Cristel brings her personal and professional experience to coach clients to have a healthier and more peaceful relationship with their food and body, as well as to have a better, more fulfilling and satisfying meal balance throughout their busy schedules.
At the end of the day, Cristel does all it takes to redefine your relationship with food, where food is not meant to be a source of stress and agony, but rather, joy and nourishment.
Cristel is a registered dietitian in the lower mainland with an Intuitive Eating, non-diet, weight inclusive and trauma-informed approach.
Professional Background
Hey! I’m Cristel. I’m a Registered Dietitian with the College of Dietitians of BC, and the founder of nutriFoodie. I completed my dietetics degree at the University of British Columbia in June 2014.
I have quite the diverse experiences in clinical nutrition, foodservice management, community nutrition, and business administration. I fully embrace opportunities that cover nutrition, food, counselling, entrepreneurship, education and people!
I’m located in the lower mainland and have a passion for helping women through Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size®.
Personal Struggles
I was just a child when I had to take steroids to deal with inflammation. Unfortunately, my parents did not receive education on what steroids would do to my health and body.
The impact is so great on blood sugars, blood pressure, weight gain, etc… and instead of a preventative plan for my well being at a young age, my body kept changing, and I kept gaining weight from there on.
I was chubby, and I quickly learned that was not okay with society or anyone in my surroundings.
So, like many others, I was bullied by close and distant people in my life with comments that affected me deeply in my younger years.
Fast forward to when I was a very young teenager and was sent to get a prescribed “weight loss diet” from an endocrinologist (…What?!). I walked in, got some anthropometric measures done, was given a handout of a restricted-calorie diet, and sent away.
That was the first of many diets that would follow me for years to come. Many ups and downs… and many more struggles with my food and body.
The results of this extreme diet cycle lead to temporary compliments… only to add fuel to the fire (physically, mentally and emotionally).
I started associating weight loss with being worthy… of attention, of eating without judgment, of being cared for and loved, of feeling “beautiful”.
That only spiraled into having a disordered relationship with food and eating, terrible body image, low self-esteem, all of which later developed into an eating disorder. I used to feel so guilty and shameful for eating altogether – restricting my food, and then end up bingeing in secrecy when no one was around.
All that because… I felt like my body was not good enough.
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