Today we spend the whole episode chatting about Meg's Recipetin Eats Challenge and it's a long one. 

In 2023 Meg cooked every single recipe in Nagi Maehashi's incredible debut cookbook 'Dinner'.

Nagi's website was already a favourite 'go to' place for recipes for both of us, it's super accessible, has an amazing variety of cuisines and meals and THEY ALWAYS WORK! So when she released a cookbook it was always going to be great. 

We chat about why Meg set herself the challenge and what she learned, how it changed her kitchen, especially her spice rack, her cooking and meal planning. You can check out her instagram where she posted photos of most of the dishes. 

This link to Khao Pla restaurant in Chatswood with the incredible eggplant chips and the best Thai food Meg has ever eaten, the Tom Yum is off the charts. 

Susan's favourite thing recipe inspiration here. 

Meg's favourite thing this week and maybe of all time - one for the coriander lovers! This is all we've found online and matches Meg's copy of the original recipe which is scrawled on a piece of paper. 

Want to help your teen navigate eating well? Check out our downloadable, on demand webinar here. 

Sign up for the waitlist to be the first to hear about our extended eating disorder prevention online course for parents 'Lifeguards : The Non diet way for parents of teens". 

Today we dive back into the ocean of social media.

What are the common sharks and rips, what can we do to protect ourselves while still enjoying a swim?

Check out our 'Detox your metaverse' downloadable guide here.

Join the waiting list for 'Lifeguards: The Non Diet Way for Parents of Teens" or sign up for immediate access to our "Helping your teen eat well in a food confused culture" masterclass.

Head to our socials for a post about our favourite social media accounts to provide floatation devices and suncream for your day at the beach.

Today we chat about a phenomenon that we have both seen in our practice. And that is when the drive for the "perfect diet for health" actually completely undermines health and wellbeing. Whether trying to get to the bottom of unpleasant symptoms, achieve a particular aesthetic or to 'be in the best health possible' when people head down a path of excluding foods for pretty much any reason, invariably we see a reduction in most measures of health and wellbeing including dietary quality and social connectedness.

We touch on values, how elite sports can be a risk for an over focus on nutrition at the expense of health and wellbeing (check out our episode with Sports Dietitian Alissa Edge for more on this) and of course the conflicting messages we get from social media. 

You might enjoy ABC's The Checkout Michelle Bridges skits ' Source of Confusion' Part one and Part Two that we mention.

Find Meg's favourite roasted carrot recipes here and here.

Join the waiting list for 'Lifeguards : The Non-Diet approach for Parents of Teens or to get some great info for "Helping your Teen Eat Well in a Food Confused Culture" RIGHT NOW check out our webinar here.

You may have seen on the news this week a lot of chatter about a 'ham ban' and a 'fairy bread ban' in Western Australian and South Australian schools.

We've done some digging to get to the bottom of the headlines, what the actual situation is, why changes have been made and what it means. (Spoiler alert - ham is not even banned!)

For more background of the 2016 classification of red/processed meats as carcinogenic check this article by Dr Tim Crowe of Thinking Nutrition.

We also touch on some unfortunate reporting and commentary (from our own profession gah!) that decided to bring in 'overweight and obesity' rates into the discussion about the supposed ban. We mention a podcast episode by our colleague Dr Fiona Willer, it is super helpful for anyone interested in learning more about weight classification / BMI and health risk, you can watch it here or listen here. 

Finally our 'Helping Your Teen Eat Well in a Food Confused Culture' is ready and available for purchase. It's only $33 for over 90 minutes of practical help for parents to open discussions with their teens, look for red flags, help navigate social media diet messages and protect them from eating disorders. Click here for more information. 

Susan's favourite thing this week was from this amazing restaurant and this recipe is pretty close to Grandma's Carrot and Feta Lasagne.

Today we chat with Dietitian and PhD Candidate Melissa Eaton. Melissa is a Mental Health Dietitian with Keeping the Body in Mind (Primary) located at UNSW (currently on extended maternity leave), an NSA Registered Nutritionist, and a former dancer and teacher - having completed a Master of Nutrition and Dietetics, a Bachelor of Science (Food and Nutrition), and a Bachelor of Arts (Dance) with a Bachelor of Education.  Her PhD research explores nutrition and mental health, with a focus on weight-neutral approaches, eating behaviour, disordered eating, and weight-stigma.  She is also a new Mum of a baby girl and is currently navigating the mum, work, life, juggle.

We first met Melissa when she was a student dietitian who 'got it'. She already had a super firm grounding in weight bias and weight inclusive care, not to mention a really cool and popular instagram page where she shared great non-diet information to her many followers.

