Erica Mouch RD

Owner of Erica Mouch Nutrition. Anti-Diet Registered Dietitian who believes bodies should be all sizes. Fat positive. (She/her)

[Erica Mouch RD @EMouchNutrition]

Does anyone else feel like they are about to jump worlds when they skips a song on their @beatsbydre ala #eeoao @allatoncemovie

[Erica Mouch RD @EMouchNutrition]

@FatFolksTarot 🥳🥳🥳

[Erica Mouch RD @EMouchNutrition]

@FatFolksTarot Got mine in too! Last day 😅

[Dr Fiona Willer AdvAPD, PhD @FionaWiller]

What benefits could come from including body size in anti-discrimination laws?

I asked #ChatGPT

Here’s its response…..

[Ragen Chastain (she/her) @danceswithfat]

Thank you International Federation of Eating Disorders Dietitians (IFEDD) for putting out a clear statement rejecting the dangerous @AmerAcadPeds guidelines.
https://t.co/Uy4gs4wVdT

[Erica Mouch RD @EMouchNutrition]

Ive seen @TopGunMovie Maverick 5 times. Every single time, I say “common Rooster” and get scared when that last bandit comes on screen. Such a good movie.

[kelsey mckinney @mckinneykelsey]

Absolute banger of an advice column: https://t.co/lUNSFM9ghA

[Dr. Muhlheim @drmuhlheim]

In my office, I regularly see severely ill teens with eating disorders that were triggered by a pediatrician telling them to lose weight.

The new AAP guidelines promoting bariatric surgery & weight loss medication for children will only create more eating disorders. 💔

[Erica Mouch RD @EMouchNutrition]

@marquisele

[Erica Mouch RD @EMouchNutrition]

@kate_manne 😭😭 lets hope they remedy that!!

[Erica Mouch RD @EMouchNutrition]

@AmerAcadPeds No 2 yr old needs a focus of weight loss when their body and brain is still developing! No teen/pre teen needs to have wt loss surgery before they even have had a chance to experience life. Are your recommendations protecting peds or protecting your pockets?

[Erica Mouch RD @EMouchNutrition]

@AmerAcadPeds Your new recommendations are horrifying. Like most RDNs I was trained in the “traditional” method which focuses on weight and body size as a measure of a persons health. In year two of my career, I worked at a pediatric hospital and outpatient clinic. 🧵

[Erica Mouch RD @EMouchNutrition]

Many started sneaking food, asking for seconds at places their parents weren’t around and started describing in great detail what they would eat as soon as they were done with the program. Growing bodies do NOT need to lose weight. A focus on this will only lead to more EDs

[Erica Mouch RD @EMouchNutrition]

The kids however is what convinced me the most that a weight centric model is harmful, shameful and contributes to high rates of eating disorders

[Erica Mouch RD @EMouchNutrition]

Parents also shared that they felt they had tried every thing we recommended but didnt want their kids to live a life without delicious food, without play foods and without celebration foods.

[Erica Mouch RD @EMouchNutrition]

I saw the direct impacts of these recommendations on not only the parents/caregivers but even more so on the clients themselves - these two, five, seven and up to 17 year olds. Parents shared they felt like they were inadequate for not being able to provide “healthy food”

[Erica Mouch RD @EMouchNutrition]

It was here that I really started to see just how harmful weight centric recommendations are especially to the kiddos that are given “weight loss recommendations”. I worked in clinics that ran family oriented interventions with regular weigh-ins and food recommendations

[Shira Rose @theshirarose]

As an eating disorder therapist, the amount of clients who’s eating disorders were triggered by a pediatrician visit is staggering.

The @AmerAcadPeds KNOWS that weight loss for teens leads to increased EDs (& ironically leads them to be higher weight) but I guess $ is louder.

[Shira Rose @theshirarose]

I can’t stop thinking about the fact that the @AmerAcadPeds has 0 qualms about confidently putting out guidelines for TWO YEAR OLDS to receive weight loss interventions and… are not mortified to do so?

I wonder how many of these doctors have financial ties to the diet industry.