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Joining me on the podcast this week is Registered Dietitian Emily Fonnesbeck. Emily works  primarily with clients struggling with body image and disordered eating, as she helps them get to a place of learning to accept their bodies. Emily offers her professional and personal wisdom on the impact that food plays into our relationships, the importance of learning to live in our bodies, and how to have a healthier relationship with food.  Access Emily's free guide “How To Build A Flexible Structure with Food” here  Additional resources mentioned in today's episode:  Intuitive Eating by Evenlly Tribole & Elyse Resch The Intuitive Eating Workbook  More Than A Body by Lindsay Kite & Lexie Kite  The Body Image Workbook  Want more content? You can find me, Stacy Heaps on Instagram, Facebook, and Tik Tok 

We encounter food and eating more often that most other activities in our lives, yet it can be one of the most contentious rituals we participate in. In this episode we are pleased to welcome Emily Fonnesbeck, registered dietician, podcast host, and co-founder of Eat Confident Co. to discuss how our relationship with food often mirrors other aspects of our lives. Emily shares that "the way we do food is the way we do life." Join us as we dive into how to release shame, develop competence, and build healthy habits and self-talk around food. If broken trust is an issue in your relationship, download the FREE video series “The First Steps to Rebuilding Trust” to help you get on the right track. https://www.geoffsteurer.com/freebie For details on our new Connection Plus Community, please visit https://www.connectionpluscommunity.com Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter to stay up-to-date on exciting new announcements! Download my FREE guide to help you quickly end arguments with your spouse: Connect with me on social media: INSTAGRAM FACEBOOK Visit http://www.geoffsteurer.com for online courses and other supportive resources. About Geoff Steurer: I am a licensed marriage and family therapist, relationship educator, and coach with over 20 years of experience. I am the co-author of, "Love You, Hate the Porn: Healing a Relationship Damaged by Virtual Infidelity", the host of the weekly podcast, "From Crisis to Connection", and have produced workbooks, audio programs, and online courses helping couples and individuals heal from the impact of sexual betrayal, unwanted pornography use, partner betrayal trauma, and rebuilding broken trust. As a leader in the field, I am a frequent contributor on these subjects at national conferences, documentaries, blogs, magazines, and podcasts. I also write a weekly relationship advice column available on my blog. I founded and ran an outpatient sexual addiction and betrayal trauma recovery group program for over 14 years, co-founded and chaired a local conference to educate community members about harmful media, and founded and administered a specialized group therapy practice for over 10 years. I currently maintain a private counseling and coaching practice in beautiful Southern Utah where I live with my wife and children. About Jody Steurer: Jody has been a strong voice supporting women as co-host of the podcast “Speak Up Sister”. She completed a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brigham Young University and is an ACA certified coach. She runs a small business and has years of experience in corporate training and organization. Jody's most challenging work has been raising her four children (two of which are on the autism spectrum). About Emily Fonnesbeck: Emily Fonnesbeck is a Registered Dietitian who owns her own private practice in Hyde Park, Utah, working with both local and virtual clients. Her treatment focus is on eating disorders, disordered eating and body image concerns. She is also the co-founder of Eat Confident Co., which offers group coaching programs for women struggling with disordered eating and negative body image, and co-hosts the Eat with Confidence podcast. https://emilyfonnesbeck.com https://www.instagram.com/emilyfonnesbeck_rd/

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In episode 9 of the Joyful Health Show, we interview registered dietitian Emily Fonnesbeck about her journey with elimination diets and intuitive eating. Emily talks us through the difference between food allergies, sensitivities, and intolerances, and the science of diagnoses for each. We discuss the slippery slope of elimination diets as well as some of the most important steps you can take to promote healthy digestion and overall nutritional health. Emily emphasizes the abundance of grace and invites listeners to consider how each person can embody enjoyment over fear when it comes to food. Want to connect with Emily? Read the full episode transcript, Youtube, and links to resources at https://joyfulhealth.co/blog/episode9 Find her on Instagram at: @Emilyfonnesbeck_rd @Eatconfident.co Or on her websites at Emilyfonnesbeck.com Eaticonfident.co Get started with Intuitive health by grace today with Body Blessings: A 30-Day Journal to Praise God with Your Body through Prayer, Intuitive Eating, and Joyful Movement Learn more at joyfulhealth.co Connect with us on Social Media Instagram: @joyfulhealthco Facebook: https://facebook.com/groups/joyfulhealthco

