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Beliefs about weight in the medical field and the barriers to approaching health in a weight-neutral way. It’s the first episode of Beyond Weight - a NEW series that asks the question “how can we manage health concerns without focusing on weight loss, food restriction, and body shame?” - and in it Jill is speaking with Dr. Lesley Williams-Blackwell, a board certified family doctor and certified ea...

It's here! The latest podcast series on The Food Freedom/Body Love podcast has arrived! We're calling it: Beyond Weight - and we're asking the question “how can we manage health concerns without focusing on weight loss, food restriction, and body shame?”. Today, Jill is giving you the inside scoop on this new series and the exciting episodes to come. 

In this episode, Jill wraps up the Sessions series with a conversation about weight stability and the values we uphold when it comes to food and bodies. In this session, Jill discusses: What is weight stability, why do we care about it? What disrupts weight stability? What to do when homeostasis has been disrupted and you can't fix it on an individual level The season of summer - why it's for conn...

In the ninth (and FINAL!) episode of Sessions - a NEW series on the Food Freedom/Body Love podcast where you get to listen in on 1:1 conversations between Jill and those struggling with food, body image, weight, and health - Jill talks with a nutritional therapist who started her practice offering up sugar detoxes but has now shifted into coaching others on how to adopt a model of trust for eating...

In the eighth episode of Sessions - a NEW series on the Food Freedom/Body Love podcast where you get to listen in on 1:1 conversations between Jill and those struggling with food, body image, weight, and health - Jill talks with an intuitive eating practitioner whose work focuses on those transitioning through menopause. As she coaches other to eat intuitively and accept their aging, changing bodi...

In the seventh episode of Sessions - a NEW series on the Food Freedom/Body Love podcast where you get to listen in on 1:1 conversations between Jill and those struggling with food, body image, weight, and health - Jill talks with a woman who has managed to work her way out of a long history of diet cycling and into a place of intuitive eating. She never, ever, ever wants to go back to dieting but...

In the sixth episode of Sessions - a NEW series on the Food Freedom/Body Love podcast where you get to listen in on 1:1 conversations between Jill and those struggling with food, body image, weight, and health - Jill talks with a woman with a long history of disordered and distorted eating. She's worked remarkably hard to move through many of these phases on her own and with therapists. Currently,...

In the fifth episode of Sessions - a NEW series on the Food Freedom/Body Love podcast where you get to listen in on 1:1 conversations between Jill and those struggling with food, body image, weight, and health - Jill talks with a woman who 's been working diligently towards getting in touch with her body, eating intuitively, and practicing acceptance....but her weight keeps going up. She worries t...

In the fourth episode of Sessions - a NEW series on the Food Freedom/Body Love podcast where you get to listen in on 1:1 conversations between Jill and those struggling with food, body image, weight, and health - Jill talks with a woman who 's managed to deal with the majority of her negative food behaviours. That said, she continues to feel preoccupied with negative food and body thoughts. She wa...

In the third episode of Sessions - a NEW series on the Food Freedom/Body Love podcast where you get to listen in on 1:1 conversations between Jill and those struggling with food, body image, weight, and health - Jill talks with a woman who's undergone gastric sleeve surgery after years of trying to get off the diet/weight gain roller coster on her own. While she did lose weight after the surgery -...

In the second episode of Sessions - a NEW series on the Food Freedom/Body Love podcast where you get to listen in on 1:1 conversations between Jill and those struggling with food, body image, weight, and health - Jill talks with a mother of four as she explores her beliefs about her body and how it should bounce back after giving birth. In this episode, we discuss: The diet cycle roller coaster Th...

In the first episode of Sessions - a NEW series on the Food Freedom/Body Love podcast where you get to listen in on 1:1 conversations between Jill and those struggling with food, body image, weight, and health - Jill talks with a gym owner, Cross fit athlete, and nutritionist who is tired of counting macros and ready to make the switch to intuitive eating - but how? She needs to stop pushing her b...

In this episode, Jill describes a simple and effective technique for improving body image - and how to use the same technique for improving overall self-care and sense of fulfillment in these challenging and unprecedented times. 

"I eat when I'm not hungry" is something Jill hears over and over again in her practice. Today, Jill talks about physical hunger (the one we usually think about!) as well as emotional hunger, taste hunger, and logistical hunger. It's a concept from Intuitive Eating that most skip over or miss and is so important to understanding your internal cues and getting more clear about whether your eating i...

Your Brain vs Your Body! Which is smarter? In this episode, Jill talks about why the information, thoughts, judgements, and ideas your brain has about food and weight is not to be trusted! She also talks about the lived experience of the body and how to access that information.  The ultimate goal? To be able to integrate information the brain learns, with information the body knows - but ther...

How much time are you spending IN your body and how much time are you spending in thoughts ABOUT your body? These are two very different experiences and, in this episode, Jill explains the difference between the two states by taking you through an experience of her own. Stay tuned for Part II where Jill digs more deeply into why your thoughts can't be trusted and how to spend more time in the inte...

It's all too common to believe that our eating is wrong or bad. It's also common to believe that when we finally figure it out - and get our relationship with food right - our eating will be perfect forever more! In this episode, Jill busts the following 5 myths about normal eaters: Normal eaters always eat the correct amount of food Normal eaters always eat the correct types of food Normal eaters...

In this episode Jill challenges the pervasive storyline that we need to be scared of food, and controlling food, while in our homes all day. Instead, this is a short and sweet look at 5 ways food is your friend and can make your days so much better - if you allow it. 

In this episode Jill shares the meal planning method behind the madness in her household - how they're planning and preparing breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks in a way that feels good and healthy and not completely consuming. It's tough right now! We can't eat out, we have to be smart about our grocery shopping, and spending - and we're tasked with all of the food prep and clean up! This e...

In this episode Jill talks about our efforts to control ALL the things - weight, the amount of food we eat, the type of food we eat, the aging process....all of it - in order to try to control feelings of being OUT OF CONTROL. In these trying times, our feelings of being out of control are increasing and our ability to manage those feelings with food control and exercise is getting even harder. So...

In this episode Jill talks about emotional eating in chaotic, stressful times. We're in the midst of a global pandemic and eating patterns have shifted - no surprise! This episode is all about how to think about emotional eating and manage it (aka get comfortable with it) - whether you're brand new to intuitive eating or you've been working on healing your relationship with food for ages.....and t...

In this episode Jill talks about why she's been in hibernation for the past few months, what she's been up to, how the time away will benefit you, and a little piece of homework to dive into before the next episode.  This episode is perfect for you if: 〰️ You thought I'd been eaten by bear or kidnapped and you're desperate to get all the details on where I've really been 〰️ What the podcast...

In this episode, Jill takes a lighthearted look at the choices we make when grocery shopping - the shame we feel, the diet mentality that seeps in, and why we buy all that produce only to watch it go bad in our crispers week after week.

In this food for thought episode, Jill discusses the concept of normal Dash where it came from and why we can stop worrying about whether or not our bodies, weight, appetites, etc are normal.

In this episode, Jill answers a question from a woman asking “is there a way to change my set point?” The woman feels hopeless and stuck and – despite loving the food freedom body love method and health that every size - is struggling with the idea that her setpoint may stay the same forever.