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Paige Smathers

Jul 15, 2019

153: Hitting Diet Rock Bottom

We're all familiar with what the term 'rock bottom' means—but, what does that look like with food and body image? Jennifer McGurk, RDN, CDN, CDE, CEDRD-S joins Paige on the podcast to explore rock bottom with diets and body image concerns and provides practical tips for working through it and moving toward a more healthy, positive and sustainable approach to food. If you've ever wondered how to handle the day after a binge or what to do about the scale, or what it really mean

152: What Does it Look Like When Things are Going Well with Nutrition and Body Image?

Paige Smathers

Jun 24, 2019

152: What Does it Look Like When Things are Going Well with Nutrition and Body Image?

This podcast outlines ways to identify when things are going well with your relationship with food. It's understandable that we spend significant amounts of time talking about where things go wrong and what to do about it, but I think it's also useful to look at food, nutrition, and body image from the perspective of what's going right. In other words, how can we see progress? What are the skills, habits, and behaviors of those who are in a positive, happy place with food? I

151: The Distinction Between Mindfulness and Intuitive Eating

Paige Smathers

Jun 10, 2019

151: The Distinction Between Mindfulness and Intuitive Eating

This week on the podcast, I'm sharing an episode where I was a guest discussing mindfulness, intuitive eating, self-compassion and more: some of my all-time favorite concepts! We discuss how mindfulness fits into intuitive eating and vice versa. If you've ever wondered what "mindful eating" actually means, this one is for you! Links mentioned: Rachel Goodman's new podcast: The Kosher Intuitive Eater June's webinar: The Positive Nutrition® Approach to Meal Planning Subscribe t

150: A Simple, Straightforward Way to Decide What To Eat

Paige Smathers

May 27, 2019

150: A Simple, Straightforward Way to Decide What To Eat

"Okay this is all great, but what should I eat?!" If I had a nickel for every time I've been asked this question, I'd a rich woman! While it's totally understandable to want answers to this question, it's actually much more difficult to answer than most people think. What a person eats is highly dependent on many factors: accessibility of food, socioeconomic status, hunger levels, social gatherings, cultural factors, and more. You can see how difficult it is as a registered d

149: How Connecting to our Instinct to Eat can Help us Make Peace with Food

Paige Smathers

May 13, 2019

149: How Connecting to our Instinct to Eat can Help us Make Peace with Food

As a journalist, Virginia Sole-Smith tells stories of women. With her new book, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America, Virginia explores how we can find the power to reconnect to our bodies and our own innate understanding of how to eat in a culture that’s constantly giving women so many mixed messages about both those things. In this episode, Virginia shares about how she began her career giving diet advice in teen and women’s magazines and exper

147: Q&A—Comparison, Diet Culture Messaging, Bingeing vs. Restricting and More

Paige Smathers

Apr 15, 2019

147: Q&A—Comparison, Diet Culture Messaging, Bingeing vs. Restricting and More

In this episode, I go through listener questions about intuitive eating, making peace with food and how to navigate diet culture. Here are some more specific questions I dive into in this podcast episode: How can I ease the anxiety of rest and eating recovery amounts compared to others? What is your story of getting into nutrition and dietetics? How do you handle it when your kids are exposed to diet culture messages? Is breakfast okay to skip? Bingers versus restricters: are

Your Body isn't for Manipulating: It's for Living your Full and Beautiful Life

Paige Smathers

Apr 8, 2019

Your Body isn't for Manipulating: It's for Living your Full and Beautiful Life

We get bombarded with messages that our bodies need changing. That if we only tweaked this or that about our body (through food and/or exercise) we'd be happy, healthy, people would like us, we would be worthy of love and connection and more. The way we feel about our bodies is integral to how we feed them, rest them, move them, and care for them. This is why body image and media literacy is such a huge part of the work I do with clients as they heal their relationship with f

146: Demystifying Gut Health & the Microbiome

Paige Smathers

Apr 1, 2019

146: Demystifying Gut Health & the Microbiome

In this episode, I speak with Jessie Hoffman, PhD about her experience as a nutrition researcher and gut health expert. We discuss her dissertation studies on the gut microbiome and environmental pollutants and specifically take a deep dive into how her views of nutrition and science in general shifted as she continued through her schooling. She breaks down some of the most interesting aspects of the science of gut health and explains why media literacy is more critical in to

143: The Paradox of Permission with Intuitive Eating

Paige Smathers

Feb 18, 2019

143: The Paradox of Permission with Intuitive Eating

Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD is the co-author of the book: Intuitive Eating. Evelyn is an award-winning registered dietitian, with a nutrition counseling practice in Newport Beach, California. She has written nine books including the bestsellers Healthy Homestyle Cooking and Intuitive Eating (co-author). Her newest book is the Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food. Evelyn was the nutrition expert for Good Morning America, appeari