Is sugar addiction really a thing? Why does sugar seem to be the root of all evil when it comes to health and wellness culture? Emily Fonnesbeck, anti-diet dietitian, and Stephanie Webb, holistic nutritionist, and certified intuitive eating counselor, are here to answer, is sugar really that bad? Listen to learn... How to identify diet-wellness culture messaging about sugar. What the research about sugar addiction really says and why comparing sugar consumption to drug addiction is problematic. Why the harder you resist eating sugar the more you'll crave it and binge on it. What it means to have full permission with sweets and how to do it.  Finally, how to help kids be confident eaters when it comes to sugar and food in general. This conversation isn't about whether or not sugar is healthy for you. (Yes! You need carbohydrates to survive and thrive. No! You don't need sugar 24/7.) It's about how the messaging you hear about sugar affects how you feel about yourself when you eat sugar.  In Emily's words, "...to feel out of control with your ability to self-moderate sugar intake, says more about your lack of practice with moderation than a lack of willpower, self-control, or development of addiction.  If having Halloween candy in the house is stressing you out and you're feeling the pressure to reign yourself in, this episode will help you calm down (Emily's mantra) around sweets and any other foods you struggle to make peace with. Like what you heard? Don't forget to leave a 5-star rating and review. This kindness helps other folks find the show too! Get show notes at www.alpinenutrition.org/blog Download 6 Strategies to Live Your Healthiest Life Stay connected with the Savor Food and Body Community by joining the show's private Facebook Group  Savor Food and Body Community

