Episode description
Alissa Rumsey MS, RD, CDN, CSCS is a nationally recognized and award-winning registered dietitian nutritionist, certified strength and conditioning specialist and the founder of Alissa Rumsey Nutrition and Wellness. Alissa believes that long-term health and well-being comes from ditching diets, meal plans and food rules and learning to cultivate a healthy relationship with food and your body. She helps people who are frustrated with dieting rediscover the joy of eating and develop long-term, sustainable lifestyle habits. As a freelance writer, speaker and spokesperson, she consults with like-minded companies and her expertise has appeared in hundreds of national media outlets including NBC Nightly News, ABC News, Prevention, Health, SELF and Women’s Health. IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS: The recent Weight Watchers campaign to offer their program free to teenagers Alissa shares about her own personal experience with Weight Watchers as a teen She shares how having access to the program from age 16, lead to disordered eating and negative relationship with her body How the point system Weight Watchers uses, reinforces why the program truly IS a diet: the focus is based on an external factor (the points of food) vs. an internal factor (your bodies signals) When we are healing our relationship […]
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