The Lane 9 Podcast
254 episodes - English - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★★ - 232 ratingsThe place where we talk about the prevalence of disordered eating and body dysmorphia in sport, and hear from runners at all levels about their experiences finding balance, joy, and wellbeing within sport.
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7. Lane 9 with Run Coach Mary Johnson, Keeping the Goal the Goal
April 04, 2024 07:00 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MB"People are going to get a really realistic dose of me in this episode!" Mary Johnson, running coach and owner of the Run Coaching group and team, Lift Run Perform, joins us for this episode. She's been part of the Lane 9 project since it began, submitting personal essays and having conversations with us about all things disordered eating, amenorrhea, and working toward big fitness goals while keeping your health and wellbeing intact. We cover a LOT in this episode: Mary's go-to strate...
6. Lane 9 Race Recap, Finding Fun, and Normalizing Pelvic Floor PT
March 28, 2024 07:00 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBIs running still feeling fun? What do you tell your ego when a race day isn't going as planned? Alexis and Heather check in on these big questions, recap the recent NYC Half-Marathon, and talk about the more common but less "celebrated" postpartum running journey, pelvic floor PT and all. The links: Lane9Project.org @lane9project on Instagram lane9project.substack.com for essays and newsletters! Contact us with questions and/or ways to work with Lane 9 Project! We'd love to hear ...
5. Lane 9 with Kara Bazzi, ED Sports Therapist and Opal Co-Founder
March 21, 2024 08:00 - 50 minutes - 46 MBTraditional eating disorder (ED) treatment models have fallen short on including relationships to sport and movement into the therapeutic process. Opal Food and Body Wisdom treatment center in Seattle WA opened in 2012 to change that. To acknowledge that we, as humans, are embodied beings and that sport has potential to be so beneficial to us. Kara Bazzi, Opal co-founder, joins this Lane 9 podcast episode to talk about her experience as an accompllished D1 Collegiate runner who struggled wit...
4. Lane 9 Nikki Hiltz Fan Club and Checking In
March 14, 2024 08:00 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBAlexis and Heather check in on their own training things, and welcome your input on 1) a podcast intro hot take and 2) which spring half-marathon Alexis should be signing up for (traveling from Denver)! Tag us @lane9project on IG or send an email with your thoughts. They also chat through a few things going on in the running world right now, including but not limited to Nikki Hiltz's fire streak that keeps on keeping on, Parker Valby chucking the norms in training and doing her 3-days-a-w...
3. Lane 9 with Abby Chan RD: Disrupting Disordered Norms and Knowing What Works for You
March 07, 2024 08:00 - 51 minutes - 70.2 MBWhat we consider normal, or even "healthy", is so often shaped by and evolves with the communities we're in. With increased access to the training and lives of elite athletes and recreational runners alike, it can be hard to decipher what's disordered, "disciplined", worth pursuing, and/or damanging to your overall wellbeing. Abby and I chat about her relationship to movement, her work as a sports dietitian getting athletes at all levels to eat more, and we get into a few questions from the ...
2. Lane 9 Change Catalysts and First Races
February 28, 2024 09:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBBased on a recent newsletter essay, Alexis and Heather talk in much more detail about catalysts for change, the very gradual processes they each experienced coming out of disordered eating and movement patterns, and even the soccer to endurance running pipeline. If you relate, we'd love to hear from you! The links: Lane 9 Project community survey (come tell us about you!) Newsletter Lane9project.substack.com Lane 9 Project on Instagram @lane9project We're working on content and e...
1. Lane 9 Project and a Sub-3 Marathon Goal
February 27, 2024 14:51 - 34 minutes - 32.8 MBWhat IS the Lane 9 Project? On the Lane 9 podcast, we're diving back in and starting with the co-founder's meet cute, followed by the big goals they're working on now. A sub-3 marathon on has been on Alexis's list for a long time, but first she had to take many steps back. Hear more about that process on this episode, and read more about it in the bi-weekly newsletter! The links: Lane 9 Project community survey (come tell us about you!) Newsletter Lane9project.substack.com Lane 9 P...