Hello and welcome to another audio version of Burnt Toast!Audio newsletters are like podcasts in your email. You can listen to the episode right here and now by pressing play, or you can add it to the podcast player of your choice and listen whenever, by clicking that “listen in podcast app” link, above. And just in case you don't like listening (or that's not accessible to you), I'm including a full transcript (edited lightly for clarity) below.Virginia:This is a newsletter where we explore questions and sometimes answers around fatphobia, diet culture, parenting and health. I'm Virginia Sole-Smith. I'm a journalist who covers weight stigma and diet culture. I'm the author of The Eating Instinct and the forthcoming Fat Kid Phobia.The podcast part of this newsletter is usually where I have conversations with researchers, healthcare providers, authors, activists in the body positivity and fat liberation spaces, basically anyone whose brain I'm trying to pick and who has a lot of insight into the types of questions we discuss here. But since we are such a new operation, I figure I can also experiment from time to time with different formats for the podcast part. (I always welcome your feedback on what you like or don't like.)Today, I want to use the podcast to work through a pile of your questions. Because you all have been sending in awesome, awesome questions! And I have many set aside that I do plan to address in essay form, but some of these are quicker questions or they are questions that come up over and over. So I thought I'd try to work through as many of them as I can in 30-ish minutes, and this might be really helpful to folks.So, first up: Q: I'm trying to explain to my partner and my family that yes, even things as simple as calling fries and ice creams “sometimes food” is diet culture, and that this sets up this idea of restriction as the foundation of our kid's relationship with food. Any advice?A: Yes, absolutely. Talking about good foods and bad foods is obviously problematic. But so is labeling some foods healthy and some foods junk or some foods growing foods and fun foods. Anytime you break down foods in this kind of dichotomy—A and B categories—you are giving some moral value, some worth to the category of food that you want your kids to be eating the most often. And, you are making the category of foods that you would like them to eat less of simultaneously more forbidden and more tempting. You're giving those foods more power than they need, while also potentially setting up a restrictive mindset around those foods or making kids feel bad that they want those foods that you want them to have less often. So whenever possible, avoiding labels on foods is a really good way to go.Photo by Philipp Cordts on UnsplashI do talk about the concept of variety with my kids. I'll say things like, “Our stomachs would really hurt if we ate broccoli all day long, just like they would hurt if we ate cookies all day long.” Broccoli and cookies are morally equivalent—I don't say morally equivalent to my three-year-old, but that's what I'm trying to get across. I'm never saying “you can't eat just this one food that we're talking about right now,” I'm saying we need to eat lots of different types of foods to grow. And I don't categorize them, or try to set them up against each other. But I know that's tricky. And sometimes you just feel like you need a term to describe the foods that you want them to eat less often. I mean, we do. So when I do that, I try to just call the food, A. Something positive or neutral or B. just what it is. You know, cake is a treat, ice cream is a treat. That doesn't mean that you can't have treats every day, or even more than once a day on a lot of days. It just means, this is a treat food, because maybe it is something we don't eat as often, or we get a particular amount of pleasure from it, and there's nothing wrong with that. So I think if you need to use some terminology, “treat foods” is fine, as long as you're also not saying and that means we only eat them once a month or super rarely.Q: Can I prefer / put on a pedestal organic ingredients in foods?A: I mean, you can. I did it for a long time. I didn't find it very helpful. Wellness culture—which I discussed quite a bit with Christy Harrison a few weeks back—teaches us to worship foods that are minimally processed, farmed sustainably, close to the earth, close to their original form, blah, blah, blah. And it's not that there aren't important environmental and social justice reasons to farm organically. There definitely are. In my own home garden, I grow things organically. I try really hard not to use chemicals, pesticides and sprays because we eat some of the food we grow and even if we don't, I don't want to kill off important pollinator populations in my area. Or have my kids exposed to those chemicals. There are good reasons to choose organic if you have the budget, if you have that available to you.Photo by NeONBRAND on UnsplashBut I think we want to make a big distinction between prefer and pedestal. I mean, you can say, “I prefer to buy organic when I can, when my budget allows, when it's available to me.” Putting these ingredients on a pedestal implies that you're failing on the days when you don't do that. On the days when you run out of milk, and go pick it up at the gas station, which happened in my house quite recently. Or you stop for fast food or whatever. You're failing if you don't follow this sort of “perfectionist” way of eating. So I think you can have your values, larger social justice values, that you try to bring to choosing food, but if you're letting that be a mandate—something you always have to do or that you feel badly if you can't do—that's probably a red flag that you need to back off how much power you're giving this concept. Remember that if these are social justice issues you really care about, there are lots of ways we can work on these issues that are going to be arguably more impactful than how we eat. You can be donating money to these causes. You can be voting for government representatives who are going to support these causes. We need big picture change to make organic farming the norm in this country. We don't need just you never buying non-organic strawberries. So thinking a little more holistically about some of these concepts is useful.Q: How do you respond to a naturopathic doctor's advice to eliminate food groups for health?A: I would respond by getting a new doctor.I realize that might not be the response you were hoping for. But if this is a new doctor, this is the first time you're seeing them, I think this is a big red flag. Especially if they advised eliminating food groups without first screening you for an eating disorder history. So many doctors and not just naturopathic doctors, regular old MDs as well, have a knee-jerk reaction to prescribe restriction to us. They say you need to cut out red meat or you need to cut out carbs or sugar. And they give these restriction-based eating mandates, without first checking to see if that will be healthy for you. And if you are someone who has ever struggled with dieting, disordered eating or an eating disorder, it is not healthy. It is very unhealthy for you to restrict your eating in any way, because that can be a triggering behavior, and lead to more restriction and more restriction. So if a doctor has prescribed that without first having a conversation with you to see, does that feel doable to you? Does that feel interesting to you? Does it feel safe for you? That would be a big red flag for me. If it's a doctor you've worked with a long time and they know your history, I would still want them to be bringing it up in the context of giving this advice, I want them to be asking, “What are some safety checks that we can put in place?” Maybe we are worried about celiac disease or dairy intolerance, and this makes sense to try, but what other support can we get you to make sure that cutting out these food groups for your health is not going to be dangerous to your mental health and physical health. So yeah, I would be really concerned if a doctor gave that as a knee jerk prescription without checking into your overall history with food or without offering other support around you doing that. We know there's very little research to support eliminating food groups for overall health in the broader sense. And often, you know, these ideas, the FODMAP diet or other elimination diets, you know, they're very under-researched, and they can be a real stepping stone to restriction.Someone who is a really good source to follow on this is Emily Fonnesbeck. I'll link to her Instagram. I interviewed her for my first book, and we had her on our previous podcast a bunch. She's a really great source on navigating the concept of elimination diets and why they can be such a trigger point for orthorexia, and restrictive eating disorders. So yeah, mostly I wouldn't do it. And I would certainly only do it if someone was offering me a lot of