You're in for a treat! This week on the pod we’re chatting with the incredible Becca King (who you may know as @adhd.nutritionist on Instagram), a registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor who specializes in helping folks with ADHD heal their relationship with food. Becca is an ADHDer herself, so we chat about her personal experience with disordered eating, the interplay of neurodivergence with the binge/restrict cycle, and how she approaches nutrition now for herself and for her clients.

Becca is here to help us bust myths about nutrition for ADHD as we delve into what it really means to support yourself, use nourishment as self-care, and create a more peaceful relationship with food (and your body!) as an ADHDer.

Tune in to hear more about…

• What’s on Becca’s plate (a favorite food combination she's eating, and what's on her life plate right now)
• How Becca was diagnosed with ADHD
• What ADHD feels like for her
• The impact of ADHD on her eating disorder, and vice versa
• Going from anorexia to binge eating
• Feeling out of control with food
• Why ADHDers are at a higher risk for disordered eating
• How body signals like hunger and fullness can be dulled in ADHDers
• Navigating medication and loss of appetite
• Why binge eating is so common with ADHD
• Recovering from the binge-restrict cycle
• Whether you should eat processed foods if you have ADHD
• How dopamine and carbohydrates are related
• The research on sugar and ADHD symptoms
• Becca’s favorite snacks for ADHDers

About Becca: Becca King is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor from Charlotte, North Carolina. As an adult with ADHD who struggled for years with disordered eating, Becca is passionate about helping other ADHDers who struggle with binge eating, chronic dieting, and body image issues find food freedom and improve their self-esteem. She uses the Principles of Intuitive Eating and a weight-inclusive approach to nutrition for ADHD in her virtual practice. Follow Becca on IG @adhd.nutritionist

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This week, I’m joined by body image coach and children’s book author, Debbie Saroufim. We delve into why it's vital to adopt a fat-positive, anti-diet perspective when it comes to children's well-being, and how parents can take an active role in supporting their children’s body image. We also discuss practical strategies to help kids foster body acceptance, navigate conversations about weight and health, and cultivate body autonomy with food.

Listen to hear more about…

• What’s on Debbie’s plate right now

• Going on her first diet at the age of six

• The impact of having a mother with an eating disorder

• Ways to make your home a safe-haven from food and body shame

• Disordered eating in the acting world

• Using body neutrality rather than body positivity

• The moral messages we get about our bodies as kids

• How schools are perpetuating diet culture and weight bias

• What you can do as a parent if you notice diet culture in your child’s school environment

• How to talk to your kids about food choices

• Speaking with teachers about food and body talk

• Debbie’s book, Fat and Beautiful, and how it promotes body neutrality for children

• Language and phrases to avoid when talking to children about bodies

• Examining the word “beauty” and reclaiming it

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"Dress for your body type", "define your waist", and "only wear what is flattering". How about...no. 

As our bodies change (as they will continue to do throughout our life), many of us are met with barriers to body acceptance. And our clothes are a massive part of that. But they can also be a pivotal part of our liberation.

Tune in to this week's episode to hear my conversation with Dacy Gillespie, a weight-inclusive anti-diet personal stylist. We untangle the mess of our closets, dismantle from patriarchal ideas of fashion, and challenge our sense of what we "should" be wearing based on our body shape and size.

• What’s on Dacy’s plate right now (and importantly, what's not)
• How she got into personal styling
• Being raised to think having a passion for clothing was vain
• The conversations that made her realize the ways patriarchy and white supremacy have informed our fashion choice
• How to approach shopping for new clothes as your body changes
• What steps to take to identify your personal style separate from patriarchal ideas of beauty and fashion 
• What to do with old clothes that no longer fit
• How clothing sizes impact our body image 
• The life-changing magic of finding your authentic style
• Challenging the inner critic when shopping
• Barriers to accessing clothing in a larger body
• The fashion rules we need to ditch 
• How to deal with your closet 
• All about the word “flattering”

