Welcome to the fifth episode of the Trust Your Body Project Podcast! Trust Your Body Project is a podcast and social media movement started on Instagram designed to help you heal, eat, and create space for the things that truly matter. Meet your host, Whitney Catalano, an anti-diet, health at every size registered dietitian who offers online coaching to help you stop dieting, make peace with your body, and take the power back from your inner bully.

In today’s episode, Whitney talks about one of her tweets that went viral and provides some information about the thread inspired by the tweet.  Whitney also acknowledges and responds to the criticism and discussion that the tweet brought on. 

This episode covers:

• The fact that anti-diet isn’t the same as being against medical nutrition therapy
• The importance of practicing diets from an evidence-based place
• Anecdotes are not research
• The risks and side effects of dieting
• How information provided by the media is different than the scientific research
• Dieting in the pursuit of weight loss does not lead to a better quality of life
• Talk about weight stigma and fatphobia and how it is perpetuated in the medical system
• What weight stigma is
• What the “O word” means and how it came to be classified as a disease
• Anti-fat bias found in the medical industry
• Empowering you to show your doctor the research around recommending weight loss as a cure-all
• The common issues that can be found in dieting research today
• Why and how dieting failure is unhealthy

To read more, check out the full blog post. 

Whitney hopes this empowers you to be ready with evidence if your doctor tries to recommend weight loss.  And reminds you to think about the ways you can improve your life without dieting for weight loss. If you want to join the fight, have conversations about these topics and help others understand the issues around fatphobia and weight stigma.

And above all, make the decisions that feel right to you, you are worthy exactly as you are.

Mentioned in the Episode:  A Workbook of Acceptance-Based Approaches for Weight Concerns by Margit I Berman | A Clinician’s Guide to Acceptance-Based Approaches for Weight Concerns by Margit I Berman 

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