Life's too short to count almonds

We're back after a little school holiday break. Today we chat mostly about the food we enjoyed over the break and then dig into a bit of how we mange food once the evening sport activities are back and the change from summer to winter. We also chat about our 'Instant Pots' and what we have used them for so far. 

Today we chat about our day today when we headed to the University of Wollongong to run a 2 hour workshop on the non-diet approach and weight inclusive care. We also address a couple of articles recently criticising or critiquing the non-diet movement despite clearly not understanding the approach at all. You can check out Fiona Sutherland's (The Mindful Dietitian) instagram post about the Au...

Off the back of Meg's interview on The Happy Families Podcast we dive into some of the nuances of how we see weight inclusive care 'working' in the real world. There was a good question and some discussion on Justin's facebook page that we thought worth exploring. It was a question about a child in a larger body with low strength and fitness. Few resources we mention - The Emerging Minds online co...

We got a fantastic listener question this week. "Hi Meg & Susan, I really enjoyed your perspective on Ultra Processed Foods. It did make me reflect how our family is eating and I was surprised at how high the proportion of these foods is. I'm not worried about them but would like to reduce them but unsure how to do it without feeling restricted or making the kids feel restricted. Do you have a...

Today we dig into the topic of Ultra Processed Foods or UPFs. There's been a lot of noise and chatter on social media and a lot of scary headlines on the back of a large review paper that was published in late February finding associations between UPFs and a wide range of physical and mental illnesses.  So what defines a food as an UPF? To answer this Meg took a deep dive into the NOVA system...

Today we spend the whole episode chatting about Meg's Recipetin Eats Challenge and it's a long one.  In 2023 Meg cooked every single recipe in Nagi Maehashi's incredible debut cookbook 'Dinner' . Nagi's website was already a favourite 'go to' place for recipes for both of us, it's super accessible, has an amazing variety of cuisines and meals and THEY ALWAYS WORK! So when she released a cookb...

Today we dive back into the ocean of social media. What are the common sharks and rips, what can we do to protect ourselves while still enjoying a swim? Check out our 'Detox your metaverse' downloadable guide here. Join the waiting list for 'Lifeguards: The Non Diet Way for Parents of Teens" or sign up for immediate access to our "Helping your teen eat well in a food confused culture" masterclass....

Today we chat about a phenomenon that we have both seen in our practice. And that is when the drive for the "perfect diet for health" actually completely undermines health and wellbeing. Whether trying to get to the bottom of unpleasant symptoms, achieve a particular aesthetic or to 'be in the best health possible' when people head down a path of excluding foods for pretty much any reason, invaria...

You may have seen on the news this week a lot of chatter about a 'ham ban' and a 'fairy bread ban' in Western Australian and South Australian schools. We've done some digging to get to the bottom of the headlines, what the actual situation is, why changes have been made and what it means. (Spoiler alert - ham is not even banned!) For more background of the 2016 classification of red/processed meat...

Today we chat with Dietitian and PhD Candidate Melissa Eaton . Melissa  is a Mental Health Dietitian with Keeping the Body in Mind (Primary) located at UNSW (currently on extended maternity leave), an NSA Registered Nutritionist, and a former dancer and teacher - having completed a Master of Nutrition and Dietetics, a Bachelor of Science (Food and Nutrition), and a Bachelor of Arts (Danc...

This week we chat more about the challenges of parenting teens in a culture obsessed by weight and dieting. We suggest some eating disorder and body image red flags and some strategies to get ahead of things before they become entrenched and how to be your child's lifeguard. Helping them learn to swim and develop their endurance and strength, understand rips and tides, remember to wear suncream an...

Today we chat with fellow dietitian Mari Harrison . Mari is a non-diet dietitian with lived experience of Type 1 diabetes working with people with eating challenges with diabetes, chronic dieting and after bariatric surgery. If Mari's 'best thing I ate this week', Joulutorttu, sounds good, check out the recipe she developed especially for our podcast audience! Check out her 'Am I Hungry ' group pr...

