Food Junkies Podcast Episode 122: Lauren Anton MS, RD, CEDS-S, CPT
Lauren Anton is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, iaedp-approved Supervisor, and Certified Personal Trainer helping people to break free from diet culture using a weight-inclusive, non-diet approach. She has hands-on experience working with eating disorders from residential through outpatient levels of care and currently works with clients out of her Los Angeles-based private practice. She also supervises fellow dietitians. She is currently in-process for the Body Trust® Certification through Be Nourished. Lauren has spoken nationally on athletes and ED, adolescents and ED, exercise addiction/dependence, and weight stigma and has presented her own research examining the effects of intuitive eating–based nutrition education on adolescent female cross country runners. She has also been quoted in publications such as The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, and the Huffington Post.
In this episode: Lauren shares her personal/professional journey She speaks to the cross addiction of Eating Disorders/Substance Use Disorders/Food Addiction What is exercise addiction? Does it fall on a spectrum? Screening for exercise addiction in clients How does exercise addiction distinguish itself from compulsions and impulse control disorders Healthy exercise boundaries Who would be the type of person that would be at a higher risk for exercise addiction? What is exercise bulimia? What are the red flags to look out for? – How would we know if we had taken it too far? How does someone recover from exercise bulimia? What is the treatment? Can they still exercise? Relapse with exercise addiction
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