The Hunger Trap Podcast

Lisa and Diana chat about mindful eating, the perils of diet culture, and breaking free from its chains with Dr. Alexis Conason, a licensed psychologist, certified eating disorder specialist-supervisor, and author of The Diet-Free Revolution: 10 Steps to Free Yourself from the Diet Cycle with Mindful Eating and Radical Self-Acceptance.

Cate Navarrete is the founder and executive director of the Body Positive Alliance — and she's just 17 years old. Diana and Lisa chat with Cate about how she turned her eating disorder into an opportunity to create a student-led non-profit organization that explores topics ranging from body image and body culture to the representation of marginalized groups. Cate talks teen insecurities, social media, and how her Alliance plans on creating a better future for young people who are susceptible to body pressures.

Writer and Boston Globe Music Critic Ken Capobianco opens up to Diana and Lisa about how decades of anorexia led to a stroke in his forties, an awakening, and a second chance at life. They touch on everything from how skinny male rock stars like Prince and Mick Jagger contributed to Ken's body desires to the ways in which the medical community misunderstands and fails men and young boys with eating disorders.

Diana and Lisa chat with "India," a veteran from the U.S. Armed Forces, about what it is like to have your livelihood in the military tied to your weight and physical fitness, and how that pressure can contribute to disordered eating.

Diana and Lisa chat with Dr. Jessica Mudry, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the School of Professional Communication at Ryerson University, about why the U.S. government got involved in people's food choices, how everything from German capitalism to wars changed food guidelines and got us counting calories and macros, and how food lobbyists made us believe "milk it does a body good."

Hey all! The Hunger Trap Podcast will be on hiatus throughout the remainder of the year. We'll be airing three encore episodes that originally debuted over the summer, in case you missed them while you were having fun in the sun (or shivering the the southern hemisphere.) We'll return with a new episode on January 10, 2022. Have a great holiday!

Before social media, teens devoured magazines like Seventeen and Sassy. But what kinds of messages were we actually receiving about beauty, weight, and bodies? Diana and Lisa page through Seventeen magazines from the 1990s and take a deep-dive into the history and influence of teen magazines, as well as its deeply flawed mixed messages.

Lisa and Diana catch up with food writer Hannah Howard to talk about how her complex relationships with food and body image led her down the path of restaurant work, eating disorder recovery, and food writing. We also dive into specifics about her second memoir that showcases a group of resilient women who persist and thrive in the male-dominated food industry.

Stephanie Mallick, aka Bella Bombshel, is a plus-size model, social media influencer with hundreds of thousands of followers, and a presence on the controversial OnlyFans site — she also suffered from bulimia for several years. Stephanie talks to Diana and Lisa about how she recovered from an eating disorder to become a fat-positive sex and and beauty icon, as well as her feelings on plastic surgery and the challenges of juggling privacy with online fame.