One Body to Love with Dr. Meredith MacKenzie

You understand the cycle. You've done the reading. You might even agree, in theory, with intuitive eating. And you're still stuck. In this episode, Dr. Meredith MacKenzie names the three internal voices that keep the restrict-binge cycle running — even in women who know better. The Food Police, the Nutrition Informant, and the Diet Rebel aren't random thoughts. They're patterns...

You've started over more times than you can count. Not because you lack discipline — but because every fresh start has been aimed at the surface of the problem, not the root of it. In this episode, Dr. Meredith MacKenzie opens The Food Freedom Files — a six-episode summer series on what's really going on underneath your relationship with food. Episode 1 introduces the iceberg: the histor...

In this episode, Dr. Meredith MacKenzie sits down with Sky Corbett-Methot, a yoga teacher, holistic nutritionist, and community creator whose prenatal, baby and me, and mama-centric classes have shaped Dr. MacKenzie's own relationship with movement. Sky shares her history as a high-performance gymnast and competitive diver, the abuse and injury that ended her athletic career, and how motherho...

In this episode, Dr. Meredith MacKenzie reflects on what 14 years of working with women in group settings and her first One Body to Love Day Retreat has taught her about how healing actually happens. This episode is for any woman who has tried to work through her relationship with food in private, and wondered why it felt so hard to get it to stick. 00:00 — Why Meredith no longer sees herself as t...

Most women who are working on their relationship with food are doing it alone. Not because no one cares — but because the spaces around them weren't built to hold this kind of conversation. Friends are still deep inside diet culture. Therapy offers real support, but it's still just you and one other person. Social media communities exist, but the scroll is not the same as being in the ro...

If food has always felt louder for you than it seems to for everyone else — more urgent, harder to reason with, almost impossible to just leave alone — you have probably been given a lot of advice that doesn't actually work. Not because you weren't trying. Because the advice was never designed for the way your brain works.  In this episode, Dr. Meredith MacKenzie gets into the neurologic...

There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t touch. It’s not from a hard day or a late night. It’s the kind that builds slowly over years of eating in secret, folding up the evidence, and moving back into your evening like nothing happened. It’s the weight of carrying something you’ve never quite been able to name out loud — because putting it down would mean someone might see it. In...

Most of us were handed a very specific story about how this is supposed to go: change your body, feel better, finally be at peace with yourself. And it sounds so logical. So achievable. Which is exactly why, when it doesn't work — when the body changes and the thoughts don't quiet, or when you end up right back where you started — it feels so defeating. In this episode, Dr. Meredith MacK...

You can stop dieting. You can be bingeing less. You can be trying so hard to heal your relationship with food… and still feel hit with a wave of disappointment when you catch your reflection. That moment can feel confusing and discouraging. You thought freedom would feel lighter by now. You thought that once food got calmer, your body image might soften too. But for many women, the opposite happen...

Why do you feel out of control with food at night—even when you’ve “done everything right” during the day? In this episode, I’m breaking down one of the most common and confusing experiences I see in my work as a binge eating therapist: the moment the day ends, everything catches up, and food becomes the answer. If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “I don’t even know what I need—I just want som...

Should you weigh yourself in eating disorder recovery? This is one of the most common questions I hear from clients and from women in my DMs, especially when they’re in that uncertain middle space of recovery where things are changing, but the fear around weight is still very present. In this episode, I’m talking about the emotional pull of wanting to know your weight, why the scale can feel so lo...

If you’ve ever felt confused about who to trust for nutrition advice, this episode will bring clarity. There is so much information online about food, weight, health, intuitive eating, and GLP-1 medications. Some of it is helpful. Much of it is conflicting. And it can be incredibly difficult to know what actually applies to you. In this conversation, I sit down with Amy Chow, RD, founder of BC Die...

In this episode, I share honestly about a season of self-doubt and questioning within my business, and how the shifting landscape of body image culture deeply impacted me. Over the past year, as conversations online have moved back toward weight loss, GLP-1 medications, and the revival of thinness as the ultimate goal, I found myself wondering whether there was still space for body acceptance and...

