The Anxious Dietitian

02/05/2026

6 months ago I started making this my new home away from home. Today I had a meeting scheduled with HR to go over my layoff…

Today I had a patient cry on my shoulder because they worry they won’t find the same care somewhere else after failing before.

Today I had a patient ask me if there was someone she could call to tell them how much they needed our clinic.

Today I had a patient curse for me because they knew I didn’t mean it when I said “I’m okay”

6 months ago I connected with patients who asked “why couldn’t I have met you sooner!”

This week I have to tell them our clinic is closing…

I have so much grief for my patients and so much anger at the system that has failed them.

Oh and that meeting with HR? Cancelled last minute and not because our jobs were saved…

11/26/2025

Thanks to Adam and Jordana for having me on their show this morning!
My vote is for pecan pie as the best pie! 😂 What is your favorite pie or must have dish for the holidays?

11/01/2025

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09/26/2025

Thanks to for a fun and educational social event!

08/06/2025

Day 2 as a full time comprehensive weight management dietitian completed! 🥳
I got the opportunity to shadow another RD all day and it got me thinking… as a patient or as a provider, what is a question about weightloss you’ve always wanted to ask? 🍽️🥣

And yes this is also me contemplating if I will start posting here more regularly again👩🏻‍💻

07/25/2025

When you are super excited for your new job so you offer to send them a “new coworker bio”. But seriously I’d love to get an intro like this from an incoming team member so that was the inspiration. What do you all think about the idea??

07/17/2025

01/07/2025

Hi my name is Kylie, I’m 11 years post-op from my bariatric surgery and even as a registered dietitian who was specializing in obesity, I relapsed.

My lowest weight was around 2 years post-op at 145 pounds and in 2023 I got back up to 221. I was 262 prior to surgery so I gained about 65% of the weight back. Here are some of the hard stuff I haven’t talked about…

•Transfer addiction - I wasn’t coping with food but my brain still wanted a “hit” so alcohol became a crutch and I abused it often. Then used being drunk as an excuse for being a not great human to the friends I had at the time. It also was my way of numbing my chronic pain.
•Overexercising - I damaged my body and depleted my nutrient levels because I was constantly working out trying to find a release.
•Ignoring my actual mental health concerns and instead used my surface level diagnoses to enable my bad behaviors. Didn’t mind sharing my problems but didn’t actually want to fix anything.
•Attention seeking and I’d go as far to say I had started some narcissistic tendencies as a result. Again my brain was still looking for a “hit” and social media made this much worse, I was addicted to the likes.
•Putting unrealistic expectations on myself. Especially with toxic thoughts of “I can’t be the fat Dietitian”.

It’s taken 34 years and a few docs to diagnose my ADHD and finally explain my brain to me. I’m currently working with a psychiatrist to find the right meds. But Adderall has helped my food noise and attention span quite a bit so self care is easier.

I see a therapist every 3-5 weeks and haven’t had an alcoholic drink in 4 years. Now that I’m getting enough dopamine my brain doesn’t look for it as much in my old vices. My health isn’t perfect, still don’t know why I have chronic pain but since July of this year I am down 22 #, back under 200 #. Focusing on my mental health and adding in low impact regular movement 3-4x per week to manage stress not lose weight.

The world feels like 🗑️ right now and it’s been hard to self advocate because it seems so inconsequential but I do keep pushing and wanted to share my thoughts to motivate others to keep going too 💕

12/05/2024

Come work with me!
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4086137331

I know it states sports dietitian, but the majority of the job duties will be supporting our employer wellness and community outreach programming (Health Quotient). So while there may be some clinic hours, the majority will be completed off-site so being okay with a different schedule every day is important.
Feel free to message me for more details since this position will be working very closely with me 😊

10/24/2024

This made me chuckle and it’s quite a relevant topic for me lately.

I’ve been doing a lot of education out in the community lately and I get asked a ton about “bad” foods or ingredients. Tonight I got asked “But who do I believe when the dietitian in front of me says it’s fine but the one who wrote the book I just read says it’s bad?”

My answer was that anyone who is well educated in nutrition science would tell you that there isn’t any inherently “bad” or “toxic” foods because
1. The dose makes the poison so unless they bring that fun fact up you can probably ignore what they have to say because they are manipulating the data in a biased way.
2. Nutrition science is much more nuanced! Most dietitians don’t use “good” vs “bad” or “healthy” vs “unhealthy” for a reason. I find that diets are usually unbalanced, meaning that I am helping to add in more nutrients not taking things out completely.
3. Overall most of us should avoid an all or nothing type of mindset when it comes to diet. Some use the idea of “well it’s not technically wrong to say this” far too much in order to sell their thing and leave out why maybe it’s not technically right either.

In my experience, the expert who can unbiasedly give you “both sides of the story” are the ones worth listening to. So I explained the nuance of the studies done about seed oils and why some strong opinions came from it. Hopefully I became a trusted source to them and showed why it’s always important to ask questions and learn more when you can.

I joke often that nutrition is complicated but feels like it should be simple. And honestly, that’s the benefit of dietitians, we can make it feel simple but can explain the complexity when needed.

Terrifying 😱

10/09/2024

Dietitian’s first 🎉
🔬 Learned a lot of science
💡Thought about growth
🫶Saw some old friends
🍴Tried some new foods
🫱🏼‍🫲🏻Networked!
Didn’t take enough pictures!

It was so fun to experience my first FNCE with the and dietitian team!
It was also great to see old coworkers from previous jobs who have moved up in their careers! Proud of my nutrition nerd fam 💕