In this killer ep Laura + Sarah, a Registered Nutritionist, jump into the world of child feeding + answer frequently asked parents' questions when it comes to raising intuitive eaters. In this episode they discuss: ✨ How messages from diet culture + (mostly) well-intentioned friends + family can encourage kids to undermine their internal hunger + fullness cues ✨ Responsive feeding, the Division of Responsibility + how these approaches can help take the pressure of parents + carers ✨ What overt +...
Oct 26, 2018•1 hr 41 min•Season 3Ep. 93
This week Laura + Alan Flanagan, aka The Nutritional Advocate, dismantle a whole load of stuff that bloggers and influencers have been saying. In this episode they discuss: ✨ The need to be sceptical of n=1 anecdotal evidence that pops up A LOT on social media + blogs ✨ The dumbf**kery of the carnivore diet ✨ The problems with conflating moral considerations with nutritional benefits when it comes to dairy ✨ The bizarre claim that gluten is "better" in Europe than America ✨ How the nocebo effect...
Oct 19, 2018•1 hr 34 min•Season 3Ep. 92
This week Laura chats to Jes Baker, bad-ass author + unabashed fat chick. They sink their teeth into healthism, compassion + just how god damn hard it is to go from dieting to a more intuitive relationship with food + your body. In this episode they discuss: ✨ Protecting your mental health online ✨ Being gentle with yourself when you're starting out with rejecting diet mentality + to try and let go of shame + guilt ✨ That doing a total 180 from dietland to donutland is totally fine + normal ✨ Ho...
Oct 12, 2018•1 hr 19 min
⚠️TW: Eating Disorders. This week Laura chats to Scott Griffiths who's a male body image researcher at the Uni of Melbourne. They get into the nitty gritty of muscle dysmorphia and how pressures from media + our wider social constructs can affect male body image. In this episode they discuss: ✨ What muscle dysmorphia is + its various risk factors ✨ Similarities between the driving forces of muscle dysmorphia + anorexia nervosa ✨ The issues with moralising health + the problems with #fitspo ✨ The...
Oct 05, 2018•59 min
This week Laura's joined by Fiona Willer, HAES dietitian + PhD researcher, director of Health Not Diets + author of The Non Diet Approach Guidebook for Dietitians. They take a deep dive into the current evidence within the weight science arena, pulling it apart to figure out what we can learn from it + improvements that need to be made in research + clinical practice going forward. In this episode they discuss: ✨ The historical inaccuracy of the paleo diet using Fiona's archeological knowledge ✨...
Sep 28, 2018•1 hr 38 min•Season 3Ep. 89
As an extra little nugget of podcast gold, we're releasing this section of Laura's discussion with Nadia on body talk - "positive" + negative. They discuss: ✨ How best to respond to body talk w/ friends + family ✨ How even "positive" body talk can be unhelpful ✨ What to say when your friend says that they've lost weight ✨ Tips on what to do if the temptation to engage in critical self talk arrises. Show Notes { Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess } {PRE-ORDER MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | F...
Sep 26, 2018•29 min
The pod is back for its 3rd season! And this week Laura speaks to Nadia Craddock, one half of the Appearance Matters podcast - the official podcast of the Centre for Appearance Research at UWE. They take a dive deep into the research on body image (BI) - what it currently shows us + what's missing, get into the nitty gritty of the wider social justice piece around body image, and finish off by sharing some practical tips for challenging negative body image. In this episode, Laura and Nadia discu...
Sep 21, 2018•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 88
In the final episode of our Summer Shorts series I'm tackling more of your intuitive eating FAQs - I cover: ✨How to respond when a doctor body shames you ✨How do I stop emotional eating? {spoiler: it's not what you think!} ✨Can intuitive eating help in eating disorder recovery Show Notes {PRE-ORDER MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles - I'll share international links when they become available!} {Work With Us at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating - in person & Skype available} { Ca...
Aug 24, 2018•27 min•Season 2Ep. 87
Alright team - getting close to the end of our Summer Short series - today I'm going deeper into Intuitive Eating, answering your next-level IE questions. We cover: ✨Whether Intuitive Eating will help you lose weight ✨If you can practice Intuitive Eating when you have a health condition ✨The Nocebo Effect ✨And what if you don't experience regular hunger & fullness cues because you're on medication, you're neurodivergent or you've just been dieting for a really long time Next week we'll be co...
Aug 17, 2018•35 min•Season 2Ep. 86
Intuitive Eating; what’s the deal? What is it? How the eff do you do it? What are the benefits? Where do I start? Today, it's just me, covering some of my most frequently asked questions in this week's (not so) Summer Short. I talk about: ✨What exactly is disordered eating and why a definition based purely on behaviours is unhelpful ✨A little of the history of Intuitive Eating ✨Where to start and where to get more support ✨The 10 principles of Intuitive Eating ✨The evidence based benefits of Int...
