Wild Healthy Nutrition

WILD HEALTHY

Nutrition

Wild Healthy Nutrition

CARLA BREDIN

Registered Nutritionist

ARE YOU READY TO REPAIR YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD?

INTUITIVE EATING, NON-DIET NUTRITION AND THE HEALTH AT EVERY SIZE APPROACH

Are you ready to trust your body, quit obsessing about food, and finally let go of dieting? My work as a Registered Nutritionist is centred on a non-diet, weight-inclusive approach to your health. If you've been struggling for years with your relationship with food and exercise, I’m here to remind you that it is possible to make peace with food, to find ease and joy once again when it comes to eating. As a certified intuitive eating counsellor, I can help you return to your body’s innate wisdom relating to hunger, fullness, and satisfaction. Together, we’ll work towards rejecting strict rules and beliefs you may have about food, relearn how to eat according to your body’s cues around hunger and fullness, uncover how to move and care for your body outside of what diet culture prescribes and regain a life free from dieting.

WHY DIETING STEALS YOUR TIME, HEADSPACE AND ANY MEANINGFUL PURSUIT OF HEALTH

Dieting has been proven time and again to be a flawed approach to health because it centres deprivation and restriction. For many, the result of deprivation and restriction is feeling out of control around food. Many clients describe how they 'can't be trusted around food' and if they start, they 'won't stop'. This pendulum swing is incredibly common for dieters and a sign that your body is trying to get food and nutrients at all costs, as it likely feels threatened that the deprivation and restrictions will continue for some time. Your body will do what it takes to compensate for that. Slowed metabolism, intense cravings from hormonal signalling and a compulsion to eat past comfortable fullness when the chance arises are your body's way of trying to end the restriction and deprivation you are putting it through. 'Yo-yo dieting' is often used as a way to describe this cycle of weight loss and weight regain and can lead to intense feelings of shame and failure and low-self-esteem. None of this is in any way health-promoting and the reason why non-diet nutritionists and dietitians have moved away from creating food plans, promoting weight loss or enabling your restriction and deprivation. Diets don't work. And yet as a society we obsess over shrinking our bodies and see the moral value in 'willpower' and 'wanting it badly enough'. This toxicity is everywhere. But not here

Clients Say

  • Carla was really helpful from a sports nutrition [marathon training] point of view, but she took a lot of time with me in the first few sessions to really look at my relationship with food and how to begin repairing that first. It was challenging but worthwhile and I'm delighted with where I am now

    SG

  • Carla was straight-talking and so supportive. Her approach was thorough and she backed up a lot of her advice with some fairly impressive scientific explanations (she drew a diagram of the digestive system, its basic functions, and it really stuck with me). But all the information aside, Carla was direct and fair and funny and most of all had bucket loads of empathy.

    RS

  • I had no expectations and thought if I just had one session to help me understand what the diagnosis [NAFLD] meant and get some tips I could manage the rest myself. I had 6 sessions with Carla in total over the last year, and my GP was encouraged by my repeat blood tests

    TP

  • Something that I really appreciated was Carla's attention to the role of stress in my life and the importance of activities such as mindfulness and meditation. Her friendly and warm manner in combination with expertise and clear passion for nutrition made this such a positive experience for me. She was realistic with me in terms of what was manageable and what would fit in with my lifestyle and really let me lead the conversation.

    EMD

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