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3 Clinical Lenses for ED Clients With Chronic GI Challenges

Sometimes slowing down and asking better questions can matter more than the next intervention for a client. You know that feeling when you offer a suggestion or reflect an observation that makes an immediate, meaningful difference in your client’s life? My gosh, that is GOLD! It feels so good to be helpful. On the flip […]

Written by Marci Evans on September 30, 2026

GLP-1 Medications and Eating Disorders: What New Research Recommendations Get Right (and Where They Fall Short)

A new Delphi consensus study on GLP-1RAs and eating disorders offers much-needed clinical guidance - but it's missing a critical voice in the room. If you work anywhere near the intersection of GLP-1 medications and eating disorders, you've probably felt the same thing I have for years. The stark lack of evidence-based guidance on GLP-1 [...]

Written by Marci Evans on September 17, 2026

Why Nutrition Is Both Essential and Complicated in Eating Disorder Recovery

Nutrition is essential for eating disorder recovery - but it can also become a source of control, identity, and false power. Nutrition plays a central role in eating disorder recovery, but its impact is more complex than most people realize, so when we hear this year’s National Nutrition Month theme, “Discover the Power,” it’s worth [...]

Written by Marci Evans on March 26, 2026

Back to College with an Eating Disorder: Avoid These 3 Common Mistakes

Protect your Eating Disorder recovery this semester by planning ahead, managing triggers, and building a support system with a dietitian. Starting college is exciting, but it also brings new pressures that can make eating disorder recovery harder. Whether you’re a first-year student moving away from home or returning after summer break, the back-to-school season often [...]

Written by Marci Evans on July 23, 2025

What does a Registered Dietitian do when working with Clients

In March, each year, we recognize National Registered Dietitian Day. While I love being a dietitian, I DREAD telling strangers what I do for a living. When a stranger sitting next to me on an airplane or a parent at my kids’ school asks, “What do you do for a living?” I cringe. I cringe [...]

Written by Marci Evans on March 12, 2025

Barriers to Eating Disorders Treatment and Growing Awareness

Every February, an entire week is set aside for Eating Disorders Awareness Week. While eating disorders are part of my life 52 weeks out of the year, it feels important to join with others fighting for prevention, treatment, and recovery from this devastating illness. Did you know that one of the biggest obstacles to recovery [...]

Written by Marci Evans on February 25, 2025

8 Tips to Improve your Wellbeing without Diet or Exercise Resolutions

If January is a tough time of year, you are not alone. Your social media feed is likely filled with people sharing the highlights of 2024, while diet culture is constantly reminding you how you can be better, under the veil of “New Year’s resolutions.” It is a recipe for comparison and undeniable pressure to [...]

Written by Marci Evans on January 2, 2025

What’s my advice for getting started as an Eating Disorders Dietitian?

When students, interns, and dietitians ask me about what is required to get into the ED profession, I offer a couple of pieces of advice. The first is that you have to be willing to sacrifice time, energy, and money to specialize in eating disorders. It is a SPECIALTY, and it takes significant resources to [...]

Written by Marci Evans on December 3, 2024

Food insecurity is a risk factor for the development of eating disorders

Food Insecurity: A risk factor for the development of eating disorders

Did you know that November 17-23 is Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week? With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us here in the United States, it seems apropos. If you’re like me, even amidst my own struggles and challenges, I feel extraordinarily grateful that secure housing and enough food aren’t on my list of worries. Ensuring that [...]

Written by Marci Evans on November 15, 2024

5 Strategies that have Supported my Professional Growth as a Clinician

Clinicians and dietitians are always asking me, how do I plan and engage in my own growth and professional development? It is a common question I receive from colleagues. They wonder how I engage in my own continued growth alongside all of the things that I do for work (counsel, supervise, teach, write, etc.). This [...]

Written by Marci Evans on October 23, 2024

Working with Eating Disorder Clients… Two Things I Don’t Know

One of the greatest gifts of getting farther along in one’s career is developing a comfort with “not knowing” stuff. I know that sounds wild because I am kind of obsessed with learning. It’s one of the things I love most about this career - the opportunities for ongoing learning are everywhere. With experience comes [...]

Written by Marci Evans on October 4, 2024

Retro Review: I cannot believe this Body Image Blog is still #1

In these retro reviews, I’ve been looking back in time at the top 3 blog posts on my site of all time. And we have finally made it blog post #1, one on the topic of unrealistic beauty standards… It is titled, “Does this uterus make me look fat?” Pretty catchy title, huh? It’s essentially [...]

Written by Marci Evans on September 23, 2024

Retro Review: Do I Stand By What I Wrote on Sugar Addiction?

Six years ago, I wrote an article about sugar addiction that to this day is one of my most visited blog posts. I embarked on a fun little project this past summer of revisiting my most clicked on blog posts of all time. You may remember that the 3rd most popular post was about Dannon [...]

Written by Marci Evans on September 13, 2024

Highlights from the “Food the Main Course” Conference!

The "Food the Main Course” Conference It is a dietitian-designed, organized, and led conference which specifically focuses on the treatment of digestive disorders and gastrointestinal (GI) conditions. I recently attended my first "Food the Main Course” Conference, and it was a phenomenal experience and I’m so excited to share with you a few of the things [...]

