DietitianAnna

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Virtual Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian & Body Image Pro

Anti-Diet | Food and Fat Positive | Chronic Illness

is not your dietitian (or anyone's...)

I have spent the entirety of my career sitting with humans whose relationship with food and body and more was complicate...
09/04/2026

I have spent the entirety of my career sitting with humans whose relationship with food and body and more was complicated by an eating disorder.

This is not a resume line. It's simply where I have spent my time and attention and care for as long as I have been fortunate enough to do this good work. It is where I plan to stay.

This page is not going to leave you with a meal plan or rules to follow or quick strategies for peace. This page, and I, am going to tell you the truth, even on the days that the truth is not trending.

Non-fiction nutrition.
Kindness, not niceness.
Real healing in the real world.
Chronic illness.
Disability.
Inaccessible views.

This page is for you. And this page is for me. Tell me where in the world, you are reading this from. So grateful to be connected.

The wellness industry is not confused about nutrition, whatever it might look like from the outside.It is a very clear a...
09/03/2026

The wellness industry is not confused about nutrition, whatever it might look like from the outside.

It is a very clear about its business model, really. and a model depends on convincing you, gently and repeatedly, that your body is a problem in need of the solution being sold.

You are not in the picture. You were never meant to be.

I built this page, in part, to be the place you check before you buy the supplement, start the protocol, or try the thing a friend or a stranger online swears changed their life.

Ask me directly, if you want. I would rather tell you a less exciting truth than let you get sold something that ends up costing you more than money.

Kind, not nice. That's me.

I would rather lose a follower over an honest answer than watch someone get hurt by something I stayed quiet about. I am more frustrated about navigating wellness industry, MAHA chaos then ever. Thank you for witnessing my not so quiet fury unfold.
Nothing that you will ever, or could ever, eat, is worse for you than outsourcing body wisdom.

A few weeks after my client noticed they had stopped looking for content about food, maybe longer, they noticed somethin...
09/02/2026

A few weeks after my client noticed they had stopped looking for content about food, maybe longer, they noticed something else too: their feed had changed.

The algorithm had learned who they actually were now, and it had quietly stopped serving them what it used to think they wanted.

I want to be careful here, because I do not think the takeaway is that you should treat your algorithm like a recovery tool, or that what shows up on your phone is proof of anything on its own.

I think the actual takeaway is smaller and stranger than that.

Recovery changes what you reach for. Eventually, without you managing it or trying to, the world around you starts reflecting that back, in ways you could not have planned for and were not expecting.

This was a genuinely pleasant surprise for my client. Watching it happen from the outside was, honestly, one of the more impressive things I have seen in this work in a long time.

There will be countless surprises like this one waiting for you in recovery.

Most of them will be quieter than this. Some will be just as strange.

You cannot engineer your way to them. You can only keep doing the gentler thing in front of you, and let the rest catch up eventually.

Train the machine to support you. I mean that so very much.

Reminder: having the option of eating without rules does not mean that you will eat all the food, all the time.Statement...
09/01/2026

Reminder: having the option of eating without rules does not mean that you will eat all the food, all the time.

Statements, I hear frequently:

“If I eat this, I’ll never stop eating it.”
“I can’t keep that kind of food in my house.”
“If I don’t follow this rule, I will feel unsafe all the time. Rules keep me safe.”

These are only some of the responses that I’ve heard when I have witnessed my clients examine their food rules. I don’t wish for you to have an experience with food that is rule driven.
It’s really normal to experience a lot of energy around food if you’ve been limiting it in your diet for a long time or short time or any time at all. That’s normal. Moving away from restriction, physical or mental, is key here.

Saying no to food rules is not the same thing as saying yes to all the food, endlessly.

* my pages educational, and does not represent nutrition therapy or medical care.

📌Food recalls made headlines across the U.S. in 2026. Here’s what actually happened — from the CDC, FDA, and USDA. No cl...
08/31/2026

📌Food recalls made headlines across the U.S. in 2026. Here’s what actually happened — from the CDC, FDA, and USDA. No clickbait, no fear list. 🧵

If you’re in eating disorder recovery, recall news can feel like it’s testing the line between “informed” and “spiraling.” We’re not adding another mental list of safe vs. unsafe foods — we’re handing you the facts so you and your team can decide what to do with them.

Swipe for: Cyclospora in iceberg lettuce (Taylor Farms) → E. coli in frozen blueberries (Publix GreenWise) → Salmonella in jalapeños linked to Chipotle & QDOBA → Salmonella in shell eggs (Midwest Poultry Services) → Listeria in soft cheese (Clover Hill Dairy) → foreign material in jasmine rice (Lundberg Family Farms)

Recalls happen across every food category — fresh, frozen, packaged, and pantry alike. That’s the system working, not proof any one food group is dangerous. Processed and convenience foods aren’t the villain here.

