Millennial Body Image Project

Dana and Cristina discuss how to reframe movement and rebuilding your relationship with exercise. What happens when you want to use movement as a tool to support your mental and physical health, but it's difficult because of your mentality towards exercise and perfectionism? Exercise is a really complicated health-promoting behavior to integrate and/or step away from, especially when we have connected exercise with body size. In this episode, Dana and Cristina have very different perspectives on how to work through our relationship with exercise, and practical tips on how to work towards exercise neutrality. For some of us, we're still working on this - and that's okay!!

• Intuitive Fitness & How to Repair Your Relationship with Movement, with Carolyn Viggh
• Stop the binge-restrict cycle and embrace taking up space
• 81 | Learn to embrace taking up space and getting strong with Steph Gaudreau
• When exercise becomes unhealthy and how to improve your relationship with fitness, with Jenna Werner

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

Daina Trout, the CEO of Health Ade kombucha, joins Dana today for a fun conversation about startups, career changes towards the health field, and how fermented foods and kombucha impact gut health! We're digging deep into fermented foods, prebiotics, and post-biotics, and why fermented foods are so integral for gut health. What should we be looking for in products that actually makes fermented foods beneficial? Are there ingredients in some kombucha products that aren't actually the best for gut health? **disclaimer: if having kombucha or any kind of fermented food consistently makes your gut feel worse, there's something going on there! Check in with your health practitioner to help find the root cause.**

• Instagram: @healthade
• Website: www.health-ade.com
• Health Ade Mixers for cocktails

• Kombucha 101: Should you drink Kombucha? + Taste Test of the Top Booch Brands
• Gut Health, Immune Support & Probiotics Problems with Tina Anderson
• 90 | Gut health on the road + managing stress while traveling
• 87 | Prebiotics & Probiotics 101: Your Questions, Answered!

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

Cristina and Dana do a deep dive on: "what is healthy, and what is healthism? This episode is an invitation to dig into what we think about health. How do we define healthy for ourselves, and where does that language come from? What are the assumptions behind our beliefs about health? We talk about how health and health-promoting behaviors exist on a spectrum; where healthism and judgment come into play, and how 'healthy' can become a toxic identity.

• Identity crisis in the food healing journey with Victoria Yates
• The problem with healthism and 'what I eat in a day' posts, with Maria Sylvester Terry
• 'Good vs bad fatties' and weight bias in healthcare with Ragen Chastain
• What is restriction? It's not what you think…
• Is weight a symptom?
• Can you manage chronic health conditions without food restriction?

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

Brenna O'Malley, a Registered Dietitian and the Founder of The Wellful, joins Dana and Cristina today to talk about how to know if your health journey is actually healthy, and red flags on your health journey. How do we navigate the balance between adding in health-promoting behaviors in a neutral way, and those behaviors coming from outside pressure and becoming obsessive? We also discuss how if you feel like you gain weight whenever you're not obsessively monitoring what you eat and sticking to your exercise plan, it's likely a sign that those rules are not healthy for you & that you're trying to keep your body in an extreme environment it can't maintain.

• Instagram & tiktok: @thewellful
• Website: thewellful.com

• How disordered eating behaviors impact your health, digestion, and hormones with Victoria Myers
• From Fitness Competitions to Food Freedom with Kris Dovbniak (Part 1)
• Food Labels in a Non Diet Lifestyle, and from Orthorexia to Freedom with Taylor Kiser
• Dieting for Social Acceptance and Health at Every Size with Kirsten Ackerman, RD

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

Dr. Lindsay Kite joins Dana and Cristina to dig deep into self-objectification and body image, how to build body image resilience in the face of body image disruptions, and when well-meaning body compliments do more harm than good.

We talk about how beauty companies play into this self-objectification with their marketing, even if they are well-meaning. Dr. Lindsay Kite is co-author of the book More Than a Body: Your Body is an Instrument, not an Ornament and co-director of the nonprofit Beauty Redefined, alongside her identical twin sister Lexie Kite.

