Nutrition By Kiah

In this episode, Kiah and Meg chat with the wonderful Carly Compton about:

• Carly's experience of recovering from an eating disorder
• How to deal with distressing body image days
• Asking health professionals not to weigh you
• Curating a social media feed that supports positive body image
• Building up your coping strategies toolbox

Carly Compton (B.ED., MSW) is an eating disorder survivor turned eating disorder therapist. Her lived experience has led her to where she is today—working with individuals all over the world to help them give up dieting, recover from disordered eating or an eating disorder, and find genuine happiness and acceptance within themselves, no matter their size, race, gender, sexuality, or socioeconomic status.

Carly is the host of the Recover with Carly Podcast and the creator of Eating Disorder Education and Awareness: A Curriculum for Adolescents. Carly combines her professional practice with public speaking, social media and modelling to embody the example she wishes she would have had growing up. 

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

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Have you ever felt pressure to 'eat clean' in pursuit of the perfect diet?

'Clean eating' is a vague, non-scientifically-defined term that usually refers to diets containing mostly whole, minimally processed foods. 'Clean eating' demonises certain foods as 'bad' and elevates other foods as 'good/'pure'/'healthy'. Unfortunately, black and white thinking around food can really impact our relationship with food!

In this episode, Kiah and Meg discuss:

• What is clean eating?
• How clean eating can lead to nutritional deficiencies
• What happens to our relationship with food when we ban certain foods from our diet
• Health elitism and nutrition privilege
• How to respond to #cleaneating content when you come across it
• Defining your own version of 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, Kiah and Meg chat with the wonderful Lexi Crouch about:

1. Lexi's journey with recovering from anorexia nervosa
2. Navigating the health system in recovery from an eating disorder
3. Real talk on how recovery often feels harder before it gets better
4. How Lexi approaches talking about food with her daughter Mabel (and her tips for other parents)
5. Self-love and finding your identity outside of the eating disorder

Lexi Crouch comes from a lived experience of an Eating Disorder / Anorexia Nervosa and has now been recovered for over a decade. Through her own experience and studies of bachelor of Health Science, Lexi works in the field of Eating Disorders and Mental Health as a Clinician and also Recovery Coach using her personal insights. She currently taking time off clinic to co-author a book but will be returning in July. She is regularly asked to speak at events, conference and education sessions and works closely with the Media as a Health Writer & Guest. Lexi believes in "keeping it real" as you can sense from her down to earth nature and is a big believer of helping others through the journey

Outside of her work, Lexi is a dedicated Yoga teacher & practitioner which has been a fundamental tool in her own recovery, enjoys spending time with her daughter Mabel and is working her way through her Master of Writing & Literature at Deakin University.

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!

Are you sick of the endless cycle of dieting? Are you frustrated at feeling like you keep ending up back where you started?

Introducing intuitive eating and the non-diet approach! This is a way of relating to food (instead of dieting) that includes respecting and honouring your body's hunger and fullness cues, combining satisfaction with gentle nutrition, and rejecting the idea that weight is a direct determinant of health (plus much more).

In this episode, Kiah and Meg discuss:

• The issues with dieting (and why diets fail over the long term)
• What is the non-diet approach to health and nutrition?
• Benefits of the non-diet approach
• Can you eat intuitively for weight loss?
• The ten principles of intuitive eating (founded by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch!) with our top tips to get started

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!

How many times have you heard talk that carbs are 'bad' for you? With popular diets from keto to paleo, carbs of all kinds have been totally demonised!

In this episode, Kiah and Meg discuss:

• What are carbohydrates?
• Fact vs. fiction: carbs and weight gain, gluten, good vs. bad carbs
• What happens when we cut out carbs
• Benefits of carbs: vitamins and minerals, energy, fibre, chronic disease risk, gut health, satisfaction
• How to include carbs in your diet

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!

We have an exciting announcement... doors are officially open to the Nourishing Mind and Body Program! 🥳

The NMB Program is a 12-week program designed to help you break free from yo-yo dieting and unrealistic food rules. It focuses on teaching you how to nourish your body without the obsession. The program kicks off on March 19th 2023, and limited spots are available!