Plot Twist & What You'll Hear Here Soon...
February 14, 2024 21:49 - 4 minutes - 3.75 MBListen to find out! Thanks for being here. More to come! - Heather
Challenging the Status Quo with Culturally Affirmative Care: Yasmine Mavrakis, RD + Dr. Gabriela Hurtado
September 14, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBYasmine Mavrakis and Gabriela Hurtado Alvarado will be joining the WIND Fall Conference in Denver to chat about culturally-affimative care for eating disorders and complex trauma. In this episode, Yasmine and Gaby share their paths to becoming eating disorder providers, how they work together, what it looks like to challenge the status quo in ED treatment and what their go-to coffee shop orders are. Things mentioned in this episode: Mañana Será Bonito by Karol G Taylor Swift x Bad B...
7. Challenging the Status Quo with Culturally Affirmative Care: Yasmine Mavrakis, RD + Dr. Gabriela Hurtado
September 14, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBYasmine Mavrakis and Gabriela Hurtado Alvarado will be joining the WIND Fall Conference in Denver to chat about culturally-affimative care for eating disorders and complex trauma. In this episode, Yasmine and Gaby share their paths to becoming eating disorder providers, how they work together, what it looks like to challenge the status quo in ED treatment and what their go-to coffee shop orders are. Things mentioned in this episode: Mañana Será Bonito by Karol G Taylor Swift x Bad B...
Expanding the idea of a dietitian's role with Charlie Golightly RDN
September 07, 2023 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBCharlie Golightly MS RDN is joining our WIND Fall Conference in Denver next month! Charlie will be speaking about expansive care practices within dietetics, how their work has been moving upstream, and what it might mean to...give a damn, as a dietitian. Tune in to hear more about Charlie as a human (and their dog Cora!)—beige flags, most-listened to songs on Spotify, and how their work has evolved from private practice and into teaching at MSU (our Fall Conference event venue!). Thing...
6. Expanding the idea of a dietitian's role with Charlie Golightly RDN
September 07, 2023 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBCharlie Golightly MS RDN is joining our WIND Fall Conference in Denver next month! Charlie will be speaking about expansive care practices within dietetics, how their work has been moving upstream, and what it might mean to...give a damn, as a dietitian. Tune in to hear more about Charlie as a human (and their dog Cora!)—beige flags, most-listened to songs on Spotify, and how their work has evolved from private practice and into teaching at MSU (our Fall Conference event venue!). Thing...
5. Anthony Dissen PhD RD on LGBTQ+ Body Liberation, Super Male Privilege, and Sourdough
August 31, 2023 14:12 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBAnthony Dissen PhD RDN is one of the speakers at our upcoming event in Denver CO, Oct 6-7 2023. Both in person and virtual tickets are available here! Anthony teaches and conducts research at Stockton University. His work has focused primarily on body liberation in the LGBTQ+ communities, and helping healthcare providers provide more inclusive care. Follow Anthony for magical meme moments and some nutrition things on Instagram, @anthonydissenrd. More about upcoming WIND events at weigh...
Anthony Dissen PhD RD on LGBTQ+ Body Liberation, Super Male Privilege, and Sourdough
August 31, 2023 14:12 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBAnthony Dissen PhD RDN is one of the speakers at our upcoming event in Denver CO, Oct 6-7 2023. Both in person and virtual tickets are available here! Anthony teaches and conducts research at Stockton University. His work has focused primarily on body liberation in the LGBTQ+ communities, and helping healthcare providers provide more inclusive care. Follow Anthony for magical meme moments and some nutrition things on Instagram, @anthonydissenrd. More about upcoming WIND events at weigh...
