Whether you’re recovering from an eating disorder or need a specific nutritional plan leading up to a competition, ACB Coaching offers a wide range of personalised nutritional services to suit everyone. I am an MNU Certified Nutritionist, having also studied to become a Master Practitioner in Eating Disorders and Obesity with the National Centre of Eating Disorders (NCFED). With a strong background and knowledge of Psychology, I determine the nature of your relationship with food to move forward with the best nutritional plan for you and your individual situation.

Eating Disorders & Obesity

Eating Disorders and Obesity are both multifactorial and complex issues. Because we must eat to survive,  we all come into contact and make many decisions relating to food each day, which continuously interact with our thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It is the nature of these interactions that can lead to unhappy, or even harmful relationships with food.

These relationships are not easily categorised, nor do they define us. There is no single cause to an eating disorder, just as there is no simple model to explain the various ways in which obesity might develop.

While the treatment for various types of eating disorders and obesity differs, what is constant, is a need for the appreciation of the individual involved, and helping to promote and sustain healthful change. Please read the Treatment Paradigm section below to learn more.

Treatment Paradigm

Due to the complexity of eating disorders and the various forms it can take, diagnosis is not necessarily a simple (or even useful) process. Subsequently, an appropriate treatment plan for any given individual, will naturally differ depending on the symptoms and behaviours displayed.
Obesity is far easier to diagnose, and for the the vast majority of cases can be reasonably assessed by using an age-adjusted Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator. Although some obese people do suffer from Eating Disorders, the treatment plan for Obesity differs from those with Eating Disorders. That said, there are overlaps. These commonalities include:

• An initial assessment stage where many ideas such as the symptoms, behaviours, lifestyle, motivations and the history of your relationship with food can be explored. It is a crucial process where in addition to discovering any potential Eating Disorders you might have, other potential physical or psychological risk factors can be identified.

• Engagement. Not the type to do with marriage, but refers to the process where the individual in treatment achieves full ownership of their journey towards recovery.

• The Therapeutic process. As mentioned above, the focus of this process will differ between individuals, diagnoses and situations. It will however involve a variety of discussions, experiments, challenges, exercises and skills that leverage one’s habits and resources to work towards an individuals’ goals.

The points above are by no means an exhaustive list of the similarities or stages in which one might engage during Eating Disorder or Obesity therapy, but are there to give you a flavour of what you can expect if you take those first steps towards change.

Food Relationship Management

Although we might not often pay much attention to it, our relationship with food is just important as what we eat. Many of us understand what constitutes a balanced and nutrient dense diet, but find we repeatedly come unstuck with food because of how we think about it. The same old thing, over and over again.

Food relationship management is about getting back control of your eating through gaining insight about your eating patterns, understanding sustainable nutritional guidelines, managing negative feelings towards food and strengthening your motivation to change.

Our approach is…

If you want to learn to manage your unhelpful thoughts about food and get back in touch with your natural appetite, your relationship with food is a great place to start.

What my clients have to say…

"With Andy's guidance and support, I have turned things around. No more obsessing over my weight and body image and no more spending days obsessing over food. I learned things that will be with me for the rest of my new happier life."

"Andy has helped me to understand my relationship with food, what healthy eating is and how to overcome my cravings. Now, I am constantly eating healthily and building good habits."

 
Nutritional Support

All of the services ACB Coaching offer are entirely personalised to you and our Nutrition packages are no exception.

Each offering begins with an in depth consultation to accurately assess your nutritional behaviours, habits and knowledge. From here, you will receive professional and individualised written feedback that is designed to help improve your health, quality of life, performance and well-being.

The nature of the ongoing relationship we then develop then depends on your circumstances, desire and requirements. Please get in contact to find out more.