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

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EP75 Diet-binge-diet-binge-diet-binge w/ Isabel Foxen Duke of Stop Fighting Food Apr 06, 2018

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IFD is health coach, creator of the Stop Fighting Food programme and all round BA. Today she shares her story of being a chronic dieter and how she recovered from 'compulsive overeating'. Isabel has tried every diet in the book, and all the diets pretending not to be diets. She even turned Intuitive Eating into a diet (which she doesn't recommend). In this episode, Isabel shares some of the insights that made her stop feeling crazy around food, and some things that might help you! In this episode we discuss:

✨ Why control + willpower aren't what helps you break out of the diet-binge cycle ✨ Why you can't fall off the wagon if there is no wagon ✨ Why learning about set point weight theory, Health at Every Size and Fatphobia are important in recovering from disordered eating ✨ The 'love yourself thin' diet you need to watch out for ✨ How not to turn intuitive eating into a diet ✨ How hunger, fullness, and 'overeating' are pathologised by diet culture

Show Notes

{IFD Website} {IFD on Instagram | Twitter} {IFD's Stop Fighting Food Course} {My Food Fight Course} {Virgie Tovar's Guide to Fat Girl Living}

EP74 - People With PCOS Can Totally Eat Birthday Cake - w/ Julie Duffy Dillon of PCOS & Food Peace Mar 30, 2018

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Have you been told that you need to lose weight and cut carbs to manage your PCOS symptoms? That's the advice a lot of people get, problem is, that can be super triggering for anyone who has a history of disordered eating or who wants to build a healthy relationship to food. But don't sweat, I'm joined by non-diet dietitian and PCOS genius Julie Duffy Dillon to talk about how to manage your PCOS from a non-diet, non-restrictive perspective. In this episode we discuss:

✨ What PCOS is ✨ Why dieting and cutting carbs don't work for PCOS ✨ What the research does (and doesn't!) show ✨ Which supplements and medicine can be helpful ✨ How to handle cravings w/o getting into a binge restrict cycle ✨ The importance of sleep + stress management ✨ Inflammation + omega 3s ✨ Movement + exercise ✨ Protein, carbs, + gentle nutrition

Show Notes

{Julie on Instagram | Twitter| Facebook} {Julie's Website} {PCOS + Food Peace Support Group} {Love, Food Podcast} {PCOS + Food Peace} {Ovasitol Supplement} {What to Say at The Doctor's Office} {Bubble Clay Mask} {Flow Magazine} {Guts, Periods + Hormones Episode}

EP73 - The Inside Scoop on Intuitive Eating w/ Evelyn Tribole, Co-Author of Intuitive Eating Mar 23, 2018

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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

Show Notes

{Evelyn on Twitter} {Evelyn's Website} {Intuitive Eating Facebook Support Group} {Intuitive Eating Website} {Intuitive Eating Book} {Intuitive Eating Workbook} {David Whyte Poem}

EP72 - Does Giving up Dieting Mean Eating Doughnuts all day? w/ Paige Smathers of Positive Nutrition Mar 16, 2018

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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

Show Notes

{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?}

EP71 - But is it Healthy to be Fat? w/ Dr. Charlotte Cooper Jan 26, 2018

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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}

EP70 - Body Image, Self Compassion & 'Food Addiction' w/ Marci Evans of Marci RD Jan 11, 2018

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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.

EP69 - How to Have a Non-Diet Holiday Season w/ Fiona Sutherland of The Mindful Dietitian Dec 01, 2017

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In the final episode of 2017, we're talking to the sensational Fiona Sutherland, non-diet dietitian & yoga teacher, about how to navigate the holidays around food, body image, and diet chat. We discuss everything from how to cope with food guilt & anxiety, to how to stop food FOMO, breaking the binge/restrict cycle, and how to deal with diet chat and the food police. This is probably my favourite episode of the whole year; Fiona is a total babe, so warm and compassionate but doesn't take any crap. Exactly our kind of people. I really think you're going to love this episode.

SHOW SPONSOR

This episode is Sponsored by the London Centre for Intuitive Eating - This Christmas give the gift of a healthy relationship to food with a gift certificate to my Food Fight programme. 10% of each course sold will be donated to Help Refugees.

Show Notes

{Body Positive Australia | Facebook} {Fiona on Twitter | Instagram} {The Mindful Dietitian} {Yoga Body Image Coalition} {Yoga & Body Image} {Australian Kelpie} {Self Compassion Activities} {HIIT to Help donation page} {The Rooted Project on Instagram}

EP68 - That's My Jam Christmas Gift Guide w/ Emily Beeson of Young Gold Teeth Nov 24, 2017

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This Black Friday we're celebrating the little guys; the indie makers, creators, designers and small shops in our That's My Jam Christmas Gift Guide Special. Emily Beeson, the blogger and creative soul at Young Gold Teeth shares her favourite independents where you can find that really special gift for that hard-to-buy-for person in your life. Whether they're the nester/homebody type, the foodie, or you just need a secret santa gift that doesn't suck, we got you. Emily also shares where to find Christmas crackers that don't suck, pretty Christmas cards, and experiential gifts that aren't your average trashy Groupon. We also talk about Emily's extensive knowledge of celebrity animals (and why you need them in your Insta feed). PLUS, she smack talks Drake ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ P.S. neither Emily or I are judgey about shopping on the high street (Amazon is my lifeline), we just wanted to big up some of the little guys who don't get enough air time.