Now as a mum of a toddler she's a bit shocked and horrified by the pressure she sees being placed on new mums to lose weight, control their child's diet and weight and how this can do a lot of harm to both parents and children.

We also chat to Melissa about her PhD research into mental health and experiences of weight bias that patients can have when accessing health services.

If you want to go back and listen to our interview with Alicia Edge it is episode 24, you can find it here

This week we chat more about the challenges of parenting teens in a culture obsessed by weight and dieting. We suggest some eating disorder and body image red flags and some strategies to get ahead of things before they become entrenched and how to be your child's lifeguard. Helping them learn to swim and develop their endurance and strength, understand rips and tides, remember to wear suncream and call for help if they get into trouble.

Resources mentioned;

National Eating Disorders Collaboration

Eating Disorder Families Australia

Feed Your Instinct

The Butterfly Foundation

Sign up to be first to know when we launch "Lifeguards: The Non-Diet Way For Parents Of Teens." https://www.megandsusan.co/NDWTeen

Today we chat with fellow dietitian Mari Harrison.

Mari is a non-diet dietitian with lived experience of Type 1 diabetes working with people with eating challenges with diabetes, chronic dieting and after bariatric surgery.

If Mari's 'best thing I ate this week', Joulutorttu, sounds good, check out the recipe she developed especially for our podcast audience!

Check out her 'Am I Hungry ' group programs here.

We mentioned these 2 TED talks - Dr Renee Engeln 'An Endemic of Beauty Sickness' and Dr Michelle May 'Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat'.

Back to 'regular programming', we hope you enjoyed out Movement Mini Series, let us know if there is a different 'mini series' topic you'd like us to do. 

Today we have a bit of a rambling chat that reflects our headspace by this stage of the holidays. We have loved holidays but we are ready for a return to routine and to some alone time! 

We chat about some of the challenges that summer holidays can kick up, especially for parents of teens. This the podcast episode Susan was a guest on to talk about the worst board game ever "YiYo - energy in Energy out" which is unfortunately still available and advertised to teachers as "Literacy is supported with pictorial association, and colour coding and icons are used to indicate nutritional characteristics including fruit and vegetable serves, dietary fibre, added or ‘free’ sugar and energy load. Available in kilojoules only" and even sold in the Perth Children's Hospital's fundraising shop! Gah! 

We announce that we are working on 'a teen thing' - probably an intensive week of live webinars for parents of teens who are having concerns about eating, dieting, body image and want some practical help in how to help their kids through this challenging time. you can sign up here to stay up to day for when it launches. 

This was the burrata salad mentioned and the restaurant where she had the scallops and wants to eat steak (it wasn't Woodcut, ti was Black Bar & Grill) and this is the Spanish Restaurant that was Susan's fave. 

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*******Movement Mini Series********

Welcome to the final in our Movement Mini-series.  It's peak 'New Year New You' / New Year's Resolution Season and the diet culture vultures are out in force. So we thought it the perfect time to provide another perspective.

In this series we speak with 5 wonderful Australian Fitness Professionals to provide some support in navigating movement.

Today we chat with the incredible Natasha Korbut, founder of Diverse Personal Training.

We get practical today with Natasha giving us a bunch of fantastic tips for getting moving in a supporting, sustainable, enjoyable and healing way.

We chat about her background in prosthetics and policy and how that impacts her work as a PT, and her involvement in the 'This Girl Can' campaign to help inspire women of all walks of life to get moving.

Natasha does individual and group training online, you can find out her new 8 week group programs or check out her website for all the options. 

She also has a YouTube channel with a range of different workouts from a 3 minute dance break to 40 minutes high intensity workouts and everything in between.

Check out her brand new E-book "One Fit Size All, a beginners guide to joyful movement."

That is the last in our movement series, we hope you have enjoyed it. We will be back Thursday!

*******Movement Mini Series********

Welcome to the fourth episode in our Movement Mini Series.

It's peak 'New Year New You' / New Year's Resolution Season and the diet culture vultures are out in force. So we thought it the perfect time to provide another perspective.

In this series we speak with 5 wonderful Australian Fitness Professionals to provide some support in navigating movement.

Today we speak with Shreen El Masry. Shreen is a body positive writer, personal trainer and intuitive eating counsellor dedicated to helping you find body peace, food freedom and a fun relationship with exercise. We chat about Shreen's transition from the music industry to the fitness industry. We talk about her recovery from an eating disorder which taught her to think completely differently about her body, exercise and drives her to help other people heal and live free from poor body image and disordered eating and exercise behaviours.

Shreen is the author of 'Be You Be Free' a 12 step Body Positivity plan, and provides online personal training that is eating disorder informed, body positive and helps people reconnect with their body and exercise in a safe and supportive way. Check out her website and instagram.