support to make sure it would be helpful and not dangerous.Q: Kid is given free lunch and breakfast at school, so he eats twice. I just need to let it happen, yes?A: Yes, that's right. I'm assuming you mean that you feed your child breakfast at home, and then they get to school where your school has a free lunch and breakfast program and they eat breakfast again. Maybe they also have a morning snack, maybe not. And then they have lunch. Maybe they have an afternoon snack, they come home. That all sounds like a pretty normal amount of food for a kid to eat. If he's hungry, when he gets to school, and that breakfast is there, then that's great that he's eating it. And it's great, it's remarkable that we finally have more schools offering free lunch and breakfast programs. And we really need to continue the push to make this a universal right in American public education. So yeah, if he likes the free breakfast, I'm glad he's eating it. And I wouldn't worry about it at all. Remember that kids are really good at regulating their intake. It's very normal for kids to be hungrier at certain parts of the day than others. You may notice he eats less dinner or he doesn't need an afternoon snack. Or you may notice he's eating a lot at every opportunity, and that's probably because he's growing. And that's a good thing.Photo by Jimmy Dean on UnsplashQ: I want to change the way I talk about food with my kids, I really want to. I think about it on my own, I rehearse, I plan. And then in the heat of the moment, grumpy kids right before dinner, etc. it just goes out of the window, and I screw it up. Any tips?A: Oh, my friend, I have been there with you. First of all, let's just talk about how grumpy kids right before dinner are the most unpleasant form of human being. And it's very stressful, especially if you are actively trying to prepare their dinner and their grumpiness requires so much attention that it gets in the way of you making the dinner that they need to eat. And I also know it's sort of insulting and frustrating when your kid is demanding a snack while you're actively preparing them another meal, I've definitely experienced that where I'm like, if you can just give me 15 minutes, I'm actually going to feed you. So you don't need to eat right now.But the problem is, with little kids, they sometimes do need to eat right then. They have smaller tummies than us, they can't go as long between eating opportunities. And especially at the end of the day, dinner is often a challenging meal for a lot of reasons. A lot of kids need a snack the second they walk in the door. Or they really would like to be eating dinner at 4:30, and you want them to wait till 5:30 or 6pm. So there are a lot of reasons that that hour before dinner is something of a hellscape in a lot of households. (See this week's essay on meal planning for more about that!) And just know, that is normal. And if for a while it means that you are throwing snacks at your kids before dinner, even if that undermines what they eat at dinner, you are responding to their need to be fed. And that is fundamentally a good thing.Now, in terms of changing the way you talk about food with your kids, I mean, for one thing, I wouldn't beat yourself up about making a grumpy comment in the heat of the moment. We've all done it, it happens. It's normal. I love that you are thinking about it, planning what you're going to say, rehearsing. I think that's really helpful. It sounds like maybe you want to spend some more time scripting responses to the specific ways food stuff presents with your kids. Is it that they are asking for a food that you consider less healthy, like a processed snack food, right before dinner, and you're trying to make a “healthful” dinner for them? You might play around with having the snack food, the Goldfish crackers, or whatever it is, as part of the meal. So you can say, we're not gonna eat that right now, but we're gonna have it at dinner in 15 minutes.If you feel like you're shaming foods in the moment—I'm hoping you're not shaming bodies, I'm assuming this is mostly around food, because that's what you specified, so I'm going to focus there—you can follow up with your kids about this. Maybe after dinner when people are full and more cheerful and calmer. You can say, “I didn't love the way I just talked about that with you, can we make a different plan for how we're going to handle this?” Apologize for what you said, but we get many opportunities to talk to our kids about food, like every day all day. So I wouldn't beat yourself up for one wrong comment.I think the planning and rehearsing you're talking about is really great. I would keep doing that. Make sure you're scripting responses to the specific ways food comes up with your kids rather than thinking more generally how you want to talk about it. Really rehearse what you want to say to them right before dinner. Another thought is, if you have a tendency to knee-jerk to a certain kind of food shaming or something you are trying to change, make sure any other adults around you are aware of that. Let your partner know, let grandma know, so they can help you. They might say hey, you know, let's rethink that, or, I don't think you meant to say that. That might make you madder in the moment, I could see that turning into a lot of marital spats, sorry. But if you can agree with your partner, if you have one, or with someone you know, maybe it's a friend who you can text, and they can text you when they're struggling with how they talk to their kids. Support from other adults can be really helpful, so you can all kind of brainstorm together what you want to say differently. And also just be that touch point for each other, like, oh, that wasn't what we meant to do, let's regroup.Q: My stepdaughter has a “friend” who calls her fat. She's 10. How best to handle this person? A: It does sound like this “friend” is maybe not being the best friend to your stepdaughter, which is really hard to see. I'm just entering the world of elementary school friend stuff, and it is a tough stage, a sort of heartbreaking stage in a lot of ways to watch kids navigate.My first question: Is fat being used as an insult? Let's start there and just check that that's what's happening. I think it probably is, because the kids are 10, and at that point, kids are old enough to have internalized a lot of the messages around fat in our culture. But particularly with littler kids, I would check that it's not just sort of a description they're giving, and they're just noticing that this person is bigger. So, you know, check in.Assuming that it is a negative use of the word fat, which, you know, I'm guessing it is based on the age, my next question is: Is your stepdaughter fat? Is she in a bigger body? More or less, you're going to answer this question the same way for kids of all body sizes. But: For kids who are in bigger bodies, the most important thing we can do is recognize and validate their experience in that body. The knee jerk reaction is very often to say, “you're not fat, you're beautiful.” And when we do that, we put fat and beauty in opposition to one another. We imply that you can't be fat and beautiful, which is wrong. And we need to challenge that.And the other thing is, if your child is in a bigger body, this friend may not be the only person who's made the comment, she may be getting this message elsewhere. So you have to take a lot of care in how you navigate this with her. You might say, “You are bigger than your friends, and that's great. Your body is amazing. I am not at all concerned about your body. But I'm so sorry that the way your friend talked to you was hurtful.” Make space for her to express those feelings. What you want to do is validate her feelings that it was hurtful to have her body described in this way, without reinforcing the message that there's anything wrong with her body. And do we want to rethink this friendship and you know, is this person someone who's supporting you, is all of that is worthwhile. But you can raise that without reinforcing what the friend said.I think I'd say pretty much the same thing if your daughter is not in a bigger body, but it might also be useful there to add, “It's so frustrating when people use fat as an insult, because it's not. Bodies come in different shapes and sizes, and there's nothing wrong with being fat.” Adding that layer of awareness is really important for thin kids so they can recognize weight stigma and call it out when they need to.Q: Is there a way to lose weight? A: This might have been a troll question, but I'm gonna answer it anyway. There are ways to lose weight. There are restrictive eating disorders, which may make you thin (not everybody's body responds to a restrictive eating disorder with thinness, but many people's do) but it will bring with it a ton of mental health issues and anguish. Restrictive eating disorders also have the highest mortality rate of any mental health illness. (I may have to check that, opiods may have taken