4. Hot takes on CEUs and connecting with like-valued providers!
August 24, 2023 16:35 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBComing in hot with some thoughts about continuing education, the 75 required hours for RDNs, and wondering if the fellow dietitians here log their hours every 5 years or if they're a Kim! We actually kick this episode off with some casual chat about hobbies, how we describe our jobs to our (or other) 5 year olds, and why community, connection, and continuing education are the core pieces of Weight Inclusive Nutrition and Dietetics (aka WIND). We'd love to hear from you: Are you a Kim, ...
Why and How We're Talking About Privileges and WIND
August 17, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes - 39.7 MBWe have to talk about the privileges in our virtual WIND office, in the room(s) at WIND events, and within weight-inclusive spaces at large. What does it mean that many of us in this space hold so many unearned privileges (body, race, ability, etc.), and how do we act with intention and integrity once we know what those privilges mean? Tune in to hear Heather Caplan, Kim Hoban, and Leah Tsui—of the WIND Team—explore this topic together, sharing what they've learned over the years of worki...
3. Why and How We're Talking About Privileges and WIND
August 17, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes - 39.7 MBWe have to talk about the privileges in our virtual WIND office, in the room(s) at WIND events, and within weight-inclusive spaces at large. What does it mean that many of us in this space hold so many unearned privileges (body, race, ability, etc.), and how do we act with intention and integrity once we know what those privilges mean? Tune in to hear Heather Caplan, Kim Hoban, and Leah Tsui—of the WIND Team—explore this topic together, sharing what they've learned over the years of worki...
2. Creating a (WIND) Team: Personality Types, Party Tricks, and Working Together
August 10, 2023 09:00 - 39 minutes - 45.2 MBThis one is a deep dive into the WIND team—our personalities, party tricks, and how we bring it all together! This team is small in numbers, but mighty in what we have done together. We're taking you behind the screens to meet us virtually, and maybe in person at our next event! Will we see you in Denver?! Tickets are available via weightinclusivenutrition.com/events . We also have a virtual option, if needed/wanted. We'd love to know YOUR party trick, and/or personality type. Our gene...
1. Social Media Shenanigans & WIND Values
August 04, 2023 09:00 - 9 minutes - 10.5 MBHi, we're back! And in this short re-introduction episode, Heather Caplan gives an update on some social media shenanigans, why they matter and what we had to say about it. While the risks of doom-scrolling are high, we aren't immune to them any more than the next person. That being said, our two highest WIND values are Inclusivity and Integrity, so let there be no question or hesitation at all about where we stand on oppressive rhetoric and actions. Get in touch any time by sending us an...
3 Biggest Changes to WIND & 2022 In Review
December 19, 2022 09:00 - 58 minutes - 80.1 MBMorgan Sinclair, co-host of the Weight-Inclusive Innovators podcast, joins WIND Event Director Heather Caplan for a review of 2022! This episode covers the three biggest changes to WIND—most of which happened between March and July of 2022—and how much WIND has changed since this time last year. (Spoiler: A LOT.) It also covers some of the bigger things that happened in the general weight-inclusive spaces this year (which previous episodes on this podcast feed explore in more detail: Respo...
Why Weight-Inclusive Care? Because I have to...
December 08, 2022 23:03 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MBWhat you’re about to hear is a collection of audio clips from the Foundations of weight-Inclusive care WIND Workshop that I’m co-hosting with Brianna Campos, of Body Image With Bri, THIS WEEK. Yep, these quotes are directly from our live sessions, with consent to share from our speakers. They each answered, in some way, the question of WHY they practice from a weight-inclusive lens. Why weight-inclusive care? Why weight-inclusive activism? Why challenge the “norm” of weight-centric healthcar...
220: How to Produce a Podcast for 5 Years—Podcast Systems, ROI, and Why End It
August 05, 2022 09:00 - 54 minutes - 126 MBIt's me, your host, Heather Caplan on the finale! My friend, confidant, and now WIND Team member, Kim Hoban, joined me again to help navigate this final conversation for the RD Real Talk show! In this episode, we talk about: why I started the show how I put systems in place what systems I used and how much time it took the "Return on investment" for podcasting as a non-diet dietitian what it felt like to come back to the show after my last maternity leave and why it's ending...
