The unapologetically me RD
Brandon RD L9L 1S8 Port Perry, ON, Canada

Look what was delivered while I was listen to her talk!! Can’t wait to dive with not the revised and expanded second edition! @sonyareneetaylor @thebodyisnotanapology #radicalselflove

This episode right here. Dr Jen Brady is a rock star and as usual @virgietovar delivers a must listen podcast. #nondietapproach #nondietdietitian #riotsnotdiets #proudhaesprovider

Did you hear that @themindfuldietitian wrote a book?!l. And that her first interview about it is on the Nourished Circle podcast? Check out this great interview as Fiona discusses becoming a reluctant author and her hopes for Vitamin A to Z. Link in bio or find on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Or podbean. #nondietapproach #nondietdietitian #haes #proudhaesprovider #proudhaesdietitian #mindfulness #mindfuleating

Want to learn a bit more about the @bravingbodyshame conference before you register? Check out the most recent episode of the Nourished Circle Podcast to learn more Links in bio. #bravingbodyshame #haes #proudhaesdietitian #proudhaesprovider #riotsnotdiets #nondietdietitian #nondietapproach

New episode of the Nourished Circle Podcast. I am talking to One of the cohosts of the @bravingbodyshame conference. We discuss the how and the why of this conference plus how you can join. Links to podcast and conference in bio #bravingbodyshame #haes #proudhaesdietitian #weightneutral

New episode alert!! I had the privilege to speak with @themindfuldietitian about her new book which dropped today! Please check out this conversation- link in bio or you can find it on Apple podcast, Spotify, Podbean And then check out Fiona’s book!! #mindfuleating #haes #proudhaesdietitian #riotsnotdiets #nondietdietitian #nondietapproach #mindfuldietitian

I talked to Fiona Sutherland about her new book Vitamin A to Z. It was a great conversation. Hope you get a chance to listen. https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-b52zc-f96b15

Check out the new episode with Julie Sweeney as we talk about the Braving Body Shame conference!! https://nourishedcircle.podbean.com/e/episode-30-braving-b/

The first blog post since April. Thank you to @annalutzrd @with_this_body @tracybrownrd and @themindfuldietitian for teaching me about the nervous system and the window of tolerance this year. This was the year I laid on the floor. Blog link in bio.

new blog post. I talk about laying on the floor and listening to my body. www.unapologeticallymerd.com//30/the-year-i-laid-on-the-fl

I bought myself a gift. Why did I not get the f$@k diet culture ones you ask? I have no idea. Lmao. I guess there will need to be another order. Thank you @theperfectpearearringco these rock!!!!

Posted @withregram @haes_studentdoctor Weight stigma mediates a shame response. . . Shame is an invisible, pervasive and powerful determinant of health. .... . Dolezal and colleagues beautifully break down the mechanisms by which Shame exerts its effect on health outcomes. 1. Acute shame avoidance behaviours 2. Chronic shame health related behaviours 3. Stigma & social threats 4. Biological / physiological mechanisms . . A SHAME RESPONSE HAS A PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE. . . Shame produces physiological changes in a number of body systems (you might notice, similar disruptions in health concerns such as..... PCOS, T2DM/IR, Cardiovascular disease etc)... . . Central Nervous System: Activates sympathetic-pituitary-adrenal medullary (SAM) axis and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. . SAM = adrenaline/noradrenaline (think go-go juice). HPA = Cortisol, mobilise glucagon (fight or flight mode on). . . Immune system: Increase proinflammatory cytokines - TNF, IL-6, IL-1. . IL-6, associated with: muscle atrophy, slow muscle repair & accelerated wasting. Osteoporosis. Arthritis. Congestive heart failure. Prolonged or chronic infections. Production of CRP. . Impaired wound healing. Delayed, weaker or shorter vaccine responses. . . Endocrine System: Catecholamines Adrenocorticotropin Cortisol Growth hormone Prolactin . . Long term these changes associated with immune system down regulation. . . Inc. cortisol initiates, perpetuates or aggrevates syndromal depression or symptoms - insomnia, anxiety, impaired memory. . . Cardiovascular system: IL-6 + CRP, risk factors in the development of myocardial infarction & CVD, and increased risk of CVD mortality. . . Dolezal, L., & Lyons, B. (2017). Health-related shame: an affective determinant of health?. Medical humanities, 43(4), 257263. . . . #haes #healthateverysize #sizediversity #healthcare #healthnotdiets #riotsnotdiets #antidiet #weightneutral #bodyrespect #bodyposi #medicine #medical #brenebrown #weightstigma #mindful #intuitiveeating #nondiet #nutrition #nutritionist #dietitian #medstudent #medschool #shame #wsaw #wsaw2020 See more

