Tiffany Haug Eating Disorder RD

Tiffany Haug Eating Disorder RD RD | Specialized in Eating Disorders & Chronic Cooccurring Conditions (MCAS, EDS, ADHD, Autoimmune Disease)đź“šTelehealth: CA TN MS AZ CO VA MI WA MN HI & More
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Hi there! I’m Tiffany, and I’m a Board-Certified Registered Dietitian who’s dedicated my career to something I’m deeply passionate about: helping people heal their relationship with food and their bodies. Every single client I work with has their own unique path and I approach each client relationship with genuine respect for wherever they are in their recovery process. One thing that sets my appr

oach apart is my commitment to education. I believe you deserve to understand the “why” behind every recommendation I make. When I suggest a nutrition change, I’ll explain exactly how it supports your brain, strengthens your muscles, boosts your immune system, balances your hormones, improves your gut health, and enhances your digestion. Because when you understand the science, even challenging changes can become more manageable. I also recognize that many of my clients are dealing with more than just their eating disorder. That’s why I specialize in creating individualized treatment plans that take into account other health challenges you might be facing - whether that’s GI disorders, food allergies and intolerances, or autoimmune conditions. My mission is simple: to provide you with the compassionate, science-backed support you need to reclaim your relationship with food and find true healing. Because you deserve nothing less than a full, vibrant life - and I’m here to help you create exactly that.

I think it’s worth examining what we are actually saying when we tell someone that “all foods fit” or “all foods are goo...
09/03/2026

I think it’s worth examining what we are actually saying when we tell someone that “all foods fit” or “all foods are good foods” and messaging that everyone in eating disorder recovery or who is recovered should be able to eat everything or that the reason they are suffering with their chronic illness is because of some nutrition-related aspect of the eating disorder.

There is an assumption underneath this that the recovered body is a body without limitations. A body that can digest anything. A body that can tolerate anything. A body that can eat whatever is available without consequences. A body that doesn’t need accommodations.

But that body does not exist for everyone.

People have food allergies. People live with inflammatory bowel disease, gastroparesis, diabetes, and other gastrointestinal or metabolic conditions. People have endometrial-like tissue that has grown on their digestive organs. People have PMOS. People have various medical history differences and genetic differences that affect digestion, appetite, energy, pain, and food tolerance.

These people are not less invested in recovery because their bodies have different needs.

When we define recovery around the ability to eat every food, we are being (I’ll say it) disgustingly ableist. We take a particular kind of body (one that can tolerate everything without significant physical consequences) and position it as the goal everyone should work toward.

So they are left feeling like they did recovery “wrong.” That everyone else must have been able to crack the code of doing recovery the “right way.”

They may push themselves to eat foods that cause significant symptoms because they are afraid that honoring their body’s limitations means they are giving in to their eating disorder.

That is not what recovery is supposed to be.
If you find yourself in this complicated space, I see you. I will not pathologize your need for accommodations. I’m honored to work with you to figure out what recovery as nutrition rehabilitation looks like for your body, with accommodations❣️

It’s okay to have lunch at 10:45 a.m.Maybe you ate breakfast early. Maybe you woke up hungrier than usual and breakfast ...
09/01/2026

It’s okay to have lunch at 10:45 a.m.

Maybe you ate breakfast early. Maybe you woke up hungrier than usual and breakfast isn’t lasting you as long as it typically does. Maybe your sleep was off, your chronic illness symptoms are flaring, your medication has changed, or your body simply needs more food today than it did yesterday.

An eating disorder can make an earlier lunch feel wrong or risky. A common fear being “but what if I end up eating more the rest of the day.” Your ED may say lunch has to happen at a certain time, that you should wait, or chastise you for still being hungry right after a AM snack. Not because you did anything wrong or chose the “wrong” snack, but because you were hungry for a meal-sized amount of food, not just a snack sized amount. Your body was asking for lunch, even if the clock said 10:45.

Meal timing can be complicated in recovery. Structure can be useful, especially when hunger cues are hard to notice or trust. But structure is there to help you eat consistently; it is not supposed to require you to override hunger when it shows up earlier than expected.

You do not need to stretch a snack into an hour-long effort to postpone lunch. You can notice, “I’m still hungry,” and have more food. You can have lunch early. You can eat again later if you are hungry then, too.

If eating brings nausea, pain, fatigue, sensory overwhelm, GI symptoms, uncertainty, fear, or the feeling that your body...
08/28/2026

If eating brings nausea, pain, fatigue, sensory overwhelm, GI symptoms, uncertainty, fear, or the feeling that your body is about to betray you, it makes sense that avoiding food might feel safer.
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And if you also live with a chronic illness, it can be incredibly confusing to sort out what is chronic illness, what is the eating disorder, what is a valid accommodation, and what is avoidance dressed up as self-protection.
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You do not need someone to dismiss your symptoms or insist that recovery means forcing yourself through every food, every texture, every meal, and every fear with no adjustments.
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You deserve care that can hold multiple truths:
1. Your symptoms are real.
2. Your body may need accommodations.
3. Restriction may feel regulating in the moment.
4. And long-term undernourishment can still keep you from the life you want.
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Recovery can include planning, substitutions, symptom management, medical collaboration, and creative nourishment strategies. It can look like finding the version of nourishment that is sustainable for your actual body and actual circumstances, not someone else’s definition of perfect eating.
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I will not tell you that this will feel good immediately.
But I will tell you: you are not weak for finding it hard. In fact, it makes infinite sense that it is. You are not broken for needing support, and you do not have to choose between honoring your chronic illness management and pursuing recovery.
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08/25/2026

Far too often alternative medicine is unfairly categorized as part of the eating disorder.

