Providing eating disorder treatment that leads efficiently to full recovery was the guiding principal on which Ramey Nutrition was founded. Eating disorders are frequently “treated” in the field of nutrition counseling; however we focus on getting to a state of Recovered and on with lives that are meaningful to our patients. We do this, not by educating or meal planning, but simply by listening, and reminding our patients of the power they have to heal themselves.
• Our Individual Consultations Individualized sessions designed specifically for you without meal plans. We focus not only on the source, but more importantly the issues that maintain disordered eating and fears around food.
• Our Outpatient Eating Disorder Program; A highly intensive medical nutrition therapy and eating disorder treatment program, including individual therapy, group treatment, meditative yoga, monitored eating, and food challenges for those suffering with an eating disorder that impacts their daily life, and ability to move forward.
• Our Eating Disorder Treatment Support Group Phase 1 and Phase 2 Groups provide consistent weekly support and treatment of those suffering with eating disorders, body image issues and media intimidation.
• Our Recovery Support Group provides specialized support to those beyond treatment and going through the process of Recovery toward, what Ramey Nutrition calls Recovered.
• Our Friends and Family Support Group Provides information and support for those with loved ones struggling with an eating disorder.
• Our Website www.RameyNutrition.com Provides information on eating disorders, and services we offer to aid in Recovery. Join online to receive our newsletter, follow us on Facebook, and Twitter.
• Our Ramey Fitness provides a safe and unique fitness program for people of all fitness levels, wanting an out-of-gym experience with no mirrors, pressure, or machines.
• Our Ramey Yoga is our gentle yoga class featuring meditative yoga for all skill levels encouraging a healthy relationship with the body, alongside stress reduction.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Lowering A1C's in Type 2 Diabetes
Starting October 5, 2011 Beyond Type 2!
Have you had Type 2 Diabetes for too long with no success of lowering your A1C?
Do you go to the endocrinologist and hear the same speech again and again about weight loss, exercise and eating better, and think “that’s easy for you to say!” ?
Do you know what to do, but have a hard time putting it into action?
Have you been recently diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, and want an efficient way to get your sugars under control?
• Our Beyond Type 2 Diabetes Program lowers blood sugars and overall A1C by “…connecting people with Type 2 Diabetes to OWN their blood sugars.” –Beyond Type 2 Veteran. Providing support groups, yoga, and beginning level fitness we help utilize the information you have to go Beyond Type 2.
Here at Ramey Nutrition, we have dedicated ourselves and our company to action in its purest and most effective form. We have developed a purpose-driven attack against Diabetes depleting our community’s quality of life. Ramey Nutrition represents a rebellious freedom from what Diabetes represents, including diet restrictions, carbohydrate counting, and a reduced life span. We expect more, such as a quality of life that identifies your goals, talents and passions as who you are, instead of one that identifies you as a “diabetic.”
• Comprehensive Program to Lower A1C’s and keep them down!
• Includes:
o Type 2-Specific Support Group each week provides clarification on diabetes knowledge you already have, but more importantly provides support for what it’s really like to go through life with Type 2 Diabetes. Topics such as stress, fear, frustration, and coping strategies for going beyond your Type 2 Diabetes are discussed.
o Our Individual Consultations as needed are our individualized sessions designed specifically for you; focused on issues that pertain to your current diabetes challenges, including stress, your current lifestyle, and how diabetes presents itself.
o Our Ramey Fitness 3 times per week provides 2 levels of continuing, motivational, diabetes-specific fitness, for those wanting to maintain non-diabetic A1C’s, with an out-of-gym experience including no mirrors, pressure, or machines.
o Our Ramey Yoga provides diabetes-specific yoga for all skill levels to encourage lowered blood sugars by reducing lifestyle stress.
Have you had Type 2 Diabetes for too long with no success of lowering your A1C?
Do you go to the endocrinologist and hear the same speech again and again about weight loss, exercise and eating better, and think “that’s easy for you to say!” ?
Do you know what to do, but have a hard time putting it into action?
Have you been recently diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, and want an efficient way to get your sugars under control?
• Our Beyond Type 2 Diabetes Program lowers blood sugars and overall A1C by “…connecting people with Type 2 Diabetes to OWN their blood sugars.” –Beyond Type 2 Veteran. Providing support groups, yoga, and beginning level fitness we help utilize the information you have to go Beyond Type 2.
