Negative body image moments can feel like they ‘come out of nowhere’ and suck the joy out of your day. And if your body image is chronically bad, it can be even a week, month, year, or lifetime.

I’m going to let you in on a secret, these bad body image moments can also happen even when you've healed your body image!

In fact, not too long ago, I experienced one of the worst body image moments I’ve had in a really really long time, probably even years!

A big misconception, and one that my clients I’ve been working with a for a while bring up often, is the belief that if you have a healthy body image and positive relationship with our body, then you won’t or you ‘shouldn’t’ (ugh, there’s the pesky word again) have bad body image thoughts or feelings EVER.

The truth is, a healthy body image doesn’t mean you’ll never have a bad body image thought, day or moment. A healthy body image is knowing how to respond and work through these moments in a way that is kind and honors you and your body.

In this podcast episode, I share with you how I do that in real time (so you can, too!) and turned around a really bad body image experience (I mean, I nearly cried!), to one that felt compassionate and empowering and left me feeling GOOD.

Whether you struggle with your body image all day every day or feel like you’re doing well and then spiral when you are hit with a bad body image moment - you’ll find this episode relatable, practical, and healing.

In this episode we cover:

• The moment that triggered Rachel to have negative body image thoughts
• The processed she used to work through and overcome the negative feelings toward her body
• How she turned around her negative body image moment into empowerment and healing
• The steps she took to feel amazing in her body without dieting, restricting, or shaming

LINKS MENTIONED:

FREE Believable Body Image Healing Guide: how to reframe your negative body image thoughts into deep healing your mind will actually believe, click HERE to get it now.

Rachel’s Resources:

• Apply for 1:1 coaching for personalized high level support to accelerate yourself to the binge-free life you deserve. Click HERE to apply.
• Connect with Rachel on Instagram
• Stop feeling out of control with food using the FREE eguide: 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control with Food, click HERE to get it.
• For Dietitians & Health Professionals wanting to elevate their Intuitive Eating and Body Image counseling skills Get my FREE masterclass by clicking HERE.
  
  

To share your thoughts or feedback on this episode, or to inquire about speaking engagements and workshops for individuals and/or professionals, please email Rachel at: rachel@rachelgoodnutrition.com

Being able to ‘just listen to your body’ to eat with ease and peace may sound idyllic - except its anything but that simple if you’ve been in the trenches of diet culture for years and trying to claw your way out.

How can you possibly learn to listen and trust your body when there is so much noise coming from diet culture at every angle that pressures you to do the opposite? To follow meal plans and food rules and do anything except listen and trust your body.

How can you reconnect to your inner food voice after years of being conditioned to diet and living in an environment that isn’t conducive to that?

Registered Dietitian, Julie Duffy Dillon, shares the answer with us in this episode. With over 2 decades of experience working with clients and helping them find their inner food voice as part of the journey of living with food + body peace, Julie walks you through how to overcome the obstacles diet culture puts in your and have a relationship with food that is navigated by the build in intuition you were born with to nourish yourself with confidence.

In this episode, we cover:

• The experience that made Julie quit her job on the spot and pivot into starting her own weight-neutral and intuitive eating based approach practice
• What makes diet culture sparkly and how to work through the temptation to go back to dieting
• Julie’s #1 tip for reconnecting to your inner food voice that guides you in nourishing yourself without food rules
• What to do when your inner food voice doesn’t match up achieving the body size you want
• Juile and Rachel discuss the toxic positivity that can also be found within the Intuitive Eating & Body Positive community, how to spot it, and how to heal in a more realistic way
• The best way to see how food + body peace is possible for you, and the first step to take so it becomes your reality

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LINKS mentioned:

→ Check out Julie’s book ‘Find Your Food Voice’ by clicking HERE

→ Stop feeling out of control with food using the FREE eguide: 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control with Food. CLICK HERE.

→ For Dietitians and Health Professionals → Get my FREE masterclass, Scattered to Structured for the 5 step method to coach your clients with confidence. Click HERE to watch now.

Rachel’s Resources to achieve food + body peace and authentic health:

• Apply for 1:1 coaching for personalized high level support to accelerate yourself to the binge-free life you deserve. Click HERE to apply.
• Connect with Rachel on Instagram

Julie’s Resources:

• Listen to Julie’s top rated podcast ‘Find Your Food Voice by clicking HERE.
• Check out Julie’s website and course by clicking HERE

Connect with Julie on Linkedin by clicking HERE.

