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

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EP 103 - How to Navigate Diabetes + Disordered Eating w/ Lauren Newman Feb 15, 2019

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⚠️ TW: discussion of eating disorders.

This week on the pod Laura's speaking to Lauren Newman, HAES US-based registered dietitian, about the intersection between diabetes and eating disorders.

In this episode they discuss:

✨ How Lauren got into working with people with diabetes and disordered eating ✨ The difference between Type 1, Type 2 + gestational diabetes ✨ The various factors which can leave a person with diabetes vulnerable to developing disordered eating ✨ Busting some myths + misinformation about diabetes including keto, whether sugar "causes" diabetes ✨ What diabulimia is

Show Notes

{SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {BUY MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Lauren on Instagram | Website} {Is Your Diabetes Management Disordered? Quiz} {Type 1 Diabetes: The Basics blog post} {How Does Type 1 Diabetes Affect Our Relationship with Food? Instagram post} {Mortality in Concurrent Type 1 Diabetes + Anorexia Nervosa study} {Body Mass Index, Change in Weight, Body Weight Variability and Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (from the ACCORD Trial)} {Food Matters podcast - Mindful Eating + Self Compassion with Diabetes} {Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat on Netflix} {Laura's article on keto for The Guardian} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date about our Just Eat It course} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Camilla at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 102 - How Powerlifting Helped Me Heal My Relationship With Food + My Body w/ Poorna Bell Feb 08, 2019

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This week on the pod Laura's speaking to Poorna Bell - journalist, author + badass.

In this episode they discuss:

✨ The impact of the messages we hear about our bodies whilst growing up ✨ How oppressive diet culture + all of it's subcultures are, in that they're designed to keep us physically + metaphorically small ✨ The amount of time, money + energy that goes into the mental arithmetic of food + exercise preoccupation, and what amazing stuff that could be used for instead ✨ How finding powerlifting helped Poorna to start feeling grounded within her body ✨ The power can be found in embodiment + viewing our bodies as vessels rather than ornaments

Show Notes

{SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {BUY MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Poorna on Instagram | Website | Twitter} {Chase the Rainbow - Poorna's first book} {Preorder In Search of Silence - Poorna's new book} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date about our Just Eat It course} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Camilla at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 101 - How Waking Up From Diet Culture Allows You To Find Food + Body Freedom w/ Tally Rye Feb 01, 2019

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This week on the pod Laura speaks to Tally Rye - personal trainer, Girl Gains co-founder + host to multiple podcasts. They chat about Tally's relationship with food + her body and how this changed throughout drama school, training to be a PT, through to now.

In this episode they discuss:

✨ Comparison + feeling like the odd one out ✨ Broadening our idea of what it means to be fit + healthy ✨ The pressure + toxic messages around bodies at drama school ✨ Intoxicating external validation that comes from being tied up with 'the fit one' identity + how this is actually unhelpful ✨ The difference between saying the 'right' things online + actually believing it for yourself ✨ The freedom that can be found through self acceptance

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{SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {BUY MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Tally on YouTube | Instagram | Website | Twitter} {Health at Every Size - Linda Bacon} {Big Fit Girl - Louise Green} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Camilla at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 100 - How To Find Self Worth Outside of Our Appearances w/ Natalie Lee Jan 25, 2019

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This week on the pod Laura speaks to Natalie Lee, aka Style Me Sunday. They chat about liberating ourselves from the restrictions that diet culture + body shaming impose and how this can impact on so many different areas of our lives.

In this episode they discuss:

✨ The challenges to your self worth + identity after becoming a mum ✨ Fighting against imposter syndrome ✨ Challenging the unrealistic beauty standards that our society imposes on us ✨ How the co-opting of Body Positivity by diet culture is just the same rubbish, different day ✨ Tips for shielding kids from diet culture where possible ✨ The importance of talking to kids, especially girls, about sex + self pleasure

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{SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {BUY MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Natalie on Twitter | Instagram | Website} {Dance Box Website} {The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf} {Body Positive Power - Megan Crabbe} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Camilla at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 99 - How Becoming a Mother Started Me On My Intuitive Eating Adventure w/ Clemmie Telford Jan 18, 2019

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This week on the pod Laura speaks to Clemmie Telford, curator of Mother of All Lists + Insta mega-Mum. This episode is super raw + a super great glimpse at what Intuitive Eating work is like for someone who's really in the thick of it.

In this episode they cover:

✨ Clemmie's journey of finding Intuitive Eating + working out what that feels like for her ✨ Motherhood + the unrealistic standards for women to 'snap back' to their pre-baby body ✨ How having her daughter was the impetus to change how she thinks about food + her body ✨ The life that we miss out on because of the 'prison' that diet culture creates in our heads ✨ The joy of uncoupling movement from weight or aesthetic goals ✨ How self care, periods and all that stuff can impact our BI

Show Notes

{SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Clemmie on Twitter | Instagram | Website} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Camilla at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {BUY MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 98 - How Questioning Authority + Pushing Back Can Help You Make Peace With Your Body w/ Sofie Hagen Jan 10, 2019

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The pod is back with a special Just Eat It takeover series! And to kick things off, Laura speaks to Sofie Hagen, comedian, author, podcast host + body liberation activist.

