NutriVie Santé

07/27/2026

You might find yourself constantly thinking about your next meal, counting calories, planning what you'll eat (or won't eat), or feeling like food takes up far too much space in your mind.

If this sounds familiar, we want you to know something important:

💛 You're not lacking willpower.

In many cases, constantly thinking about food is your body's natural response to restriction. Whether you've been dieting, skipping meals, following strict food rules, or trying to ignore your hunger, your brain may become more focused on food as a way of protecting you.

Understanding why this happens can be incredibly freeing—and it's often the first step toward building a healthier, more peaceful relationship with food.

In our latest blog, we discuss:
✔️ Why food preoccupation happens
✔️ The psychology behind constantly thinking about food
✔️ The role of dieting and restriction
✔️ Practical strategies to help you move toward food freedom

📖 Read the full article here:

Do you feel like food is constantly on your mind? For instance, are you already thinking about your next meal while still eating your current one? Do you Why can't you stop thinking about food? Learn the causes of food preoccupation, how restriction affects the brain, and when to seek support.

04/16/2026

🚩 Votre relation avec la nourriture est-elle devenue stressante ou obsessive ?

Les relations trouble avec l'alimentation sont plus fréquentes qu’on le pense — et vous n'avez pas besoin d'avoir un diagnostic de trouble alimentaire pour chercher de l'aide. Les symptômes peuvent inclure :

✔️ Régimes fréquents ou règles alimentaires rigides
✔️ Culpabilité après avoir mangé
✔️ Manger en réponse aux émotions
✔️ Sentiment de perte de contrôle avec la nourriture
✔️ Pensées obsessives sur les calories, le poids ou l’image corporelle

Ces comportements peuvent affecter votre santé mentale et physique, mais la guérison est possible. 💛

Pour en savoir plus sur le sujet, cliquez sur le lien ci-dessous pour lire notre nouvel article de blogue !

Vous y apprendrez :
✨ Les signes à reconnaître
✨ Pourquoi ces comportements se développent
✨ La différence entre comportements alimentaires désordonnés et troubles alimentaires
✨ Comment une nutritionniste-diététiste peut vous aider

https://nutriviesante.com/fr/les-relations-troubles-avec-lalimentation-symptomes-causes-et-comment-obtenir-de-laide-guide-dune-dietetiste/

Si vous vivez avec ces difficultés, vous n’avez pas à traverser cela seul(e). Du soutien est disponible.

English version

🚩 Wondering if your relationship with food has become stressful, confusing, or all-consuming?

Disordered eating is more common than many people realize—and it doesn’t have to look “serious enough” to deserve support. It can include:

✔️ Constant dieting or food rules
✔️ Guilt after eating
✔️ Emotional eating
✔️ Feeling out of control around food
✔️ Obsessive thoughts about calories, weight, or body image

These patterns can affect your mental and physical health, but healing is possible. 💛

I just shared a new blog article on my website: Disordered Eating: Symptoms, Causes, and How to Get Help in Montreal

You’ll learn:
✨ Common warning signs
✨ Why disordered eating develops
✨ The difference between disordered eating and eating disorders
✨ How a dietitian can help

🔗 Read the full article by clicking on the link below!

If you’re struggling, you don’t have to navigate it alone. Support is available.

Les relations troubles avec l’alimentation et le poids sont fréquents, surtout dans une société où la culture des régimes est omniprésente. Ces

03/05/2026

✨ Souhaitons la bienvenue à notre nouvelle nutritionniste : Aniela Valle! ✨
Nous sommes ravis d’accueillir Aniela Valle au sein de l’équipe de Nutrivie Santé!

Aniela Valle détient une maîtrise en sciences appliquées de l’Université McGill. Sa pratique repose sur l’alimentation intuitive et le bien-être global, aidant ses clients à gérer leur relation avec la nourriture grâce à une approche anti-diète favorisant un mode de vie équilibré et durable.

Elle accompagne ses clients dans divers enjeux de santé, notamment les troubles digestifs, les troubles alimentaires, relation compliquée avec la nourriture et l’image corporelle, ainsi que la gestion de maladies chroniques telles que le diabète, l’hypertension et l’hypercholestérolémie, entre autres.

