The Blog
Stop Kurbo, Weight Watchers dieting app for kids
“It all started when I got a fitbit…” “It all started when I learned how to count calories...” “It all started when I downloaded the Weight Watchers app…” That’s how nearly every one of my appointments begins with a new disordered eating client. They tell me their...
The dilemma of menu labeling
More than a year ago, when I was still a dietetic intern, learning about HAES for the first time and just thinking about getting back into writing again I pitched an article. It was about the menu labeling law that was about to go into effect nationwide. I was...
Life with ED: when intuitive eating doesn’t work
"The hardest part of recovery is even knowing what normal eating looks like," I said to my therapist a few months into my first round of treatment. "I can't even remember what hunger feels like." It took me years to really understand my hunger cues - and especially...
Navigating sports nutrition supplements
special thanks to my dietetic intern Kara Peters for assisting in research for this blog post. "How many of you have ever had a protein shake or taken a supplement?" I ask about mid-way through every sports nutrition presentation I give. Nine times out of ten, over...
Because weddings don’t come with enough stress
"So are you new to the area?" I paused, technically it had been almost 5 months since I moved back up to Connecticut from Maryland, but the answer still felt like yes. "Yes," I said. "I moved here this past summer." "Oh, how exciting! What made you move?" The man...
Stop normalizing the loss of your period in sports
My second dietetic intern has a story and a message worth sharing. Read her first blog post all about the female athlete triad, a topic near and dear to not only her heart, but mine. By Kara Peters, Dietetic Intern at the University of Saint Joseph I was fortunate...
Life with ED: What everybody’s always talking about
"You're looking slim!" "Have you lost some weight?" "What do you weigh? You look great!" "You've definitely lost some weight, you must feel so much better." "Wow you've lost weight! That's awesome. Amy Dunham R.D. works at UConn in the Nutrition Services Department....
If you’re friend went keto… would you go keto too?
It really doesn't seem that long ago that I was a dietetic intern...what, 9 months? Well, nevertheless, now I have my very own intern! And it turns out she's got something to say. By Sydney Spiewak, Dietetic Intern at the University of Saint Joseph Why is everyone so...
But I’m a picky eater
"No thank you, I'm a picky eater." "I'm sorry, but I'm a picky eater." "I would, but I'm a picky eater." As a dietitian who hosts tabeling events with food samples eight or more times a month, I hear these phrases constantly, and I just don't get it - at least not...