Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the past several weeks, I have posted two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. Make sure you go back and have a listen. How To Just Eat It is out now! 

In today’s episode I’m talking to Kimmie Singh, MS, RD, who is a is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist at LK Nutrition, a Health at Every Size® nutrition private practice based in New York City that supports people with eating disorders, disordered eating, and anyone seeking for support in healing their relationship with food and body. Kimmie has a passion for Intuitive Eating and weight-inclusive nutrition and is currently the treasurer for the Association for Size Diversity and Health; as well as an active member of the International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians. In this episode we’re talking about ‘the next steps’ of intuitive eating.

In this episode we talk about:

• How we can make Body Positivity and Intuitive Eating more accessible & inclusive
• Oppressive systems and their part to play in Intuitive Eating
• Barriers to Intuitive Eating
• How Intuitive Eating might feel unsafe to some folks
• The relationship between cultural assimilation and diet culture 
• Social justice & equality
• Looking beyond our own personal Intuitive Eating process
• Clinical vs Emotional understanding

Kimmie shares her insight on the complexities behind making Intuitive Eating more inclusive, as well as sharing advice on why it’s so important to listen to clients on an individual, human-to-human level if they express concern around Intuitive Eating.

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Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_

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Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating

Guest Information:

Kimmie Singh - Instagram Website Podcast

Resources Mentioned:

Fearing The Black Body - Sabrina Strings

The Body is Not an Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor

My Black Body Podcast - Rawiyah Tariq and Jessica Wilson, MS. RD.

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 9 of this series will drop on Tuesday 16th Feb!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Paige Smathers RDN, CD is a registered dietitian nutritionist in private practice and podcaster whose work revolves around helping people heal their relationships with food and their body. She specializes in chronic dieting, addiction recovery nutrition, eating disorders and family feeding dynamics. Her approach to nutrition and health is grounded in mindfulness and is rooted in the intuitive eating and Health at Every Size frameworks. In this episode we’re talking all about the final principle of Intuitive Eating; Gentle Nutrition.

In this episode we talk about:

• How choosing what to eat is like choosing what to wear
• Unconditional permission to eat; what it is and what it isn’t
• Why it’s important not to come to Gentle Nutrition before we are ready
• Food flexibility
• How mindfulness can support our relationship with food
• Letting go of ‘food perfection’
• Food satisfaction
• Food curiosity

Paige talks us through how we can start to take the power back into our own bodies to find what feels good for us.

Get your copy of How To Just Eat It!

UK

{Amazon}

{Waterstones}
{WH Smith}

Australia

{Booktopia)

Worldwide with free shipping

{Book Depository}

Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_

Find me on social media: Instagram Twitter 

Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating

Guest Information:

Paige Smathers - Instagram Website Podcast

Resources Mentioned:

Weight Inclusive Guides: https://gumroad.com/lcie

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 12 of this series will drop on Friday 12th Jan!

In today’s episode, I’m talking to Jake Gifford, a personal trainer and doctoral researcher at Brunel University London whose aim is to reframe fitness and what it means to move our bodies. In this episode, we’re talking about the bigger-picture and socio-political considerations that often get left out of the conversations about movement. 

In this episode we talk about:

• How a lot of public health rhetorics around moving our bodies make oversimplified recommendations 
• Healthism
• Some of the problematic discourse around how exercise is described e.g. “exercise is medicine” 
• Looking at the bigger picture of movement
• Factors that could stop an individual from engaging in movement
• Hierarchies of exercise - and why they’re problematic
• How to make movement more inclusive
• Issues with movement being associated with morality
• Structural and social determinants of health

Jake talks us through how movement has historically been associated with moral righteousness and personal responsibility; as well what we can do to shift the narrative so ensure it becomes more inclusive and accessible.

Get your copy of How To Just Eat It!

UK

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{Waterstones}
{WH Smith}

Australia

{Booktopia)

Worldwide with free shipping

{Book Depository}

Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_

Find me on social media: Instagram Twitter 

Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating

Guest Information:

Jake Gifford - Instagram

Previous episode with Jake: http://www.laurathomasphd.co.uk/podcast/ep-jake-gifford/

Podcast episode with Dr. Oli Williams: http://www.laurathomasphd.co.uk/podcast/oli/

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 11 of this series will drop on Tuesday 9th Feb!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Tally Rye. Tally is a London-based Personal Trainer and Content Creator, who specialises in weight-inclusive, non-diet fitness. She is also the Author of the book ‘Train Happy’ and hosts the ‘Train Happy’ podcast.  In this episode we’re talking in-depth about all of the principles of Intuitive Movement. Tally shares her experience and advice on how we can reframe exercise in a way that feels good for us, rather than it feeling like a punishment. 

In this episode we talk about:

• The principles of Intuitive Movement
• Reframing the way we think about exercise
• Ways movement can be a tool for self-care
• The problem with fitness watches/trackers
• How diet culture has co-opted mainstream fitness
• Why we might have a complicated relationship with movement

Tally shares how one of the biggest benefits of Intuitive Movement is regaining valuable headspace that has been lost to diet culture; through numbers or counting or “rules”, and how we can channel that back into the really meaningful parts of our lives.

Get your copy of How To Just Eat It!

UK

{Amazon}

{Waterstones}
{WH Smith}

Australia

{Booktopia)

Worldwide with free shipping

{Book Depository}

Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_

Find me on social media: Instagram Twitter 

Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating

Guest Information:

Tally Rye - Instagram Website Book/Podcast

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 10 of this series will drop on Friday 5th Feb!

In today’s episode, Laura gives us the run down of Chapter 9 of How to Just Eat It - Feeling your Fullness. Laura gives some useful tips on how we can reframe our negative thoughts when we start to feel uncomfortable with feelings of fullness, as well as why ‘what I eat in a day videos’ need to get to fuck!

In this episode we talk about:

• Feelings of fullness
• How Diet Culture has distorted our idea of how much food we really need 
• Why ‘what I eat in a day’ videos are problematic
• How we can reframe fear mongering language around feelings of fullness 
• Tips on what to do when struggling with feelings of fullness

Laura explains how learning about fullness is a process and something that we don’t need to get ‘perfect’ every time. She reiterates that throughout this journey, self-kindness and compassion are key.

Get your copy of How To Just Eat It!

UK

{Amazon}

{Waterstones}
{WH Smith}

Australia

{Booktopia)

Worldwide with free shipping

{Book Depository}

Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_

Find me on social media: Instagram Twitter 

Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating

Laura’s Information:

Instagram Twitter Website