#166: Cookies vs Celery: Why Your All-Or-None Thinking With Food Is Interfering With Your Health
Rebuilding Trust With Your Body
Release Date: 01/21/2025
Rebuilding Trust With Your Body
When Carrie Saunders discovered she had celiac disease, she finally had answers for years of feeling sick and disconnected from her body. But navigating a medical condition that requires eliminating foods, without falling back into a restrictive dieting mentality, wasn’t easy. In this episode, Carrie shares her story of going from chronic undernourishment to postpartum weight gain, and the long journey toward finding balance, healing, and body trust. We talk about the messy middle: how to take care of your health while staying grounded in intuitive eating, and how to listen to your...
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Do you still feel obsessed or out of control with food, even though you’re not dieting anymore? This is SUPER frustrating, I know. In this episode, I’m breaking down why so many women still feel chaotic around food even after quitting dieting, and why intuitive eating can feel confusing, frustrating, or “like it’s not working.” Before you throw in the towel and go back to your low carb diet or counting calories, listen to this episode. It might change everything for you. We’ll talk about: The sneaky ways diet culture lives on in your thoughts and...
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So… you had a binge. Now you’re wondering if you’ve totally screwed up intuitive eating and thinking, “Do I need to start over? Should I clean out the pantry? Maybe just be extra ‘good’ tomorrow?” Before you go down that spiral…PAUSE, put your hands over your heart, and take a breath. In this episode, I’m walking you through what to do after a binge without punishing yourself, and without turning it into a diet in disguise. We’ll talk about: Why this happened (even if you haven’t been dieting), The sneaky ways diet mentality creeps back in,...
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After decades of being on and off diets, chasing a lower number on the scale, hiding in photos and feeling frustrated with food - today's guest (one of my incredible clients) is sharing her powerful story of finding peace with food and her body, and you’re getting the inside scoop on HOW she did it. In this episode, you'll hear: ✔️ The emotional moment crying in her doctor’s office that led her to intuitive eating ✔️ What it was like to let go of food rules and fear of fullness ✔️ How her relationship with her body has radically shifted ✔️...
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If you have ADHD, intuitive eating can feel confusing. Hunger cues might be delayed, meals forgotten, grocery shopping haphazard, and impulsive eating can feel out of control. In this episode we’ll dig into the nitty gritty of how ADHD affects appetite signals, impulse control around food, and interoception (your ability to sense internal body cues). And don’t worry, we’re also going to cover how stimulant medications impact eating patterns, why a consistent eating schedule is key for ADHD brains, and the overlap between ADHD and binge eating disorder. In this episode I’m...
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You’ve ditched the diets. You know in your soul they don’t work. But suddenly it’s the end of May, and you find yourself wondering if maybe *just maybe* you should try to slim down before shorts and swimsuit season gets into full swing. Sound familiar? In this episode, we’re going deeper than “all bodies are beach bodies.” (Although that part’s still true!) We’re going to look a why your desire to lose weight for summer makes sense from a nervous system perspective, and you can do to help yourself feel more safe and comfortable in your body this summer. Let’s...
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PCOS and managing any health condition that calls for dietary changes can be really challenging when you’re also trying to stay off diets and heal your relationship with food. My guest today is a fellow non-diet dietitian. Julie Duffy Dillon is a Registered Dietitian and Host of Find Your Food Voice®, a popular long running nutrition podcast. Through speaking and writing, she helps people with a complicated relationship with food strategize how to remove the shame and blame dumped on them from the diet industry. Her work has been featured on TLC and in the New York Times, Outside...
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Did you grow up being told things like "finish your plate" or "you can't have dessert until you eat your veggies"? It’s quite possible that these old food rules are still controlling what you eat - even if you don’t realize it. In this episode, we’re diving into how those childhood food rules have stayed with you over the years, and how they’ve morphed through the input from diet culture. Even if you’re technically not dieting anymore, you might still feel stuck in “no man’s land” between food guilt and food freedom, and these sneaky old rules are often the...
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If you’ve recently looked in the mirror or stepped on the scale and felt that rush of panic, you are not alone. In this episode, we’re pushing pause on the shame spiral and digging into what’s really going on beneath that fear. We’ll talk about why your fear of weight gain is not a sign you’re doing intuitive eating wrong — it’s a reflection of the culture we live in. You’ll learn why your body changing is normal (and even healing), how to unpack the meaning you’ve attached to your weight, and what to do when panic hits. You’ll also get practical tools to ride...
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Ever feel like the people closest to you just don’t understand your decision to stop dieting? Maybe they make comments about your body, question your food choices, or can’t stop talking about their latest cleanse. You’re not alone, and you’re certainly not wrong for choosing a different path! In this episode, we’re digging into how to navigate food judgment from friends and family when you're practicing intuitive eating. I’ll share why their reactions make sense (even when they’re hurtful), how to respond with grace and boundaries, and what to do when it feels...
info_outlineIn this episode, you’ll learn how to improve your health with this one powerful mental shift. But here’s the kicker - it’s going to be uncomfortable.
Labeling food as “good/bad” or “healthy/unhealthy” is not only untrue (we’ll get into why not), but it’s also working against you and interfering with your health goals.
That’s because it’s disconnecting you from your body, working against your biology, and setting you up to crave more of the foods you’re trying to avoid. (Cue the late night kitchen raids for chips or cookies.)
You’re going to learn how to let go of the traditional diet culture narratives about healthy eating, so that you can not only have peace with food - but you can also honor your health in ways that actually work and are sustainable.
Episode Highlights
-How your all-or-none thinking with food is showing up, and how it’s getting in your way
-The overall patterns with your eating that matter more than individual food choices
-The supportive vs non-supportive framework (this changes EVERYTHING!)
-Ideas and examples of how to find balance with food using my Have Your Cake & Eat It Too Method
Today’s Wellness Woo is intermittent fasting
Resources Mentioned
- Take my free 2-minute quiz to Discover Your Unique Path to Food Freedom!
Read the full episode show notes here.
Resources for Your Intuitive Eating Journey
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Intuitive eating education on the blog
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Explore the self-paced mini-course Stepping Off The Dieting Rollercoaster
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