Aniela apporte une riche perspective multiculturelle et parle quatre langues : l’espagnol, l’anglais, le français et le portugais. Passionnée par un mode de vie actif, elle aime pratiquer le yoga et aime faire des randonnées en nature.

📍Disponibilités :
• En personne à notre clinique en face du metro Atwater à Westmount
• Consultations virtuelles

🧾 Reçus pour assurances fournis pour les services de nutritionniste-diététiste

Aniela accepte actuellement de nouveaux clients, et nous sommes très heureux de pouvoir compter sur elle pour soutenir notre communauté.

📅 Prenez rendez-vous dès aujourd’hui pour vous aider à atteindre vos objectifs de santé et bien-être en cliquant sur ce lien: https://www.gorendezvous.com/fr/nutriviesante/

✨ Meet Our New Dietitian: Aniela Valle! ✨
We’re excited to welcome Aniela Valle, Registered Dietitian, to the Nutrivie Santé team!

She holds a Master of Applied Science degree from McGill University. Her practice focuses on intuitive eating and overall wellbeing, helping clients heal their relationship with food through an anti-diet approach that promotes a balanced and sustainable lifestyle.

She supports clients with a variety of concerns, including digestive issues, eating disorders, disordered eating, as well as managing chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension among others.

Aniela brings a rich multicultural perspective and speaks four languages—Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese. Passionate about staying active, she enjoys practicing yoga and hiking in nature.

📍 Appointments available:
• In person at our Atwater clinic in Westmount
• Virtual consultations

🧾 Insurance receipts provided for dietitian-nutritionist services.

Aniela is currently accepting new clients, and we’re thrilled to have her supporting our community.

📅 Book an appointment today to start your journey toward better health and a more peaceful relationship with food by clicking on the link: https://www.gorendezvous.com/nutriviesante

12/18/2025

As the holidays are approaching, this season can feel overwhelming if you have complicated relationship with food and your body.

Here are some tips and tricks to help you navigate holiday eating, emotional eating and holiday food guilt:

✨1. Remember: Holiday Eating Is Meant to Be Different

A few festive meals won’t impact your health or your weight. Try to look at the bigger picture: it might be 4-5 festive meals during the holidays out of at least 90 meals throughout the month (considering you eat at least 3 meals per day). That represents 5% of the times your usual food intake. Instead, try to look at the other 95% of the times you eat regular nutritious meals.

✨2. Let Go of the “Good vs. Bad” mentality
Categorizing food as good and bad will make the “good” foods mandatory and thus they become more of a chore or punishment for you to eat. On the other hand, the “bad” foods will be put on a pedestal and you’ll want to gravitate towards them just because they are forbidden. This could fuel restrict-binge cycles and food guilt.

✨3. Build a Plate That Feels Nourishing and Satisfying
In front of a festive table with all kinds of different dishes, we might often plate food mindlessly. Sometimes, some dishes might not be foods we actually enjoy but foods that we portion on auto-pilot mode on our plate.
Try to practice some mindful eating techniques during this holiday season.

✨4. Protect Yourself From Body & Diet Talk
During holiday gatherings, there are often a host of comments about food and body image. Often, those comments can be well intentioned but are in fact quite damaging for your relationship with food and your body.
To set some boundaries and shield yourself from those comments.

✨5. Prepare for Your Personal Triggers
Each individual can have their own personal food triggers and emotional stressors. Try to identify what are your biggest triggers and make a list of different coping mechanisms or boundaries that you can put to help you navigate those stressors.

✨ To learn more about other concrete strategies to help you navigate holiday eating, click on the link in the bio to read the full blog article💚

09/12/2025

✨ Do you ever feel like you’re “good” all week with food… only to feel completely out of control on the weekend?

That’s not a lack of willpower — it’s biological response from your body to counteract the restriction. 🚫🥗➡️🍫
When you restrict your body (physically or mentally), cravings actually increase. Your brain is wired to increase cravings as a way to compensate for the restriction.

