Millennial Body Image Project

Cristina interviews Virginia Sole-Smith about her newest book, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture; where she explores the impact the "war on childhood obesity" has caused kids of all ages to absorb a daily onslaught of body shame. She offers research-based strategies to help parents name and navigate the anti-fat bias that infiltrates our schools, doctor's offices and family dinner tables. Today, she and I are diving the book together and discussing how this system starts at beginning of parenthood, the expectations and guilt parents feel when their children don't meet medical body size guidelines, where fatphobia is seen the most, and ultimately researched-backed approaches to what you can do to empower your children to own their relationship with food and their body.

• Instagram: @v_solesmith
• Twitter: @v_solesmith
• Book: Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture (releases April 25, 2023!)
• Podcast: Burnt Toast with Virginia Sole-Smith

• How parenting culture pressure influences our children's relationship with food, with Nicole Cruz
• Troubleshooting kids nutrition in a diet culture world with Diana Rice
• Shifting your food philosophy and Cultivating a more positive relationship with food for kids, with Michelle Smith

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We're continuing on in our "Help! I'm failing at intuitive eating" series with a popularly requested topic - "I can't do intuitive eating because...". We've heard this so many times from listeners and clients, that they feel they can't do intuitive eating for many reasons. And we hear you! We're breaking down a few different categories that you may relate to in this episode, like health conditions, body image, control, and "just listen to your body", plus bringing some tangible tools you can use right now.

• Help! I'm failing at intuitive eating
• Why we're not intuitive eating coaches
• How to reconcile wanting to lose weight and intuitive eating
• Gentle nutrition and spotting fake intuitive eating
• Pitfalls of the hunger-fullness scale
• What is a normal relationship with food?
• Reclaiming Body Trust with Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant

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• @millennialbodyimageproject
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

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We have an informal, catch-up-with-us type episode with Dana & Cristina today, so grab some coffee, tea, etc. and enjoy! We're sharing what's been going on with us, how our recent plans for the podcast got totally derailed (and why!), and our plans & upcoming exciting guests/topics for the upcoming spring and summer season for the podcast. Cristina also shares some brief thoughts on the American academy of pediatrics new BOGUS weight loss recommendations for children.

• Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, by Virginia Sole-Smith
• Help! I'm failing at intuitive eating
• The ADHD and eating disorders connection, with Stacie Fanelli
• Non-Diet Nutrition for ADHD and binge eating with Becca King

Join our Patreon community to get access to TWO+ years of bonus episodes, exclusive resources, and access to the final episode of each month. You'll also get behind the scenes bonus content and a safe space community to discuss the nuance of body image and food! Check it out at – https://www.patreon.com/millennialbodyimageproject

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• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

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Brittany Rogers joins us today to talk about non-diet approaches to IBD treatment, and how our diet-obsessed culture intersects with IBD. Brittany is a Dietitian who specializes in working with people with crohn's and colitis get into symptom remission so they can focus on living their life instead of living under the constraints of their disease. Brittany was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in high school so she knows firsthand what it's like to suffer through IBD, and how to come out on the other side. On today's episode we work through some of the main misconceptions and mental gymnastics involved in IBD, including unhelpful comments by friends, family, and practitioners. How do we take an add-in approach to IBD, instead of an elimination approach…especially when it feels like "everything hurts and I'm dying?"

• Brittany Rogers (Formally Roman-Green), MS, RDN, CPT (She/Her/Hers) - Founder, RomanWell. National co-leader of CCFA NSAC diet/nutrition patient education, National leader of AND Dietitians in IBD workgroup
• Instagram: @BrittanyB_theRD and @WeAreRomanWell
• Website: www.Romanwell.com

• What is a normal relationship with food?
• How gut issues are influenced by your relationship with food, with Marci Evans
• How nutritional chaos leads to disordered eating and gut issues, with Dr Jillian Lampert