To share your thoughts or feedback on this episode, or to inquire about speaking engagements and workshops for individuals and/or professionals, please email Rachel at: rachel@rachelgoodnutrition.com

Whether you struggle with your body image and its getting in the way of enjoying your intimacy and sex with your spouse or partner, have a partner who is pressuring you to lose weight, or want to get better at communicating and enriching your sexual relationship - this is the episode you want to listen to.

In this episode, we cover:

• The difference between discussing sex with shame vs modesty
• ‘Being sexy’ vs being sexual.
• How to have conversations about your sex life and intimacy with your partner when it feels awkward
• Tips on how to feel more comfortable in your sexual relationship when you struggle with your body image and feel self conscious.
• The power your brain has on your intimacy and pleasure
• Being sex positive as an orthodox jew [which can be applied to being religious in general]
• What to do when your partner wants you to lose weight
• Attraction vs desire and their role in a healthy sex life within marriage
• How to stay connected in your physical relationship when you are not physically attracted to your partner
• Helpful vs unhelpful ways to give feedback about aesthetics
• When you should reach out for help

As always, your support of the More Than What You Eat Podcast is appreciated. If you find this podcast helpful, please share it with a loved one who it will help, and be sure to leave a 5-star review of the podcast.

LINKS MENTIONED:

→ Join Elisheva’s schmoozeletter, join her courses, reach out to work with her, or get her book by going to her website elishevaliss.com

→ Get Rachel’s free Believable Body Image Healing Guide by clicking here.

→ Join Rachel’s Newsletter by clicking here.

Rachel’s resources to achieve food + body peace and authentic health:

• Apply for 1:1 coaching with Rachel, for personalized high level support to accelerate yourself to the binge-free life you deserve. Click HERE to apply.
• Stop feeling out of control with food using the FREE eguide: 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control with Food. CLICK HERE.
• For Intuitive Eating-aligned Dietitians and Health Professionals → Get my FREE masterclass, Scattered to Structured for the 5 step method to coach your clients with confidence. Click HERE to watch now
• Connect with Rachel on Instagram

To share your thoughts or feedback on this episode, or to inquire about speaking engagements and workshops for individuals and/or professionals, please email Rachel at: rachel@rachelgoodnutrition.com

In this episode, Rachel is joined by her close friend and fellow Registered Dietitian, Miriam Shurpin, where they share their personal journeys of how they overcame the challenges of leaving the trenches of diet culture and pivoting their practice from a weight loss approach to a weight-inclusive one.

This is an honest conversion about what it's like to be an intuitive eating dietitian in a diet-obsessed world and the continuous challenges we face.

In this episode, we cover:

• How Miriam’s clients helped her shift her practice to an Intuitive Eating approach and heal her own relationship with food and body image
• How Miriam’s journey to becoming a dietitian differed greatly from her expectations
• Hitting rock bottom vs healing happening gradually - the difference in Miriam’s and Rachel’s healing journeys
• The first step Rachel took to heal her body image
• Why no dietitian can offer the perfect solution and overcoming imposter syndrome
• “What if no one wants to work with me?” How Rachel and Mirima overcame their fear of pivoting their practice to an IE approach
• Rachel explores any doubt with choosing to practice with an Intuitive Eating approach
• Is intuitive eating the ultimate approach for everyone? Here’s the truth
• Why Rachel said ‘yes’ to educating weight loss providers on intuitive eating while staying true to her values
• How Miriam and Rachel work through moments of missing their smaller body

As always, your support of the More Than What You Eat Podcast means the world! If you find this podcast helpful, please share it with a loved one who you know will resonate and be sure to leave a 5-star review!

Rachel and Miriams’ resources to achieve food + body peace and authentic health:

• Share your feedback or connect and work with Miriam by emailing: rd@miriamshurpin.com
• Apply for 1:1 coaching with Rachel, for personalized high level support to accelerate yourself to the binge-free life you deserve. Click HERE to apply.
• Stop feeling out of control with food using the FREE eguide: 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control with Food. CLICK HERE.
• For Intuitive Eating-aligned Dietitians and Health Professionals → Get my FREE masterclass, Scattered to Structured for the 5 step method to coach your clients with confidence. Click HERE to watch now
• Connect with Rachel on Instagram
• Connect with Rachel on Linkedin

To share your thoughts or feedback on this episode, or to inquire about speaking engagements and workshops for individuals and/or professionals, please email Rachel at: rachel@rachelgoodnutrition.com

You’ve heard about ozempic, mounjaro, zepbound, and other GLP-1s for weight loss. But do you really know what they are doing to your body and the risks involved?

