Shift Nutrition & Counselling

08/05/2025

Lily Barrett, Registered Dietitian has joined Shift Nutrition & Counselling! She specializes in gut issues (IBS, celiac, crohn's), feeding issues (like picky eating), and women's issues (PCOS, menopause, pre/post-natal). She works with the same philosophy of making significant health changes that are sustainable, and not restrictive. Check her out here:

Lily is a Registered Dietitian that specializes in picky eating, IBS, celiac disease, food intolerances, PCOS and menopause nutrition.

12/10/2024

🌟 Transform Your Relationship with Food and Body in Just 21 Days! 🌟

Are you overwhelmed about your relationship with food and your body? Join my Confusion to Clarity Program and embark on a transformative journey to reconnect with yourself.

📅 Duration: 21 days 📱 Format: Daily text messages with audio clips, resources, and a personalized workbook

What You'll Discover:

-The key influences shaping your views on body and food.
-How to address your biggest body concerns.
-Practical strategies for a peaceful, positive connection with your body and food.

How It Works:

Daily Guidance: Receive messages at 9:00 AM (PST) with exercises and reflections.
Achieve Clarity: Build a nurturing relationship with your body and food.
By the end of the program, you'll have the clarity and confidence to care for your body like never before.

Ready to take the first step? Sign up now and start your journey!

03/01/2023

👀You can't see an eating disorder👀Just because someone, or you, may not look like what you've seen in social media feeds, TV or movies what someone with an eating disorder looks like, doesn't mean that you or they are not struggling.

🤒You don't have to get more sick to deserve care and support. Getting help at any point of your journey is helpful.

You don't have to look emaciated, to be undernourished 👩🏻‍🦽👬🏃🏿‍♂️People of all sizes struggle with disordered eating, including anorexia.

🙅🏾‍♀️You don't have to identify as female to have an eating disorder, men struggle as well.🙋🏻

🤔Getting help can be helpful!! 🥺I know you've tried everything, but you may not have tried getting eating disorder support. Or maybe you haven't gotten the support you need.

Getting help is also very scary, particularly as people don't talk about disordered eating openly. But there are more than a million people in Canada that are diagnosed with an eating disorder, and I speculate that's grossly underestimated.

But people do get better.
You can too!

02/04/2023

Great article on approaching sleep if you struggle with getting enough:

Dr. Jade Wu shares her favorite tips to help even the most high-strung among us get better rest.

01/22/2023

Happy Chinese New Year! Gung Hey Fat Choy!

Wishing you all a lucky, prosperous and wonderful new lunar year ❤️.

09/23/2022

Credits to and for this post.
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It’s estimated that eating disorders affect one million Canadians. But not everyone sees themselves reflected in representations of the illness.
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For years, public figures such as American singer Karen Carpenter, who died from anorexia in 1983, shaped the idea of a person with an eating disorder: white, female and painfully thin.
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Those tropes mean some people may not identify as having one or are reluctant to get help, says Sophia Khan, a registered dietitian in Saskatoon.
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“Eating disorders don’t discriminate,” she said. “You can’t always tell someone has an eating disorder just by looking at them.”
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Only 10 per cent of people with an eating disorder seek help, according to the BridgePoint Center for Eating Disorders in Saskatchewan.
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Research has found eating disorders also have the highest overall mortality rate of any mental illness.
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Over the summer, photographer Hannah Crease-Maclean interviewed and took portraits of six Saskatchewan residents who say they don't fit the stereotypical image of people with eating disorders.
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They include men, people of colour and people with larger bodies.
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Tap the link in our bio to see their photos and read their stories.
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(Photos by Hannah Crease-Maclean,
Reporting by Natascia Lypny/CBC) |

09/13/2022

Have you cut back on carbohydrates, but then feel out of control around cookies or chips at night?

Starches and grains, like rice, noodles, bread potatoes 🍞🍚🍜 are important and staple foods. By cutting them out, or not eating enough, your body doesn’t get the important macronutrient carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are the basis of ALL FUEL in our body. Meaning that every cell needs carbs, your brain works on carbs. You need carbohydrates to build muscle, to build hormones. You need them for everything!
So cutting carbs inevitably leads to feeling out of control at other times, because of this restriction. And it makes you feel disconnected from your body.

Connected eating incorporates what to eat with when you feel like eating. If you felt like you lost connection with what you eat and your body, then join me in my Fall Workshop!.

In the ✨Connected Eating Online LIVE Workshop, September 30th and October 1st ✨, you will learn how to care for your body physically and mentally. Learn now to manage emotional eating and yet still enjoy food.

If you’re interested in more, feel free to shoot me a DM or you can also find the registration schedule link in my ✨bio ✨

09/06/2022

Is food one of the first thoughts after a stressful day? ⚡

Do you feel like your relationship with food is the only one in your life you just can’t seem to get a handle on?

Join me in the live Connected Eating Workshop where we delve into how to support your emotions AND maintain a happy relationship with food.

Register for the Connect Eating Online Workshop September 30th and October 1st 8-11 am PST

Click the✨ link ✨ in my bio to start your registration!

07/15/2022

Throwback! This is one of the first podcast episodes I published on my podcast channel, “The Art and Science of Eating.” There are different types of trauma and they do impact our transition to disordered eating or an unhealthy relationship with ourselves or food. I talked to a guest about the bridge between trauma and disordered eating, and that oftentimes it is a traumatic experience in the past that causes a dramatic transition to disordered eating.

I want to strengthen my clients’ relationship with food and make them feel safe in and around food despite being in an environment that may push for diet culture or restriction of eating.

Do check out the full podcast episode and my playlist of podcast episodes. Link is in my bio!

07/13/2022

I’m honoured to be a guest and share ‘s ’sGutReal podcast episode, where I introduce a bit of myself and how our professions in disordered eating and digestive disorders intersect. Oftentimes when I see clients I estimate a fair amount also have a digestive symptom and so I think this was an amazing opportunity to touch bases with Andrea on that, as well as discussing our approaches to care for our patients!

Do check out the full podcast episode and Andrea’s podcast down below 👇👇👇

https://tinyurl.com/4vhbm553

06/23/2022

We’re winding down Pride month! – Happy Pride Month everyone and hope you had a good one! Through determination and poise, the 2SLGBTQI+ has worked tirelessly for equality, with beginnings of pride month back in 1969. I feel grateful for the community’s presence as their advocacy helps everyone of all genders, sexes, ages, abilities and ethnicities.

Pride month and the surrounding events that have made gender and sexual identities and fat bodies more visible through has been a huge contribution to people feeling safe, being who they are.

04/25/2022

And then this one also this week- April 28th!! SJ Thompson on Fat Stigma!

Learning about fat stigma isn’t just about being kind to fat people.