Whole-Hearted Eating ™ with Dana Monsees & Cristina Hoyt
311 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 457 ratingsDietitian-Nutritionist & Body Image Coach
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62 | Perfectionism in Eating Disorders and Autoimmune Disease with Paige Kinsella
February 13, 2019 12:30 - 50 minutes - 44.7 MBBig updates for you guys today! Before we get to the interview with Paige today I wanted to let you guys know about some exciting updates around here. As i’ve been previewing for the past few months, i’ve been working on a big project with Cristina Hoyt Alvarez (who I’ve had on the show multiple... Read More »
61 | Birth control, the IUD and hormonal imbalances with Dr Kelly Culwell
February 06, 2019 12:30 - 47 minutes - 39.9 MBDr. Kelly Culwell a.k.a. “Dr. Lady Doctor” is a fellowship-trained OB/GYN who is passionate about women’s health care. She’s here to dispel any shame or misconceptions women have about their beautiful! With 17+ years of experience in women’s reproductive health, Dr. Lady Doctor has worked with a wide breadth of organizations, including as a Medical... Read More »
60 | Amenorrhea, re-balancing hormones and your relationship with your body with Jessica Christin
January 30, 2019 12:30 - 57 minutes - 49.9 MBJessica Christin is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and IIN Health Coach who specializes in empowering women to take charge of their health get back their cycles naturally. In the episode Jess talks about her own personal history of over-exercising, under-eating, having severe adrenal fatigue and gut issues, losing her period, and food fears, and her... Read More »
59 | Use and Abuse of Elimination Diets & Therapeutic Protocols (Part 2 w/Cristina Hoyt Alvarez)
January 23, 2019 12:30 - 38 minutes - 31.9 MBThis week’s episode is a Part 2 of last week’s “Are you ready for an elimination diet” with Cristina Hoyt Alvarez. Cristina and I are talking about both of our experiences with using elimination diets for therapeutic use vs. abusing them in a way *just to lose weight*, how these types of protocols can cause... Read More »
58 | Are you ready for an elimination diet with Cristina Hoyt Alvarez
January 16, 2019 12:30 - 42 minutes - 35 MBThis week’s episode is all about elimination diets – the therapeutic way in which some of them are designed, and then the different ways that they are actually put into practice – some of which may be intended for healing the body, especially in terms of things like the autoimmune protocol, but which may actually... Read More »
57 | The answer is never more restriction or another diet.
January 09, 2019 15:34 - 30 minutes - 33.3 MBIn today’s episode I’m addressing some of the follow up questions from last week’s episode, “I Quit Whole30”, and talking about where I’m going next in my business and with the podcast. I’m answering your questions about “what do we do now? How can we lose weight and fix our relationship with food?” But the answer... Read More »
56 | I Quit Whole30
January 02, 2019 12:30 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBI’m having a renaissance, a rebirth of sorts of my business – and this new chapter is not going to involve Whole30. In today’s episode, I’m talking about why I quit Whole30. Spoiler alert: it’s not fixing your relationship with food, it’s making it worse. {PS – see below for the episode transcription!} This is... Read More »
55 | BONUS: Best of 2018
December 29, 2018 12:30 - 28 minutes - 30.5 MBIn this special BONUS episode of the podcast we’re recapping 2018: the most popular episodes, my favorite guests, favorite topics, a review of what’s been on the podcast this year, and a little preview of what’s to come next year! LISTEN TO REAL TALK WITH DANA ON ITUNES HERE ! LISTEN ON STITCHER HERE ! CHECK OUT THE SHOW... Read More »
54 | Behind the scenes of farm to table restaurants with Chef Nate of Modern Market
December 26, 2018 12:43 - 41 minutes - 35.5 MBTime to change up our episodes this week from talking about nutrition, body image and holiday eating – this week we’re doing a fun episode where I’m interviewing Chef Nate Weir, the Director of Culinary Operations at Modern Market! In this week’s episode we’re learning about Chef Nate’s journey from growing up in Haiti to... Read More »
53 | Overcoming fear foods and learning to love your body through food with Meg Doll, RHN
December 19, 2018 15:08 - 54 minutes - 47 MBMeg Doll is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist who helps women heal their relationship with food, help them get to the root of their health issues, and teaches them how to heal through learning to love themselves. Meg is sharing her personal story of overcoming an eating disorder and body image struggles, and why she became... Read More »
52 | Orthorexia, Perfectionism, and the fear of not being loved with Haley Hannah Erickson