Written by Marci Evans on August 20, 2024

Retro Review: Do I Stand by My Critique of this Yogurt 14 Years Later?

The messages from diet culture on what makes something ‘healthy’ continue to endure over time. Summer gives me nostalgia vibes. The warmer weather, longer days, popsicles, and flip flops really do bring me back. And thanks to my marketing director, I’ve been going on a different kind of trip back in time. She recently shared [...]

Written by Marci Evans on August 2, 2024

The Gifts I Receive from My Nutrition Counseling Clients

I love gift giving. And as someone who celebrates Christmas, gift giving is front of mind this time of year. But lately I’ve been reflecting a lot on the gifts that my clients have given me over the years and wanted to share a bit from my heart as we close out the year. Over [...]

Written by Marci Evans on December 20, 2023

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4 Tips to Manage the Holidays with Chronic Illnesses and EDs

You can enjoy the holiday season as stress and symptom-free as possible. If you are reading this and struggle with an eating disorder (ED), chronic illness, or both, I am proud of you. You must manage countless challenges each and every day. EDs and chronic illnesses can be thought of as “invisible illnesses.” On the [...]

Written by Marci Evans on November 17, 2023

How to Improve Body Image and Heal with a New Approach

Approaching Your Body Image by factoring in social and nervous systems when doing this work is often the path to healing. In my last blog post, I talked with you about why body image is so complex, what your bad body image is trying to tell you, and why your attempts to fix it likely [...]

Written by Marci Evans on August 25, 2023

Why Body Image is so Complicated and What it’s Telling You

Summer temperatures often bring the bad body image boiling right to the top. I get it, you are sweaty and exposed and damn, that’s uncomfortable. That’s why I have to talk about body image this month…and probably next. Today I’m going to share with you 3 things: Why body image is so complicated, what your [...]

Written by Marci Evans on July 28, 2023

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Digestive Disorders and Eating Disorders: Answering Common Questions

Did you know that the majority of clients who suffer from an eating disorder (ED) also struggle with significant digestive health challenges? When I returned from maternity leave, I went to social media to ask - what content do you want from me? The resounding answer: digestive issues!! which is not surprising … Some studies [...]

Written by Marci Evans on June 23, 2023

These new AAP guidelines will increase eating disorders in children

If you are in the eating disorder world, you have probably heard the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) newest guidelines for children who live in larger bodies. If you have not heard of these new guidelines, I’m going to summarize them here, as well as provide my stance on these recommendations. In the wise words [...]

Written by Marci Evans on February 25, 2023

Body Image Training & Coping tools + Groups to help you!

Last month I wrote about summer body image struggles and I can’t thank you enough for all of the positive feedback I received from both individuals and providers. The topic resonated for so many of you and it’s a topic we can’t seem to get off our brains over here at Marci RD. Since it’s a [...]

Written by Marci Evans on August 19, 2022

3 Myths about Eating Disorders Treatment

While there are a lot of problematic myths out there, here are three Myths about Eating Disorders Treatment that I’ve been reflecting on quite a bit. As I have been doing all the legwork on the newest version of my online training “Nutrition Counseling for Eating Disorders” I have been thinking a lot about common […]

Written by Marci Evans on October 27, 2021

What’s Food Insecurity Got to do with Pride Month?

It’s hard to believe that here in Boston, the summer is upon us! This past week we’ve had scorching temperatures, coupled with lots of very quick changes to our covid guidelines. It sure feels like a lot of changes all at once. If you’re like me or any of my clients, you might find yourself [...]

Written by Marci Evans on June 12, 2021

Welcoming a New RD to the Team!

I opened the doors to my private practice exactly 11 years ago this month. It seems impossible that so much time has passed! And in those 11 years, I have welcomed 5 dietitians to my team. All of them compassionate, smart, hardworking, and fun! I have been truly blessed to be surrounded by women I […]

Written by Marci Evans on December 14, 2019

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Forget WW! How to Protect Your Children from Food & Body Shame

The top question I receive from family, friends, and people on social media is, “How do I raise my child to have a healthy relationship with food and body?”. For many people, they reach out to me because they have struggled, often since childhood, with disordered eating, chronic dieting, and body hatred and desperately do […]

Written by Marci Evans on August 27, 2019

trust that nutrition is all about the big picture, not the minutiae of each meal

An update from Marci Evans, Registered Dietitian

I’m happy to be sending you a quick hello from my maternity leave. I’ve been reflecting on some of the principles I’ve taught my clients over the years and how they have been immensely helpful to me as I’ve transitioned into this new and very busy role as a parent. And what I love about […]

Written by Marci Evans on April 20, 2019

Self-Compassion and Embodiment While Recovering from Disordered Eating

This is a guest article by my colleague, Sarah Patten, one of the Registered Dietitians with the Marci RD Nutrition team. The cold days of February are upon us and the winter doldrums have settled in for many. On the days when I’m most longing for warm weather and sunshine, I try to remain grateful […]

Written by Marci Evans on February 14, 2019

Calories In = Calories Out is BS

I posted an image on social media a few weeks ago stating “Calories In = Calories Out is Bullsh*t” and it was met with a massive response. I had a sense it’d strike a chord and it sure did. One of the dominant themes I heard from students and professionals was, “It is BS, BUT […]

Written by Marci Evans on July 17, 2018

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