There’s a difference between stopping dieting and actually feeling safe with food. Many people expect that once they let go of restriction, food will finally quiet down. That eating will feel calmer. That trust will return. And when that doesn’t happen, it can be deeply unsettling. In this episode, I slow down the moment where food still feels loud, confusing, or unpredictable after dieting ends....

One of the hardest parts about recognising a problem with food is that it rarely announces itself clearly. Most people don’t wake up one day knowing exactly what’s wrong. Instead, they live in a grey zone — where things don’t feel right, but also don’t feel extreme enough to justify getting help. In this episode, I walk through the eating-behaviour continuum (normal eating struggles → disordered e...

If you’ve ever made a plan for yourself to move your body more, to take better care of yourself, or to do something that genuinely matters, and then felt frustrated or disappointed when it didn’t happen, this episode is for you. So often, when our goals don’t stick, we turn that experience inward. We assume we’ve failed, that we’re lazy, unmotivated, or incapable of consistency. But what if the pr...

If you’ve ever found yourself in the aftermath of a binge — flooded with guilt, panic, and promises to “fix it tomorrow” — this episode is for you. In today’s episode of One Body to Love, I walk you through exactly what to do after a binge, not from a place of control or punishment, but from care, nervous system safety, and self-compassion. This episode is a practical, grounding guide you can come...

If you’ve ever found yourself wandering into the kitchen, opening the fridge, grabbing something to eat, and thinking, “I don’t even know if I’m actually hungry…” this episode will feel like a deep breath. Today I’m walking you through one of the most common struggles women share with me: the feeling of being disconnected from your hunger cues. Whether you’re working on binge eating, stress eating...

If you’ve ever had one tough night with food and thought, “I ruined everything,” let this be your deep exhale. Today I’ll walk you through one of the most misunderstood parts of binge eating recovery: the difference between a slip and a spiral. When shame is loud and panic sets in, it’s easy to feel like you’re back at square one. But the truth is, one moment doesn’t undo your progress. In this ep...

Every December, I hear women say, “I thought I’d be further along by now.” There’s a unique pressure we feel this time of year, the push to wrap things up, be productive, and fix everything before January. Maybe you’re feeling exhausted, behind, or like you “should” be doing more before the year is up. You’re not alone. In this episode, I walk you through the very real reasons behind end-of-year b...

The holidays are often painted as a time to get together with friends and family to eat and drink, but for many of us healing our relationship with food, it can feel like pressure, anxiety, and shame. Whether it’s the fear of losing control, the guilt after eating, or the constant battle between wanting to enjoy and trying to be “good”. In this episode, I walk you through what actually makes holid...

This week on One Body to Love, I’m taking you back to a holiday season that changed everything. I share a personal story from 2009 that became the turning point in my journey with food and body image, when I realized guilt had become my holiday tradition. I’m introducing The Anti-Diet Holiday Club; a limited-time space where joy replaces guilt, and you get to experience peace with food in real tim...

For those of us healing our relationship with food, the holidays can be a minefield of comments that trigger some of our deepest wounds. In today’s episode of One Body to Love, I’m naming the grief, the shame, and the hypervigilance that diet talk can awaken in spaces that are supposed to feel safe. Whether you’ve spent years healing your relationship with food, or you’re just starting to build bo...

This week on One Body to Love, I’m joined by Hope Mikal, founder of Unicorn Marketing Co., for a deeply honest conversation about healing your relationship with food, your body, and yourself after years of disconnection. From growing up in food scarcity and taking on adult responsibilities at a young age, to navigating a long road with endometriosis and infertility, Hope shares her story with powe...

This week on One Body to Love, I’m delighted to be joined by Julie Fried. Julie is a mom, business owner and the host of The Systems for Everything podcast. Julie shares her journey with binge recovery, starting with her first binge in middle school, to entering treatment in her early twenties, and how becoming a mother sparked a whole new reason to heal. Julie’s story reminds us that healing is n...