December 12, 2018 12:30 - 39 minutes - 34.9 MBYour spiritual, mental, and relational health is far more important than what you eat, how you exercise or what a number on the scale tells you. You can be doing all those things “right”, be completely perfectionistic about all things health, and still be completely unhealthy – our guest today, Haley Hannah Erickson, knows this... Read More »
51 | Chronic Pain, the opioid addiction, and reclaiming your health with Brendon Lundberg
December 05, 2018 15:28 - 50 minutes - 44.2 MB100 million people in the US have chronic pain. That’s more than the statistics for cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease combined! So chances are that you, or someone you know – whether a friend, family member, or someone else close to you has dealt with chronic pain, me included. I didn’t realize until this interview... Read More »
50 | Why you binge around the holidays and Inflammation 101 with Brianna Diorio
November 28, 2018 14:26 - 1 hour - 59 MBBrianna Diorio is a Clinical Nutritionist, Holistic Lifestyle Coach, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, and self-proclaimed recovering super spaz. Brianna and I nerd out about nutrition, inflammation (why it’s not evil), stress (why it isn’t the worst thing in the world, even though social media would make you believe so) cortisol (which also isn’t the devil)... Read More »
49 | The Shame Cycle and why you don’t have to love your body with Noelle Tarr
November 21, 2018 12:30 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBNoelle Tarr is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, the creator of Coconuts and Kettlebells, and a co-host of the Well-Fed Women Podcast with Stefani Ruper. She’s also an amazing human and I cannot WAIT for you guys to hear what she has to say on today’s episode! This episode goes deep into body image, our relationship... Read More »
48| Survive the Holidays vs. Enjoy the Holidays
November 14, 2018 14:19 - 32 minutes - 34.4 MBWelcome to the holidays! Cue the stress. Around food, around exercise, around trying to please others by eating their holiday desserts but also control yourself from not eating anything and everything. Not to mention family stress, travel…it’s a lot. This week’s episode is an updated version of a short episode i released last year called... Read More »
47 | Vulnerability mindset, facing past traumas and astrology with Anya Kaats
November 07, 2018 12:30 - 55 minutes - 49 MBAnya Kaats is an Integrative Nutrition health Coach, photographer, marketer, and astrologer. She has worked in the natural products industry on the brand side, and then on the blogger/ influencer side, and experienced a huge shift in her business about a year ago after going through some really tough health and personal shit. Now, her... Read More »
46 | Building a Health-Focused Business without Losing your Health with Jess Thomas
October 31, 2018 20:06 - 41 minutes - 35.3 MBToday’s episode is with Jess Thomas the founder of Health Lab, an Australian wellness and beauty brand “inspired by what real women need and want”! Jess was working in the corporate world and realized that the 3pm coffee + café breaks just weren’t cutting it; making her and her coworkers’ sugar cravings worse, and making... Read More »
45 | Weight vs Health and the impact of body image stress on weight with Amy of Wilder Nutrition
October 24, 2018 12:55 - 59 minutes - 50 MBAmy Flashenberg-Laskowski is an NTP and founder of Wilder Nutrition and wellness – works with women with hormonal imbalances, gut issues and a history of disordered eating to help bring them back into balance through diet and lifestyle changes. We talk about going against our intuition by trying out different fad diets, and we stick... Read More »
44 | Intermittent Fasting 101 & why Intuitive Eating isn’t for everyone with Laura Ligos of the Sassy Dietitian
October 17, 2018 12:30 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBYou guys are going to LOVE this interview with Laura Ligos, MBA, RD of the Sassy Dietitian: guaranteed. Laura considers herself to be an “unconventional Registered Dietitian as I focus on real food in this fast food world!” She’s an athlete with her fair share of health struggles in her past and has learned to... Read More »
43 | the Self-Care Epidemic & Your Stress Bucket
October 10, 2018 15:13 - 34 minutes - 32.5 MBToday’s episode is all about stress, self-care, and taking a good, hard look at your lifestyle as a whole, and being totally honest with yourself about what isn’t serving you or your health right now. And what the heck a stress bucket is, and why you should care. Because here’s the thing. As women in... Read More »
42 | How to Find your Food Freedom
October 03, 2018 13:16 - 51 minutes - 45.5 MBSo you’ve done the Whole30. Well now what?! Today’s episode dives into how to find your food freedom. To help you make peace with food and your body and stop letting food control your life, your happiness, and your self-worth. We’re going into listener questions on struggles with finding food freedom, reintroducing foods on the... Read More »
41 | Natural Remedies for Hormone Balance with Magdalena Wszelaki