About Dacy:

As a weight inclusive, anti-diet personal stylist, Dacy Gillespie helps her clients reject fashion rules and ideal standards of beauty imposed by the patriarchy, white supremacism, and capitalism so that they can uncover their authentic style. Through their work building a functional wardrobe, Dacy’s clients make a mindset shift from thinking they need to wear what’s flattering to unapologetically taking up space in the world. After a lifetime of jobs in high-stress careers that didn’t suit her highly-sensitive, introverted personality, Dacy started mindful closet in 2013 in an attempt to create a more emotionally sustainable lifestyle. Her work has been featured in Forbes and Real Simple and she is a frequent podcast guest. Dacy is married and has two boys, ages 5 and 9.

You can find more from her at mindfulcloset.com, @mindfulcloset on ig and tt, makingspacecourse.com for her group program. 

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On this week's episode, we're joined by Leslie Schilling, registered dietitian and author. We focus on themes in her second book, Feed Yourself, which explores the intersection of diet culture and religion — how diet culture shows up in the safest spaces, including places of worship.

We discuss interrogating the church, and how diet culture is perpetuated through its messaging and ideologies. From weight to food choices, to health and morality, to the lies that instill shame and guilt – specifically when it comes to our bodies.

I’ve really admired and respected Leslie for years. We’re connected on social media, and hold similar values. I was really looking forward to in this conversation about faith and religion, because it’s not something that has been a big part of my life. And this is exactly why I have this podcast – to bring on all different lived experiences; discuss hard things; dig into the nuance and make sure that nuance is shared. I hope you enjoy this one, I know I did.

Leslie Schilling, MA, RDN, CSCS, CEDS-S, owns a Las Vegas-based private practice specializing in nutrition counseling for families, people with disordered eating concerns, professional athletes, and performers. Leslie has served as a performance nutrition consultant for Cirque du Soleil® and the NBA and an expert contributor to U.S. News & World Report. You may know Leslie best as the creator and co-author of the award-winning book Born To Eat. Her new book, Feed Yourself, about how diet culture shows up in our safest places, is available anywhere books are sold.

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This episode is an answer to a question submitted on Patreon from Erica, who asked:

“How can I manage my acid reflux without restriction? I've been told over and over that I should eliminate certain foods, but just thinking about restricting is triggering me. Other than limiting my caffeine intake I'm really trying not to cut out any specific foods because honestly I know that's what got here got me here to begin with. Supplements and some over-the-counter medications don't really seem to do much. I'm sure I can't be the only one in your community who is struggling with this as I heal my relationship with food. Do you have experience with this, or have you had success with any remedies with your clients that don't involve restriction? Thanks so much for what you do!"

Abbie dives into so much in the answer, including:

• How restricting food impacts acid reflux

• Where acid reflux occurs in the body

• How irregular eating and fasting can impact the digestive system

• How we can become even more sensitive to the foods that we restrict

• Why certain foods may feel like the culprit for acid reflux

• How stress and anxiety can worsen acid reflux symptoms

• Cultivating a compassionate, low stress eating environment

• How intense exercise can exacerbate acid reflux symptoms

• Updating your wardrobe to reduce anxiety and promote comfort

• Talking to your doctor about medications to help mitigate acid reflux symptoms

• Not slipping back into disordered eating patterns when trying to manage acid reflux symptoms

• Centering compassion and body trust 

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Kirsten Morrison (@intuitive_rd on Instagram) joins us this week on the pod to discuss her experience as a former weight loss surgery dietitian. We explore the consequences on physical and mental health, her journey from working in bariatrics to now specializing in intuitive eating, how dietitians often experience their own disordered eating, and the overlap of disordered eating and bariatric surgery.

I really appreciate Kirsten’s perspective as someone that was closely involved in the weight-loss surgery practice. She and I discuss her firsthand observations on the process and its impact on the patients involved.