the lead, but it's up there, like top two for sure.) So that's one way. Another way to lose weight is bariatric surgery, weight loss surgery, which has the most durable success record of intentional weight loss programs. It's massively expensive. There's a battery of testing you have to do to qualify for it. It involves surgically removing part of your stomach, and lots of potentially very unpleasant lifelong side effects that come with living that way, eating a different diet for the rest of your life, and it's associated with high subsequent rates of eating disorders, alcoholism, depression, and divorce.So those are kind of the two main ways to “successfully” lose weight. You're not surprised to hear that I don't endorse either one, although I do hold space for folks who are struggling with any of these issues, and certainly for folks who do pursue weight loss surgery, if they feel like that's the only option available to them [to access healthcare or other fundamental rights; you can read more about how this happens here]. It's a very complicated question. But what's not complicated is the fact that intentional weight loss through dieting and exercise alone does not work. We have lots of research showing that 85 to 95 percent of people who pursue it are going to regain the weight they lost and then some within two to five years, and they're also not going to lose a ton of weight to begin with maybe five to 10 percent of their body weight, tops. And again, it comes back.So yes, there are ways to lose weight, they tend to be really bad for your health. No, there are no healthy ways to intentionally and permanently lose weight.Q: I have a question about the division of responsibility model. We are happy to let our four-year-old eat as much as she wants in terms of a maximum but what about when kids aren't eating enough to get them through a night without waking up hungry. It's not a big fight or anything, she usually just needs reminding because she gets distracted by more fun things. In theory, I want to let her decide how much to eat. In practice, I do not want to get up at 1am and try to convince her she can wait until breakfast. This holds for different kinds of food as well, like sure she can have some chocolate or carbs or whatever. But I feel like I do need her to eat protein at each meal, or she'll be hungry. Should I relax on this?A: There are actually two different issues going on here. One is, you're worrying your child is not eating enough at dinner to stay full until breakfast. The easiest solution there is to add a bedtime snack. Lots of kids need bedtime snacks, even if bedtime is only an hour after dinner. Dinner can be a tough meal for little kids, four-year-olds don't often have the attention span to sit for as long as we want them to, they may not love the food you're serving, they may be more interested in talking to you. There are lots of reasons that dinner can be a sort of high pressure eating situation for kids. And so adding a bedtime snack is really useful. And make it something they find satisfying: a banana and some peanut butter, some cheese and crackers, a bowl of cereal, something that's going to help them sleep well and not wake up at 1am hungry. So that's sort of an easy tweak I would make and it's very in line with Division of Responsibility or responsive feeding, to say she's not eating enough at dinner, so she needs another eating opportunity before she goes to bed.Once you have made sure she's got multiple eating opportunities every day to eat, you can say no to food at 1 in morning. Again, assuming that this is a healthy, typically developing kid who doesn't have a need to eat at one in the morning—I mean, there were times when my older daughter was in the hospital, we ate at one in the morning. But that was not normal life. Assuming that you are home and she's getting frequent eating opportunities throughout the day, you don't have to say yes to 1 am eating, you can say that's not what we're doing right now. Maybe have a sip of water, go back to bed, and we'll eat a big breakfast. It is okay to say no, when kids ask for food at times that we are not prepared to feed them, like the middle of the night when you're sleeping. As long as you are confident you are offering them enough opportunities to eat and letting them eat as much food as they want, at the times when you are offering food.If you're doing dinner and a bedtime snack, and she's still waking up at one in the morning, I don't think that's really about the food. I think that's about having learned that bringing up food at one in the morning gets a lot of attention, or maybe there's a sleep issue you need to deal with. Maybe this is a kid who's dealing with some anxiety at night. There could be lots of other stuff going on. But I don't think she's likely really hungry at that point. I would look sort of more broadly at why this one am wakeup is happening. Again, after having covered those bases of dinner and a bedtime snack. Now the second part of your question, she can have chocolate and carbs or whatever, but I feel like I do need her to eat protein at each male or she'll be hungry. Yeah, I would relax on this part. Kids are very good at covering the food groups in their own quirky, erratic, seemingly impossible to understand way. You will have days where it seems like your kid is only eating carbs, or only eating bananas or blueberries or something. And then you will have days when they're eating lots of different foods. So I wouldn't get worked up about that. I think it's fine to offer some protein at every meal and snack, you know, if you want to pour a glass of milk to go alongside whatever the bedtime snack is, or have some cheese, offering a range of foods at each eating opportunity, kind of covering fat, carbs, protein always makes sense. But you don't have to force your child to eat any particular one of those food groups. You can let them decide from there, what they're hungry for. Eating carbs before bedtime is going to do just as much to keep her full and it's not going to trigger the one am wake up. So I would relax on that.Because also: If you are over-emphasizing the need for protein, you're increasing the odds that you're going to have a power struggle around protein-based foods. And you don't need that because that's going to make it harder for her to eat them. So I would relax. I would add a bedtime snack if you don't already have one. Where I would hold firm is on the one am, no we don't eat at this point in the middle of the night. Because that sounds very exhausting for you.Alright, I hope this has been helpful! This was fun to do. If you have more questions like this, feel free to comment on this post, or send me an email. I keep a little stockpile and whenever I get another burst that makes sense to answer this way I will, or they may show up in an essay. Thank you so much for listening.And! I've been meaning to add official credits to audio episodes, so here we go: If you like this episode, and you aren't yet subscribed, please do that. If you are a subscriber, thank you so much, and please consider sharing Burnt Toast on the social media platform of your choosing, or forwarding one of my free essays to a friend who might be interested.We also have gift subscriptions available! I think Burnt Toast would make a fine baby shower gift or friend's birthday gift or mom's birthday gift or any other gifting holiday you have coming up.Burnt Toast transcripts and essays are edited and formatted by Jessica McKenzie who writes the fantastic Substack, Pinch of Dirt. Our logo is designed by Deanna Lowe, and I'm Virginia Sole-Smith. You can find more of my work at virginiasolesmith.com or come say hi on Instagram and Twitter where I am @v_solesmith. Thanks for listening! Talk to you soon.Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Can Religious Fasting ruin your relationship with food and is it safe to do when you have an eating disorder or disordered eating habits?    Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Emily Fonnesbeck & Rachel have both fasted for religious purposes. In this episode Emily shares her insights on when it's safe (and unsafe) to fast, red flags that are signs to not fast and how to go about it, ways to modify fasting if you need to, how to prepare for a fast to maintain a healthy relationship with food, and how to address any guilt that comes up for you if you are unable to fast.    Emily's Resources:    Emily's Website https://emilyfonnesbeck.com   Follow Emily on  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilyfonnesbeck_rd/   Emily's free resources and membership: https://www.eatconfident.co   Rachel's Resources:    Follow Rachel on Instagram: instagram.com/dietitian.rachelgoodman   Rachel's Crash Course: Secrets to Stop Binge Eating: rachelgoodnutrition.com/crashcourse   Rachel's Free Guide: 3 Steps to Stop Feeling Out of Control with Food: http://bit.ly/stopfeeling_outofcontrol_withfood   Contact Rachel: rachel@rachelgoodnutrition.com