Back to 'regular programming', we hope you enjoyed out Movement Mini Series, let us know if there is a different 'mini series' topic you'd like us to do.  Today we have a bit of a rambling chat that reflects our headspace by this stage of the holidays. We have loved holidays but we are ready for a return to routine and to some alone time!  We chat about some of the challenges that summer...

*******Movement Mini Series******** Welcome to the final in our Movement Mini-series.  It's peak 'New Year New You' / New Year's Resolution Season and the diet culture vultures are out in force. So we thought it the perfect time to provide another perspective. In this series we speak with 5 wonderful Australian Fitness Professionals to provide some support in navigating movement. Today we cha...

*******Movement Mini Series******** Welcome to the fourth episode in our Movement Mini Series. It's peak 'New Year New You' / New Year's Resolution Season and the diet culture vultures are out in force. So we thought it the perfect time to provide another perspective. In this series we speak with 5 wonderful Australian Fitness Professionals to provide some support in navigating movement. Today we...

*******Movement Mini Series******** Welcome to the third episode in our Movement Mini Series. It's peak 'New Year New You' / New Year's Resolution Season and the diet culture vultures are out in force. So we thought it the perfect time to provide another perspective. In this series we speak with 5 wonderful Australian Fitness Professionals to provide some support in navigating movement. Today...

*******Movement Mini Series******** Welcome to our Movement Mini Series. It's peak 'New Year New You' / New Year's Resolution Season and the diet culture vultures are out in force. So we thought it the perfect time to provide another perspective. In this series we speak with 5 wonderful Australian Fitness Professionals to provide some support in navigating movement. Today it's Exercise Physiologis...

*******Movement Mini Series******** Welcome to the first episode in our Movement Mini Series. It's peak 'New Year New You' / New Year's Resolution Season and the diet culture vultures are out in force. So we thought it the perfect time to provide another perspective. In this series we speak with 5 wonderful Australian Fitness Professionals to provide some support in navigating movement. Today, it'...

We're back for 2024! Thanks for joining us, we hope you have had an enjoyable Christmas and New Year. Apologies for the audio glitch at about the 30 minute mark, we get it sorted so please stick with it. Today we chat about a bit about exercise particularly about the trickiness of The New Year period as diet culture get's it's tendrils in to advertising, conversation and choices.  We also tal...

Happy Christmas! Today we are chatting Christmas food. Mostly just talking about what we love and how we celebrate with food at this time of year. We also touch on some of the food things we know are challenging for lots of people at this time of year. Things we mention... This beautiful podcast episode with singer song writer Gregory Porter. We generally love this podcast but some episodes unfort...

Today's episode is a bit different. Mostly a good excuse for Meg to pick CJs brains about homesteading and chicken keeping. We're not tackling a lot of diet culture issues but having a fun, light hearted chat about food, farming, homesteading and backyard chicken keeping with Farmer CJ Steedman. We chat about different ways to attend to your own food values and priorities, decision making around a...

Today we chat about the activities and tasks done in schools that our clients have identified as triggering, reinforcing or fanning the flames of their eating disorders. We talk about why we bang on about safe nutrition education, where the risks lie, what to look out for and what to do instead. We have also developed a resource for teachers so head to our freebies page to download and share...

Total we talk to School teacher and nutritionist Kelly Fullerton aka ' The Curious Nutritionist'. Kelly is an experienced primary teacher who has completed further training in nutrition and feeding therapy. She has combined her education and nutrition knowledge to cultivate curious conversations about food with school communities. Kelly advocates for positive and developmentally appropriate learni...

We started working together, doing this podcast and building courses to have a greater impact in the eating disorder space. We love our one on one work, but it's so limited and we want to reach more people. Recently, Meg has had the opportunity to do this having been invited to get in front 195 primary and high school students in one day running 3 workshops for the first time since 2019....

Total we talk to Non-Diet, fat positive dietitian Nina Mills. Nina is both a fantastic clinical dietitian but also founded 'Butter Digital' to help other non-diet, weight inclusive health professionals to build their website and online brand. We chat a bit about her clinical work especially with client who experience Binge Eating Disorder and the things that commonly co-present with BED such as PC...