DietitianAnna

DietitianAnna • Anti-diet + eating disorder nutrition pro
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• Chronically Nourished creator

I was asked to give a nutrition presentation at my MS specific physical therapy clinic. Me, a patient, speaking to a gro...
06/05/2026

I was asked to give a nutrition presentation at my MS specific physical therapy clinic. Me, a patient, speaking to a group of my peers. I don’t remember if any of the physical therapist stayed for my talk. And now that I’m thinking about it, I realize the answer to that is no. Because I fell on the way out of the building on the stairs. I broke a buckle on my boot. I must’ve been walking with a cane then.. And the driver of one of the vans that brought a person to my talk helped me up. He hopped out of the van and asked if I was alright. Funny. I remember wearing tassel earrings, and a sweater that I really loved and then stopped being able to find. It’s funny how sometimes things just disappear. I know the sweater is nowhere near my home and I would still love someone to look under my bed to confirm that it is not there. Just a thing.

I was asked to give a Nutrition presentation to a community of humans with variable multiple sclerosis experiences. And I presented the research. And I talked about the popular diet protocols, and I spoke about the importance of variety and adequacy, and I spoke about the fact that eating food, not specific food, just food matters, the most. (as I write this, I am recalling the possibility that I was trying an MS diet at this time, myself. Ouch.)

If I gave a talk today, to a group of my peers, I would say the same thing. And I would be a lot a lot a lot more assertive about it. Chronic illness is hard. Feeling responsible for cells doing what cells do, which is sometimes not working as we wish they would, is cruel. And unhelpful and untrue.

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I spoke with a client today who works in an elementary school. They were talking about elementary school children, using...
06/04/2026

I spoke with a client today who works in an elementary school.

They were talking about elementary school children, using TikTok slang. Learning about the way to be, the way to interact with other humans, the ways to talk about things - bodies, food, feelings, all the things - taught by a short form video popularity contest.

I don’t know what my elementary school experience would’ve been like where I on a social computer all the time. Feel very fortunate to have had youth without social media. And I’m so grateful to be here and to be connected, and I feel deeply sad about the fact that kids - Actual children - are learning here.
There are most certainly not actually here. On my page. They don’t follow me. They are not likely following other humans who might offer some protection. that scares the s**t out of me. For years, I have acknowledged social media as a component of my job security. In fact. And teaching media literacy to teens and adults is different from reaching the young ones who are not in my office, yet.

I am not on TikTok. I have never used a GPT. I do not have an answer. I am not a parent. I do not have judgment if mini computers are a part of your parenting strategy - and eating disorders and body image concerns and social comparison live here.

I did not tear up in session with my client, and I have cried since. Everything. Everywhere. All at once. I hope that you are being thoughtful and kind and careful about how you use these apps. sending love and care.

Everyone’s talking about peptides. Not everyone’s being honest about what they actually are.I learned about peptides ear...
06/03/2026

Everyone’s talking about peptides. Not everyone’s being honest about what they actually are.

I learned about peptides early in my nutrition education. They’re small proteins — amino acids assembled in specific, important ways. And what we’re seeing right now about their potential? Wild.

The truth?

→ Peptides are molecular messengers your body already makes and uses.

→ Over 80 FDA approved peptide drugs exist — including insulin, which has been saving lives since 1921.

→ GLP-1 medications like semaglutide? Peptides. Well researched for diabetes. Over prescribed for not-diabetes.

→ The wellness peptide market? A very different story.

Many peptides being sold online for “biohacking,” longevity, and muscle recovery are labeled “research only” — a legal loophole that means zero FDA oversight, unverified purity, and no long-term human safety data.

The science is genuinely exciting. The gray market around it is genuinely risky. And literally lethal. Please be gentle with yourself navigating this stuff.

— Bhattacharyya, et al. 2024

I have a complicated relationship with the phrase “non-fiction nutrition” because the fact that it needs to exist as a d...
06/02/2026

I have a complicated relationship with the phrase “non-fiction nutrition” because the fact that it needs to exist as a distinguishing term is a genuine indictment of where nutrition communication has landed.

The actual evidence base for nutrition science is not dramatic. It does not require a new protocol every six weeks. It does not demand the elimination of entire food groups or the adoption of expensive supplements or a complete restructuring of how you eat based on your blood type, ancestry, chronotype, or inflammation markers.

What the evidence supports is stable, accessible, and deeply unsexy. And it is drowned out, constantly, deliberately, by content built to generate engagement through fear, novelty, and the promise that this one thing will finally fix what is wrong with you.

I will keep saying the boring true thing for as long as the loud false thing keeps reaching people who deserve better.

Follow and share if you are tired of the noise.

I say this carefully because I want you to sit with it.For the humans I have worked with in eating disorder recovery, ac...
06/01/2026

I say this carefully because I want you to sit with it.
For the humans I have worked with in eating disorder recovery, across the spectrum of eating disorder behaviors, eating diagnosis, or not, the body-focused behavior was never entirely about the body.

It was a strategy.

A way of feeling in control when other things felt uncontrollable.
A way of communicating distress when words weren’t available.
A way of earning safety, love, or belonging in environments where those things felt conditional.

Eating disorders are logical when we recognize how functional they are.