Join our Patreon community to get access to TWO+ years of bonus episodes, exclusive resources, and access to the final episode of each month. You'll also get behind the scenes bonus content and a safe space community to discuss the nuance of body image and food! Check it out at – https://www.patreon.com/millennialbodyimageproject

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• @millennialbodyimageproject
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

Looking for 1×1 Nutrition counseling? Book a free 15-minute intro call:

• Book Dana HERE – https://l.bttr.to/RggiP
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Stacie Fanelli, an eating disorder therapist who specializes in neurodivergence, joins Cristina to discuss the intersection of ADHD and eating disorders, and disordered eating patterns. Where does perfectionism play into both cases? Stacie discusses practical tips to stimulate dopamine response and increase your focus, what overstimulation vs. understimulation looks like, and how imposter syndrome can play a role in ADHD and eating disorders. She also discusses ARFID (avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder) and how it can be a missing piece in many peoples' stories.

• Youtube: How to ADHD
• ARFID Resources
• Work with Stacie
• Instagram: @edadhd_therapist

• Non-Diet Nutrition for ADHD and binge eating with Becca King
• The OCD and eating disorders connection with Alegra Kastens
• Self-compassion for eating disorders and autoimmune disease with Jessica Flanigan Brown

Join our Patreon community to get access to TWO+ years of bonus episodes, exclusive resources, and access to the final episode of each month. You'll also get behind the scenes bonus content and a safe space community to discuss the nuance of body image and food! Check it out at – https://www.patreon.com/millennialbodyimageproject

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• @millennialbodyimageproject
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

Looking for 1×1 Nutrition counseling? Book a free 15-minute intro call:

• Book Dana HERE – https://l.bttr.to/RggiP
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Warren Brown, the CEO of Sparkbites joins Dana today to discuss how we know if we have good gut health. They discuss how Warren went from practicing law, to running a bakery franchise called CakeLove, to hosting on the Food Network, to finally launching a gut health snack. How can we measure if we have good gut health in an easy, free way? What can we do if things aren't quite going how we'd like them to go?

• Instagram: @sparkbites
• Find sparkbites!
• Warren's book, coming out in spring 2023: Men Are Doomed

• Plant-based gut health nutrition & Intersectional food policy with Ayten Salahi
• How fermented foods and kombucha impact gut health with Daina Trout
• Gut Health, Immune Support & Probiotics Problems with Tina Anderson
• Prebiotics & Probiotics 101: Your Questions, Answered!

Bio: Warren Brown is the owner of Countertop Productions, Inc. a boutique manufacturer of innovative packaged snacks. He is an entrepreneur at heart with an unconventional career path that embodies what it means to pursue one's passion. He hosted two seasons of Sugar Rush on the Food Network from 2005-2007. Currently Warren pours his innovative spirit into his line of energy snacks: "Spark Bites." He also makes and markets a line of cake jars: "Don't Forget Cake." No stranger to passion projects, Brown is self-publishing a sci-fi, psychological thriller series that brings his multidisciplinary background together in intriguing ways.

Join our Patreon community to get access to TWO+ years of bonus episodes, exclusive resources, and access to the final episode of each month. You'll also get behind the scenes bonus content and a safe space community to discuss the nuance of body image and food! Check it out at – https://www.patreon.com/millennialbodyimageproject

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• @millennialbodyimageproject
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

Looking for 1×1 Nutrition counseling? Book a free 15-minute intro call:

• Book Dana HERE – https://l.bttr.to/RggiP
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On today's episode, Cristina interviews Nicola Haggett; a body liberationist, coach, & mentor whose work focuses on supporting folks to move beyond body positivity to unlearn body shame, reconnect to their body, and intentionally practice their way towards a world where each of us has more safety, compassion, and joy in our body. They discuss how grief plays an integral part of the body liberation practice, as well as practical tools to help disrupt body shame and rewrite body stories to help us move forward in our own body image journeys.

