Life without Diets

If you struggle to filter through fact, fiction and fluff in the wellness arena Christy Harrison is your gal. Christy offers critical thinking and compassionate skepticism about wellness and diet culture, and reflections on how to find true well-being.In this episode we explore:☑️ the science (or lack thereof) behind popularwellness diets☑️ the role of influencers and social-media algorithmsin spreading wellness misinformation☑️ problematic practices in the alternative- andintegrative-medicine space☑️ how wellness culture often drives disordered eating☑️ the truth about trending topics like gut health☑️ how to avoid getting taken advantage of whenyou’re desperate for help and healing☑️ how to care for yourself in a deeply flawedhealthcare system without falling into wellness traps.Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS is a journalist, registered dietitian, and certified intuitive eating counselor. She’s the author of The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses and Find Your True Well-Being (Little, Brown Spark 2023) and Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating (Little, Brown Spark 2019). Christy is also the coauthor of The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook (PESI Publishing 2024) and The Making Peace with Food Card Deck (PESI Publishing 2021).Christy produces and hosts two podcasts, Rethinking Wellness and Food Psych, which have helped tens of thousands of listeners around the world think critically about diet and wellness culture and develop more peaceful relationships with food. In addition to her media work, Christy offers online courses and private intuitive eating coaching to help people all over the world make peace with food and their bodies. Christy began her career in 2003 as a writer and editor covering food, nutrition, and health, and she’s written for publications including The New York Times, SELF, BuzzFeed, WIRED, Refinery29, Gourmet, Slate, The Food Network, and many others. Learn more about Christy at christyharrison.com, and read her latest work at rethinkingwellness.substack.com.

Trauma is something that some people downplay, saying to themselves things like "it wasn't that bad" or "other people have experienced worse". Others may not even realize an experience they've had was traumatic. If certain situations in your present day life leave you feeling anxious or disproportionally emotional there is a good chance you may have some past trauma impacting you. Trauma leaves a permanent imprint on our nervous system causing emotions to spike every time a situation in life brushes over that imprint. In this episode you are going to learn how EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprocessing) can help smooth over that imprint so when life brushes over it you can use the data from that imprint, without the emotional spike. Our guest who will be breaking it all down is Molly Bahr. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, providing online therapy to residents of Florida, Virginia, Louisiana, Hawaii and Vermont.Her practice specializes in helping people work through their stuck points so they can make peace with food, improve their body image, and be able to focus their energy on what’s most important to them. She is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, trained in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), is Internal Family Systems (IFS) informed, and practices from a Health At Every Size lens.You can find her on instagram where she shares information to promote body acceptance, ways to improve mental health, and repairing your relationship with food at www.instagram.com/mollybcounseling. If you want more information on her practice check her website at www.mollybahrcounseling.com.

Whether you're an IE expert orjust learning about it, there is always room to learnmore. Especially from the women who literally(co)wrote the book on Intuitive Eating.In this episode we talk with Evelyn Triboleabout all things Intuitive Eating.Intuitive Eating is an evidence-based pathway out ofdiet culture, with 10 principles, and nearly 200 studiesto date.We know that diet culture is a source of suffering.We also know, it’s never too late to start Intuitive EatingEvelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S is the author of 10books, including co-author of the best-selling IntuitiveEating, a mind-body self-care eating framework, which hasgiven rise to over 200 studies to date. Her newest book isIntuitive Eating for Every Day: 365 Inspirations andPractices.As an international speaker, Evelyn enjoys traininghealth professionals on how to help their clients cultivate ahealthy relationship with food, mind, and body through theprocess of Intuitive Eating. To date there are over 2,000Certified Intuitive Eating Counselors in 42 countries.The media often seeks Evelyn for her expertise,including a feature in the New York Times. She’s been onCNN, NBC’s Today Show, MSNBC, Fox News, USAToday, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Vogue, TenPercent Happier, and People magazine. Evelyn was thenutrition expert for Good Morning America, and a nationalspokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dieteticsfor six years.Evelyn qualified for the Olympic Trials in the first everwomen’s marathon in 1984. Although she no longercompetes, she surfs and is a proud member of Girls WhoDon’t Surf Good. To connect with Evelyn, you can find heron Instagram: @evelyntriboleor on her websites: EvelynTribole.comIntuitiveEating.org

