Dietitians Unplugged Podcast
by Dietitians Unplugged
Welcome to the Dietitians Unplugged Podcast with Aaron Flores and Glenys Oyston. Join us as we explore the idea of health and wellness from a new perspective. Each episode we will discuss topics that we hope to help you improve your health, body image and fitness without obsessing on the scale or counting calories. We believe in Health at Every Size®, Intuitive Eating, and body positivity and we want to help you build the confidence to ditch the scale, and embrace your health without shaming your body.
Episodes
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Episode 84 - Farewell for Now: Hitting Pause on the Podcast
After 5 years, Aaron and Glenys are pressing pause on the Dietitians Unplugged podcast for now. In this episode they talk about what they're currently offering clients (see links below), where they were when they started the podcast, what they've learned along the way, and some of their favorite...
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Episode 83 - Sleep Apnea and Weight Stigma
Aaron and Glenys talk about their personal experiences with sleep apnea. They discussed how weight stigma sadly surrounds this diagnosis, and how they overcame related shame to get appropriate treatment. Also discussed in this episode were: How better sleep has changed their lives The importance…
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Episode 82 - No Wrong Way to Yoga with Marc Settembrino
Glenys and Aaron welcome Dr. Marc Settembrino to the podcast to talk about his experience with becoming a yogi and creating inclusive yoga classes through Fat Kid Yoga Club. Marc discussed: -how yoga helped him feel better in difficult times -how there is no wrong way to do yoga -the intersection...
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Episode 81 - The Fear of Weight Gain
Aaron and Glenys talk about weight. The global pandemic has put many people in a panic about changing weight. For those recovering from EDs and disordered eating, weight gain is often necessary and a part of healing, but hearing weight gain stigmatized constantly can feel like a huge setback. In...
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Episode 80 - Caroline Dooner Said "F*ck It!" to Diets
Aaron and Glenys talk with Caroline Dooner, humorist and author of The F*ck It Diet, a book that helps chronic dieters untangle themselves from a dysfunctional relationship with food. She used to be a chronic dieter, fully convinced she was a food addict, until she realized that dieting and body...
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Episode 79 - Fat Positive Fertility with Nicola Salmon
Aaron and Glenys invited Nicola Salmon to the podcast to discuss fat positive fertility. In this episode, they discussed: -Nicola's experience of having fertility issues and being in a larger body -The lack evidence for weight loss improving fertility -The mixed research on weight-related…
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Episode 78 - Part II: Mindfulness in Traumatic Times with Fiona Sutherland
Aaron and Glenys continue their conversation with their friend and colleague, Fiona Sutherland, Health At Every Size® and non-diet dietitian and director of The Mindful Dietitian in Melbourne, Australia. Fiona is host of the podcast "The Mindful Dietitian" and teaches across Masters Level…
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Episode 77 - Part I: Mindfulness in Traumatic Times with Fiona Sutherland
Recorded mid-April of 2020, Aaron and Glenys welcomed their friend Fiona Sutherland, a Health At Every Size® and non-diet dietitian and director of The Mindful Dietitian in Melbourne, Australia. She is host of the podcast "The Mindful Dietitian" and teaches across Masters Level Dietetic training...
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Episode 76 - Eating Disorders, Orthorexia and Aging with Meg Bradbury
Aaron and Glenys welcomed Meg Bradbury to the Dietitians Unplugged podcast! Meg Bradbury is a Certified Body Trust Provider®, anti-diet nutritionist, Accessible Yoga® Teacher, and registered Yoga Alliance yoga and meditation teacher. Meg is in private practice working with individuals, groups…
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Episode 75 - Body Image, Anxiety, and Food Stress during COVID-19
Aaron and Glenys reach out to you from home during the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is a time of stress and fear for everyone, and it can really bring up a lot of distress around body image, food insecurity and scarcity, and eating in general. In this episode they discuss: Their personal...
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Episode 74 - Being Okay with Discomfort with Jessica Wilson
Jessica Wilson, MS, RD joined Aaron and Glenys to generously share her wisdom about how we need to create more inclusivity in the non-diet, Health at Every Size and eating disorder worlds. She talked about the inadequacy of dietetics education around trauma and what real nutrition looks like (vs...
