Hello Body!

Episode 8 of the Hello Body! podcast with your hosts Melissa and Katy. In this episode, we interview Susan Portz. Susan is a registered dietitian who is passionate about helping women find food freedom through intuitive eating and a Health At Every Size® perspective. She works with clients virtually to help them heal their relationship with food and their body. Susan’s goal is to help women stop worrying about food and their body so they can live their lives with more joy and find their true purpose in life.

Susan talks about her own history with disordered eating and how she discovered intuitive eating and transitioned away from a weight-centric approach to health and nutrition with her clients and in her own life. We also talk about how she and Melissa support their clients whose doctors have told them they have to lose weight. The many trials and tribulations of getting weighed at the doctor’s office. And we ask Susan what’s really got her fired up about diet culture these days.

You can follow Susan on Instagram @guilt.free.eating and join her free Facebook community, Guilt Free Eating Community for Women.

Episode 7 of the Hello Body! podcast with your hosts Melissa and Katy. In this episode, we talk about weight stigma. Melissa goes into detail about the advent of Weight Stigma Awareness Week (and some of the controversy around the merger of NEDA and BEDA). We also talk about weight is the last socially-acceptable form of prejudice and discrimination in our society, and discuss Melissa’s experience with weight stigma as a child and how it shaped her life as an adult and a parent, and Katy’s experience with weight stigma as an adult at the doctor’s office. We talk about the emotional toll of doctor visits, as well as the psychological damage of “concern trolling” & “sidewalk doctors,” the many ways we can perpetuate weight stigma without even knowing it, and what we can all do to combat external and internalized weight stigma. Enjoy!

Girl Scouts article: https://www.girlscouts.org/en/raising-girls/happy-and-healthy/happy/body-image-daughter-says-she-is-fat.html

Brené Brown interviews Sonya Renee Taylor: https://apple.co/35zqlN8

Episode 6 of the Hello Body! podcast with your hosts Melissa and Katy. In this episode, we interview Jenna Corsi. Jenna is a registered dietitian who counsels her clients virtually, helping them to cultivate compassion and develop a healthier connection with food and their bodies with a focus on intuitive eating and Health at Every Size®️. You can find Jenna on Instagram @balanced.nutrition, and make sure to head over to jennacorsinutrition.com and check out her free Grace over Guilt guide.

We talk with Jenna about the difference between eating disorders and disordered eating, healing your relationship with food, her own history with disordered eating, and how listening to a talk from Aaron Flores when she was a student changed everything. Enjoy!

Episode 5 of the Hello Body! podcast with your hosts Melissa and Katy. In this episode, we interview Michelle Viña-Baltsas. Michelle is a professionally trained coach and certified intuitive eating counselor. She supports midlife women who are ready to rewrite their stories around eating, body image and movement. Her unique approach to living guides women to focus on meeting their own needs and respecting their bodies at all shapes, sizes, weights, and ages without apology. You can find her at www.michellevinabaltsas.com, and follow her on Instagram @michellevinabaltsas_coach.

We talk about the health industry’s focus on weight loss as the primary measure of success, fatphobia, weight gain during quarantine, navigating social media as a midlife health practitioner, and lots more! Enjoy!

Episode 4 of the Hello Body! podcast with your hosts Melissa and Katy. In this episode, Melissa puts on her personal trainer hat to talk about the importance of conscious uncoupling when it comes to exercise and body size. We each talk about our different histories with exercise as dieters, and one of us did NO, what we now love about intuitive movement and what that looks like outside of the dieting paradigm.

We also chat about fitness trackers and weight training — yay or nay? — and share some of our favorite Instagram accounts to follow.

Recommended resources:

Train Happy: An Intuitive Exercise Plan for Every Body by Tally Rye

Episode 3 of the Hello Body! podcast with your hosts Melissa and Katy. In this episode, Melissa and Katy talk about the history of the Body Mass Index and how and why this ridiculously over-simplified mathematical equation from the 1800s was ever tied to our individual health, and the many ways in which it is downright dangerous to tie the BMI to health.

Trigger warning: We occasionally talk about weight numbers in relation to the BMI, and we do get into some detail when it comes to some of our own pretty severe weight-loss tactics.

Useful Links:

Ellyn Satter Institute: www.ellynsatterinstitute.org;

Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong: https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong

Episode 1 of the Hello Body! podcast with your hosts Melissa Sakellariou and Katy Weber. For our first episode, we recently hopped on Instagram Live to chat about our "origin stories" and how each of us transformed from being diet- and weight-obsessed to embracing intuitive eating and food and body freedom. — — — Melissa is a registered dietitian and certified personal trainer, and Katy is a certified health coach and yoga instructor, as well as the author of the book Worth It: A Journey to Food & Body Freedom. We are two friends who share an interest in non-diet approaches to health and wellness, including Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size®. To find out more about Melissa, visit her at shamelessnutrition.com. To find out more about Katy, visit her at worthitwithkaty.com. Email the hosts at [email protected].