Whether or not you have had weight-loss surgery or are considering it, I hope you listen to this episode. This is by no means a conversation that spans this entire topic, as we want to have folks on here with lived experience with the surgery soon. But I hope it's an informative and helpful discussion about the realities of weight-loss surgery from the perspective of someone who worked in a clinic. Our goal here is to provide you with the information you need to make an informed, compassionate decision for yourself and your body, always. 

Tune in to hear more about…

• Role of a dietitian in clinics offering bariatric surgery and lack of consistent post-operative support for patients

• Lack of informed consent in weight loss interventions

• Patients not fully informed about potential side effects and outcomes

• Pressure to undergo bariatric surgery as the "gold standard" solution

• Blaming and shaming culture surrounding weight loss efforts

• Ineffectiveness of weight loss surgeries in some cases

• Patients not achieving expected weight loss results post-surgery

• Surgical interventions not addressing underlying issues with food relationships

• Upgrading surgeries or blaming patients for lack of success

• Problematic approach of trying to eliminate hunger cues

• Red flags in trying to suppress a necessary biological cue

• Negative impact on food relationships and potential for binge eating

• Restrictive diets post-surgery exacerbating food-related issues

• How suppressing hunger cues doesn't work in the long run and leads to emotional, mental, and physical struggles

• The definition of "success" in weight loss surgeries and the misleading statistics often used to measure success

• Acknowledging privilege, stressing body autonomy, and exploring alternatives such as healing relationships with food and body image

Kirsten Morrisson is an Anti-Diet Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. She is the Host of Intuitive Bites Podcast and runs her own virtual private practice helping women heal their relationships to food and body. Visit her online at @theintuitive_rd (Instagram), theintuitiverd.com and her podcast, Intuitive Bites.

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This week we are joined by the incredible Lauren Fleshman, New York Times bestselling author of "Good for a Girl", to discuss the systemic ways that our sports culture fails women and girls, and how we can create a better future for the next generation of female athletes. 

We dive into how the natural and expected changes in a young women’s body during adolescence are met with misunderstanding and pathology, and how the sports systems that girls and women find themselves in are built by men, for men and boys. They don’t currently account for or support the experience of the female athlete.

Even if you aren’t a female-bodied human or an athlete, I hope you’ll tune into this episode. This is such an important conversation about challenging the patriarchy and policing of women’s bodies, far beyond athletics and running. As always, please listen with compassion and empathy for yourself and any past (or current) experiences this may bring up for you.

Tune in to hear more about…

• The inspiration behind Lauren's book, Good for a Girl

• How prevalent disordered eating is when girls in adolescence, even into their college years

• The objectification of female bodies during adolescence

• How the US sports systems are built for around a default male body

• The significant differences between young girls and boys when training for sports

• The lack of normalization and support that girls and young women receive in sports during adolescence

• What happens when girls fight against natural body changes

• The rate that young girls drop out of sports

• What is viewed as "essential equipment" for boys in sports versus girls

• The financial pressure of athlete scholarships and ensuring performance at the expense of health

• If weight loss and losing a menstrual cycle is "normal" during sports training

• The extended time period to truly recover from undereating and overtraining in a women's body

• Redefining excellence for women in sports beyond race times and body-focused numbers

• How high risk women athletes are funneled into college sports

• Performative health and how food choices are policed in athlete spaces

• What's next for Lauren in her career 

About Lauren:

Lauren Fleshman is an award winning author and one of the most decorated American distance runners of all time, having won five NCAA championships at Stanford and two national championships as a professional. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Time and Runner’s World. Her debut book was an instant New York Times Bestseller, and won the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. She is the brand strategy advisor for Oiselle, a fitness apparel company for women, and the co-founder of Picky Bars, a natural food company. She lives in Bend, OR.

