REVV Health

10/19/2026

People just love to dumb down intuitive eating to:

“Eat whatever you crave.”

Sorry. That’s not intuitive eating.

The intuitive eating framework is SO robust that there’s an entire professional certification process dedicated to learning how to apply it in counseling.

And yet, somehow, it keeps getting reduced to a single sound bite.

Here’s just some of what’s getting missed beneath the surface:

✨ Rebuilding hunger and fullness awareness
✨ Establishing consistent, adequate nourishment
✨ Challenging food rules and all-or-nothing thinking
✨ Developing emotional coping skills
✨ Rediscovering satisfaction
✨ Practicing body respect
✨ Learning how to care for your health with gentle nutrition

Believe it or not, intuitive eating can sometimes involve MORE structure, not less.

In other words, intuitive eating is FAR more nuanced than social media often makes it sound.

And as usual… I have THOUGHTS. 😏

I’ve been a dietitian for 17+ years, and I keep watching this framework get wholly misrepresented.

Especially when the people questioning intuitive eating end up recommending the very principles it teaches. 👀

Yep, I said it.

I’m unpacking all of this in my November REVVed & Ready newsletter, including a bit of a juicy rant about why intuitive eating keeps getting misunderstood (and yes, sometimes even by nutrition professionals).

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10/15/2026

A little humor, but an important message behind this one. 👀

If someone is struggling with binge eating, the last thing they need is another person on this app telling them to just have more willpower, or drink more water, or distract themselves from food.

Binge eating is complex. As is any form of loss of control eating. And binge-eat!ng dis0rder (BED) specifically is a recognized eat!ng dis0rder that deserves evidence-based treatment.

No shade to somatic coaches, fitness trainers, or even wellness influencers. They might offer valuable support within their areas of expertise.

But when it comes to ED, there’s something called scope of practice. Unless you are in the medical field working with these patients, this is out of your scope of practice.

As an ED registered dietitian, I’m interested in understanding what’s happening beneath the behavior.

At a bare minimum, are you getting enough to eat throughout the day? Are there rules about what, when, or how much you’re allowed to eat? Do certain foods feel off-limits? What happens emotionally and physically before, during, and after an episode?

Both physical and psychological restriction can contribute to feeling out of control around food. And sometimes there are other factors we need to explore.

Treatment may involve a registered dietitian with ED expertise, a therapist, and a medical provider working together.

People struggling with binge eating deserve individualized, evidence-based care. 🧡🩵

10/15/2026

One of the things that makes ARFID so confusing is that there usually isn’t one reason it develops.

A child may start with sensory sensitivity. Whereas, another may have very little appetite. Someone else may begin restricting after a scary choking or vomiting experience.

Over time, those things can overlap and build on each other.

As a dietitian, this all came together as I wrote the first article in a new 3-part ARFID series.

I break down what we know about how ARFID develops, why the original trigger and what keeps the restriction going are not always the same thing, and why understanding the driver matters for treatment.

Part 2 looks at the different types of ARFID, and Part 3 will cover ARFID vs. picky eating.

Read Part 1 here: https://revvhealth.com/what-causes-arfid/

Ever wondered what causes ARFID? Learn how sensory sensitivity, low appetite, anxiety, medical experiences, and other factors can contribute to restrictive eating.

10/09/2026

👻 Want to explore where you fall on the Body Trust Spectrum?

I’m putting together a downloadable reflection worksheet to accompany this post, with questions to help you identify food rules, understand where they come from, and explore what building more body trust could look like for you.

I’ll be sharing it in an upcoming issue of my “REVVed & Ready” newsletter, along with some practical tips for navigating Halloween candy without all the food drama.

Subscribe here to get it: https://revvhealth.com/newsletter/

10/01/2026

Believe it or not, I studied biochemistry just to tell you to eat carbs.

(as a dietitian with a master’s in nutrition and exercise science with over 17 years of experience, I’m sadly only half joking)

More and more, I’m hearing things like this in my office:

“I’m afraid carbs will make me gain weight.”
“Carbs spike blood sugar.”
“Carbs are inflammatory.”
“I shouldn’t eat carbs unless I’m exercising.”

