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Nutrition Therapy

Nutrition as a Pathway to Mental Wellness in San Diego

Are eating challenges affecting your life?

Do you struggle with low appetite or overeating?
Do you struggle with body image?
Do experience strong cravings for certain foods that provide comfort?
Is meal planning and prepping overwhelming due to a busy schedule?
Are you struggling with disordered eating or an eating disorder?
Are you ready to make a change with compassionate and gentle nutrition counseling support?

Support and Accountability to Heal

Eating is one of the most important parts of our lives, but can feel like one of the greatest chores.

For those struggling with mindless eating patterns, eating can feel extremely stressful. At Create Wellbeing, our highly skilled team will support you with creating the structure to develop an appropriate meal plan for your goals. We start by assessing all of your patterns and making small adjustments to support long-term change.

Having a plan provides freedom

One of the most challenging elements of eating is the amount of planning it requires in order to make sure that we have the foods that we desire to eat available for us consistently. This is where nutrition counseling can be especially helpful. A nutrition counselor can help you design a meal plan that will work for you in every context.

Creating a meal plan that gives you options will help you feel empowered when you are eating at home, at work, at a restaurant, or on the go. When you feel empowered to eat foods that are nourishing and delicious it is easier to eat in a more balanced fashion.

Meal Plan Approach

Integrative nutrition counseling offers an alternative to dieting.
Restrictive diets, while often well-intentioned, can lead to a myriad of problems both physically and mentally. They can result in nutrient deficiencies, as limiting certain food groups may lead to inadequate intake of essential vitamins and minerals crucial for overall health.

Restrictive diets can foster an unhealthy relationship with food, creating feelings of guilt or shame when deviating from the prescribed restrictions. This can contribute to disordered eating patterns and negatively impact our mental wellbeing. Restrictive diets can be socially isolating, making it challenging to enjoy meals with others or participate in social gatherings centered around food.

It’s essential to prioritize balanced eating habits that nourish both the body and mind, rather than fixating on rigid dietary rules that may do more harm than good.

Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders

We are an interdisciplinary team of dietitians, therapists, and body-based practitioners, we collaborate and work together to diagnose and treat eating disorders and eating related issues. Some of the eating disorders your dietitian can help you with are:

Anorexia Nervosa

Bulimia Nervosa

Binge Eating Disorder

ARFID

Unspecified feeding or eating disorder

Create Wellbeing Model for Integrative Nutrition

We apply this to Integrative Nutrition Therapy to help you:

CALM the distress that you are experiencing related to food and eating.

ENGAGE your whole self to develop nourishing habits.

INTEGRATE changes to your eating patterns to all situations in your life.