The F*ck It Podcast
by Caroline Dooner
Enjoy these archived episodes from 2016 - 2022, where I chatted about all of the things I learned while I was healing my relationship with food. I answered frequently asked questions about extreme hunger, bingeing, mental restriction, emotional eating, exercise, and more. This is a podcast for people who want to heal their relationship with food from chronic dieting, and also for people trying to heal from eating disorders.For even more support check out the book: thefuckitdiet.com/bookThis podcast is no longer active. The F*ck It Diet changed my life, but after writing about it for 10 years, I'm leaving the podcast as a relic, and I'm now writing about other things over at carolinedooner.substack.com. thefuckitdiet.substack.com
Episodes
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Cancel Culture Chat – with Seerut Chawla
Note: This episode was actually recorded for my other podcast, Problematic. But I originally recorded the conversation when, for a short time, my podcasts were merged. So don't let the outtro confuse you! Today I’m sharing my conversation with Seerut Chawla. We talk about her brief foray into...
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Diet & Purity Culture in the Church
Today I am sharing my conversation with Leslie Schilling, MA, RDN, CSCS, CEDRDS-S, where she talks about diet culture and purity culture in the church (and how is mirrors our culture at large!). We also chat about Gwen Shamblin, the infamous "Christian" cult leader, and the way the bible was...
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Anxiety and The F*ck It Diet
Hello! Today's episode is short and sweet... I'm starting off with a 10 minute audio-chapter from the audiobook of Tired as F*ck. And, that audio clip just so happens to be about anxiety, and what it's like to be a person with a normal amygdala (aka, not a psychopath). Then, I go over the three...
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I’ve Been on The F*ck It Diet for 10 Years
January 5th was the 10 year anniversary of The F*ck It Diet!!! (and my 34th birthday!) It's not the ten year anniversary of the book... but of my actual journey on The F*ck It Diet. So, in celebration, I got on instagram live and read two excerpts from my new book Tired as F*ck, where I talk…
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Africa Brooke: Why Cancel Culture is Collective Sabotage
Today's conversation is with Africa Brooke! Coach, writer, podcaster, and author of the viral open letter, "Why I'm Leaving the Cult of Wokeness." We talk about her journey to where she is now, the dynamics behind what we call "cancel culture," the parallels between our own healing journeys, and...
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F*ck It Skincare with Jessica DeFino
In today's episode, reporter Jessica DeFino explains how our skin works, and how beauty culture is actually damaging our skin health with skin "care" products. This is one of my favorite episodes on my podcast so far, (up there with my Laziness Does Not Exist episode from a year ago). Just like…
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A Chat with The Thick Nutritionist
Today's episode is a conversation I had with Tash Ngindi, aka @thethicknutritionist. We talk about her early diet days, her disordered days in nutrition school, and her journey to realizing that weight loss does NOT work the way we think it does. Find and follow her here: @thethicknutritionist…
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All of the mistakes I made with Intuitive Eating
This post and episode is brought to you by my live program, The F*ck It Diet Club. It's only running one time in 2021. Two months of live support, community, video Q&As, daily prompts, weekly beliefs to focus on, and all of us using TFID book as a textbook. Enrollment closes January 14th. Six…
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Chat with My High School Best Friend: Healing Our Disordered Eating & Diet Culture During Pregnancy
Today I'm sharing my chat with Annie, one of my very best friends from all the way back in High School. We talk about our disordered eating that started in high school, and how we got out of the diet cycle in our twenties. Annie also just had a baby and has things to say about toxic diet culture...
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You Can Trust Your Cravings (Listener Stories + Q&A)
Today I'm reading stories that were sent in by listeners, and answering some questions that were sent in! Just me and you babyyyyyyyy. Today's Sponsors: Alissa Rumsey is a registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor who empowers women to eat and live unapologetically. Her...
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How Much Food is Too Much Food?
Today I chat with Casey Bonano, a dietitian specializing in eating disorders, about what to expect when you are in the early stages of re-feeding. For instance, what if someone eats a whole box of waffles?! Is that too much? We also focus on how to support a loved one who is healing their...
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Back when I was a raw vegan…
Today I'm talking to my college best friend, Melanie Morgan. I met her freshman year when I was a raw vegan, and she tells the story of when we first met (and she thought I was nuts). And apparently, six years later, I also forced her to become paleo with me. I totally forgot that. In this…
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Let’s Talk About Bingeing
Is bingeing the same thing as Binge Eating Disorder? (No, not exactly.) Does Binge Eating Disorder require restriction to treat? (NO.) Is bingeing a response to physical and/or mental restriction? (YES.) Can trauma/emotions/anxiety cause Binge Eating Disorder without the presence of restriction??...
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I’m too overheated to make a good podcast episode
Welcome to this non-episode episode where I talk about how I am doing not-that-great during month 4 of this quarantine, how me and my soul are boiling alive, and share some inspiring listener stories with you. If you want to send in your own stories for the podcast, please send them to...
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What About Alcohol?
Common question: "So you say that restricting food causes food fixation, what about alcohol? Should I stop restricting it?" The answer isn't straight forward, but the short answer is: food and alcohol are different beasts. So, today I'm sharing my conversation with Amanda White, LPC. This one is...
