PCOS and ED: How to Help Without Harm ½ Day Workshop

WAEDOCS

About this event

This workshop is suitable for ALL clinicians collaborating with people living with an eating disorder.

Polycystic Ovaria Syndrome is the most common cause of ovulatory Infertility and 40% of those affected experience diabetes by the time they are 40. Most clinicians rely on weight centric calorie restrictions and low carbohydrate diabetic meal planning to treat PCOS yet those don't work for most people. Research suggests people with PCOS are four times more likely to experience an eating disorder in their lifetime. 

The push to diet and restrict certain foods fuels and eating disorder and prevents access to eating disorder recovery. This presentation will focus on filling up the healthcare provider's toolbox with concrete weight inclusive tools to help understand their physiology, improve body image and illuminate their path towards eating disorder recovery.

This collaborative workshop will include information on:

• The reproductive, psychological and metabolic consequences of PCOS throughout the lifecycle
• Common PCOS client stuck points whilst navigating eating disorder recovery with non-diet tools to navigate them
• Weight inclusive and non-diet Medical Nutrition Therapy uniquely deigned for people with PCOS

Date: 5th August 2025
Time: 08:00 – 11:00 (AWST) – check time difference if attending outside WA
Location: Online – via MS Teams
Recording – available 2 weeks post workshop

Cost: $100 (inc GST) for all clinicians
WA health clincians ONLY – if service is paying then still register via Try Booking and complete this form
Register at Try Booking: https://www.trybooking.com/CYCEW
Registrations Close: 22nd July 2025 at 5pm

Julie Duffy Dillon MS, RDN, NCC, LDN, CEDS-C
Julie Duffy Dillon is a Registered Dietitian and Host of Find Your Food Voice®, a popular long running nutrition podcast. Through speaking and writing, she helps people with PCOS and a complicated relationship with food strategize how to remove the shame and blame dumped on them from the diet industry. Her work has been featured on TLC and in the New York Times, Outside Magazine, Shape and other outlets. She is the author of the book, Find Your Food Voice