I'm SO PUMPED to share this episode with you, I think you're going to love it! Today I'm talking to Evelyn Tribole, registered dietitian and co-author of Intuitive Eating. Yup, Evelyn is the OG creator of the Intuitive Eating concept, and evidence based approach to building a healthier relationship to food. Evelyn has such a depth of knowledge and incredible insight into the IE process, she is so awesome and I can't wait for you to listen! In this episode we talk about:
✨ The history of Intuitive Eating
✨ What Intuitive Eating is (and isn't!)
✨ The research (evidence base) behind IE
✨ How IE is being co-opted by diet culture and what we can do about it
✨ How reframing 'screw ups' as learning experiences can help facilitate the IE process
✨ How to reject the food police and practicing food neutrality
✨ Common fears about IE
✨ How essential gentle nutrition is as an anchor for the process and why it shouldn't be introduced too early
✨ How diet culture undermines your trust in your body, but every time you honour your hunger or appetite you help rebuild that trust
{Evelyn on Twitter}
{Evelyn's Website}
{Intuitive Eating Facebook Support Group}
{Intuitive Eating Website}
{Intuitive Eating Book}
{Intuitive Eating Workbook}
{David Whyte Poem}
HEY OH! Look who's back. Coming in with a book update, followed by a conversation that desperately needed to be had, and I couldn't think of a more perfect guest for it than dietitian Paige Smathers (of the Nutrition Matters podcast). Paige and I are addressing some recent criticisms made about the non-diet movement like we're a) telling everyone to eat doughnuts all day long and b) shaming people who want to lose weight. This is in response to an article that was published recently which criticised the non-diet movement without appreciating some of the subtleties or nuance of the approach. Paige and I are discussing the concerns, doing a little reflecting, and trying to figure out how we can make the approach more accessible.
We discuss:
✨ Why it's important not to jump into nutrition too fast or too hard
✨ Knowing your audience and protecting the most vulnerable
✨ Why it's important to expose people to a variety of foods
✨ How we can bring make out message accessible to people without alienating others
✨ Why we need to be critical of the non-diet approach to help it move forward
✨ Why being critical of the non-diet approach doesn't mean you're for diets
✨ Why you shouldn't feel ashamed for wanting to lose weight or being on a diet BUT
✨ Why it's also important to understand the forces working on us that make us feel like we need to lose weight to he healthy, happy, or comfortable in our bodies
✨ Why doing the work of a non-diet advocate is HARD and why I had to delete Twitter the other week
{Paige on Instagram | Facebook}
{Nutrition Matters Podcast}
{Paige's Website}
{Long-term weight-loss maintenance: a meta-analysis of US studies}
{Ineffectiveness of commercial weight-loss programs for achieving modest but meaningful weight loss: Systematic review and meta-analysis}
{The National Weight Control Registry: A Critique}
{Sofie Hagen's Made of Human Podcast}
{Sofie Hagen's Shimmer Shatter Show (Highly recommend)}
{Is the Anti-Diet Movement Leading us Astray?}
On this week's 'sode I'm talking to Dr. Charlotte Cooper, psychotherapist and author of fat activism; she is punk, witchy, queer, and fat, and one of the coolest people I've ever met. This is potentially one of my favourite episodes ever. We talk about the euphimising and watering down of fat phobia by the medical establishment. We talk about how the 'War on Obesity' and organisations like the WHO are responsible for creating the problem of fat phobia in the first place and how they are now trying to clean their own mess and STILL GETTING IT WRONG. We talk about why using person first language in relation to obesity is still problematic. We talk about maintaining power structures through constructing fat bodies as problems that need solving and so much more. It's a really rich conversation. I highly recommend you read Charlotte's book and follow her work.
Show Notes
{Charlotte's Website}
{Charlotte on Twitter}
{Cat Pousé podcast}
{Fat Activism}
{Fat & Proud}
{A walk around Fat Activist London}
{Nothing About Us Without Us: Fat People and Research Justice by Dr Charlotte Cooper}
{Obesity Time Bomb}
{Sabrina Falco Massage}
{Amanda LaCount}
{LADA}
Happy New year team! Today I'm talking to the incredible Marci Evans about body image, self-acceptance, and food 'addiction'. Marci is a certified EDRD, a body image healer, and intuitive eating counsellor. Our conversation is a great antidote to all the diet culture BS you're seeing everywhere right now. We talk about why it's so challenging to develop positive body image, what real body positivity actually means and thin privilege. We also look more closely at self-acceptance and self-compassion and why developing practices around these concepts can help you heal your body image. Finally we go deep on the science around the idea of food 'addiction' and discuss what the evidence really means; plus some ideas on how to help build a healthier relationship with foods you feel you might be addicted to.