Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD

Latest Episodes:

EP 122 - How To Just Eat It: Chapter 2 - Breaking Up With Diet Culture Jan 08, 2021

Show notes

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 Came out yesterday! Episode 3 of this series will drop on Tuesday 12th Jan!

In today's episode I'm talking to Nadia Craddock, a body image researcher and host of the Body Protest and Appearance matters podcasts. In this episode we're talking all about the impact (positive and negative) social media has on our body image.

In this episode we talk about:

How social media can shape how we feel about ourselves (both positively and negatively)
What exactly self objectification theory is and the impact it has on our ability to engage in things that are meaningful to us
How we can build a nurturing social media environment
How we can learn to 'zoom out' and 'soften our gaze' when it comes to viewing our own image on social media

There's also a brilliant definition of Fat Phobia for your glossary on page 35/36 of HTJEI from body liberation coach Nicola Hagget. Stay tuned for a whole episode with Nikki soon!

Get your copy of How To Just Eat It!

{Amazon} {Waterstones} {WH Smith}

Australia

{Booktopia)

Worldwide with free shipping

{Book Depository}

Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_

Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating

Guest Information:

Nadia Craddock - Instagram Twitter

Nicola Haggett- Instagram Website

Previous podcasts with Nadia

Don't Salt My Game Part 1 & Part 2

The Body Protest

Appearance Matters

EP 121 - How to Just Eat It: Chapter 1 - Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit Jan 05, 2021

Show notes

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 will be released on Thursday 7th January so make sure and pre order your copy now (links below). Episode 2 of this series will drop on Friday!

In today's episode I'm talking to the incredible Fiona Sutherland, a dietitian and yoga teacher, better known as The Mindful Dietitian, who is helping us build our Intuitive Eating Toolkit; a selection of skills and tools that help us lay the foundation for our intuitive eating practice.

In this episode we talk about:

What acceptance is and isn't and common misconceptions about acceptance
How we can lean into uncomfortable feelings to help us heal our body image and relationship with food
Why acceptance doesn't mean we are OK with things like fatphobia or racism and other systems of oppression that harm bodies
What exactly values are and how they differ to goals
How we can find our core values and use them to steer us in the directions we want to move in
How diet culture disconnects us from our values and moves us away from acceptance towards dissatisfaction

I'm also excited to share a guided created activity by Tasha Bailey that helps us weather emotional storms and a definition for the glossary on page 36 of your book from Christy Harrison

Want to pre order 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_

Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating

Guest Information:

Fiona Sutherland - Instagram Twitter Website

Tasha Bailey - Instagram Twitter Website

Christy Harrison - Instagram Twitter Website

Ep 120 - How To Just Eat It is almost here, get excited! Dec 03, 2020

Show notes

With only a few short weeks left until How To Just Eat It hit book shops, I wanted to check in with my DSMG family to give you a teaser of what to expect from my new book! In this mini-sode I'm walking you through HTJEI, chapter-by-chapter to give you a flavour of what's covered. I'm also spilling the beans on who some of my guest contributors are (spoiler; they're all awesome) and letting you in on some of the activities in the book.

I'm also sharing details of the upcoming How To Just Eat It takeover of Don't Salt My Game; new episodes coming JAN! IIf you can't wait for that though, you can head to @laurathomasphd on Instagram to watch my weekly Instagram lives, the first of which is Thursday 3rd December at 7pm.

Want to pre order your copy of How To Just Eat It?

{Amazon}

{Waterstones} {WH Smith}

Australia

{Booktopia)

Worldwide with free shipping

{Book Depository}

Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_

Ep 119 - Intuitive Eating Frequently Asked Questions w/ Eliza Khinsoe of London Centre for Intuitive Eating May 15, 2020

Show notes

This week I'm tackling listener questions with Eliza Khinsoe - a fellow Nutrition Counsellor at London Centre for Intuitive Eating.

Eliza shares a little about how she got into weight-inclusive practice, what her responsibilities are at LCIE and her work on the Pantry Party Pod to support students and new grads in the field.

The we go deep into YOUR questions. We cover so much in this episode, but some highlights include:

When it's time for gentle nutrition and how you balance nutrition information with intuitive eating
How to learn to respect fullness cues
What the deal is with mindful eating and challenging where our ideas around mindful eating have come from – i.e. are they informed by diet culture or are you seeing it more as a process of discovery
We talk about comfort eating
We also discuss why it's totally normal in the context of diet culture to want to lose weight with intuitive eating and how you can begin to unpack that desire
And why Intuitive Eating invites you to put down the pursuit of weight loss

As per, let us know your thoughts on this episode, and if you enjoyed it please drop 5 stars on Apple podcasts!

