More Than What You Eat

What is Baby Led Weaning and how can it help prevent picky eaters and encourage your child to grow up to be a healthy balanced eater who has a healthy relationship with food?

We answer all of this and more in today's episode with Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Megan McNamee who specializes in maternal and child nutrition. Megan shares what baby-led weaning is, some of the common misconceptions about it, and the benefits that come from it.

Megan also addresses some common concerns such as the fear of your baby choking and important topics such as offering advice for moms who are facing food limitations during the process of baby-led weaning, how to navigate conversations with people who might not be open to the idea of baby-led weaning, and how to take your first steps with the process.

Whether you're a new mom or are raising a little one for the 5th time (or have a niece or nephew you know can benefit from this!), you'll find this episode super helpful in raising a healthy happy eater from the start!

In this episode, we cover:

• [5:02] What is baby-led weaning?
• [9:10] Common misconceptions about baby-led weaning
• [11:40] How to address the concerns of your baby choking
• [14:12] How to help children foster and maintain their internal cues
• [17:29] How to trust that your baby will figure out how much they need to eat
• [19:55] What should parents be feeding their babies during baby-led weaning
• [25:26] How this approach can be helpful in preventing children from becoming picky eaters
• [31:55] Advice for people who are facing food limitations during baby-led weaning
• [35:11] Reasons why moms reach out to Megan for help with baby-led weaning
• [39:12] How to navigate conversations with people who might be against baby-led weaning
• [41:43] How to take your first steps with baby-led weaning

Links Mentioned:

Megan's Resources:

• Follow Megan & Judy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/feedinglittles/
• Megan & Judy's website and resources: https://feedinglittles.com/

Rachel's Resources:

• Follow Rachel on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dietitian.rachelgoodman/
• Get Rachel's free guide, 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control With Food https://rachelgoodmanrd.kartra.com/page/7NG39

• Ready to break free of binges and food rules for good - so you can finally live life fully? Join Living Free HERE

• Want to share your thoughts or feedback on this episode? Contact Rachel at [email protected]

Making assumptions about a person's health based on their body size can be incredibly harmful. Not only are these assumptions based largely on weight stigma, but they ignore other health struggles an individual might be dealing with.

Dr. Gregory Dodell is a board-certified endocrinologist who joins us today to help us understand why taking a weight-neutral approach to endocrine issues is so important and more so, health promoting.

This is an incredibly important episode that helps us understand just how harmful weight stigma is in the medical and health care systme, and why it's important to treat patients with a weight-neutral approach - and how to do so, starting with our own internal belief system!

In this episode, we cover:

• [3:03] Taking a weight-neutral approach in his practice as an endocrinologist
• [9:12] Why there's a higher risk of eating disorders in diabetic and PCOS populations
• [11:17] Why we're all meant to be different shapes and sizes and what that means for diet recommendations
• [13:12] What is weight stigma and how does it have a negative impact on health
• [19:59] Understanding endocrine issues and where they stem from
• [26:07] Does weight ever worsen a condition?
• [28:25] The difference in measuring progress with a weight-neutral approach

Links Mentioned:

Dr Gregory Dodell Resources:

• Follow Dr. Dodell on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everything_endocrine/
• Work with Dr. Dodell: https://www.centralparkendocrinology.com/

Rachel's Resources:

• Follow Rachel on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dietitian.rachelgoodman/
• Are you a Food Freedom Professional seeking to boost her coaching confidence with clients using the Intuitive Eating approach? Join the Food Freedom for Professionals Mentorship Program: https://rachelgoodnutrition.com/professionals/
• Get Rachel's free guide, 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control With Food https://rachelgoodmanrd.kartra.com/page/7NG39

Want to share your thoughts or feedback on this episode? Contact Rachel at [email protected]

Several weeks ago, I was a guest on my friend and therapist, Rachelle Heinemann's podcast, Understanding Disordered Eating, where she presented common client struggles and questions for me to address.

We also dive into various topics like why personal experience isn't enough to become a registered intuitive eating dietitian. We talk about why intuitive eating is an evidence-based practice, why it challenges many people, and what it has to do with rewiring your brain. I also answer some common questions regarding how you know if you have a binge eating problem, how you know if you're eating enough, and if you should really avoid eating unless you're hungry.

