You’re going to want to hear what Victoria has to say about fatphobia and how our own internalized fatphobia can greatly sabotage our best efforts to become intuitive eaters and heal the way we feel about our bodies.

“You step on the scale, you see a number, you’re upset, and your daughter watches the process … “

Do you know someone who may be identifying as vegetarian or vegan not for animal rights reasons but in an attempt to further restrict food and lose weight or support their current weight suppression?

I could not have found the peace I now have with food and my body without support. I found support from an amazing therapist, the Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison (among other podcasts), the Intuitive Eating book and workbook by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole, and support from my family who wanted me to heal.

Whether you are a perfectionist, going through something in your life that feels out of control, or desperate to control the fate of your health, any of these situations can fuel a chronic dieter or disordered eater to tightly control food. This leads to food obsession, preoccupation with your body (internally and externally), and an unhealthy relationship with food and body.

All diets, wellness plans, and lifestyle changes give us FALSE HOPE. The hope that this will be the LAST attempt at weight loss. This time it will be different. This time I will keep the weight off. 

Amber takes 15 years of experience working with cancer patients in hospitals, cancer clinics, and the home health setting and now works privately with cancer patients as an online nutrition coach in her private practice, Cancer Nutrition Solutions. She is the first dietitian on the podcast who takes an intuitive eating approach to nutrition in cancer care.

For many of us, our reaction is to jump to some insane, intensely restrictive plan in order to undo the months of November and December. It’s going from 0 to 100. It’s that all-or-nothing mentality. Listen to this episode if you need help refocusing and staying on an intuitive eating path.

January is a time we are hit hard with diet culture.  Everyone is chatting it up about their newest detox or reset, TV and social media diet ads are relentless, and gyms are in full force marketing mode trying to convince you this should be the year you make big changes to your body. Molly and I chat about how to deal with New Year’s diet chatter and much more.

On this episode of Speaking of Hungry I chat with Rachel Larkey, a Brooklyn-based registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor, who works in a federally funded health center where she uses intuitive eating and health at every size (HAES) in her approach to community healthcare.

It’s hard enough for us to feel good about our bodies when we’re up against diet culture and unrealistic thin ideals. Michelle recognizes that when you throw in the natural process of aging, pre-menopause, and menopause, the struggle deepens. 

I don't blame anyone for wanting to lose weight. What I ask is for you to dig deep and uncover the reason for wanting such a thing. Is it your health? Do you want to change the way you look? Do you feel uncomfortable or are you in pain and you blame excess weight? 

The more you hang around a food, allow yourself to eat it, and tell yourself you can always have more, the less that food will have power over you. 

We discuss how Leslie and Zoe took their individual experiences as psychotherapists to create the Full Bloom Project dedicated to teaching eating disorder awareness and prevention through body-positive parenting.

We recognize how our bodies change constantly throughout our lives and that embracing these changes can be difficult in our diet-crazed world.  Erica tells me how she works with her clients to embrace the change vs. try and control the changes our bodies are naturally going through.

Recognizing HABITS that are causing you to overeat, then working on changing the behavior is what can help control moments when we eat beyond hunger.