{"id":3228,"date":"2017-04-13T01:06:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T08:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bingeeatingtherapy.com\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2024-02-07T22:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T06:42:06","slug":"the-most-important-piece-of-nutritional-advice-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bingeeatingtherapy.com\/the-most-important-piece-of-nutritional-advice-you-need\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Important Piece of Nutritional Advice You Need"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are a lot of \u201cnutrition experts\u201d out there. Everyone fancies themselves a nutrition guru. I see these folks all over the Internet, amateur nutritionologists- they give weight loss advice, they tell people what to include in their diets and what they should absolutely NEVER eat. But here\u2019s the thing. They\u2019re not really nutrition experts. I\u2019m sure that many of them have read everything they possibly can on the Internet about nutrition, I\u2019m sure that they are avid readers and self-experimenters (I won\u2019t say researchers, researchers are in labs) many have taken classes on nutrition, or have a certification in health coaching from an online coaching school\u2026 and I\u2019m sure that they truly believe that they are nutrition experts.<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth is though, that the highest, highest level researchers in the field of nutrition, molecular biology and metabolism\u2013 I\u2019m talking people with multiple PhDs and years of research\u2013 those people\u00a0know<\/em>\u00a0that they are not nutrition experts either.\u00a0This is because the fields of nutrition and metabolism are largely mysterious and untapped as of right now. The people with the highest degrees and research backgrounds are the ones who are most willing to admit how little they know about nutrition.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are dubious, let\u2019s do a comparison. Here is a\u00a0list of the classes needed to become a PhD in nutrition and metabolism at Boston University,\u00a0and here is a list of the classes needed to get a degree from\u00a0Health Coach Institute.\u00a0Of note, the PhD in nutrition is a six year program and the coaching certification is a six month program. In looking at the curriculum of the coaching program, only one of those modules is dedicated to actually learning about nutrition, the other five months are coaching and business skills. I don\u2019t necessarily think that health coaching is a bad thing; there are people who can certainly benefit from learning to eat healthy whole foods, how to shop for them (you can find an example of a<\/span>\u00a0whole foods grocery list<\/a>\u00a0online) and how to look inside themselves with a support person to help them understand what foods will help them feel their most optimal. But nobody can actually tell you that. That\u2019s because\u00a0nutrition and metabolism are extremely complicated.\u00a0<\/em>For instance, there are some foods that are considered anti-inflammatory that will interact horrifically with one person\u2019s constitution and will be great for another person\u2019s constitution. Not even someone with a PhD in nutrition can tell you what foods are best for your body and how specific molecules will interact with different molecules given any particular time in your cycle, or given how much or little exercise or sleep you\u2019ve gotten, where in the world you live, what genetic components your Grandmother was made of\u2026 etc. There are a billion different variables that make up how you will react to a certain food at a certain time. Don\u2019t look outside yourself for nutritional advice, look within.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what inspired me to write this post.<\/span><\/p>\n

My client (we\u2019ll call her) Jenny. Jenny\u2019s boyfriend is super into bulletproof coffee (hey we\u2019re in the Bay Area, it\u2019s a thing here..) anyway, her boyfriend swears by drinking his coffee with yak butter and coconut oil and raw cocoa every morning. He swears that it gives him mental clarity and that he can run 15 miles without eating anything other than his coffee drenched in high quality fats. He keeps on convincing Jenny to drink bulletproof coffee with him so that she too can lose weight and feel great. So Jenny keeps drinking bulletproof coffee\u2026 and she hates it. It makes her have diarrhea every.single.morning. But she continues to drink it because of what the \u201cexperts\u201d on the bulletproof forums say. She feels that she is not doing the right thing by being miserable drinking it, she feels bad about herself. The experts on the forums keep tell her to push through this \u201cbreak-in\u201d phase where your body has to get used to the coffee and eventually it will habituate. You know what else does that? Laxatives. That\u2019s why laxative dependent bulimia sufferers keep upping their dose of laxatives. Jenny\u2019s body is telling her something pretty significant, yet she\u2019s ignoring it and listening to the advice of \u201cexperts.\u201d She doesn\u2019t trust herself or her body, she trusts strangers who don\u2019t live inside of her body.<\/span><\/p>\n

My other client (we\u2019ll call her) Debbie. Debbie was told by her health coach that if she gave up gluten, grains, sugar and dairy that she would feel amazing. So Debbie gave up all those things and she did in fact feel amazing. Wanna hear another thing about Debbie? She\u2019s a recovering anorexic. So being restrictive in her eating complements her psychological schema of feeling amazing when being totally in control and deprived of food. Oh and the other thing about Debbie\u2026 after four years of recovery, she started bingeing and purging again. Her health coach keeps telling her that if she stays away from those four things that her system will heal and that her brain chemistry will even out and she won\u2019t binge and purge anymore. The truth is, when Debbie\u2019s not restricting, her eating disorder is fine. It was her depression that led her to look for nutritional alternatives to Prozac. She then started restricting again, which was of course helpful for her depression because she used her eating disorder to manage her depression symptoms. But now she\u2019s bingeing and purging again. It makes sense\u2026 depression is super painful and distressing and anything we can do to make it go away quickly feels better than working with it directly. So the eating disorder comes back and we are distracted from the depression because we have to work on the ED symptomatology. See how that happened?<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to work with someone around nutrition, the best way to do it is to start to focus on what your body tells you that you need. Your body knows. YOUR BODY KNOWS!<\/span><\/p>\n

When two of my girlfriends came back from being in the Peace Corps in Mali for two years, one came back super curvy and the other came back super skinny. They told me that they were both eating the same things (lots of rice) but one lost copious amounts of weight on a low protein high-carbohydrate while the other gained weight on the same diet. Two different ways of processing nutrients.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sit with your food after you eat it and see how your body feels. Are you energetic? Does your belly hurt? Do your joints hurt? Do you have rashes? Are you sleepy? Are you anxious? Are you happy? Looking within and feeling your feelings both emotional and physical is the only way to know what foods are helping your body and what foods are hurting you. Your body wants you to take care of it, and when you listen carefully to it, it will give you the right messages. Let the wisdom of your body be your nutritional expert.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of \u201cnutrition experts\u201d out there. Everyone fancies themselves a nutrition guru. I see these folks all over the Internet, amateur nutritionologists- they give weight loss advice, they tell people what to include in their diets and what they should absolutely NEVER eat. But here\u2019s the thing. They\u2019re not really nutrition experts. 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