Ep 51: Healthy eating, wellness culture and orthorexia with sports dietician Renee McGregor

SHOW NOTES

Renee McGregor is a leading Sports and Eating disorder specialist dietitian with 20 years of experience working in clinical and performance nutrition. She is the founder of Team Renee McGregor, where she leads a team of practitioners within a clinic environment, specialising in supporting individuals and athletes of all levels and ages, coaches and sports science teams to provide nutritional strategies to enhance sports performance and manage eating disorders. When not inspiring others with her incredible work, Renee can be found running the mountains and chasing the trails, most likely training for a crazy ultra-marathon!

In this episode we discuss:

• Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Goes Bad
• How an eating disorder distorts your thinking
• The toxic narrative that social media creates around worth
• How a hungry brain is a negative brain
• Relationship between orthorexia and perfectionism
• Wellness as a disguise for orthorexia
• Taking a holistic approach to recovery

Resources

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0219609

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 Renee.

https://reneemcgregor.com/

https://www.instagram.com/r_mcgregor/