Fit Fueled Free

Jenna and Dani share their gratitudes, growth and goodbyes with the final episode of season three and two beautiful years of the podcast.

This week, Dani and Jenna talk about the newest diet - Intuitive Fasting. After purchasing the cheapest possible version of the text, Dani goes on some rant and provides arguments to combat the powerful combination of pseudo-science and fat-phobia at work.

On today's episode, in honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, Jenna and Dani talk about eating disorder statistics, why it's difficult to talk about eating disorders, review statements about food and bodies that are helpful to avoid , where to get help for an eating disorder/disordered eating and much more.Links from episode: Eating Disorder Resources / The Feel Good Dietitian

In today's light-hearted, get-to-know-you episode, Jenna, CPT and Dani, RD ask each other thought-provoking and fun questions to let new and long-time listeners get to know them better. They also discuss why they're in the careers as they are and why Fit Fueled Free matters to them.

In this week's episode, Dani and Jenna debunk four fitness and nutrition myths to shed some light on how: bloating doesn't mean you've eaten something unhealthy, sweating more does not make a better workout, having fat/being fat does not make you unhealthy and more calories burned does not mean a workout was more effective. Health At Every Size Article

In today’s episode, Jenna and Dani talk about the benefits of no longer subscribing to diet culture, being accepting of body changes, learning to trust yourself that you can eat enough to fuel your body, joyful movement rather than forced calorie burn and much more.

In part ten of a ten (whoo!) part mini-series, Jenna and Dani break down the tenth principle of Intuitive Eating - Honoring Your Health With Gentle Nutrition, redefining moderation, why balanced eating is so much easier than we make it out to be, things that influence our health more than nutrition and more.Click this link for some amazing research and resources straight from the authors of Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole. Additionally links references in this episode: Orthorexia // ACES Quiz

In part nine of a ten part mini-series, Jenna and Dani break down the ninth principle of Intuitive Eating - Movement, Feel the Difference, how our culture disconnects us from moving our bodies in a way that feels good, benefits of exercise outside of changing physical appearance, how to shift the focus to joyful movement, letting go of numbers and much more. Click this link for some amazing research and resources straight from the authors of Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole. And if you haven't already, head to Jenna's website to subscribe to her workout app Level Epp Fit!

In part seven of a ten part mini-series, Jenna and Dani break down the eighth principle of Intuitive Eating - Respect Your Body, the importance of a HAES approach, body neutrality, stopping the comparison game and much more.Click this link for some amazing research and resources straight from the authors of Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole.

Happy 2021! Jenna and Dani are back with part seven of a ten part mini-series to break down the seventh principle of Intuitive Eating - Cope With Your Emotions With Kindness, ways that eating emotionally can be normal and also stigmatized, ways to tune into what your body may be needing in the moment if it's not food, boredom eating and always giving permission to eat.Click this link for some amazing research and resources straight from the authors of Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole.

In part six of a ten part mini-series, Jenna and Dani break down the sixth principle of Intuitive Eating - Feel Your Fullness, recognizing comfortable satiety, the ways that diet-culture unfairly demonizes fullness, foods that provide nourishment rather than "fake fullness", and bringing awareness to the eating experience. Click this link for research and resources straight from the authors of Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole.

In part five of a ten part mini-series, Jenna and Dani break down the fifth principle of Intuitive Eating - Discover the Satisfaction Factor, practicing mindful eating, considering how food affects our senses, how to figure out which foods you actually enjoy eating and ways our lifestyle/culture can easily get in the way of food satisfaction. Click this link for research and resources straight from the authors of Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole.

In part four of a ten part mini-series, Dani and Jenna break down the fourth principle of Intuitive Eating - Challenge the Food Police, food rules that diet culture enforces, how to challenge these rules while we flip the script to useful and positive self-talk, and having compassion for yourself through this process.Click this link for research and resources straight from the authors of Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole.

In part three of a ten part mini-series, Dani and Jenna break down the third principle of Intuitive Eating - Make Peace With Food, why it's important not to have "off limit" foods and some tangible tips to work towards legalizing all foods. Click this link for research and resources straight from the authors of Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole.

In part two of a ten part mini-series, Danielle and Jenna break down the second principle of Intuitive Eating - Honor Your Hunger, how that gets messy in our diet culture and some action steps to take to start reconnecting with your hunger cues. Click this link for research and resources straight from the authors of Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole.

In part one of a ten part mini-series, Danielle and Jenna break down the first principle of Intuitive Eating - Reject the Diet Mentality and discuss why it's necessary to give up dieting to fully heal your relationship with food. Click this link for a list of the principles, the books and resources from the creators of Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole.