Aug 10, 2018•35 min•Season 2Ep. 85
In this week’s episode of our summer shorts series, Pixie and Laura tackle some myths about carbs, including debunking the one that says that “carbs make you fat” and discussing why this is problematic. In this episode Laura and Pixie discussed: ✨What whole grains are and why we shouldn't sweat eating 'white' grain varieties if we want to ✨Tips for boosting your fibre intake ✨Why carbs don't cause diabetes ✨That eating a potato is not the same as eating a bowl of sugar Show Notes { Pixie Turner ...
Aug 03, 2018•28 min•Season 2Ep. 84
In this episode of our summer shorts series, Associate Registered Nutritionist Pixie Turner and Laura sink their teeth into the BBC programme ‘The Big Crash Diet Experiment’. The programme put participants with health conditions on an extremely restrictive very low energy shakes and soup diet. In this episode Laura and Pixie discuss: ✨The double standard where behaviours that are considered ‘eating disorder behaviours’ in a smaller body are considered healthy and encouraged in someone of a highe...
Jul 27, 2018•24 min•Season 2Ep. 82
With wedding season well underway, Laura speaks to Harri Rose about how to stay true to yourself and not get swept up in wedding fever. Harri is a certified health coach who helps people get unf*cked up from diet culture around food and their bodies so that they can live their best life and create their own version of wellness. She has done talks for organisations such as Sony Music and will be at many of the UK’s biggest festivals this summer with the Anti Riot Diet Club. In this episode Laura ...
Jul 20, 2018•24 min
For the second episode of the Summer Shorts series Laura speaks to Becky, founder of Anti-Diet Riot Club, about Becky's 5 top tips for cultivating body confidence and self-compassion this summer. In this episode Laura and Becky discuss: ✨ How mindfulness helps you to be more present and conscious of your emotions ✨ How social media can encourage us to unconsciously view ourselves as commodities ✨ The power of curating our social media feeds ✨ Ditching social media first thing in the day could be...
Jul 13, 2018•28 min•Season 2Ep. 81
In the first episode of our summer shorts series, Associate Registered Nutritionist Pixie Turner and I dissect a worrying Cosmo article from the July 2018 issue that feels more like a flashback to the clean eating articles of 2014. The article called 'Choose it or Lose it' promotes unnecessarily restrictive food swaps, demonising perfectly good foods and reads like a 'how to guide to orthorexia'. In this episode we: ✨Discuss why it's unhelpful to focus on the minutiae of detail about nutrition ✨...
Jul 06, 2018•23 min•Season 2Ep. 80
Today I'm speaking with the fantastic Jennifer Rollin, who is a Clinical Psychotherapist and Eating Disorder Specialist based in the US. We’re sharing loads of information about eating disorders, who gets them and why, we’re blowing some stereotypes out of the water, and talking about dos and don'ts if you’re supporting someone with an ED. Then we go on to talk more specifically about body image; how body bashing is a coping mechanism and ways to develop self-worth and value independent of your ...
Jun 29, 2018•1 hr 12 min
In this week's episode I'm talking to Monica Karpinski, founder of The Femedic, a platform for discussing taboo topics in women's health. We talk about the parallels between diet culture and the narratives around ‘successful sex’ and how both are systems of control and oppression. How the mainstream portrayal of sex as being predominantly about men’s pleasure takes away from the control and ownership of female bodies - much like dieting does. How narratives around sex teach women to take up less...
Jun 22, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 78
Mega excited to talk to the charming Meredith Noble of Made on a Generous Plan. There's something so calming and joyful about Meredith's presence, even when talking about some really heavy things like healing the relationship you have with your body and with self. Not exactly causal topics, but she makes it easy to talk about. If you're new to Meredith then I think you're going to love her, and if you already know her, you'll know how much of a treat it is to have her on the show. We talk about:...
May 25, 2018•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 77
In part two of my conversation with academic and activist Dr. Oli Williams, we discuss the work he does via his art collective, Act With Love. The mission of AWL is to translate Oli's research from complex ideas on weight stigma and inequality into artwork that conveys a simple message. In this 'sode we cover: ✨How health is not defined by weight ✨ The problem with using BMI as a measure of health ✨ How weight stigma worsens health outcomes ✨ The moralisation of bodies ✨ Weight bias in the medic...
May 19, 2018•59 min
When we think about what needs to be done to improve population health, we think about things like getting people moving more, and eating plenty of fruit and veg. But what if well intentioned health promoting campaigns (like Change 4 Life, 5-a-day, + the sugar tax) actually didn't improve health, but made the disparities in health WORSE? That's the focus of the conversation between myself and researcher/activist Dr. Oli Williams. This is a really rich conversation and I can't wait for you to hea...
