Diet Culture Rebel Podcast

271. Kids and Body Image: What to Say When Your Child Says They Are Ugly with Zoë Bisbing

“That safety to talk to your parent about anything, including bodies and appearances, it’s an essential ingredient to then being able to have body confidence.” I’m joine

270. Rethinking Nutrition: 3 Simple Ways to Add More, Not Take Away

“When we approach nutrition from a place of addition rather than restriction, I think it can become so much more approachable, doable, and honestly, fun.” In this episod

269. How to Stop Feeling Guilty When You Can’t Exercise

"I really tried to pay attention to the messages my body was giving me in terms of my foot’s recovery, and honor every stage of recovery I was at." After breaking my foo

268. When Your Mom Struggles With Food with Joshua Hills

“Okay, if these people believe in me, then I need to maybe learn to believe in myself, even just a little bit, or at least have hope that things can change.” In this epi

267. 5 Nutrition Truths to Undo Your Diet Culture Brainwashing

“We need food to survive. We become more food-seeking when our access to food is limited.” What if some of the things you believe about food, metabolism, and your body a

266. 3 Ways To Reduce Food Guilt

“Food neutrality does not mean every food is nutritionally identical. It simply means your worth as a person does not change based on whether you ate bread, broccoli, bro

265. How to Build Positive Body Image in a World Obsessed with Thinness with Kenzie Brenna

When body image feels harder than ever in today's culture, it can be easy to believe your body is the problem. This episode revisits a powerful conversation with motivati

264. Finding Balance with "Healthy" and "Junk" Food, Weighing Yourself, and My Missing Period Story (Q&A)

"Creating a more positive relationship with food often requires us to challenge the things diet culture has taught us to normalize." Diet culture leaves us with so many

263. Healing Your “I’m Too Much” Story: Self-Worth and Body Image with Lily Womble

So many of us have spent years believing we're too much. Too emotional. Too sensitive. Too needy. Too loud. Or maybe we've believed we need to make ourselves smaller (phy

262. 5 Tips for Improving Your Health Without Going on a Diet

"Health extends far beyond what we eat and how we move." Trying to be healthier often comes with a long list of diet rules, food fears, and pressure to do everything per

261. Food Order and the Glucose Scaries That Social Media Created

"The more unnecessary food rules we follow, the harder it becomes to trust ourselves around food." Are blood sugar hacks creating more fear than freedom? In this episode

260. Tigress Osborn on the Jillian Michaels Jubilee Debate and Fat Activism

"Our worth as human beings should not be dependent on our health profile." Millions of people watched Jillian Michaels debate body positivity advocates on Jubilee, but t

259. Is Fasting Healthy or Just Another Diet Trend?

“Diet culture loves to exaggerate grains of truth and turn them into something extremely blown out of proportion.” Fasting is everywhere right now, but what does the res

258. From Shame, Guilt, and Restriction to Food Freedom (Mary's Story)

"There was just this layer of shame. Whether I was a good or bad person essentially tied into all of my food choices." Food struggles can feel like they’re completely ta

257. 3 Mindset Shifts That Helped Me Heal My Relationship With Food

"Having a positive relationship with food is one of the most freeing, peaceful, life giving, amazing things you can do for yourself." Healing your relationship with food

256. Should You Take Creatine? Here's What to Know About This Popular Supplement

"Supplementing with creatine could have potentially benefited my exercise performance years ago, but I wasn’t ready for that then." Creatine is everywhere right now, but

255. Neurodivergence, Food Struggles, and Finding What Actually Works for You with Abbey Roberts

"The curiosity and compassion route is always going to be so much more helpful and enjoyable than the route diet culture brings you on." Healing your relationship with f

254. 10k Steps a Day: Do You Really Need to Hit this Goal?

"There is not a magical cutoff where 9,999 steps doesn't count, and then 10,000 steps suddenly unlocks health benefits that weren't there before." Is 10,000 steps a day

253. Understanding Your Inner Critic (And How to Respond) with Dr. Jeanne Catanzaro

“I want to offer you a perspective shift when it comes to your inner a-hole voice. What if that voice and even your struggles with food are not actually the problem? What

252. Protein Goals, Hunger Cues, & The Honeymoon Phase (Q&A)

"Aiming for a protein goal cannot be done at the expense of adequate calories, carbs, and fats." Do you ever wonder whether tracking protein could help or harm your jour