This is why dieting or strict food rules often exacerbates cravings and leave you stuck in the same cycle:
restrict → frustration → increased cravings → overeat → guilt/binge → guilt and shame for overeating → more over-eating because you've already "cheated" → panic and fear of gaining weight → restrict again

But there is a way out. 🙌
In our upcoming webinar, “How to Break Free from Cravings Without Dieting”, Olivia and I (2 registered anti-diet nutritionists) will share practical strategies to help you:
✅ Reduce cravings without restriction
✅ Feel more in control around food
✅ Break the cycle of guilt and overeating

📅 October 7th at 6.45pm
💻 Online (for those who can't attend, the recording will be sent to you)

👉 Save your spot by clicking the link in bio
👉 Insurance receipt will be provided

11/04/2024

📣New article on the Blog:

✨What to Expect in Your First Appointment with an Eating Disorder Nutritionist✨

👉 Your first appointment with an eating disorder nutritionist can be an important step in your recover. Our latest blog post provides you with a deep explanation of what goes on in an appointment. Remember, this appointment is a safe space for you to begin your journey toward recovery.

❤️ If you or your loved one needs help, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us to see how we can help!

09/30/2024

Binge-eating episodes undoubtedly bring its load of guilt and shame. After a binge, you probably beat yourself up for lacking willpower to resist the temptation to eat certain foods or portions of certain foods. And then you decide to restrict yourself to make up for the binges and the cycle repeats itself. Sounds familiar?

👉Head over to this blog article to learn more about strategies to implement to break out of this vicious cycle. https://nutriviesante.com/5-things-to-do-after-a-binge-eating-episode/

❤️ If you or your loved one needs help, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us to see how we can help!

Have you experienced times where you binge eat, leaving you feeling too full and bloated? You beat yourself up for not having enough willpower to resist to the temptation the cookies, chips and chocolate. Filled with guilt, shame and panic at the idea of gaining weight, you convince yourself that to...

07/11/2024

📣New article on the Blog:

✨How to tell if someone has an eating disorder✨

👉Our latest blog post provides you with a deep explanation of how an eating disorder can manifest itself physically, behaviorally and psychologically. The early detection of warning signs and symptoms is key in the recovery process!

❤️ If you or your loved one needs help, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us to see how we can help!

Eating disorders are life-threatening mental conditions typically characterized by an excessive preoccupation with body image and food.

06/17/2024

📣New article on the Blog:

✨ The Role of the eating disorder nutritionist in family-based therapy ✨

👉Our latest blog post provides you with a deep explanation of how an eating disorder nutritionist is key in family based therapy for treatment of eating disorders, especially anorexia nervosa in adolescents.

❤️ If you or your loved one needs help, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us to see how we can help!

🔗 Click on the link below to read!
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01/02/2023

Vous reconnaissez-vous dans les comportements à gauche, particulièrement à ce temps de l'année ? 🙋‍♀️

Ces mêmes comportements peuvent contribuer à une relation malsaine avec la nourriture et le corps.

Voici pourquoi :
🙅 Si vous vous sentez coupable et avez honte d'avoir trop mangé, vous risquez de manger encore plus vos emotions ce qui pourrait engendrer encore plus de compulsions alimentaires

🙋 Par contre, si vous pratiquez l'auto-compassion et normaliser le fait de trop manger des fois, vous serez surpris de constater que le besoin de manger sera moins présent.

🙅 Vous punir en restreignant votre apport alimentaire pourrait occasionner plus de pertes de contrôle. Notre corps et notre cerveau n’aiment pas la privation. Le plus que vous vous restreignez, le plus que l’obsession de ces mêmes aliments augmente jusqu’au jour où vous perdez le contrôle sur ces aliments interdits.
🙋 Après avoir trop mangé, essayez plutôt d’écouter votre corps car ce dernier voudra retourner à son poids naturel. Comment ? Votre degré de faim au prochain repas ou pour les prochains jours diminuera probablement. De plus, vos envies alimentaires seront peut-être différents; vous aurez peut-être envie de manger des repas plus légers, plus de légumes, boire plus d’eau, etc.

🙅 Si vous faites de l'exercice pour vous punir et pour brûler l'excès de calories ingérées, l'activité physique deviendra tout simplement une corvée et aura une connotation négative. Vous abandonnerez peut-être très vite.
🙋 Par contre, si vous écoutez votre corps et que vous bougez pour le plaisir et le bien-être, l'activité physique deviendra plus facilement une habitude et fera partie d'un mode de vie sain.

Essayez de faire différemment cette année 💚