Break the Diet Cycle

Break the Diet Cycle

By Melissa LandryHealth & FitnessNutrition
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Break the Diet Cycle episodes

  • [Intuitive Eating Series] Principle 3: Make Peace with Food

    We’re continuing on in our Intuitive Eating Skill series with Principle 3: make peace with food. In this episode, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Dalina Soto interviews her former client Vanessa to discuss her experience:

    • Getting out of the binge-restrict cycle so many chronic dieters find themselves in
    • overcoming fears when giving yourself unconditional permission to eat
    • Eating with connection and intent (instead of mindlessly and full of guilt!)
    • Plus “pro tips” to neutralize food past diets labeled as “bad” or “forbidden” so you can feel peaceful around these foods again!
    • Episode Resources:

      • Join the Break the Diet Cycle Podcast Community: @break.the.diet.pod
      • Connect with Melissa on Instagram: @no.more.guilt
      • Connect with Dalina on Instagram: @your.latina.nutritionist
      • This episode was sponsored by Your Latina Nutritionist with Dalina Soto

        • Get your free Intuitive Eating guide at: https://yourlatinanutrition.teachable.com/p/quick-intro-to-intuitive-eating
        • Ready to find food freedom with Chulas like you? Apply for group coaching at www.yourlatinanutritonist.com
        • What did you think of this episode? Leave us a review letting us know how the pod is positively impacting your Intuitive Eating journey. We love hearing from you!

          28 min
        • [Intuitive Eating Series] Principle 2: Honor Your Hunger

          Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Dalina Soto and Melissa Landry discuss Intuitive Eating Principle 2: Honor your Hunger as they walk you through Intuitive Eating with more detail. In today’s episode we discuss:

          • Primal hunger: what is it?
          • The importance of carbs and eating enough
          • What does hunger even feel like?
          • How chronic dieting can mess up your hunger cues
          • How to get started exploring your hunger without judgement or guilt
          • This episode includes several practical takeaways for you to improve your ability to honor your hunger. Direct message Melissa or Dalina with what you learn from today’s exercises!

            Episode Resources:

            • Join the Break the Diet Cycle Podcast Community: @break.the.diet.pod
            • Connect with Melissa on Instagram: @no.more.guilt
            • Connect with Dalina on Instagram: @your.latina.nutritionist
            • This episode was sponsored by No More Guilt with Melissa Landry

              • Get the 3 Steps to Eat without Guilt Guide: https://mailchi.mp/d9207e0baf90/nomoreguiltguide
              • Are you in a bigger body and ready to start your food freedom journey? Apply today for No More Guilt Coaching at www.melissalandrynutrition.com
              • 25 min
              • [Intuitive Eating Series] Principle 1: Reject the Diet Mentality with Elyse Resch MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, FAND

                Does Intuitive Eating sound good, but you’re not sure if you can get past the idea of it being “bad for your health”? This episode helps dispel the myth that intuitive eating means “giving up” or “just eating what you want” as we kick off our Intuitive Eating skill series with Principle One: Reject the Diet Mentality!

                Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Dalina Soto and Melissa Landry interview Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, co-author of Intuitive Eating to explain:

                • How the authors came to the idea of intuitive eating
                • What it means to approach health holistically - and not just focused on weight loss
                • How the authors adapted Intuitive Eating over time
                • And lastly, Elyse’s hope for the future of Intuitive Eating so more people like you can #breakthedietcycle
                • Episode Resources:

                  • Follow Elyse Resh MS, RDN CEDRD-S on Instagram: @elyseresch and Find Elyse’s books on Amazon: Intuitive Eating, The Intuitive Eating Workbook, The Intuitive Eating Card Deck—50 Bite-Sized Ways to Make Peace with Food, The Intuitive Eating Workbook for Teens and The Intuitive Eating Journal—Your Guided Journey for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food
                  • Join the Break the Diet Cycle Podcast Community: @break.the.diet.pod
                  • Connect with Melissa on Instagram: @no.more.guilt
                  • Connect with Dalina on Instagram: @your.latina.nutritionist
                  • This episode was sponsored by Your Latina Nutritionist with Dalina Soto

                    • Get your free Intuitive Eating guide at: https://yourlatinanutrition.teachable.com/p/quick-intro-to-intuitive-eating
                    • Ready to find food freedom with Chulas like you? Join the Chula Club at www.yourlatinanutritonist.com
                    • 38 min
                    • How can women in bigger bodies find food freedom in a fatphobic world?

                      In today’s episode Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Melissa Landry interviews her former client, Amanda Street to talk about how women in bigger bodies can find food freedom in a fatphobic world.