{Follow Eliza on Instagram} {Listen to the Pantry Party Pod} {Eliza's Website} {Work with Eliza or another LCIE team member} {Cake or Death} {Follow me on Bub Appétit}{Our Intuitive Eating & Weight Inclusive Guides to PCOS, IBS and more}{Book in for a 1-off session with a Nutrition Counsellor}{Book in for a discovery call to learn how we can help you}{Sign up to our Raising Intuitive Eaters Course}{Sign up to our Just Eat It; Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit course}{Sign up for our newsletter}{Follow us on Insta!}

Ep 118 - What Gym Bros Get Wrong About Intuitive Eating w/ Isa Robinson May 08, 2020

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In this week's episode my guest, Isa Robinson and I are digging into some of the common myths and misconceptions around Intuitive Eating - aka - what the gym bros get wrong. We get into the nuance and subtleties of IE as a practice and discuss why it's so much more than the 'hunger and fullness diet'.

Some of the topics we cover include:

Whether Intuitive Eating really means eating 'junk' food all day long
If Intuitive Eating is a 'healthy' way to lose weight
If you can still learn to eat intuitively when your hunger cues have been messed up by diets
If Intuitive Eating is compatible with a health condition
How to get past the fear that you will 'freefall' or 'spiral' with Intuitive Eating

{Isa on Instagram}{Isa's Website}{Episode with Lindo Bacon}{Episode With Fiona Willer}{Follow me on Bub Appétit}{Our Intuitive Eating & Weight Inclusive Guides to PCOS, IBS and more}{Training for Clinicians}{Book in for a 1-off session with a Nutrition Counsellor}{Book in for a discovery call to learn how we can help you}{Sign up to our Raising Intuitive Eaters Course}{Sign up to our Just Eat It; Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit course}{Sign up for our newsletter}{Follow us on Insta!}

Ep 117 - The Pressure to Raise 'Perfect' Eaters w/ Sarah Dempster {Crossover - Eating Words Podcast} May 01, 2020

Show notes

In this episode I'm being interviewed by friend and colleague Sarah Dempster about the pressure that parents face to raise 'perfect' eaters, from fertility and early pregnancy onwards.

In this episode we discuss:

✨The messages we receive around nutrition and how these can add to the idea that there is a right and wrong way to eat for conception, pregnancy and beyond ✨Why feeding littles can be such an emotive topic ✨Why it's not your fault if your kid suddenly stops eating certain foods ✨ The long-term repercussions of such an intense focus on 'perfect' eating in childhood ✨ Why using food to soothe can be part of your emotional coping toolkit ✨Why we need to be critical about the messages we share around food and nutrition ✨ Why we need more person-centred care in nutrition and dietetics

{Follow Sarah on Instagram} {Subscribe to Eating Words Podcast}{Sarah's Website}{Episode 93 of DSMG with Sarah}

{Sign up to our Raising Intuitive Eaters Course}

{Follow me on Bub Appétit}

{Our Intuitive Eating & Weight Inclusive Guides to PCOS, IBS and more}

{Book in for a 1-off session with a Nutrition Counsellor}

{Book in for a discovery call to learn how we can help you}

{Sign up to our Just Eat It; Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit course}

{Sign up for our newsletter}

{Follow us on Insta!}

Ep 116 - Where the F have you been? - A quick catch up with Laura Apr 24, 2020

Show notes

HEY-OH – it's been a minute – a short episode catching you up on where the F I've been for the past 6 months, what's been going on, and what you can expect from DSMG and London Centre for Intuitive Eating in the near future. Plus all the details for the next (mini) season of DSMG.

Show Notes:

{Follow me on Bub Appétit} {Our Intuitive Eating & Weight Inclusive Guides to PCOS, IBS and more} {Book in for a 1-off session with a Nutrition Counsellor} {Book in for a discovery call to learn how we can help you} {Sign up to our Raising Intuitive Eaters Course} {Sign up to our Just Eat It; Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit course} {Sign up for our newsletter} {Follow us on Insta!}

Ep 115 - Let's Talk About Sex, Baby - Part 2 w/ Alix Fox, Sex Educator Oct 19, 2019

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HEY OH! We're back with part two of my conversation with sex educator Alix Fox - make sure and check out last week's episode if you missed it!