September 26, 2018 11:30 - 51 minutes - 43.8 MBMagdalena Wszelaki was inspired to change careers to the health and wellness field after conventional medicine failed her and she forged her own path to wellness, starting with her diagnosis of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis in 2008. Magdalena is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and the author of Cooking for Hormone Balance, and today we’re getting deep... Read More »
40 | Making Peace with your Body, Food, and Healing from Autoimmune Disease with Whitney Shook
September 19, 2018 11:30 - 56 minutes - 50 MBWelcome to this monster of a podcast episode with Whitney Shook, the Nutritional Therapy Practitioner behind the blog Rooted in Healing. We’re talking about Whitney’s tumultuous personal health journey, from losing her hair in her 20’s as a vegan and finally being diagnosed with Alopecia, Hashimotos, PCOS, SIBO and Candida. I’m not kidding when I... Read More »
39 | The Thyroid, Leaky Gut, and Adrenals Connection + Thyroid Reset Plan with Dr. Becky Campbell
September 12, 2018 11:30 - 51 minutes - 48 MBDr. Becky Campbell is a functional medicine practitioner who has been there, through the ringer of sickness to health and down the modern medical route of disappointment multiple times. She knows what it’s like to be sick, sick and tired of feeling sick, and like no doctor you’ve gone to can give you a freaking... Read More »
38 | the Whole30 Diet : Myth or Fact Edition
September 05, 2018 11:30 - 44 minutes - 71.5 MBToday we’re chatting about the misconceptions, myths, and facts about the Whole30 diet. (Even though you know it’s not a diet.) What this podcast will do for you today – if you’re already doing a Whole30 this month, you know you’ll probably get all sorts of crazy questions from people about what the heck you’re... Read More »
37 | Mindset Tips, Problems with Gluten-Free, and Popular Nutrition Myths with Whitney Stuart
August 29, 2018 11:30 - 50 minutes - 45.7 MBWhitney Stuart, also known as Whitness Nutrition, is a Dietitian in Dallas, Texas and one half of the Whole30 Dallas Duo coaching squad. Whitney and I (finally!) first met at the Whole30 Coaches Summit in Park City this summer and instantly connected over our love for nutrition science and passion for helping people work on... Read More »
36 | Dr. Will Cole on Self Care for Entrepreneurs, Ketotarian, and how stress leads to disease
August 22, 2018 11:30 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBDr. Will Cole is a Functional Medicine Practitioner and Doctor of Chiropractic, top wellness contributor to multiple websites like Mind Body Green, and the author of the new book Ketotarian: the (mostly) plant-based plan to burn fat, boost your energy, crush your cravings, and calm inflammation. I first saw Dr. Cole speak at Paleo(f)x this... Read More »
35 | Listener Questions: Coffee and Anxiety, and cutting out coffee for 60 days with Kate Brock (part II)
August 15, 2018 11:30 - 42 minutes - 65.4 MBTime to get into the sticky weeds of Caffeine, Coffee and Anxiety. This week is part 2 of the episode from two weeks ago with Kate Brock of Kate’s Whole Life where we talked all about anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder vs. chronic stress, and Kate’s personal struggle with anxiety. Be sure to listen to Episode... Read More »
34 | Diets, Cheat Meals and Mindset, and Intuitive Keto with Kyndra Holley of Peace, Love and Low Carb
August 08, 2018 12:30 - 54 minutes - 47.5 MBKyndra Holley of Peace, Love, and Low Carb is a kickass cookbook author (of FIVE books – what?!) who learned how to heal and love her body and lose weight with a combination of a low carb and intuitive keto healing diet – combined with serious mindset work that she has been doing for years.... Read More »
33 | Anxiety and nutrition, stress vs. general anxiety disorder and coffee talk with Kate Brock
August 01, 2018 12:25 - 48 minutes - 73.3 MBWe’re going deep today. I had the pleasure of interviewing one of my great friends, Kate Brock of Kate’s Whole Life (formerly Nutrition with Kate), today on her struggles with anxiety, the connection between anxiety and nutrition, and the many ways she’s learned to help manage her anxiety through food, therapy, journaling, and many other... Read More »
32 | Fight or flight, how to avoid overtraining and chase optimal health with HRV (Heart Rate Variability testing)
July 25, 2018 12:00 - 53 minutes - 47.9 MBToday I’m interviewing the CCO of a really cool new company I discovered at PaleoFX this year that is going to make huge leaps and bounds in the realm of adrenal fatigue, stress management, elite athletes, and even people with chronic health conditions. It’s called Heart Rate Variability testing from Elite HRV, and you guys know... Read More »
31 | Hormone Disruptors in Your Makeup, Toxic Sunscreen, and why you should care