219: How Tessa Nguyen is Diversifying Dietetics With a Dream Job
July 22, 2022 09:00 - 41 minutes - 94 MBTessa Nguyen joined this episode of RD Real Talk to chat about accepting her ultimate dream job (with Diversify Dietetics), what happens when recipe bloggers don't do The Work, her four years in South Korea, and so much more! Tessa's multi-ethnic heritage and lived experience across multiple countries have centered her in providing inclusive services founded in cultural humility. Tessa is the brand new dietetic internship coordinator for Diversify Dietetics! She's also an internationally a...
218: Spilling The Nutrition Tea with Shana Spence!
July 15, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes - 81 MBShana Spence, MS, RDN, CDN is here to chat about what it’s like on the other side of screen as a social media influencer, and how she runs a business while working a 9-5. Shana shares how she sets social media boundaries, goes through her content creating process and the future of The Nutrition Tea. You probably know Shana from her Instagram account, @thenutritiontea where she bring you all the “tea” on nutrition. For those who don’t know, Shana is a registered Dietitian Nutritionist base...
217: Live at WIND in Denver with Cara Harbstreet and Whitney Trotter
July 06, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes - 90.7 MBCara Harbstreet and Whitney Trotter joined this episode LIVE in Denver, CO at the first in-person WIND event since 2020. This was made possible by partnering with Gaudiani Clinic, Eating Disorders Foundation, and SuperBill. We start this conversation off with some fun topics including pet peeves while traveling, favorite emojis, and superpowers. Cara and Whitney then share how the shift into virtual work has affected their businesses and what major initiative they would want to spearhead w...
216: From Culinary School to Eating Disorder Dietitian with Kymber Stephenson
June 24, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutes - 93.3 MBKymber Stephenson (she/her) is a Colorado-based dietitian who is especially passionate about disordered eating management and prevention. On this episode, we talk about everything from Kymber’s Shark Tank ideas to her attending culinary school and her work as a culinary dietitian to how she became an eating disorder dietitian. Kymber is focused on educating her clients about the multifaceted ways history, marketing, food systems, culture, psychology, and body image affect health, relations...
215: One big thing your non-diet work might be missing
June 22, 2022 19:34 - 35 minutes - 49 MBIf you're craving a close, consistent community of fellow non-diet providers, but don't know where to go to start building that squad, this is the episode for you. Meet: The Mastermind Group. Facebook groups, Instagram, and big conferences aren't it. A small, tight-knit group of fellow providers who are IN it—business development, anti-diet work, etc.—aka a Mastermind, could be exactly what you need. If you are ready to join my Mastermind and Supervision group package, CLICK HERE. Or em...
214: Optimize Your Private Practice: All Things Insurance with Hannah Turnbull
June 17, 2022 09:00 - 48 minutes - 110 MBHannah Turnbull is back to talk about all things insurance in a private practice. Hannah gives us the details about how she started taking insurance, why she’s very passionate about other RDs using insurance benefits in their private practice and how to do all of that through a non-diet, weight-inclusive lens. Hannah is a registered dietitian, founder and director of NourishED Colorado while also embarking on a new business venture, Values Driven Group. Her passion for business, finances ...
Optimize Your Private Practice: All Things Insurance with Hannah Turnbull
June 17, 2022 09:00 - 48 minutes - 110 MB{This aired under the RD Real Talk podcast brand, before this feed shifted to the Weight Inclusive Podcast.} Hannah Turnbull is back to talk about all things insurance in a private practice. Hannah gives us the details about how she started taking insurance, why she’s very passionate about other RDs using insurance benefits in their private practice and how to do all of that through a non-diet, weight-inclusive lens. Hannah is a registered dietitian, founder and director of NourishED Colo...