If you or someone you know might be suffering from an eating disorder this is a must listen episode. Diet culture can make an eating disorder seem like normal behavior, making it hard to recognize. In this episode we are going to explore support options for those suffering with disordered eating. We are excited to have with us Johanna Kandel (She/Her) who founded the National Alliance for Eating Disorders after recovering from a ten-year-long battle with various eating disorders. Since founding The Alliance in October 2000, Johanna has brought information and awareness about eating disorders to hundreds of thousands of individuals nationally and internationally. In addition, she facilitates weekly support groups, mentors individuals with eating disorders and their families through their treatment and recovery, and helps thousands of people to gain information and find the help they need. As a passionate advocate for mental health and eating disorders legislation, Johanna has spent a lot of time meeting with numerous members of Congress, and was part of the first-ever Eating Disorder Roundtable at the White House. Johanna’s book, Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder, was released by Harlequin Nonfiction in September 2010. You can learn more about the National Alliance for Eating Disorders at: www.allianceforeatingdisorders.com or on social media LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-alliance-for-eating-disorders/ Twitter: x.com/AllianceforED Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllianceforED/ Instagram: @alliancefored TikTok: @alliancefored

In this episode Alexis Conason is going to share with us how to recognize and question the societal norms that encourage one to feel inadequate about themselves. She talks about how to stop fixating on shrinking your body and reclaim the space that you deserve in the world. ALEXIS CONASON, PSY.D., CEDS-S is a clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist in private practice in New York City. She is the author of The Diet-Free Revolution: 10 Steps to Free Yourself from the Diet Cycle with Mindful Eating and Radical Self-Acceptance (North Atlantic Books, 2021). She is the founder of The Anti-Diet Plan, a weight-inclusive online mindful eating course and coaching program available worldwide and the owner of Conason Psychological Services, a fat-positive therapy practice in New York City. You can find her on social media @theantidietplan or online at: www.drconason.com www.theantidietplan.com www.conasonpsychologicalservices.com

PCOS is one of many medical conditions where the "treatment" is drenched in unfounded diet-culture BS. Dietitian Julie Duffy Dillon is an expert in PCOS and in this episode she helps listeners to sift through which PCOS recommendations are based on research and which ones, though they sound good, just aren't. After sobbing in her boss’s office 20 years ago, Julie Duffy Dillon taught her last diet. Once she saw the anti-fat bias and diet harm, she couldn't unsee it. She is a seasoned dietitian trained as a mental health counselor and podcast host of Find Your Food Voice®. Featured on TLC’s My Big Fat Fabulous Life, Julie helps people with a complicated relationship with food better access non diet tools like Intuitive Eating and strategize how to remove the shame and blame dumped on them from diet culture. Julie holds a MS degree in Community Counseling, is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, and a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Supervisor. Learn more about Julie at JulieDuffyDillon.com or Follow her on TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn: @FoodVoiceRD

Not dieting is catching on, however, most people that say they are not dieting are actually dieting. In this week's episode we are going to talk about going against the grain and how to be weird by not dieting.

I'm sure you've heard the saying "It's not what you say, it's how you say it". While that definitely holds true, some words, no matter how you say them, can be extremely powerful... and in the case of diet culture words, not in a good way. This episode we are going to explore problematic words in diet culture and how you can get your point across without using them.

After episode 1, you now know a lot about how to spot diet culture and the negative impacts it may have on you and others. But then what? In this episode we go beyond identifying problematic diet culture and talk about how to become more resilient to its toxic messaging.

Diet culture is everywhere. It shows up in ways you don't even realize. Join your hosts Lisa Jimenez (therapist) and Dina Garcia (dietitian) as they break down what diet culture is, where is shows up and all the sneaky ways you didn't even realize it was in your life.