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ANOTHER Bonus Q&A Episode
Hello! Here is an erratic and haphazard Q&A! Just what you've always wished for! The F**k It Diet book club is only enrolling for a few more days, check out the details here! And this is the link I promised during the Q&A This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other...
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Bonus! Quarantine Q&A
Listen this Q&A! That's all I have to say This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thefuckitdiet.substack.com
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Let’s Talk About Weight Loss Surgery
Let's talk about bariatric surgery/weight loss surgery! Today I am chatting with registered dietitian Kirsten Ackerman, who specializes in intuitive eating and health at every size, who also used to work with patients who had a bariatric surgery. We talk about lots of risks and common experiences...
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Bonus Minisode: Let Yourself off the Hook
This is a bonus episode! Today is a shorter little minisode where I talk about letting go of the unnecessary shoulds during this weird time (like: I gave myself permission NOT to do this bonus episode... but...), plus I read some listener emails and answer two questions. I'll be back next week…
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Let’s Talk About Diabetes
We are talking about both type 1 and type 2. Did you know that sugar does not cause diabetes? Not even type 2? Did you know that weight gain does not cause diabetes either? Did you know that the issue with diabetes is that your cells aren't getting sugar, not that you shouldn't eat sugar? Today…
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Scarcity Mentality & Empty Grocery Shelves
Let's talk about the coronavirus panic, the food and resource hoarding, the current realities of this global pandemic, AND let's also talk about the silver lining, find a little thread of optimism, and figure out what's reasonable panic and what's unnecessary panic! And let's also start viewing...
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Let’s Talk About Weight Set Point
Ever since The F*ck It Diet book came out, I've been paying attention to the most commonly asked questions, and trying to address them. And one of the biggest question themes is about weight set point. And the first thing I want to always point out, is that it's a weight set range. Whenever…
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Disordered Eating in Nutrition School with Maddie Deakin
In this episode, Maddie Deakin (of Messy Health) shares her experience with extreme dieting while she was in nutrition school, being the only larger bodied person in her nutrition class, using dieting as a coping mechanism to feel a sense of control, and her experience recovering from disordered...
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Wait… WHY DON’T DIETS WORK?!?!?!
Let's start 2020 with a F*ck It Diet 101. A Primer. (Again!) My instagram grew by 100,000 followers in 2019. That's an average of 273 new people a day. Big picture, that's fantastic and super exciting. But day to day, it means new people are seeing random, one-line posts that speak to one tiny...
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Christy Harrison & her book Anti-Diet
In Episode 61, I chat with Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CDN. She is an anti-diet registered dietitian nutritionist and certified intuitive eating counselor, and her book ANTI-DIET is coming out December 24th, 2019! (So... like, now.) I read the book early, and it's great. It's a super comprehensive...
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When You Worry You’re Being Irresponsible
"How do I get to a place where I am confident enough to tune out diet culture? (When it's ...everywhere?)" The truth of the matter is that weight loss and diet talk are everywhere. It's actually, in many ways, the definition of diet culture: a culture where dieting and weight loss attempts are…
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What About Vegetarianism?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Hello cruel world, I am back. I've been on a sort-of hiatus from writing these posts, and from podcasting - even though I spend approximately 9 hours a day on instagram, and tried to go on a vacation but still posted on instagram every day. I also tried to say to myself: "Caroline, why don't you...
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Answering Questions on Intermittent Fasting and More!
Here is another podcast episode with life updated and answering your questions!!!! I'm going to take a 3 month podcast hiatus to focus on The F*ck It Diet Book Club, see you at the end of the summer! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access…
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My Book is Out! (+ Q&As)
IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T HEARD ME YELLING ABOUT IT ALL OVER MY CORNERS OF THE INTERNET, MY BOOK IS OUT! You find lots of purchase links here (or read the beginning for free). Today... there's no new post. Just a new podcast episode where I ramble, tell you to buy my book, and answer some listener...
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Is This the Same as Intuitive Eating?
Lots of people have been asking me: "Is TFID the same as Intuitive Eating?" It is and it isn't. They have the same goal: body trust, appetite trust, and food trust, with different ways of teaching and explaining how to get there. A lot of my writing over the years has talked about how I turned...
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I am Not an Authority on Body Image
I started writing about how to heal from disordered eating and body hatred seven years ago, back when I was f---king* sick of being afraid of rice, and being full, and gaining weight. My life was hijacked by the obsession with beauty and thinness and health and purity. And I was f---ing over it.…
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Isn’t This Irresponsible?
Some people assume that The F*ck It Diet is unnecessarily extreme. They assume it's a steady diet of donuts, McDonald's, and fried ice cream for the rest of our short little lives. That we're a group of lazy anarchists who are reveling in our newfound food-related health problems, and not taking...
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The Truth About Weight Stigma
I am in the last stages of finalizing my book, and I just found a glaring error about weight and starvation which shows my bias and assumptions about weight. In the book I wrote that if a famine never ended, you would eventually become emaciated and die. BUT THAT ISN'T TRUE. If a famine never...
