Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD

Welcome back to season 5 of Don't Salt My Game - our guests today is psychotherapist and Intuitive Eating Counsellor Devinia Noel. In this episode we're exploring common road bumps that people experience when they begin rejecting diet culture and embracing intuitive eating. Devinia shares her own experience of being a fat, black woman in the IE space, as well as advice she might give to clients who are dipping their toes in IE. Topics we cover are: ✨How to talk to your partner or the people around you about IE ✨How to build trust in your body signals ✨How to move past the fear of weight gain ✨Why vulnerability is integral to healing from diet culture ✨The desperate need for diversity in the IE space ✨Not taking up space or centring yourself at the expense of more marginalised people

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Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book (out now!) How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. Episode 4 of this series will drop on Friday 15th Jan!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Olimata Taal, the newest member of the LCIE team and creator behind the Instagram account @wellwitholi. In this episode we’re talking all about learning to honour your hunger.

In this episode we talk about:

• How diet culture teaches us to be distrustful and fearful of our bodies
• How ignoring our hunger is a form of self-neglect
• The problem with what I eat in a day videos and comparing what we eat with other people
• What to do if you feel hungry soon after you’ve had a meal or snack
• The difference between fullness and satisfaction
• Treating yourself with love and compassion when things feel difficult
• The role of racism in making us feel less than and second guessing our choices around food and our body

I’m also sharing a visualisation technique to help you get more in touch with your signals around hunger and satisfaction

Finally Jess Sprengle is here to tell us the difference between disordered eating and eating disorders.

Get your copy of How To Just Eat It!

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Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_

Find me on social media: Instagram Twitter

Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating

Guest Information:

Olimata Taal - Instagram

Jess Sprengle - Instagram Twitter

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 9 of this series will drop on Tuesday 2nd Feb!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Jenna Hollenstein (MS, RDN, CDN). Jenna is an anti-diet dietitian who helps heal disordered eating using a combination of Intuitive Eating, mindfulness techniques, and meditation to help her clients move toward greater peace, health, and wellness. In this episode we’re talking about why the pursuit of weight loss is antithetical to Mindful Eating & Intuitive Eating, what Mindful Eating actually is (and what it isn’t) and how you can start to practice it in your daily life.

In this episode we talk about:

• How Diet Culture has co opted Mindful Eating
• Why Mindfulness practice and weight loss are incompatible
• What Mindfulness really is
• Acknowledging our thoughts in the moment
• Meditation
• Breath awareness
• Regaining trust in our own bodies
• Is your desire to be vegan coming from a place of control or compassion

Jenna shares her experience, expertise and advice on how to incorporate Mindfulness into our daily lives to help support our Intuitive Eating practices.

Get your copy of How To Just Eat It!

UK

{Amazon}

{Waterstones} {WH Smith}

Australia

{Booktopia)

Worldwide with free shipping

{Book Depository}

Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_

Find me on social media: Instagram Twitter

Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating

Guest Information:

Jenna Hollenstein - Instagram Website Twitter Book

Resources Mentioned:

Jenna’s website: https://jennahollenstein.com/

The Open Heart Project: https://openheartproject.com/

DSMG episode with Fiona Sutherland: Ep 121 - How To Just Eat It - Chapter 1: Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 12 of this series will drop on Friday 12th Jan!

In today’s episode, I’m talking to Jake Gifford, a personal trainer and doctoral researcher at Brunel University London whose aim is to reframe fitness and what it means to move our bodies. In this episode, we’re talking about the bigger-picture and socio-political considerations that often get left out of the conversations about movement.

In this episode we talk about:

• How a lot of public health rhetorics around moving our bodies make oversimplified recommendations
• Healthism
• Some of the problematic discourse around how exercise is described e.g. “exercise is medicine”
• Looking at the bigger picture of movement
• Factors that could stop an individual from engaging in movement
• Hierarchies of exercise - and why they’re problematic
• How to make movement more inclusive
• Issues with movement being associated with morality
• Structural and social determinants of health

Jake talks us through how movement has historically been associated with moral righteousness and personal responsibility; as well what we can do to shift the narrative so ensure it becomes more inclusive and accessible.

Get your copy of How To Just Eat It!

UK

{Amazon}

{Waterstones} {WH Smith}

Australia

{Booktopia)

Worldwide with free shipping

{Book Depository}

Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_

Find me on social media: Instagram Twitter

Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating

Guest Information:

Jake Gifford - Instagram

Previous episode with Jake: http://www.laurathomasphd.co.uk/podcast/ep-jake-gifford/

Podcast episode with Dr. Oli Williams: http://www.laurathomasphd.co.uk/podcast/oli/

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the past several weeks, I have posted two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. Make sure you go back and have a listen. How To Just Eat It is out now!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Kimmie Singh, MS, RD, who is a is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist at LK Nutrition, a Health at Every Size® nutrition private practice based in New York City that supports people with eating disorders, disordered eating, and anyone seeking for support in healing their relationship with food and body. Kimmie has a passion for Intuitive Eating and weight-inclusive nutrition and is currently the treasurer for the Association for Size Diversity and Health; as well as an active member of the International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians. In this episode we’re talking about ‘the next steps’ of intuitive eating.

In this episode we talk about:

• How we can make Body Positivity and Intuitive Eating more accessible & inclusive
• Oppressive systems and their part to play in Intuitive Eating
• Barriers to Intuitive Eating
• How Intuitive Eating might feel unsafe to some folks
• The relationship between cultural assimilation and diet culture
• Social justice & equality
• Looking beyond our own personal Intuitive Eating process
• Clinical vs Emotional understanding

Kimmie shares her insight on the complexities behind making Intuitive Eating more inclusive, as well as sharing advice on why it’s so important to listen to clients on an individual, human-to-human level if they express concern around Intuitive Eating.

Get your copy of How To Just Eat It!

UK

{Amazon}

{Waterstones} {WH Smith}

Australia

{Booktopia)

Worldwide with free shipping

{Book Depository}

Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_

Find me on social media: Instagram Twitter

Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating

Guest Information:

Kimmie Singh - Instagram Website Podcast

Resources Mentioned:

Fearing The Black Body - Sabrina Strings

The Body is Not an Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor

My Black Body Podcast - Rawiyah Tariq and Jessica Wilson, MS. RD.