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Resources to help you undiet your life. Find strategies, podcasts, and inspiration to reclaim your health from diet culture with intuitive eating practices.
How to eat for heart health after 40 – in real life
How to use gentle nutrition basics to promote heart health after 40 without compromising satisfaction or falling into the dumpster fire of diet culture.
The only health-related resolution you need to make in 2024
Episode 104: What’s the 1 health-related New Year’s resolution you need to make to improve your health and wellbeing? Undiet your life. Here’s how.
How to create healthy habits after 40; 5 steps
If you’re not interested in New Year’s resolutions you’ll probably break on Super Bowl weekend, here are 5 steps to create healthy habits you’ll stick with.
How to tell if you’re mindful eating or dieting
Episode 66: If your head is swimming with healthy eating, wellness lifestyle, and exercise advice this month, this episode will help you cut through the noise with mindful eating.
How to make holiday baking healthier
Episode 59: Baking is the one area of cooking that takes the biggest hit from diet culture. During my disordered eating days, I had piles of recipes with scratched-out ingredients. After MANY batches of hockey puck cookies, crumbly brick-like cranberry bread, and sad, soggy pumpkin pie, I realized that trying to make holiday baking healthier doesn’t work. Here’s why.
Nutrition and Body Positive Resources
HEALTHY AT EVERY SIZE
Yin Yoga: Empowering All Bodies to Find Their Perfect Balance
Episode 15 Why yoga isn’t about looking great in Lululemon leggings: How many times have you seen a picture on social media or in a magazine of a woman doing yoga and thought, "If only I looked like her; then I'd do yoga?" That's because all we ever see are photos of...
What do hummus, tank tops, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding have to do with your relationship with food?
Episode 16 Culture Shock: "You know those scenes from My Big Fat Greek Wedding with all the crazy family members fussing over the bride and groom's big day? Yeah, that's pretty much my life." This is the first thing Malak Saddy said to me when I first met her in our...
INTUITIVE EATING
The Best Diet for Women Over 40 Has No Restrictions
Episode 100: The best diet for women over 40 is one that gets you through the “messy middle” of intuitive eating using an expansive mindset.
How to stop stress eating: 3 unexpected strategies
Reduce stress eating naturally with these unexpected strategies and delicious foods.
PODCASTS
How to use mindful eating during the holidays; 3 ways to avoid burnout
Episode 102: The holiday season is a busy time of year. There are plenty of ways to distract you from taking care of yourself. Here are 3 ways to use mindful eating during the holidays to stay attuned to your physical and emotional needs.
How to avoid weight gain over the holidays
Episode 101: If the fear of holiday weight gain stresses you out, here are 4 tips to help you undiet your holidays and savor more of what matters most – delicious food shared with friends and family.