Life's too short to count almonds

Oct 30 2024 75 ep. 35 mins 1
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Join non-diet dietitians Meg and Susan as we chat over food and body issues and help you find ways to defend your family against dieting, disordered eating and navigate a really difficult food culture.

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S5 Ep3: Are you scared by Halloween lollies?

Oct 30 2024 37 mins  
Today we chat Halloween. Celebrating Halloween continues to grow in popularity and both Meg & Susan have had some positive community experiences that have changed their minds a bit on Halloween. We share how we deal with lolly overload in our homes, talk about our favourite sweets and as always share the best thing we've eaten this week. Resources mentioned include The Gamer Ed

S5 Ep2 : Don't Let Diet Culture Ruin Your Cultural Foods

Oct 23 2024 32 mins  
Today we chat cultural foods and how diet culture undermines and devalues enjoyment, culture, nostalgia, connection when it comes to food. This was as close as we got to finding the original source for the Thai/Swedish research that we talk about.  We mention 'Your Latina Nutritionist' who talks a lot about this and it great to follow. We chat about the new RecipeTin Eats cook

S5 Ep 1 : We're Back For One Short Final Season

Oct 16 2024 35 mins  
We're back and we have some news. After 2 years creating, podcasting and running courses we have decided to stop...for now. We're not sure how long but we both need a bit more time back to focus on our other commitments. We've loved this adventure and hope it has been helpful to thoses who have come along with us. Favourite things this week - Recipetin Beef Biryani - it's a book ex

Bonus episode : Your Fat Friend Film chat

Oct 02 2024 19 mins  
Popping back for a bonus episode to give you a nudge to get along to a screening of 'Your Fat Friend'. The story of Aubrey Gordon (of Maintenance Phase podcast) who first rose to some recognition for her anonymous work blogging as yrfatfriend. The movie delves into the lived experience of living life in a fat body. The impact on relationships, especially with her parents, on food a

S4 Ep11 : When 'Weightloss experts' try to talk about body dissatisfaction (Part 2)

Sep 25 2024 59 mins  
Today we go through in depth a summary of the webinar that we watched on body dissatisfaction. The good, the bad and the dangerous. Unfortunately we simply can not recommend this webinar for parent needing help helping their kids with poor body image. Much of it was not about body image at all but about how to improve nutrition quality and get kids moving and the bits that were abo

S4 E10 When 'Weightloss Experts' try to talk about body dissatisfaction (Part 1)

Sep 18 2024 19 mins  
Just s short episode today, we squeezed in recording this just before watching a webinar on body dissatisfaction. Entitled ' What to do When Kids Don't Like their Bodies' you would think as Eating Disorder Dietitians we'd be thrilled that more people are talking about this issue. We usually would be. Unfortunately the 'Special Guest Expert' is not a clinician, not a psychologist bu

S4 Ep9 Weighing kids in school? Hard no.

Sep 11 2024 44 mins  
You may have seen in the news that a report has been released by the Australian College of Nursing making the recommendation put more nurses in school (great) to weigh kids (not great.) Thankfully the pushback has been swift, clear, measured and evidence based and we share our thoughts on the idea. We thought Dr Kyla's response and The Embrace Hub response on The Project were both

S4 Ep8 : Non-Diet Social Media Struggles

Sep 04 2024 40 mins  
We love a lot of the non-diet content we see on social media. It's such a great way for people to feel connected and less alone and is often the first introduction people have to a different way of relating to food. But, it can leave people feeling a bit stuck or uncertain. So we chat about what can get missed and some options for ridging the gap. Mentioned in the episode was The I

S4 Ep7 : Life's Too Short To Watch "Shockumentaries" in School

Aug 28 2024 29 mins  
This week's episode features Susan's middle and youngest daughters, and their takes on watching That Sugar Film in PE. In a shocking turn of events Susan's youngest daughter got in the car one day last week after school and said "Guess what WE watched today" and sure enough it was That Sugar Film. Argh, this film refuses to disappear. A heightened conversation ensued!   We tho

S4 Ep6 : The 'real' history of the Mediterranean Diet

Aug 21 2024 17 mins  
We have a short (and high energy) chat for you today. We took the opportunity of being in the same room to record an episode straight off the back of our live "Diet Culture Spring Clean" webinar. We chat about an episode of the 'The Rest is History' podcast about the history of Italian food which is very different to the myths and assumptions that are made about it. It's fascinatin