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Disordered Eating Specialist Dietitian 🍴 Promoting evidence-based nutrition messages & a healthy relationship with food 🥙

Maeve is a Registered Dietitian specialising in disordered eating and supporting those who want to heal their relationship with food. She is passionate about evidence-based, weight-inclusive nutrition messages and care. Maeve also provides nutrition consultancy services and provides talks and webinars. For more information head to: www.dietetically speaking.com

14/01/2026

Fear of UPFs is harming so many people right now 😫

If you want to dive deeper, I’ve written a full article about this on my website called “How Ultra-Processed Food Fear Can Fuel Anxiety & Disordered Eating”

And if you’re struggling with food fear or anxiety and want support, don’t hesitate to send me a DM ❤️

12/01/2026

Body image distress can get really bad this time of year 😣

I hope you find this helpful for checking in with your body image, so you can re-centre yourself and figure out what you need right now.

Remember: all bodies deserve care and respect - yours is no different ❤️

And if you need support with your body image and relationship with food, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Maeve x

08/01/2026

Fearing food is worse for you than a few extra ingredients!

Share this post if you agree and follow this page for more evidence-based information from a dietitian who cares about your relationship with food ❤️

06/01/2026

Fuel Your Fitness is officially going online!

Now you can stay cosy at home, log in from anywhere, and still get the full supportive, interactive experience.

And now you don’t need to live in the North East to join us anymore!

If you’re prioritising movement or fitness (or thinking about this) and you want to learn how food can support that without dieting, restriction or body shame, this programme is for you.

Here’s what we’ll be covering:

Week 1: Mindset Building self-compassion, reconnecting with your values, and learning how to protect yourself from diet-culture noise.

Week 2: Attunement Reconnecting with hunger, fullness and satisfaction, and using those cues to guide nourishing your body.

Week 3: Understanding Body Image With a particular focus on body image especially in fitness spaces — and developing tools to support yourself on harder days.

Week 4: Fuelling Without Restriction How to nourish your body for movement, life and health without food rules, plus practical meal ideas you can actually use.

We start 12th January, so there are only a few days left to sign up.
 You can join all four 90-minute sessions for £76.50 (that’s less than £20 per session), or book pay-as-you-go at £25 per session.

I’d absolutely love to support you in this program. So comment or DM FUEL for all the details.

05/01/2026

You don’t need another diet or to just “try harder” 🙅‍♀️

You need expert support, tailor to you ❤️

I help my clients to:
✨ Let go of guilt and obsession around food
✨ Feel confident and calm about food
✨ Stop binging, restricting & feeling out of control with food
✨ Build lasting food freedom and body respect, at your pace

Don’t hesitate to send me a DM if you’d like to chat about your food struggles.

Maeve x

04/01/2026

Self-Compassion is the foundation to food freedom.

Healing your relationship with food takes time and can be difficult at times, so being on your own side is essential.

For more tools to get you started on your journey, download my free workbook, “First Steps to Food Freedom” 🔗in bio or DM me and I’ll send it directly to you 😊

03/01/2026

Just because it’s everywhere, it doesn’t mean it’s OK 😩

Diet culture can wreak havoc on your relationship with food, so be extra wary this time of year and do what you can to protect yourself from it using cooking mechanisms, your support system and boundaries as needed ❤️

Where do you see diet culture showing up most often?

02/01/2026

Please do what you can to protect yourself from all the harmful diety BS circulating at the moment 😩

And if you want support with this and live in the Northeast of England don’t miss out on the 4-week programme I’m running with from the 12th of January until the 2nd of February.

This will be a safe and supportive space to learn how to fuel your body while also protecting yourself from diet culture. There will be absolutely no focus on weight or restrictive diets.

This is great value at only £90 for 4 x 90-minute sessions - more info linked in bio & just send us a DM if you have any questions ☺️

01/01/2026

The New Year comes with pressures to reset, bounce back, or overhaul our habits

So please take this as a gentle reminder that:

🌟 It’s okay to have enjoyed the festive season fully.

🌟 Your body deserves respect and care all year round.

🌟 You don’t need to diet, “bounce back,” or set food-related resolutions.

🌟 Prioritise joy, nourishment, and kindness to yourself.

👉 Swipe through to read all 10 Gentle January Reminders.

And if you want less food guilt and food noise in 2026, a more peace and confidence with food I’d love to have you join my online workshop Eating With Ease. Tickets are limited and only £15 each, so DM or comment the word EASE to sign up 😊

29/12/2025

One of the best tricks diet culture plays on us is trying to make it all about willpower.

When in reality you were always set up to fail, and being hard on yourself only makes it worse and harder to take good care of yourself.

This post was inspired by one of my wonderful clients who found the first quote above really helpful to remind herself why self-compassion is the foundation of a healthy relationship with food ❤️

If you’re interested in reducing food guilt and food noise in 2026 then I’d love you to come along to my mastermind Eating With Ease which will focus on exactly that. Comment or DM the word EASE for more info 😊

26/12/2025

This period after Christmas can feel really tough if you struggle with food

Some people stay in ‘last supper mentality’ mode until the diet starts on the 1st of Jan - this feeds into the never ending cycle of being on and off diets or feeling constantly either ‘good or bad’ with food.

Whereas for others the lack of routine and guilt about consuming festive food leads to restriction, but unfortunately this only backfires and leaves you feeling more out of control.

So I encourage to you continue to nourish your body regularly, remember you can still enjoy tasty food in January (to reduce the pressure to ‘go mad’ now) and listen to your body in terms of what food, rest and movement it may need right now ❤️

And most important of all, please try to be kind to yourself just like you would show up for someone you love 🫶

Maeve x

23/12/2025

You deserve the gift of a peaceful relationship with food ❤️

Save this post incase you need any reminders of this over the next few days or as we head into January (AKA peak diet culture season).

I hope you have a lovely Christmas 🎄

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