Core Beliefs and Healing from Disordered Eating What are your core beliefs about food? About your body? About health?  Are your core beliefs getting in the way of healing your relationship with food? How are your core beliefs driving your decisions about what, when, and how much you eat?  Dr. Lara Zibarras joins me in this episode to discuss core beliefs. She breaks down common core beliefs that her clients tend to hold on to and how we can shift our thinking in order to move forward with recovery from diet culture.   It's difficult to heal from an unhealthy relationship with f ..read more

Intuitive Pilates If you haven't noticed already, I love talking about movement and exercise as a form of self-care and increasing body awareness.  Pilates was part of my recovery from a disordered relationship with food and exercise. When I found Helen Phelan, Brooklyn-based certified pilates instructor, I was excited to schedule a chat with her on the show.  Helen is a certified pilates instructor who believes movement's greatest benefit is its ability to change how you feel, not how you look.  And that is the exact reason I embraced pilates when I was trying to move away fro ..read more

PCOS, Hormones, and Nutrition This episode is all about how to approach nutrition without restriction when dealing with a PCOS diagnosis. I had a chat with Amanda Forman, a registered dietitian specializing in polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and women's health.  We talk about: What PCOS is and what's happening in the body; Why the advice of "cutting out carbs" doesn't help a PCOS patient; What someone with PCOS can do when they are frustrated with the many symptoms such as weight gain and difficulty losing weight; What PCOS patients can focus on to improve their overall health ..read more

The Diet-Free Revolution In this latest episode, I chat with NYC-based psychologist, Alexis Conason, about her approach to living diet-free that she writes about in her book, The Diet Free Revolution.  Alexis specializes in eating disorders in her private practice and is also the founder of The Anti-Diet Plan, a weight-inclusive online mindful eating program.  In this episode we chat about: the 10 steps outlined in her book to help free yourself from the diet on, diet off-cycle; goals she sets with her clients that have nothing to do with weight; how diet culture is punishing ..read more

Exercise - Listening to What Your Body Actually Wants In this episode, I talk about my recent experience following a strength training calendar.  I started following it because I wanted to get more into a routine of lifting heavier weights and gaining strength. I also wanted to decrease my cardio to change things up and make time for strength training.  After several months of following this calendar, I realized something didn't feel right. I was truly enjoying the new challenge of heavy lifting but at the same time, I felt that ... pressure. That urge to follow everything on the ca ..read more

Alcohol and Intuitive Eating Have you been navigating the world of intuitive eating but struggling with rules around alcohol?  Is alcohol acting as a barrier to you feeling your fullness? Or are you ignoring your hunger in order to "save up" calories to drink later on?  Do you know if your rules about alcohol are coming from a place of self-care? Or are they wrapped up in fear over calories? Is that glass of wine at night enhancing your dining experience? A way to socialize with friends? Or is it becoming a way to cope? I talk about all of this and more with NY-based registered diet ..read more

Fat Positive Fertility with Nicola Salmon I'm speaking with Nicola Salmon, a UK-based fat positive fertility coach, and trained acupuncturist. We're diving into wanting to get pregnant in a fat body, the diet culture that is wrapped up in the process, and how to use the research to get more weight-inclusive fertility care.  Nicola first walks us through her own story of being diagnosed with PCOS, living in a larger body, and being told pregnancy will never happen for her.  When she did end up getting pregnant, it caused her to take a closer look at how fat women who hope to become p ..read more

Freedom from destructive eating habits and toxic body image Welcome to Season 4 of the Speaking of Hungry Podcast!! After a summer hiatus, I am back!! I have some great discussions coming your way in the next few months. I'm kicking it off with today's episode featuring intuitive eating coach Victoria Evans. Victoria reveals her own struggle with an eating disorder that eventually led her to the ultimate rock bottom.  Victoria tells me, "I had the abs, I had the cut arms, I had everything I thought I’d ever want and need to be happy, and I was absolutely empty inside.” We talk about ..read more

What outcomes can I expect with intuitive eating? When we are so used to dieting and restricting food, the expected outcome is typically weight loss, a smaller dress size, a decrease in body fat percentage, improved health, or all of the above.  What can we expect when we decide to STOP dieting and to heal our bodies through an improved relationship with food?  That's what I'm talking about in this NEW episode.  If you are new to the show or a long-time listener, I've taken a hiatus in July and this will continue through August. Time to recharge my brain, brainstorm new ideas f ..read more

Juice Cleanses Have you ever felt so bloated, “heavy”, uncomfortable, and just plain OFF about your body that you considered or actually engaged in a juice cleanse? I did. In this episode, I tell you my dieting rock-bottom when I attempted a three-day juice cleanse. Even in my most disordered eating days of restriction, weighing, and tracking every morsel of food that I ate, I remember thinking juice cleanses sounded ridiculous and extreme. I enjoyed CHEWING food, even if I wasn't eating enough of it.  When an eating disorder takes over your mind, it's pretty amazing how you start to rat ..read more