That does not make it safe to stay in. It is not.

But it means that eating disorder treatment addressing only food while ignoring the function the behavior served is incomplete.

Body image healing has to go deeper than the mirror.

Share this if you’ve not clearly identified your eating disorder named as a coping strategy before.

This framing changes things.

I want to acknowledge something recovery spaces don’t say often enough: you are trying to heal your relationship with fo...
05/29/2026

I want to acknowledge something recovery spaces don’t say often enough: you are trying to heal your relationship with food and body inside a culture that is actively working against you.

Every algorithm, every advertisement, every passing comment, every before-and-after story, these are not neutral. They are structural. They are relentless. And they make the work of eating disorder healing harder.

I am not saying this to discourage. I am saying it because I think it is important to name the actual conditions humans are healing inside of, rather than treating recovery as a purely inside jobthat a person simply needs to want badly enough.

You are doing something hard in a world that is not making it easier. That matters.

The fact that you are here, reading this, still trying to figure out how to get well, that is not nothing. I’m cheering for you. Mean it. If it’s been a minute since the last time you ate, please change that.

Follow for content that doesn’t pretend the world is easier than it is.

Body love is a prerequisite for nothing.I mean this so much, friends.I’m working my way through this body love/gratitude...
05/27/2026

Body love is a prerequisite for nothing.

I mean this so much, friends.

I’m working my way through this body love/gratitude/functionality/sorrow/care experience process. If love is a requirement, count me out, mostly. Relationship, partnership

Body neutrality is not a lesser goal.

For many people dealing with eating disorders, chronic illness, body image distress, or a lifetime of diet culture exposure, it is the more honest and more achievable one.

The goal is not a feeling.

It is a functional shift: your body’s appearance stops having veto power over your choices, your relationships, your presence in your own life.

That is what body image healing work actually looks like, and it does not require love as its foundation.

Follow for more on what recovery actually looks like when we take the performance pressure off.

If no one has told you this lately, I am all of your commitment to doing the harder things. Seriously.I think you are br...
05/26/2026

If no one has told you this lately, I am all of your commitment to doing the harder things. Seriously.

I think you are brave
I think you are strong.
I think you are resilient.
I think you are impressive.

Give yourself a pat on the back or a big hug or a hand on heart deep breath. Seriously. Eating disorders are functional. They work in the way that they work. Truth. Neglected to recognize this reality is to minimize how challenging it is to make the steps needed for healing. Living with an eating disorder is a sort of gaslighting hell. Getting better might feel even harder. It will.

Give yourself credit for what you’ve done to get to this moment.
Make a list of things that you’re doing that you couldn’t do in them before. Whatever that means to you. Incredible.

Make a list of things you want to be able to do differently. Choose one. Mull it over. Make a plan to do it. Grab Support if you need them. If you don’t have humans to support your process, no, I am here rooting for you.

Small changes are changes. If you feel called to do so, leave a ❤️ to tell us, me, and you and everyone, that you are doing the harder things. Small things are things.

This is an inaccessible view.A privilege that I don’t believe I would’ve experienced as thoroughly in the before. Becaus...
05/25/2026

This is an inaccessible view.

A privilege that I don’t believe I would’ve experienced as thoroughly in the before. Because in the before, having the ability to see and touch something as tangible as this was possible. The texture of the plants, the softness of the sky. The stillness of the water. How silly of me to have not appreciated this for what it is. Disarmingly beautiful. A gift.

And this was sent to me, as a gift.

Imagine all of the beautiful things and places that you have experienced. And beauty maybe is the wrong word. Interesting. Different. Boring. Plain. Dull. Fascinating. In the before, I didn’t appreciate outside as I do today. Mostly, it is through a pane of glass. Mostly, it is in memory. In my dreams, I am able-bodied, still. In reality, I am very not.

I collect inaccessible views. Saved in highlights as nature. In 2020, these posts were appreciated over 10,000 times. And I learned a lot about who was unable to be truly outside. And it was much more than chronic illness or disability that served as the barrier.

Because I collect these views, I have the privilege of being transported all over the world. So do other humans who appreciate them. Tag me in a story. I’ll be grateful every time.

I don’t know what this whole week holds for you, but please be gentle. Please be attentive. Please be kind. I’m working today if this day looks differently for you than most, please know that you can do this day as you’ve done all the days.
Ily.

I want to be precise about this because the language we use shapes how seriously we take the work.Eating disorder recove...
05/22/2026

I want to be precise about this because the language we use shapes how seriously we take the work.

Eating disorder recovery, the slow, unglamorous, nonlinear process of rebuilding trust with your own body and with food, is not a lifestyle upgrade. It is not a glow-up. It is not content for clicks.

It is clinical work with real stakes and real outcomes.

When someone moves from years of eating in chaos to eating in calm. From calculating how eating fits into a day to nourishing without numbers. From treating every meal as a moral event to being able to eat without it taking over the rest of the day, that is a measurable, significant change in health and quality of life.

This work deserves to be talked about with the gravity it carries.

Not aestheticized.
Not packaged.
Recognized for what it is.

Hard work, worth all of the effort. I believe in you.

Share this if you want more people treating eating disorder recovery as the serious, life-changing work it actually is.

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