The Hunger Trap Podcast

Welcome back! Join Diana and Lisa in this season two premiere as they play a riveting (and ridiculously challenging) game of Two Truths and One Lie to uncover the wackiest of the wacky weight loss diets, devices, and procedures that have existed throughout history.

Lisa and Diana chat with Jennifer Ophir, a renowned chef, food stylist, culinary producer, and recipe developer, about her experiences cooking in some of New York City's hottest kitchens, including the Michelin-star awarded Perry Street, while also struggling with an eating disorder. Jennifer shares about how the grueling hours and tense atmosphere "on the line" fueled her own struggles with food and body image, and how she now strives to balance her passion for cooking with her own well-being.

Lisa and Diana chat with fitness expert Amanda Thebe about her book Menopocalypse: How I Learned to Thrive During Menopause and How You Can Too to demystify perimenopause and menopause. We touch on the physiological and psycho-emotional aspects, chat about the link between eating disorders and change, and get tips on how to thrive during this time. Also, ye listeners that have a 2 and 3 at the start of your age who think you can skip this one? Don't — the more you know now, the more you'll flourish!

Lisa and Diana chat with NASM-certified, award-winning, brilliant AND hilarious Roz the Diva Mays about pole dancing, her career as a personal trainer, struggles with body neutrality/love, and finding passion for fitness in whatever size body you have.

What does a person mean when they say "I feel fat?" Diana and Lisa share insight from women with different body types on what this phrase means to them and the ways in which it is often shorthand for negative emotions and feelings.

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 Dr. Roberto Olivardia about the many reasons why more men are being diagnosed with eating disorders — from confusion over the role masculinity plays in modern-day life and the popularity of restrictive diets like Keto to the rise of muscular '80s film heroes like Sylvester Stallone and Star Wars action figures with bulging biceps. How can we help this oft-overlooked demographic?

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."

Registered Dietitian and body and gender activist Lindsay Birchfield explains how gender dysphoria, barriers to medical treatment, and media are contributing to skyrocketing eating disorder rates in the transgender and non-binary communities. They touch on the struggles so many face, the importance of nutritional support during hormone therapy, and how medical practitioners can become better allies.

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.