Healthy and Happy podcast, Episode 7: Nutrition and Neurotransmitters/Mental Health On this episode of the Healthy + Happy Podcast, Dr. Slade and special guest Emily Fonnesbeck will be discussing the importance of nutrition in creating healthy neurotransmitters and improving overall mental health. Emily Fonnesbeck is a Certified LEAP Therapist, working with delayed food sensitivity reactions typically associated with autoimmune, digestive and inflammatory conditions. She is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and also belong to the practice groups of Behavioral Health Nutrition and Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition. She is passionate about helping people have a healthy relationship with food. You can learn more about Emily and what she does at EmilyFonnesbeck.com

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We interviewed dietician, Emily Fonnesbeck, for this episode. We discussed with Emily all about the eating disorder orthorexia – what it is, how to prevent it, and what to do if you're worried about your daughter:  What orthorexia is.  Orthorexia is not an official diagnosis, but is a new term to describe the growing obsession with perfect eating Defining orthorexia can help validate that the struggles someone is having are real and pathological, not normal Emily gives tips on how to talk about what this is with your teenage daughter.  How to prevent orthorexia.  Recognize that eating disorders are bio-psycho-social We don't have control over the biological aspect that can make our daughters more vulnerable to getting an eating disorder We can't prevent the psychological vulnerabilities - but we can help our daughters manage their psychological tendencies (such as perfectionism) We can help our daughters with the social pressures toward eating disorders by giving them a safe place where food and bodies are good and accepted What to do if you suspect your daughter might be struggling. Don't hesitate to get professional help – do not try to replace a dietician and/or therapist Validate and reframe her struggles Pay attention to how mentally flexible and receptive she is RESOURCES: Emily Fonnesbeck Website: www.emilyfonnesbeck.com Eat Confident Collective Website: https://eatconfident.co/ Emily Fonnesbeck Instagram: @emilyfonnesbeck_rd Eat Confident Collective Instagram: @eatconfident.co Steven Bratman, www.orthorexia.com, “Health Food Junkies: Orthorexia Nervosa – the Health Food Eating Disorder” https://www.amazon.com/Health-Food-Junkies-Orthorexia-Disorder/dp/0767905857/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=orthorexia&qid=1592859585&sr=8-3 

