Welcome back mis amigos! I’m excited for today’s episode because I have the honor to talk to Whitney Trotter, registered dietitian nutritionist, and nurse, about how black women and BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) are missed diagnosed for disordered eating and eating disorders, and how diet culture exasperates racism, sizeism, capitalism, and further marginalizes people of color as less than human.   

Whitney Trotter: (she/her) is dually licensed as a registered dietitian nutritionist, nurse, and she is also a certified yoga instructor. Whitney has over nine years of experience working as a registered dietitian serving in the HIV/AIDS community as well as an expert in eating disorders. She co-found an anti-trafficking organization called Restore Corpsand is also the owner/founder of Bluff City Health, a private practice specializing in bridging the gap in the eating disorder field of equitable care and social justice.

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Remember - Chop the diet mentality; Fuel Your Body; and Nourish Your Soul

In this episode we’ll talk about changing the world through storytelling. Today, I bring acclaimed author, professor, and storyteller, Kimberley Dark, to the show. She will be telling us about enthusiastically accepting discomfort, dealing with ‘others bias’ in healthcare, and breaking the social hierarchy.

• [08:55] Why are stories so helpful in breaking the scaffoldings of social hierarchy
• [15:20] “Fat, pretty, and Soon to be Old”
• [26:19] Enthusiasm for being called out
• [33:56] Healthcare micro-aggressions
• [50:04] “Damaged Like Me”
• [54:57] Kimberley’s last meal on a desert island

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Remember - Chop the diet mentality; Fuel Your Body; and Nourish Your Soul

In this episode we’ll talk about energy deficiencies. Today, I bring Owner of EnlightenU Nutrition Consulting, LLC, Val Schonberg, to the show. She will be telling us about Female and Male Athlete Triad, REDS, and busting some of the myths about calories.

You’ll also get to hear about how influential diet culture has been in nurturing a fear of weight gain, how eating disorders manifest, and how alcohol affects different aspects of our lives. If you want to hear more from Val, there will be a Part 2, where we talk about all things menopause.

Val Schonberg is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian with a master’s degree in Nutrition Science from the University of Minnesota. She is Board Certified as a Specialist in Sports Dietetics, a Certified Menopause Practitioner with the North American Menopause Society and a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Val specializes in nutrition for recreational and professional athletes, dancers and performing artists, women in midlife and menopause, and individuals with disordered eating concerns. Originally from Minnesota, Val’s experience and expertise come from years of practice in many settings including eating disorder treatment, Division 1 college sports medicine, professional dance organizations, and speaking regionally and nationally on numerous nutrition related topics. In addition to individual nutrition counseling, she is currently the consulting dietitian for Emory Sports Medicine and Orthopedics and Atlanta Ballet. Val is passionate about providing nutrition care to populations vulnerable to disordered eating and promoting positive nutrition messages that help people make informed decisions about their health and live a life where they feel free to confidently embrace their best self.

In this episode we cover these topics. 

• The Female Athlete Triad and REDS (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports) 
• Calories in equals calories out.” 
• Eating Disorders
• The fear of weight gain
• Alcohol

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Remember - Chop the diet mentality; Fuel Your Body; and Nourish Your Soul

In this episode we’ll talk about our practice and approach, and we’ll address some of the diseases, illnesses, and conditions that we see in our clients. I bring registered dietitian, and our podcast content creator, Raegan Perkins, to the show. This is going to be an introductory episode to how intuitive eating can benefit people with a chronic illness- which will be followed up by more in-depth episodes dedicated to each illness.

some of the chronic illnesses we mention include diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol), and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). We also talk about gut health, eating disorders, and the impacts of socio-economics on health. We see people with all these health conditions who live in a variety of body sizes and shapes.

We are a weight-inclusive, anti-diet, compassion-driven practice that helps our clients build a positive relationship to food, make peace with their body, and reconnect their lives to their values.

By using Intuitive Eating (IE), we help clients avoid chronic dieting and help people living with chronic illness breakaway from restricting food to manage their symptoms. 

Our approach

We take an anti-diet, weight-inclusive approach. A typical session with Raegan includes:

1. “Did you know?” Statements.
2. Hone in on what your body is trying to tell you.
3. Rebuilding the relationship with food.
4. Breaking away from the fear.

It’s important to establish a more positive relationship with food. We try to neutralize “problematic” foods, and get people back to a state of enjoyment of those foods.

“You are perfect exactly how you are, and the food that you want, you deserve. You should have it.”