Too many people are prescribed weight loss medication without informed consent. Meaning, they are given zero education on what these drugs actually do to the body, the risks involved, or what to do to manage and mitigate such risks.

While I personally don’t endorse intentional pursuits of weight loss, I’m all for body autonomy. It’s your choice what to do with your body and I don't believe in judging others for it.

But being prescribed a medication that alters how our body functions without the full information you need, is not the body autonomy that should be encouraged. It’s not safe or ethical to push these medications without requiring medical professionals to be transparent in how they work [no, ‘you’ll be less hungry and lose weight’ is not an explanation] and the risks involved [no, ‘you may be nauseous’ doesn't cut it].

In this episode, fellow registered dietitian, Kelli Yarn, shares with you her experience with GLP-1s patients, how they affect your body, the risks involved and what to do to prevent harm if someone is already taking GLP-1s.

This conversation is not here to tell you what to do with your body, it's here to educate you and prevent harm.

Whether you feel tempted to go on a GLP-1, want to learn more about it, or are someone [or know someone] who’s taking it… this is the episode that everyone should listen to.

In this episode, we cover:

• What doctors are not telling you about GLP-1s
• What are GLP-1s, how do they affect your body, and the physiological mechanisms they cause to result in weight loss
• The #1 risk of taking GLP-1s and what to do about it
• Food noise and GLP-1s
• Understanding the real concern with ‘ozempic face’
• The long term effects of losing muscle mass on quality and longevity of life.
• Why and how your body loses muscle mass when you diet
• The risk of comparing yourself to people who take GLP-1s
• Understanding informed consent
• How to practice body autonomy to make the right decision for YOUR health.

Your support of the More Than What You Eat Podcast means the world! If you find this podcast helpful, it would be so appreciated if you please take a moment to leave a review.

Please share this episode with someone who needs to hear this today and will find it helpful!

Kelli’s Resources:

• Work with Kelli by clicking HERE
• Contact Kelli by emailing: kelli.yarn@use.nourish.com
• Connect with Kelli on Instagram by clicking HERE.

Rachel’s Resources to achieve food + body peace and authentic health:

• Stop feeling out of control with food using the FREE eguide: 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control with Food. CLICK HERE.
• Apply for 1:1 coaching for personalized high level support to accelerate yourself to the binge-free life you deserve. Click HERE.
• For Intuitive Eating-aligned Dietitians and Health Professionals → Get my FREE masterclass, Scattered to Structured for the 5 step method to coach your clients with confidence. Click HERE to watch now.
• Connect with Rachel on Instagram
• Connect with Rachel on Linkedin

To share your thoughts or feedback on this episode, or to inquire about speaking engagements and workshops for individuals and/or professionals, please email Rachel at: rachel@rachelgoodnutrition.com

In this episode, Rachel is joined by Jewish influencer, Alyssa Goldwater, who shares her journey from a diet-centered childhood that eventually led to being diagnosed with binge eating disorder - and how she healed to find food + body peace, and how she is now fighting diet culture with her platform and voice.

In this episode, we cover:

• How Alyssa’s childhood shaped her negative body image, even if it was from well-meaning family members
• What helped her set boundaries with people she loved
• Her reaction to getting diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder and the moment she realized she needed help
• Her fears about her body size and how she worked through them
• Why she didn’t believe what her support team told her at first and what changed her mind
• What gave her the courage to let go of dieting and choose to heal
• How her darkest moments have been transformed into light
• How and why she’s reclaiming the word ‘fat’
• Alyssa shares the day to day freedoms she gets to experience as a result of healing and why its worth it

As always, your support of the More Than What You Eat Podcast means the world! If you find this podcast helpful, please share it with a loved one who you know will resonate and be sure to leave a review!

LINKS MENTIONED:

→ Order a copy of Alyssa’s book Every Body Is: Nurturing Self-Acceptance through Torah Values by clicking HERE.

Follow Alyssa on Instagram by clicking HERE. .