                      Prior to pursuing food freedom, Amanda believed in body positivity for herself and others... but still struggled with dieting behaviors and food guilt! We talk about how she used the No Guilt Framework to align the way she treated her body to her body positive aspirations. We review:

                      • why Amanda chose food freedom over dieting “just one more time
                      • barriers to finding food freedom for women in bigger bodies (like, people offering diet advice and always assuming you want to lose weight)
                      • Ways amanda over came these barriers, plus
                      • tips for anyone in a bigger body who feels they should "lose weight before trying intuitive eating” or feels that food freedom just isn't for someone like them!
                      • Episode Resources:

                        • Join the Break the Diet Cycle Podcast Community: @break.the.diet.pod
                        • Connect with Melissa on Instagram: @no.more.guilt
                        • Connect with Dalina on Instagram: @your.latina.nutritionist
                        • This episode was sponsored by No More Guilt with Melissa Landry

                          • Get the 3 Steps to Eat without Guilt Guide: https://mailchi.mp/d9207e0baf90/nomoreguiltguide
                          • Are you in a bigger body and ready to start your food freedom journey? Apply today for No More Guilt Coaching at www.melissalandrynutrition.com
                          • 51 min
                          • Why do high school #bodygoals linger so long?

                            In anticipation of their upcoming Intuitive Eating Series, Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Dalina Soto and Melissa Landry talk through a common roadblock to becoming an Intuitive Eater: holding on too tightly to #bodygoals from your teenage years.

                            If you struggle with lingering shame over your body changing during your teenage years, or, shame it may never look the same as your teenage years - this episode will help you navigate your lingering teenage body ideals with a new perspective!

                            In today’s episode we discuss…

                            • terrible 2000s trends like frosted lip gloss and trucker hats - yikes!
                            • the no-to-so-awesome origins of why society values women who look young and small
                            • how to let go of body goals that no longer serve you, like trying to fit in “your high school jeans”
                            • deciding how you want to let your body change as you age (and it will!)
                            • how to live in your choices for your body while still honoring the body autonomy of other women who may choose to cope with their body changes different from you
                            • Episode Resources:

                              • Join the Break the Diet Cycle Podcast Community: @break.the.diet.pod
                              • Connect with Melissa on Instagram: @no.more.guilt
                              • Connect with Dalina on Instagram: @your.latina.nutritionist
                              • To see the list of 2000s trends Melissa and Dalina discuss at the beginning of this this episode, visit: https://www.bustle.com/style/nostalgic-fashion-trends-from-the-early-2000s-that-will-make-you-miss-your-tattoo-choker
                              • This episode was sponsored by Your Latina Nutritionist with Dalina Soto

                                • Get your free Intuitive Eating guide at: https://yourlatinanutrition.teachable.com/p/quick-intro-to-intuitive-eating
                                • Ready to find food freedom with Chulas like you? Apply for group coaching at www.yourlatinanutritonist.com
                                • 29 min
                                • How did your mother impact your relationship with food?

                                  In anticipation of their upcoming Intuitive Eating Series, Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Dalina Soto and Melissa Landry talk about how relationships between moms and daughters impact food guilt and body shame, how weight stigma within families can hurt (bad) and how to not let that hurt get the better of your desire to find food freedom.

                                  Melissa’s shares part of her personal story with her Mom and together your co-hosts offer practical tips about moving forward toward feeling peaceful in your body.

                                  We discuss:

                                  • techniques for cultivating compassion for what our mothers did not know
                                  • how to acknowledge the hurt others caused you (especially if you still want to be in a relationship with someone who hurt you, today)
                                  • the importance of therapy and boundary setting work alongside the Intuitive Eating journey for our clients
                                  • how to prioritize yourself so you can actually move on living life without food guilt and body shame
                                  • Episode Resources:

                                    • Join the Break the Diet Cycle Podcast Community: @break.the.diet.pod
                                    • Connect with Melissa on Instagram: @no.more.guilt
                                    • Connect with Dalina on Instagram: @your.latina.nutritionist
                                    • This episode was sponsored by No More Guilt with Melissa Landry

                                      • Get the 3 Steps to Eat without Guilt Guide: https://mailchi.mp/d9207e0baf90/nomoreguiltguide
                                      • Are you in a bigger body and ready to start your food freedom journey? Apply today for No More Guilt Coaching at www.melissalandrynutrition.com
                                      • 28 min
                                      • Why is it so hard to become an Intuitive Eater?

                                        If Intuitive Eating is as simple as “just eating” -- then why does it feel so hard to do?

                                        This season, Melissa and Dalina are offering an Intuitive Eating series where they will walk you through the 10 principles of Intuitive Eating. Before this series starts, this episode will help you consider common mindset traps that have to do with the relationship between your family culture and American diet culture, like:

                                        • How public health nutrition messaging may have negatively impacted your ideas about what you should eat
                                        • How your family culture impacts your ideas about when and where to eat
                                        • If your family is more “individualist” or “collectivist” [and what that means for you when you are trying to set boundaries as an Intuitive Eater among them!]
                                        • Melissa and Dalina make the suggestion to actually write down your thoughts and feelings around the prompts in these episodes so that you can start labeling and addressing roadblocks within your family culture as you go through the Intuitive Eating process.

