Ep 87 How to Reduce Your Physical Pain without Weight Loss as a Requirement | Danny Schapiro, PT
Release Date: 07/05/2022
Ep 113 How to Get Back on Track without Dieting or Restricting
More Than What You Eat
Post-holiday is often a time where many resolve to “get back on track” with their eating habits. However, what happens when the intention of getting back on track is rooted in restriction and food rule? In this episode I talk about how you can truly get back on track and realign yourself with your body’s needs to live a sustainable healthy life, without food rules or obsession – so you can be the expert of your body and feel confident with food, for life! If you’re desiring personalized and nuanced support to end the food chaos and body shame effectively so you can confidently...
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Ep 112 What my husband taught me about what NOT to do if you want Intuitive Eating to work for you
More Than What You Eat
In today’s episode Rachel shares why her husband ended up in bed with fever for 2 days after racing in central park because he did not take her advice, and the lessons this experience will teach you in your food and body peace journey. In this episode, we cover: The advice I gave my husband in preparation for the race we signed up for Why he got fever after the race How this experience is a roadmap to why intuitive eating is not working for you What you SHOULD do to heal your relationship with food and end the food chaos - effectively. The importance...
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Ep 111 Is my weight gain healthy or unhealthy?
More Than What You Eat
Weight gain has been demonized by diet culture, that much is clear. Which makes it hard to heal your body image, especially if you've regained weight as you have been healing your relationship with food. Given body diversity is normal and we are not all meant to be thin, this can be normal and a part of the healing process. But what happens when you keep gaining and gaining weight? How do you know when it is part of healing or part of an issue? And more importantly, if it is a result of an unhealthy reason, what is the solution? [hint: its still not dieting!] I recently...
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Ep 110 How to reclaim nutrition without the food rules or dieting stress
More Than What You Eat
Diet culture complicates nutrition when in reality - it’s really quite simple. But what happens when you want to care for your health BUT: → You don’t know what ‘healthy eating’ looks like anymore. → You’re worried you’ll revert back to your dieting ways. → You’re so burned out from your dieting days that even the thought of vegetables makes you feel restricted. → You feel so confused on what nutrition advice you should be listening to with all the misinformation out there. I answer every one of these questions [and more] in this episode!...
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Ep 109 Life on the other side of food rules and body shame & the power of reclaiming body autonomy to manage medical conditions with past client Jovaughn
More Than What You Eat
If you’re struggling to climb out of the dark hole that is food rules, stress, guilt, and body shame - my past client’s Jovaughn’s journey is going to show you that there IS a light at the end of the tunnel! In this episode Jovaugh shares with us how she went from fearing carbs, restricting food & feeling guilty all the time for what she ate, not knowing how to manage her blood pressure, and never feeling good enough in her body to → enjoying all foods without guilt and without losing control, reclaiming her body autonomy and feeling empowered to care for her health in...
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Ep 108 Where Your Food Noise & Inner Body Bully comes from and How to Find Healing Within Yourself with Robin Gutman LSCW
More Than What You Eat
Living with an inner critic in your mind that relentlessly makes you feel bad about your body.. That tells you how ‘bad’ you are for eating a slice of cake… That convinces you that you're weak, a failure, and not enough - is EXHAUSTING! But what if the way to rid yourself of these mean thoughts wasn’t to focus on actually getting rid of them? Because so far, that hasn’t worked. It’s only causing you to get more frustrated with yourself. What if the answer was not to fight these mean thoughts, but to lean in to them? In this podcast...
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Ep 107 The Difference Between Food Freedom & Intuitive Eating (why they are NOT the same thing!)
More Than What You Eat
In this episode, Rachel covers: The difference between eating with freedom and eating with intuition (and why the 2 get confused) When food freedom can turn into impulsive eating and red flags to look out for Reasons you are stuck in the ‘eat what you want’ phase but still don’t feel physically good or in control Essential steps to assess and take in order to eat with freedom AND intuition - so can enjoy food and feel like your healthiest self. Rachel’s Resources: Follow Rachel on Stop feeling out of control with food using the FREE eguide: ...
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Ep 106 3 Things I’d do differently if I were starting my business from scratch - this will accelerate YOUR success
More Than What You Eat
The sooner you focus on the RIGHT things to build your business and work with dream clients, the sooner you’ll achieve that goal and live out your vision of success. Looking back, when I began my entrepreneur journey, I stalled my own success because I was focusing on the wrong things. Things I thought were important but actually weren’t. As soon as I understood what actually matters in building a successful business and took action in that direction, I signed on dream clients, created and fully booked programs and scaled my business to have the time and location...
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Ep 105 How I overcame my driver’s anxiety + a step by step approach to face your fears
More Than What You Eat
When I shared a video of me cruising in my car, jamming to music, and expressing how thankful I am that I faced my fear of driving and am now able to relax and enjoy the ride - I did not expect to have people asking me how I overcame my fear of driving! Apparently driver’s anxiety is more common than I thought. So I’m sharing with you the step by step approach I took to overcome this fear. But really, this approach works for overcoming ANY fear that’s holding you back. If you have fears that hold you back from… Making peace with food Healing...
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Ep 104 Understanding & Managing Your Period Cravings + Identifying Hormonal Imbalances | Amanda Montalvo RD
More Than What You Eat
Do you feel like you are ‘good’ all week, even month, and then your period comes along and RUINS it all with intense cravings that send you spiraling into a binge and shame fest? One thing I WISH I knew years ago was that period cravings are NORMAL. It's so sad that as women diet culture conditions us to believe that all we need is more "willpower" to beat period cravings.. or to eat some frozen grapes instead??? (um, how are we even comparing grapes to a big ol' bowl of trix? Do ya think my taste buds are dumb?!). It is this exact mindset that causes the period binges,...
info_outlineYou may have been led to believe that increased weight is the cause of increased pain. You repeat to yourself what you may have been often told by others and even medical professionals: “If I could only lose weight, then I would be pain-free. It’s my fault and I can change this by just losing the weight if I try hard enough.”
But is that really the truth?
We dive into this struggle in today’s podcast episode with former ballroom dance champion and Physical Therapist Danny Schapiro.
Danny focuses on helping everyBODY move and feel good, no matter their size. Because everyone’s body is different and all bodies deserve to feel better and move without pain. It’s not about the size of the person, but about how they are moving and he shares actionable tips on how you can do just that starting right now, not X pounds from now!!
Danny joins us to share the “connection” between pain and weight, the reasons you should ask “why” when seeing a medical professional, and the importance of focusing on what is happening inside the body instead of what size the body is.
In this episode we cover:
- [3:30] The connection between the mechanics of movement and how they are (or are not) influenced by weight
- [12:45] Simple movement changes that can help with knee pain
- [15:00] How to know that joint pain is not connected to the mechanics of movement
- [22:02] Common Physical Therapy modifications that can be done to help accommodate larger bodies
- [32:12] Danny’s advice on how to advocate for yourself in a health care setting and red flags that should send you looking for a new provider
- [47:05] Danny’s final advice on being an investigator of your own health