The Full Plate Podcast with Abbie Attwood, MS

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(Revisited) #52: The Connection Between ADHD and Disordered Eating with Aleta Storch, RD & Mental Health Counselor Aug 21, 2023

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This was a very special episode for me, as someone who has OCD, and a husband with ADHD (fun relationship combination, highly recommend). Aleta is wonderful, and I loved every second of our conversation.

For the month of August, I'll be taking a bit of time reset, rest, and reflect on this season of the pod before kicking things off again in September. And in the meantime, we'll be revisiting a few episodes from last year. Whether you've heard them before or not, they're worth the listen!

Aleta Storch joins the pod to talk about her experience growing up with ADHD, how her disordered eating began in college, and the ways in which that manifested alongside her navigating a mental health condition. Abbie shares ways in which this relates to her experiences with anxiety and OCD. We also discuss food rules when you have a mental health condition, how athletes are impacted by diet culture, how Aleta realized she needed support for disordered eating, what finally propelled her to look into a diagnosis for ADHD, and how she came into the weight-inclusive anti-diet approach. We also explore neurodivergence and eating – how to cultivate a less chaotic relationship with food so you can physically nourish your body while supporting yourself mentally and emotionally. This was a wonderful conversation, and I think there is something for everyone in this one, regardless of what you’ve experienced from a mental health standpoint.

Aleta is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist as well as a Washington State Licensed Mental Health Counselor. She is the founder of Wise Heart Nutrition where she provides weight-inclusive, compassionate nutrition and mental health support. Aleta has combined-type ADHD, and dedicates much of her work to the neurodivergent population.

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Aleta’s website: https://www.wiseheartnutrition.com/ADHD

Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy

Podcast Editing by Brian Walters

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(Revisited) #48: Introversion, Anxiety, and Disordered Eating with Dr. Colleen Reichmann Aug 14, 2023

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I loved recording this episode, and I adore Colleen. She is doing such important work in the eating disorder field.

Dr. Colleen Reichmann joins the pod to talk about her own lived experience with an eating disorder and the rocky road of recovery that led to her becoming a psychologist who specializes in eating disorders. We also talk about how early childhood and our personality and temperament impact why and how we reach for coping mechanisms like food restriction. Colleen speaks openly and generously about infertility and IVF, how that relates back to her experience of ED recovery, and the ways in which she is approaching (and fighting!) diet culture with her children. We get into so much – including plenty of laughs. I appreciate Colleen for her wisdom, her work in this space, and her humor. I think you’ll love this conversation!

Dr. Reichmann is a licensed clinical psychologist in Philadelphia, PA, and the founder of Wildflower Therapy LLC. She is an eating disorders specialist but also specializes in mental health specific to college students, maternal mental health, anxiety, and depression.

Full Plate is listener-supported (no ads!) so please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes at Patreon.com/fullplate

Patreon is also home to the episode transcripts (which are publicly available to everyone, not just our patrons!). If you’re looking for those, head over to Patreon.

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Podcast Editing by Brian Walters

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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe

(Revisited) #46: The Messiness of Body Acceptance & Unlearning Negative Beliefs with Kristina Bruce Aug 07, 2023

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This week is a revisited episode with Kristina Bruce, who is a body acceptance coach.

We talk about how our thoughts and conditioning shape our the experience we have in our body. We discuss the impact of body comments on body image, why dieting and body control can feel like a form of safety, how diet culture keeps us from living an authentic life, and what we can do to begin challenging the negative beliefs we hold about our bodies.

About Kristina: As a Body Acceptance Coach, Kristina Bruce specializes in helping women know their worth and value beyond their body size and appearance. Calling upon her training and as a certified Integrative Life Coach, education in health studies, sociology, yoga, meditation, and self-inquiry methodologies, Kristina works with clients to help them re-connect to their deeper selves so they can live empowering lives in the bodies they have. You can find her on IG @kristinabrucecoach

Full Plate is listener-supported (no ads!) so please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes at Patreon.com/fullplate

Patreon is also home to the episode transcripts (which are publicly available to everyone, not just our patrons!). If you’re looking for those, head over to Patreon.

Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast

Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness

Abbie’s website: www.abbieattwoodwellness.com

Group coaching application: www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching

Monthly support group: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group

Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy

Podcast Editing by Brian Walters

This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe

#81: How Do We Feel About Fitness Trackers? Jul 31, 2023

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Whether you call them smart watches, wearables (as Jeb informs us), fitness trackers, or something else...these gadgets are everywhere. How do they impact our relationship with movement? What about food? Or our body image overall?

You can listen to the FULL episode by joining Patreon: www.patreon.com/fullplate

This was a topic that was voted on by the folks on Patreon as one of the episodes you'd love to hear most about. We're talking about how to examine your relationship with your fitness tracker, and answering the question: "Are these harmful or helpful?".

Abbie's husband, Jeb, joins on this one, because we can't think of a human being who has a more neutral relationship with their watch. And also, because it's fun to annoy him and invite him on the pod.

This week is a free preview of the full episode, which is available to everyone who is supporting Full Plate on Patreon. The full episode can be found HERE.

In the episode we discuss:

Both Abbie and Jeb’s relationship with smartwatches
How Jeb looks at the data vs. how I did
Signs that you and your watch might need a break
How to assess intentions with your fitness tracker
Comparison and competition in fitness tracking
Can these devices ignite disordered eating?
Can these devices disrupt body attunement and body trust?
What to do if you’re unsure about how your fitness tracker is impacting you
What it looks like to have freedom and self-care with movement

We look forward to seeing you in the Full Plate Patreon community. This is a low-cost way of supporting Abbie's work, the podcast, this newsletter, and the content she shares every day on Instagram. It starts as low as $3 / month…Consider it the gift of a big doughy chocolate chip cookie. You’ll also have access to Full Plate episode transcripts, exclusive Q&A’s with Abbie, and additional bonus content.

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FOR MORE SUPPORT:

Looking for more support and concrete steps to take to heal your relationship with food and your body? Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching
Already been at this anti-diet culture thing for a while, but want community and continued learning? Apply for Abbie's monthly membership: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group

Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy

Podcast Editing by Brian Walters

This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe

#80: The Fatal Flaws of Fitness Culture with Jonny Landels Jul 24, 2023

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We talk a lot about diet culture and wellness misinformation on this show, but what about the toxic claims of the fitness industry? What about the flaws that exist in the way exercise is pushed on all of us as the epitome of health? Jonny Landels joins the pod to talk about his journey from "fat loss coach" to a weight-inclusive, anti-diet, and intuitive approach to food and fitness.

Some of the topics discussed include:

Jonny's earliest memories of body shame
The death of his dad, and how that impacted his view of food and fitness
Toxic messages in the fitness industry
The myths of "discipline" and "will power"
Crossfit culture and the disordered eating of macro counting
Masculinity and diet culture
How Jonny started to learn the truth about weight-loss science
Changing your mind about fatness and health
Rediscovering joyful movement after being an obsessive exerciser
Using social media to expose poisonous fitness messages
Reclaiming what health truly means

Jonny is a former diet-culture obsessed fat loss coach turned intuitive eating and HAES advocate. He spent years fighting his body and believing he just needed to be more disciplined and motivated to maintain weight loss long term. A couple of years ago he started learning about disordered eating and intuitive eating, slowly pivoted his coaching and re-trained, and has not looked back since. He now helps clients break free from food and body obsession and end their constant mental battle with food, while using strength training to help them fall in love with exercise again.

SUPPORT US ON PATREON:

Full Plate is listener-supported (no ads!) so please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes at Patreon.com/fullplate
Patreon is also home to the episode transcripts (which are publicly available to everyone, not just our patrons!). If you’re looking for those, head over to Patreon.