In today's episode, Jenna and Dani talk about how to reintroduce physical activity in a healthy way after an eating disorder/disordered relationship with food or exercise, including red flags, common challenges for people in all body sizes and ways to overcome them + the importance of joyful movement.This episode is not intended to replace treatment or individualized medical, mental health or exercise advice. If you or a loved one are struggling with an eating disorder, please go to https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/contact-helpline for resources.

In today's episode, Dani and Jenna answer a frequently received question: how do I navigate nutrition after an eating disorder? They discuss the definitions of recovery, misconceptions around recovered bodies, practical nutrition tips based in intuitive eating, common challenges and ways to overcome them. This episode is not intended to replace treatment or individualized medical, mental health or nutrition advice. If you or a loved one are struggling with an eating disorder, please go to https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/contact-helpline for resources.

Today's episode is a light-hearted, get-to-know-you episode for anyone newer to the Fit Fueled Free fam or who wants to get to know Jenna and Dani better. They each ask each other 10 thought-provoking and silly questions. Don't worry, diet culture is still discussed.

In the second half of this two-part episode on alcohol, Jenna and Danielle discuss the ways that alcohol shows up and perpetuates diet culture, alcohol and athletic performance, finding confidence without drinking and what actually is considered a serving of alcohol. * This episode is not covering or giving guidance for alcohol addiction. If you or someone you love is struggling with alcohol addiction this site has helpful guidance on next steps to take https://www.alcohol.org/treatment/hotline/ *

In the first half of this two-part episode on alcohol, Dani and Jenna dive into Dani's story about her negative relationship with alcohol that lead her to give up drinking for a year to learn who she was without it, what that experience has looked like and her plan to reestablish healthy behaviors once alcohol is reintroduced. * This episode is not covering or giving guidance for alcohol addiction. If you or someone you love is struggling with alcohol addiction this site has helpful guidance on next steps to take https://www.alcohol.org/treatment/hotline/ *

In today's episode, Jenna and Dani kick off season three with coffee. What to look out for when drinking coffee while healing from an eating disorder or relationship with food, the health benefits, it's role as an ergogenic aid, affects on hormones and how to work through diet-culture messaging around creamers.

In the season two finale, Jenna and Dani have an amazing interview with Britt Bailey, a Registered Dietitian, discussing her recovery from eating disorders and finding a healthier relationship with food, fitness and her body after a pivotal point in her life where she realized she is worthy, why she became a Registered Dietitian and her stance on how to navigate nutrition in our diet culture.

In this week's episode, Dani and Jenna have the honor of interviewing Certified Yoga Instructor, Amani Holloman. Amani shares her journey with yoga and it's importance in mental health, how to come back to your body rather than hyper-focusing on looking perfect with posing, what yoga culture is like and the work she's doing to make it more inclusive as well as accepting your body and it's non-permanence to find peace.

In today's episode, Jenna and Danielle review the documentary, That Sugar Film, discuss how easily documentaries on health, nutrition and/or fitness create fear rather than educate people to help them make health-promoting changes and why it's harmful to portray a certain food group as "bad" and only discuss weight gain as being a negative thing.

In today's episode, Jenna and Dani discuss actionable steps they have learned and are taking to be anti-racist, their reflections from #amplifymelanatedvoices and start the conversation on how white supremacy and diet culture are intertwined. Resources mentioned: Anti-Racism Daily https://www.antiracismdaily.com/ // Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings // Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man https://uncomfortableconvos.com/

In this week's episode, Dani and Jenna talk about how to keep nutrition and exercise exciting when you're focusing on listening to your body rather than following a diet or 30 day plan and balancing societal expectations around confidence, priorities and believing in yourself.

In this week's episode Jenna and Dani discuss an experiment Brené Brown used to point out how we can feel invisible in a society that encourages an unrealistic thin ideal, ways that the fashion industry causes so much frustrating with trying on clothes and an update on quarantine eats.

In the third installment of quarantine chats, Jenna and Dani talk about the exhaustion from the collective trauma of COVID-19, how having to connect solely over video-chat impacts us as well as some recipes, self care and how they're passing the time.Articles: Why are we so tired? // Why zoom is terrible .

In this week's episode, Jenna and Dani share their definition of diet culture, discuss the way it presents itself in how we view and incorporate fitness and nutrition as well as offer ways to combat the standards and find what works for your life.Resources: https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-10-9 // https://christyharrison.com/foodpsych/7/why-health-at-every-size-and-weight-management-cant-coexist-with-deb-burgard

In this week's episode, Jenna and Dani do another round of quarantine chats discussing what they've been doing to pass the times, recipes they've tried, healing relationship with exercise and how to not let other peoples' instagram stories/pages dictate what you do during this time.

In this week's episode, Dani and Jenna talk with registered dietitian, Molly Bremer. We discuss her journey of becoming a dietitian when she felt she may not fully belong and how she found her comfortable place in the intuitive eating and HAES (Health at Every Size) world. She shares her heart and passion for her work as we have a candid conversation about navigating the world while trying to break down the walls of diet culture. Ways to contact Molly: @taco_bout_nutrition on Insta & mollybremerrd@gmail.com!

