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Lucy Carey | Disordered Eating Dietitian & Educator for Health Professionals
I help nutrition pros & health coaches confidently guide clients to food freedom with my step-by-step Food Freedom Framework đŸ©·
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If you’ve ever tried (like I have) to introduce intuitive eating to a client before they’re ready for it, you’ll know ho...
28/10/2025

If you’ve ever tried (like I have) to introduce intuitive eating to a client before they’re ready for it, you’ll know how it can backfire drastically.

And my drastic, I mean you’ll never see them again. Ghosted.

They’re not ready to eat when they’re hungry, because they don’t even know what hunger feels like anymore.

They’re not ready to pick what food to eat because that kind of freedom feels overwhelming and chaotic!

The truth is, most clients aren’t ready for intuitive eating right away.

And that’s not a failure, it’s just physiology.

In today’s blog post, I’m breaking down why intuitive eating can feel impossible at first, and what to do instead. (Hint: it involves structure - but not in the way you might think)

https://eattypelive.com/2025/10/28/why-your-clients-arent-ready-for-intuitive-eating-and-what-to-do-instead/

And P.S. My signature course Disordered Eating Coaching Academy is still open for enrollment - but only until 5pm Friday! If you're ready to fall back in love with your career and get your clients real results that last a lifetime, head to eattypelive.com /de/academy for all the details!

Years of dieting have taught your clients to ignore their body - so how can they eat intuitively? They need a stepped approach...

The weight loss side effect no one talks about...I drove behind a bus that had a big sign on it for weight loss medicati...
21/10/2025

The weight loss side effect no one talks about...

I drove behind a bus that had a big sign on it for weight loss medication today.

At the pharmacy, they had a advertisement that was cleverly designed as an informational poster on display.

And a past client emailed me to tell me that her social media feed is flooded with weight loss injectable ads.

So I’m sure your clients have been asking you about them. They work quickly, which is so appealing to clients. They want that rapid weight loss. The quick fix.

But what happens when the body changes faster than the mind can keep up?

I’m seeing more and more clients who have been on weight loss medications or who have had weight loss surgery, and have lost a lot of weight
 Yet they’re emotionally flat, they’re anxious, and they’re terrified of weight regain.

Their body transformed, but their relationship with food didn’t.

Today’s blog post is about the hidden emotional cost of rapid weight loss, and why a slower, trust-based approach (like the one I use with my Food Freedom Framework) creates lasting change without the emotional chaos.

Rapid weight loss looks appealing, but it comes at a dramatic cost

Have you ever told a client to eat “everything in moderation”? I certainly have. And I really thought it was sound, bala...
14/10/2025

Have you ever told a client to eat “everything in moderation”? I certainly have. And I really thought it was sound, balanced, reasonable advice đŸ€“

But it didn’t work đŸ˜«

My clients stalled in their progress and I got more and more frustrated that they just didn’t seem to “get it”. To be honest, sometimes I would hope for a DNA so I didn’t have to deal with them
 And then I’d wonder if I had picked the right career because what kind of dietitian hopes their client doesn’t show up?! 😣

But the true culprit here wasn’t me, it was “everything in moderation”.

It sounds balanced but it actually reinforces the same diet culture beliefs we’re trying to help clients escape.

Here’s the truth: moderation isn’t something we teach. It’s something that happens when your client’s rel’ationship with food is healed ❀

In today’s blog post, I’m breaking down:

👉 Why “moderation” still leans into black-and-white thinking
👉 The psychology of why moderation feels impossible for many clients
👉 How food safety and trust naturally lead to real balance

It seems logical and sound, but telling clients to have everything in moderation may actually be the reason they are not making progress

Most binge eating advice doesn't work.That's because most health professionals have never been taught the true reasons b...
06/10/2025

Most binge eating advice doesn't work.

That's because most health professionals have never been taught the true reasons behind binge eating...

And sadly, a lot of the advice I see (keeping triggers foods out of the house, pre-portioning things, thinking emotional eating is the only problem) actually makes things WORSE.

So let's talk about it! Today's blog post dives right into why these common 'fixes' don't fix anything and what to do instead.

Just because they are oft repeated, does not mean they work. These are the most common binge eating mistakes I see

If you’ve ever counselled anyone on nutrition, you know that breakfast is an unavoidable topic.A lot of people skip brea...
30/09/2025

If you’ve ever counselled anyone on nutrition, you know that breakfast is an unavoidable topic.

A lot of people skip breakfast - maybe they sleep in too much or the idea of eating that early in the day makes them feel nauseous...

But have you come across clients who say they don’t eat breakfast because it just makes them hungrier for the rest of the day?

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It seems like an innocent-enough statement, but it actually signals a much deeper problem with their relationship with food and their body.