213: First Jobs, Avoiding Burnout and The Future of Food Heaven with Wendy Lopez and Jessica Jones
June 10, 2022 09:00 - 48 minutes - 111 MBWendy Lopez and Jessica Jones are two nationally recognized, weight-inclusive registered dietitans and the founders of Food Heaven. On this episode, we chat about podcasting, business and the evolution of their careers as practioners. Wendy and Jessica have been running the Food Heaven Podcast for 7 years and still continue to find new, interesting and inspiring guests to interview. These two multi-passionate BFFs share their tips to running a successful podcast, the importance of diversifyin...
First Jobs, Avoiding Burnout and The Future of Food Heaven with Wendy Lopez and Jessica Jones
June 10, 2022 09:00 - 48 minutes - 111 MB{This aired under the RD Real Talk podcast brand, before this feed shifted to the Weight Inclusive Podcast.} Wendy Lopez and Jessica Jones are two nationally recognized, weight-inclusive registered dietitans and the founders of Food Heaven. On this episode, we chat about podcasting, business and the evolution of their careers as practioners. Wendy and Jessica have been running the Food Heaven Podcast for 7 years and still continue to find new, interesting and inspiring guests to interview. T...
212: How Weight-Inclusive Enneagram 7s Run a Business with Hannah Turnbull and Morgan Sinclair
June 03, 2022 09:00 - 51 minutes - 118 MBHannah Turnbull and Morgan Sinclair, hosts of the podcast Weight Inclusive Innovators, join this episode to talk shop about being weight-inclusive Enneagram 7s running a business! Hannah and Morgan have very different businesses, but our brains work in similar ways. (I'm an Enneagram, too! So, I relate.) Being weight-inclusive Enneagram 7s running a business means we have a constant loop of business ideas, get very enthusiastic about starting a project and...sometimes have a hard time foll...
211: Pivoting in Private Practice and Building Support as an Enneagram 9w1 Dietitian with Karlee Golightly
May 26, 2022 19:00 - 35 minutes - 80.8 MBKarlee Golightly (they/them) is an eating disorders dietitian and private practice owner in Denver, CO. On this episode, we chat about their fourth year in business, running the show as an Enneagram 9w1 and how those strengths and challenges show up in their brain, and making pivots when it feels like the time to do so! (And how only you can decide when that time is!) WIND Summer Series, including Group Supervision with Karlee: weightinclusivenutrition.teachable.com Where to find Karlee...
210: What Happened in the HAES® Spaces—a conversation with Lindley Ashline and Shelby Gordon
May 19, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 248 MBA LOT has happened in the Health at Every Size® and weight-inclusive communities since Marquisele (Mikey) Mercedes published an essay outlining oppressive and harmful interactions with Lindo Bacon on her Patreon. Lindley Ashline shared her own experiences, as did the ASDAH leadership team. You'll find links below to get started, if you missed these essays and posts! Lindley Ashline and Shelby Gordon both joined me on this episode to review what's been happening, and where we go from here. ...
209: Why this is the last season of RDRT
May 12, 2022 09:00 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MBI'll lead with the lead: this is the final season of RD Real Talk podcast...I'm pretty sure! (Said like a true Enneagram 7.) This episode features a sneak peak at the WIND Summer Series. Check it out here: Weightinclusivenutrition.teachable.com! There are (at least) ten SOLID episodes of this show left, and I'm so excited (and feeling lucky) to be recording them over the next two months. But after that, we take a break! Indefinitely. So, don't go anywhere too soon. In this episode, I ...
208: Live at WIND Symposium (Enneagram things, WIND moments, and more!)
May 03, 2022 09:00 - 52 minutes - 121 MBA live group podcast with the WIND community! This episode is a recording from the final session of the recent 4th annual WIND Spring Symposium, and features some of our speakers from the event—Brianna Campos, Narmin Virani, and Kim Hoban. We also hear from a few folx in the "audience". Here are all the links we mention and things we chat about: WIND Summer Series! Community hangouts, Supervision Sessions, and Monthly Trainings — save your Tuesdays for all things WIND this summer. Learn m...