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Episode 73 - Trust Your Body with Whitney Catalano
Aaron and Glenys are joined by Whitney Catalano, RDN. In this episode we discuss what it means to trust our body and how to work on tackling the difficult issue of emotional and binge eating. Whitney also shares amazing information on how to deal with the stigma that often shows up when visiting...
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Episode 72 - Dismantling Diet Culture with Christy Harrison
Aaron and Glenys are joined by Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, author of the book Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating and host of the popular podcast Food Psych. They discuss Christy's origin story and her evolution towards the Health at Every Size...
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Episode 71 - Building Fat Positive Community with Dr. Rachel Millner
Aaron and Glenys welcome Dr. Rachel Millner to the show. Dr. Millner shares with us her brilliant thoughts on the importance of fat-positive spaces for clinicians and individuals and how weight stigma continues to negatively impact those working on healing from their eating disorder. Rachel...
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Episode 70 - Emotional Eating, Overeating and Holiday Eating
Aaron and Glenys talk about the issues that are on people's minds at this time of year - emotional eating, overeating and how all that ties into holiday eating. What is emotional eating? Is overeating okay? How do we get through the holidays when food is such a challenge for us? BONUS: Aaron…
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Episode 69 - Clinical Coaching with Mollie Birney
Aaron and Glenys welcome Mollie Birney, Clinical Coach and Recovery Consultant with a specialization in the area of Eating Disorders and compulsive behaviors around food. She holds a Masters in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in Addiction and Eating Disorders from Antioch University in…
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Episode 68 - Cults and Diet Culture with Dr. Natalie Feinblatt
Has diet culture become a cult? Aaron and Glenys welcome therapist Dr. Natalie Feinblatt to the show to talk about the similarities between cults and diet culture. As a therapist who specializes in working with people who have left cults, Dr. Feinblatt compares and contrasts cults with dieting…
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Episode 67 - Exploring Exercise Dependence and Avoidance with Lauren Anton
Aaron and Glenys welcome their friend Lauren Anton, MS, RD, CEDRD-S, CPT to talk about all things exercise! Our relationship to movement and our bodies can be complicated by eating disorders or a lifetime of dieting. While some people experience life-interrupting exercise dependence, others might...
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Episode 66 - Embracing Imperfect Eating with Laura Westmoreland
Aaron and Glenys welcome Laura Westmoreland, LMFT to the show to help talk about about challenging our perfectionist tendencies, especially when it comes to eating. Many of us come to this work with a strong drive to get it "right", to get a gold star and become the perfect intuitive eater. Laura...
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Episode 65 - What you Should Know About Weight Loss Surgery with Lisa DuBreuil
Aaron and Glenys welcome Lisa DuBreuil, LICSW to the podcast to discuss how she works with people who are considering weight loss surgery, or who have already had it. She talks about what the medical community isn't doing well when preparing people for bariatric surgery, the possible long-term...
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Episode 64 - Will I Ever Stop Gaining Weight?
Aaron and Glenys tackle an oft-heard fear from many of their clients: "I'm afraid I'll never stop gaining weight!" Thanks to societal weight stigma, we understand why anyone would have this fear. And we know, both professionally and personally, that there are also real differences between smaller...
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Episode 63 - Challenging Unhelpful Beliefs with Kristina Bruce
Aaron and Glenys welcome Kristina Bruce to the show to help our listeners challenge negative, unhelpful beliefs about themselves and their bodies. Kristina is a certified Integrative Life Coach, Body Acceptance Coach and Certified Body Trust® Provider and a strong advocate for Health at Every...
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Episode 62 - A Buddhist Framework for Eating Recovery with Jenna Hollenstein
We welcomed Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RDN, CDN, author of the book Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life, to the podcast to talk about her framework, which is based in Buddhism, for healing disordered eating. In this episode, she explains the six...
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Episode 61 - Grieving the Thin Ideal for Body Acceptance with Meredith Noble
Glenys and Aaron invite Meredith Noble of Made on a Generous Plan to the show to discuss a blog post she wrote a while back that our hosts love and refer to frequently. Meredith, a Certified Body Trust® Provider and coach who helps plus-size and fat-identifying people find food and body peace and...
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Episode 60 - Nike Plus-Size Mannequin Does NOT Promote Obesity
Nike recently unveiled a new plus-size line of athletic clothing and with it, a plus-size mannequin on which to display the clothing. One journalist railed against this move as "promoting obesity." In this episode, Aaron and Glenys talk about the reaction to the mannequin, both good and bad, how...