The problem with this binary way of thinking is that carbohydrate metabolism is a LOT more complex than “carbs cause ___.”

(PS if your brain still wants a simple good/bad answer here, you’re actually the kind of person I love working with. )

At the most basic level, carbohydrates are broken down into glucose, which is an important source of energy for the body and the preferred fuel for many tissues. Your brain relies heavily on glucose. Your muscles use carbohydrate, especially as exercise intensity increases. Carbohydrate-containing foods also give us things like fiber, vitamins, minerals, and, yes, enjoyment.

No, not every person needs the exact same amount of carbohydrate. And every carbohydrate-containing food certainly does NOT affect every person the same way. This is where my biochemistry degree becomes considerably less useful for a 30-second reel and considerably more useful in my office.

The nuance of this is always lost on this app. A bowl of pasta doesn’t exist in a vacuum. How your body responds to carbohydrate depends on the amount, what you’re eating alongside it, what the rest of your eating looks like, your activity level, your health, medications, genetics and a whole lot more!

So no, carbs aren’t inherently “good.” They aren’t inherently “bad,” either.

They’re a macronutrient.

Reducing an entire macronutrient to a villain is usually where nutrition starts getting a lot less scientific.

Just in case we’ve forgotten: nutrition is a science 🧬

09/29/2026

Every time I try to be serious on this app it usually devolves into this 😬

But seriously… if you can’t tell, this isn’t me trying to compare Boomer vs. Gen X vs. Millennial vs. Gen Z.

The same BS keeps happening. I used apple versus cake? But it can be anything, really. Which is the “good” choice?

As if there is only one.

From a nutrition standpoint, it really depends (an answer social media hates). As an example, an athlete heading into practice may need something different from someone managing blood sugar, recovering from restrictive eating, navigating GI symptoms, or simply trying to get through a long afternoon without crashing.

Also, sometimes the apple is exactly what you want. Sometimes the cake is. Sometimes you need more than either one because you’re actually hungry. Sometimes you want and need both.

Context is king.

A food can’t tell you by itself whether it was the “good” choice.

But every generation has been told a different way to answer it. The low-fat cake is now the cake with “clean ingredients.” Dieting is now “wellness.” As you can see the language changes, but we’re still sorting food into good and bad.

And food just doesn’t work that way.

How hungry are you? What sounds satisfying? What have you eaten that day? What do you need physically? What matters in this moment? What has your history with food taught you to fear?

As a dietitian I’m much less interested in whether someone picked the apple or the cake and much more interested in the context.

What taught you that one was the “better” choice? What are you afraid would happen if you chose the other? Is all of this helping you live the life you want?

Of course nutrition is important. But there is a whole human being making that food choice, too.

I genuinely love working with all of these generations, BTW. 🫶🏼

If you want evidence-based nutrition support that considers the whole person making those food choices, you’re in the right place.

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09/17/2026

I want to give credit to my colleague Dani over at Kid Food Explorers .food.explorers for adding an important layer to my last reel: the child receiving the message is part of the context too.

I actually had a version of this in my original cut and took it out for length, so I’m glad she brought it back into the conversation 🫶🏼

We have to consider developmental attunement, which means meeting the child in front of you where they are and adjusting how you communicate based on their developmental level, temperament, needs, and how they’re actually responding. It also means paying attention not just to what you’re saying, but to HOW that particular child might be receiving this message, interpreting it, and what they’re doing with the information.

And the same child may very well need a completely different conversation at 5yrs old than at 10 or 15.

Parents can foster this by getting curious before getting instructive.

Some things to notice:
• What is your child actually asking about?
• What seems to increase curiosity versus anxiety?
• Does the information help them feel more capable, more self-trusting? Or does it lead to more worrying, or rule-making?

Use fewer words when fewer words are enough 😬 Let sensory language count as meaningful food education too. We do this a lot in my house!

I also like to tell myself, I can always give more information later. It does not have to be right now.

As a dietitian, believe it or not, my goal is NOT to make sure my children know everything about nutrition. They may not want to become dietitians. 😂

As a parent, I’m here to offer information in a way that supports trust, flexibility, and eating competence , which is part of helping kids build a healthy relationship with food.