                                          Episode Resources:

                                          • Join the Break the Diet Cycle Podcast Community: @break.the.diet.pod
                                          • Connect with Melissa on Instagram: @no.more.guilt
                                          • Connect with Dalina on Instagram: @your.latina.nutritionist
                                          • This episode was sponsored by Your Latina Nutritionist with Dalina Soto:

                                            • Get your free Intuitive Eating guide at yourlatinanutritionist.com/
                                            • Ready to find food freedom with Chulas like you? Apply for coaching
                                            • 28 min
                                            • [Bonus Episode] Let's Get to Brass Tacks

                                              Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Dalina Soto and Melissa Landry are back for Season 4 of Break the Diet Cycle starting next week!

                                              Do you feel confused as you scroll body positive and anti-diet accounts on Instagram? Are you trying to figure out how to become an Intuitive Eater, but are having a hard time knowing exactly HOW to move forward?

                                              We see you there trying! And we have your back.


                                              This bonus pre-season episode talks about our new special format to help you take your Intuitive Eating journey to the next level, why we chose to switch it up this season, and how you can actually FOCUS to find food freedom with us

                                              Want your question or story featured in an episode? Leave us a message!

                                              Episode Resources:

                                              • Join the Break the Diet Cycle Podcast Community: @break.the.diet.pod
                                              • Connect with Melissa on Instagram: @no.more.guilt
                                              • Connect with Dalina on Instagram: @your.latina.nutritionist
                                              • For free resources or to work with Dalina, visit: www.nutritiouslyyoursllc.com/

                                                For free resources or to work with Melissa, visit: www.melissalandrynutrition.com

                                                9 min
                                              • how to have a body positive summer

                                                Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Dalina Soto and Melissa Landry close out season 3 with three tips to help you kick off a body positive summer. We discuss the three most common summer struggles our clients face when it comes to the food freedom journey: barbecues, bathing suits, and booze. Listen and learn:

                                                • how to avoid all-or-nothing diet mindset at barbecues and outdoor summer events 
                                                • steps for feeling good in you bathing suit (including Dalina's personal example!)
                                                • why it's important to be okay with listening to your body, instead of calories targets and peer pressure, when it comes to alcohol
                                                • Episode Resources:

                                                  • Join the Break the Diet Cycle Podcast Community: @break.the.diet.pod
                                                  • Connect with Melissa on Instagram: @no.more.guilt
                                                  • Connect with Dalina on Instagram: @your.latina.nutritionist
                                                  • This episode was sponsored by Your Latina Nutritionist with Dalina Soto

                                                    • Get your free Intuitive Eating guide  
                                                    • Ready to find food freedom with Chulas like you? Apply for group coaching.
                                                    • 28 min
                                                    • why do dietitians disagree about weight loss? with Maria Sylvester Terry MS, RDN

                                                      If you follow Registered Dietitians for advice and tips on Instagram you may notice two VERY different worlds.

                                                      Some Dietitians promote dieting for weight loss, while others adopt an "anti-diet" or "non-diet" approach of weight inclusivity. If you find these mixed-messages confusing, you're not alone. Like many evidence-based fields leaning on new and emerging research, there are differing philosophies around weight loss, including if and how it should be approached!

                                                      In today’s episode we called on fellow Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Maria Terry Sylvester MS, RDN, LDN to discuss:

                                                      • the difference between a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and a nutritionist
                                                      • what training ALL Registered Dietitian Nutritionists receive
                                                      • how to know if the Registered Dietitians Nutritionist is right for your needs
                                                      • how to navigate nutrition messages that confuse or trigger you
                                                      • Episode Resources:

                                                        • Follow Maria Sylvester Terry on Instagram: @vitamin_ri and check out her work @eatfitnola
                                                        • Join the Break the Diet Cycle Podcast Community on Instagram: @break.the.diet.pod
                                                        • Connect with Melissa on Instagram: @no.more.guilt 
                                                        • Connect with Dalina on Instagram: @your.latina.nutritionist
                                                        • Subscribe to Break the Diet Cycle on Apple Podcasts
                                                        • This episode was sponsored by No More Guilt with Melissa Landry. Reminder that though we are dietitians, we’re not *YOUR* dietitian. Podcasts don’t constitute treatment. If you have concerns about your dieting behaviors, seek out guidance from a medical or mental health professional. And if you’re looking for the process, support, and focus you need to live life without food guilt apply for a coaching program from today’s sponsor. No More Guilt with Melissa Landry is currently enrolling clients into 1:1 programs, group programs, and, recently added a do-it-yourself learning format: the Ex-Dieter’s Guide to No More Guilt. Visit me on Instagram @no.more.guilt or go to www.melissalandrynutrition.com for your free guide to get started!

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                                                        Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Melissa Landry of @no.more.guilt talks about what it's really like to learn intuitive eating so you can be the first in your family to stop dieting, accept your body,…