Nutrition By Kiah

At some point, many of us will struggle with distress around our bodies, and have bad body image days. Although this is sadly a very common and normal human experience, it can be really helpful to have a toolbox of coping strategies that help us avoid behaviours like restricting food, dieting, or exercising to try and 'fix' our bodies or improve how we feel about them.

In this episode, Kiah and Meg discuss eight ways to navigate body image distress, including:

• Wearing comfy clothing
• Considering how diet culture & modern beauty standards impact us
• Leaning on your support system
• Connecting with yourself
• Avoiding dieting or food restriction
• Making time for self-care & self-compassion
• And we chat about our personal experiences with navigating body image

At Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health’ no matter your body shape or size.

Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.

• Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/
• Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/
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When does 'healthy eating' go too far? 

In this episode, we're chatting about orthorexia: an eating disorder that involves a fixation or obsession with healthy eating. Although it's not yet included in the DSM V as an official eating disorder diagnosis, you will commonly find it referenced in the media, blog articles and research papers and it is recognised by many mental health professionals and eating disorder experts. 

In this episode, Kiah and Meg discuss:

• How orthorexia might develop, including risk factors
• Some red flags or possible signs of orthorexia
• How to tell the difference between healthy eating and orthorexia
• The 'clean eating' movement
• Food rules vs. food preferences
• Diagnosis & prevalence of orthorexia

At Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health’ no matter your body shape or size.

Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.

• Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/
• Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/
• Imbodi Health website: www.imbodihealth.com

If you enjoy our episodes, please give us a written review on Apple podcasts. It helps our podcast to be shown to more people!

In this episode, we had the pleasure of speaking to the wonderful Dr Maud Achard about Neurodivergence & Eating Disorders.

Dr Maud is an autistic mental health dietitian and a credentialed eating disorder clinician. She works in private practice and in inpatient mental health services.

Her main area of interest is to provide neurodiversity-affirming health care for neurodivergent persons with feeding differences and eating disorders.

She understands that different brains mean different needs and also runs education sessions and workshops for health professionals, teaching them how to create a more accessible, safe, and supportive space for all the diverse minds out there. Her hope, with like-minded individuals, is to create a ripple effect of positive change in the healthcare community to better cater for and support neurodivergent persons.

In this episode, we chatted about many important topics including:

• The difference between neurotypical and neurodivergent, and neurodiverse vs neurodivergent
• The link between neurodivergence and eating disorders
• How eating disorder support might differ for someone who is neurodivergent vs neurotypical
• What neurodiversity-affirming healthcare looks like
• Plus much more!
• We wrap up with some important take-home messages that brought a tear to all of our eyes

 Additional links & resources:

•  EDNA report on eating disorders and neurodivergence: https://nedc.com.au/eating-disorders/types/neurodivergence/
• EDNA website: https://www.edneuroaus.com
• Yellow Lady Bugs: https://www.yellowladybugs.com.au
• Reframing Autism (autistic led organisation): https://reframingautism.org.au/about-autism/
• Other podcasts:
  • NeuroSpicED: https://www.edneuroaus.com/podcast (trigger warning: discussion of eating disorder behaviours in some detail, self-harm and suicidality, trauma etc.)
  • The Neurodiversity Podcast: https://neurodiversitypodcast.co

At Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health’ no matter your body shape or size.

Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.

• Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/
• Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/
• Imbodi Health website: www.imbodihealth.com

If you enjoy our episodes, please give us a written review on Apple podcasts. It helps our podcast to be shown to more people!

It's time for another TikTok-inspired myth-busting episode! We are always fascinated (and often disturbed) by the health and wellness trends that come up on our TikTok feeds! It can be pretty tricky trying to sift through all the conflicting information, so in every season we have an episode dedicated to breaking down some of these trends.

In this episode, Kiah and Meg discuss:

• Salt water flushing
• Dry scooping pre-workout
• Being 'sober curious'
• The lemon olive oil morning drink
• And whether a raw carrot salad can balance hormones...

At Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health’ no matter your body shape or size.

Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.

• Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/
• Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/
• Imbodi Health website: www.imbodihealth.com

If you enjoy our episodes, please give us a written review on Apple podcasts. It helps our podcast to be shown to more people!

At Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health’ no matter your body shape or size.

Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.

• Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/
• Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/
• Imbodi Health website: www.imbodihealth.com

If you enjoy our episodes, please give us a written review on Apple podcasts. It helps our podcast to be shown to more people!

