Speaking of Hungry
81 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsTime to stop obsessing over food, weight, diets, scales, exercise and start getting back to the basics of eating intuitively. Welcome to the Speaking of Hungry podcast! I'm Alison Barkman, a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and host of the Speaking of Hungry podcast. On this podcast I will offer both my personal and professional insight on ditching diets, ending disordered eating and provide tips on how to navigate the intuitive eating process. I’ll answer listeners' questions and interview some of the top experts in the intuitive eating field.
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30. Support We Need to Stop Dieting Madness
February 21, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 24 MBAre you getting the support you need to move away from chronic dieting and disordered eating? In this latest episode, I'm talking about support. I could not have found the peace I now have with food and my body without support. I found support from an amazing therapist, the Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison (among other podcasts), the Intuitive Eating book and workbook by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole, and support from my family who wanted me to heal. Having one-on-one support ...
29. Controlling Your Life through Food
February 13, 2020 02:03 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBDo you have strict control over food and your body size? Maybe you're a "control freak" or perfectionist with everything in your life. You find it hard to delegate responsibilities to co-workers or family. You take everything on yourself because you're convinced if someone else handles a task you'll need to re-do it. Perhaps you're going through something in your life where you feel completely out of control: ✅Being a new mom. ✅Your body changing as you age or through menopause. ✅...
28: DIET - What does this word bring up for you?
January 30, 2020 14:31 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBOn Episode 28 of Speaking of Hungry, I'm asking what thoughts come to mind when you think about the word DIET. I asked this question recently in an intuitive eating workshop at a local pilates studio. It opened up a conversation about how many NEGATIVE thoughts flood our mind when we think of dieting. And yet we keep getting sucked back in for more. Here are some of the words that were brought up at the workshop: Boredom Weight gain Isolation Tough to sustain Time-consuming Dep...
27: Intuitive Eating and Cancer with Amber Thomas, RD
January 22, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBThis week on the Speaking of Hungry podcast I’m speaking with Amber Thomas, RD, and board-certified specialist in oncology nutrition. Amber takes 15 years of experience working with cancer patients in hospitals, cancer clinics, and the home health setting and now works privately with cancer patients as an online nutrition coach in her private practice, Cancer Nutrition Solutions. She is the first dietitian on the podcast who takes an intuitive eating approach to nutrition in cancer care. ...
26: Ditching Diets Gradually
January 16, 2020 13:44 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBIt's mid-January and many of us may be struggling to stick with the stringent food rules and diet plans we vowed to start in the new year. 😫🍪😫 💥Welcome to season 2 of Speaking of Hungry!! On this episode, I give some tips on how we can stay focused with non-diet behaviors that can make us feel better. Feeling better does not have to come from a restrictive diet. As a matter of fact, diets can end up backfiring on us and make us feel worse about ourselves in the long run. During the holid...
25: Give Up Diets for the New Year with Molly Bahr, LMHC
January 09, 2020 10:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBOn the latest episode of the Speaking of Hungry podcast, I speak with Molly Bahr, LHMC, a licensed mental health counselor and certified intuitive eating counselor with a private practice in Miami. She also provides virtual sessions to residents of Florida and Hawaii. Molly brings a Health At Every Size (HAES) perspective to the work she does as a therapist helping people with disordered eating, body shame, anxiety, depression, and trauma. The focus of her practice is to help people make ...
24: Intuitive Eating in a Community Nutrition Setting with Rachel Larkey, RD
December 23, 2019 21:27 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBOn this episode of Speaking of Hungry I chat with Rachel Larkey, a Brooklyn-based registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor, who works in a federally funded health center where she uses intuitive eating and health at every size (HAES) in her approach to community healthcare. Rachel and I discuss: Teaching intuitive eating to clients who struggle to make ends meet and don’t have access to enough food on a daily basis. How the desire to lose weight for various reasons...
