Do you know someone who may be identifying as vegetarian or vegan in an attempt to further restrict food and lose weight or support their current weight suppression?
In this episode, I’m talking to Christine Frangione, MS, RD, CDN, RYT, about disordered eating among vegetarians and vegans. We talk about:
Christina’s personal story with being vegan and how it became disordered.
Ways to identify if a person is choosing to eat a plant-based diet for moral or health reasons vs. coming from a place of restriction and disordered eating.
How Christina works with her clients on plant-based eating that doesn’t fall into a trap of disordered eating.
Christina’s experience as a yoga instructor and how identifying as vegetarian or vegan can send mixed messages in yoga studios.
There are plenty of people who choose to avoid meat and other animal products because they don’t want to support harmful practices toward animals. Sometimes people choose this path already having a history of disordered eating. The restrictiveness of a vegetarian or vegan diet can be triggering for those with a disordered eating past.
Some choose to become vegetarian or vegan in hopes that eliminating more foods from their diet will result in weight loss. In this case, identifying as vegetarian/vegan means following food rules. If you’re not driven into a vegetarian diet for moral reasons it may seem very limiting and restrictive to adhere to these rules.
Listen today as Christina addresses all of these issues!
Christina Frangione is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Registered Yoga Teacher with a private practice in Long Island, New York. In her practice, Christina uses a non-diet, intuitive eating approach to support individuals with eating disorders and disordered eating in developing peace with food and their bodies so that they can fully show up for what matters most in their lives.
If you’re interested in connecting with Christina, here’s how you can find her:
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