FOLLOW ALONG:

Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast
Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness

FOR MORE SUPPORT:

Looking for more support and concrete steps to take to heal your relationship with food and your body? Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching
Already been at this anti-diet culture thing for a while, but want community and continued learning? Apply for Abbie's monthly membership: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group

Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy

Podcast Editing by Brian Walters

This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe

#79: Partnership & Values in Healing from Diet Culture with Lauren Cadillac, RD @feelgooddietitian Jul 17, 2023

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Lauren Cadillac, @feelgooddietitian, joins Abbie on this one, and it's truly a full plate of goodness. We touch on so much in this episode as we dig into Lauren's story, but a few specific topics include:

An ode to cheese
What happens when we convince ourselves we're intolerant to a food
Pregnancy and wellness culture
How our partners can impact our ED recovery
Using things outside of yourself to motivate you to heal your relationship with food
Lauren's experience with bodybuilding and how it affected her body image and relationship with food
The mental and emotional toll of restriction
Healing your relationship with movement
How long does it really take to recover from chronic dieting / disordered eating?
Aversions to foods you ate a TON of while dieting
TikTok food trends and celebrity nutrition advice

Lauren is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and retired competitive bodybuilder that owns a virtual private practice helping chronic dieters all over the world, heal their relationship with food using the intuitive eating framework. Follow her @FeelGoodDietitian and learn more about her at www.LaurenCadillac.com.

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Patreon is also home to the episode transcripts (which are publicly available to everyone, not just our patrons!). If you’re looking for those, head over to Patreon.

FOLLOW ALONG:

Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast

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SUPPORT / RESOURCES:

Looking for more support and concrete steps to take to heal your relationship with food and your body? Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching

Already been at this anti-diet culture thing for a while, but want community and continued learning? Apply for Abbie's monthly membership: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group

Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy

Podcast Editing by Brian Walters

This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe

#78: Over-Exercising, Orthorexia, and the Mental Toll of Restriction Jul 10, 2023

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We're back with another episode in our Untold Stories series. That's what these client interviews feel like -- stories from "normal" folks (AKA: not celebrities, influencers, or "experts") who have been there, and who are still in the thick of it. We're all navigating the messiness of our healing, and bringing folks on this podcast who I know will make you feel seen and heard is so important to me. My client, Amy, joins the pod today. Amy's awesome, so don't miss this! We go from Weight Watchers to Paleo in this episode, and cover all the ways dieting and over-exercising wreak havoc on our health.

Topics covered include...

The Food Network and disordered eating
How clothing shopping triggered Amy's first diet
Going to Weight Watchers as a child with her mother
ROTC in college and her entry-point into obsessive exercising
Diving into Paleo and Keto for "health" and "athletic performance"
The mental toll of dieting
Realizing dieting doesn't "work"
How the pandemic was the spark she needed to divest from diet culture
Rediscovering joyful movement
Receiving a Diabetes diagnosis while transitioning away from dieting
Navigating medical weight stigma and speaking up at the doctor's office
Body neutrality versus body positivity

SUPPORT THE SHOW: Full Plate is listener-supported (no ads!) so please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes at Patreon.com/fullplate

TRANSCRIPTS: Patreon is also home to the episode transcripts (which are publicly available to everyone, not just our patrons!). If you’re looking for those, head over to Patreon.

FOLLOW ALONG:

Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast
Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness

MORE SUPPORT:

Looking for more support and concrete steps to take to heal your relationship with food and your body? Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching
Already been at this anti-diet culture thing for a while, but want community and continued learning? Apple for Abbie's monthly membership: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group

Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy

Podcast Editing by Brian Walters

This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe

#77: Can We Be "Addicted" To Sugar? (Revisited) Jul 03, 2023

Show notes

Let’s chat about SUGAR (diet culture's favorite food to fear-monger). We're revisiting a favorite episode and digging into the concept of “sugar addiction”. As the summer holidays begin, and we're surrounded by others' diet talk, the question of sugar and desserts is always one that comes up.

