Nutrition Matters Podcast

Are Intuitive Eating and Veganism mutually exclusive philosophies?

Taylor Wolfram, RDN and Paige wrestle with this question in this podcast episode. As a dietitian passionate about body autonomy and promoting a peaceful relationship with food who also happens to eat in a way that aligns with her values with animals, Taylor occupies this niche within the intuitive eating community. She has found the balance between these ideas and shares her insight into navigating the nuance involved.

In this episode we explore:

1. Issues with how IE community handles veganism
2. Issues with how the vegan community handles IE and HAES
3. How can these seemingly opposing philosophies can coexist

Links mentioned:

• Taylor's website: https://www.taylorwolfram.com/
• Taylor's Intuitive Eating Freebie
• Positive Nutrition® Academy: online courses and webinars
• Donate to the podcast
• Positive Nutrition Blog
• Follow Paige on Instagram

We're all familiar with what the term 'rock bottom' means—but, what does that look like with food and body image?

Jennifer McGurk, RDN, CDN, CDE, CEDRD-S joins Paige on the podcast to explore rock bottom with diets and body image concerns and provides practical tips for working through it and moving toward a more healthy, positive and sustainable approach to food. If you've ever wondered how to handle the day after a binge or what to do about the scale, or what it really means to "put weight loss on the back burner" this podcast is for you.

Links mentioned:

• Jennifer McGurk's website: https://eatwithknowledge.com/
• Jennifer's program for dietitians: https://pursuingprivatepractice.com/
• Meredith Noble's blog post about grief
• Navigating Burnout as a Registered Dietitian webinar - worth 1.0 CEU
• The Positive Nutrition® Approach to Meal Planning webinar
• Subscribe to keep in touch
• Positive Nutrition for Life: Heal Your Relationship with Food online course
• Positive Nutrition 101: The Science of Nutrition without the Gimmicks online course
• Mindful Eating Workshop online course
• Donate to the podcast
• Positive Nutrition Blog
• Follow Paige on Instagram

This podcast outlines ways to identify when things are going well with your relationship with food. It's understandable that we spend significant amounts of time talking about where things go wrong and what to do about it, but I think it's also useful to look at food, nutrition, and body image from the perspective of what's going right. In other words, how can we see progress? What are the skills, habits, and behaviors of those who are in a positive, happy place with food?

I dove into this topic and expanded on common sticking points for clients. In the second part of the episode, Paige answers listener questions. One of them was: how do I know if I'm ready for the gentle nutrition part of Intuitive Eating? Paige provides specific advice for exploring this question individually because there's truly no one answer to this. Links mentioned:

• June's webinar: The Positive Nutrition® Approach to Meal Planning
• Subscribe to keep in touch
• Positive Nutrition for Life: Heal Your Relationship with Food online course
• Positive Nutrition 101: The Science of Nutrition without the Gimmicks online course
• Mindful Eating Workshop online course
• Donate to the podcast
• Positive Nutrition Blog
• Follow Paige on Instagram

This week on the podcast, I'm sharing an episode where I was a guest discussing mindfulness, intuitive eating, self-compassion and more: some of my all-time favorite concepts! We discuss how mindfulness fits into intuitive eating and vice versa. If you've ever wondered what "mindful eating" actually means, this one is for you!

Links mentioned:

• Rachel Goodman's new podcast: The Kosher Intuitive Eater
• June's webinar: The Positive Nutrition® Approach to Meal Planning
• Subscribe to keep in touch
• Positive Nutrition for Life: Heal Your Relationship with Food online course
• Positive Nutrition 101: The Science of Nutrition without the Gimmicks online course
• Mindful Eating Workshop online course
• Donate to the podcast
• Positive Nutrition Blog
• Follow Paige on Instagram

"Okay this is all great, but what should I eat?!"

If I had a nickel for every time I've been asked this question, I'd a rich woman! While it's totally understandable to want answers to this question, it's actually much more difficult to answer than most people think. What a person eats is highly dependent on many factors: accessibility of food, socioeconomic status, hunger levels, social gatherings, cultural factors, and more. You can see how difficult it is as a registered dietitian to answer this seemingly simple question. People understandably want answers about nutrition.

But, since deciding what to eat is more nuanced than most people give it credit for, I've decided to break down the process of deciding what to eat with a simple metaphor you can implement and explore today. Join me for a podcast exploring a simple way to help you decide what to eat.

Links mentioned:

• Get to know your non-diet resources via this blog post
• If Diets Had Warning Labels news interview
• June's webinar: The Positive Nutrition® Approach to Meal Planning
• Subscribe to keep in touch
• Positive Nutrition for Life: Heal Your Relationship with Food online course
• Positive Nutrition 101: The Science of Nutrition without the Gimmicks online course
• Mindful Eating Workshop online course
• Donate to the podcast
• Positive Nutrition Blog
• Follow Paige on Instagram

As a journalist, Virginia Sole-Smith tells stories of women. With her new book, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America, Virginia explores how we can find the power to reconnect to our bodies and our own innate understanding of how to eat in a culture that's constantly giving women so many mixed messages about both those things.

In this episode, Virginia shares about how she began her career giving diet advice in teen and women's magazines and experiencing cognitive dissonance as she navigated her own body image struggles. Virginia shares how her daughter suddenly stopped eating as a newborn and how this affected her as a mother. She explores how seeing her daughter struggle with food helped Virginia challenge the dominate narrative that demonizes food. The Eating Instinct tells the stories of women, men, and children, all learning how to eat again, on their own terms and shares more about how her daughter finally reconnected to her eating instinct.

