It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching

Latest Episodes:

495-The Link Between Work, Burnout and Food Behaviors with Sabrina Magnan Oct 22, 2026

Show notes

If you restrict all week and crash on the weekend, look at how you work before a deadline.

My guest Sabrina Magnan healed her relationship with food. Then the same pattern followed her into her business. Overwork, launch, burn out, feel the shame, try harder.

We talk about why this isn't a discipline problem, and what changes when you stop trying to fix yourself and start learning to feel.

In this episode you will learn:

Why the belief driving restriction is often the same belief driving overwork
The difference between survival energy and regulated energy behind your choices
How internal family systems explains protective behaviors like overeating and perfectionism
What it means to feel an emotion in your body, and how that capacity grows
How small, doable actions build internal safety and make behavior change possible

Mentioned in the show:

Sabrina's website: http://sabrinamagnan.com

Food Freedom Academy: https://sabrinamagnan.com/ffa

Sabrina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sabrina.magnan.health

Sabrina on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sabrina.magnan.health

Live Unrestricted podcast (Sabrina's show): https://open.spotify.com/show/1rGqpkqxaM72vpt5fRJ9DI

Confident: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

494-Type 2: A Non-Diet Approach To Diabetes with Kristie Messerli Oct 15, 2026

Show notes

You were told to lose weight and cut carbs. What if neither one is the treatment for type 2 diabetes?

I was diagnosed with prediabetes at 38, right after my last diet. Today I don't have diabetes, and I'm in a bigger body than I was then.

So I brought every type 2 diabetes myth I've heard in 10 years of coaching to Kristie Messerli, a registered dietitian and certified diabetes care and education specialist who works weight-neutral.

In this episode, you'll learn:

What type 2 diabetes actually is, and why it starts years before the diagnosis
Why sugar and body size are not the causes you were told they were
How weight cycling affects insulin resistance over time
Why cutting carbs can backfire, and what to do instead
The difference between reversal and remission, and why medication is not a moral failure

Mentioned in the show:

Kristie's website: https://dietitiankristie.com/

Kristie on Instagram (@type2diabetes.nutritionist): https://www.instagram.com/type2diabetes.nutritionist/

Kristie's podcast, Simplifying Diabetes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/simplifying-diabetes/id1895055236

Confident, my program on body acceptance and the confidence that grows from it: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/confident

493-How To Talk Food & Body Image With Kids With Kerry Miller Oct 08, 2026

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Your child was born trusting their body. Somewhere between the high chair and kindergarten, the adults around them start teaching them not to.

Registered dietitian and mom of three Kerry Miller joins me to talk about body trust in kids. She is the author of Violet Learns to Pause, a picture book about listening to your body.

Kerry spent years working with women who traced their struggles with food back to childhood. A parent on a diet. A doctor's comment. A relative watching them go for seconds.

We talk about what to say at the dinner table, what to say about bodies, and what to say about GLP-1s.

In this episode you'll learn:

What interoception is and why it is the foundation of body trust
Why picky eating can take 20 to 30 exposures to shift, and how to stay pressure-free
What to say when your child asks "Do I look pretty?"
How to respond when another kid calls your child fat
How to talk to your kids about GLP-1s, including if you take one

Mentioned in the show:

Violet Learns to Pause on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/106787870X

Kerry's website: https://violetlearns.com/

Companion resources for families: https://families.violetlearns.com/

Kerry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kerry.millerrd

Join the Confident waitlist: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

492-Intuitive Eating In A GLP-1 Era With Elyse Resch, Co-Creator Of Intuitive Eating Oct 01, 2026

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You can't learn to trust your hunger while taking a drug designed to switch it off.

Elyse Resch co-created Intuitive Eating. She has 44 years of practice in eating disorders and disordered eating, and she is updating the fifth edition of the book right now.

In this conversation, we talk about what GLP-1s at weight loss doses do to hunger, appetite, and pleasure. We talk about what happens when the drug stops. And we take on food addiction, teens, and neurodivergence.

What you'll learn:

Why GLP-1s for intentional weight loss and intuitive eating pull in opposite directions
What happens to hunger and fullness signals after stopping the drug
Why Elyse rejects the idea of food addiction, and what the studies leave out
How to help teens resist diet culture without banning everything
Why neurodivergence doesn't rule anyone out of intuitive eating

Mentioned in the show:

Confident 5-Week Body Acceptance Challenge: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

Elyse Resch: https://elyseresch.com/EResch/

Intué, the official Intuitive Eating app: https://www.intue.app/

Informed consent for GLP-1 (free PDF): https://sizeinclusivemedicine.org/glp1/

Elyse on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elyseresch/

Elyse on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elyse.resch

491-Beyond GLP-1: Sarcopenia, Bariatric Surgery in GLP-1 Era with Aoife McMahon Sep 24, 2026

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The GLP-1 isn't what puts your muscle at risk. Not eating enough is.

Registered dietitian Aoife McMahon has worked in weight-loss clinics, bariatric surgery, and weight-loss drug prescribing. Today she practices from a weight-inclusive lens, with a background in eating disorders.

In this episode of the Beyond GLP-1 series, we talk about sarcopenia, bariatric surgery, and why so many of the answers people are looking for don't exist yet.

In this episode, you'll learn:

What sarcopenia is, and why muscle mass and muscle function are two different things
How appetite suppression can quietly lead to undernourishment and muscle loss
Why "I lost weight and I could move better" doesn't tell the whole story
What the research does and doesn't say about weightlifting as protection
Why eating disorder screening and informed consent are missing from most GLP-1 prescribing

Mentioned in the show:

CONFIDENT 5-week Body Acceptance Challenge:https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

Aoife on Instagram - That Irish Dietitian: https://www.instagram.com/thatirishdietitian

Inside Bariatrics podcast (Aoife's show): https://open.spotify.com/show/033nYDCJmhWHC3zZ8Uh3H7?si=46ed876255a14e04

Aoife's professional training: https://centreforliberatingnutrition.com/for-professionals/

490-Greatest Hit - Gentle Nutrition 101 Sep 17, 2026

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You do not need to eat perfectly to be healthy, and one snack will not undo you.

