Ep36: Healing Your Relationship with Food & Overcoming Disordered Eating with Anna Sweeney

Anna Sweeney is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian
and Supervisor, Certified Sports Nutritionist, Certified Intuitive
Eating Specialist and owner of Whole Life Nutrition. Anna is an
expert in the treatment of individuals struggling with eating
disorders, disordered eating, and emotional eating. She combines
her knowledge of the science of nutrition and experience in the
treatment of eating disorders with direct, compassionate, and
heartfelt care to help her clients realize the pleasures of living
a Whole Life. Anna’s goal is to help her clients to heal their
relationships with food and body, trust their own wisdom,
appreciate self-care, and to enjoy every bite along the way.
In this episode, Anna and I discuss:



* My experience with an eating disorder
* The reason Anna specialized in eating disorders
* Anna’s attempt to heal her multiple sclerosis through
nutrition
* The value and power of intuitive eating
* How diet culture puts food on a pedestal
* Packaging old nutrition concepts as groundbreaking “new
science”
* Challenging the idea of food rules
* How to learn to incorporate “challenge foods”
* Disordered eating behaviors that are culturally praised vs.
shamed
* Biological causes of binge eating
* The reason you’re feeling preoccupied by food
* How to know if you’re being restrictive with food
* The guideline of 3’s
* How to work through your fears surrounding food
* The importance of getting support to heal
* The fact that health exists at any size, in a wide variety of
bodies (HAES)
* Devastating effects of weight stigma & discrimination
* Thin privilege
* Genetic diversity of bodies
* How diet culture hijacks “health” terms and buzzwords
* The danger of trainers making specific nutrition recommendations
to clients
* That there’s no magical cure in nutrition
* Anna’s relationship to her body having MS
* The importance of modifying programs for all body sizes



Learn more about Anna and Whole Life Nutrition:
wholeliferd.com
Follow Anna on Instagram: @dietitiananna