This topic has been requested countless times, and it's no wonder why: Diet and wellness culture have both demonized sugar in a myriad of ways, leaving so many of us to feel like we “can’t control ourselves” around sweet foods, or fearful of what those foods will do to our bodies and health. If you’ve ever felt like you are "addicted" to sugar (or food in general, for that matter), tune in to this one, because we're taking a hard look at the research.

Abbie talks through the most recent evidence and scientific literature reviews on sugar addiction, including:

How it impacts the reward centers in our brain
What it means that it lights up neural pleasure pathways
How deprivation and restriction (including “intermittant access” play a fundamental role in our behaviors with sugar
Cravings for sugar
Psychological impact of avoiding sugar
Behavioral patterns associated with restriction of sugar
Neurochemical components of addiction and food

Patreon Support:

Full Plate is listener-supported (no ads!) so please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes at Patreon.com/fullplate
Patreon is also home to the episode transcripts (which are publicly available to everyone, not just our patrons!). If you’re looking for those, head over to Patreon.

Social Media / Abbie's Website:

Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast
Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness
Abbie’s website: www.abbieattwoodwellness.com
Abbie's Group Program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching

Studies / resources mentioned:

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#76: What's On My Plate: Food, Anxiety, & Big Moves! Jun 26, 2023

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Today, we're getting into what's on my plate (and, briefly, Jeb's!). From food, to a big move happening in our life, to some real talk about the fear and anxiety brought on by change of any kind. Abbie talks about her experience with anxiety, how it was a risk factor and cause of her ED, and how it plays a role in her life now. Plus: a metaphor for explaining anxiety to loved ones in your life, ways to cope without maladaptive coping tools (like restriction, exercise, and anything else diet culture pushes our way). Thank you for hanging with us through this transition. Sending compassion your way!

Full Plate is listener-supported (no ads!) so please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes at Patreon.com/fullplate

Patreon is also home to the episode transcripts (which are publicly available to everyone, not just our patrons!). If you’re looking for those, head over to Patreon.

Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast

Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness

Looking for more support?

Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching
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Thank you to you for listening, and to the wonderful folks who help make this podcast possible!

Podcast editing by Brian Walters
Podcast cover photography by Anya McInroy
This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe

#75: Can Intentional Weight-Loss & ED Recovery Coexist? [+ The NEDA ChatBot] with Sharon Maxwell Jun 19, 2023

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This is an episode you CANNOT miss. It encompasses the core of what we are doing on this show -- in divesting from diet culture, examining anti-fat bias, healing our relationship with food, and reclaiming body autonomy through weight-inclusive and fat-positive recovery.

Sharon Maxwell joins Abbie to talk about weight stigma in the medical field, in eating disorder treatment, and most importantly, what has been happening in the media with NEDA (the National Eating Disorder Association).

We unpack a lot of definitions upfront: what is weight stigma, how does it present in the eating disorder field, and how it impacts EVERYONE in EVERY type of body.

Sharon is a mental health advocate, fat activist, weight inclusive consultant, public speaker, and all around bad ass incredible rainbow goddess of a human being (I added that last part - Sharon, you should include that in your bio).

Sharon joined Full Plate on episode 64 and told her full story, so if you haven’t listened to that yet, werecommended doing that before or after listening to this episode. Another episode that is relevant and informative on this topic is a conversation with Shira Rosenbluth, which is episode 55.

You can follow Sharon @heysharonmaxwell on IG and Twitter. You can also learn more about her through her website: https://www.heysharonmaxwell.com/

Full Plate is listener-supported (no ads!) so please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes at Patreon.com/fullplate

Patreon is also home to the episode transcripts (which are publicly available to everyone, not just our patrons!). If you’re looking for those, head over to Patreon.

Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast

Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness

Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching

Apply for Abbie's monthly membership: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group

Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy

Podcast Editing by Brian Walters

This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe

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