Best Podcasts for Intuitive Eating, HAES, and Ditching Diet Culture
There are loads of great podcasts out there presented by dietitians, nutritionists, doctors, and therapists on the topics of diet culture, intuitive eating, health at every size, body image and eating disorder recovery. Often, they feature other experts on their shows. It’s fantastic way to learn a lot about a topic and hear some of the discussions and debates on an issue.
Here are my favourite Intuitive Eating podcasts:
Food Psych, with Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CDN
Christy Harrison’s Food Psych Podcast dives deep into the psychology of food and disordered eating. She’s a registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counsellor. Christy’s podcast is host to amazing guests who talk on the topics of body liberation, body positivity, Health at Every Size® and diet culture.
Recommended episodes:
• ‘How Diet Culture harms your health’ – with Joanne Ikeda
• The truth about weight science’ – with Fiona Willer
• ‘How to stop pursuing weight loss and make peace with your body’ – with Ijeomo Oluo
• ‘The truth about emotional eating’ – with Isabel Foxen Duke
• ‘How to heal from weight stigma’ – with Kathleen Bishop
• ‘How to leave the religion of dieting’ – with Alan Levinovits
Don’t Salt My Game, with Laura Thomas, PhD
Laura Thomas, PhD, is a registered Nutritionist specialising in Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size® and non-diet nutrition. Laura is great at taking clinical research and breaking it down into clear, simple takeaways for listeners.
Recommend episodes:
• ‘Will intuitive eating help me lose weight + other FAQs’
• ‘How to heal body image’ – with Meredith Noble
• ‘When public health totally misses the point’ – with Dr Oli Williams
• ‘Diet-binge-diet-binge-diet-binge’ – with Isabel Foxen Duke
• ‘The inside scoop on Intuitive Eating’ – with Evelyn Tribole (co-author of Intuitive Eating)
• ‘But is it healthy to be fat?’ – with Dr Charlotte Cooper
• ‘How to make peace with food and your body’ – with Megan Crabbe (aka Bodyposipanda)
Life: Unrestricted, with Meret Boxler
Meret Boxler is a writer and ex-radio DJ, currently on her own mission to heal her mind and body from Diet Culture. As she says on her website: “More Specifically: after decades of dieting, feeling ashamed in my body, going totally overboard with exercise, being obsessed with food, calories, and weight, I want to get my mind straight again. I’m sick of the “need to be skinny to be happy”- misery so many of us end up in”.
Her podcast, Life Unrestricted, is brilliant for offering the perspective of someone in recovery herself, as she learns alongside you during her interviews with prominent experts in the fields of HAES®, Intuitive Eating, Body Positivity and eating disorder recovery.
Recommended episodes:
• Ep 74: Cyndi Springfield: Breaking decades of body shame, food rules and exercise addiction.
• Ep 73: Tabitha Farrar – Adult Eds, the lure of the energy deficit, and going “food first” in recovery.
• Ep 72: Dr Michelle May – Eating without fear, specifically for diabetes.
• Ep 70: Lu Uhrich: End the restrict/binge/ over exercise cycle and get your health and period back.
Dietitians Unplugged, with Aaron Flores and Glenys Oyston
The Dietitians Unplugged podcast is hosted by Aaron Flores, RDN and Glenys Oyston, RDN. They discuss Health at Every Size®, Intuitive Eating and rip into Diet Culture, alongside lots of great guests from the body positivity/HAES® community.
Recommended episodes:
• Episode 28 – Kai Hibbard celebrates the end of The Biggest Loser (Kai Hibbard is a former contestant from Season 3 of TBL)
• Episode 2 – Why Diets Don’t Really Work
• Episode 27 – PCOS, HAES® and Eating Disorders: Interview with Julie Duffy
• Episode 20 – Hilary Kinavey: How to include our partner’s in our HAES® journey
