In Episode 61, I chat with Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CDN. She is an anti-diet registered dietitian nutritionist and certified intuitive eating counselor, and her book ANTI-DIET is coming out December 24th, 2019! (So... like, now.) I read the book early, and it's great. It's a super comprehensive look at why obsessing over what you eat is bad for your health. If you've already read my book, I think you'd love it as further reading! (It's super aligned with The F*ck It Diet, obviously!) Show Note...
Dec 23, 2019•57 min
"How do I get to a place where I am confident enough to tune out diet culture? (When it's ...everywhere?)" The truth of the matter is that weight loss and diet talk are everywhere. It's actually, in many ways, the definition of diet culture: a culture where dieting and weight loss attempts are the norm - and are everywhere. But when it gets hard, or when we don't feel so great, or so confident, we wonder if we've made a mistake. If maybe, the diet that your co-worker is now on is maybe the one y...
Nov 30, 2019•1 hr 4 min
Hello cruel world, I am back. I've been on a sort-of hiatus from writing these posts, and from podcasting - even though I spend approximately 9 hours a day on instagram, and tried to go on a vacation but still posted on instagram every day. I also tried to say to myself: "Caroline, why don't you just relax and not worry about what you're going to do next. You just spent 3 years on a book, you just released the book, people are reading it, buying it, loving it. And you just ran the book course in...
Sep 29, 2019•57 min
Here is another podcast episode with life updated and answering your questions!!!! I'm going to take a 3 month podcast hiatus to focus on The F*ck It Diet Book Club, see you at the end of the summer!
May 04, 2019•1 hr 5 min
IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T HEARD ME YELLING ABOUT IT ALL OVER MY CORNERS OF THE INTERNET, MY BOOK IS OUT! You find lots of purchase links here (or read the beginning for free). Today... there's no new post. Just a new podcast episode where I ramble, tell you to buy my book, and answer some listener questions! ENJOY.
Apr 12, 2019•40 min
Lots of people have been asking me: "Is TFID the same as Intuitive Eating?" It is and it isn't. They have the same goal: body trust, appetite trust, and food trust, with different ways of teaching and explaining how to get there. A lot of my writing over the years has talked about how I turned (what I thought was) "intuitive eating" and "listening to my body" into a diet. I turned it into a weird stressful attempt to eat the smallest amount possible. I interpreted good advice through a fat-phobi...
Mar 03, 2019•34 min
I started writing about how to heal from disordered eating and body hatred seven years ago, back when I was f---king* sick of being afraid of rice, and being full, and gaining weight. My life was hijacked by the obsession with beauty and thinness and health and purity. And I was f---ing over it. I didn't start this website to become instagram famous or become a "thought leader" or "influencer" in this space. (Ew?) I didn't set out to work with people or run groups. And I definitely didn't think ...
Feb 02, 2019•55 min
Some people assume that The F*ck It Diet is unnecessarily extreme. They assume it's a steady diet of donuts, McDonald's, and fried ice cream for the rest of our short little lives. That we're a group of lazy anarchists who are reveling in our newfound food-related health problems, and not taking any personal responsibility for our health, and who refuse to make any attempts at self-improvement. Or they think: Why can't we just be balanced? Why can't we just enjoy cake every so often but mostly t...
Jan 02, 2019•32 min
I am in the last stages of finalizing my book, and I just found a glaring error about weight and starvation which shows my bias and assumptions about weight. In the book I wrote that if a famine never ended, you would eventually become emaciated and die. BUT THAT ISN'T TRUE. If a famine never ended, you could still die in 8-12 weeks, even if you're fat, because your body would break down your muscles to convert to ketones to keep your brain and body running, and in the absence of food, would wea...
Dec 02, 2018•48 min
Some of the angriest comments I get on instagram are from people who swear that the keto diet is helping them and that I'm soooo incredibly ignorant and/or deceitful for saying that the body prefers carbs. However, for every comment where someone is swearing by keto, there are twenty more comments with people saying that they too tried keto, with hope bursting in their hearts, only to find that after a few months it had fucked up their metabolism, hormones, energy levels, sanity, and has been re...
Nov 05, 2018•54 min
Lots of people ask me, “ok -- I can get behind the “no dieting” thing, but aren’t there foods that are inherently … shitty? Shouldn’t I still avoid shitty food, even while I’m “not dieting”? Here's the thing - and it's important: If I told you stop dieting but to try and avoid or even limit “shitty food,” that would first of all, be a rule, which is a diet, which would turn into restriction in many people’s heads and fuck up their eating anyway. But people would also think, oh jeez… So there IS ...
Oct 06, 2018•44 min
Maintaining a low weight is one of my core values. How am I supposed to be happy if I sacrifice one of my core values? I have heard something like this again and again, and I think... maintaining a low weight is one of your core values? Like treating others the way you’d want to be treated and being honest? Maintaining a low weight is not a core value. It’s a fear-based ingrained societal standard, created to make money off of your insecurities. Keeping your weight below where it wants to be rel...
Sep 03, 2018•48 min
How expensive is this whole thing? I am just supposed to let myself eat anything, anytime, anywhere? How can I afford this? Will I spend all my money out at restaurants? Or will I have to make everything at home?! How do I grocery shop now that nothing is off limits? How will I know what I’m going to crave in a few days? Woa! Calm down! First of all, there is nothing more expensive than being on a diet. Diet food and low-calorie food is often marked up to be way more expensive than normal food (...
Aug 02, 2018•41 min
Can you teach a control freak to become more chill? Food and body issues are a manifestation of the underlying fear that everything is falling apart. It's a way we try to mitigate the panic of being alive. If we don’t control and micromanage this, we’re all screwed. We can’t trust anything to work if we aren’t actively controlling it and tending to it. Disaster. Chaos. Destruction. The idea is that by controlling the way you eat, and therefore (we hope) our looks and health and mortality, we can...
