The Renae Saager Show

Poor body image days. They happen to us ALL! But when they hit we end up going into a full-on binge or restriction mode. Here's the truth, no one escapes bad body image days. Men, women, young, old, rich, poor,  it doesn't matter. We are sold the idea by the diet industry that once we get on this new plan it will literally make our entire life perfect. Once we just lose weight every prob...

#falltreatchallenge is happening NOW! I break down what it is and how to participate in the episode. You must enter before November 5th. Be sure to tag me and I might read your post next week on the pod. Also- healthy eating. "I feel like I need to tell people I know that I know I shouldn't eat like this all the time. That I know this isn't healthy or ok and that it isn't a dai...

“I was never good enough because I was never thin enough.” In today's episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kristina Bruce. Kristina is a Certified Body Trust®  Provider and Integrative Life Coach and specializes in helping people break free from diet cycling and negative body image. In our interview, she shares her personal story of her own war with food and body. She discusses how onc...

I took a little poll on social media and asked my people, "What is something you tell yourself that you should be more or less of?" Here are just a few of the responses: I shouldn't laugh so loud. I shouldn't be so blunt. I should be more outgoing. I need to play more and work less. I should be more joyful. I shouldn't be so bossy. I should be more patient. A stream of con...

Did you know : * Nearly 50 percent of people with an eating disorder are also abusing drugs and/or alcohol * Research suggests that 25 percent of people entering treatment for an eating disorder also meet the criteria for substance abuse problems * Substance abuse by people with eating disorders occurs at a rate five times greater than what is found in the general population. While I fully back Al...

 “Can I track my macros AND practice intuitive eating?”  This is a question I was recently asked and I decided to do a podcast on my answer. Macros are everywhere now. It claims to be a way of eating that allows you to eat whatever you want and isn’t “a diet.” I decided to include fitness trackers into this episode because really, they are quite similar.  I was recently reading an article and it w...

Emotional eating is often a symptom to anxiety and control. But so many try to solve this "problem"  by adding in MORE control. Cutting out food groups, restrictions in amounts and time. More of the problem is NOT the solution. You do not need more control. In fact, your attempt at control, at making your food fit into this perfect box, that is what is resulting in you to feel out of con...

In this episode I had the great pleasure of interviewing Katharine Jeffcoat. Katharine is a Registered Dietitian with over 22 years of experience in the field of pediatric nutrition. She worked 8 years at Emanuel Children’s hospital in Portland, Oregon as a clinical and outpatient pediatric dietitian, part of the feeding clinic team, and provided nutrition classes at the eating disorder day hospit...

Dealing With Dieters. You know, the person telling you how great she feels after cutting out food groups. The person telling you how this isn't a diet, but a lifestyle change. The individual going on and on about how much they just need to lose weight and starting next month things will be different. It is triggering. I still don't enjoy spending time people that want to talk about their...

Overwhelm. Have you experienced it lately? Feeling like you have so much to do and have no idea how you are going to do it.  And then you find yourself eating to "take the edge off."To quiet your brain. How about anxiety? Starting ALL the things at once but then not getting any of them done? In today's podcast I give you 3 tips to help you combat overwhelm and manage your time and e...

What's your relationship to the scale?? Love hate? Not great? Abusive? I know a lot of you weigh yourself. You may not even think about it before you do it either, it just happens. Like breathing. Wake up, go pee, strip down, weigh. That's ok, I'm not here to shame you, I am here to open your eyes to another possibility though. Another way of existing on this planet. One that does n...

"I started dieting at age 22 and from that point on it has been a struggle. I have been a binger, I've lost weight, I've gained weight, I've tried everything and I got to the point of being really scared about my health. I was also at point of hating food. I wished there was just a pill I could take. Then I reached out to you. I don't think about food or weight 24/7 and it...

Safety Net:a safeguard against possible hardship or adversity. What is your safety net? What is the thing in the back of your mind that you think "if this doesn't work, I will do that." Is it really helping? I have noticed something within my clients and just humans in general. When we have one foot in and one foot out, the odds of us achieving our goal is not great. This makes sens...

“But what if I really need to lose weight?” Most of the clients that come to me wouldn't be mad if they just HAPPENED to lose weight some. Or they will outright say, "I really want to lose X pounds." Some are hesitant to tell me this because they feel like it is "the wrong thing to say."There is never a "wrong" thing to say. The fact that you would want to lose w...

Interview time! You may know Shana better as @thenutritiontea from Instagram. She kinda blew up on social media, more than she ever expected and she discussed in the interview, during the #amplifymelanated voices movement online. We cover topics such as: -> How working in the fashion industry contributed to her ending up as a dietitian ->What it was like changing careers "later" in...

I see women all the time get trapped by this imaginary net. They feel stuck. They think they can't escape. They think they cannot move or do anything differently until someone comes over and takes the net off. But......there is no net. The net is the imagined limit you have put on yourself. The net is your level of belief in yourself. We all operate from a current set of beliefs. And we all h...

Life gets chaotic. Life gets stressful. I am currently packing up my childhood home, closing the sale on it, and moving across the country. It's been a bit chaotic at times! In this episode I talk about how to take the edge off and also survive big moves, life changes or just stressful weeks, without having to binge your face off. Women with a history of dieting or emotional eaters tend to fi...

Body image work is a critical piece when breaking up with binge eating and just general sanity around food. If you think back to your first diet, you probably started it because you felt like something was wrong with how you looked. So hating our body came before the dieting piece. And then for many of us, after years of dieting our body image continued to get worse and our food continued to get m...

In this episode I am digging into setting boundaries. This sounds simple, right? Like something we should have learned in grade school! But so many of us have such a hard time expressing what we need. We get stretched too thin. We don't speak up. We pretend everything is ok. We think what we are feeling is dumb and brush it off. Then it shows up in our relationship with food. We get anxious o...

Exercise. All or nothing. You are either crushing it at life or life feels like it is a dumpster fire. How many times have you thought, "15 minutes isn't even worth it!" or "If it doesn't hurt, I must not be pushing hard enough." This all or nothing thinking doesn't only impact your relationship to food but also exercise. In this podcast I am going to help you se...

In this episode Renae walks you through some steps to help allow and process difficult emotions.  🔗 Links & Resources: – Get on Renae’s newsletter → Click here – Visit her site → renaesaager.com – Connect on Instagram → @renaesaager – Grab her book → Eat, Drink, Think

"I shouldn't still be struggling with this." "I should be further along." When we are working on a goal it is easy to fall into the trap of "it shouldn't take this long". Which I am not here to say if that is or is not true, but when you tell yourself you shouldn't be exactly where you are does it motivate you to do what you need to do? Or does it cause...

Most of the women I work with have been disconnected from their body for a long time. Some may even say it is an abusive relationship. Intuitive eating is the process of connecting the MIND AND THE BODY. Basically, your brain has been the ex-husband and your body has been an ex-wife, trying to live in a one bedroom apartment together, after a VERY nasty divorce.... It ain't working out so wel...

(The connection in the beginning of the episode wasn't that great. Halfway through we shut off our video and it got better. Hang in there!) I am fortunate to get to work with some of THE most amazing women. Some I have never met before, but some I have known before we start our work together. Karen is someone I knew before, kind of... Maybe more appropriate to say we had seen each other in re...

Have you ever stopped to think, "Why would I think that?" or "where did that thought come from?" Probably not. Why would you? We are never taught to question our own thinking. We take what we think as fact. We believe it. Have you ever thought about how THAT is impacting your life? How the 6 billion thoughts you have a day just might play a small role in the life that you have?...