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{Emily on Instagram | Twitter} {Young Gold Teeth} {Emily for The Papergang Blog} GIFTS FOR THE HOME

{Luks Linen - throws, blankets, Turkish towels and linens I'm loving}{Copper & Solder - handmade concrete and copper accessories} {Smug - for plants and pots} {The Future Kept - (We talked about them last year but if I had to pick one, TFK would be my favourite shop. They have a whole gift category for the home filled with handmade ceramics and candles that are really beautiful and all have a story to tell.)}

BEAUTY GIFTS

{Bybi by Clean Beauty Co - for skincare} {Sister and Co - for body treats} {LA EVA - for bath and shower gifts}

DO STUFF GIFTS

{Outdoors workshops with Axe and Paddle (not for everyone but a great team of inspiring people)}{Range of creative workshops at The Forge, Bristol} {Silver ring making workshops with The Workbench}{Range of lovely workshops at &Hobbs, Surrey}

FOOD + WELLNESS GIFTS

{Caro x Chocolate Society bars}{Honest Brew Craft Beers} - (also Salthouse Bottles, my local beer shop){The Goodness Project hampers}

GIFTS FOR BIG READERS

{Papersmiths for beautiful books (Do Book Co and coffee table books especially)} {Magculture for magazines (my favourites are 91, Hole & Corner, Huck and Frankie & Cherry Bombe)}{School of Life for deep thinking and life lessons}

SHOP OFFLINE: INDIE STORES TO VISIT

{Homage Shop, Brighton}{Midgely Green, Clevedon}{Maud's House, North Yorkshire} {Future + Found, London}

CHRISTMAS CHEER GIFTS

{Ohh Deer for Secret Santa gifts} {The Hambledon for crackers and cards}{West Elm - juniper fox tree decoration (doesn't say on the British West Elm site but proceeds go to ASPCA) there are four decorations based on Insta-famous animals}{Thornback & Peel screen-printed Christmas collection}

Celebrity Animals You Should Follow

{Juniper Fox} {Smoothie the cat} {Pumpkin the Raccoon} {Dogs Being Basic}

EP67 - How to be Body Positive When You Body Isn't Playing Ball w/ Michelle Elman of Scarred Not Scared Nov 17, 2017

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This week we're talking to Michelle Elman, the 'grammer behind two of my fave Insta accounts; Scarred not Scared and Body Positive Memes. We talk about her WILD medical history, including 15 surgeries, a brain tumour, and a near death experience. WHOAH. Plus, how to cultivate body positivity when your body has been through SO MUCH STUFF. Plus we talk about Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, and why you deserve to take a break BEFORE you break down. Show Sponsor Switch up your lunch game with our great new sponsor, MealPal - get out of the lunchtime funk, discover new places, and save money. BOOM. Show Notes {Michelle Elman} {Michelle on Instagram | Twitter | Facebook} {Body Positive Memes} {YouTube} {Preorder Michelle's Book}

EP67 - How to Raise an Intuitive Eater w/ Catherine Lippe of Lippe Nutrition Nov 10, 2017

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Today we're talking to Catherine Lippe, a Registered Nutritionist who specialises in paediatric and maternal nutrition, about how to raise intuitive eaters. The things we say, how we act, and what we *think* kids should do can all influence how kids relate to food, and sometimes we do or say things with the best of intentions, that can totally backfire. Catherine shares her tips for things to look out for and we share a model for child feeding that helps take the pressure off parents, and helps the kid build a sense of autonomy and independence around food. The goal here is to help kids preserve their innate hunger and fullness cues and have a healthy relationship to food. We also discuss why restriction of certain foods might actually lead to eating MORE of those foods in the long run, and why it might not be the best idea to use creative coercion tactics to get kids to eat their veg! We just scratched the surface of things to talk about related to raising kids who have a happy, healthy relationship to food, so make sure you check out the show notes for more resources.

SHOW SPONSOR

Switch up your lunch game with our great new sponsor, MealPal - get out of the lunchtime funk, discover new places, and save money. BOOM.

SHOW NOTES

{Catherine's Website} {Catherine on Instagram | Twitter | Facebook} {Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in Feeding} {Ellyn Satter's Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family} {The Body Book} {I Love the Shape of Me} {The Child Feeding Guide}