If you're ready to redefine what health means for yourself and your unique body and reclaim food freedom, then this episode is for you.

In this episode, we cover:

• [5:00] My journey with intuitive eating and why I became an intuitive eating dietitian
• [14:54] Why my personal experience isn't enough to do the work I do
• [18:06] Why intuitive eating challenges many people
• [20:23] Can you rewire your brain and how much does intuitive eating have to do with it?
• [24:11] Why we binge and how to know if we're eating enough
• [32:41] Should I not eat unless I'm hungry?
• [38:21] Why you need to redefine what health means for yourself

Links Mentioned:

Rachelle's Resources:

• Rachelle's Website
• Rachell's Podcast Understanding Disordered Eating Podcast
• Join Rachelle's Newsletter
• Follow Rachelle on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachelleheinemann

Rachel's Resources:

• Follow Rachel on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dietitian.rachelgoodman/
• Are you a Food Freedom Professional seeking to boost her coaching confidence with clients using the Intuitive Eating approach? Join the Food Freedom for Professionals Mentorship Program: https://rachelgoodnutrition.com/professionals/
• Get Rachel's free guide, 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control With Food https://rachelgoodmanrd.kartra.com/page/7NG39
• Want to share your thoughts or feedback on this episode? Contact Rachel at [email protected]

For most, diet culture is introduced into our lives way too young. And we need to spend so much time undoing that damage as adults.

An effective, and often unexplored and underrated way of healing your body image struggles begins with inner child work and healing it at the source.

I couldn't think of a better person to help navigate this conversation with than mindset coach, Jennifer Diaz.

Jen Diaz is a mindset and success coach for ambitious female entrepreneurs who fully believes that when women are in alignment with their worth and boldly pursue their dreams, incredible things can happen.

Together, we discuss what inner child work really is all while uncovering some of the most common misconceptions about it. Jen also shares the relationship between our triggers, inner child, and subconscious mind and how we can take accountability for those pieces during our inner child healing work.

We also discuss how it can help you heal your body image, what the next steps are once you recognize the issues, and why re-parenting yourself is ultimately reprogramming your behaviors and thought patterns for a healthier and happier way of life.

This is an incredibly eye-opening episode all about doing the difficult work and the benefits that come from inner child healing.

In this episode, we cover:

• [3:14] How Jen started helping her clients with inner child work and healing
• [13:20] Why you can't grow when you're oppressing yourself
• [17:40] What does "inner child" mean and some of the common misconceptions about inner child work
• [28:21] The relationship between the triggers, inner child, and the subconscious mind
• [26:13] Where accountability comes in when it comes to our triggers and inner child healing work
• [38:12] How inner child work can help you with healing your body image
• [44:03] The next steps in healing and how you use inner child work to move forward
• [47:38] Why re-parenting is re-programming
• [52:22] How to get in touch with your inner child to become your best self

Links Mentioned:

• Follow Rachel on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dietitian.rachelgoodman/
• Are you a Food Freedom Professional seeking to boost her coaching confidence with clients using the Intuitive Eating approach? Join the Food Freedom for Professionals Mentorship Program: https://rachelgoodnutrition.com/professionals/
• Get Rachel's free guide, 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control With Food https://rachelgoodmanrd.kartra.com/page/7NG39
• Want to share your thoughts or feedback on this episode? Contact Rachel at [email protected]

If you've ever felt self-conscious about your body when exercising, or have ever thought you can't possibly do XYZ workout because you aren't 'fit' or 'thin' enough… This podcast episode is for you!!

Tiffany Croww, a certified yoga instructor with a size-inclusive approach who will teach you how CAN get moving at ANY size!

Tiffany shares her own personal body neutrality and healing journey on how she found a happy place within herself, and how yoga was a part of that journey for her. She takes you behind the scenes of her work, how she helps her clients find food freedom and peace with their body, and why she believes yoga is for every BODY.