Rachel’s resources to achieve food + body peace and authentic health:

• Apply for 1:1 coaching for personalized high level support to accelerate yourself to the binge-free life you deserve. Click HERE to apply.
• Stop feeling out of control with food using the FREE eguide: 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control with Food. CLICK HERE.
• For Intuitive Eating-aligned Dietitians and Health Professionals → Get my FREE masterclass, Scattered to Structured for the 5 step method to coach your clients with confidence. Click HERE to watch now.
• Connect with Rachel on Instagram
• Connect with Rachel on Linkedin

To share your thoughts or feedback on this episode, or to inquire about speaking engagements and workshops for individuals and/or professionals, please email Rachel at: rachel@rachelgoodnutrition.com

In this episode, Rachel is joined by Eden, who has attempted to embrace intuitive eating and eat with food freedom multiple times - only to end in the usual binge and guilt every time.

You’ll be able to listen in as Rachel coaches Eden in real time and helps her identify the real reasons her binges persist and provides steps and insights on how Eden can heal her relationship with food, stop the food guilt,and opt out of the diet-binge cycle for good.

Rachel also helps Eden get to the root of her body image struggle and pursuit of thinness, and what she actually needs to work on to heal it.

If you relate to Eden’s struggles, you’ll walk away from this episode with huge breakthroughs, just like Eden did!

In this episode, we cover:

• Eden’s sneak eating and why it happens
• Identifying the connection between macro counting and her binges
• Why willpower is not the reason she binges
• Uncovering Eden’s food rules with burgers and fries [and how to challenge them]
• Eden gets honest with herself about her weight loss goals and if its really about her health
• Why Intuitive Eating hasn’t worked for her in the past and what she needs to do instead
• Identifying the root of her bad body image
• Understanding safe attachment in childhood and how that has affected her body image
• The next best step to stop binge eating and heal her body image effectively.

Your support of the More Than What You Eat Podcast means the world! If you find this podcast helpful, it would be so appreciated if you please take a moment to leave a review.

Please share this episode with someone who needs to hear this today and will find it helpful!

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Rachel’s Resources to achieve food + body peace and authentic health:

• Apply for 1:1 coaching for personalized high level support to accelerate yourself to the binge-free life you deserve. Click HERE to apply.
• Stop feeling out of control with food using the FREE eguide: 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control with Food. CLICK HERE.
• For Intuitive Eating-aligned Dietitians and Health Professionals → Get my FREE masterclass, Scattered to Structured for the 5 step method to coach your clients with confidence. Click HERE to watch now.
• Connect with Rachel on Instagram
• Connect with Rachel on Linkedin

To share your thoughts or feedback on this episode, or to inquire about speaking engagements and workshops for individuals and/or professionals, please email Rachel at: rachel@rachelgoodnutrition.com

If you’ve tried to eat intuitively but you feel like you’re just eating all the things and not feeling good, which has led you to the assumption that ‘its not working’ - this is the podcast episode to listen to.

Intuitive Eating is more than just ‘let yourself eat whatever you want, whenever you want it’.

This approach to eating with food freedom can quickly turn into feeling all over the place with food, even if it does feel good to no longer diet.

In this episode, Rachel shares how to differentiate between intuitive eating and when eating becomes impulsive and chaotic. Rachel share tools you can implement today to stop impulsive eating so you can eat with true freedom and intuition that FEELS good!

In this episode, we cover:

• [3:56] The differences between intuitive eating and compulsive eating
• [6:12] Ways to work through impulsive eating so that you can work your way to being an intuitive eater
• [10:18] Learning to build up your impulse control skills and training your brain to pause and think before taking action
• [15:58] How these skills can apply to using eating as an emotional coping mechanism
• [20:27] Why intuitive eating is possible for anyone and the role awareness plays in understanding why impulsive eating may be occurring

As always, your support of the More Than What You Eat Podcast means the world! If you find this podcast helpful, it would be so appreciated if you please take a moment to leave a review and share this episode with someone who needs to hear this today or you know will appreciate it.

Rachel’s Resources:

• Stop feeling out of control with food using the FREE eguide: 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control with Food. CLICK HERE.
• Apply for 1:1 coaching for personalized high level support to accelerate yourself to the binge-free life you deserve. Click HERE to apply.
• For Intuitive Eating-aligned Dietitians and Health Professionals → Get my FREE masterclass, Scattered to Structured for the 5 step method to coach your clients with confidence. Click HERE to watch now.
• Connect with Rachel on Instagram
• Connect with Rachel on Linkedin

To share your thoughts or feedback on this episode, or to inquire about speaking engagements, please email Rachel at: rachel@rachelgoodnutrition.com