They’re likely fearful of overeating and weight gain, and breakfast making them hungrier terrifies them
 But skipping breakfast actually makes them more likely to overeat and gain weight!

I’m diving into why this is (and what to do about it) in today’s blog post - read it here:

If your clients say they don't eat breakfast because it makes them hungrier, this signals a much deeper problem with disordered eating

I got myself jailed on Instagram this year. For over a month my content was not allowed to be shown to non-followers, I ...
23/09/2025

I got myself jailed on Instagram this year. For over a month my content was not allowed to be shown to non-followers, I was not allowed to monetize and I’m still not allowed to go Live...

Why? I posted a video talking about a famous nutrition study and it went viral... And Instagram was not impressed. It’s a study I’ve talked about before and what I said was 100% true


Maybe it was the mention of the fingers that got chopped off
 Or the fact I started the caption with the provocative sentence “How to develop an eating disorder”


I want to know what you think! Head on over to today’s blog post and let me know - did I deserve jail time for this? Or did Instagram lose the plot over nothing?

What do you think? Was I out of line with this take on eating disorders? It was going viral, of course. Raking in hundreds of thousands of views in a matter of days. Every time I opened the Instagram app on my phone, I was flooded with hundreds of notifications of comments, likes, and shares. [
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I see a lot of clients who have been through some serious đŸ’©And although most of them have engaged in some form of therap...
16/09/2025

I see a lot of clients who have been through some serious đŸ’©

And although most of them have engaged in some form of therapy over the years, there’s always one thing they’ve never considered and that’s this:

Food can help them heal.

I know it sounds bonkers, because my clients usually feel like food is the problem they’re trying to fix, not the solution to their issues
 But I swear, if you do it right, eating can actually help to heal from trauma.

Is it some magic bullet that cures PTSD? No, of course not. But it is a layer that can help.

It all comes down to how you’re eating. And this is something that I try to incorporate in my own life, even though I haven’t been through anything anywhere near as horrible as some of the stuff my clients have had to deal with. But sometimes I don’t think my body knows the difference between being late for work and being chased by a bear


Eating issues can arise after trauma... but have you ever considered how food might be able to help you heal?

Retired tennis superstar Serena Williams has lost a lot of weight (about 14kg). And you can tell. It seriously took me a...
02/09/2025

Retired tennis superstar Serena Williams has lost a lot of weight (about 14kg). And you can tell. It seriously took me a minute to recognize who she was when I saw the pictures.

And now she’s come out to say that she had been trying to lose weight for yonks and the missing piece of the puzzle for her wasn’t diet or exercise, it was taking a GLP-1 weight loss medication.

She’s even becoming a celebrity ambassador for a company that sells these drugs


And believe you me, I have some opinions on this.

On her endorsement of them, on the admission that she had wanted to lose weight even at the height of her tennis career, on how GLP-1s are being advertised and used


Yeah, I’ve got thoughts. If you want to have a lil gossip sesh with me, head on over to today’s blog post.

She says she wants to reduce the stigma around taking GLP-1s, but is that really what she’s doing? Tennis great Serena Williams has been both lauded and loathed for her muscular figure throughout her career. But over the last year or so, that famous silhouette has been shrinking. When she opened u...

I recently had a slight freak out over my weight.It was just a bit more than I thought it would be. Not even a lot. Just...
21/07/2025

I recently had a slight freak out over my weight.

It was just a bit more than I thought it would be. Not even a lot. Just a little bit. And I still freaked out.

Yes it IS embarrassing to admit it that it bothered me. As a disordered eating dietitian I feel a certain pressure to be 'above' things like this, you know?

But I also survived growing up in the 90s and early 2000s
 Do you even remember how bad diet culture was at that time?

I watched Tyra Banks shaming supposedly plus-size models because they didn’t look heroin-addict-thin. My friends at high school would drink water before eating to fill their stomachs up so they wouldn’t eat as much. Every movie and TV show had a fat kid that was made fun of for always eating.

And I went down a dark path at 18 years old and came very close to anorexia myself


Maybe diet culture seeped into my very DNA when I was developing or something, because when I weighed myself those diet culture thoughts I thought I had buried came right back up like bad sushi.

And I’m grateful they did.

Let me say that again: I’m grateful they did.

Because it made me stop and take stock of where I’m at. And it gave me a chance to practice the things I tell my clients to do every day. (And reminded me why I won’t be opting to weigh myself again).

Because I’m not an 18-year-old America’s Next Top Model fan anymore. I actually have the tools I need to understand why I gained weight, deal with the mental side of it, and get my body back to its happy place WITHOUT going on a diet.

If you want to know the 7 things I did when I gained weight, I’ve laid it all out in today’s blog post.

Weight gain can be triggering when you're healing your relationship with food - here are 7 practical tips from a disordered eating dietitian

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