• Instagram: @nicolahaggett
• Nicolahaggett.com

Bio: Nicola Haggett (she/her) is a body liberationist, coach, & mentor whose work focuses on supporting folks to move beyond body positivity to unlearn body shame, reconnect to their body, and intentionally practice their way towards a world where each of us has more safety, compassion, and joy in our body. She also mentors and provides peer supervision for coaches, dietitians, & therapists who are exploring the edges of their own body acceptance. Nicola is a professionally trained and experienced life coach, Certified Body Trust® Provider, and Gestalt Therapist in training She is also a fat, neurodivergent, and chronically ill human and her lived experiences navigating the world through these social positions are an important part of what she brings to her work. Nicola sees clients online from her home in East London, where she lives with her husband, Ricky, and their two kids.

• Reclaiming Body Trust with Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant
• Redefining beauty and building body image resilience with Dr Lindsay Kite
• What is extra weight? Accepting body changes with an 'all foods fit' approach

Join our Patreon community to get access to TWO+ years of bonus episodes, exclusive resources, and access to the final episode of each month. You'll also get behind the scenes bonus content and a safe space community to discuss the nuance of body image and food! Check it out at – https://www.patreon.com/millennialbodyimageproject

• millennialbodyimageproject.com
• @millennialbodyimageproject
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

Looking for 1×1 Nutrition counseling? Book a free 15-minute intro call:

• Book Dana HERE – https://l.bttr.to/RggiP
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Dana and Cristina dig into how the hunger-fullness scale is commonly used vs. how it can be better used to bring insight to your eating patterns. They also discuss how the dieting and weight loss world has tried to co-opt the hunger-fullness scale as a tool for weight loss, when the intention of this tool was never to be used for weight loss. What are the pitfalls of the hunger-fullness scale, and how can it contribute to disordered eating patterns? What happens if you don't have any physical hunger cues? How can we use this tool in a positive way to understand our bodies' signals, and learn to trust our bodies again, and improve our relationship with food?

• Trauma-Informed Nutrition Care with Fiona Sutherland
• The OCD and eating disorders connection with Alegra Kastens
• HAES myths and emotional eating with Dr. Alexis Conason
• Self-compassion for eating disorders and autoimmune disease with Jessica Flanigan Brown

Join our Patreon community to get access to TWO+ years of bonus episodes, exclusive resources, and access to the final episode of each month. You'll also get behind the scenes bonus content and a safe space community to discuss the nuance of body image and food! Check it out at – https://www.patreon.com/millennialbodyimageproject

• millennialbodyimageproject.com
• @millennialbodyimageproject
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

Looking for 1×1 Nutrition counseling? Book a free 15-minute intro call:

• Book Dana HERE – https://l.bttr.to/RggiP
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This one is just for fun! Dana and her friend Kara talk about their best books of 2022, least favorite books of the year, biggest surprises and disappointments, and their top book recommendations for anyone looking to get into (or more into) reading this year! DISCLAIMER: just because we didn't like a book doesn't mean it's awful or that you won't like it. This is just a fun episode to break up some of the more intense stuff we've been talking about lately.

So tell us - what were your best books of 2022? Biggest surprises or disappointments? If you guys like this episode we'd be happy to do another one, maybe halfway through the year.

• Instagram: @kara_mccartney
• Website for Copywriting & Website Design services: www.karamccartney.com
• Podcast recommendation: Friends We Meet Reading

Join our Patreon community to get access to TWO+ years of bonus episodes, exclusive resources, and access to the final episode of each month. You'll also get behind the scenes bonus content and a safe space community to discuss the nuance of body image and food! Check it out at – https://www.patreon.com/millennialbodyimageproject

• millennialbodyimageproject.com
• @millennialbodyimageproject
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

Looking for 1×1 Nutrition counseling? Book a free 15-minute intro call:

• Book Dana HERE – https://l.bttr.to/RggiP
• Book Cristina HERE – https://p.bttr.to/2OVE5L1