The Importance of Protein in Eating Disorder Recovery

Among the essential nutrients needed for recovery, protein provides the amino acids (the body’s building blocks), essential for rebuilding and repairing tissues, as well as restoring overall wellness.

Eating Disorder Support, MacronutrientsIsabella OsmondMarch 14, 2025anorexia, anorexia nervosa, anorexia recovery, bulimia nervosa, bulimia, bulimia recovery, eatin, eating disorder nutrition, eating disorder nutritionist, ED, diso, disordered eating

Why it's time to ditch the diets - From an Eating Disorder Nutritionist

We are human, we are unique, let’s stop trying to fight our genetics and instead respect and learn to accept them and our bodies because, really, our weight is the least interesting thing about us!

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondFebruary 17, 2025Isabella Osmonddiet industry, eating disorder recovery, eating distress, eating disorder, anorexia, anorexia nervosa, anxiety, binge eating, binge eating disorder, disordered eating

A Physiological Response to Restriction - Eating Disorder Recovery

A physiological response to restriction (aka - dieting) is for your internal appetite cues to increase. You’re brain thinks you are in a state of famine and due to the reduced calorie intake it wants energy and it wants it fast!

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondOctober 4, 2024restriction, food restriction, food distress, binge eating, bulimia nervosa, blood glucose levels

5 Ways to Help Kids Build a Positive Relationship with Food

Many eating disorder clients I see have grown up in households where food and experiences around food have not been positive. Fostering a positive relationship with food in children, at a young age, is key when it comes to them being able to make food choices for themselves later down the line.

Practical Tools, ParentsIsabella OsmondSeptember 27, 2024positive relationship with food, eating disorder recovery, eating disorder prevention, parents, food positivity

BOX / WINDOW BREATHING TECHNIQUE

Box breathing can be an extremely useful tool if you are feeling stressed, anxious, panicked and you need to ground yourself.

Practical Tools, Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondSeptember 27, 2024eating disorder recovery, anxiety, self-care tool, grounding techniques, anorexia, anorexia nervosa, ED Recovery, eating distress

Living with Anorexia Nervosa in a Larger Body: Society's Ignorance

Anorexia nervosa is often associated with extreme thinness, but the reality is that this eating disorder can affect individuals of all body sizes, including those in larger bodies.

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondAugust 26, 2024anorexia nervosa, anorexia, eating disorder, eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, restriction, larger body, food restriction, food distress

Mindful Senses: A Practice to Help Reduce Food Distress

Meditation and mindfulness can be really useful practices to help create some space between you and a distressing event or your eating disorder. This blog gives a really simple practice to help you if you need to calm food thoughts, eating distress or anxiety.

Practical ToolsIsabella OsmondJune 24, 2024Isabella Osmondeating disorder recovery, meditation, food distress, mental health

The Importance of Fats - Eating Disorder Nutrition

Often the most feared and demonised macronutrient in those with eating disorders, fat. Let’s talk about why it is important and how can you tell if you are lacking in dietary fats.

Eating Disorder Support, MacronutrientsIsabella OsmondJune 24, 2024Nutritional Support, nutritional therapy, nutritionist, eati, eating disorder, disordered eating, macronutrient, fats, lipids, hormone health

Common Signs & Symptoms associated with low blood glucose in eating disorders

Low blood glucose levels are a commonly experienced in those with eating disorders (of all types). Dizziness, weakness and being hangry doesn’t sound too bad but, ignored, can easily slip into something far more dangerous.

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondJune 24, 2024Isabella Osmondeating disorder recovery, eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder, binge eating, bulimia nervosa, Nutritional Support, blood glucose levels, low blood sugar

Diets: A Potential Gateway to An Eating Disorder?

Engaging in restrictive eating can create a slippery slope towards the development of disordered eating or, a full blown eating disorder. The constant focus on weight and what you are, or are not, allowed to eat along with rigid rules, and foods being labeled as “good” or “bad”, can set an individual on their path to developing an unhealthy relationship with food.

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondNovember 19, 2023restriction, eating disorder, diet industry, mood health, mental health, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, disordered eating, eating disorder recovery

The Importance of Carbohydrates

Often demonised by the diet industry, carbohydrates are actually the unsung heroes of our daily diet, playing a crucial role in providing energy for our bodies. These macronutrients, found in foods like grains, fruits, and vegetables, are the primary fuel source for our muscles and brain.

Isabella OsmondNovember 19, 2023macronutrient, eating disorder, disordered eating, diet industry

8 Different Types of Hunger

xIn this blog we’re going to explore Susie Orbach’s 8 different types of hunger, why we might eat in the absence of hunger and how this might be confusing for clients on their eating disorder recovery journey.

Isabella OsmondDecember 1, 2021

Ways to improve our relationship with our bodies

You don’t have to love your body, but it is important to learn how to be ‘ok’ with it and that means ‘ok’ with it NOW. Not when you have lost 5lbs, not when you have got abs, not when you have recovered...now.

Isabella OsmondNovember 25, 2021

Regular Eating for Eating Disorder Recovery: How to Build a Balanced Routine

Establishing regular eating habits forms a fundamental part of overcoming disordered eating. Regular eating is the foundation upon which other positive changes in eating habits are based.

Eating Disorder Support, mental health, nutrition, Practical Tools, Disordered EatingIsabella OsmondOctober 12, 2021regular eating, regular eating schedule, eating disorder recovery, disordered eating recovery, binge eating food anxiety loss of control around food hunger cues emotional eating, recovery tools, mental health and food

What is the difference between a Nutritional Therapist, Nutritionist and Dietician?

It’s a minefield out there, with many qualified (and unqualified) professionals all claiming to be nutrition ‘experts’, so how do you know what each title means and who you should chose to work with?

Isabella OsmondMay 4, 2020

To snack or not to snack In Eating Disorder Recovery?

Snacking gets a lot of negative press but what’s truly important is to look at why you are snacking and what your body is trying to tell you…

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondMay 3, 2020snack, Intuitive Eating, emotional eating, eating disorder, binge eating

Intuitive Eating In Eating Disorder Recovery

What is intuitive eating? Is it a new fad diet or food craze or, is it a guiding principle that can free people from food fear and endless negative self-talk? In this article I summarise what Intuitive Eating is and its overarching principles.

Eating Disorder SupportIsabella OsmondSeptember 1, 2019Intuitive Eating, Nutritional Support, ED Recovery

Simple Green Smoothie

A simple green smoothie is a great way to support help improve sleep and overall mood health. Dark green leafy vegetables, rich in magnesium, are also a great way to support a good night sleep.

RecipesIsabella OsmondAugust 22, 2019Smoothie, Green Smoothie, Brain health, Sleep

Eat Colourful

As well as essential vitamins and minerals, fruit and vegetables also contain a variety of biologically active chemical compounds known as phytochemicals, which have shown to be beneficial to human health when included as part of a balanced diet.

Isabella OsmondJuly 2, 2019Eat the rainbow, mood health, Brain health, immune support