DietitianAnna

Name: DietitianAnna
Address: Concord, MA, US
Telephone: +19782541344

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DietitianAnna

Helping Humans Feel Better With Food
Eating Disorder & Body Image Pro | Anti-Diet | Food Positive
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06/12/2026

Recovery rarely announces itself with a dramatic moment. It shows up in ordinary, quiet ways, in the space that opens up when food stops being the loudest thing in the room.

I want to talk about what eating disorder recovery actually looks like in daily life because so much content focuses on the clinical or the aspirational and not enough on the recognizable.

The small accumulation of moments where the relationship with food shrinks to its appropriate size and the rest of life expands to fill the space.

This is what I work toward with the people I see clinically, not perfection, not constant food neutrality, but a life with enough room in it to be fully occupied.

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06/11/2026

Before and after content is one of diet culture’s most insidious formats because it frames every story as movement toward something better, and that something better is always a smaller body.

The before is coded as a problem.

The after is coded as resolution.

The humans in the before photos have often been trained to feel that way about the before shot.

And are on the planet, elevating after pictures, just the same.

I work from a Health At Every Size and fat-positive frame because body size is not a behavior.

Because humans in all bodies deserve respect and care.

Because the prevailing scientific literature does not support the cultural judgment that weight is a determinant of health.

I appreciate this may feel extra challenging today.

In the GLP1 era.

In this moment of seemingly everyone shrinking, everywhere.

The action is overwhelming.

I talk about this in every client session right now.

Fat positivity is good for all of the bodies, everywhere.

And if you want to do a little research, please look up the social determinants of health.

I work in the eating disorder healing space and hate before and after pictures, because I have watched the relentless before-and-after narrative contribute directly to the development and maintenance of disordered eating of every body size.

Your body today is not a problem in need of a solution.

Your body is where your life is happening.

Follow if you’re building a feed that reflects something different.

06/10/2026

Shame is extraordinarily good at disguising itself as personal responsibility.

It will tell you that if you had just tried harder, been more disciplined, wanted it badly enough, things would be different.

I have sat with people in eating disorder recovery for eighteen years who believe the problem is that they are the problem.

It is not true.

The conditions that teach people to fear their bodies, to distrust hunger, to treat food as a moral category, those are not personal failures.

They are predictable outcomes of living in a culture that profits from your self-doubt.

Diet culture and disordered eating don’t appear out of nowhere.

They are taught.
They are reinforced.
And they are survivable.

You are not broken.
You were taught to believe you were.

That is a meaningful difference, and it matters enormously in body image healing work.

Swipe slowly.
Let each one settle.

06/09/2026

I became a registered dietitian because I wanted to help people feel well in their bodies.

What I found in clinical practice was that most of the people sitting across from me had already been thoroughly and systematically convinced that their bodies were the enemy.

Not by accident.

The diet industry is built on a premise that requires your ongoing dissatisfaction.

Understanding what was actually sold to you, and who profited, is not a detour from eating disorder recovery or body image healing.

For most people I work with, it is the beginning of it.

When you can see the architecture of diet culture clearly, you stop blaming yourself for being caught inside it.

Health At Every Size and weight-inclusive care exist because the evidence does not support the story you were sold.

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Come back to it when the noise gets loud.

06/08/2026

None of these are character flaws.

Every single one is a learned response to an environment that taught you to override your own signals in favor of external rules.

This is the shape disordered eating takes in everyday life, not always dramatic, not always diagnosable, but present and real and worth naming.

The work of intuitive eating and non-diet care is largely about unlearning.

Recognizing the places where you stopped trusting yourself and finding out what happens when you start again.

I work with people at every point along this spectrum, from full eating disorder diagnoses to what I call chronic disordered eating that has never had a clinical name but has organized someone’s entire life for decades.

All of it deserves care.

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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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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.

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

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.

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.

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