If you constantly cycle between "being good" and "being bad" with food, have tried every diet without success, avoid keeping certain foods in the house for fear of losing control, and want to develop a healthy relationship with food, then this program is perfect for you 💜

In the program, you will learn how to enjoy your favorite foods without guilt, anxiety, or fear of losing control. 🍕🧁🥗 You will learn about moving your body for the pure enjoyment of it, rather than to control your weight, shape or size. You will also discover how to find the balance between nourishing your body and enjoying your soul foods, break free from the restrict-overeat cycle, and say goodbye to the scales while feeling more comfortable in your own body 🧘‍♀️

The program prioritizes consistent action over perfect action, and Imbodi Health Dietitians Kiah and Megan are there to guide you every step of the way. For founding members, this is the lowest price they will ever offer for the course.

If you're ready to take the leap with your relationship with food, apply for the program here: https://courses.imbodihealth.com/nourishing-mind-and-body

P.S. The first 10 people to join the program as our founding members will receive a bonus 20% off the program price 😌

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!

How do you know if you're exercising for the right reasons? Engaging in joyful movement is an important part of overall wellbeing. However, many people struggle with their relationship with exercise in eating disorder recovery, and it may feel compulsive or driven by feelings of guilt or anxiety.

In this episode, Kiah and Meg chat with exercise physiologist Alanah Reilly about:

1. Alanah's philosophy for finding your version of joyful movement
2. How to know if you're exercising for the right reasons
3. When is it unsafe to exercise in ED recovery?
4. How do you find an exercise physiologist that is experienced in this area?
5. Alanah's top 3 tips for anyone who is healing their relationship with exercise

Alanah Reilly (nee Dobinson) (she/her) is an Accredited Exercise Physiologist (AEP), clinical supervisor, and the founder and director of Autonomy in Movement. This passion is a far cry from her past life as a typical ”gym bro”, where she lived an obsessive and judgemental lifestyle revolving around food, exercise and appearance. It was only when she completed her final year university practicum at a youth mental health space inside a local hospital, then subsequently sought reception work at an eating disorder clinic to learn more about the problematic diet space, that she realised this lifestyle may not be serving her anymore. That there were alternative ways to live life that could help, not harm, her’s and other’s self worth, wellbeing, sporting performance and quality of life.

Alanah occupies multiple privileges and uses these as platforms to help amplify the voices and experience of others. Alanah practices from a “whole-person”, social justice, trauma-informed, size-inclusive and evidence-based framework, and positions the individual as the expert of their experience and herself as a collaborator walking alongside them.

You can find Alanah on Instagram at @alanah.reilly.exercise.phys.

Additional links:

• SEES website: https://www.safeexerciseateverystage.com/about-sees
• AIM website (resources, bookings, contact): https://autonomyinmovement.com.au
• ESSA website (find an Accredited Exercise Physiologist): https://www.essa.org.au/find-aep/

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.

If you're ready to take the leap with your relationship with food, apply for the program here: https://courses.imbodihealth.com/nourishing-mind-and-body

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!

Is food something you turn to in times of stress, sadness, anger, loneliness or fatigue? Finding comfort in food is normal. However, emotional eating may be something that you struggle with if you find yourself using food as a main coping strategy for difficult emotions.

In this episode, Kiah and Meg discuss:

• What is emotional eating?
• The different reasons for emotional eating
• Emotional eating vs. hunger
• Our top tips for how to cope with emotions without using food
• When it's okay to eat for emotional reasons

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 struggle with your body image? In this episode, Kiah and Meg chat with psychologist Amber Dwinell about:

1. How we develop poor body image
2. How body image struggles can affect our relationship with food
3. Tips for people who struggle with body comparison (social media, TV etc.)
4. How to protect ourselves from diet culture and body image ideals
5. Finding a psychologist that's the right fit

Amber is psychologist who works with people who experience eating and body image-related issues, anxiety, trauma, relational challenges, perfectionism and self-esteem difficulties. Amber adopts a strengths-based approach where she aims to elevate the client as the expert of their experiences. She draws from therapy modalities including Gestalt Therapy and Internal Family Systems, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Compassion Focussed frameworks. Find Amber on Instagram at @amberdwinell_psychologist.

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!