Chew On It

* We recommend listening to part 1 before this episode for a better understanding of the concepts discussed Insecure attachment isn't exclusively a result of your childhood.. We're all becoming a little more insecurely attached and my hope is that in listening to this episode you can feel more comfortable with your discomfort around your peers, seek connection, and heal in community. That...

In this episode with Kate Garland and Vanessa Scaringi, therapists and co-owners of CALM Counseling in Austin , we discuss how attachment theory can help in the healing journey of an eating disorder. I could not agree more with Vanessa that it's not about the food, and that the root of the behaviors matter more than the behaviors themselves (with some exceptions). To learn more about the topic...

In this episode, Katy Cox leads us through an IFS session with me as the "client" to demonstrate how this modality works. Katy is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Master of Public Health trained in eating disorders and IFS for dietitians. She provides insights to our behaviors in such a profound way that can allow someone to get unstuck, or atleast meet themselves with more compassio...

Katy Cox is a registered dietitian, dear friend and colleague, specializing in eating disorders. Katy works intimately with clients to normalize their relationships with food using evidence based strategies. She is Intuitive Eating and Health-at-Every-Size aligned, and is constantly working on growing and evolving herself as a professional and human. In this episode we discuss how effective dietet...

In this episode, you get to hear from a man who's doing respectable work trailblazing through diet culture to support men, and boys, on the intuitive eating journey. Jeff Ash is a Nutritionist, Personal Trainer, Intuitive Eating Coach, and host of the Men's Intuition Podcast ! He is passionate about fitness and nutrition while seeing its limitations, and helps others who fall victim to neg...

El primer episodio en Español (y con video)! Patri es PA (médico asociado) con Maestría de Ciencia Clínica, certificada en Alimentación Intuitiva. Aparte de su experiencia en el campo de la medicina, Patri es multi-cultural y mamá de una hija de 4 años. En este episodio aprenderàs como la cultura impacta nuestros hábitos alimenticios, cómo salirnos de la cultura de dietas y ser màs efectivos en pr...

Sasha Williams is hands down one of the most fascinating women I've ever spoken with. Raised in a small town in Colorado, she has a rich cultural background coming from immigrant parents and having lived in Ukraine, Maui, and even Japan. In the episode, Sasha provides compelling personal accounts of her upbringing - a parallel to the stories I have heard from countless clients of immigrant fam...

Oh yes! Another episode where we mention food guilt and Chocolat! (If you haven't seen it yet, this is your cue!) Kat Scheurer is dietitian nutritionist and personal trainer with a passion for helping others obsess less and live more! Like me, Kat sees the harm that society poses on well-intended, health-conscious individuals and uses non-diet, weight-inclusive work to assuage it. In this episode...

Dawn is a one-stop shop for all things eating disorders, but especially how exercise can go from healthy to unhelpful. With over 30 years in the field of exercise as a physical science and how it relates to mental health, she is the best resource for a compulsive exerciser. As a dietitian I was trained to encourage an active lifestyle, but it wasn't until I learned about HAES and eating disorders...

How wine can tune us in more than tune us out using pleasure as a portal to presence and why HOW we do something is a hell of a lot more important than what we do. In this episode we merge mindfulness and intention in order to eliminate shame and judgement from our consumption.  Full disclosure: there is so much more nuance to this dynamic conversation than is included in this 30-minute segment, i...

One thing's for sure, everyone has disordered eating and a perfect relationship with food is just as mythical and out of reach as the perfect body. That said, there are some very clear dangers at play when it comes to thinking that weightloss is the path to health, and even just being preoccupied with health can be unhealthy. Because everyone has their own beliefs and lived experiences, I am not i...

Agency and autonomy are key to health and resilience, especially for the ADHD population. Try and follow along as 3 ADHDers explain how this can support you in your pursuit of ditching diets and harnessing your own intuitive eater! Claire Weiman, LCSW can be found through her website: https://www.evo-life.com/ And Eliza Barach, PhD can be found on hers: https://www.neural-revolution.com/ As for me...

Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDS-S, Fiaedp, FADA, FAND , is a nutrition therapist in private practice in Beverly Hills, California, with forty years of experience, specializing in eating disorders, Intuitive Eating, and Health at Every Size. She is the co-author/co-creator of Intuitive Eating . Elyse also authors The Intuitive Eating Workbook , and The Intuitive Eating Card Deck—50 Bite-Sized Ways to Ma...

In the first episode of this new season, I interview Michelle Cross, an Intuitive Eating-aligned therapist and dietitian, on the complex intersection between eating behaviors and mental health! Michelle can be found on her website or through her new ED consulting platform: Eating Disorder Consultants .  If you, or someone you love is struggling to make peace with food or their body, I am acce...

Goodbye Rach, hello Guests!! Rachel is moving on to other things, such as two jobs, more time with her husband and cats, and her new youtube channel !! Looking ahead, we have more conversations about non-diet health, intuitive eating, the psychology of eating from the lense of registered dietitians and therapists, and eating disorders/disordered eating. I (Anafer) also plan to bring on past and cu...

A brilliant claim once captivated us dietitians in our relentless pursuit to find the perfect diet for ourselves and our clients: "the best diet is the one you'll stick to". While there are SO many signs pointing to intermittent fasting, we discuss the holes in the hype and provide recommendations to make your diet a sustainable one.   *Anafer discusses specific foods in a woman's diet that were m...

In this episode we explore how to spot when you're hungry, and stop when you're full! Sounds simple? These 44 minutes don't even cover the half of it. We talk about the body's innate mechanism to start and stop eating, how it's tied to self-trust, distorted by dieting, and extremely nuanced. We also cover a few red flags that can come up when trying to listen to hunger cues. This episode does not...

"I'll be happy when I'm skinnier"  "There's something wrong with me/my body because I'm not in the Normal BMI range” "X person is perfect/healthy/happy because they're thin, they must have something that I don't" "I should lose weight to get healthy" If you catch yourself thinking the above statements often, you're likely a victim of weight bias. In this episode we explore how weight bias shows up...

Have you ever found yourself believing nutrition information that leads you to extremes? Fat is bad! Eat less, move more! The list goes on. Well, you aren’t alone. We did too. In this next episode of Chew On It, two dietitians expand on these claims and why they are detrimental to our well-being. Through both client and personal experiences, this episode teaches how to overcome these challenges in...

Two dietitians cover the topic of consistency in Chew On It’s second episode: You Are What You Repeat. For most of us, there's dissonance between our current self and how we envision our future self to be. How do we bridge that gap? Rachel and Anafer discuss the impact that our values and support systems have on our health behaviors. We hope it give you something to chew on.

In this first episode of Chew On It, two dietitians from different backgrounds do a deep dive on food guilt, why it exists, and how to overcome it. Buckle up as they detour into other diet culture topics such as food rules, weight loss, orthorexia, and more.