I hope you will find comfort and inspiration in Tiffany's story and walk away feeling empowered to move your body in ways that honor it and feel good!

In this episode, we cover:

• [3:49] Tiffany's journey to food freedom and body peace
• [9:27] The lack of representation of larger bodies in the yoga space
• [22:40] The deeper concerns that Tiffany's clients typically have
• [24:38] Prompts that Tiffany walks her clients through to help them work through body image struggles
• [26:54] Why you need to go through the struggle in order to overcome it
• [30:47] The struggles that clients approach Tiffany with and how she helps them work through it
• [37:16] The physical limitations that Tiffany finds larger bodied yoga students generally have and the solutions she provides
• [43:49] What yoga is actually about and the health benefits you gain from it at every size
• [51:46] The number one thing Tiffany wants women to know about yoga and their body

Links Mentioned:

• Follow Rachel on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dietitian.rachelgoodman/
• Are you a Food Freedom Professional seeking to boost her coaching confidence with clients? Join the Food Freedom for Professionals Mentorship Program Waitlist: https://rachelgoodnutrition.com/professionals/
• Get Rachel's free guide, 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control With Food https://rachelgoodmanrd.kartra.com/page/7NG39
• Want to share your thoughts or feedback on this episode? Contact Rachel at [email protected]

In this episode, we cover:

• [3:32] My initial thoughts when I found out I was pregnant
• [5:20] Recognizing the new layer of your journey
• [7:12] Redirect your thoughts to what you need to do to make your body feel good
• [12:34] Your body is a part of you, not all of you
• [15:31] The shifts in internal cues I am experiencing during my 4th pregnancy and how I've been dealing with that
• [21:24] What I was going through emotionally and physically in the 4th quarter of 2021 and what helped me get through it
• [24:51] The conscious choice to enjoy emotional eating and how it can be a helpful coping mechanism and healthy part of your relationship with food

Links Mentioned:

• Follow Rachel on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dietitian.rachelgoodman/
• Ready to break free from food rules and find food freedom + body peace? Apply for 1:1 Coaching with Rachel rachelgoodnutrition.com/coaching (*NOTE: February is the LAST chance to apply for 1:1 coaching for possibly the rest of 2022. Spots will not be available again for at least another 9 months).
• Get Rachel's free guide, 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control With Food https://rachelgoodmanrd.kartra.com/page/7NG39
• Want to share your thoughts or feedback on this episode? Contact Rachel at [email protected]

In today's episode, Rachel chats with a past client, Kelsey, and reflects on Kelsey's journey that led her to food freedom and body peace. They discuss Kelsey's initial relationship with food and her body starting from childhood, and Kelsey shares the ways in which restriction and diet culture had negatively impacted her life.

Kelsey also opens up about the tips and tools that have helped her work through negative food and body image thoughts, what it feels like to finally give herself permission to eat emotionally & feel more in control when she does, and how inner child work really broke down body image barriers she previously had.

In this episode, we cover:

• [4:13] Kelsey's relationship with food, her body, and how it impacted her life
• [7:14] Kelsey's body's response to restriction
• [10:40] The big turning point that encouraged Kelsey to rewrite her beliefs around diet culture
• [12:39] How Kelsey went from being aware to taking action
• [13:28] What you think restriction is vs. what it really looks like
• [15:15] When Kelsey started seeing a difference with her body image and relationship with food
• [20:06] The tips and tools that helped Kelsey work through her negative thoughts
• [27:46] Giving yourself permission to eat emotionally
• [32:09] The turning point that changed Kelsey's mindset
• [35:24] How inner child work helped Kelsey break through body image barriers
• [44:11] Why your body doesn't exist for anyone's viewing pleasure - including your own

Links Mentioned:

• Follow Rachel on Instagram
• Ready to break free from food rules and find food freedom + body peace? Apply for 1:1 Coaching with Rachel rachelgoodnutrition.com/coaching (*NOTE: February is the LAST chance to apply for 1:1 coaching for possibly the rest of 2022. Spots will not be available again for at least another 9 months).
• Get Rachel's free guide, 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control With Food
• Want to share your thoughts or feedback on this episode? Contact Rachel at [email protected]

Do you want to heal your relationship with food and body image but feel like you can't let go of your desire to lose weight, too?

