Strong Not Starving

Today I’m joined by Hannah, host of the eating disorder awareness podcast, Full of Beans. With her lived experience of an eating disorder, as well as clinical and educational experience, Hannah is aiming to to reduce the stigma surrounding eating disorders as well as increase the awareness surrounding the challenges so many people are facing. The topic of atypical anorexia is something that we tou...

In this weeks episode I’m going to be answering some questions about weight loss, set points, and low carb diets. It’s always my intention to provide balanced information about these areas so that we can all be well informed and retain ownership of our personal journeys, though if you’re taking some intentional time away from conversations about weight loss and diets, this episode might not be the...

Making training about more than your appearance will save your sanity! We're all told "It's what's on the inside that counts" but how do we actually take that beliefs into the gym? Jonny Landels joins me today to talk about how to break away from training to change your body shape and size in the name of reshaping your relationship with exercise! Jonny Instagram: https://i...

Three ESSENTIALS for a successful relationship with food and exercise if you want to stay free from binge eating and disordered eating, and get after your goals! Marcus Kain I.G. https://instagram.com/mkaincoaching?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Book a Coaching Consult with Marcus: https://form.jotform.com/220624481844052 Join the Strong Not Starving Community interest list: https://strongnotstarving.com/sns...

What can we do when random intrusive thoughts (particularly about body image and food) show up holding the power to ruin your day? Practice this 3 step approach! Book a Call with Marcus: https://form.jotform.com/220624481844052 M. Kain Coaching on Instagram: https://instagram.com/mkaincoaching?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Join the Strong Not Starving Community interest list: https://strongnotstarving.com/s...

Dr Nina Savelle-Rocklin, is joining us to talk about how we can actually change our feelings surrounding food and body image rather than live every day summoning the discipline to pave over old feelings with new actions. Imagine what it would be like not to just act differently in your relationship with food, fighting old thoughts and feelings to stay on track, but to genuinely feel in alignment w...

Having a bad day in terms of body image, feeling self critical about your physical appearance, or experiencing unusually strong urges surrounding binge eating can really ruin your day. So in this episode I’m going to share with you one of the audio sessions from my private coaching course on how to handle it if you find yourself going through a rough time. Book your private consultation w Marcus:...

In today’s episode Mikala Jamison joins me to discuss how it’s apparently acceptable to be openly hostile towards certain people struggling with eating disorders, how we’re often praised for weight loss and how we look above arguably more important achievements, the steps we can take to improve our relationship with body image, and how different lifestyles affect opportunities and in turn the resu...

Today, Natalie Rose Allen, a Toronto-based Registered Psychotherapist Who specializes in treating eating disorders and disordered eating, is joining me to talk about how harmful stereotypes prevent certain people from getting the support they need. If you’ve ever felt like you’re in a rough place in your relationship with food, but you don’t feel you can reach out, or that people don’t take you se...

Today, we’re hearing from one of my clients, Navanas, who over the last few months has completely reinvented his relationship with food to the point where he’s not only no longer binge eating, but is creating a totally new relationship with exercise as well. Navanas been kind enough to share key details of his own story and pathway out of binge eating for today’s episode. Eating With Intention Dow...

There are a few massive misconceptions about extrinsic and intrinsic motivation going around that are totally damaging - primarily about what true intrinsic motivation is and the role it plays in your relationship with exercise, food, and body image.  What I’m about to explain will give you the fastest, most rewarding route to a successful relationship with exercise and food, minus the stress, gui...

The topic of plant based diets can get particularly charged when those of us with a history of disordered eating and eating disorders join the conversation. I chose to bring Jae on to talk about this because he’s not afraid to share both sides of the discussion. In this episode we talk about some claims made in the nutrition space - particularly surrounding seed oils & soy products and their r...

Today, Jason Wood, is joining me to talk about orthorexia, one of the most insidious and widespread eating disorders we're currently facing - the point at which the desire to eat only healthy food goes to a dark place. Jason turned his battle with orthorexia into a mission to break the stigma around men's mental health and eating disorders by launching his personal blog Orthorexia Bites...