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Episode 59 - Fat TV Reviewed: Shrill, Dietland
Aaron and Glenys have been watching TV and want to tell you all about it. Our hosts discuss the most recent TV shows that seem tailor-made for those of us craving fat-positive entertainment, specifically the TV shows Dietland (season 1 now streaming on Hulu) and Shrill (also on Hulu). They...
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Episode 58 - This is Body Liberation with Jes Baker
Aaron and Glenys are excited to welcome to the podcast Jes Baker, author of the books Landwhale and Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living. Jes Baker is a positive, progressive, and magnificently irreverent force to be reckoned with in the realm of self-love…
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Episode 57 - What is Emotional Eating? with Jennifer McGurk
Glenys and Aaron welcome registered dietitian and eating disorder specialist Jennifer McGurk to the show to discuss the topic of emotional eating. In this episode, we talk about the differences between emotional eating and binge eating, and also what they both have in common. While eating is…
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Episode 56 - Sick Enough with Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani
Aaron and Glenys were thrilled to talk to Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani of the Gaudiani Clinic in Denver, CO which provides in-person and telehealth care to people with current or a history of eating disorders. Dr. G is also the author of the book Sick Enough, a Guide to the Medical Complications of…
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Episode 55 - Getting Back to Our Bodies with Tracy Brown, RDN
Aaron and Glenys dive deep into the body with Tracy Brown, RDN, LD/N. Tracy is a somatic nutrition therapists who helps her clients reconnect with the wisdom of their bodies through the principles of Intuitive Eating. Glenys, Aaron and Tracy discuss the effects of trauma on the body, how "feeling...
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Episode 54 - What We Mean By "Thin Privilege"
Aaron and Glenys discuss a talk they gave in they discussed the term "thin privilege" which was perceived to mean "thin shaming" by some members of the audience. But is mentioning thin privilege the same as thin-shaming? Is thin-shaming even a thing anyway? And what does it mean to have such a...
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Episode 53 - What BED Relapse Looks like with Sunny Sea Gold
Aaron and Glenys talk to Sunny Gold, a longtime health journalist and former magazine editor who is in recovery from binge eating disorder. She wrote a book for young women who binge eat, called Food: The Good Girl's Drug that came out in 2011. In this episode, she generously shares her story of…
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Episode 52 - Is There a Size Limit for HAES?
Aaron and Glenys answer a listener's question about how they address the health of very large clients. Is there a size limit to HAES, and do they still feel HAES is appropriate for even the largest bodies? Or is there a size at which they start recommending weight loss? Visit the ASDAH website to...
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Episode 51 - When Caring About Food Becomes Orthorexia
Aaron and Glenys tackle the topic of orthorexia. Orthorexia, while not an official eating disorder, describes the the obsessive behavior that some people develop in pursuing a "healthy" diet. Like any eating disorder, it can be complex and involve other mental health issues, such as anxiety...
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Episode 50 - Finding Fat Friendly Providers on Ample with Alissa Sobo
Is it Ample? Aaron and Glenys talk to Alissa Sobo, the creator of Ample, the first app that rates businesses specifically on their accessibility and inclusiveness towards marginalized bodies (fat, trans, people of color and more). In this episode, Alissa talks about her origin story of being...
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Episode 49 - Why Your Weight Loss Diet is a Bad Idea
It's the new year and self-improvement is on the minds of many. For some, that translates to going on a diet and weight loss. Aaron and Glenys are here to tell you why that might not be such a great idea, and what you can do instead. They discuss the failure rate of weight loss diets, why the...
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Episode 48 - Sex and Body Image with Dr. Linda Baggett
Aaron and Glenys get to the topic you've all been waiting for: SEX. More specifically, sex and body image. In this episode, they speak to Dr. Linda Baggett, a licensed psychologist with a Ph.D. in counseling psychology and an expert in the intersections of gender, body image, sexuality, and…
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Episode 47 - Binge Eating Disorder: A Journey to Recovery and Beyond with Chevese Turner and Amy Pershing
In this episode, Aaron and Glenys interviewed two leaders in the Binge Eating Disorder (BED) and Health at Every Size® community, Amy Pershing and Chevese Turner to discuss their new book Binge Eating Disorder: A Journey to Recovery and Beyond. They discuss the book and share valuable insights…
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Episode 46 - Exploring The Eating Instinct with Virginia Sole Smith
Aaron and Glenys talk to journalist Virginia Sole-Smith, author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Elle and many other publications. She's also a contributing editor with Parents Magazine and…
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Episode 45 - We Discuss Tess Holiday on Cosmo, SELF Magazine, and being Anti-Diet Dietitians
Aaron and Glenys get together to talk about the sensation and then backlash of Tess Holiday of Cosmo; SELF magazine's recent evolution toward Health at Every Size; how we help our clients define "health" for themselves; and what being a non-diet dietitian means to us. Show notes: Why Piers Morgan...
