Healthy By Emily

Healthy By Emily Weight-inclusive RDN specializing in eating disorders, disordered eating, GI health, and PCOS.

Helping you heal food/body trauma and build a balanced, peaceful relationship with your body.

06/18/2026

Real talk: the “wait, have these always been this short” spiral is so common, and it’s almost never about the shorts.

It’s the warm weather, the more visible skin, the noise we’ve all been handed about what bodies are “allowed” to do and how they are “supposed” to show up.

You’re allowed to be comfortable.

You’re allowed to be cool.

Life is too short and summer is too hot to wear pants.

Wear the shorts. 💚

06/16/2026

What is malnourishment, what do dietitians look for, and what bodies does it show up in? Well, you’ll find that answer here.

06/16/2026

Where’s the lie though? Everyone deserves to have lunch guilt free.

06/12/2026

Love this post from Anna | Eat & Be and had to add on my two cents.

Remember when people say they “worried about your health” or that “promoting obesity is unhealthy”, no one cares if your health markers are sexy. They care if you’re thin or not.

Now me as your dietitian? Or for some of you on here, your friend? I LOOOOVVEEE to nerd out about your health markers.

Show me your sexy numbers and I’ll probably go on a tangent that teaches you exactly what they mean 🤓

06/10/2026

The “hate” is just someone watching you refuse the deal they’re still paying into. 🤷‍♀️

I’m a fat dietitian. I teach people their body is worth feeding and caring for at the exact size it is right now. Not at some future size, not once they’ve earned it.

You’re allowed to nourish the body you have. Today. No goalpost required.

To anyone whose whole worldview runs on people staying ashamed of their bodies: that sounds like a YOU problem.

I’ll continue to be here teaching others that their bodies are worthy of love, kindness, and respect regardless of how they show up.

06/09/2026

The only “25 lbs in 2 days” plan I’ll ever cosign. ✌️

No one is thinking about your shorts as hard as you’re afraid they are. And the few who are? Their opinion has never once paid your bills, cooled you down in July, or made a summer worth remembering.

So wear the shorts. Order the iced coffee. Let go of the dead weight that was never yours to carry.

Save this for the next time the heat index climbs and the self doubt tries to come with it. 🫶

My mom sent me a photo of baby me, and my first reaction was “wait, my face has always looked like that?”Here’s the real...
06/07/2026

My mom sent me a photo of baby me, and my first reaction was “wait, my face has always looked like that?”

Here’s the realization that hit: my face isn’t round because I’m fat. It’s just my face. It looked like that when I was a baby, it looked like that at my lightest in high school, and it looks like that now. Same face the whole time, at every size.

But growing up, I had round face filed under “fat” so hard that even at my thinnest I felt enormous — because the thing I was reading as fat was never going to change. It’s bone structure. It’s just how I’m built.

Millennial women got trained on this: round face = fat, fed to us through shows, movies, magazines, right when we were forming our whole sense of self. No wonder so many of us still can’t look at a photo without flinching.

I’m fat now and I’ll say it plainly. But the kid in that baby photo wasn’t. She just had this face. The same one I’m still wearing today.

What did your brain get trained to read as “fat” that was just… your body?

06/04/2026

The next time I want 💩 advice, I’ll ask my toilet. But honestly, I’m curious. How does one act at 160 vs 161? If we’re getting all technical here.

“You’re a dietitian, why do you talk about body image so much?”Because food and body image were never separate things.Ho...
06/04/2026

“You’re a dietitian, why do you talk about body image so much?”

Because food and body image were never separate things.

How you feel in your body doesn’t stay in your head. It shows up at the table. It decides whether you eat the birthday cake, sit down for the celebratory dinner, or skip the meal entirely.

I’ve watched clients negotiate their way out of food they wanted because of a feeling about their body. I’ve done it myself.

This isn’t a tangent. It’s the foundation. You can’t heal your relationship with food while you’re at war with the body eating it.

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