207: Fat Mental Health and Fitness with Weight-Neutral Coach Erin McDonaugh
April 22, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutes - 93 MBErin McDonaugh (she/her) is a writer, fat personal trainer, and fat activist who's especially interested in fat mental health and the negative mental health effects of anti-fatness. On this episode we chat about anti-fatness in various weight-inclusive spaces, negative mental health effects of this anti-fatness on both clients and colleagues, and the work is Erin is doing in the fitness and fat liberation spaces! Follow and support Erin's work: @Queer_Erin on Twitter theweightneutralcoach...
206: Chatting About Running, Fitness, Research, and Scope of Practice With Cara Harbstreet MS RD
April 08, 2022 09:00 - 51 minutes - 117 MBCara Harbstreet MS RD, she/her, frequent RD Real Talk guest, is back to talk about some fitness things! We start with a casual check in on all things running—a form of movement we both enjoy in different ways. Then we touch on fitness culture and diet culture, scope of practice, and a note on the research and evidence side of things. A content warning: We discuss running in some specifics (numbers of miles, etc.), and quickly review a research article that uses weight stigmatizing language. ...
205: Business Real Talk, A Q1 Recap!
April 01, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MBInspired by Hannah Turnbull and Morgan Sinclair, today, I take some time to share my real talk, non-diet, business recap of quarter one with you. A lot has happened in the Anti-Diet and Weight Inclusive Dietetics space over the last three months, and in addition to having three kids, I tend to put a lot on my ~self-made~ work plate. I took this episode to debrief and review all the things from Q1. Tune in as I talk shop about my intentions, revenue goals and business investments and my plans...
204: Bringing Your Whole Self to Your Work with Amee Severson
March 18, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutes - 93.3 MBAmee Severson (she/they) joins this episode to chat about a few big life changes—publishing a book (How to Raise an Intuitive Eater, co-authored with Sumner Brooks), changing their Instagram handle to open up more possibility for what they share on the platform, and sharing their identities as non-binary and queer. We catch up on all of the above! Learn more about Amee's work: Prosper Nutrition Practice How to Raise an Intuitive Eater book IG @ameeistalking Reach out anytime: RDRealT...
203: Responding to "New" AND Weight Management Guidelines, with ASDAH, Dr. Kendrin Sonneville, and Cara Harbstreet MS RD
March 03, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 188 MBAni Janzen MPHD RD, Veronica Garnett MS RD, Dr. Kendrin Sonneville ScD RD, and Cara Harbstreet MS RD joined this episode for a variety of conversations in response to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) "new" suggested guidelines for Adult Weight Management (treatment of "overweight" and "obesity"). CW: stigmatizing and pathologizing language related to body size and BMI category, calorie counts, and harmful views toward marginazlied groups (expressed by the AND) If you have the ...
Responding to "New" AND Weight Management Guidelines, with ASDAH, Dr. Kendrin Sonneville, and Cara Harbstreet MS RD
March 03, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 188 MB{This aired under the RD Real Talk podcast brand, before this feed shifted to the Weight Inclusive Podcast.} Ani Janzen MPHD RD, Veronica Garnett MS RD, Dr. Kendrin Sonneville ScD RD, and Cara Harbstreet MS RD joined this episode for a variety of conversations in response to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) "new" suggested guidelines for Adult Weight Management (treatment of "overweight" and "obesity"). CW: stigmatizing and pathologizing language related to body size and BMI c...
202: How Diet Culture Deletes Cultural Eating w/ David Orozco
February 24, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes - 88.3 MBDavid Orozco RD joins this episode to talk about his experiences as a weight-inclusive, non-diet, Latinx dietitian. We talk about about how he has experienced the wrath of diet culture as it tries to demonize foods that remind him of his Columbian upbringing, and how the Intuitive Eating space is a place where he has found comfort in providing sound advice for himself AND his clients to keep their traditions alive in their cooking. We don’t talk about Bruno, but we ARE going to talk about mi...