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Episode 44 - Changing the Narratives of Eating Disorders with Filmmaker Elizabeth Ayiku
Aaron and Glenys welcomed Elizabeth Ayiku to the Podcast to share her story about her eating disorder experience as well as her work as a filmmaker. Her current project is a feature film about a woman of color living who is struggling with an eating disorder, going trough treatment while also...
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Episode 43 - Healing through Dance with Queer Fat Femme Bevin
Aaron and Glenys talk to Queer Fat Femme Bevin of Fat Kid Dance Party about how she's helping people heal from body oppression through fun and accessible dance classes. A childhood of bullying because of her weight kept her off the dance floor until she found body liberation activism, the idea…
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Episode 42 - Practicing Mindful Self-Compassion with Cori Rosenthal, LMFT
Aaron and Glenys talk to Cori Rosenthal, a mindfulness-based marriage and family therapist, meditation and mindful eating teacher about introducing mindfulness and self-compassion in your self-care routine. Cori shares with us her experience of dieting since childhood and the critical inner voice...
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Episode 41 - Mindfulness for Diabetes Self-Care with Megrette Fletcher
Aaron and Glenys dive deep in to a discussion on non-diet, HAES-based care for diabetes with Megrette Fletcher, MEd, RD, CDE. Megrette is a certified diabetes educator who provides non-weight-focused education for people with diabetes and pre-diabetes, and teaches other professionals how to…
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Episode 40 - Body Image Work is Crucial
Should dietitians talk about body image with their clients? Aaron and Glenys discuss how this can be a difficult topic to broach with clients, but how it is essential to the work of making peace with food. Both share their experiences in talking about body image and weight stigma with clients and...
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Episode 39 - Is Sugar Addiction a Real Thing? with Tiffany Haug
Ever wonder if you're addicted to sugar? Or some other kind of food? Aaron and Glenys talk to Tiffany Haug, MS, RD, EDOC, who breaks down the science of addiction and why your diet history makes all the difference in how you approach highly palatable foods. Tiffany also talks about the problem…
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Episode 38 - ED Treatment for Marginalized People with Gloria Lucas
Aaron and Glenys were thrilled to welcome to the podcast Gloria Lucas, founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride (NPP). Gloria shares her story of how and why she came to found NPP, which provides eating disorder resources to marginalized communities. She also talks about how eating disorder…
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Episode 37 - Aaron and Glenys Tackle Their Inner Critics
We all have an inner critic. Sometimes this little voice can be really helpful in keeping us safe...but sometimes it can hold us back or send us damaging and unhelpful thoughts. Aaron and Glenys talk about their own inner critics, how they manifest, and how they deal with them. This is a truly...
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Episode 36 - You are More than Your Body with Summer Innanen
In this episode, Aaron and Glenys talk to Summer Innanen about body image and finding your value outside of your body. Summer is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. She helps women all over the world through her private and group coaching to…
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Episode 35 - Metaphors & Storytelling in healing Eating Disorders with Dr. Anita Johnston
Glenys and Aaron were thrilled to have a chance to talk to Dr. Anita Johnston, author of the book Eating in the Light of the Moon. This book is an amazing resource for those struggling with eating difficulties of all kinds. Our interview focused on how Dr. Johnston was first exposed to metaphor…
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About this show
Welcome to the Dietitians Unplugged Podcast with Aaron Flores and Glenys Oyston. Join us as we explore the idea of health and wellness from a new perspective. Each episode we will discuss topics that we hope to help you improve your health, body image and fitness without obsessing on the scale or counting calories. We believe in Health at Every Size®, Intuitive Eating, and body positivity and we want to help you build the confidence to ditch the scale, and embrace your health without shaming your body.
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