Often clients with chronic illness occurring with eating disorders learn to refrain from sharing alternative medicine procedures or supplements or exercise routines they participate in and disclosing these with eating disorder providers—for fear of experiencing what they’ve already experienced several times before—everything that has an “alternative medicine aspect”being pointed to as something they are doing with an eating disorder driven intention and subsequently being told to stop those practices that they’ve found important supports in managing chronic illness symptoms or made to feel like they are not doing recovery fully or “right” if they are using alternative medicine as well.

What’s missed here is……SO MANY THINGS. First, missing that alternative medicine doesn’t inherently mean disordered. Second, that many individuals with chronic illness find that conventional medicine combined with alternative therapies have been integral to managing day to day symptoms, and third but most importantly this misses the step of approaching with a desire to learn from the client, what led you to incorporating that? Does it seem to help with your symptoms and quality of life? What were some of the symptoms led you to consider that? As well as asking, “Does that feel like it’s something that supports your chronic illness management but also feels tricky because there’s a part of the eating disorder that is driven to do that/take that too?” If the answer is yes, surprise! Your client has a human brain that experiences a Venn Diagram overlap with their intentions. The brain is complex and so are intentions behind why someone does something and may be integrating certain practices. Just because someone also has an eating disorder doesn’t mean that their intentions behind things are 100% from the eating disorder and it’s not pathological for there to be an overlap with intentions between the eating disorder and chronic illness management. We can hold this nuance for clients rather than shaming the existence of overlapping intentions.

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08/24/2026

It is possible to have an active eating disorder and to feel at peace and like there’s no problem at all. It’s also possible to be actively in recovery work and feel disregulated and unpeaceful. When the eating disorder feels safe, there can be a sense of peace that is in reality an unhealthy peace. The eating disorder is not being challenged or threatened and it feels comfortable and safe. On the flip side when we are starting to make recovery oriented and intentional change (such as with food, timing of meals and snacks, portions, etc) there can be restlessness, distress, dysregulation and overall unpeacefullness. This can actually be one of the “vital signs” that the eating disorder is feeling threatened which is necessary. It feels horrible to experience this phase, but it’s often necessary to move through this phase to start to move away from the eating disorder. If the eating disorder is allowing you to feel peaceful about your food, body, health, that is because it feels safe and non-threatened which is a form of unhealthy peace.

Note on this and all content: This is for educational purposes only and is not intended as personalized medical, therapeutic, or dietary advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider about your individual health concerns.



*inspired by the concept of “unhealthy peace” 8/22/26 episode on conflict FT

You don’t become worthy by recovering but I hope for you that you’re able to experience recovery because you are worthy....
08/19/2026

You don’t become worthy by recovering but I hope for you that you’re able to experience recovery because you are worthy. ❤️

08/17/2026

Some honest and vulnerable reflections on how my philosophy and clinical practice have evolved over the past decade. I elaborate in the video but to distill it down to 3 areas these would be:
1. My comfort and shift to prioritizing client autonomy and no longer practicing from a place of doing things because of feeling peer pressured to do them a certain way by the field (like aligning more with my values of not giving ultimatums)
2. My comfort level with nuance
3. Being open to risk of being perceived a bad clinician by other clinicians in the field (with different philosophies) when that results from my being open to at times approaching treatment for clients in ways that are perceived as “out of the box” or “colluding with the ED” if it truly is the best thing in the service of my clients recovery journey.

A few disclaimers:
1. First, please excuse the closed caption errors particularly the autocorrect of “co-occurring” being somehow changed to “corona”💜
2. I primarily work with adults, which also largely influences my philosophy and how I practice. What I speak about in this video is in reference to my work with adults.
3. HLOC can be life saving and I am by absolutely NO means anti-HLOC. I have been a HLOC clinician and was for a long time. There are a lot of good things about HLOC and a lot of complicated things.

08/13/2026

Controversial take. Flexibility doesn’t always equal making choices that are in the best interest of your recovery. We often over equate rigidity and inflexibility and being very structured with “disorder” rather than recovery. But that’s not usually how it looks in practice in real life for those in recovery from eating disorders and chronic illness. Being rigid and inflexible about meeting your own needs and not being flexible in situations that are going to impact your ability to meet your nutrition needs can be far wiser than flexibility that can potentially compromise your ability to meet your nutrition needs.

I call this “slap-together bread”I noticed we were out of bread and it was a rare occasion where it actually felt more c...
08/12/2026

I call this “slap-together bread”

I noticed we were out of bread and it was a rare occasion where it actually felt more convenient to bake so I made up a recipe! I am a very detail oriented person but absolutely not when it comes to following proper baking protocol (I usually skip the kneading part of bread because it’s kind of boring and also tiring !?)

I mixed 1 tsp instant yeast, 1/4 cup yogurt, 1 tsp sugar, 2 egg yolks, 2 tbsp chia seeds, 2 cups flour, and enough water to make it pliable. Then I gave the dough a few therapeutic slaps on the counter (my version of kneading), let it rise, shaped it into slider rolls, and air-fried it on bake mode for 20 minutes at 330 F. Not really “artisan bakery” but more like a “pantry emergency with a happy ending.” It doesn’t look pretty but the taste was right and it served its purpose!!

Let me know if you try it!!

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