Eating Concerns Dietitian Services
Eating Concerns Dietitian Services:
The registered dietitian (RD) will work with students who are struggling with their relationship with food. Whether an eating disorder, disordered eating or other eating concerns the RD will help the student explore their thoughts about food, body and/or movement, their eating behaviors and barriers to recovery. Individualized recommendations will be made in regards to nutritional needs, meal planning and weight restoration, as needed.
Nutrition Care Philosophy:
The RD utilizes an evidence-based, weight-inclusive philosophy. They embrace well-being independent of weight through a non-diet, Health at Every Size and Intuitive Eating approach. They focus on establishing life-long behaviors recognizing that weight is not a behavior. The RD helps students develop a positive relationship with food by achieving adequacy and consistency without rigid rules or restriction.
Additional Services:
- Prevention, Outreach and Wellness Education Resources (POWER): Please contact Meghan Wolfe (meghan.wolfe@uky.edu) for intuitive eating and/or body image coaching.
- UK Dining: Please contact Jessica Carter, RDN, LD (diningdietitian@lsv.uky.edu), for general nutrition counseling for students living on campus and eating on the meal plan. She can also help manage food allergies when dining on campus.
- UK Athletics: Please contact Xaymara Gonzalez Adams, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES (xgonzalezadams@uky.edu), for sports nutrition needs as a student athlete.
Location
Gatton Student Center, East Wing, 3rd floor, Suite C330
Hours of Operation
By appointment
Supportive Info
Intuitive Eating
Intuitive eating is an evidence-based practice that provides a self-care eating framework. It helps you relearn your body’s hunger and satiety cues to determine what to eat, when to eat, and how much to eat. Intuitive eating is learning to honor and trust your hunger, your food, your feelings, and your choices.
Benefits of Intuitive Eating
| Increased | Decreased |
|---|---|
| Self-esteem | Disordered eating |
| Well-being and optimism | Triglycerides |
| Variety of foods eaten | Emotional eating |
| Body appreciation and satisfaction | Self-silencing |
| Body appreciation and acceptance | Loss of control of eating |
| Interoceptive awareness | Binge eating |
| Pleasure from eating | Weight bias internalization |
| Proactive coping | Blood pressure |
| Psychological hardiness | Body dissatisfaction |
| Unconditional self-regard | |
| Life satisfaction | |
| HDL "good" cholesterol |
Health at Every Size (HAES)
HAES, or Health at Every Size, acknowledges that well-being and healthy habits are more important than the number on the scale. HAES works on disproving societal expectations of thinness by proving that health is independent of body size.
Principles of HAES
- Healthcare is a human right for people of all sizes, including those at the highest end of the weight spectrum.
- Care is fully provided only when free from anti-fat bias and offered with people of all sizes in mind.
- Wellbeing, care and healing are resources that are both collective and deeply personal.
- Health is a sociopolitical construct that reflects the values of society.