us

Discover how dieting harms physical, mental, and emotional health. Learn how diet culture fuels disordered eating and disconnects us from body trust.

Diet Culture Part 1: The insidious nature of diet culture and its presence in our lives

Explore how diet culture fuels disordered eating and eating disorders by glorifying thinness, promoting restriction, and undermining body trust from an early age.

Why you can’t stop thinking about food

Discover why you can’t stop thinking about food, how disordered eating impacts decision-making, and ways to reduce food-related anxiety.

Emotional Eating is Normal : Lean in!

This article explores emotional eating, how it differs from disordered eating, and offers a non-judgmental approach to understanding food and emotions.

My Story : Self-Discovery

A personal journey of recovery from an eating disorder, healing body image, and embracing intuitive eating for a more compassionate, fulfilling life.

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