July 11, 2018 12:00 - 40 minutes - 66.3 MBWe’ve talked a lot about stress on this podcast and how stress can be not only a physically inflammatory process on the body, how it can make you sick or impede your healing, prevent you from losing weight, actually cause you to gain weight, have hormonal and adrenal issues, etc. we’ve talked a lot about... Read More »
30 | How to listen to your body, create food freedom and navigate forbidden foods with Angela Bicos Mavridis of TRIBALÍ
July 05, 2018 12:00 - 48 minutes - 41.8 MBThis week was a very unexpected interview with Angela Bicos Mavridis, the founder of TRIBALÍ foods. We started with Angela’s journey from living in Greece to moving to the US and becoming a vegetarian when she was 13, then starting to have some health issues later in life and transitioning to eating meat and even... Read More »
29 | Whole30, Crossfit and Eating Disorders, and Overcoming Adrenal Fatigue (My Story)
June 20, 2018 18:26 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBThis week is a different kind of podcast. I’m sharing my story. And it’s about to get messy. I’m sharing my history of growing up with serious body image issues my whole life, eating disorders and Crossfit, finding the Whole30, (neither of which, I started for the ‘right’ healthy reasons), overcoming adrenal fatigue, and much,... Read More »
29 | Crossfit and Eating Disorders, and Overcoming Adrenal Fatigue (My Story)
June 20, 2018 18:26 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBThis week is a different kind of podcast. I’m sharing my story. And it’s about to get messy. I’m sharing my history of growing up with serious body image issues my whole life, eating disorders and Crossfit, finding elimination diets, (neither of which, I started for the ‘right’ healthy reasons), overcoming adrenal fatigue, and much,... Read More »
28 | Listener Questions: Whole30 Yo-Yo Dieting and Food Freedom, Rice and GF Products, Foods that Cause Acne, and Personal Care Products
June 14, 2018 19:12 - 45 minutes - 73.4 MBTime for another listener questions episode! You guys had a huge response to my episode last week – Stop doing the Whole30 (or so many of them, anyway) so I’m taking some time to respond to questions and comments I got on that episode. I’m also sharing my experience of the worst job interview ever... Read More »
27 | Stop doing the Whole30.
June 06, 2018 11:31 - 34 minutes - 54.4 MBIf you’ve done more Whole30’s than you can count, if you’re doing a full Whole30 or a reset every other month, you’re doing a whole60, or whole100, or even longer…not for the first time, but for the upteenth time, it is time to reevaluate what you’re doing with your Whole30 life. And your food freedom.... Read More »
26 | Michelle Smiths on Navigating Food Freedom & good food made simple
May 30, 2018 12:00 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBToday on the podcast we’ve got my great friend, fellow Whole30 blogger, mom of 2 kids, now cookbook author, and total bada** in the kitchen – Michelle of the Whole Smiths! I love Michelle because she’s totally real, down to earth, and has such a refreshing personality in the social media age of fakeness and... Read More »
25 | Cristina of The Castaway Kitchen on AIP & Real Food Keto for healing autoimmune disease
May 23, 2018 12:06 - 47 minutes - 42.2 MBThis chick is a total autoimmune disease ass-kicker, Whole30 pro and real food WARRIOR. Cristina Curp, the creator of the Castaway Kitchen, is a total bada** and I’m proud to call her my friend! Today Cristina is sharing her story of hitting rock bottom with her Hidradenitis Suppurative, a debilitating autoimmune skin condition, to finding paleo,... Read More »
24 | Melissa’s Food Freedom on the Lazy Whole30 + Whole30 on a Budget
May 16, 2018 11:30 - 55 minutes - 47.8 MBWe’re back with Melissa Herbst of Melissa’s Food Freedom for another Whole30-themed podcast episode today! This episode Melissa and I dive into the lazy girl (or guy!)’s guide to the Whole30. Also known as the convenience Whole30, the Expensive Whole30, or, the Whole30 for super busy people…it’s the Lazy Whole30. Maybe you’re not lazy, but you... Read More »
23 | Paleo Bailey on Binge Eating, Whole30, and what no one tells you about weight loss
May 09, 2018 11:39 - 40 minutes - 33.5 MBThis week on the podcast we’ve got Bailey Ryan from Paleo Bailey! Bailey describes herself as a “former 300lb chip eatin’ couch potato” – but now she’s a Whole30 superstar and has an amazing journey from binge eating, food addiction, compulsive eating, to discovering the Whole30 and losing 120 lbs while finding her own food... Read More »
22 | Listener Questions & PaleoFX Recap
May 02, 2018 12:00 - 53 minutes - 86.6 MBTime for another listener questions episode! This week I’m answering questions on intuitive eating and macros, Whole30 vs. keto, the healthiest way to approach weight loss, adrenal fatigue recovery, caffeine and why I’m quitting coffee and booze for 60 days, plus a couple general questions on – healthy eats in the DC area, stevia, and... Read More »
21 | Macros vs Whole30 vs Intuitive Eating – the good, the bad, and the ugly.
