not another diet: the podcast

Menopause is a hot topic (cue the flash joke). Unfortunately, that hasn't resulted in helpful information for women and their weight. Instead, it's turned into an echo chamber reinforcing gender stereotypes and bad science. Because of that, what's marketed to us are menopause hairsprays and gummies that somehow (through wishful thinking and fairy dust) solve belly fat.  Google 'is m...

Intuitive Eating has a pretty sexy premise, you can eat whatever you want without rules or constraints. You can also skip quality judgments, meaning there are no good or bad foods (something referred to as the moralizing of food).     The idea is that food will lose its power if you stop trying to demonize or restrict it. But is peace with food a purely mindset, or is the issue considera...

All of modern weight loss (except our approach) is built on willpower–that's exactly why the results are so dismal. Put another way, willpower-based methods manufacture shame by ensuring failure . The common understanding is that you and I have free will to make 'healthy choices,' and if we don't, that's the failure.  There's just one problem, that's dead wrong .  If you've secretly...

Ozempic is inescapable, but is it a good idea? It's all over the news, friends are taking it, and it's now offered alongside Botox at med spas. It's come up in group coaching in our main program. Hell, even our founder briefly considered what these drugs would do for her! If you're trying to deal with chronic weight gain, it's impossible not to consider these drugs. The immediacy of the...

Have you heard the advice, everything in moderation? Total nonsense. Modern food is designed to tinker with your satiation and self-control (and then we blame ourselves). In this episode, Rebecca dives into food processing and understanding its effect on satiation, metabolic health, and weight.  A few questions about you and food:  Do you feel hungry most of the time? Do you wish you cou...

Modern weight loss is built on calorie counting and calorie restriction. This is precisely why it’s such a failure.  In this episode, I delve into the actual effects of calorie counting (and, by extension, food tracking) on our psyches, behavior, mental health, and weight. Tracking calories is a diet culture answer to deal with the effects of food processing . It’s an artificial boundary...

It's taken as gospel that the road to weight loss is knowing your calorie expenditure and intake. So, why does this practice fail to deliver a stable, healthy weight? Rates of regain are a staggering 90% or more. And that's if you can sustain it. If you've struggled with weight,  you've cycled in and out of these counting schemes .  Calories are real(ish). Counting them is a&nb...

If you've ever wondered how some people lose weight and keep it off, this episode is for you. The clues are in the process itself . A process rooted in gentle permanence creates joy and makes weight loss self-sustaining.   Since losing 55 pounds over thirteen years ago, Rebecca has made a careful study of why this approach finally worked. It's a world away from dieting, an...

Have you ever thought, "If I could just stick to the plan..." then this is the episode you need to hear. Diets employ magical thinking and create shame. They're temporary by design. This episode will help you understand the diet schemes you've tried to make work and why they really failed. We often conflate dieting with weight loss, but the two are not the same, and you don't have to do one (dieti...

Do you ever wish someone would just say what the thing is between you and lasting weight loss? Show me the obstacle isn't the craziest request (especially if it's been epically frustrating), but even if you get an answer, it probably won't help. The question is faulty.  In our first episode of Season One: Free Yourself , Rebecca dives into a recent conversation that asked her just t...

Does your weight feel like an endless puzzle you just can't seem to solve? Whether you've struggled over a lifetime or just the last few years, this podcast will help you understand the issues in an entirely different way. If you're constantly scrolling, looking for information, if this is a subject that weighs on your mind -pun intended-then I'm inviting you to listen and learn. I have somet...