Links mentioned:

• Virginia's book: The Eating Instinct

• Virginia's website: https://virginiasolesmith.com/

• May's Positive Nutrition webinar is for registered dietitians: ACT Mindfully: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Dietetics Practice and will be worth 1.5 CEUs - May 21, 2019 at 10am MST

• Subscribe to keep in touch

• Positive Nutrition for Life: Heal Your Relationship with Food online course

• Positive Nutrition 101: The Science of Nutrition without the Gimmicks online course

• Mindful Eating Workshop online course

• Donate to the podcast

• Positive Nutrition Blog

• Follow Paige on Instagram

Cooking for one can be difficult to navigate for many reasons. It's easy to get into the mindset that it's not worth it to cook for one. All the diet rules swimming around in your brain can make cooking more difficult than it needs to be. It's also easy to struggle with taking on the entire task of planning, shopping, preparing, eating and cleaning up alone. Although there are significant struggles and barriers to cooking for one, it's possible! On the podcast, I interviewed Rebecca Clyde, MS, RDN who is passionate about helping people find a groove with cooking for one. We discuss ways to develop an approach to cooking for one that's sustainable, realistic and feels fun and positive in your life. In this episode we discuss:

• Why cooking for one can be hard
• How decision fatigue can play a role in struggling to cook for yourself
• Practical steps you can take to find your groove with self-care with food
• How to avoid burnout

Links mentioned:

• Nourish Nutrition Blog
• Table for One Facebook Community
• Follow Rebecca on Instagram
• Pantry Essentials Checklist
• Message Rebecca to get interviewed for my "I Eat Alone" series
• May's Positive Nutrition webinar is for registered dietitians: ACT Mindfully: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Dietetics Practice and will be worth 1.5 CEUs - May 21, 2019 at 10am MST
• Subscribe to keep in touch
• Positive Nutrition for Life: Heal Your Relationship with Food online course
• Positive Nutrition 101: The Science of Nutrition without the Gimmicks online course
• Mindful Eating Workshop online course
• Donate to the podcast
• Positive Nutrition Blog
• Follow Paige on Instagram

In this episode, I go through listener questions about intuitive eating, making peace with food and how to navigate diet culture. Here are some more specific questions I dive into in this podcast episode:

• How can I ease the anxiety of rest and eating recovery amounts compared to others?

• What is your story of getting into nutrition and dietetics?

• How do you handle it when your kids are exposed to diet culture messages?

• Is breakfast okay to skip?

• Bingers versus restricters: are there differences in how you help those two types?

• What are your thoughts about someone who is recovering and going into dietetics?

• I am getting tripped up with IE when it comes to feeling sick when I eat certain foods.

Links mentioned:

• Body Image Resilience group starts April 23!
• Subscribe to keep in touch
• Positive Nutrition for Life: Heal Your Relationship with Food online course
• Positive Nutrition 101: The Science of Nutrition without the Gimmicks online course
• Mindful Eating Workshop online course
• Donate to the podcast
• Positive Nutrition Blog
• Follow Paige on Instagram

In this episode, I speak with Jessie Hoffman, PhD about her experience as a nutrition researcher and gut health expert. We discuss her dissertation studies on the gut microbiome and environmental pollutants and specifically take a deep dive into how her views of nutrition and science in general shifted as she continued through her schooling. She breaks down some of the most interesting aspects of the science of gut health and explains why media literacy is more critical in today's world than ever. Jessie explains what all the hype about gut health is all about and helps separate differentiate between what we know about the gut and what we still are looking for in the research. She outlines some of her best tips for promoting gut health and explains why there's more to it than food and eating. Here are some more specific topics we dive into in this podcast episode:

• probiotics: good, bad, or somewhere in the middle?
• prebiotics: necessary or just a hype?
• the gut-brain axis
• how to promote gut health
• when elimination diets are not the answer to gut woes
• why farting is normal (haha)

Links mentioned:

• Follow Jessie on Instagram
• Subscribe to keep in touch
• Positive Nutrition for Life: Heal Your Relationship with Food online course
• Positive Nutrition 101: The Science of Nutrition without the Gimmicks online course
• Mindful Eating Workshop online course
• Donate to the podcast
• Positive Nutrition Blog
• Follow Paige on Instagram

Lexie and Lindsay Kite, PhD of Beauty Redefined® joined Paige on the podcast to talk about a topic that they've been outspoken about since the inception of their non-profit: modesty and Mormon culture (also known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). All three of us get this question a lot: does Utah have a particularly higher rate of eating and/or body image issues than the rest of the US? We explore this question and more together in this episode. It's a nerve wracking topic to explore (in fact, Lexie had hives all throughout the recording process) but we did our best to do this complicated and important topic justice and look at all sides of the coin. Lindsay and Lexie have a nuanced way of viewing modesty rhetoric which has benefits for women and girls as well as men and boys. Since religion and culture are often intertwined, we discussed the experience of body image through the lens of a faith tradition that's prominent in the Intermountain West and throughout the world in an effort to explore a topic that has even wider cultural implications for folks in any religious or cultural community. Links mentioned:

• Lexie and Lindsay's website: https://beautyredefined.org/
• Buy tickets for the Body of Evidence workshop on April 4, 2019
• Beauty Redefined's body image curriculum for church groups
• Mindful Eating Workshop online course
• Subscribe to keep in touch
• Positive Nutrition for Life: Heal Your Relationship with Food online course
• Positive Nutrition 101: The Science of Nutrition without the Gimmicks online course
• Donate to the podcast
• Positive Nutrition Blog
• Follow Paige on Instagram