26. Is Your Period Missing? Recovering from Hypothalamic Amenorrhea (HA) - Sarah Liz King

02/12/23 • 36 min

While periods can suck sometimes, they're also an important indicator of health. If you miss getting your period for several months and you are not pregnant, you could have a condition called hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA). The main causes are stress, disordered eating, being underweight, and/or too much exercise.

In this episode, Kiah and Meg chat with Sarah Liz King about:

Sarah's personal journey with recovering from HA
What HA actually is, and how it's diagnosed
The steps to get started on a recovery journey
Coping with body changes that might happen during the renourishment process
How to safely reintroduce or increase exercise after your period comes back
Sarah's top 3 tips for anyone who is healing their relationship with food & exercise

Sarah is a Health At Every Size® Accredited Exercise Physiologist & Personal Trainer, Qualified Pilates Mat & Reformer Instructor, and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. She is passionate about helping women recover from disordered eating, heal their relationships with physical activity, and successfully address hormonal challenges (such as PCOS and hypothalamic amenorrhea).

Through her own journey with an eating disorder, Sarah discovered Intuitive Eating, which gave her the body freedom she had been searching for through endless other approaches. Sarah has over 10 years of experience helping people achieve full recovery so they can enjoy positive relationships with movement, food freedom, and fall back in love with their bodies!

Find Sarah at:

Instagram: @sarahlizking

Podcast: Holistic Health Radio

At Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health’ no matter your body shape or size.

Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.

Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/

Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/

Imbodi Health website: www.imbodihealth.com

If you enjoy our episodes, please give us a written review on Apple podcasts. It helps our podcast to be shown to more people!

In this episode, Kiah and Meg chat with Sarah Liz King about:

Sarah's personal journey with recovering from HA
What HA actually is, and how it's diagnosed
The steps to get started on a recovery journey
Coping with body changes that might happen during the renourishment process
How to safely reintroduce or increase exercise after your period comes back
Sarah's top 3 tips for anyone who is healing their relationship with food & exercise

Find Sarah at:

Instagram: @sarahlizking

Podcast: Holistic Health Radio

At Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health’ no matter your body shape or size.

Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.

Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/

Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/

Imbodi Health website: www.imbodihealth.com

If you enjoy our episodes, please give us a written review on Apple podcasts. It helps our podcast to be shown to more people!

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25. Help! I Can't Stop Calorie Counting

Calories are units of energy that are essential for life and we can't function without them - beyond meeting our basic needs, they help us to live our best lives! Unfortunately, for many people calories feel like an enemy rather than a friend.

In this episode, Kiah and Meg discuss:

Are there benefits to calorie counting?
How many calories we should eat
The issues with calorie counting... and when it's not a good idea
A step-by-step approach to stop calorie counting

At Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health’ no matter your body shape or size.

Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.

Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/

Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/

Imbodi Health website: www.imbodihealth.com

If you enjoy our episodes, please give us a written review on Apple podcasts. It helps our podcast to be shown to more people!

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27. We Have a Problem with “What I Eat In A Day” Content

"What I Eat In A Day" posts are becoming increasingly popular - the #WhatIEatInaDay hashtag on TikTok has over 11.2 billion views! While a lot of the content can seem 'inspirational', there can also be a dark side...

In this episode, Kiah and Meg discuss:

Are there benefits to "What I Eat In A Day" videos?
The downsides of this trend, including the regular emphasis on disordered eating behaviours and body checking
Our top tips to navigate this trend, including three questions to ask yourself when seeing this content

At Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health’ no matter your body shape or size.

Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.

Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/

Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/

Imbodi Health website: www.imbodihealth.com

If you enjoy our episodes, please give us a written review on Apple podcasts. It helps our podcast to be shown to more people!