Best Podcasts for Intuitive Eating, HAES, and Ditching Diet Culture
There are loads of great podcasts presented by dietitians, nutritionists, doctors, and therapists. Often, they feature other experts on their shows. It’s a fantastic way to learn a lot about a topic and hear some of the discussions and debates on an issue. Here are my favourite podcasts on Health At Every Size®, Body Positivity, and Intuitive Eating.
Anti Diet, Emotional Eating and Body Positivity Books
Looking to make peace with food, exercise and your body? These are the books you need to start with. These books cover the topics of intuitive eating, body confidence, emotional eating and listening to your body's own cues and wisdom.
Intuitive Eating when you have PCOS
Intentional weight loss is often a real struggle for women with PCOS and more often than not leads to feelings of frustration, guilt, shame and desperation, especially where fertility becomes a concern. It’s understandable that many women in this position will turn to drastic diets and risk developing disordered eating, poor body image and eating disorders as a result. These resources discuss how intuitive eating can work with PCOS.
How to deal with weight gain while practising intuitive eating
Gaining weight is very normal for anyone who begins practising intuitive eating after a period of restrictive eating (whether through dieting or restrictive eating disorders). Here are my tips for how to address and cope with your fears around this initial weight gain, in order to avoid falling into the temptation of dieting or disordered eating behaviours.
A Guide to Seeking Professional Help For Disordered Eating
Struggle with disordered eating? Here’s who to turn to first for professional help and a crash course guide to ‘who’s who’ in the health professions, including the difference between a dietitian and a nutritionist, or a counsellor and a psychologist, and what the heck a health coach is.
Does body positivity promote obesity?
Short answer: no, it promotes radical self-acceptance over self-loathing. It promotes a kinder society over a culture rife with appearance-based bullying and body shaming and it promotes physical and psychological recovery from dieting and disordered eating. Here's why:
How To Improve Your Health Without Focusing on Weight Loss
Here's how you can improve your health, without focusing on weight loss. I also explain why not all weight loss is a 'good' thing, or likewise: why not all weight gain is 'bad'.
6 Steps to Ditching Diets Forever: Make Peace With Food, Exercise & Your Body
Here are the six steps you need to take in order to recover from a lifetime of dieting and disordered eating. Be sure to download the free guides!
No Thank You, Fat Club
Here's why I won't be joining my local slimming club, and why I gave up on weight loss in favour of much more worthy pursuits of my time and mental energy (and what happened to my health and fitness when I did this).