This week Emily and I discussed her recovery from her eating disorder and how she got into dietetics. We talk about Orthorexia. What it is and where the line is between "healthy eating" and dangerous obsession. We also speak on the dangers of elimination diets. We define what a normal and healthy relationship with food should look like and how we can encourage that in our children as well.

 It is important that you know that a peaceful, guilt-free, healthy relationship with food is possible! Many women express concerns that they cannot trust themselves to be around certain kinds of food without feeling like they have lost control. While it may seem counterintuitive, letting go of all the restrictions and food rules that you have learned over the years is critical in re-establishing a healthy relationship with food.  While "unlearning" all food rules may seem like a daunting task, know that it is possible! It is done through small, simple steps that are designed to empower you and help you reconnect with, and trust, your intuition. You already have everything you need to be the expert of yourself and your body! In this episode, we dive into three of seven helpful principles that are necessary in order to learn to trust yourself again and re-establish a healthy relationship with food.  Show notes Certified Therapists and RD's specializing in eating disorders Emily Fonnesbeck https://emilyfonnesbeck.com/services/ Tiffany Roe https://mindfulcounselingutah.com/  National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) practitioner guide https://map.nationaleatingdisorders.org/ Brene Brown: The Anatomy of Trust https://brenebrown.com/videos/anatomy-trust-video/

In this podcast episode, Emily Fonnesbeck joined Paige to discuss the topic of LDS missionaries and how they can cultivate and foster a healthy relationship with food and body before, during and after missionary service. In this episode, we discuss what it's like to be on a mission and how it can bring up food and body image struggled for the 18-21 year-olds who serve. We discuss the nutritional implications for these young people, and explore how missionaries and mission leadership can help the young missionaries stay mentally and physically well during their service.   Here's an outline of the talking points for this episode: Setting the stage so that everyone understands (no matter their background) what it’s like to be a missionary and why this can be a potentially tricky time for food and body image Behaviors we (as dietitians in Utah) commonly see missionaries struggling with What we wished mission leadership knew as far as how they can support their missionaries who might be struggling What we wished missionaries knew about what to expect as far as weight and food on missions How missionaries can tactfully say no to food pushers The importance of self-compassion and boundaries in this context Links mentioned: Emily's website: https://emilyfonnesbeck.com/ Positive Nutrition® Academy: online courses and webinars Donate to the podcast Positive Nutrition Blog Follow Paige on Instagram