In today's episode Jenna and Dani have the pleasure of interviewing Emma Manis, founder and CEO of Evolve, a women's wear line that believes beauty has no limits. We talk about her recovery journey, why it's important to work through trauma and how she's impacting the lives of women with her company and up-and-coming foundation to help reduce the cost of eating disorder treatment for those who can't afford it. Find her on insta: @emma.manis!

In this week's episode, Jenna and Dani talk about their current routines, all the delicious food they've been making and grocery shopping adventures plus some positive things going on in the world right now.

In episode 38, Dani and Jenna talk about how much fear diet culture is adding to this pandemic and offer ways to help you sort through how movement, nutrition and self-care can best serve you during the chaos.

This week Jenna and Danielle sit down for a super honest and uplifting conversation with Registered Dietitian, Alex Jatzke on being treated differently with food regarding body size, how seemingly "perfect" women want to change their bodies and some of the most helpful tips for anyone struggling with infertility.

Jenna and Danielle discuss their favorite Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime in case you need something new to watch during this period of social distancing.

In the second part of this two-part episode, Danielle and Jenna cover how to reconnect with hunger cues as a guide to know how much to eat rather than focusing on recommended serving or portion sizes, that you don't have to be dripping sweat to have worked out hard enough and why you don't have to go all out every time you workout + ways to focus on performance improvement indicators.

In this two-part episode, Jenna and Danielle are covering some more common fitness and nutrition myths - why we can't spot reduce or eat certain foods to burn body fat, why cardio does not build muscle and how much water is enough water.

In this episode, Jenna and Danielle review a study on the State of Healthy Eating in America and some common beliefs about what it means to be "healthy" as well as sharing tips and tricks for how to build a balanced week of meals and workout on a budget. Links from this episode: Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen // State of Healthy Eating in American Study // How to Freeze Foods

In part two of this two-part episode, Dani and Jenna cover how to combat the pressures from society and our own minds about "beach bods" so that we can enjoy our summer and wear what we want without having to lose weight first or "tone up" first.

In part one of this two-part episode, Dani and Jenna cover why it can be harmful to your physical and mental well being to go on a bikini diet/fitness plan to get a "beach bod", what set point weight means and where these pressures are coming from in our society. Link to article discussed in this ep - here.

In this light-hearted episode, Jenna and Danielle ask each other 10 questions about food, fitness, lifestyle and the freedoms of living beyond diet culture's rules, without either of them knowing the questions or answers ahead of time.

In this interview episode, Dani and Jenna talk with Erin Morrissey, the recipe developer, blogger and instagrammer behind Erin Lives Whole (@erinliveswhole). We hear Erin's story of how her eating disorder emerged, how she found the courage and support to fight the stigma of getting help, how recovery isn't linear, how taking a break from exercise helped her healing and how she's been able to find the freedom to be a foodie and build her brand off of her recovery and recipes now that food is a safe, positive in her life. We'd love to hear from you via email fitfueledfree@gmail.com or on insta @fitfueledfree!

Jenna and Danielle dive into the recent backlash Jillian Michaels is receiving regarding her comment about Lizzo's body and her health and why it's so important for people to work on challenging their bias and not make assumptions about health based on body size.

Dani and Jenna go through some tips on helping with the decision making process and how to deal with the lies we tell ourself about failure or needing to be perfect that keep us from being able to move forward in any area of life, especially in fighting against the rules of diet culture.

Jenna & Dani are back for season two, interviewing Nick Lewis. We discuss what his relationship with food, exercise and body were like growing up, the influence diet culture had on him from a young age, how that transitioned during college, how he realized just how disordered his eating was becoming and how he's worked towards finding a healthier balance with eating, movement and self-talk.

Dani & Jenna's last episode of season one covers the pressures diet culture places around New Year's Resolutions, how to set goals in a way that doesn't set you up for failure and why you aren't in fact failing if you choose to walk into January 1st as if it's just another day.

Jenna and Danielle break down what the wellness diet is and how it's just as harmful as any other diet but wrapped up in a shinier package as well as all of the places diet culture is lurking and how you can learn to spot it and not let it influence you in a negative way.

Jenna and Dani *dish* on their top tips about getting through family and meal-centric holidays with a little less anxiety, shame and guilt around food choices being out of the ordinary and the impositions of diet culture. Magazine feature mentioned in this episode: http://fitnesstrainermag.uberflip.com/i/1184558-fitness-trainer-november-december-2019/0?

In part two of this two part episode, Jenna and Danielle discuss how they feel the beauty industry influences the standards in their professions and what some of the Fit Fueled Free listeners think beauty means to them.