Cake Over Keto

May 11 2023 3

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Registered Nutritionist, intuitive eating practitioner and non-diet counsellor Mel Wakeman provides a fortnightly slice of food and body truth, dollops of compassion and sprinkles of salvation as she serves up a non-diet and weight inclusive podcast that stands up against diet culture so you can eat the goddamn cake without anxiety and guilt. Cake Over Keto helps you make peace with food and your body so you can focus on the stuff in your life that really matters; not what the scale says, not the 3547 thoughts about eating or not, or what other people might think about you. If you find food and eating is taking over your life, listen in.

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Episode 22. The Goldilocks Dilemma

May 11 2023 22 mins

There are many social expectations, showing up as ‘proper’ (aka neurotypical) table manners that can ultimately make eating really uncomfortable and stressful. Sit still, keep your elbows off the table, don’t talk whilst food is in your mouth, don’t slurp, hurry up, slow down, take your cap off (which my brother heard at least a million times). Then we get the ‘healthy e

Episode 21. Desperately seeking Dopamine

Apr 27 2023 22 mins

Welcome to Season 3! What’s it like when your brain lacks dopamine? Pretty crap to be honest. Nothing feels exciting. It takes effort to find joy in things, because it’s all BORRRINNGG. The most mundane of tasks, like getting out of bed and having a wash have no appeal. So it makes sense we try to find Dopamine, and it can be by any means necessary. With ADHD, we might learn

Episode 20. We’re not broken

Feb 23 2023 22 mins

“ADHD is like being in a car that’s on autopilot. Rather than it taking you directly to your planned destination, you go on an all-day adventure to some far-off place because the name sounded interesting. Or it just stops in the middle of a busy road and refuses to move” “It’s lying awake at night thinking of all the things you want and need to do the next day, then doing

Episode 19. I don’t bloody want avocado pudding (why healthifying foods made me miserable)

Feb 09 2023 20 mins

Healthification. See also healthified, healthifying. Adapting a recipe, meal or way of eating to improve its health value; to make it healthier. Sounds good right? It depends on how you define health. Because if becoming pre-occupied with making food healthier causes stress and anxiety, it ain’t good. If the focus is just to achieve weight loss, it ain’t gonna be good. Especia

Episode 18. Part 2 The true cost of weight loss drugs

Jan 26 2023 30 mins

In part 2 of this episode, I spill what the drug trial data really shows; not the rosy-coloured-spectacle -buy-our-drugs-BS. I talk about short term weight loss and weight regain, neither of which Novo Nordisk wants you to know. You'll hear about the other weight loss drugs that have been withdrawn AFTER launch because they were NOT SAFE. Saxenda and Wegovy are no different. The

Episode 18. Part 1 The true cost of weight loss drugs

Jan 12 2023 26 mins

If you were offered a drug you could take just once a week, that was clinically proven to lead to sustained weight loss, without the nasty side effects, you’d be tempted right? If you were offered a drug you had to self-inject, that would give you nausea, vomiting and upset stomach for months, that you needed to take forever (that you’ll have to pay for) otherwise weight regain

Food and the Festive Season:- navigating Christmas with an eating disorder (or disordered eating)

Dec 22 2022 26 mins

It’s difficult to think of Christmas beyond the food. Indulgence is the focus, with the expectation of laughter, love and joy. But the reality is often very different. Not only is the whole experience overwhelming, but it’s also riddled with fear and guilt. How the hell do you get through all this? In this episode, Mel helps you put a strategy in place; one that helps to remov

What does Anxiety have to do with food issues?

Dec 08 2022 18 mins

Using food to cope with difficult emotions, including anxiety is called being human. If you’ve ever opened up a tub of ice cream, a sharing bag of crisps you have no intention of sharing or sitting on the sofa with a whole cheesecake and one spoon, you are human. Food has the ability to soothe, comfort and numb. It can nourish mind, body and soul and it can heal, which I think i

Diabetes, intuitive eating and weight inclusivity

Nov 24 2022 28 mins

There is so much stigma around diabetes, particularly type ll. A huge blame culture exists with the idea that people give themselves diabetes, by being lazy and eating the “wrong” foods. But anyone can develop type ll diabetes; in any size body, at any age, eating any kind of diet. Fatness doesn’t cause diabetes. Sugar doesn’t cause diabetes. But weight loss and carb cuttin

The ups, downs and doubts of recovery

Nov 10 2022 20 mins

Believe me when I say, recovery looks different for everyone. And that in itself can make it scary; like you’re venturing alone on a treacherous journey, but you’re not quite sure where it will end. But you are not travelling alone and this episode proves this. In my experience recovery can bring a fear of beginning and a fear going backwards. It can feel relentless and confu