It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching

You were told to lose weight and cut carbs. What if neither one is the treatment for type 2 diabetes?

I was diagnosed with prediabetes at 38, right after my last diet. Today I don't have diabetes, and I'm in a bigger body than I was then.

So I brought every type 2 diabetes myth I've heard in 10 years of coaching to Kristie Messerli, a registered dietitian and certified diabetes care and education specialist who works weight-neutral.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What type 2 diabetes actually is, and why it starts years before the diagnosis
• Why sugar and body size are not the causes you were told they were
• How weight cycling affects insulin resistance over time
• Why cutting carbs can backfire, and what to do instead
• The difference between reversal and remission, and why medication is not a moral failure

Mentioned in the show:

Kristie's website: https://dietitiankristie.com/

Kristie on Instagram (@type2diabetes.nutritionist): https://www.instagram.com/type2diabetes.nutritionist/

Kristie's podcast, Simplifying Diabetes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/simplifying-diabetes/id1895055236

Confident, my program on body acceptance and the confidence that grows from it: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/confident

Your child was born trusting their body. Somewhere between the high chair and kindergarten, the adults around them start teaching them not to.

Registered dietitian and mom of three Kerry Miller joins me to talk about body trust in kids. She is the author of Violet Learns to Pause, a picture book about listening to your body.

Kerry spent years working with women who traced their struggles with food back to childhood. A parent on a diet. A doctor's comment. A relative watching them go for seconds.

We talk about what to say at the dinner table, what to say about bodies, and what to say about GLP-1s.

In this episode you'll learn:

• What interoception is and why it is the foundation of body trust
• Why picky eating can take 20 to 30 exposures to shift, and how to stay pressure-free
• What to say when your child asks "Do I look pretty?"
• How to respond when another kid calls your child fat
• How to talk to your kids about GLP-1s, including if you take one

Mentioned in the show:

Violet Learns to Pause on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/106787870X

Kerry's website: https://violetlearns.com/

Companion resources for families: https://families.violetlearns.com/

Kerry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kerry.millerrd

Join the Confident waitlist: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

You can't learn to trust your hunger while taking a drug designed to switch it off.

Elyse Resch co-created Intuitive Eating. She has 44 years of practice in eating disorders and disordered eating, and she is updating the fifth edition of the book right now.

In this conversation, we talk about what GLP-1s at weight loss doses do to hunger, appetite, and pleasure. We talk about what happens when the drug stops. And we take on food addiction, teens, and neurodivergence.

What you'll learn:

• Why GLP-1s for intentional weight loss and intuitive eating pull in opposite directions
• What happens to hunger and fullness signals after stopping the drug
• Why Elyse rejects the idea of food addiction, and what the studies leave out
• How to help teens resist diet culture without banning everything
• Why neurodivergence doesn't rule anyone out of intuitive eating

Mentioned in the show:

Confident 5-Week Body Acceptance Challenge: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

Elyse Resch: https://elyseresch.com/EResch/

Intué, the official Intuitive Eating app: https://www.intue.app/

Informed consent for GLP-1 (free PDF): https://sizeinclusivemedicine.org/glp1/

Elyse on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elyseresch/

Elyse on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elyse.resch

The GLP-1 isn't what puts your muscle at risk. Not eating enough is.

Registered dietitian Aoife McMahon has worked in weight-loss clinics, bariatric surgery, and weight-loss drug prescribing. Today she practices from a weight-inclusive lens, with a background in eating disorders.

In this episode of the Beyond GLP-1 series, we talk about sarcopenia, bariatric surgery, and why so many of the answers people are looking for don't exist yet.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What sarcopenia is, and why muscle mass and muscle function are two different things
• How appetite suppression can quietly lead to undernourishment and muscle loss
• Why "I lost weight and I could move better" doesn't tell the whole story
• What the research does and doesn't say about weightlifting as protection
• Why eating disorder screening and informed consent are missing from most GLP-1 prescribing

Mentioned in the show:

CONFIDENT 5-week Body Acceptance Challenge: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

Aoife on Instagram - That Irish Dietitian: https://www.instagram.com/thatirishdietitian

Inside Bariatrics podcast (Aoife's show): https://open.spotify.com/show/033nYDCJmhWHC3zZ8Uh3H7?si=46ed876255a14e04

Aoife's professional training: https://centreforliberatingnutrition.com/for-professionals/

You do not need to eat perfectly to be healthy, and one snack will not undo you.

I just spent five months living out of a quarter of a fridge. Coming home to my own pantry nearly knocked me over.

Eight garbage bags later, I finally understood what gentle nutrition actually is, and what it is not.

This classic episode breaks down Evelyn Tribole's definition of gentle nutrition, why intuitive eating is a process and not an endpoint, and why food and exercise only account for 15% of your health.

What you'll learn:

• What gentle nutrition actually means, straight from the woman who coined the term
• Why wellness culture sells the same fraud as diet culture, just with a healthier label
• The real reason obsessing over nutrition rarely makes you healthier
• How to tell the difference between gentle nutrition and healthism
• Why intuitive eating is a process, and gentle nutrition is where it leads

Mentioned in the show:

Confident - Join the waitlist: https://stephaniedodier.com/confident

Your doctor said lose weight. Science never actually proved that was the fix.