In this episode they cover:

✨ Sofie's relationship with food growing up + her ED history ✨ Her inability to respect authority + how that was key to learning to love her body ✨ Acknowledging the privilege of being able to question authority + rules ✨ How emotional + physical deprivation + food insecurity can still influence our relationship/behaviour to food ✨ Sofie's new book + mega stand-up show ✨ The need for self care measures to be in place whilst doing work on your relationship with food + body image

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{SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Sofie on Twitter | Instagram | Website} {Sofie's book - Happy Fat} {Danish Chocolate Slices - ScandiKitchen} {Plus Equals website} {Shooglet on Instagram} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Camilla at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {BUY MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 97 - BONUS: Become a Diet Culture Dropout this January Jan 01, 2019

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In this special bonus episode Laura is inviting you to unsubscribe from diet culture this January, once and for all. Listen in to hear details of a special new social media campaign designed to arm you against dit culture and she gives you a special preview of the audiobook version of Just Eat It - out next week!

Full episodes of the pod back next week!

Show Notes

{Intuitive Eating event - The Rooted Project} {Follow Laura on Instagram | Twitter} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Camila at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {PRE-ORDER MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!}

EP 96 - How to Handle Diet Chat This Holiday Season w/ Jenna Daku Dec 13, 2018

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For this one-off festive special, Laura speaks to Jenna Daku, badass disordered eating therapist. They chat about how to handle diet chat at this time of year. In the episode they discuss:

✨What is diet talk/fat talk + how it can reinforce weight stigma and fat phobia ✨Why diet talk is detrimental + can lead to negative physiological + psychological outcomes ✨Why we engage in diet talk and what we're perhaps trying to communicate ✨What is concern trolling/ health trolling ✨External vs. Internal Boundaries ✨A few different options for how to handle weight/food/diet talk ✨Jenna's favourite advice for self-care this holiday season

Show Notes {Jenna on Twitter | Instagram} {Festive Self Care Kit - use the code HOHONO at checkout for £5 off} {DSMG episode w/ Marci Evans} {Intuitive Eating event - The Rooted Project} {DSMG episode w/ Nadia Craddock} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {PRE-ORDER MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 95 - Radical Body Politics, Compassion + Empowerment w/ Imogen Fox of Feeding the Nov 09, 2018

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In this killer ep, Laura is joined by Imogen Fox, aka @the_feeding_of_the_fox.

In this episode they deep dive into:

✨ Holding ourselves back because of our bodies + how to feel empowered to have more autonomy over our bodies ✨ The problems with access to sex ed. (+ healthcare as a whole) when in a disabled body ✨ Our weird way of valuing worth + productivity in our culture ✨ The Social Model of Disability, rather than the medical model which considers things to be 'wrong' with a person ✨ The massive head-mess that can come when recovering from an ED, whilst also receiving nutrition through a feeding tube ✨ How people with more privilege can leverage their privilege to support disabled people

As an FYI, Imogen recommended that if you guys want to donate to a charity, to make sure that you know it's run BY and FOR disabled people. Lots of charities that work 'on behalf of' seriously miss the mark in terms of what those marginalised people actually need or want because of their lack of lived experience. Direct involvement is imperative and whilst it might feel like donating to specific impairment charities is useful, often that money doesn't reach any actual people so that's always worth keeping in mind. If you funds are limited, paying someone who's work you know and respect would always be preferable to donating to charity.

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{SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Imogen on Twitter | Instagram} {Imogen's Blog | Patreon page | PayPal} {How To Be A Better 'Ally' To Disabled People} {Accessibility at Events - Phoebe, Fat Veg Femme} {Phoebe's PayPal} {Scope: The Social Model of Disability} {Babychanco on Insta} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {PRE-ORDER MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 94 - Trauma, Food + Body Image w/ Kimberley Wilson Nov 02, 2018

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Maybe grab a cuppa for this super interesting episode as it's kind of a biggie! Laura is joined by Kimberley Wilson, Chartered Psychologist + previous Bake Off bad ass to discuss trauma, resilience + practical tips for helping yourself + others who are having a hard time w/ their mental health.

In this episode they cover:

✨ What we mean when we talk about trauma ✨ Emotional resilience + protective factors to increase resilience ✨ How ED's are a means of coping with various psychological difficulties ✨ How restriction is associated with perfectionism + compliance with the external pressures of the thin ideal ✨ Focussing on the resilience tools that you have at hand

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{SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Kimberley on Twitter | Instagram} {Kimberley's Website} {DSMG ep. w/ Kimberley - I Got Way Too Much On My Mental} {Open Culture website} {Dietland - Amazon Prime} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {PRE-ORDER MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Follow us on Insta!}

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