Find Lauren on IG: @fleshmanflyer

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There is a special brand of diet and wellness culture that comes for you when you're pregnant. From the “permission” for your body to change, to pressure around food choices, to beauty standards for pregnant people, we're getting into it all. 

Artist Bri Custer joins the pod to share, vulnerably, about what pregnancy has been like as she heals from a lifetime of disordered eating, and works towards a peaceful relationship with her body. Bri is so special to me as a human being, a friend, and a client. She has done so much reflection around these topics and I think you'll get a lot out of this conversation, whether you are pregnant, considering getting pregnant, or even if you don't ever plan to.

Gentle reminder that this can be a sensitive, difficult, and personal topic. I know this from personal experience. Please listen to this episode if it feels compassionate and kind to listen to a conversation about pregnancy. You are always loved and supported here.

We discuss:

• Bri's experience with dieting as a child

• Unpacking generational cycles of body shame and restriction

• The temporary permission that society gives us for our bodies to change during pregnancy

• The pressure to maintain a specific diet during pregnancy to maintain your own health and a child's

• The blame and shame around not "eating right" during pregnancy

• The popularity of post-partum exercise programs and the harm they can cause

• The pressure for dietary changes to combat PCOS and infertility issues pre-pregnancy

• The importance of combating food morality and going back to foods we love as a kid during times where food and eating is difficult during pregnancy

• How pregnancy is a wonderful lesson in trusting the wisdom of your body

• Setting boundaries around social media and mental resilience to diet culture during pregnancy

• Challenges around body image during pregnancy

• Asking not to be weighed before and during pregnancy, and if weight is needed to monitor one's health and their growing child's

• Beauty standards during pregnancy and how harmful they are

• Body checking during & after pregnancy and the importance of centering curiosity and compassion

About Bri:

Bri Custer is an en plein air painter investigating perception, memory, and color through the New England Landscape. Her work has been featured by Clover + Bee, Candyfloss, and on the Create! Magazine blog and can be found at Nahcotta in Portsmouth, NH and Sorelle Gallery in Westport, CT. Bri has been working with Abbie for roughly a year, and began her anti-diet journey in 2022. She is currently a full-time artist based in Concord, New Hampshire with her husband, Bryan and hound-lab mix, Vinny. Follow her @briiiiicuster on Instagram and see more of her art on her website. 

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If you’ve ever been curious if intermittent fasting’s claims about health benefits during menopause are true, this is the episode for you. This week on Full Plate, we're digging into the claims, the science, and debunking the myths around intermittent fasting during this season of life.

If intermittent fasting has been something you've tried, have considered trying, or seem to find yourself surrounded by others touting its benefits, I am sending you compassion. I hope that this episode is grounding and informative. My goal is always to provide you with the full picture so that you can make decisions that truly support your well-being.

I dive into so much in this episode, including:

• The claims that are made around the benefits of intermittent fasting during menopause

• Why women are more susceptible to falling back into disordered eating patterns - or building new ones - during this stage in their life

• The link between anti-aging culture and diet culture

• The nutrition misinformation around menopause

• If the research supports intermittent fasting's claims about menopause

• One of the longest, most recent scientific studies done on intermittent fasting and its results

• The potential damaging effects of intermittent fasting on the body

Listen to the first episode on intermittent fasting here. It will help lay a good foundation for this follow up.

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This week I am so thrilled to be joined by Kimmie Singh, RD to discuss PCOS: what it is, common misconceptions, why medical providers are so confused about it, its relationship to disordered eating, how to take a weight-inclusive and trauma-informed approach, and more.

We also get into the nuances of weight and health in general around diagnosis and treatment, trusting your body and intuition, and navigating weight-centric recommendations for managing symptoms.

Beyond just PCOS, we talk about grief, particularly expected and anticipated grief.

I hope you get as much out of this episode as I did, even if you don't have a PCOS diagnosis. I hope it will allow you to bring more compassion and empathy to those in your life who may have PCOS, or may receive a diagnosis in the future. I really appreciate Kimmie’s vulnerability and honesty in this episode, and I deeply enjoyed talking to her. 