This is the episode I keep sending new listeners to, and now I am sending it to you.

I walk through the real research on weight, health, and control, and the six things that actually move your health forward without a diet in sight.

What you'll learn:

• Why no disease exists exclusively in higher weight bodies
• The history of the BMI index and who it was actually built for
• What the World Health Organization says health really is
• The one question to ask your doctor when weight comes up
• Six things you can do for your health that have nothing to do with the scale

Mentioned in the show:

Confident: https://stephaniedodier.com/confident

Everyone is making less money right now, and almost nobody is saying it out loud.

Hilary Kinavey has been doing weight-neutral work for twenty-five years. Right now, she is making less money. So am I.

In this conversation we name the shame underneath that, and the grief of watching the anti-diet movement lose ground to GLP-1 marketing.

Then we get practical. How to market without betraying your values. Why your email list is the one asset that actually belongs to you. What a lifestyle business looks like when you build it on purpose.

What you'll learn:

• Why weight-neutral clinicians are making less money right now, and what to do with the shame that comes with it
• How to market ethically in a landscape built on false promises
• Why personal branding is outperforming clinical content right now
• What a lifestyle business is, and how to build one that supports your life instead of consuming it
• What Hilary's Ember program is, and who it is for

Mentioned in the show:

Episode 227 with Dana Sturtevant, Center for Body Trust (2020). https://stephaniedodier.com/episodes/227-healthism-the-desire-to-be-healthy-gone-wrong-with-dana-sturtevant/

Hilary Kinavey website: hilarykinavey.com

Hilary Kinavey on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hilarykin

Hilary Kinavey on Facebook: facebook.com/people/Hilary-Kinavey/100000200748021

Center for Body Trust: https://centerforbodytrust.com/

Center for Body Trust on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/center4bodytrust

Ember, Hilary's business container for clinicians. www.hilarykinavey.com/ember

Beyond GLP-1 series: program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Non-Diet Coaching Certification: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Most women who call themselves a binge eater are just eating normally after years of restricting.

Dr. Sarah Cooke was an NHS doctor for twelve years before a Crohn's diagnosis sent her down a completely different path.

Now she works exclusively with women untangling binge eating, emotional eating, and the belief that they have no off switch with food.

In this conversation we get specific about what actually separates binge eating from overeating from normal eating, why the “no off switch” feeling almost always traces back to restriction, and what the emerging research on GLP-1 for binge eating is actually showing.

What you'll learn:

• The real difference between binge eating, overeating, and normal eating
• Where the “no off switch” feeling actually comes from
• Why food noise is so hard to research, and what it actually is
• Sarah's clinical take on GLP-1 medications for binge eating specifically
• How to tell if occasional emotional eating is a problem or just being human

Mentioned in the show:

Thursday Sessions- Free training (Until Sept 2, 2026) - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/thursday-sessions

NDCC - Registration - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Free Intake assessment Forms - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Beyond GLP-1 series - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Connect with our guest:

• Dr. Sarah Cooke's Instagram: instagram.com/drscnutrition
• Dr. Sarah Cooke's Facebook: facebook.com/drscnutrition
• Dr. Sarah Cooke's Free 7-Step Guide: sarahcookenutrition.lpages.co/entry-offer-lead-magnet-7-steps-registration-page
• Dr. Sarah Cooke's Podcast: When Food Feels Hard: https://open.spotify.com/show/66AUrj0RUROUykrwOKPQD9

You can look at another woman's body and see nothing but beauty. Look at your own, and the story changes completely.

That gap has a name and a research base behind it. In this episode I teach the psychology of body acceptance in two parts: why the gap exists, and what actually moves you through it once you're ready to close it.

What you'll learn:

• The psychological theory that explains why women learn to see their bodies as objects before they see themselves as people
• Why body positivity keeps women in the same trap as body hatred, and what body neutrality does differently
• The real reason resistance shows up once you've decided to change your relationship to your body
• A three-step process, compassionate self-leadership, internal safety, and self-consent, to build the self-trust that makes lasting change possible

Mentioned in the show:

Thursday Sessions- Free training (Until Sept 2, 2026) - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/thursday-sessions

NDCC - Registration - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Free Intake assessment Forms - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Beyond GLP-1 series - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1



Most people who start a GLP-1 will stop taking it eventually.

When they do, the weight comes back. Often fast.

This episode is for anyone coaching a client through that moment, GLP-1 or not.

In this episode you will learn

• The six reframes to hold before coaching anyone through weight regain
• How to acknowledge thin privilege without making it about you
• The exact questions to ask when a client wants to quit over weight gain
• Why solving weight gain does not mean losing weight
• What Stephanie predicts for the industry starting in 2027

Mentioned in the show:

Thursday Sessions- Free training (Until Sept 2, 2026) - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/thursday-sessions

NDCC - Registration - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Free Intake assessment Forms - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Beyond GLP-1 series - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1