Jul 09, 2018•1 hr 28 min
How DOES a normal person eat? This totally depends on your definition of ‘normal.’ Here’s the truth: most people are a little disordered with their eating these days. Obsessive or disordered eating is common, so you could call it normal. But it’s not normal - it shouldn’t be normal. And it’s definitely not healthy. So instead of calling it normal eating, I call it ease with food. This is how a person who has ease with food eats: -They can go through their day and pretty much only think about foo...
May 14, 2018•1 hr 29 min
Over the weekend I did this weird dancing video to Jesus Christ Superstar when I was reunited with my weird sister, and I shared it on TFID instagram. As I shared it I thought maybe it was a mistake, because watching it back I noticed I looked so thin. I don’t show my full body often in my work with TFID - when I do, it raises lots of questions that I think are ultimately unhelpful distractions. Like this comment from a follower: First of all, think about what it means when you say, "you are thi...
Apr 17, 2018•1 hr 26 min
Diet companies are thrilled that diets seem like they work. Diet companies are also thrilled that diets, ultimately, almost always fail. And diet companies are thrilled that everyone seems to think that it's their own personal fault that it failed. Weight loss studies last long enough to take note of the weight that’s lost, they don’t go on long enough to see what happens after the weight is lost. That’s very convenient for the companies funding the studies, who are almost always the companies w...
Apr 03, 2018•34 min
"I shouldn't be this hungry." Judging your appetite is one of the things that will keep you very stuck. We are trying to heal the body and mind of all restriction, not just physical under eating, but the guilt and overthinking that comes along with restriction, too — mental restriction. If you feel guilt over your eating, you are experiencing mental restriction. It’s the kind of guilt that makes you feel like you should or shouldn’t be eating a certain way. It is very common to make major improv...
Mar 20, 2018•41 min
We are a culture of Yo-Yo Dieters. So many of us try to stick to diets, only to find ourselves bingeing, then restricting even more, then bingeing again, then restricting more, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Our eating is all over the place, our weight is all over the place, our sanity is all over the place, and we feel totally out of control with food. So why does that happen? Why do so many of us seem to have such terrible will-power when it comes to what we put in our mouths? It comes down to a very fun...
Mar 06, 2018•38 min
We've been told that calories in versus calories out is how-weight-works. "Eat less than you expend and you'll lose weight". But this is what really happens: "Eat less that you expend and you'll lose weight at first, but then you'll gain it all back and think it's your fault- but it is actually because your body will compensate your metabolism in order to keep your weight stably around the same place, because biologically that is how we have survived as a species during all those years when food...
Feb 20, 2018•37 min
Or: What to Expect When You Are Expecting to Heal Your Eating Real Fast And Become Skinny (If you're curious why I am editing the F word, it's because of itunes' new rules. SMGDH) Your personal journey will be different from mine, or your friend’s, or the people you connect with on the internet. That being said, there will mostly likely be overlap and similar experiences as well, so I am going to list some things many people experience, just so you’re prepared. Expect to be very hungry in the be...
Jan 23, 2018•39 min
I was taught, just like most people, that thin was healthy, and not-thin was not-healthy. I was also taught that thin was beautiful and that not-thin was not beautiful. And that if for some reason you were living your life at a not-thin and “not-optimal” weight, then you should do everything you could to make sure your clothes are as “flattering” as possible to give the illusion of as much thinness as your current condition will allow. It turns out that not only is that fucking messed up and inf...
Jan 09, 2018•34 min
(I'm doing an experiment where I publish new articles and podcast episodes at the same time, on the same content, and see how that goes. If you want to ask questions for the podcast, you can become a podcast insider over at Patreon by clicking here.) When you start a meal thinking, "I shouldn't eat too much of this," that's a diet. Meaning: it's diet mentality, it's fear of food, fear of amounts, an attempt at controlling from the outside in, it's fear of weight, and fear and mistrust of your ap...
Dec 09, 2017•33 min
Today I cover politics, how being paleo led me to the f it diet, and podcast insider questions about vegetarianism, and my take on "trying to prevent binges". Become a podcast insider at patreon.com/carolinedooner
Dec 01, 2017•41 min
We talk emotional eating. We talk cult leaders. We talk why no one knows everything. And we talk about Yoga Sleep: yoga nidra. And rest rest rest. It's a short one today. But more coming soon!
Nov 20, 2017•25 min
Today lots of listener questions are about health. And then I get so tired that I fall asleep on the podcast. Go to patreon.com/carolinedooner to become a podcast insider!
Nov 09, 2017•39 min
Answering podcast insider questions!!! Do foods have energies good and bad? How do I stop overthinking How hungry I am? Is sugar addiction something that addicts need to be worried about? All this and moHORE in this week's episode. Become a podcast insider on Patreon.
Oct 16, 2017•46 min
This episode includes a story about how I cut my own hair today (mistake) and answers some awesome listener questions: Do I have to be spiritual to benefit from The f it diet? Why aren't all my limiting beliefs going away?? This is the first episode where I feel like the patreon community is swinging into gear and really helping to direct the podcast. Go to patreon.com/carolinedooner to join us!
Sep 29, 2017•49 min
Today I read unpublished blog posts, including: How to Start, Waiting to Not Be hungry, What I Wish I Knew Before, and The Worst Thing About Being on a Diet. Ask your questions for the podcast over at PATREON.com/CAROLINEDOONER
Sep 16, 2017•23 min
Answering Podcast insider questions today, as well as reading recent posts. Become a podcast insider at Patreon!
Aug 22, 2017•34 min