April 25, 2018 12:00 - 56 minutes - 91.4 MBToday we’re talking about Macros vs Whole30 vs Intuitive Eating : what they are, what they’re great for, their pitfalls, and who should avoid them like the plague. Because there is good and bad in all of these programs, and when you’re evaluating what works for you, and what may actually be triggering some poor... Read More »
20 | Juli Bauer on exercise, adrenal fatigue, dealing with negative body image and social media
April 18, 2018 11:30 - 43 minutes - 38 MBToday on episode 20 we’ve got my good friend Juli Bauer of PaleOMG! If you haven’t heard of her (you’ve probably been living under a rock) Juli is a do all the things kind of person – she started her own business in blogging world for paleo food, fitness, fashion, beauty, and her freaking adorable... Read More »
19 | Christina Rice on Overcoming Eating Disorders, Body Dysmorphia and how to stop negative self-talk
April 11, 2018 11:30 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBChristina is a holistic health coach, future NTP, fellow ED warrior, and a total badass – she has not one but TWO superstar podcasts, Wellness Realness (formerly known as Actually Adultish), and Straight Up Paleo. Basically, she’s like me, she does all the things and she’s constantly churning out amazing content, both on social media,... Read More »
18 | Michelle Cady on adrenal fatigue and self care while building a business
April 04, 2018 11:30 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBToday I have my friend Michelle Cady on the podcast to talk all things adrenal fatigue and self-care, plus how to not totally lose your mind or sh*t while starting a business and publishing her first book. Michelle has guest posted on the blog before with 20 ways to give yourself adrenal fatigue, and we... Read More »
17 | Shawn Mynar on Keto for Women
March 28, 2018 11:30 - 52 minutes - 45.8 MBKeto for women, keto for athletes, and keto for thyroid/PCOS/adrenal/autoimmune disorders, oh my! That’s the name of the game in today’s podcast interview with Shawn Mynar from the Keto for Women podcast. We’re answering a bunch of your (and my!) burning questions about keto and why it is so different for women, how you *need*... Read More »
16 | How to get out of Metabolic Damage & Starvation Mode with Cristina Hoyt Alvarez
March 21, 2018 11:30 - 38 minutes - 33 MBWelcome back! This week’s episode of Real Talk with Dana is part two from last week, where Cristina Hoyt Alvarez of Nourish: mindful body, mindful life and I talk about the truth about metabolic damage and survival / starvation mode – so make sure you listen to last week’s episode (episode 15) before you listen... Read More »
15 | The Truth about Metabolic Damage & Survival/Starvation Mode with Cristina Hoyt Alvarez
March 14, 2018 11:30 - 46 minutes - 41.3 MBI’m really excited this week to bring back my great friend Cristina Hoyt Alvarez from Nourish: mindful body, mindful life. Cristina was on episode three where we talked all about diet culture, and this episode, we’re talking about the Truth about Metabolic Damage, which is also known as Metabolic adaptation, Survival or Starvation Mode, or... Read More »
14 | How we get adrenal fatigue & my adrenal fatigue story | Real Talk with Dana Podcast
March 07, 2018 12:30 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBToday we’re not talking about how we get adrenal fatigue in the sense that i want you guys to put yourselves in a state of hpa axis dysregulation, downregulation, cortisol resistance, or adrenal fatigue, whatever you want to call it. We ARE talking about the lifestyle choices you may be making that are putting you... Read More »