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This episode is all about Creating a pause between the signals our body sends us and our evaluation of those signals in a cultural context (quoted from reembody website). The quote is the best way to sum up this conversation with guests Kevin Moore and Beck Beverage, founders of the reembody method and the breathing room app. Although, this quote may leave you with some questions like, what do you mean by 'the signals our body sends us' or evaluation of what…? That is to be expected (don't worry we unpack those question as well). For our long time listeners you'll hear some familiar concepts like interoceptive awareness and somatic work since we've discussed these topics with other guests in the past. For newer listeners you get hear a deeper conversation about these topics all in one episode. Really, this episode starts to tie these concepts together, and explains a specific app made to help people reconnect with the physical presentation of the emotions we feel.

A few other things David, Kevin, and Beck discuss include functional movement, the polyvagal theory, how the app Breathing Room came to be, and examples of how the app has helped other people. Honestly, the clinicians at TD Wellness like this app so much a some of our clients might be using it in the near future. This episode is a great listen regardless of if you are a long time listener, new to One Small Bite, one of David's clients, or not! All through the episode David and his guests discuss the importance of connecting to the body in the way you are feeling right now.

More about the Reembody Breathing Room
The Reembody Breathing Room is a guided practice based on the idea that our emotions are essentially physical sensations in the body to which we attach personal significance due to our lived experience.

If our life experiences have taught us that a particular way of feeling is dangerous, our unconscious behaviors will focus on how to separate us from our awareness of the underlying sensations that make up that feeling.

That strategy works for a little while, but we cannot stay separated from our body indefinitely without incurring consequences—sometimes severe ones.

The Reembody Breathing Room guides you through a practice of exploring how you feel using specialized vocabulary that focuses on body sensation, not on meaning. It creates a pause between the signals our body sends us and our evaluation of those signals..

In that pause, the systems of the body carry out their important work—processing, fueling, healing

For more show notes, guest links, and episode resources please check out the One Small Bite home page. 

Have you heard about the new One Small Bite Facebook community? Come and join the great conversation and be a part of a community that’s chopping diet culture, asking thought provoking questions about Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size, and building positive relationships with food.

If you want to reach me, please go to One Small Bite podcast website at that link and leave me a 90sec or less audio message. Or, feel free to reach me at [email protected] I'd love to hear from you.

David is back with another great episode and this time he's talking with his special guest registered dietitian nutritionist (and just the awesomest weight-inclusive LatinX nutritionist out there) Dalina Soto MA, RD, LDN. Dalina is a Spanish speaking registered dietitian and works as one of the few Spanish speaking registered dietitian nutritionists in the Philadelphia area and virtually across the country, teaching her clients how to ditch the diet mentality and keep their culture alive.

For more show notes, guest links, and episode resources please check out the One Small Bite home page. 

Have you heard about the new One Small Bite Facebook community? Come and join the great conversation and be a part of a community that’s chopping diet culture, asking thought provoking questions about Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size, and building positive relationships with food.

If you want to reach me, please go to One Small Bite podcast website at that link and leave me a 90sec or less audio message. Or, feel free to reach me at [email protected] I'd love to hear from you.

In Episode 89, David shares insight into a Healthline article about very low carbohydrate diets (VLCD). Per usual in the Friday Food Cast, you hear what one of our interns, Victoria Pamee, has found when doing a deep dive into the articles referenced research. The article is "How to Lose Weight FAST with Science". It provides several different suggestions, primarily reducing refined carb intake, increased protein and vegetable intake, and move your body. The article Victoria looked into was focused on very low carbohydrate diets. The research she delved deep into specifically looked at weight loss in older adults on a VLCD. 

David references the 8 Red Flags of weight loss research comparing the previously mentioned article to societal expectations. As you listen, you hear how information about the diversity and amount of participants, how blinded the researchers were, outcomes, how the age group in question possesses a predisposition to weight changes, and much more.

This episode continues to help you critically look at general internet search articles from a weight-inclusive, anti-diet registered dietitian's perspective. We hope to help our listeners continue to deconstruct the weight centric approach to health

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Have you heard about the new One Small Bite Facebook community? Come and join the great conversation and be a part of a community that’s chopping diet culture, asking thought provoking questions about Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size, and building positive relationships with food. 

If you want to reach me, please go to One Small Bite podcast website at that link and leave me a 90sec or less audio message. Or, feel free to reach me at [email protected] I'd love to hear from you.

On this Solo Episode, David explains some of the holes in weight loss research, shines a light on why the research doesn't support weight loss as a cure for everything, and discusses the difference between weight centric and weight inclusive. He asks "If you are supposed to lose weight to live longer and stay healthy why isn't it working?". 

In the beginning of this podcast David is transparent about his history with using a weight centric approach, working in a bariatric center, and his transition to and training in Intuitive Eating. This is important because most people don't know that nearly all education for dietitians is fatphobic. It can be hard as a practitioner to be curious and challenge what you've been taught, then inevitably break away from the norm. Most intuitive eating dietitians have a similar story to David's and it is important that IE dietitians continue to share their stories of growth.

