Back to basics with food after an eating disorder with Dietitian Shane Jeffery, using the five step RAVES model for a positive food relationship

Have you ever thought how complicated eating is these days? We live in a world where we’re bombarded with diet culture content and body image ideals – where food is staged with lights and filters and thousands of pretty, perfect plates are just a phone swipe away.

In this episode our guest, Accredited Practicing Dietitian Shane Jeffrey from River Oak Health, wants us to pare it all back saying a positive, intuitive relationship with food is within reach for us all, particularly those with eating disorders. Shane's tips on how to start eating again after an eating disorder come down to an easy five step acronym: RAVES.

He’s spent the last few decades developing the internationally acclaimed RAVES model, which combines science with personal values to reset relationships with food.

RAVES stands for Regularity, Adequacy, Variety, Eating Socially and Spontaneity 

If you are wondering about how to encourage eating again after a loved one has been diagnosed with an eating disorder or improving their relationship with food then listen to this episode!

 Some of Shane’s RAVES tips include:

·     eating like a 2 year old by bringing back intuitive eating

·     stoking the energy campfire with regular meals by time not just appetite

·     and agreeing there should be no good or bad or healthy or unhealthy food – there’s just food.

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You can find a download of the RAVES model cheat sheet here on the Eating Disorders Families Australia website.

If you’d like more information from Shane on RAVES read his blog HERE.

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