Posted @withregram @haesaustralia This coming week, from 28th Sept to 2nd Oct, is Weight Stigma Awareness Week. Each day, we will be posting about the many aspects of weight stigma which aim to increase our awareness about the many harms of weight stigma to raise awareness and offer ideas about how we can ALL make a difference in optimising care for all people, in all bodies. Before we launch into the week, we want to pay respect and tribute to the founder of Weight Stigma ...Awareness Week, Chevese Turner, a tireless advocate, colleague and friend to many of us. Chevese founded the Binge Eating Disorder (BEDA) in 2008 after identifying a need for greater advocacy for individuals affected by binge eating disorder (BED) and the providers who treat them. She speaks often about her own experiences of weight stigma, and the need for recognition of and access to care for those with eating disorders in all bodies. It is largely through the work of BEDA under Chevese’s leadership that Binge Eating Disorder was finally recognised as an official eating disorder diagnosis in 2013 and that since this time, people with BED have had greater access to care and funding streams. Chevese is a tenacious advocate and has helped to directly name one of the most under-acknowledged variables in health and wellbeing weight stigma. She also helped set in motion one of the most incredibly important articles about weight bias in health professionals when she encouraged Dr Rebecca Puhl, a weight bias and stigma researcher with the Rudd Center (Yale University), to survey eating disorder treatment professionals about weight bias. The results, although perhaps unsurprising, point to the work that lies ahead of us in healthcare to first address weight bias in healthcare providers to provide inclusive, respectful and high quality healthcare across all body sizes. We recognise that there is still a lot of work to be done, and HAES Australia are an advocacy organisation committed to changing the conversation. Learn more about us here: https://haesaustralia.org.au/ #WSAW2020 #EndWeightStigma #HAESAustralia

Check this out! Posted @withregram @haes_sizediversity Hey youSummer may be coming to an end, but we are not! Reminder to register for our upcoming educational webinar! Join us for "Considerations for ethical treatment of Eating Disorders and Body Image concerns with cisgender women who identify as LBQ Presented by Erin K. Ebert, LCSW... Friday, September 25th, 2020 Noon to 1:00 pm CST We look forward to hosting you! Link in bio. Photo by AllGo - An App for Plus Size People on Unslpash Photo description: Plus size people at a pool party

A reminder that you can’t see all chronic or acute illness on a body. Crohn’s disease affects so many parts of my life. Yet you can’t see it when you look at me. I will plan eating or not eating based on my symptoms and where I need to be. Sometimes the pain is so much I can’t stand straight. Other days I don’t even have a second of pain. My weight fluctuates greatly due to meds and symptoms yet people don’t realize when it drops that means I am not doing well yet I get compl...ements about how great I look. It is always on my mind as I plan vacations around public bathrooms and food choices and water. I plan around my 8 wk cycle of #stelera I get really fatigued and headaches for about 36hrs after injections. I feel a bit more symptomatic a few days before. This is life. This is life with an illness that never goes away. This is life with an illness many will never even know I have. So today I took my needle in the sunshine because I value every single day I have this disease because that means I am still alive. #crohnsdisease #crohnswarrior #crohnsandcolitiscanada See more

This past month I have been angry. All the time. About everything My anxiety is a struggle. My Crohn’s disease has been a struggle. Watching what has been happening around the world and trying to figure out where I need to make change has been hard but probably the most important I look at my kids and get angry for the world I have been complacent in creating and want to be part of changing for them. I get angry that I didn’t learn my country’s accurate history in school but then angry that I didn’t question it sooner. I have been angry a lot. It’s not helpful. I need to be part of change. Active change. I have read and I have listened but that is not enough. There needs to be action. Committed action. So I am looking for a new mindset for September. What would be your hashtag?? Let me know in comments.

