Sanford Eating Disorders & Weight Management Center — Local services in Fargo

I once rated this place 5 stars! I boasted to anyone who I came across with an ED. I saw many providers well over 5 years here. Im not ashamed. Many helped me thru some of what seemed some of my darkest chapters. Understanding and acknowledging my ED now is something I am proud to say Ive accomplished and continue to personally experience and grow in. I have overcome so much yet it saddens me to feel so unheard by my medical provider. I feel there was a blurred vision a disconnect of their goals they saw fit for me and my personal goals. It always felt their medical view and understanding of me was “more valuable, more important” because they seemed to “know more” about me than even I do. The judgement I started to feel was unwarranted and uncomfortable especially in this specific space. I began to feel a need to disengage more and more the less “heard” I felt because the “louder and more clear” I represented myself they only viewed it differently or looked in my chart at the “history of me” and what occurred instead of what transformations have actually occurred and actually listening to me. Its a shame:(

I am still thankful for all the years with the providers who did listen but perhaps I need to look elsewhere and see someone who may have a “fresh” look at the actual person I am today and not look at my illness or chart and define me for that and feel as tho my goals are “set” around someone else. I had multiple goals to achieve. Im ready to rise on top of the next one and not wait for my team to be ready to help support me in it as medically I will need some help and I just have not gotten that here. It starts to feel like “bill” this provider “accomplish” this for another so many months then just maybe we’ll consider. A dangling carrot and im just not buying anymore. Note for others. Listen to yourself. If you put the work in. Do not doubt your judgement and Do Not set aside your dreams and goals because someone else on the team doubts you based on your “rap sheet” (diagnosis). Move forward to someone who will listen and...

I strongly recommend not going there. Unethical and disrespectful of your time and money. They purposely mislead me to make money off of me. At the start of my appointment I let Lorraine A. Swan-Kremeier know what I was looking for and asked if that was what they offered: I know what healthy food is, education is not the issue; misusing food to treat something unknown to me is the disorder I need assistance with. I was assured that is what they do. I went to half a dozen appointments I was told were necessary to get initial information on my body and medical history, spent hundreds of dollars only to be told by that same doctor, 'Now we're going to teach you what healthy food is.' I said 'No, I told you when we first met that is not necessary. I am misusing food to treat something else unknown to me. I need help discovering what that is.' Only then was I told, 'We don't do that.' UNACCEPTABLE. They purposely mislead me to make money off of me. I strongly recommend not going there. Unethical and disrespectful of your...

They have everything necessary to help people and choose not to use it. Waste of time and money. I was referred for fitness issues after I had significant weight gain and muscle loss due to injury/illness. The inbody scans were helpful too track progress and initiate a plan. The first plan caused me to gain weight, so then we established a lower calorie plan that was working! (because I followed it as close as humanly possible) HOWEVER, I was accused of being an anorexia risk and referred to the "eating disorder" despite it being THEIR plan in the first place. I tracked everything I ate and established HEALTHY routines.. I was on a roll! They could've just increased the calorie count slowly as I gained muscle, but instead they added a whole new department to the team that already included 4 specialists. THEY JUST WANT YOUR MONEY. THEY WON'T HELP YOU....