201: The Blow of Diet Culture's Last Breath with WTAF RDs
February 17, 2022 10:00 - 44 minutes - 102 MBWTAF RDs Jenna Werner and Sammy Previte joined this episode to have a casual, fun, and no-BS conversation about needing a break from even the non-diet things, big life changes, and if what we're seeing from diet culture is the $72 Billion industry's last breath. (We can ONLY HOPE!) This Episode Covers: Our non-work related Podcast recommendations The Evolution of Sam & Jenna’s practice/method as dietitians How Jenna and Sam wish that there was more awareness of anti-diet nutrition ...
200: 8 Ways I’ve Failed & What I've Learned with this Podcast
February 11, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes - 46.5 MBI have been on the RDRealTalk Podcast train for the past 5 years (WHOA). It’s been nowhere near perfect, but this space is not for perfectionism! It's a space for questioning the ways diet culture has conditioned us to think there's only one way to do things, following the rules, and being "successful". So, for the sake of transparency, in celebration of my 200th(ish) episode, I share an honest reflection on my failures (and successes) because I’m human and I’m [still] learning! This Epis...
Is it possible to food track without dieting?
February 03, 2022 10:00 - 24 minutes - 55.6 MBMany folx who are ready to divest from diet culture, and want to eat intuitively, also want to keep some of the old with the new. Food tracking provides a sense of control, comfort, safety — maybe all of the above. These apps, like many apps, are designed to create a sense of dependency. But, do we really need them? Are they helpful, and if so, how and in what ways? How can we use them as an imperfect tool, instead of a crutch? This episode dives into all of the above, while trying to answ...
199: Is it possible to food track without dieting?
February 03, 2022 10:00 - 24 minutes - 55.6 MBMany folx who are ready to divest from diet culture, and want to eat intuitively, also want to keep some of the old with the new. Food tracking provides a sense of control, comfort, safety — maybe all of the above. These apps, like many apps, are designed to create a sense of dependency. But, do we really need them? Are they helpful, and if so, how and in what ways? How can we use them as an imperfect tool, instead of a crutch? This episode dives into all of the above, while trying to answer...
198: 3 Keys to Intuitive Eating for Kids
January 20, 2022 12:00 - 45 minutes - 103 MBSumner Brooks, MPH RDN, co-author of the new book, How to Raise an Intuitive Eater, joins the show for a conversation about why this book needed to exist, even though we are born as intuitive eaters. This episode covers how strongly diet culture has impacted the way parents feed and nourish their kids, what role social media plays in misinformation around IE for kids, and the 3 keys to intuitive eating for kids, which Sumner and Amee outline in their book! Order from Bookshop.org: How to...
197: Is it time to delete your food tracking app?
January 13, 2022 10:00 - 24 minutes - 55.5 MBWell, I was ready to tell you why food tracking apps are probably not the "healthy eating" solution you were looking for. But first, I turned to YOU, my community on Instagram @heatherdcRD, and paused to ask you some questions. I could tell I was coming in hot with this topic, and it felt like I needed to stop and actually check in with YOU. And what you shared with me helped me shift the tone of this episode! This episode covers: What a food tracking app is and is not What this tool ...
196: How do we measure "success" with Intuitive Eating?
January 06, 2022 10:00 - 23 minutes - 55.1 MBWe're human; we want to know if we're doing something right or wrong! Even when we're not dieting, we want to know, are we doing this intuitive eating thing the "right" way? A listener asked what milestones to look for, how to know if they were being "successful" with intuitive eating. So, this episode explores what that looks like, why that question is so common, and some "success" traps to avoid from diet culture! You'll also here the answer to two Intuitive Eating questions: - What d...