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Meg

Sunday Morning Coffee: March 18, 2018

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I got to spend the weekend at the MEDA conference, a gathering of eating disorder professionals here in the Boston area, held over Friday and Saturday. It’s both invigorating and exhausting at the same time: a lot of new faces, new ideas, excitement, and enthusiasm for the work we do. There are so many dedicated and insightful clinicians and dietitians in the field, it gives me hope that the work we’re doing to heal body image and negative relationships with food will reach more and more of those in need.

A few of the Instagram accounts that are worth following include:

@DietitianAnna
@Jessihaggertyrd
@nourishingwords
@paigesmathersrd

If you’re looking for more positive nutrition messages and kind words about bodies and self care, these are good resources to turn to.

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Sunday Morning Coffee: March 11, 2018

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There’s a lot of baking going on in my house, trying to make sure I have portable, enjoyable snacks on hand to take to work and keep things enjoyable and entertaining even with the dairy-free and soy-free restrictions at the moment. I’ve been leaning a lot on the carrot cake cookies and German chocolate cake from Cookie and Kate’s Love Real Food book, the whole meal muffins from Power Plates, and this chocolate war cake from Food & Nutrition.

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Sunday Morning Coffee: February 25, 2018

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Lights in Central Square

It’s becoming more apparent that Will is on the verge of one, or a few, developmental milestones, and we’ve got the interrupted sleep patterns to prove it. While not horrible, he’s frequently waking up multiple times during the night (I had cozily grown accustomed to once in the middle of the night). In the daytime, when I’m awake and things look better by the light of day, he’s learned to grab his own toes and is trying his hardest to roll over.

I feel more drained at the end of the day, though, and its having an effect on my ability to rally around dinner at times.

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Sunday Morning Coffee: February 18, 2018

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Office Shelfie NonDiet Dietitian

This is a shelfie from my office, reflecting a range of reference texts and non-diet memoirs I pull into my work with eating disorder clients, intuitive eating, and helping others heal their relationships with their bodies and with food. I still feel like I’m in transition mode with getting back into the swing of things at work, but at the same time, I’ve felt so grateful for my clients, who show up for such vulnerable, healing work. It’s been a tough week (among many tough weeks on top of what had felt like a tough year for many), and I try to have my professional space be a place of comfort and security for those I work with.

Meanwhile, midweek, I barely registered that it was Valentine’s day. I hope there was an abundance of love and connection for everyone. We didn’t have special plans (I’ve skipped the dinner-out scene since my days as a server myself), but we did pick up a bottle of bubbly and settle in to watch Ghostbusters after the kids went to bed. This was so fun (and Kate McKinnon was a favorite for both of us).

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Sunday Morning Coffee: February 11, 2018

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It’s the second week fully back and work, and I’m feeling like I’m getting in to the swing of things. I’m loving the opportunity to reconnect with my clients, and I feel like I’ve been able to bring some new ideas to my daily flow after having a bit of time away. It felt like there were some wins this week, too: my sister came over for dinner, and that night, Will started getting himself down to sleep at the start of the night without a whole nursing, bouncing routine. We’ve also spent the last two days watching the Olympics; this was something I really enjoyed for the summer games in Rio but wasn’t super on my radar for the winter games. So far so good.

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Sunday Morning Coffee: January 28, 2018

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It’s been three months, and I’m transitioning back to work. I’m really looking forward to getting back into the swing of things back at the clinic, but there are also moments when I know I’ll miss having this much time with Will. The first weeks with a newborn are so tough. Now that he’s rounding out into a baby with more manageable routines and schedules, I’m feeling like this is the baby I want to spend some time with.

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Sunday Morning Coffee: January 21, 2018

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Welcome sign at Lamplighter brewery

A year ago, I was with my family, marching among tens of thousands on Boston Common. This weekend, I was out and about in the neighborhood again, bundled up with my family, and enjoying the sense of camaraderie and community.

I’m also getting ready to go back to work, leaving the long days (in both good and bad ways) of hanging with my baby behind.

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Sunday Morning Coffee: January 14, 2018

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Winter scene on the Charles River

Winter keeps climbing along, my maternity leave is ticking past, and we find ourselves midway through January. We weathered the storm well last week. With the Christmas holiday, then New Year’s, the snow day, and now day care off for MLK, it seems like it’s been ages since we’ve had a week in our usual routine.

The other news is that, as with Charlotte, Will is experiencing a dairy and soy protein intolerance, which means that both of us are off milk products and soy for the foreseeable future. This is typically something infants outgrow (Charlotte was back on both around her first birthday), but in the short-term, it’s a frustrating development for me both because I’m now planning all our meals without these foods and because I miss the foods I really enjoy.

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Sunday Morning Coffee: December 24, 2017

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Small apartment Christmas tree

This is our first year really playing Santa, and the first year Charlotte kind of understands what is going on. She’s got a sense that there’s a holiday coming up, but she’s still asking about trick-or-treating and has spent the weekend in her Halloween pajamas and carrying her jack-o-lantern bucket around. Family has also started arriving in town. The plan is to do a Christmas morning celebration as a family of four before heading over to the apartment my parents are renting for a bigger gathering. This is the second year in a row we’re doing Christmas in Boston, and there’s snow on the way.

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Sunday Morning Coffee: December 17, 2017

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Snow covered trees Boston in winter

It’s still snowy and cold here, and I’m still hunkered down with my new son. It’s a weird mix of planning and looking forward to the holidays, and being so in to the ebbs and flows of the daily routine (or at least trying to establish what looks like a routine). Having a newborn is hard, and the difficult patches that come up are hard to predict and uniquely challenging. It’s both incredibly boring and frustrating when you’re trying to soothe a fussy baby. We’ve started to track Will’s sleep schedule to help him stay on track during the day with adequate periods of wakefulness and get some solid sleep at night. So far, there’s been ample time in the overnight hours to read a bit.

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