EP 21: Weight inclusive care and calories on menus with Alex Williams Just Eat Normally: Eating Disorder Recovery
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- Mental Health
In this episode I speak to Alex Williams, a Registered Associate Nutritionist and Founder of Weight Inclusive Training for Healthcare Professionals. In this episode we discuss:
- Alex’s relationship with food throughout school and university, her experience with ‘pseudo-dieting’ and how she’s found food freedom
- How diet culture is ingrained in our culture and the pressure young women feel to fit in
- Her journey to becoming a weight-inclusive nutritionist
- Why all healthcare professionals should be weight-inclusive
- The government's plan to introduce calorie labelling on menus in restaurants and the potential impact for people with eating disorders
Connect with Rachel.
Dr Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging and to feel comfortable in their body.
https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/
https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd
Connect with Alex:
https://thecollectivewellness.co.uk/
https://instagram.com/thecollectivewellness
https://weightinclusivetraining.co.uk
https://instagram.com/wit_cpd
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rachel-evans8/support
In this episode I speak to Alex Williams, a Registered Associate Nutritionist and Founder of Weight Inclusive Training for Healthcare Professionals. In this episode we discuss:
- Alex’s relationship with food throughout school and university, her experience with ‘pseudo-dieting’ and how she’s found food freedom
- How diet culture is ingrained in our culture and the pressure young women feel to fit in
- Her journey to becoming a weight-inclusive nutritionist
- Why all healthcare professionals should be weight-inclusive
- The government's plan to introduce calorie labelling on menus in restaurants and the potential impact for people with eating disorders
Connect with Rachel.
Dr Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging and to feel comfortable in their body.
https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/
https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd
Connect with Alex:
https://thecollectivewellness.co.uk/
https://instagram.com/thecollectivewellness
https://weightinclusivetraining.co.uk
https://instagram.com/wit_cpd
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rachel-evans8/support
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