You submitted your questions, and we answered them! In this episode, Kiah and Meg answer the following questions from our Imbodi Poddy Community:

• What is the cause of amenorrhea with an eating disorder?
• What does a day in the life of a dietitian look like?
• How did you find studying your degrees to become a dietitian?
• Can you please talk about overshoot weight gain in recovery, and if it's possible not to happen?
• Is eating food late at night really that bad?
• What are your personal stories in regard to your relationship with food?
• What is the best way to respond to hunger?
• If you weren't a dietitian, what would you be?
• Should everyone see a dietitian at some stage?
• How to move on from eating disorder treatment acquaintances/friends, especially checking their socials?

At Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health’ no matter your body shape or size.

Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.

Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/

Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/

Imbodi Health website: www.imbodihealth.com

If you enjoy our episodes, please give us a written review on Apple podcasts. It helps our podcast to be shown to more people!

In this episode, Kiah and Meg chat with Serena Nangia about:

1. Serena's journey in founding The Body Activists
2. How fatphobia (anti-fat bias) and weight discrimination cause harm, and their link to increasing the risk of developing an eating disorder
3. Media awareness and how to navigate harmful advice around food or bodies
4. Navigating the healthcare system and having difficult conversations with health professionals
5. Dealing with imposter syndrome: your voice matters

Serena Nangia (she/her) is a long-time advocate for eating disorder recovery, host of The Body Activism Podcast, CEO of The Body Activists, and Marketing & Communications Manager for an eating disorder nonprofit called Project HEAL. Her company, The Body Activists, is a start-up focused on collaborating with and educating businesses and community leaders to identify, dialogue about, and disrupt harmful stigma and discrimination based on weight and body size.

Serena has spent close to a decade building expertise on the way body image, media, and eating disorders affect people’s daily lives. Serena is also a frequent public speaker on the issue of fatphobia and actively works to elevate diverse voices of People of Color and Fat People. Serena’s inspiration comes from her sister, Ellen, who struggled with an eating disorder for over a decade and is now in long-term recovery.

At Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health’ no matter your body shape or size.

Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.

• Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/
• Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/
• Imbodi Health website: www.imbodihealth.com

If you enjoy our episodes, please give us a written review on Apple podcasts. It helps our podcast to be shown to more people!

Do you find yourself compulsively checking the scale? Does the number affect your self-confidence or mood for the day, or cause you to act differently around food or exercise?

In this episode, Kiah and Meg discuss:

• Identifying if your relationship with the scales is unhelpful
• Reasons why you might compulsively weigh yourself
• How regular weighing can actually *discourage* us from engaging in health behaviours or taking care of our body
• The impact of weighing on disordered eating and exercise behaviours
• How much does weight determine our health?

At Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health’ no matter your body shape or size.

Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.

• Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/
• Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/
• Imbodi Health website: www.imbodihealth.com

If you enjoy our episodes, please give us a written review on Apple podcasts. It helps our podcast to be shown to more people!

In this episode, we chat with Henry Rheinberger about:

1. Henry's journey so far in recovery from Anorexia Nervosa
2. Some of the challenges faced by those in the LGBTQIA+ community (especially gay men) when it comes to body image
3. The impact of body comments & pressure to look 'perfect' in the acting and musical theatre industry
4. How eating disorder recovery isn't linear (and that's okay!)
5. Finding the right health professionals to help you in recovery

Henry Rheinberger was born and raised in Nipaluna, or Hobart, and went on his first diet at a young age before yo-yo-ing between a few diets throughout his teen years. Eventually, Henry developed Anorexia. Henry moved to Perth in 2021 to study a Diploma of Musical Theatre. He then moved to Brisbane in 2022 to study a Bachelor of Musical Theatre.

Since 2021 Henry has taken part in a variety of inpatient and outpatient treatments for his eating disorder and other mental illnesses. Henry has now stopped pursuing professional musical theatre, is a mental health and eating disorder advocate on his social media, and has moved home to Nipaluna where he is focusing on his recovery.

Henry is also a Pilates and group fitness instructor who is passionate about women’s health and Health at Every Size. Additionally, Henry is a gay man who is an advocate for improving body image in the LGBTIQA+ community.

At Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health’ no matter your body shape or size.

Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.

• Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/
• Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/
• Imbodi Health website: www.imbodihealth.com

If you enjoy our episodes, please give us a written review on Apple podcasts. It helps our podcast to be shown to more people!

We are always fascinated (and often disturbed) by the health and wellness trends that come up on our TikTok feeds! It can be pretty tricky trying to sift through all the conflicting information, so we have a whole episode dedicated to breaking down some of these trends.

In this episode, Kiah and Meg discuss:

• Proffee (protein + coffee)
• 'Nature's cereal'
• Alkaline water
• Eating raw red meat (the Lion Diet)
• Sea moss

At Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health’ no matter your body shape or size.

Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.

• Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/
• Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/
• Imbodi Health website: www.imbodihealth.com

If you enjoy our episodes, please give us a written review on Apple podcasts. It helps our podcast to be shown to more people!