May 18, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 76
IFD is health coach, creator of the Stop Fighting Food programme and all round BA. Today she shares her story of being a chronic dieter and how she recovered from 'compulsive overeating'. Isabel has tried every diet in the book, and all the diets pretending not to be diets. She even turned Intuitive Eating into a diet (which she doesn't recommend). In this episode, Isabel shares some of the insights that made her stop feeling crazy around food, and some things that might help you! In this episod...
Apr 06, 2018•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 75
Have you been told that you need to lose weight and cut carbs to manage your PCOS symptoms? That's the advice a lot of people get, problem is, that can be super triggering for anyone who has a history of disordered eating or who wants to build a healthy relationship to food. But don't sweat, I'm joined by non-diet dietitian and PCOS genius Julie Duffy Dillon to talk about how to manage your PCOS from a non-diet, non-restrictive perspective. In this episode we discuss: ✨ What PCOS is ✨ Why dietin...
Mar 30, 2018•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 74
I'm SO PUMPED to share this episode with you, I think you're going to love it! Today I'm talking to Evelyn Tribole, registered dietitian and co-author of Intuitive Eating. Yup, Evelyn is the OG creator of the Intuitive Eating concept, and evidence based approach to building a healthier relationship to food. Evelyn has such a depth of knowledge and incredible insight into the IE process, she is so awesome and I can't wait for you to listen! In this episode we talk about: ✨ The history of Intuitiv...
Mar 23, 2018•59 min•Season 2Ep. 73
HEY OH! Look who's back. Coming in with a book update, followed by a conversation that desperately needed to be had, and I couldn't think of a more perfect guest for it than dietitian Paige Smathers (of the Nutrition Matters podcast). Paige and I are addressing some recent criticisms made about the non-diet movement like we're a) telling everyone to eat doughnuts all day long and b) shaming people who want to lose weight. This is in response to an article that was published recently which critic...
Mar 16, 2018•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 72
On this week's 'sode I'm talking to Dr. Charlotte Cooper, psychotherapist and author of fat activism; she is punk, witchy, queer, and fat, and one of the coolest people I've ever met. This is potentially one of my favourite episodes ever. We talk about the euphimising and watering down of fat phobia by the medical establishment. We talk about how the 'War on Obesity' and organisations like the WHO are responsible for creating the problem of fat phobia in the first place and how they are now tryi...
Jan 26, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 71
Happy New year team! Today I'm talking to the incredible Marci Evans about body image, self-acceptance, and food 'addiction'. Marci is a certified EDRD, a body image healer, and intuitive eating counsellor. Our conversation is a great antidote to all the diet culture BS you're seeing everywhere right now. We talk about why it's so challenging to develop positive body image, what real body positivity actually means and thin privilege. We also look more closely at self-acceptance and self-compassi...
Jan 11, 2018•1 hr 37 min•Season 2Ep. 70
In the final episode of 2017, we're talking to the sensational Fiona Sutherland, non-diet dietitian & yoga teacher, about how to navigate the holidays around food, body image, and diet chat. We discuss everything from how to cope with food guilt & anxiety, to how to stop food FOMO, breaking the binge/restrict cycle, and how to deal with diet chat and the food police. This is probably my favourite episode of the whole year; Fiona is a total babe, so warm and compassionate but doesn't take...
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 43 min
This Black Friday we're celebrating the little guys; the indie makers, creators, designers and small shops in our That's My Jam Christmas Gift Guide Special. Emily Beeson, the blogger and creative soul at Young Gold Teeth shares her favourite independents where you can find that really special gift for that hard-to-buy-for person in your life. Whether they're the nester/homebody type, the foodie, or you just need a secret santa gift that doesn't suck, we got you. Emily also shares where to find ...
Nov 24, 2017•1 hr 51 min
This week we're talking to Michelle Elman, the 'grammer behind two of my fave Insta accounts; Scarred not Scared and Body Positive Memes. We talk about her WILD medical history, including 15 surgeries, a brain tumour, and a near death experience. WHOAH. Plus, how to cultivate body positivity when your body has been through SO MUCH STUFF. Plus we talk about Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, and why you deserve to take a break BEFORE you break down. Show Sponsor Switch up your lunch game wit...
Nov 17, 2017•1 hr 25 min
Today we're talking to Catherine Lippe, a Registered Nutritionist who specialises in paediatric and maternal nutrition, about how to raise intuitive eaters. The things we say, how we act, and what we *think* kids should do can all influence how kids relate to food, and sometimes we do or say things with the best of intentions, that can totally backfire. Catherine shares her tips for things to look out for and we share a model for child feeding that helps take the pressure off parents, and helps ...
Nov 10, 2017•1 hr 34 min
