Episode description:
Katie Gantt, MHS, RD, LDN, RYT, is a registered dietitian who has been working within the subject of consuming issues and disordered consuming for over 5 years. Katie is keen about serving to mothers have a wholesome being pregnant and postpartum interval by discovering well being with out weight-reduction plan and difficult disordered consuming patterns. She is the proprietor of Kathryn Gantt Vitamin the place she makes use of her scientific experience and yoga coaching to assist mothers reconnect with their our bodies and their relationship to meals in a optimistic, trauma-informed model. Katie focuses on conscious and intuitive consuming, Well being At Each Measurement (HAES), and non-diet approaches when counseling purchasers and serving to mother and father elevate intuitive eaters.
Katie joins us on this episode of Peace Meal to debate how being pregnant and postpartum can complicate or instigate an consuming dysfunction. Providing a wealth of firsthand insights on this nuanced matter, Katie shares cultural and organic elements that make ladies vulnerable to consuming issues throughout this era of life. She acknowledges the problem of talking up when triggered by uncomfortable feedback from suppliers, who could also be unaware of their weight bias and their potential reinforcement of consuming dysfunction behaviors. Katie then identifies sensible suggestions for a way suppliers can higher serve these populations. Lastly, she acknowledges the gorgeous potential for recovery-oriented physique appreciation throughout being pregnant and postpartum.
We cowl:
- How being pregnant and postpartum are uniquely poised to influence these with a historical past of consuming issues or disordered consuming
- The restricted consuming dysfunction coaching amongst OBs, and the way this contributes to missed disordered consuming behaviors throughout being pregnant
- Weight-neutral approaches to prenatal and postpartum healthcare
- handle gestational diabetes in a manner that doesn’t contribute to disordered consuming ideas and behaviors
- maintain house for physique appreciation inside being pregnant and postpartum
In Katie’s phrases:
- On the dearth of screening for disordered consuming throughout being pregnant: “Over 90% of girls are by no means screened for disordered consuming in being pregnant, in any respect. So for those who don’t present that info or for those who don’t your self fairly notice that you’ve got a disordered relationship with meals, it’s most definitely by no means going to return up while you’re along with your OB.”
- On the particular issues for pregnant or postpartum ladies in consuming dysfunction restoration: “Statistically, if we have now a historical past of an consuming dysfunction regardless if it’s lively or not in our being pregnant, there’s a considerably increased threat of it recurring within the first 12 months postpartum. And also you couple that with ladies who’ve had a historical past of an consuming dysfunction who’ve a 30% increased threat of creating postpartum melancholy and postpartum nervousness – that may be a extremely dangerous time for girls.”
- On consuming dysfunction restoration and physique appreciation throughout being pregnant: “It’s not unusual to see consuming dysfunction remission throughout being pregnant. There’s this sense of, ‘that is sort of a cool factor that’s taking place [to my body].’ For a few of my purchasers, it’s the primary time they’ve ever had physique appreciation.”
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