What The Actual Fork Podcast

Natasha Ngindi is a Canadian Non-Diet Nutritionist, Zumba Instructor, and Entrepreneur. She spent years being entrenched in diet culture but she was never able to keep the weight off. After hitting rock bottom, she finally gained food freedom and learned to truly love herself. Her lived experiences inspired her to help others struggling with the same issues to have food freedom and accept their bo...

Dylan Murphy is a Registered Dietitian and founder of FREE Method Nutrition, a virtual nutrition practice that exists to empower women to have confidence in their body, clarity in their food choices and consistency in their health habits. Dylan is a new mom and enjoys talking about the realness of motherhood on her social media accounts @dylanmurphy.rd in an effort to make all moms feel more empow...

Vinny Welsby (they/them) is a world-leading expert on dismantling fatphobia and diet-culture, TEDx speaker, and best-selling author. They went from being homeless, abused with self-esteem that was achingly low into the courageous fat activist and change maker they are today. Vinny helps people fall in love with themselves and is dedicated to shifting the way society views fat bodies. We talk about...

This week we have Charlotte Markey, PhD. Charlotte Markey, Ph. D., is a world-leading expert in body image research, having studied all things body image, eating behavior, and weight management for her entire adult life (about 25 years!). She is passionate about understanding what makes us feel good about our bodies and helping people to develop a healthy body image. Charlotte loves to share her b...

Cynthia has been a Registered Dietitian for over 10 years. Cynthia is a non-diet dietitian and believes in Health at Every Size. Helping women recover from Hypothalamic Amenorrhea (no period) & make peace with food is a speciality area of hers. Cynthia was driven to specialize in HA due to her own struggles with a missing period & infertility. In this episode we talk about hypothalamic amenorrhea...

Dana Monsees is a Licensed Dietitian-Nutritionist (MS, CNS, LDN) and Body Image Coach who practices from a HAES, non-diet approach. Her philosophy combines neutral nutrition with weight-inclusive care and the principles of integrative health, to help women heal their relationship with food and their bodies as a root cause of chronic health conditions. This episode it debunks a lot of misconception...

This week on WTAF we interviewed the Author of Soberful, Veronica Valli. Veronica Valli has been sober for 22 years and has worked as a psychotherapist for over 17 years. Veronica created Soberful to support and help women all over the world leave alcohol to find their most authentic self. She created a blog, podcast, book, facebook community, and more to help women on this journey! This episode i...

We interview longtime fan of the pod, Jenn Salib Huber who is a Canadian registered dietitian and naturopathic doctor. In this episode we talk about what defines perimenopause and menopause, food is NOT medicine and if soy is safe for women. Menopause or no menopause, we cover topics in this episode that every human can benefit from! Including the conversation about soy that we've been NEEDING to...

This week on the pod we have our very first endocrinologist! Dr. Dodell is a board certified endocrinologist who received his medical degree from Albany Medical College. He completed his internal medicine residency and endocrinology fellowship at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, affiliated with Columbia University. He is currently in private practice at Central Park Endocrinology taking weigh...

You already know who Kaisa Keranen is, so we'll keep this brief- Kaisa is a badass fitness coach and owner of KaisaFit. She has a masters in exercise science and graduated from University of Washington where she was on the track and field team. After a major injury ended her career, her relationship with her body completely changed and she's never turned back! In this episode we talk all about wha...

This week on the pod we have Asher Larmie BACK and they are ready to shake. shit. up! Asher (they/theirs/he/his) is back on WTAF and there are a lot of updates! Since our last episode, they have changed their name from Natasha to Asher and come out as transgender. Additionally, he started an AMAZING campaign called #noweigh. This campaign is HAES aligned and forces doctors to prioritize the patien...

James Rose (they/she) is a non-binary New York City-based actor, Health At Every Size personal trainer, trauma-informed yoga teacher, and the co-host of the Full Soul Nutrition Podcast . This episode was first released during Transgender Awarenss Week in 2020 and James graciously shares their experience exploring their gender identity in addition to how that has impacted their relationship with fo...

