#intuitiveeating

103: The Slippery Slope of Wellness Culture

Paige Smathers

Feb 21, 2018

103: The Slippery Slope of Wellness Culture

Pursuing health and well-being is completely natural and understandable. It can be incredibly positive and life-enhancing. The trouble is, though, that true wellness has been reduced down to lists of foods to eat and foods to avoid, packaged up and commodified and sold back to us by the dieting industry. What can start out as a completely earnest and well-intentioned pursuit of health, can turn into problematic and disordered eating, all thanks to the many messages about heal

Paige Smathers

Feb 14, 2018

102: Becoming Body Positive

Clare Sheehan started an Instagram account about a year ago to document her journey in recovery and discovering body positivity. In this episode of Nutrition Matters Podcast, she shares her personal story of becoming body positive and the complexities and struggles in her ongoing journey. Clare talks about how her definition of body positivity has changed throughout the years and months of diving into the research, culture and movement behind it. She shares how growing up in

Paige Smathers

Feb 8, 2018

101: The Power of Permission

What would happen if you all of a sudden gave yourself permission? Permission to eat what you want, permission to be your authentic self, permission to move your body in a way that feels good (rather than exercising out of a sense of body manipulation)? These are powerful questions to explore in your journey toward a healthier relationship with food and your body. Haley Goodrich, RDN is a dietitian and nutrition therapist who specializes in helping her clients create effectiv

Paige Smathers

Dec 20, 2017

94: Food Addiction—Fact or Fiction?

Have you ever wondered if your struggles with food should or could be characterized by the food addiction label? Marci Evans, MS, CEDRD, cPT is a renowned eating disorder expert and nutrition therapist. She not only runs a very successful nutrition consulting business but also teaches at two universities and supervises dietitians in their clinical practice. She sat down to discuss food addiction theory and provides practical tips about working through struggles with food. We

93: Embracing the Gray with Intuitive Eating

Paige Smathers

Dec 12, 2017

93: Embracing the Gray with Intuitive Eating

Have you ever felt like your process of ditching dieting has become another all-or-nothing pursuit where you used to do things one way when you dieted, and now you are doing the complete opposite? This is a common experience where you reject one paradigm, militantly embracing an opposing one, but don't feel as fulfilled as you imagined. Often the answers of how to behave and think lie somewhere in that gray area where you are landing in a place that's right for you. Some migh

92: How to Care About Your Eating Without Caring Too Much

Paige Smathers

Dec 6, 2017

92: How to Care About Your Eating Without Caring Too Much

The purpose of food and nutrition is to enable you to live a fulfilling and meaningful life, but not necessarily to be the object of life. Food is important, but doesn't need to occupy so much room in your life that you don't have energy for the important things. Emily Fonnesbeck, RD is a registered dietitian nutritionist who is an outspoken advocate for orthorexia recovery among other topics within the Health at Every Size and Intuitive Eating discourse. Emily joined me on t

86: Building Body Trust and Better Health through the Little Things

Paige Smathers

Oct 26, 2017

86: Building Body Trust and Better Health through the Little Things

Tracy Brown, RD, LD/N is a somatic nutrition therapist, intuitive eating coach and embodiment teacher. She helps people come home to themselves through their bodies by healing their relationship with food and weight as well as feel safer and less frazzled in their bodies. For eleven years, she has guided people in healing from disordered eating and chronic dieting, as well as stress-related conditions. In this episode of NMP, Tracy and I discuss her own story of how she was

85: From Anorexia to Eating Disorder Dietitian

Paige Smathers

Oct 19, 2017

85: From Anorexia to Eating Disorder Dietitian

Reba Sloan suffered from an eating disorder as an adolescent and young adult. She was able to recover fully and eventually went on to become one of the pioneers in the eating disorder world, working to provide hope for many individuals to heal their relationship with food. In this episode, she shares her perspective on food, health, nutrition, weight and body image and I'm sure you'll love what she has to say. Links mentioned: Leave a review for the podcast here Positive Nutr

84: Navigating Two Worlds—A Story of Body Image & Food Struggles Across Cultures

Paige Smathers

Oct 11, 2017

84: Navigating Two Worlds—A Story of Body Image & Food Struggles Across Cultures

Melissa Carmona, LPCA is passionate about helping Spanish-speaking people have access to support and resources for mental health concerns. As a Colombian-American woman and mental health therapist, she is helping so many in their journey toward a more peaceful relationship with food and their body through her advocacy and professional work. In this episode of NMP, she shares her very personal story of her own struggle with body image and food and sheds light on how difficult

Paige Smathers

Sep 28, 2017

82: How to Become an Intuitive Eater

Join Paige and she discusses the concept of intuitive eating with registered dietitian Lauren Fowler. Lauren shares her personal history with Intuitive Eating and her wisdom about making it work in your life. Learn why intuitive eating is working for so many people to find freedom from dieting and to enjoy the eating experience again. In this episode published in the earlier years of NMP, Lauren and Paige outline how to become an intuitive eater. This is a great episode for a

