Nourishing Thoughts

Do you ever feel so guilty for eating that it completely ruins your day? Food guilt is not something we are born with – quite the opposite actually! However, guilt relating to food is learnt from a young age and can persist throughout our lifetime if we don't challenge it.

If you’re experiencing guilt after eating, it means you’ve broken one of your food rules. These are the arbitrary laws we live by when we’re in a dieting mentality that tell us some ways of eating are good, and some are bad.

In today's episode, Ariana and Cassie share their top three tips to move away from food guilt and continue on your journey towards food freedom. 

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Have you been told to lose weight or that you are not ‘sick enough’ because of your Body Mass Index?

Well, you’re not alone.

Today’s guest tells us about where BMI comes from and why it may not be a helpful health indicator. Dr Natasha Larmie is a GP with over 20 years of medical experience. She is a card-carrying, flag-waving member of the body acceptance movement and is advocating to put an end to weight stigma in healthcare. She has been blogging under the name the Fat Doctor and has appeared in a number of articles, interviews and podcasts as well as a guest speaker and honorary university lecturer. 

Today we discuss the unexpected origins of BMI, how to recognise your own internalised fat phobia and where it comes from, how weight stigma affects your health outcomes and why being in a bigger body doesn’t equate to being unhealthy.

To find more from Dr. Natasha Larmie aka The Fat Doctor find her at www.fatdoctor.co.uk, The Fat Doctor Podcast and Instagram.com/thefatdoctor

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You only need to scroll so far on any form of self-proclaimed fitness or “wellness” social media account to be bombarded with the message of “calories in, calories out”.

We are told that if we “eat less” and “move more” the idealised body that we are sold within Instagram squares is ours. All we need to do is engage in endless counting and stay in near constant motion.

This notion fundamentally oversimplifies the determinants of energy balance, removes any sense of bodily intuition or knowledge – and, in so doing, almost roboticizes us.

It preaches that our bodies are metabolically standardised and that we are all the same in how we process and assimilate every single micromanaged morsel - but we're not!

In this episode, Cassie and Ariana share their top four tips to help you move away from calorie counting, feel more empowered around food and start trusting your body again. 

Even if you have deleted every calorie tracking app, they share tips on how to shift your mindset to prevent staying stuck pseudo-dieting. 

We hope you enjoy the episode!

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Can you live with diabetes and eat intuitively?

Are you living with a chronic illness and feel you must restrict certain food groups because of it?

Today’s guest tells us otherwise as she shares her personal experience recovering from an eating disorder whilst living with Type 1 Diabetes and shares the science as she now works as a specialist dietitian helping individuals living with chronic illness make peace with food.

Danielle Bublitz, MS, RDN, is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist specializing in Intuitive Eating, binge eating, and Health At Every Size(R)-aligned nutrition therapy. Danielle is passionate about guiding her patients through difficult medical diagnoses, like diabetes or gastrointestinal issues, while learning how to make peace with food and their bodies.

In this episode we cover how receiving a medical diagnosis can change the relationship you have with your body, how to practically face these challenges, whether intuitive eating is possible when living with a chronic illness, and an eating disorder called diabulimia.

We hope you enjoy listening!

You can find more from Danielle at Instagram.com/foodfreedomdiabetes

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Do you have certain foods that you categorise as 'bad' and feel guilty for having? 

Do you at times feels so anxious about eating certain foods you chose to avoid social engagements? 

In this episode, Cassie and Ariana share their proven strategy to help you face your food fears. Step by step it.is.possible to improve your relationship with ALL foods! 

They provide fun and relatable analogies to support you along the way. 

We hope you enjoy the episode!

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Caregiver support is highly underrated in the recovery journey and today’s guest is here to tell us just how important it is to include parents and caregivers in the process. 

Judy Krasna is the Executive Director of F.E.A.S.T. (Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders). She is a writer and an eating disorders advocate both in Israel, where she lives, and globally. Judy is an active “expert by experience” volunteer in the Academy for Eating Disorders and has been working for over a decade to improve eating disorder treatment and to bridge the research-practice gap.

Having been the caregiver to her daughter who lived with Anorexia Nervosa, Judy offers us an in depth view of how recovery impacts family systems.

To learn more about F.E.A.S.T visit www.feast-ed.org

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When you’re attempting to heal your relationship with food and your body, overcoming those deeply ingrained negative beliefs stemming from diet culture is often one of the biggest obstacles standing between you and food freedom.

If you find yourself getting stuck in a cycle of disordered thought patterns, you’re not alone!

In this episode Cassie and Ariana share their top tips on how to immediately improve your mindset to support your recovery. They discuss modalities taken from cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance commitment therapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction.

 

Tune in to start applying these strategies today!

 

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Spiritual interventions are rarely used in modern day treatment centres and yet more and more research is supporting it's benefit to help reduce psychological difficulties and eating disorder pathology.

In this episode we explore the role of spirituality with recovery influencer and fashion model, Kate Noel. She shares with us what key factors supported her in her recovery, what she learnt along the way and how she copes with bad body image days. Tune in as she gets vulnerable and so real with Cassie & Ariana with the aim to empower you on your recovery journey.

Find more from Kate Noel at Take The Cake Podcast, Takethecake.com, Instagram.com/katenoel__

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In the space of the time it takes from plate to palette, we can come to internalize comments and equivocate the portions on our plate with the proportions of our body.

Something as simple, innate, and natural as eating becomes complicated by the burden of socially conditioned expectations.

In today’s episode, Cassie and Ariana share their tips on how to cope with food comments, create healthy boundaries, how to communicate your needs, and they remind you to take the high ground and stay in your lane!

 

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Do you ever feel bloated, constipated and just can’t figure out your body? Well, today’s guest spills the beans on digestive disorders, how living with an eating disorder we tend to feel things very deeply and how we can support gut health through recovery.

Marci identifies as a Food and Body Imager Healer® practicing from a Health At Every Size and anti-oppression lens. She has dedicated her career to counseling, supervising, and teaching in the field of eating disorders. She is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian and Supervisor and certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. In addition to her group private practice, Marci launched an online eating disorders training platform for clinicians in 2015 and co-directs a specialized eating disorder internship at Simmons University. In 2018 she received the Professional Integrity Award from The Behavioral Health Dietetics Practice Group of The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She has spoken locally and nationally at numerous conferences and media outlets. She loves social media so be sure to connect online @marciRD. 

In today’s episode we cover functional digestive disorders commonly experienced in recovery, practical steps we can take to support our gut, the role of probiotics, digestive enzymes and how to know the difference between a food intolerance and eating disorder symptoms.

 

Find more from Marci at marcird.com and Instagram.com/marcird

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