Food logs and meal planning are hallmarks of weight loss efforts and diet culture. Is there any place for them in a non-diet approach? In this episode, we talk about:

• Do we like food diaries?
• Food structure reduces decision making
• Is intuitive eating about meal variety?
• But I don’t like meal planning because I don’t know what I’ll want to eat
• Sarah’s lunches this week
• What’s the difference between not being satisfied and not being full?
• Did Stef get too hungry when Sarah visited NYC?
• Meal times and boundaries

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The "anti-diet" and "diets don't work" messages can be very empowering for many people, but how do we reconcile these ideas when there seem to be people that do, in fact, diet and lose weight? In this episode, we discuss:

• Dieting as a physical trauma stored by the body
• Biology of weight set point and safety
• Psychology tendencies toward one-track thinking
• “Diets Don’t Work” vs “Do Diets Work For Me?”
• Envy as “I think I am capable of something”
• What is enough?
• The Hedonic Treadmill

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In 1978, Susie Orbach wrote the groundbreaking book: Fat is a Feminist Issue (FIFI) to decontrust the role of dieting as oppressive to women. She has remained an author, psychoanalyst, advocate for women and women's bodies. In this episode, we discuss:

• Dieting is taking your agency back
• The beauty of hunger in all forms
• The mother’s body anxiety & feeding her baby as an origin of dysfunction
• The body, weight, and attention
• Why is the body so important as identity?
• Admiration versus connection
• Is there hope for the future?
• The Dove Campaign and body representation

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MENTIONED LINKS:

http://www.any-body.org

https://www.dove.com/uk/dove-self-esteem-project.html

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/two-for-the-price-of-one

Why is eating in moderation so hard? In this episode, Sarah & Stef discuss:

• What does moderation mean? 
• Is the 2000 calorie RDA based on moderation?
• Satisfaction and extreme hunger
• Why are some people able to eat in moderation more easily?
• Is moderation a challenge for impulsive people?
• How other parts of our lives can influence the reward aspect of food and impact the ability to eat in moderation.
• Does it make sense to leave certain foods out of the house?

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Intuitive Eating advocates may have us believe that we will naturally start to crave nutritious food after allowing ourselves to eat what we want, but is this true? What does it look like if you're someone who feels more selective around food or doesn't really like vegetables? In this episode, we talk about...

• The foods that Sarah and Stef don’t like
• Do you say cilantro or coriander?
• What do you do if you don’t like vegetables?
• Are there foods we don’t like or foods we believe we don’t like? And vice versa
• Do processed foods beget more processed foods?
• Nutrition as a habit
• Does what we eat matter so much?

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The summertime can be a difficult time of year when we’re dealing with body image – the heat, the clothes, the vacations. In this conversation, we break down some reasons why summertime can be difficult, share our own experiences with summer and body image, and offer mindset shifts that can help.

• Summer bodies syndrome
• Summer clothing – is fashion harder?
• Do you feel like you’re “allowed” to wear shorts in the summer?
• Body objectification as part of the vacation experience
• Stef’s episode with gelato in Italy
• Noticing body changes on vacation
• Mindset shifts and strategies for summer
• “Body admin” and summer

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If intuitive eating is the gold standard of a healthy relationship with food, how do we actually become more intuitive? In this episode, Sarah & Stef talk about:

• The definition of Intuition (UK vs US)
• What role does conscious reasoning play in intuition?
• The role of intuition in Sarah & Stef’s lunches this week
• How long does it take to become more intuitive?
• Things that get in the way of our intuition
• How community might help us access intuition
• Is there a difference between intuition and instinct?

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This week we talk to Molly Forbes, author of the book Body Happy Kids and founder of The Body Happy Org. Molly talks to us about her experience raising children in diet culture and the work she does to educate and empower both children and adults to create body image resilience. We discuss:

• Molly’s experience on Naked Beach TV 
• How Molly navigates her children’s exposure to media
• What if you are a parent with your own body image issues?
• How to handle when your child comes home and says “someone called me fat.”
• The Body Happy Org resources and mission

Social media handles: @mollyjforbes @bodyhappyorg

The Body Happy Org: https://www.bodyhappyorg.com

Molly's Book: Body Happy Kids

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Dieting can promote disconnection from self. Sometimes we use food to further disconnect from our experience or our shame. As we heal our relationship with food, body, and self, how do we address the tendency to disconnect?

• What is the difference between disconnection and self-abandonment?
• Sarah’s airport story of accepting the moment
• How to stay connected to the Self during a body image flood
• Stefanie’s “flood” concept
• The slippery slope of emotional eating
• Commitment to self vs discipline of self

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A follow up to last week’s episode is out by popular demand. In this episode we continue talking about the nuances of restriction and the ways this might be showing up in your disordered eating and/or recovery process. We cover:

• What is emotional restriction?
• What does it look like to have emotional regulation instead of emotional restriction?
• Restriction of authenticity, desires, and self
• Why does it make sense to honor mental hunger in the absence of physical hunger?
• Restriction during certain times of day, around certain people, or only benig able to eat with certain bowls/utensils
• Are there scenarios where physical restriction makes sense?
• What about restricting for health reasons

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