23: Body Changes and Ditching Diets as a Middle-Aged Woman with Michelle Vina-Baltsas
December 10, 2019 13:40 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBThis week on the Speaking of Hungry podcast I speak with Michelle Vino-Baltsas, a Certified Intuitive Eating and Body Confidence Coach, who's been coaching women internationally for over six years. She specializes in helping women deal with body changes in midlife. It’s hard enough for us to feel good about our bodies when we’re up against diet culture and unrealistic thin ideals. Michelle recognizes that when you throw in the natural process of aging, pre-menopause, and menopause, the stru...
22: I Need to Lose Weight
November 26, 2019 13:47 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBI hear it so much from clients whether it's when we first start working together or in the middle of our work. "Alison, I need to lose weight." I get it. Many of us can't escape that urge to lose weight because of the society we live in. We are praised for weight loss. The diet industry bombards us with "wellness plans" and "lifestyle changes" everywhere. Everyone we're around will bring up nutrition, dieting, and exercise in conversation. I don't blame anyone for wanting to lose weight....
21: How to Stop Forbidden Food Mentality
November 13, 2019 19:10 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBHow did all of the Halloween candy make you feel? Did you have a bunch around you for several days? Maybe the first day you ate more than you bargained for? Day 2, maybe it didn't see as exciting. Day 3, by now it really may have lost its appeal. Day 4... you're so over candy, right? This is an example of the "habituation effect" as outlined in principal 3 of the Intuitive Eating book by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole. The more you hang around a food, allow yourself to eat it, and tell y...
20: Eating Disorder Prevention and Body Positive Parenting with Zoë Bisbing, LCSW, and Leslie Bloch, LCSW-R
October 23, 2019 10:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MBIn this episode, I chat with Zoë Bisbing and Leslie Bloch are both New York City-based, adolescent eating disorder psychotherapists and mothers of two. They met in graduate school at New York University and discovered they shared a dedication to the treatment of eating disorders and body image concerns. While their families and private practices blossomed, they developed specialties in the early detection and family-based treatment of childhood and adolescent eating disorders. During ...
19: Stop Dieting and Embrace Body Changes with Erica Leon, MS, RD, CEDRD
October 08, 2019 01:44 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBOn this week's episode of the Speaking of Hungry podcast I'm speaking with Erica Leon, MS, RD, CEDRD. Erica is the owner of Erica Leon Nutrition, an outpatient group nutrition practice in White Plains, NY. With more than 30 years of experience, she and her team help individuals develop a positive relationship with food and work tirelessly to treat and prevent eating disorders and disordered eating in adults, adolescents, children, and families. Erica and I talk about weight stigma and heal...
18: I Can't Stop Overeating
September 25, 2019 01:29 - 18 minutes - 24.9 MBDoes the concept of connecting with true hunger and knowing when to stop when satisfied sound too good to be true? Well for one thing, even once we have completely erased diet culture from our lives and truly embrace intuitiveness with food, mind, and body, we will always have our moments where we overeat here and there. It's normal! However, if you feel that overeating happens regularly and you think the only way to stop it is dieting, think again. Diets and restriction are one of several...
17: What Benefits Will I Gain from Intuitive Eating?
September 18, 2019 21:44 - 22 minutes - 30.3 MBMost of us only know two things: 1) being on a diet and actively pursuing weight loss, or, 2) not being on a diet, having erratic eating patterns, possibly a restrict/binge cycle. We go into a diet with a mindset that our end result will be weight loss and a smaller body size. The idea of intuitive eating does not fit into these two categories. Many people can't imagine what the end result of intuitive eating will be because they are so fixated on weight loss being the end result. In t...
16: Before and After Photos Don't Tell the Whole Story
September 06, 2019 01:25 - 16 minutes - 22.2 MBI was going through my Instagram feed when I came across a great post by Jenna Jozefowski talking about how before/after photos posted all over social media or in diet ads may make some of us squirm vs feel inspired. I immediately had to address this topic here on Speaking of Hungry! There was a time in my disordered days when I looked at before and after photos and thought, "Wow, this girl has it all figured out!" Now, as an anti-diet, intuitive eating counselor, AND someone who has gone...
