Why Dieting is Making You More Unhealthy with Dr. Jenny Conviser
Healthy At Any Size
English - January 05, 2018 17:00 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAlternative Health Health & Fitness business health fitness entrepreneurship entrepreneur motivation interview marketing femaleempowerment mindset Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jenny H. Conviser, PsyD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Feinberg School of Medicine, and on staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Dr. Conviser is Certified in both Sport Psychology and Child and Family Therapy. She specializes in eating and weight-related disorders, couples therapy, sports psychology and women's' health.
The UnWeighted model encourages individuals to embrace self-care; focus more on the process; focus less on the outcome; develop greater internal control; foster emotional awareness; engage in positive self-talk, and enable an individual to compare their success more with their own personally established goals, and less to a universal externally derived standards. An UnWeighted healthcare plan does not promise an ideal body or ideal health. It does, however, promise better health and better well-being.
In this interview, Dr. Conviser and I unpack her findings and how we can apply them to our own journeys as women seeking to live healthy at any size.
Key takeaways:
Why BMI isn’t the ultimate measure of your health The problem with a BMI-based treatment model Why weight loss is risky and should not be undertaken lightly How a very simple lifestyle change can yield major health benefits Why dieting programs you to binge eat What diet cycling and set points are, and what they mean to your health How dieting is slowing down your metabolism What you can say to your doctor to get better treatment if you’re a higher weight person Concrete steps we can all take to live the UnWeighted model Why we shouldn’t let external sources tell us who we should be
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Jenny H. Conviser, PsyD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Feinberg School of Medicine, and on staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Dr. Conviser is Certified in both Sport Psychology and Child and Family Therapy. She specializes in eating and weight-related disorders, couples therapy, sports psychology and women's' health.
The UnWeighted model encourages individuals to embrace self-care; focus more on the process; focus less on the outcome; develop greater internal control; foster emotional awareness; engage in positive self-talk, and enable an individual to compare their success more with their own personally established goals, and less to a universal externally derived standards. An UnWeighted healthcare plan does not promise an ideal body or ideal health. It does, however, promise better health and better well-being.
In this interview, Dr. Conviser and I unpack her findings and how we can apply them to our own journeys as women seeking to live healthy at any size.
Key takeaways:
Why BMI isn’t the ultimate measure of your health The problem with a BMI-based treatment model Why weight loss is risky and should not be undertaken lightly How a very simple lifestyle change can yield major health benefits Why dieting programs you to binge eat What diet cycling and set points are, and what they mean to your health How dieting is slowing down your metabolism What you can say to your doctor to get better treatment if you’re a higher weight person Concrete steps we can all take to live the UnWeighted model Why we shouldn’t let external sources tell us who we should be
Mentioned in this episode:
Share the Body Love!
Share what you learned here via Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, or Twitter

Subscribe on iTunes and leave a review. I love hearing what you have to say!
Post your own experiences, thoughts, and feedback to social media using the hashtag #healthyatanysize!