In this solo episode, Rachel discusses why it is OKAY to desire weight loss and why that it does not immediately conflict with healing your body image in your current body size. In fact, acknowledging our desires related to body size can be so helpful in actually healing body image at its core.

In this episode, we cover:

• [1:19] Why it's okay to desire weight loss
• [5:43] Where does this desire actually stem from?
• [10:24] If weight gain was a result of unhealthy behaviors, how to focus on changing the BEHAVIORS, not the weight itself
• [15:57] If weight loss is the only thing that you think will improve your life, you are robbing yourself of so many other opportunities that doesn't depend on your weight
• [19:22] Overcome the boulder, while holding space for weight loss desire and living life fully past that

Links Mentioned:

My IG https://www.instagram.com/dietitian.rachelgoodman/

Ready to break free from food rules and find food freedom + body peace? Apply for 1:1 Coaching with Rachel: https://rachelgoodnutrition.com/coaching/

Free opt in https://rachelgoodmanrd.kartra.com/page/7NG39

In this episode, we cover:

• [1:19] Why it's okay to desire weight loss
• [5:43] Where does this desire actually stem from?
• [10:24] If weight gain was a result of unhealthy behaviors, how to focus on changing the BEHAVIORS, not the weight itself
• [15:57] If weight loss is the only thing that you think will improve your life, you are robbing yourself of so many other opportunities that doesn't depend on your weight
• [19:22] Overcome the boulder, while holding space for weight loss desire and living life fully past that

I’m switching things up and am addressing intuitive eating from the perspective of professionals. In this solo episode, I am talking about how to effectively help your client heal the relationship with food in a 6-step approach you can apply with your own clients by using the Food Freedom Coaching Method Funnel.

In this episode, we cover:

• [2:07] Transitioning away from diet culture into intuitive eating as a coaching method
• [5:08] How to find clients and how to coach them through complex struggles using pre-coaching
• [7:49] Evaluating your clients' connection to hunger fullness cues
• [10:11] Identifying and challenging food rules
• [12:18] Understanding emotional eating
• [13:31] Incorporating gentle nutrition
• [15:10] How body image plays a role in each step of the approach

Links Mentioned: 

Follow Rachel on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dietitian.rachelgoodman/ 

Ready to coach your clients with CONFIDENCE? Join Food Freedom for Professionals Mentorship Program: rachelgoodnutrition.com/professionals

Want to share your thoughts or feedback on this episode? You can email Rachel at [email protected] 

We are getting close to 2022, and you know what that means. Diet culture is on full blast! As New Year's inches closer it seems that everyone and their mother is focused on changing their eating habits and their bodies after the holidays "damage".

The New Year presents the opportunity for people to jump on the diet bandwagon with the belief that they are changing their life for the better but in reality, it's just another way diet culture tempts us into feeling inadequate.

In this solo episode, I am talking about why it's time you reevaluate your New Year's goals and why the real message of New Year's "body goals" is that your thinnest self is the best version of yourself when that isn't true!! I also explain why focusing on weight loss can pull you further away from living your best life and what to focus on instead that will allow you to be the best, happiest and healthiest version of yourself.

In this episode, we cover:

• [2:33] The real message of New Year's body goals and how it actually erodes your self-esteem and self-worth.
• [6:06] Your thinnest self is not your best self. Learn how to show up for yourself in ways that will actually serve you, your life, and your health
• [12:06] Validation of leading your best life is not dependent on body size. New Year's is just another day - you always have a clean slate every day of every year.
• [17:49] Choosing a different approach going into the New Year when it comes to living as your best self.

Links Mentioned:

Follow Rachel on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dietitian.rachelgoodman/

Ready to break free of food rules and find food freedom + body peace? Apply for 1:1 coaching here: rachelgoodnutrition.com/coaching

Free Guide: 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control with Food: https://rachelgoodmanrd.kartra.com/page/7NG39

Want to share your thoughts or feedback on this episode? You can email Rachel at [email protected]