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Disordered Eating and Eating Disorder Nutritionists

In the United States alone, 9% of the population, or 28.8 million Americans, will have an eating disorder during their lifetime. While eating disorders come in many shapes and sizes, what they all have in common is how they disrupt your life and damage your relationship with food.

Our disordered eating and eating disorder Registered Dietitian Nutritionists at Doherty Nutrition use the counseling principles of Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size, weight-inclusive care and medical nutrition therapy to guide you on a path to food freedom and body liberation. Whether you’re struggling with body image, relationship with food or other food-related issues, we’re here to help you in your food journey and to start or continue your eating disorder recovery.

When to Consider Treatment

Everyone’s experience with food can look different. Consider reaching out to a Registered Dietitian if you’ve experienced any of the following challenges:

Constantly losing control over how much you eat
Feeling anxiety about eating around others or eating in general
Experiencing guilt after eating
Self-induced vomiting after feeling uncomfortably full
Letting your weight or body shape affect your feeling of self-worth

Our Approach

Doherty Nutrition is here to help renew your relationship with food and properly fuel your body. Our Registered Dietitians are excited to aid you on a recovery journey that fits your exact needs. Together, we can help you:

Develop sustainable meal plans

Discover foods you love

Implement effective coping mechanisms around food

Stay encouraged with meal support sessions

Find peace with your body

Forms of Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating We Help Treat

Disordered eating and eating disorders can come in many forms — Doherty Nutrition has the tools, knowledge and resources to help anyone experiencing any of the following conditions:

Anorexia Nervosa (AN)

What is Anorexia Nervosa?

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a condition in which a diet is purposefully restricted to control body weight and shape. Individuals with AN may meticulously count their calories or purposefully skip meals. If this sounds like your current experience, Doherty Nutrition can pair you with a compassionate dietitian for anorexia. They will help educate you on what is nutritionally essential for your body and debunk false nutritional information.

Avoidant or Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

What is ARFID?

Avoidant or restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is often confused with picky eating in children. However, ARFID will cause someone not to eat enough because they have a sensory issue with the food, including taste, texture, color or smell. Our dietitians use the food-chaining method to start with foods you like and gradually introduce foods you want to eat.

Binge Eating Disorder

What is Binge Eating Disorder?

Binge eating disorder is when someone consistently eats past the point of uncomfortable fullness due to a lack of control over eating. This condition is the most common eating disorder in people of all ages, genders, races and weights. A registered dietitian can help identify triggers for binge eating and teach you coping mechanisms to honor hunger and fullness cues from your body.

Bulimia Nervosa (BN)

What is Bulimia Nervosa?

Bulimia nervosa (BN) is when a binge eating disorder is followed by compensatory behaviors to purge the recent intake of calories. Compensatory behaviors can be anything from vomiting, laxative use, excessive exercise or fasting periods. A dietitian or eating disorder specialist can help you break this constant cycle, challenging and replacing unhealthy behaviors with healthy strategies.

Other Forms of Disordered Eating or Eating Disorders

Disordered eating or eating disorders can go beyond the traditional understanding of the condition. Some additional ways disordered eating or eating disorders are prevalent in our community include:

Compulsive Exercise

An urgent need to exercise to compensate for what was eaten. This is not an eating disorder itself, but it is often accompanied by or a symptom of an eating disorder.

Diabulimia

When a person with insulin-dependent diabetes restricts insulin doses to control weight and body.

Disordered Eating

Any traits of any eating disorder without having a diagnosis. Most people eat in a disordered way at multiple stages in their lives, including chronic dieting, emotional eating, or fear of certain foods.

Orthorexia

Fixating on and only eating foods deemed “healthy” to a detrimental degree — someone may compulsively check ingredients or nutrition facts labels, increasingly cut out food groups or obsess over the “health” of foods.

Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED)

A “catch-all” category that covers any atypical presentation of an eating disorder that would prevent it from being diagnosed as such.

Pica

Characterized by the eating of non-food substances, such as brick, paper or chalk. It may be the result of nutritional deficiencies or psychotic illness.

Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S)

When an individual’s energy intake is insufficient to support their energy expenditure, leading to impaired metabolic rate, bone health, immunity, protein synthesis or cardiovascular health.