Nutrition Counseling & Wellness Coaching
Thank you for visiting my page! If you are seeking services, please note that I am not accepting new clients at this time. However, I would love to offer you referrals of awesome providers I trust who do similar work. If you are interested in a referral, please send me an email at maria@mariascrimenti.com with the word “referral” in the subject line.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Nope :) Feelings of food addiction are a logical result of food restriction. If you are limiting carbs or sugar, eating “clean”, or engaging in other dieting/ disordered eating behaviors, it is common to feel like you are addicted to food. For once you have a bite of a perceived “cheat” food, it’s like all bets are off and you feel like you physically can’t stop eating. This is a normal psychological & biological response to deprivation. Don’t worry, it is fixable. You can learn more at this article.
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Binge eating disorder (BED) is a serious eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of eating large amounts of food in a short period of time that happen at least once a week for three months or more. During these episodes of binge eating, individuals feel out of control and experience distress afterward, such as guilt and shame. If you suspect that you might have binge eating disorder, click here to fill out my intake form & I’d be happy to connect you with support and resources for treatment.
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If you feel like you cannot stop eating, it’s not because you are weak or undisciplined. It is likely because your body and brain have been deprived. Loss- of- control eating is a natural biological response to food restriction. It is your body compensating for lack. In order to stop loss- of- control eating, you have to re-establish a baseline of nourishment. In 1:1 coaching, I often do a nutritional audit with my clients to make sure they are eating enough. In time, as they recover from under- eating/ dieting, their loss- of-control, chaotic, binge eating behaviors naturally go by the wayside. If you feel like you cannot control yourself around food, fill out my intake form so we can chat!
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There is more to emotional eating than meets the eye. Often, those who are “eating emotionally” are also dieting/ portion controlling/ lifestyle changing/ intermittent fasting/ cleansing, etc… so there is chronic deprivation that exists in their life, causing them to turn toward food to fill the void of deprivation but to also fill the void of simply needing food. So it’s possible that your emotional eating is eating out of a legitimate need for food. Many of my clients have discovered that, although they always thought they were emotional eaters, they weren’t… they were just hungry! When you are eating enough food on a regular basis, and enough food that you actually like, you aren’t using food to cope with uncomfortable emotions all that often. When you have a healed & healthy relationship with food, you aren’t thinking about food - for the most part- unless your body actually needs it. You are free to focus on other things when your body has its basic needs met.