Posted @withregram @themindfuldietitian When we are planning, engaging in or delivering "health care" initiatives, programs or consultations, how much are we actually focussed on the humans we are serving? Or are we being distracted by "deliverables" & what is named "evidence-based practice" along with any demands to meet budgets, align with guidelines, protocols & more?? It's not uncommon that in our well-intentioned enthusiasm to want to "help," we forget the myriad of re...asons why so, so many people find this thing we call "healthcare" so difficult. Unless we are FIRST prioritising access, capacity, values, consent, priorities, lived experience and more, we can end up eliciting a powerful shame response in the people we are serving. What we best understand about shame is that it can drive experiences of stigma & marginalisation which in turn can lead to poor physical and mental health care outcomes. In regular person speak, what this means is that any conversations, messaging, education, campaigns or programs - however well intentioned - which lead people to feel badly about themselves is highly unlikely to lead to them making changes which may actually support enhanced wellbeing. AND (importantly), can cause additional harm. . . To be clear, it's not that health promotion, nutrition, mental health, sleep, self care etc should be thrown out. But when we rush in with our privilege to "deliver" to people and communities, then wonder why we are ineffective, this might be worth considering..... Are we asking people to first share their experience, their wisdom & their ideas before offering our own? Are we naming their experience for them, or inviting people to name their experiences for themselves? Are we first asking consent for all tests, procedures or being weighed/measured? Are we first considering people's capacity to actually participate in what we are delivering? Are we being culturally thoughtful? Are we examining our own privilege & biases? We all care. So let's actually put care first. #HAES #mindfuldietitian #care #inclusivecare

Posted @withregram @haes_studentdoctor Health care practitioners - how many associations between weight cycling and health outcomes do you know of? . . In a weight normative setting many of the above adverse outcomes are often framed as a result of higher weight with very little consideration given to the impact of weight cycling. .... . If we stay in the weight normative/centric frame for a moment - given what we know about intentional weight loss and weight cycling as it relates to the principles of non-maleficence and beneficence when is Treatment (weight manipulation) worse than the condition (high weight)? . . If you are working from a weight centric paradigm.... How often do you disclose the efficacy of weight management/intentional weight loss interventions AND these known adverse health effects of the inevitable weight cycling as part of a wider informed consent process? . . This slide deck is adapted from the following ESSENTIAL reading: O’Hara, L., & Taylor, J. (2018). What’s Wrong With the ‘War on Obesity?’ A Narrative Review of the Weight-Centered Health Paradigm and Development of the 3C Framework to Build Critical Competency for a Paradigm Shift. SAGE Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244018772888 . . . . . . . . . #haes #healthateverysize #sizediversity #healthcare #healthnotdiets #riotsnotdiets #antidiet #weightneutral #nondietapproaches #bodyrespect #bodyposi #medicine #medical #weightstigma #mindful #intuitiveeating #nondiet #nutrition #nutritionist #dietitian #rd2b #medstudent #medschool #edrecovery #weightcycling #weightloss See more

Love this photo from @bodyliberationwithlindley collection of stock photos. Having access to photos of diverse bodies was so important to me when giving the website an update. There were so many to choose from I could have done 4 or 5 websites! Be sure to check them out if you are looking for stock photos. #nondietdietitian #nondietapproach #intuitiveeatingofficial #intuitiveeating #badassnondietdietitian

My new website is live!!!! Thank you @rebeloffice for all your incredible work in getting this vision out in the world. Stock photos from the amazing @bodyliberationwithlindley and my headshot by @photographsbyrach #nondietdietitian #proudhaesdietitian #intuitiveeatingofficial #riotsnotdiets #haes #nourishedcirclepodcast

Have you read Untamed by Glennon Doyle? For me this was a book that has rattled around inside me from the first word and is still there weeks later. I say out loud everyday Be a Fucking Cheetah. Live my wild. Fight for myself. Teach my kids to live their wild. Teach them to not let themselves down. Help my clients find their wild. Engage my students to push me and themselves. Be a fucking cheetah. Thank you @glennondoyle for shaking my world in the best way possible. #badassnondietdietitian #proudhaesdietitian

I am speaking virtually tomorrow (Aug 10/20) on nourishing your body so you can get out and kick ass in life registration link in bio Posted @withregram @thewellnessproject_otu The Wellness Project & @sheleads_otu presents the Nourish & Flourish forum! Join us on August 10 from 6-7:30pm for an event about mental, emotional & physical wellness! We'll be having two guest speakers that will engage you all in discussion regarding self-love, body positivity, nutrition, fitness..., and much more! Lori-Short Zamudio (@lorishortzamudiord) is a registered dietitian that will be discussing harmful body ideals, women's health, and effective ways to ensure you're getting enough nutrients! Jessica Nguyen (@jyofitness) is a recent Kinesiology graduate from Ontario Tech University, and she'll be discussing her fitness journey and will be offering motivational tips! The event will be held on Monday, August 10th from 6-7:30 PM through Zoom. Please RSVP as soon as possible via our eventbrite link in our bio! We hope to see you there

Posted @withregram @the.doodle.project Hi all, I’ve decided to make a guide on getting pronouns right. Coming out with new pronouns is so scary, so as an ally, it is your job to support a friend and use their pronouns! Pretty much everything I want to say is said in the post, so please swipe all the way through! Make sure to like and share this post with others to spread awareness about using the right pronouns