I just spent five months living out of a quarter of a fridge. Coming home to my own pantry nearly knocked me over.

Eight garbage bags later, I finally understood what gentle nutrition actually is, and what it is not.

This classic episode breaks down Evelyn Tribole's definition of gentle nutrition, why intuitive eating is a process and not an endpoint, and why food and exercise only account for 15% of your health.

What you'll learn:

What gentle nutrition actually means, straight from the woman who coined the term
Why wellness culture sells the same fraud as diet culture, just with a healthier label
The real reason obsessing over nutrition rarely makes you healthier
How to tell the difference between gentle nutrition and healthism
Why intuitive eating is a process, and gentle nutrition is where it leads

Mentioned in the show:

Confident - Join the waitlist: https://stephaniedodier.com/confident

489-Greatest Hit - How To Be Healthier Without Losing Weigh Sep 10, 2026

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Your doctor said lose weight. Science never actually proved that was the fix.

This is the episode I keep sending new listeners to, and now I am sending it to you.

I walk through the real research on weight, health, and control, and the six things that actually move your health forward without a diet in sight.

What you'll learn:

Why no disease exists exclusively in higher weight bodies
The history of the BMI index and who it was actually built for
What the World Health Organization says health really is
The one question to ask your doctor when weight comes up
Six things you can do for your health that have nothing to do with the scale

Mentioned in the show:

Confident: https://stephaniedodier.com/confident

488-Grieving Your Past Business in the GLP-1 Era with Hilary Kinavey Sep 03, 2026

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Everyone is making less money right now, and almost nobody is saying it out loud.

Hilary Kinavey has been doing weight-neutral work for twenty-five years. Right now, she is making less money. So am I.

In this conversation we name the shame underneath that, and the grief of watching the anti-diet movement lose ground to GLP-1 marketing.

Then we get practical. How to market without betraying your values. Why your email list is the one asset that actually belongs to you. What a lifestyle business looks like when you build it on purpose.

What you'll learn:

Why weight-neutral clinicians are making less money right now, and what to do with the shame that comes with it
How to market ethically in a landscape built on false promises
Why personal branding is outperforming clinical content right now
What a lifestyle business is, and how to build one that supports your life instead of consuming it
What Hilary's Ember program is, and who it is for

Mentioned in the show:

Episode 227 with Dana Sturtevant, Center for Body Trust (2020). https://stephaniedodier.com/episodes/227-healthism-the-desire-to-be-healthy-gone-wrong-with-dana-sturtevant/

Hilary Kinavey website: hilarykinavey.com

Hilary Kinavey on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hilarykin

Hilary Kinavey on Facebook: facebook.com/people/Hilary-Kinavey/100000200748021

Center for Body Trust: https://centerforbodytrust.com/

Center for Body Trust on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/center4bodytrust

Ember, Hilary's business container for clinicians. www.hilarykinavey.com/ember

Beyond GLP-1 series: program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Non-Diet Coaching Certification: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

487-Binge Eating- Turning On the "Food Off Switch" with Dr. Sarah Cooke Aug 27, 2026

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Most women who call themselves a binge eater are just eating normally after years of restricting.

Dr. Sarah Cooke was an NHS doctor for twelve years before a Crohn's diagnosis sent her down a completely different path.

Now she works exclusively with women untangling binge eating, emotional eating, and the belief that they have no off switch with food.

In this conversation we get specific about what actually separates binge eating from overeating from normal eating, why the “no off switch” feeling almost always traces back to restriction, and what the emerging research on GLP-1 for binge eating is actually showing.

What you'll learn:

The real difference between binge eating, overeating, and normal eating
Where the “no off switch” feeling actually comes from
Why food noise is so hard to research, and what it actually is
Sarah's clinical take on GLP-1 medications for binge eating specifically
How to tell if occasional emotional eating is a problem or just being human

Mentioned in the show:

Thursday Sessions- Free training (Until Sept 2, 2026) - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/thursday-sessions

NDCC - Registration - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Free Intake assessment Forms - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Beyond GLP-1 series - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Connect with our guest:

Dr. Sarah Cooke's Instagram: instagram.com/drscnutrition
Dr. Sarah Cooke's Facebook: facebook.com/drscnutrition
Dr. Sarah Cooke's Free 7-Step Guide: sarahcookenutrition.lpages.co/entry-offer-lead-magnet-7-steps-registration-page
Dr. Sarah Cooke's Podcast: When Food Feels Hard: https://open.spotify.com/show/66AUrj0RUROUykrwOKPQD9

486-The Psychology of Body Acceptance Aug 20, 2026

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You can look at another woman's body and see nothing but beauty. Look at your own, and the story changes completely.

That gap has a name and a research base behind it. In this episode I teach the psychology of body acceptance in two parts: why the gap exists, and what actually moves you through it once you're ready to close it.

What you'll learn:

The psychological theory that explains why women learn to see their bodies as objects before they see themselves as people
Why body positivity keeps women in the same trap as body hatred, and what body neutrality does differently
The real reason resistance shows up once you've decided to change your relationship to your body
A three-step process, compassionate self-leadership, internal safety, and self-consent, to build the self-trust that makes lasting change possible

Mentioned in the show:

Thursday Sessions- Free training (Until Sept 2, 2026) - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/thursday-sessions

NDCC - Registration - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Free Intake assessment Forms - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Beyond GLP-1 series - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

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