• Book: More Than a Body - Your Body is an Instrument, not an Ornament (we highly recommend this on audiobook too!)
• Instagram: @beauty_redefined
• Website: morethanabody.org

• Book: Her Body Can, by Katie Crenshaw
• Living without limits and celebrating bodies of all sizes in fitness with Kanoa Greene
• Redefining sexiness and confidence with Body Image with Bri
• Breaking free of the invisible cage of food and body obsession with Katie Barbaro
• Problems with before & after photos and the all-or-nothing fitness mentality, with Barb Puzanovova

Dr. Lindsay Kite joins Dana and Cristina to dig deep into self-objectification and body image, how to build body image resilience in the face of body image disruptions, and when well-meaning body compliments do more harm than good. We talk about how beauty companies play into this self-objectification with their marketing, even if they are well-meaning. Dr. Lindsay Kite is co-author of the book More Than a Body: Your Body is an Instrument, not an Ornament and co-director of the nonprofit Beauty Redefined, alongside her identical twin sister Lexie Kite.

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

This week, we discuss how the way set point theory is used in healthcare and the ED recovery community is rooted in fatphobia, and can be a contributing factor in preventing people from fully recovering. Many recovery modalities are based on assumptions on how 'sick' someone could really be based on their body size, which is also used as a barometer for how they are progressing through recovery (EW, we know.). We know there's a delicate balance between meeting your client where they are and challenging them with a HAES, body neutrality + anti-fatphobic perspective - and we discuss how to do so in this episode. This also carries over into advanced recovery and intuitive eating - where people feel like they are failing in recovery because they don't know what to actually eat!

• Body Image & Conditional Food Neutrality
• Breaking free of the invisible cage of food and body obsession with Katie Barbaro
• HAES myths and emotional eating with Dr. Alexis Conason
• 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
• Book Cristina HERE – https://p.bttr.to/2OVE5L1

This week on the podcast, Cristina interviews Nicole Cruz, RD about how challenging it can be to balance exposing your child to eating a nutrient dense diet and allowing all foods fit approach. We also dive into how pressuring our children at the dinner table to try a certain food can backfire, and what you can do instead. We also answer the question, what if my child will only eat sweets?

• Instagram: @nicolecruzrd
• Website: https://msha.ke/nicolecruzrd/
• Workshops: End Mealtime Battles & Foundations to Raise an Intuitive Eater

• the Biggest Pregnancy & Postpartum Nutrition Misconceptions with Brooke Miller
• Raising Confident Eaters with Anna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport
• Nicola Salmon on fertility and pregnancy in larger bodies
• The division of food responsibility - The Ellen Satter Feeding Dynamics Model

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

Becca King is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who is passionate about helping adults who struggle with ADHD and binge eating, chronic dieting, and body image issues to find food freedom and improve their self-esteem. We talk to Becca about how she uses the principles of Intuitive Eating and a weight-inclusive approach to nutrition for ADHD, as well as some major themes she sees connecting ADHD to disordered eating patterns. We discuss how executive function plays a big role in our relationship with food, and how we can use non-diet, neutral nutrition-related behaviors to support our executive function, and why focusing on elimination-based protocols is *not* the answer for ADHD'ers.

• Instagram: @adhd.nutritionist
• Website: https://adhdnutritionistllc.com/

Becca King is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist from Charlotte, North Carolina. As an adult with ADHD who struggled for years with disordered eating, Becca is passionate about helping other adults with ADHD who struggle with binge eating, chronic dieting, and body image issues find food freedom and improve their self-esteem. She uses the Principles of Intuitive Eating and a weight-inclusive approach to nutrition for ADHD in her virtual practice.

• Retraining the nervous system to heal stress eating and disordered eating, with Elisabeth Kristof
• The effect of holiday stress and perfectionism on the nervous system, with Victoria Albina
• Neuroinflammation and the stress-disease process with Dr. Jannine Krause

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

Ayten Salahi is a GI-specialized Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), culinary nutritionist, and intersectional food policy advocate. In today's episode we're chatting about intersectional food policy and how we can tackle plant-based gut health nutrition from a neutral nutrition approach!

• Instagram: @asa.nutrition and @planetaryhealthcollective
• Website: www.aysanutrition.com

Ayten Salahi, MS, RDN is a GI-specialized Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), culinary nutritionist, and intersectional food policy advocate. Through her private practice, Aysa Nutrition, Ayten works extensively with individuals following, or aspiring to follow, plant-based diets while managing various GI conditions. She is Monash University trained in application of the Low FODMAP Diet for IBS, and has adapted her learnings from this training to the specific needs of plant-predominant eaters, athletes, and women's health, with an anti-diet and health-at-every-size focus. In addition to her practice, she is Founder and Executive Director of the Planetary Health Collective, a grassroots organization which aims to incubate leadership potential among nutrition professionals in sustainable food and climate efforts.

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