As David talks about the holes in weight loss research he references John Robison's article about the 8 red flags of weight loss research which focuses on a commonly references weight loss research study for diabetes and heart disease - the Look AHEAD Study. Many of these red flags can be used to assess bias in any weight loss research study. During this podcast David really puts a critical eye on how weight centered research is being conducted. 

8 Red Flags of Weight Loss Research

1. Comparing participants to non-participants 
2. Using different denominators when determining outcomes 
3. Calling it "maintenance" when the program is still on going 
4. Claiming your program is highly effective at helping achieve clinically meaningful weight loss when it really isn't 
5. Not distinguishing between the health impacts of weight loss and life style changes 
6. Claiming "savings" when there isn’t enough evidence to prove it 
7. Not considering the age of participants
8. Not being transparent about likely outcomes and potential negative consequences 

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Have you heard about the new One Small Bite Facebook community? Come and join the great conversation and be a part of a community that’s chopping diet culture, asking thought provoking questions about Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size, and building positive relationships with food.

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During David's conversation with Donna Shields, Dietitian and co-founder of the Holistic Cannabis Academy, they cover everything you need to know about (you guested it) cannabis!  Donna tells us her journey as a dietitian, once working for the US Army and culinary institute, as well as how her breast cancer diagnosis opened her eyes to the world of cannabis and the lack of cannabis education for practitioners.  She talks about how this spurred the idea of the Holistic Cannabis Academy and how the audience has shifted an grown. 

Donna and David do a deep dive into some of the topics from Episode 79 and more. Donna shares with us the different types of THC and CBD, explaining how they can act differently with the endocannabinoid system. Some of their other topics include regulation of marijuana and CBD, the impacts of health, the stigmatization of marijuana users, impacts of the industrialization of cannabis cultivation, what to do if your just entering the world of cannabis, and things to look out for when purchasing. 

If the endocannabinoid system and the Holistic Cannabis Academy sound familiar, it was first mentioned on Episode 79, where David interviewed Laura Lagano. If not, go give it a listen too! 

Donna Shields is co-founder of the Holistic Cannabis Academy, an online training program for health practitioners. As a registered dietitian, Donna began in the US Army Medical Corp, as a spokesperson for Fortune 100 food brands and managed health communications, globally, for The Coca-Cola Company. She’s been a freelance food and nutrition writer, full time faculty at the Culinary Institute of America and authored several cookbooks, including contributor to The Cannabis Kitchen Cookbook. Donna consults with the cannabis industry, offers cannabis retreats for professionals and is currently focused on helping health practitioners, in the US and Europe, build their cannabis coaching businesses.

For more show notes, guest links, and episode resources please check out the One Small Bite home page. 

Have you heard about the new One Small Bite Facebook community? Come and join the great conversation and be a part of a community that’s chopping diet culture, asking thought provoking questions about Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size, and building positive relationships with food.

If you want to reach me, please go to One Small Bite podcast website at that link and leave me a 90sec or less audio message. Or, feel free to reach me at [email protected] I'd love to hear from you.

David interviews Abbey Griffith, the owner of Clarity Fitness a body positive fitness center in Decatur, Georgia. During this episode David and Abbey talk about what body positivity means, how Clarity Fitness came to be, and they have an open and honest conversation about their personal struggles with weight centric thinking. In this episode it is important to listen to the end (hint, hint).

As Abbey shares her story, she discusses some of her eating disorder treatment, her initial drivers to become a NASM certified trainer, how she found The Body Positive organization, the additional training her team at Clarity Fitness does, and talks about the importance of lived experiences and shared humanity. She and David discuss some of the shared struggles of being an entrepreneur during a pandemic and much more. 

This is a really great episode! Also, Clarity Fitness continues to have discounted memberships and free trials of their classes and gym. At the end Abbey shares with us a special One Small Bite discount code to use ON TOP of the current deals they have going on for both virtual and in person activities. Check out the One Small Bite home page for the code and links.

Abbey Griffith is a 24 year old female Body Positive Fitness Center owner out of Decatur, Georgia. She is an NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Nutrition Coach, and Eating Disorder Recoveree who has devoted her life to helping people of all ages, shapes, and sizes find a wellness routine they truly enjoy. Abbey sees the dangers that come from obsession in fitness and nourishment, and believes that it’s time for us to see our bodies in a positive and empowered way - regardless of the number on the scale.

For more show notes, guest links, and episode resources please check out the One Small Bite home page. 

Have you heard about the new One Small Bite Facebook community? Come and join the great conversation and be a part of a community that’s chopping diet culture, asking thought provoking questions about Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size, and building positive relationships with food.

If you want to reach me, please go to One Small Bite podcast website at that link and leave me a 90sec or less audio message. Or, feel free to reach me at [email protected] I'd love to hear from you.