15: Listen to Your Body when Exercising
August 27, 2019 10:00 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBIn this episode I am focusing on principle 9, Exercise: Feel the Difference, as part of all 10 Intuitive Eating principles by Elyse Resch & Evelyn Tribole in their book Intuitive Eating. Do you suspect you have a disordered relationship with exercise? In the journey toward becoming an intuitive eater and ditching diets, exercise can be one of the last pieces people work on healing. We have to dig deep and ask ourselves... 🤷♀️Why did I choose the exercise I'm doing? 🤷🏻♂️Am I exer...
14 - A Diet App for Kids Does More Harm Than Good
August 19, 2019 09:00 - 19 minutes - 26.6 MBWW recently acquired Kurbo, a weight loss/nutrition app for kids 8-13. Your child can start tracking everything she eats and get feedback on her choices using a red, yellow, green traffic light system. Red light foods include candy and soda. Can you imagine an 8-year old needing to concern herself with this? Can you see where this will lead? The child may already feel bad about herself after being told by parents or a doctor that she needs to lose weight. Now she has to scrutinize everyth...
13: Intuitive on the Peloton Bike
July 31, 2019 14:55 - 26 minutes - 36.4 MBOn this week's episode, I am talking about my Peloton bike. I love it! I've had it for a few years now, and like my intuitive eating journey, I've learned to respect and listen to my body when it comes to using the Peloton. If you have a Peloton, you should definitely listen! If you don't have a Peloton, you should still listen because this episode may resonate with you no matter what form of exercise you're engaging in currently. I talk about how I just formed a new Facebook group for ...
12: Your Body Deserves Respect
July 25, 2019 15:59 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MBEpisode 12 is a continuation of my summary of the 10 Intuitive Eating principles as outlined in the book, Intuitive Eating, by Elyse Resch & Evelyn Tribole. Here I review Principle #8: Respect Your Body. Living in a diet-obsessed world has normalized speaking negatively about our bodies, disrespecting our bodies, and feeling uncomfortable with giving our bodies praise or accepting a compliment. In this episode I talk about how our genes dictate our body type, ways to have gratitude for...
11: Body Positivity and the Fitness World with Jenna Jozefowski
July 16, 2019 11:00 - 43 minutes - 59.4 MBIn this episode, I am thrilled to chat with Jenna Jozefowski, a body-positive, weight inclusive personal trainer. Jenna gives active women a tough love transformation to their approach to fitness. As a semi-retired professional dancer, Jenna first discovered yoga as a cross-training tool and has been teaching and coaching for over a decade. She’s an E-RYT 200 & Yoga For All Teacher, NASM Certified Personal Trainer, and StrongFirst SFG1 Kettlebell Instructor. Jenna is a Body Positive Fitness ...
10: Why You Can Eat White Rice and Pasta
July 08, 2019 17:06 - 19 minutes - 26.1 MBI recently read the blog post, "Why It's Ok to Eat Refined Grains" by Elizabeth Ward, MS, RD, and wanted to chat about it here on Speaking of Hungry. I've been telling people since the Atkins diet craze in the mid-late 1990s that CARBS ARE OK! Why would you want to cut carbs? Why is everyone saying they're so evil? After some time we were then being told that complex carbs - whole wheat bread, brown rice, whole wheat pasta - are the way to go and refined grains - white rice, white bread, ...
9: When You Think Intuitive Eating Isn't For You
June 19, 2019 16:10 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBI was inspired to record this episode after a family member of mine expressed interest in listening to my podcast but she said, "Intuitive eating could never work for me." In this episode, I talk about signs you may be ready to end your relationship with disordered eating, chronic dieting, and start exploring the world or intuitive eating. Many think intuitive eating "seems like a nice idea" but then say "that won't work for me." Intuitive eating is not simply a license to eat whatever ...