Our guest this week is the hilarious and fiery Lauren Link! You may know her from her snarky IG posts (find her on IG @linktonutrition) debunking diet culture myths as it relates to sports nutrition and nutrition for the average joe. Lauren is an ex collegiate soccer player and director of sports nutrition at Purdue University. She was one of the first full time sports dietitians and has been work...

This week's re-release is important because it's all about how exercise can help or hurt your relationship with your body. Through diet culture we've learned that exercise is for altering the way your body looks but diet culture neglects to tell you about the physiological benefits of exercise for your body. Jenna talks about what exercise obsession looks like, diet cultures impact on relationship...

We are even more excited to re-release this episode than we were the first time it aired! This week on WTAF we're re-releasing our episode with the one and only @victoriagarrick. Victoria is a TED Talk speaker, host of @realpod, former D1 volleyball player, and founder of @thehiddenopponent. As if you needed more reason to love her, she is also an intuitive eating and in eating disorder recovery....

We couldn't NOT repost this hilarious episode with @thenutritiontea! This week on the pod we have the IG famous registered dietitian, Shana Minei Spence. Shana started her professional career with a BS in fashion merchandising and after 8 years in the field, decided to pursue dietetics. Like so many of us, counseling on BMI and weight loss just didn't feel exactly right and long story short- she's...

This week on the pod we have the one and only, Anna Sweeney. Anna is a registered dietitian specialized in eating disorder treatment and committed to social justice. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 15 and has been living with MS for 22 years now. She uses her powerful instagram platform to share her story, share information, and provide a safe community for her followers. We talk abou...

Moving right along with our reposts, we are sharing our 2020 episode with THE AMAZING Danielle Pascente. Danielle is an online personal trainer with a badass business rooted in making movement accessible, empowering, and enjoyable. Her tagline is "I help you believe in yo damn self" and she stands by that. Listen to learn more about finding a fun way to move, secrets of the sports modeling industr...

This week on the pod we have 3 very important people on the pod. Chelsea Shafer (WTAF podcast manager & dietetic intern), Anna Crum (FFF registered dietitian & social media director), and Allison Mandel (WTAF intern & dietetic intern) come together to talk about what it's like to be a dietetic intern as a student who knows about intuitive eating and HAES. Dietetics internships (DI) are weight cent...

This week on the pod we're bringing back our episode with Lauren Smith, THE lead registered dietitian at Happy Strong Healthy! Lauren's first job after undergrad was at an outpatient eating disorder treatment center and she currently works at an addiction treatment center (as well as at HSH) so she is the *perfect* person to talk about this. We cover how ED and addiction are connected, working at...

This was one of our very first episodes and we could not be more excited to be releasing it again! You probably all know who Bri Campos is at this point, but in case you don't she is a body grief counselor with an amazing business aimed at helping folks heal their body image and find body respect. She is one of our all time favorite people in the world and we talk about weight based micro/macroagg...

If this feels like deja vu it's because this is our first of the off season re releases. This episode originally released in Season 1 on October 2nd, 2020 when we were still Drunk Dietitians. It's so fun to go back through older episodes and hear how we interviewed and (often) talked over each other before we got the hand raise method down. We've grown so much and it's amazing that our pod has gro...

This week on the pod we're bringing you a semi chaotic wrap up episode to put a bow on season 2 of WTAF. We talk about what happened in our personal lives during season 2, motherhood and pregnancy, AND we drop some spoilers for season 3! Find us on IG @whattheactualforkpod Listen to more podcasts like this: https://wavepodcastnetwork.com

Caroline Dooner is an author, ex dieter, and newly a *rester*. She has been on the pod before and in our first episode with her, she talked all about her history with chronic dieting. As you'll hear, she's over that sh*t and is now healing from everything else that comes up once you heal your relationship with food. This time around we talk about recovering from burnout, removing guilt and shame f...

Buckle up friends because this week we have a fiery episode with Heather Caplan and we leave NOTHING unsaid. Heather Caplan is a registered dietitian who keeps it real on social media and on her podcast @rdrealtalk. She is a runner and mom of 3 and is here this week to join us in spilling the tea about the good, the bad, and the ugly of intuitive eating on social media. We talk about evolving as d...