In part two we answer listener questions and cover:

✨Why people who have a C-section can still experience vaginal pain ✨The impact hormones have on our sex lives post-baby ✨What being sex-positive really means ✨How to talk to kids about sex and teach them not to have shame around sex ✨How to feel body confident when having sex ✨How we internalise shame about our bodies ✨Treating your body with the same kindness you would a child ✨Shaking off negative body thoughts ✨Why the more your body feels good, the more you feel good about your body ✨ Why we need to stop taking sex so seriously

This episode is sponsored by Raising Intuitive Eaters, our online course for parents and carers who want to raise kids who have a healthy and happy relationship with food and their body.

{Alix On Twitter | Instagram | Unexpected Fluids | Modern Mann} {Sex Positive Families} {Bish Training}{A Parental Primer to "The Talk"} {Sofie Hagen Happy Fat} {Jess Megan} {Natalie Lee Episode of DSMG} {Tenga Toys} {Womaniser Duo Toy} {Bodega Cats of Instagram} {Get my book!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles} {SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Workshops for Nutrition and Health Professionals} {Understanding Emotional Eating Edinburgh Workshop} {Just Eat It: Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess, Eliza or Laura at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

Ep 115 - Let's Talk About Sex, Baby - Part 1 w/ Alix Fox, Sex Educator Oct 04, 2019

Show notes

This week we're switching things up and talking about sexy things with Sex Educator, writer, and presenter Alix Fox. Alix is an advisor on the hit Netflix show 'Sex Education' and is giving us some BTS goss from the show, plus answering some listener questions on sex work and asexuality. Because this was such a massive 'sode, we've broken it down into two parts - Alix will be back answering more listener Qs next week!

In part one we discuss:

✨What Alix really thinks about the term 'sexpert' and the need for diversity in this space ✨Her involvement on the Netflix show Sex Education and where we can see her influence ✨What we can expect from Season 2 (no spoilers tho) ✨Why Sex Education seems half British and half American ✨Alix answers a question from a listener who wonders if they are asexual ✨Depression and libido ✨The spectrum of asexuality ✨Why sexual relationships portrayed in the media might put you off sex ✨Alix shares some thoughts on the complexities surrounding legislation of sex work and why that can't be understood without also looking at the social and economic circumstances surrounding sex work

This episode is sponsored by Raising Intuitive Eaters, our online course for parents and carers who want to raise kids who have a healthy and happy relationship with food and their body.

{Alix On Twitter | Instagram | Unexpected Fluids | Modern Mann} {Sex Education} {Benito Skinner} {Kelsey De Almeida} {Mr Bingo} {Decolonising Contraception}{Close Encounters} {AVEN} {Myles Jackman} {Revolting Prostitutes} {English Collective of Prostitutes} {SWARM} {Get my book!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles} {SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Workshops for Nutrition and Health Professionals} {Understanding Emotional Eating Edinburgh Workshop} {Just Eat It: Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess, Eliza or Laura at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 114: Challenging Diet Mentality in the Fitness Industry w/ Jake Gifford Sep 27, 2019

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In this week's episode, I'm talking to Jake Gifford, a.k.a The Phit Coach. Jake's an experienced personal trainer who's passionate about reframing fitness as a positive, equitable and inclusive experience. We discuss: ✨ How Jake came across the non-diet, HAES paradigm and the transition into practicing from a weight-inclusive perspective ✨ Challenging fat-phobia in the fitness industry ✨ How to detach movement from diet mentality and punishment ✨ How fitness professionals can switch their messaging and ✨ The social determinants of health and how they can shape our health ✨ Shifting our motivations for movement This episode is sponsored by Raising Intuitive Eaters, our online course for parents and carers who want to raise kids who have a healthy and happy relationship with food and their body. And don't forget to use the code 'DSMG50' to receive £50 off all our online courses between now and 30th September 2019. {Jake on Instagram | Twitter | Website} {Don't Salt My Game Episode 76 Part 1 and Part 2 with Dr Oli Williams} {Don't Salt My Game Episode 102 with Poorna Bell} {Poorna Bell - How Weight Training Helped Me Find Inner Strength} {Open Letter to Fitness Instructors - Kathleen Meehan} {Get my book!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Workshops for Nutrition and Health Professionals} {Understanding Emotional Eating Edinburgh Workshop} {Just Eat It: Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Laura at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

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