Food recalls happen. The alarm system is working. There are a lot of things that are not working well, and your food is safe.
Save this so you have it later. I love you.

My clients ask how anyone actually gets through recovery. The process. The whole thing. I do not have a quick answer for...
08/28/2026

My clients ask how anyone actually gets through recovery. The process. The whole thing. I do not have a quick answer for that. One fits cleanly into a caption.

What I have instead is a small one. And a reminder from my dog.

Ruby has never once paused to consider whether the vacuum is worth panicking over before reacting to it anyway.
She does not strategize or plan three steps ahead. She just gets through the next moments in front of her. and then the minutes after that, one stretch at a time, without much apparent concern for how the whole day will add up.

Some days, that is the only approach that has ever worked for me too, in this work and outside of it. Not a plan. Just the next stretch.

Tell me what is sitting on your list this weekend, the thing you keep circling without landing on. I am not going to promise you it will be easy. I will tell you, with some confidence, that it is doable. I believe in you. ❤️

I have been thinking about this a lot. About where I started and who I started treating at the beginning. I’ve been thin...
08/26/2026

I have been thinking about this a lot. About where I started and who I started treating at the beginning. I’ve been thinking about the privilege of working as a member of a care team providing acute care. I’ve been thinking about the number of humans who I provided care for, with the support of an entire team. Humans who have gone on to get well, or not. I’ve been thinking more about the number of humans who have not and will not ever receive the acute care they deserve.

Access to care has always required more than a person just being sick. It requires a bed. A team. Insurance approval. Time. And even when all of that lines up, the length of a stay is decided by someone who has never met the person receiving care.

I’ve been out of higher levels of care for years now. What I can’t stop thinking about is the truth that the humans who have access to care are deserving of it and that so many humans who would benefit from it, won’t receive it.

If you have an eating disorder, with or without a diagnosis, I believe you. I believe in you. Don’t give up. I’m rooting for you.
Hugs, a

they’ve never touched a magazine. no glossy cover telling them what their body might do this fall. and the message found...
08/25/2026

they’ve never touched a magazine.

no glossy cover telling them what their body might do this fall.

and the message found them anyway, because it was never really about the magazine. it’s older than that. it’s a system that decided some bodies need watching, managing, shrinking, and that system has always been tangled up with anti-Blackness.

that’s where the early comments come from too. not cruelty. inheritance. thinness taught as a survival strategy, a way to move through the world with less punishment attached to a body. that’s not a personal failing. that’s what happens when respectability gets handed down as protection.

now add a GLP-1 prescription to a body that hasn’t finished becoming itself yet.

this isn’t a takedown of anyone. not the family carrying old survival rules. not the kid on a GLP-1. not the kid who isn’t.

it’s a request to look at where the fear actually started. the actual root.

tag a kid headed to campus this fall. send them something other than a warning.

🆘❌the freshman fifteen❌🆘
08/24/2026

🆘❌the freshman fifteen❌🆘

Nutrition education trains dietitians to know a lot of things. Dietitians are trained to know far more than the non-fict...
08/21/2026

Nutrition education trains dietitians to know a lot of things. Dietitians are trained to know far more than the non-fiction nutrition that circulates on social media, all day, every day. And for most of us, eating disorder nutrition counseling is not a skill set our education included.

That gap shows up fast, in real sessions. A client goes quiet mid-sentence, and the instinct says fill it. Offer a fact. Ask a follow-up. Do something visible enough to prove the hour is being used well. That instinct comes from a good place, and it's usually trained into new clinicians hard, because eating disorder cases can feel high stakes in a way that makes silence feel dangerous. It isn't, most of the time. It's often exactly where the work is happening.

Some of the most important shifts I've witnessed happen in session had no words attached to them at all. A breath held, then released. A long stretch where nothing got said and everything still moved. Rushing to fill that space doesn't accelerate healing in this population. It interrupts it, at exactly the moment a client might have found their own way into the next sentence.

This is a slower kind of competence than what gets modeled in most training programs. Harder to chart. Harder to defend in a case note when a supervisor asks what happened in session. Still, arguably, some of the most clinically important work an eating disorder session can hold.

It is an honor and a privilege to do this work alongside my clients.

Leave a if you love this work, or if you love your dietitian. ❤️


This page is educational and does not represent nutrition therapy or individualized care.

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