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Why Do People Swear By Keto?
Some of the angriest comments I get on instagram are from people who swear that the keto diet is helping them and that I'm soooo incredibly ignorant and/or deceitful for saying that the body prefers carbs. However, for every comment where someone is swearing by keto, there are twenty more…
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But Aren’t There Foods That Are Objectively… Shitty?
Lots of people ask me, “ok -- I can get behind the “no dieting” thing, but aren’t there foods that are inherently … shitty? Shouldn’t I still avoid shitty food, even while I’m “not dieting”? Here's the thing - and it's important: If I told you stop dieting but to try and avoid or even limit…
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Weight Control as a “Core Value”
Maintaining a low weight is one of my core values. How am I supposed to be happy if I sacrifice one of my core values? I have heard something like this again and again, and I think... maintaining a low weight is one of your core values? Like treating others the way you’d want to be treated and...
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How do I grocery shop now that nothing is off limits?
How expensive is this whole thing? I am just supposed to let myself eat anything, anytime, anywhere? How can I afford this? Will I spend all my money out at restaurants? Or will I have to make everything at home?! How do I grocery shop now that nothing is off limits? How will I know what I’m…
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Lowering the Stakes
Can you teach a control freak to become more chill? Food and body issues are a manifestation of the underlying fear that everything is falling apart. It's a way we try to mitigate the panic of being alive. If we don’t control and micromanage this, we’re all screwed. We can’t trust anything to…
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How To Eat Like a Normal Person
How DOES a normal person eat? This totally depends on your definition of ‘normal.’ Here’s the truth: most people are a little disordered with their eating these days. Obsessive or disordered eating is common, so you could call it normal. But it’s not normal - it shouldn’t be normal. And it’s...
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What’s Going to Happen With My Weight?
Over the weekend I did this weird dancing video to Jesus Christ Superstar when I was reunited with my weird sister, and I shared it on TFID instagram. As I shared it I thought maybe it was a mistake, because watching it back I noticed I looked so thin. I don’t show my full body often in my work...
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The Way Diets Work
Diet companies are thrilled that diets seem like they work. Diet companies are also thrilled that diets, ultimately, almost always fail. And diet companies are thrilled that everyone seems to think that it's their own personal fault that it failed. Weight loss studies last long enough to take…
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I shouldn’t be this hungry…
"I shouldn't be this hungry." Judging your appetite is one of the things that will keep you very stuck. We are trying to heal the body and mind of all restriction, not just physical under eating, but the guilt and overthinking that comes along with restriction, too — mental restriction. If you…
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Chronic Yo-Yo Dieting IS Disordered
We are a culture of Yo-Yo Dieters. So many of us try to stick to diets, only to find ourselves bingeing, then restricting even more, then bingeing again, then restricting more, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Our eating is all over the place, our weight is all over the place, our sanity is all over the…
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Calories In vs Calories Out is BS
We've been told that calories in versus calories out is how-weight-works. "Eat less than you expend and you'll lose weight". But this is what really happens: "Eat less that you expend and you'll lose weight at first, but then you'll gain it all back and think it's your fault- but it is actually...
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What to Expect
Or: What to Expect When You Are Expecting to Heal Your Eating Real Fast And Become Skinny (If you're curious why I am editing the F word, it's because of itunes' new rules. SMGDH) Your personal journey will be different from mine, or your friend’s, or the people you connect with on the internet....
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The Most Important Thing You Can Do.
I was taught, just like most people, that thin was healthy, and not-thin was not-healthy. I was also taught that thin was beautiful and that not-thin was not beautiful. And that if for some reason you were living your life at a not-thin and “not-optimal” weight, then you should do everything you...
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Portion Control is a Diet
(I'm doing an experiment where I publish new articles and podcast episodes at the same time, on the same content, and see how that goes. If you want to ask questions for the podcast, you can become a podcast insider over at Patreon by clicking here.) When you start a meal thinking, "I shouldn't…
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Cheese is a Health Food
Today I cover politics, how being paleo led me to the f it diet, and podcast insider questions about vegetarianism, and my take on "trying to prevent binges". Become a podcast insider at patreon.com/carolinedooner This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers…
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Emotional Eating n’ Stuff
We talk emotional eating. We talk cult leaders. We talk why no one knows everything. And we talk about Yoga Sleep: yoga nidra. And rest rest rest. It's a short one today. But more coming soon! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to…
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Health, Health, What About My Health
Today lots of listener questions are about health. And then I get so tired that I fall asleep on the podcast. Go to patreon.com/carolinedooner to become a podcast insider! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
About this show
Enjoy these archived episodes from 2016 - 2022, where I chatted about all of the things I learned while I was healing my relationship with food. I answered frequently asked questions about extreme hunger, bingeing, mental restriction, emotional eating, exercise, and more. This is a podcast for people who want to heal their relationship with food from chronic dieting, and also for people trying to heal from eating disorders.For even more support check out the book: thefuckitdiet.com/bookThis podcast is no longer active. The F*ck It Diet changed my life, but after writing about it for 10 years, I'm leaving the podcast as a relic, and I'm now writing about other things over at carolinedooner.substack.com.
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