We discuss...

• The vulnerability and overwhelm that can happen in our college years that gives rise to disordered eating

• Weight cycling and dieting and the harm done to our health

• Fat-positive recovery from disordered eating and the importance of mental health support

• How PCOS symptoms can impact body image and our relationship with food

• How PCOS and disordered eating can co-occur, and how PCOS can lead to a higher risk of eating disorders 

• Should you cut back on carbs with PCOS?

• What about weight-loss and PCOS?

• The fatphobia and weight-stigma that is baked into standard recommendations for managing PCOS

• Navigating medical providers that recommend food restriction to manage PCOS

• The shame around using medication to manage symptoms

• The health impacts of PCOS that can't be seen on the surface

• Trusting your body and intuition when it comes to your own health

• Kimmie's PCOS-focused courses and resources for providers

About Kimmie:

Kimmie Singh is a self-proclaimed fat Registered Dietitian based in New York City. She is the owner of Body Honor Nutrition, a nutrition private practice that supports individuals to heal their relationships with food and body. Kimmie supports her clients with a fat-positive and anti-oppressive framework and has a special passion for working with people that have polycystic ovarian syndrome. Kimmie is also a sought-after speaker and has presented at several national conferences. She presents on the effects of anti-fat stigma in healthcare and nutrition. Kimmie is a believer in kindness, compassion, and the power of advocacy. Learn more about Kimmie at www.bodyhonornutrition.com.

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Group program:

Looking for more support and concrete steps to take to heal your relationship with food and your body? Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching

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What is alive in you right now? What does it mean to return to the body as the place where we experience life?

The concept of embodiment has become more present in the lexicon of body image and body liberation. While deeply important to our collective divestment from diet culture, exploring your own embodiment may feel confusing, intangible, or incongruent with your lived experience.

Neathery Falchuk, LCSW-S, CGP (they/them) joins us this week to dig all the way in: What is embodiment, really? What does it look like? Feel like? Is it a destination, or something different? And how can we practice it? 

We’re diving into the answers to these questions and more with the amazing, wise, funny, Neathery -- who also speaks to intersectionality in embodiment as a queer, trans and non-binary, fat, neurodivergent, white Latinx therapist. 

I can't wait to hear from you on this episode. I think it will bring together a lot of things we've been talking about on the show: from our relationship with food, to the identities we hold, and what it means to experience the world in the body we have.

We discuss so (so!) much in this one, including…

• What's on Neathery's plate (hint: baby-led weaning and oatmeal)
• Neathery’s experience of disembodiment as a queer and trans teen
• How disordered eating develops without embodiment
• Why embodiment isn’t always a positive experience
• Barriers to embodiment, including those we can't control
• Working through trauma and the importance of co-regulation
• Self-compassion as a tool to connect to ourselves
• Learning to trust the wisdom of our body
• Grief work and its connection to embodiment
• The need for more access to supportive communities in the embodiment and body liberation space

Neathery Falchuk (they/them) is a queer, trans and non-binary, fat, neurodivergent, white Latinx therapist, licensed clinical social worker supervisor, certified group psychotherapist, certified Body Trust® provider, and certified meditation teacher. Neathery is the founder of Ample and Rooted, an inclusive psychotherapy, consulting, and training practice specializing in working with LGBTQ+ communities, eating disorders, body shame, sex and sexuality, gender, relationship concerns, trauma, mindfulness, grief and loss, and substance use. Neathery currently serves on the program committee for Project HEAL and is a past President of Central Texas Eating Disorder Specialists, past board member of Austin Group Psychotherapy Society and former chair of the DEI Committee, and past board member of the Association for Size Diversity and Health. Neathery lives in Austin, TX with their wife and child and enjoys hiking, meditation, sipping coffee on patios, and starting and never finishing books.

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