Here at Ramey Nutrition, we have dedicated ourselves and our company to action in its purest and most effective form. We have developed a purpose-driven attack against Diabetes depleting our community’s quality of life. Ramey Nutrition represents a rebellious freedom from what Diabetes represents, including diet restrictions, carbohydrate counting, and a reduced life span. We expect more, such as a quality of life that identifies your goals, talents and passions as who you are, instead of one that identifies you as a “diabetic.”
• Comprehensive Program to Lower A1C’s and keep them down!
• Includes:
o Type 2-Specific Support Group each week provides clarification on diabetes knowledge you already have, but more importantly provides support for what it’s really like to go through life with Type 2 Diabetes. Topics such as stress, fear, frustration, and coping strategies for going beyond your Type 2 Diabetes are discussed.
o Our Individual Consultations as needed are our individualized sessions designed specifically for you; focused on issues that pertain to your current diabetes challenges, including stress, your current lifestyle, and how diabetes presents itself.
o Our Ramey Fitness 3 times per week provides 2 levels of continuing, motivational, diabetes-specific fitness, for those wanting to maintain non-diabetic A1C’s, with an out-of-gym experience including no mirrors, pressure, or machines.
o Our Ramey Yoga provides diabetes-specific yoga for all skill levels to encourage lowered blood sugars by reducing lifestyle stress.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Taking The First Step – Seattle
Eating disorder recovery, diabetes management, and weight management can be life altering. Deciding to take action by setting up your first session can be the most difficult step in the recovery process. Fear around this first appointment, whether it be with me or any provider, means telling your story to a stranger. Just scheduling a time to do this can be anxiety provoking.
Not only does it feel fearful to schedule an appointment, but anticipating what will happen in the appointment is hard. Questions that arise about me include;
- Who is she?
- What will she do to my food?
- What will she force me to eat or give up?
- What will she think of me?
- Is she already judging me for even showing up?
- Am I too sick or not sick enough for her practice?
Due to my adherence to food being a symptom or side note to true issues with food, we spend the first session talking about what lead to the food issues with which you are struggling. I don’t usually weigh patients, or discuss food with them in the initial appointment. As important as the food is, the story behind it will give us the solutions to your ultimate health goals. Trust is usually built in this session due to the vulnerability that naturally comes with telling your story and my intense and active listening.
I usually do not give food goals, after the first session, but do give non-food goals. I will also forecast our next session’s discussion in order to not seem mysterious or surprising.
Take that first step, call and make an appointment for your first session. Also, don’t forget to sign up for our free newsletter.
Eating Disorders – Seattle – Common Questions
Eating disorders can be traitorous and difficult coping mechanisms to relinquish. People struggling usually are functional, however mentally slaves to the disorder. Because eating disorders, usually take excess time, energy, sleep, and physical health, they can have detrimental effects not only on the struggler, but their family as well.
As opposed to drug and alcohol rehab, eating disorder treatment is a long road with many chances to resort to it as a coping mechanism. The reason for this is the presence of food being more prevalent than alcohol or drugs. Food is legal, celebrated, eaten at least three times each day, and more advertised each year to connect emotion, desire, and love with food.
One of the first questions I get from patients with eating disorders is: “Are you going to make me fat?” Your weight is not my first concern. Your weight might be indicative of your food habits; however, your emotional state is the reason for the food habits. If you are struggling with an eating disorder, you are hurt, emotionally, mentally, or physically, usually from nothing to do with food. In order to cope with the emotional pain, you use food (restrict, binge/purge, binge) instead of eating it to keep your emotions from overwhelming you.
As you use food, often your weight changes. Why would anyone start with what is affected by a symptom of a problem? I focus on the issue that got the weight to where it is, and then the food follows naturally, not forcedly. In order to make this clear, we discuss your safe weight range, which is often too low, and make a pact that we’ll stay within that until we decide not to. This makes you feel trust in the process, and I get the benefit of moving past your surfactant fears to the issues that are really making you sick.
Dealing with weight changes is imperative to my practice, though. Not revealing weight, I still allow you to know if you are in or out of your safe weight range. If you are above your weight range, it is important that we deal with that in session, not at home alone.
Trust is crucial when we go through this process due to the absolute vulnerability of the clientele with which I work.
Another question I frequently hear is: “Are you going to put me on a meal plan?” My answer to this is, “not if I can help it.” Meal plans, in my opinion are like crack to an addict. When you have an eating disorder you crave order, and the worst place to give you order is in your food. It can become, a new disorder to hyper focus on, grade, count, succeed or fail at. I also do not use any type of forced eating or weight contracts. This is outpatient and if you don’t follow your contract, what am I going to do, take legal action? It doesn’t work. Eating disorder recovery is all about trust, taking small obtainable action steps you can feel good about and celebrate.
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