Jacqueline Davis from Binge Breakers is joining me to talk about unconditional permission surrounding food.  Food habituation - essentially making all foods a normal experience as a way of removing the forbidden fruit factor from food choices - is widely accepted as an essential step in overcoming binge eating, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is finding it easy. We also touch on the topic of w...

In today’s episode I’m chatting with online trainer Luke Tulloch. Luke and I are talking about the traps of creating an identity built on fitness, how you can overcome that using the power of your personal values, and the pressure we’ve both experienced to show up looking a certain way in the health and wellness space. Marcus Kain IG: https://instagram.com/mkaincoaching?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Luke Tu...

Kathryn Hansen, author of Brain Over Binge is joining us for today’s episode  to talk about the 8 most common ways our mind tries to justify binge eating. Binge eating is one of those things that can make any bad situation worse, but that’s not what our mind  tries to convince us of in the moment, right? No matter how many times we muster the resolve to say “never again”, when struggling with bing...

Today, internationally ranked Thai Boxer, Angela Chang, and I are going to be talking about her journey and mindset surrounding food and body image as an athlete who’s experienced an eating disorder. Angela: https://instagram.com/angelasitan?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Marcus: https://instagram.com/mkaincoaching?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Strong Not Starving Express Workshop: https://www.mkaincoaching.com/strong...

In this episode I’ve got an announcement, and where this announcement came from is something I’ve been saying during 1-1 sessions with clients recently. When it comes to foods or food groups, abstinence is not mastery. Moderation is mastery. When people preach the idea of cleansing your house of certain foods, or removing certain food groups from your diet entirely, that’s not mastery. Those metho...

Imagine things aren’t going well when it comes to your food and fitness, but you don’t know where to invest your valuable time and energy in order to fix it... THIS EPISODE plus the accompanying free download will allow you to get an idea where to start investing your energy to get things back on track FAST! Grab your FREE DOWNLOAD: https://www.mkaincoaching.com/FoodandFitnessSuccessPDF Join the S...

Sticky topics in this episode! Jonny and myself will be diving into talking about disordered eating and performance enhancing drug use, and whether or not there's a "right" way to go about changing our appearance using diet and exercise. Trigger warning - Eating Disorders, Body Image. Jonny Landels Instagram https://instagram.com/jonnylandels?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Marcus Kain Instagra...

Many of us don’t experience binge eating until after we try to use nutrition and dieting to change something.  And better health, and/or weight loss are the two goals we usually go off in search of. So where does it all go wrong, and what can we do about it? I’ll show you… FREE Take Back December Project: https://www.mkaincoaching.com/takebackdecember Website: https://www.mkaincoaching.com Join th...

How it’s possible to take good care of yourself even when work/life balance is out of whack! The Take Back December Project: https://www.mkaincoaching.com/takebackdecember Website: https://www.mkaincoaching.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/mkaincoaching?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Join the Strong Not Starving Community interest list: https://strongnotstarving.com/sns-community/ Book a Call with Marcus...

Today we’ve got my good friend, Jacqueline Davis from Binge Breakers, joining us for a chat! We set out to discuss the topic of self love and whether or not it’s necessary to love yourself in order to start creating a better life. So enjoy this one, and stick around at the end to hear about something I’ve put together for you to help you break cycles of nightime binge eating, and enjoy the holiday...

From multiple binges per week to binge free? Here are 11 cornerstones of support/mindset shifts for the journey, as well as a perspective that helped me understand and practice self love for the first time. Overcome Binge Eating here: https://www.mkaincoaching.com/overcome-binge-eating-course-landing-page Spotting Misleading Information in the Nutrition & Diet Space: https://podcasts.apple.com...

Last week I had a great chat with my good mate, Jonny Landels. Jonny is a certified nutritionist and master health coach who’s sick of diets. He helps people get off of the yo-yo diet train and unlock lifelong health focusing on intuitive eating and functional fitness. We talked about, ahow to break the habit of relying on apps like My Fitness Pal, navigating weight fluctuations, how we used to ru...