Paige Smathers

Oct 31, 2018

How to Spot a Fad Diet

Diets have evolved through the years. A decade or so ago, you could spot a diet from a mile away with blatant statements of restriction, deprivation, extreme weight loss, and unabashed fad-ish behaviors. These days, it's trickier to detect dieting messages because diets are going out of style. It's not trendy anymore to say outright that you're following a diet or that your plan you're promoting is a diet, so the language is more along the lines of "lifestyle change" and lang

133: Exploring a Path to True Health & Happiness

Paige Smathers

Sep 18, 2018

133: Exploring a Path to True Health & Happiness

Monica Mo, PhD is a brand and media strategist and business coach for health professionals. She shares her process of being involved in the scientific world with models and studies and how she evolved into her professional and personal approach to health. We talk specifically about the power of humanity in the work we do as health professionals. In this episode, Monica shares about her top three values to which she boils down her health and happiness. We explore those values,

Paige Smathers

Sep 17, 2018

What is Normal Eating?

Everyone seems to have an opinion about what you should be eating, how you should eat it, and when. The lure of diets can be intoxicating—promising quick, easy, and drastic results. Everywhere you turn, there’s a new blog post, article, research study, or casual conversation with a friend that revolves around weight and food. The intention of many of these articles and conversations is good—many people have made it their life’s goal to help educate and inspire people to make

130: Why #nuancematters in Conversations about Gut Health & Nutrition Science

Paige Smathers

Aug 29, 2018

130: Why #nuancematters in Conversations about Gut Health & Nutrition Science

Jessie Hoffman, PhD (c) came on the podcast to talk about why nuance matters when it comes to nutrition, health and science. Jessie is an expert in gut health, so we take some time in this episode to debunk some common myths about gut health since it's all the rage right now. In this episode, she shares her personal story of suffering from an eating disorder. She shares why she initially went into the field of nutrition, but how she found a more balanced and ultimately health

Paige Smathers

Aug 27, 2018

Getting to Know Your Gut

I want to preface this post with the fact that I try to avoid being prescriptive because the field of gut health is still very new and we are only beginning to understand these complicated topics. It’s hard to believe, but our gut has some sort of control on nearly every aspect of our body. Hippocrates famously said “all disease begins in the gut”, and while we know this isn’t 100% true, he was definitely onto something that was revolutionary and way before his time. We have

121: What it's Like to Feel you Don't Fit In with the Non-Diet Message

Paige Smathers

Jun 27, 2018

121: What it's Like to Feel you Don't Fit In with the Non-Diet Message

Have you ever felt like you don't fit in with the non-diet message? Have you ever scratched your head about a post you saw on social media from someone who represents the intuitive eating approach, Health at Every Size, or anything else along those lines? Have you ever wondered if there's a place for you in the non-diet movement? The short answer is yes. But, listen to the entire discussion, because we explore a very real feeling of not fitting in going on in the non-diet wor

Paige Smathers

Jun 6, 2018

118: Exploring Hormonal Health

Hormonal health is a trendy topic right now. But, how can we navigate figuring out what's fact versus fiction when it comes to hormones? I invited the fabulous Robyn Nohling, FNP, RD, MSN who is both a registered dietitian and board certified family nurse practitioner who specializes in women's health along with eating disorders and disordered eating to tack the topic of hormones with me on the podcast. We talk about her philosophical and treatment approach evolution througho

Paige Smathers

May 3, 2018

Of Course You've Changed

Hi everyone. Long time no talk. I’ve been incredibly busy over the last few months. It’s been an exciting time for me professionally and for my business. Over the last few months, I’ve rebranded my business, hired a registered dietitian to work with me, spoke at the Utah Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Annual Meeting about intuitive eating and Health at Every Size, hosted my first ever in-person workshop on mindful eating, put on a webinar about a dietitian’s role in addic

Paige Smathers

May 2, 2018

113: Exploring Weight Stigma

Have you heard the term "weight stigma" and wondered what it's all about? Even if you're a seasoned expert with this concept, you're going to love this episode with Ashlee Bennett, MAT, aka @bodyimage_therapist where we dive deep into the research and theory of weight stigma and internalized weight stigma and how it affects all of us. Ashley is a truly gifted researcher, therapist, and emerging researcher on the topic of weight stigma and does an incredible job building bridg

Paige Smathers

Apr 26, 2018

Intuitive Eating Isn't the Goal

My clients and podcast listeners will often reach out to me and report that they’re sad they haven’t been better at eating intuitively. They lament that they occasionally fall back into the dieting mentality, fail to perfectly honor hunger and fullness, or fall short in finding satisfaction at meals. I totally understand where this sentiment is coming from and I empathize with feeling like you’re falling short, especially when you’re trying to figure out how to walk away from

Paige Smathers

Apr 17, 2018

111: Breaking Down Weight Science

Fiona Willer, AdvAPD is a dietitian and academic who has devoted her career to empower health professionals to adopt weight neutral practice by providing support and training in how and why to do so. In short, she wants to destroy the perception and practice of 'dietitian as food police.' She does this though online and in-person training and is in the final stretch of completing her PhD. She is such an asset to the dietetics field! In this podcast episode, Fiona and Paige di