From Sports Nutrition to Diabetes Care: How a Dietitian Supports Health & Wellness Goals

Online nutrition content is dominated by strict rules that lead to conflicting recommendations and body-weight reduction messages. When you train for races or deal with a diabetes diagnosis every treatment plan seems to bring additional feelings of guilt and restrictions or weight loss expectations.

At Branz Nutrition Counseling, we believe there’s another way. My Health at Every Size (HAES)-aligned practice helps clients of every body type and gender to obtain proper nutrition instead of trying to transform their bodies.

How Can a Dietitian Help with Wellness, Sports, and Chronic Disease Management?

You belong in this space whether you seek to enhance your athletic performance, handle blood sugar management, or achieve better food control.

 Sports Nutrition – For EveryBODY

The belief that sports nutrition serves only professional athletes and social media influencers is a common misconception. Every person who moves their body needs proper fuel because it means they need energy to function.

The following assistance is available to my clients who seek my help:

• Fueling up before and after exercise without overwhelming your system
• Strengthening your body and gaining endurance through methods that do not require tracking macros
• Managing exercise practices while recovering from eating disorders
• Exercising in a larger body without being advised to lose weight

Movement requires nourishment instead of perfection as the fundamental requirement for physical activity.

The requirement to train like an athlete does not depend on how you look.

Get Diabetes and Blood Sugar Support with a Dietitian Nutritionist – Without Food Fear

The guidance for diabetes nutrition usually includes weight stigma and food restrictions. The approach we use at Branz differs from the rest.

I support clients who manage prediabetes, type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes through the following ways:

• Food impact on blood sugar will be explained through neutral terms instead of using good or bad labels.
• Add your loved foods to your diet through blood sugar-compatible approaches
• We will explore simple nutrition principles that lead to stability instead of food preoccupation
• Safe and lasting habits will be developed that do not require eliminating happiness

Better health does not require dieting to achieve it.
The implementation of tiny practical measures will both enhance your lab results and improve your life quality.

Cardiac Nutrition – Compassionate MNT for Heart Health

Managing high cholesterol or blood pressure? A HAES strategy supports heart health by avoiding moral food judgments and body shaming.

Together, we can:

• Identify food items that should be included in your diet that support heart health ,such as fiber, healthy fats, and antioxidants.
• Move beyond looking at movement as an isolated factor by considering stress and sleep as part of the complete picture.
• Work to incorporate your food preferences together with cultural needs and financial constraints, and the guidance to help you follow the plan.
• Focus on maintaining consistency together with kindness instead of sticking to restrictive measures.

Protecting your heart requires no major life changes or complete food group elimination.

Outpatient Disordered Eating Treatment — You’re Not Alone.

My clients frequently arrive with a history of different dietary experiences that include:

• Long-term dieting practices together with eating patterns that led to spirals
• Binge/restrict cycles
• Emotional eating or food guilt
• Exercise obsession and body image problems form part of the challenges.

My practice supports clients who are in recovery or simply want peace from the constant food noise through the process of building food trust one meal at a time. Medical goals like blood sugar management or cholesterol care can be supported through prioritizing your relationship with food and body while you are in recovery.

 HAES in Practice: What It Means to Work Together

A HAES-aligned approach means:

• We don’t focus on weight loss as a goal
• We focus on your feelings together with your functional capabilities and your movement patterns and life experiences.
• The care I provide matches your specific requirements which include medical needs alongside emotional needs and personal preferences.
• Bodies in every size deserve our respect as we reject size-related judgments.

The services I offer support your definition of health, whether you exercise with weights or need medical condition management, or simply wish to develop better food habits.

Online or In-person Medical Nutrition Therapy with a St. Louis Area Dietitian: Are you ready to begin?

The subject of nutrition presents challenges that do not need to turn into a form of self-inflicted punishment.

I offer my services to anyone who wants healthcare support for their targets rather than weight-related goals.

 Book a session with Andrew today

Virtual and in-person appointments are available for teens and adults of all backgrounds.