How Do You Feel?

Anna Sweeney is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian and Supervisor, Certified Sports Nutritionist, Certified Intuitive Eating Specialist and owner of Whole Life Nutrition. Anna is an expert in the treatment of individuals struggling with eating disorders, disordered eating, and emotional eating. She combines her knowledge of the science of nutrition and experience in the treatment of eating disorders with direct, compassionate, and heartfelt care to help her clients realize the pleasures of living a Whole Life. Anna’s goal is to help her clients to heal their relationships with food and body, trust their own wisdom, appreciate self-care, and to enjoy every bite along the way.
In this episode, Anna and I discuss:
* My experience with an eating disorder
* The reason Anna specialized in eating disorders
* Anna’s attempt to heal her multiple sclerosis through nutrition
* The value and power of intuitive eating
* How diet culture puts food on a pedestal
* Packaging old nutrition concepts as groundbreaking “new science”
* Challenging the idea of food rules
* How to learn to incorporate “challenge foods”
* Disordered eating behaviors that are culturally praised vs. shamed
* Biological causes of binge eating
* The reason you’re feeling preoccupied by food
* How to know if you’re being restrictive with food
* The guideline of 3’s
* How to work through your fears surrounding food
* The importance of getting support to heal
* The fact that health exists at any size, in a wide variety of bodies (HAES)
* Devastating effects of weight stigma & discrimination
* Thin privilege
* Genetic diversity of bodies
* How diet culture hijacks “health” terms and buzzwords
* The danger of trainers making specific nutrition recommendations to clients
* That there’s no magical cure in nutrition
* Anna’s relationship to her body having MS
* The importance of modifying programs for all body sizes
Learn more about Anna and Whole Life Nutrition: wholeliferd.com
Follow Anna on Instagram: @dietitiananna

Martha McCabe is a retired 2x Olympian and world championship medallist in Swimming. She is Founder and President of Head to Head; a Canadian company that promotes mental resilience and physical wellness through Olympian led mentorship programs. Martha was elected by her fellow Olympians in 2016 to sit on the COC Athlete Commission, and is also the current chair of the Swimming Canada athlete council. Martha completed her undergraduate degree in Kinesiology and Health Sciences at UBC in 2012, and just this past week graduated with a Masters of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the Smith School of business at Queen’s University. Martha grew up in Toronto, but now lives in Canmore, Alberta where she spends her free time enjoying the mountains, cycling, running, hiking, skiing and exploring the great outdoors!

Learn more about Head to Head: headtohead.ca

Read Martha's coming out story: cbc.ca

Ezinwanne (Ezi) Odozor is a Nigerian-born writer, scholar, and student support specialist based in Toronto. Her work focuses on themes of identity, culture, gender, race, health, and intimacy. Ezi’s work has been featured in several journals, including Room Magazine, Arc Poetry Magazine, and Hypatia (upcoming). Her writing has also been showcased in several exhibits, most notably in Oluseye’s "A Room Full of Black Boys", which was featured on CBC. Ezi recently completed a Master of Education degree in global health at the University of Toronto, where she worked across the subjects of race, Black-feminisms, anti-colonialism, and global health. Her latest publication, Cartographies of Blackness & Black Indigeneities, was co-edited alongside Professor George Dei and Andrea Jimenez Vasquez. Ezi is currently working on a four-book series centered on Black Womanhood alongside Janelle Brady (PhD.c.) and Professor Njoki Wane.

• Afua Cooper | The Hanging of Angelique
• bell hooks | Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination
• Philip S.S. Howard | White privilege: For or against?
• James Baldwin | The Fire Next Time | Video: Famous Debate against W.F. Buckley (1965) | Video: James Baldwin & Nikki Giovanni, a Conversation
• Professor George Dei | His bio & Brief CV
• Professor Njoki Wane | Her bio & Brief CV
• Professor Lance McCready | Their bio & CV
• Dr. Andrew B. Campbell | Their bio | Their youtube Channel
• Elisabeth Akinwale | @eakinwale @13thflow https://elisabethakinwale.com/ https://www.13thflow.com/
• Anti-Black Racism Reading List

Follow Ezi on Instagram: @echolibrary

Learn more about Ezi: www.eziodozor.com (re-launching soon)

Sathish Muneeswaran is a trainer with FitSquad in Toronto, ON. He has been involved with sports and athletics for most of his life. His passion for fitness grew out of an interest in enhancing performance and preventing injuries. With a Bachelors of Honours in Kinesiology, he has a deep understanding of anatomy, biomechanics and exercise physiology. Sathish’s training approach is grounded in strength training but also incorporates structural balance, bodyweight training and metabolic conditioning. He firmly believes we should all strive to find our true potential and to become stronger than we were yesterday. He also believes that with a smart approach, along with some good old fashion grit and hard work, anyone can reach their goals.

In this episode, Sathish and I discuss:

• Effective at-home workouts and exercises
• Creating the right environment to train at home
• How Sathish structures a workout
• Power vs. Strength vs. Hypertrophy vs. Conditioning
• Manipulating force and velocity
• Progressing workouts at home
• Periodization
• Managing fatigue
• The benefits and unique attributes of kettlebell training
• The sacrifice of specificity
• The 3 most important coaching skills
• Focusing on one goal
• How to determine frequency
• Managing your ego
• Importance of daily walks

Find Sathish on Instagram: @sathish_fitsquad

Learn more about Sathish and FitSquad: fitsquad.ca

In this episode, Alena Luciani, founder of Training2XL, and I talk about considerations for cueing as a coach. How much is too much? When should you cue? What are the best cues to use with which clients? All of this and more is answered in this episode!

Find Alena on Instagram: @training2xl

Learn more about Training2XL: training2xl.com