8: Emotional Eating
June 11, 2019 17:52 - 22 minutes - 30.2 MBThis episode is a continuation of me giving a brief summary of each of the 10 Intuitive Eating principles as written in the book Intuitive Eating by dietitians Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole. In this episode, I discuss emotional eating. Why do we eat when we're not hungry? Many times we are using food to avoid feelings such as sadness, stress, anxiety, or anger. Other times we may eat because we are bored, procrastinating, or even celebrating. On the road to intuitive eating, tackling emo...
7: Get Rid of Clothes That Don't Fit and Go Shopping!
May 23, 2019 17:55 - 11 minutes - 16.4 MBAre you stuck in diet culture thinking that just one more diet will finally get you where you need to be? Are you holding on to your "skinny jeans" and other smaller sized clothes in hopes that when you find that perfect diet they will fit you? Do you randomly try on your old clothes hoping they will fit only to find out they still don't fit, you get upset, start body-bashing yourself, and vow to try some radical, overly-restrictive diet? Part of the intuitive eating process means cleanin...
6: Getting Back in Touch with Fullness and Food Satisfaction
May 14, 2019 21:56 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBIn this episode, we tackle two more intuitive eating principles. How do you get back in touch with what true fullness is after years of dieting and/or disordered eating? How do you know what true satisfaction is from food when you've been eating less-than-satisfying options in an effort to control your body weight? What's happening that you eat beyond fullness? Distracted eating? Emotional eating? Trying to please someone else? And eating for satisfaction means eating what you REALL...
5: How My Disney Trip Helped My Intuitive Eating Journey
May 05, 2019 20:20 - 19 minutes - 27.4 MBDo you obsess too much about exercise and eating while on vacation that it ends up ruining your trip? Vacation is a good place to start practicing intuitive eating so you can enjoy your trip! When you are so knee-deep in disordered eating, controlling every morsel of food that enters your mouth, and never straying from a rigid exercise schedule, you can’t just take a vacation from that when you’re on vacation. I know this because I couldn’t do it. When our family went on our first Disney...
4: Enjoy Food Peace and Stop Negative Talk
April 17, 2019 14:36 - 23 minutes - 31.7 MBThis is Episode 3 in a series to help give you a snapshot into the world of Intuitive Eating. On this episode, I talk about steps to help you start making peace with food and allow yourself to eat the foods you crave. I talk about stopping those nagging, negative voices in your head that criticize your every move with food.
3: Listen to Your Hunger
April 10, 2019 01:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBDiet culture teaches us to ignore our hunger signals. When we diet and restrict food, we aren't eating when our body is truly hungry. We are eating based on a set of rules that tells us when to eat and what to eat. Doing this for a long period of time causes us to lose all sense of what true hunger feels like. This episode covers how we can begin to reconnect with our true hunger again. What happens when we restrict and deny ourselves? What happens when we try to ignore our body telling u...
2: Ditch Diet Thinking
March 28, 2019 23:23 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBWe dive into the very first Intuitive Eating principle that was written in Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole's book, Intuitive Eating. Principle number one in the book is "Reject the Diet Mentality", AKA, ditch diet thinking. The first step to embarking on this intuitive eating journey is to start ridding yourself of all of the diet crap. Food measuring tools, scales, food diary apps, following people on Instagram who promote diet culture, etc. You may not be able to do this all at once but y...
0: Welcome to the Speaking of Hungry Podcast!
March 21, 2019 18:23 - 9 minutes - 12.4 MBThis is the very first episode of the Speaking of Hungry podcast. Episode 0 is a brief introduction to let you know what my podcast is all about. Take a listen and find out if you want to subscribe and listen to future episodes all about intuitive eating, anti-diet, and body positivity. I'm so glad you are here and listening!!
1: Intro to Intuitive Eating
March 19, 2019 22:57 - 15 minutes - 21.5 MBAre you tired of going on diets and constantly seeking ways to change your body? This episode gives a brief overview of what exactly intuitive eating means and a snapshot into the process. It is the intro episode that will lead the way for ten additional episodes that will walk you through each intuitive eating principle.