Real Talk With Dana | Nutrition, Health & Fitness With A Healthy Side Of Sarcasm

We’re back again for a part 2 to last week’s episode where we’re digging into your body image questions! In this episode we’re tackling your questions about how to reconcile wanting to change your body or lose weight and intuitive eating. If you’re someone who is on (or considering) an intuitive eating or non-diet journey...

Time for another listener questions episode on “extra weight” and accepting body changes with ‘all foods fit’ approach! In this episode we’re focusing specifically on body image questions we have from you all. We’re continuing our discussion with some follow-up comments from our “Is Weight a Symptom?” episode (listen here). Then, we dig into a...

If you’re in the non-diet, HAES instagram space – you may have seen a lot going on over the past few weeks regarding some very problematic interactions between Lindo Bacon, the author of the book Health At Every Size, and several other individuals. We wanted to address this directly so we can be very clear...

On today’s episode we’re doing a TikTok nutrition trends takedown with Claire Chewning –  Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and the owner and founder of Yours Chewly Nutrition. We’re chatting about the top TikTok nutrition trends that need to die, nutrition ‘advice’ that is actually disordered eating behaviors which is encouraged or labeled as...

Brooke Miller, RD, CLC and Cristina discuss how complicated parenthood can be; especially when it comes to navigating all of the confusing nutritional advice, expectations, and body image triggers that come up for mothers throughout pregnancy and their postpartum period. How do you navigate the biggest pregnancy & postpartum nutrition misconceptions? They dive into how the...

Dana & Cristina investigate the validity of the question – “Is weight a symptom?” from an integrative perspective, a functional medicine perspective, a traditional medicine perspective. They then dig into how to approach this conversation from a Whole-Hearted Eating perspective, using their clinical experience and their signature non-diet, HAES approach. For our entire lives, we...

 Amanda Montalvo from Hormone Healing RD and Dana dig deep into a clinical approach to stress, hormone health, and mineral imbalances! Amanda talks us through: what are the biggest contributors, or causes, to developing mineral imbalances? How can these imbalances contribute to our symptoms and ability to cope with stress? How does this tie in...

Dana and Cristina dig into the question: how do we figure out if something that is inherently restrictive might be appropriate for this season of your life? Can you manage chronic health conditions without food restriction? What are other ways we can go about managing our symptoms? If we do have a medical reason for...

On this week’s episode with Nicola Salmon we’re discussing how to navigate pregnancy, fertility, and medical weight stigma with a fat positive approach.  Nicola, the author of Fat and Fertile, breaks down the traditional medical research that is often used as a barrier for individuals in a larger body to access fertility treatment and shares...

On this week’s episode we’re discussing: What is restriction? It’s way broader than you think. We may not think that we’re being restrictive, but a lot of ‘normal’ or ‘healthy’ behaviors are very restrictive. This causes people to under-eat, or under-nourish, which can contribute to a worsening of their health symptoms AND their relationship with...

Victoria Yates is a Registered Nurse Health turned health coach and intuitive eating counselor who helps women create healthy lifestyles without dieting. On today’s episode we’re digging into identity crisis as a major defining part of the body image and food healing journey.. Victoria talks through her story, and how she helps her clients let...

Elisabeth Kristof is a certified applied neurology practitioner and the founder of Brain-Based Wellness, a revolutionary online platform that trains the nervous system and body to resolve old patterns, improve performance and increase well-being. On today’s episode we’re digging into how to use brain-based wellness to re-train the nervous system to heal stress eating and...

​​Welcome to the 200th episode of the podcast!!! *Confetti everywhere* First I (Dana) wanted to send a HUGE thank you to everyone who’s been listening over the years, I wouldn’t have been able to do this without your support! On today’s episode we’re diving into some listener questions – from you! We’re covering: 3:31 –...

​​Sammy Previte is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Certified Personal Trainer, owner of Find Food Freedom, co-host of What The Actual Fork Podcast and host of the Find Food Freedom Podcast! On today’s episode we’re diving into how the “New Year, New Me” feeds the binge-restrict cycle, the comparison trap, and prevents you...

Mark Breedon is an online strength coach for women who joins us to talk about weight-neutral strength training, and how we can approach exercise, and specifically strength training, in a non-aesthetic-focused way. In this episode we’re talking about how feeling strong is for everyone. It’s not about what you look like or your weight on...

Workweek Lunch founder Talia Koren joins us today to talk about how to un diet meal prep, and how to use meal prep in a way that works best for your lifestyle, budget, and preferences – without the boring chicken, broccoli and rice containers! Talia talks about how meal prep isn’t a lifestyle, it’s a...

Let’s talk about New year’s resolutions, goal setting, and how to approach this with a non-perfectionistic, non-diet goal setting mindset – when you have health goals in mind! We’re all taught to believe diet/reset culture (or the mindset that goes with it) owns goal setting, and that we can’t be motivated to pursue any goals...

In this Part 2 episode to last week’s “Am I overeating?”, Dana and Cristina discuss practical solutions to work through overeating, binge eating, and scavenger eating. They also dive into how to stop overeating and build body trust – even while dealing with a chronic health condition or recovering from chronic dieting. Listen to the...

Dana and Cristina dig into the topics of overeating, scavenger eating, binge eating, and binge eating disorder today to answer the question: am I overeating? am I binge eating? They find there are a lot of misconceptions and mis-(self)-diagnoses between these terms both in what they see in their nutrition practices and in general. In...

 Bonnie Roney is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor who helps women eat without guilt by giving diet culture the middle finger & improving body image. On today’s episode we’re digging into how to heal from the root cause of binge eating and disordered eating! We’re also discussing how a lot of healthy...