Paige Smathers

Sep 20, 2017

81: Gut Health and Elimination Diets

"A stressed out person often has a stressed out gut." In this episode, Paige invited her good friend Marci Evans, MS, CEDRD-S. LDN, cPT to join her on Nutrition Matters Podcast to talk about gut health and the dangers of elimination diets. Bloating, constipation, gas, and many other GI symptoms are often met with recommendations of elimination diets as the standard protocol and intervention for gut health. Many people in our society right now are removing entire food groups a

80: Why Women with PCOS Don't Need to Torture Themselves with Diets

Paige Smathers

Sep 14, 2017

80: Why Women with PCOS Don't Need to Torture Themselves with Diets

PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) is a metabolic and hormonal disorder that, in many cases, wreaks havoc on the entire body. The cause is unknown and the treatments are far from well-established and/or completely grounded in science. Common advice from medical practitioners is to lose weight. Unfortunately, however well-intentioned the advice may be, the pursuit of weight loss through diets more often than not leads to even more pronounced and worsened disease state in the b

76: What it's Really Like to be a Healthy Living Blogger

Paige Smathers

Aug 15, 2017

76: What it's Really Like to be a Healthy Living Blogger

"Food was such an obsession...I was definitely on the spectrum of orthorexia. I was obsessed with healthy eating." Alexis Joseph is a well known healthy living blogger, restaurant owner and registered dietitian. She's recently written a lot on her blog about her transition toward food freedom and intuitive eating, moving away from strict veganism to more of a connection to her body. If you've ever wondered what it's really like to be the person behind the perfect pictures and

Paige Smathers

Jul 26, 2017

74: Raising Intuitive Eaters Part II

Anna Lutz, MPH, RDN, LD, CEDRD specializes in eating disorders and pediatric/family nutrition. Anna received her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Duke University and Master of Public Health in Nutrition from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a Certified Eating Disorders Registered Dietitian (CEDRD) and an Approved Supervisor both through the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (iaedp). I was so honored to have the cha

71: A Radically Respectful Approach to Nutrition & Health

Paige Smathers

Jul 5, 2017

71: A Radically Respectful Approach to Nutrition & Health

All too often, visits with health care providers leave you feeling like you're a total failure and it can be so discouraging to feel like your questions weren't really answered because you were being judged or not really heard/seen. This is what I chatted with Katherine Zavodni, MPH, RDN about on the podcast. She is a registered dietitian nutritionist who believes wholeheartedly in a radically respectful approach to nutrition and health. In this episode, she outlines what exa

Paige Smathers

May 9, 2017

65: Raising Intuitive Eaters

The feedback about Nutrition Matters Podcast listeners' excitement for intuitive eating has been so much fun and so encouraging! Thank you for all your support and excitement for learning about a more gentle approach to nutrition and health. Many listeners have written in asking for more episodes around the ideas of raising kids who are able to reject the dieting mentality and tune into their own body's needs. Because of all the great questions and requests I've gotten from l

58: Body Kindness Matters—Shifting the Focus of Health from Weight Loss to Well-Being

Paige Smathers

Mar 2, 2017

58: Body Kindness Matters—Shifting the Focus of Health from Weight Loss to Well-Being

In this episode of Nutrition Matters Podcast, I interview registered dietitian and author, Rebecca Scritchfield, about her brand new book, Body Kindness. This book is all about this core message: "You can't hate yourself healthy. But you can choose to treat your body with kindness, love and respect throughout your life." I love this approach and I am so excited about the energy surrounding her new book. In this interview, we dive into Rebecca's own journey of finding a more c

56: Rewiring Your Body's Trust Blueprint

Paige Smathers

Feb 2, 2017

56: Rewiring Your Body's Trust Blueprint

Samantha Skelly struggled deeply with her relationship with food and her body during early adulthood. Through her struggle, she was inspired to create Hungry for Happiness: a company dedicated to spreading the message of hope, healing and happiness and committed to helping women all over the world find peace with food and their bodies. She came on the podcast to talk about lessons she's learned about how to create more trust within ourselves in order to be able to tap into ou

54: Getting EXTREMELY Practical about Intuitive Eating

Paige Smathers

Dec 26, 2016

54: Getting EXTREMELY Practical about Intuitive Eating

I've worked for years to help people troubleshoot intuitive eating. I believe that intuitive eating can work for ANYONE: but, it's incredibly important to learn about how to make it your own, rather than just blindly following someone else's interpretation or black-and-white rules. Join me as I talk with Jessi Haggerty from the BodyLove Podcast about the practical ways I approach intuitive eating for myself and my clients. This interview was recorded originally for her podcas

50: Finding Your Own Way with Intuitive Eating

Paige Smathers

Nov 14, 2016

50: Finding Your Own Way with Intuitive Eating

Kristi Cheek is a registered nurse who lived many years struggling with disordered eating. Recently, she was diagnosed with food allergies and also discovered intuitive eating. In this podcast episode she talks about how she’s been able to incorporate intuitive eating into her life despite her medically necessary food restrictions. She’s truly found a way to make intuitive eating her own. Links mentioned: Kristi’s blog Positive Nutrition online course coming soon! Join the Nu