As part of breaking the cycle of acting on ED behaviors in response to negative body image, you can learn skills to help tolerate urges for eating disorder behaviors.
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As I outlined in discussing the sports nutrition Hierarchy, the foundation of a successful sports nutrition routine is first and foremost eating enough. Athletes and active individuals are notorious for chronically underfueling due to decreased hunger cues, inability to balance nutrition with activity, or as a result of diet culture in the fitness world. If you are not first making sure that you are taking in enough energy, the types of food, timing, or supplements you take won’t make a difference.
If you do any type of quick search of the term “sports nutrition”, you’ll probably find: someone talking about cutting macros, protein powder, and gym selfies with said protein powder in hand while talking about cutting macros. When I think of sports nutrition, I think of something totally different… I think of rejuvenation. I think of recovery.
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