Our guest this week is Emily Fonnesbeck - a Registered Dietitian and mother of three - who owns her own private practice in Logan, Utah. She is passionate about helping individuals create a peaceful relationship with food and their body, building confidence in their own natural ability to know how to eat.   Having made the switch from a weight-centered counselor to an intuitive eating counselor, Emily knows a thing or two about getting your family (and kids!) on board with a whole new eating style.   We’ll be talking about addressing health concerns in kids, why Emily doesn’t like the term “picky eater”, and 3 things you can do today to get your family on board with intuitive eating.   Find the full episode and the show notes over at foodheavenmadeeasy.com/podcast Use Promo Code FOODHEAVEN for 50% off and free shipping on your first order of Manitoba Harvest Broad Spectrum Hemp Extract products (valid until 8/31) Link To: shop.manitobaharvest.com

In this episode, Stephanie has Emily Fonnesbeck come join her to talk about their past mistakes they made with feeding their own kids. You will learn a few things NOT to do with your own kids, and find hope that no matter what mistakes you have made, it's never too late to make the changes you need to make to raise confident eaters. Get more details and grab your ticket to the Raising Confident Eaters Workshop at eatconfident.co/workshop  

Body-positive dietitian Emily Fonnesbeck shares how her family helped her develop a healthy relationship with food in childhood, why that went awry and led her down the path to orthorexia, how she overcame her disordered eating and discovered Health at Every Size, why she thinks elimination diets and food-sensitivity testing are dangerous for most people, and lots more. This episode originally aired on Dec 19, 2016. Emily Fonnesbeck is a Registered Dietitian and owns her own private practice in southern Utah. Her nutrition passion consists of helping individuals free themselves from diets, food anxiety, poor body image and obsessive exercise. She has a non-diet, weight-neutral, client-centered approach to help people make peace with food and their bodies. Find her online at EmilyFonnesbeck.com. Grab Christy's free guide, 7 simple strategies for finding peace and freedom with food, to get started on the anti-diet path. If you're ready to break free from diet culture once and for all, join Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course! Ask your own question about intuitive eating, Health at Every Size, or eating disorder recovery at christyharrison.com/questions. To learn more about Food Psych and get full show notes and a transcript of this episode, go to christyharrison.com/foodpsych.

Today Emily Fonnesbeck and I are discussing why starting an elimination diet is unnecessary. We talk about healthy, non-stress alternatives to elimination diets and how you can care for yourself without restricting. Eating is not, "one size fits all," and we want to help you find peace in listening to your body.   Click HERE to sign up for our live online class on emotional eating with Eat Confident Co.

Today's episode is a throwback to an all-time fan favorite episode with my friend, Emily Fonnesbeck.  Emily is a registered dietitian and mother of 4. We discuss a lot of golden nuggets on the show, including: Food Morality Orthorexia Infertility Habit Change and Neural Re-wiring and so much more! FULL SHOW NOTES: www.stefanireinoldmd.com/020 Connect with Emily: Website Facebook Pinterest Instagram IT'S NOT ABOUT THE FOOD... So, What's It About? Uncover the REAL reasons that YOU are struggling with food and your body in this FREE mini-class. Sign up here.  

Emily and I are giving you a taste of what it’s like inside our group coaching program, Eat Confident Collective, and showing you how our coaching calls work. We’ve come with a few questions you asked about sugar and we’re answering them in real time - just like we do in Eat Confident Collective. If you would like to join us and get your own questions answered as you go through the process of becoming a confident eater, join us inside Eating Confident Collective! Doors are open now through Jan 18th. And don’t miss our free online masterclass this week - grab your spot at nutritionredefined.co/masterclass. We mentioned our Emotional Eating masterclass and you can check that out in our online shop right here!  Click here for the link to Emily’s blog post on cravings. Follow Eat Confident Co. on Instagram @eatconfident.co  

Today I’m talking with Emily Fonnesbeck about a topic especially relevant this time of year: food guilt. We dive into how to eat well without following food rules, as well as a few of the most important mental habits to develop to maintain a lasting healthy relationship with food. We are also teaching a free online class this week - it's the perfect addition to this episode! It’s called How to Eliminate Food Guilt, and you can grab your seat (or catch the replay while it’s available) at nutritionredefined.co/masterclass.

HeartSpace Podcast Season 2 is officially kicking off!  Inside this episode, Nutrition Therapist & Registered Dietitian, Emily Fonnesbeck joins me. Inside, Emily shares her personal story of orthorexia, body preoccupation, and dieting - not to mention a number of practical tools on body image healing and food freedom. We delve deep into body trust, pulling back fear, what a healthy body image even means, and so much more. I can't wait for you to hear our conversation! JOIN THE HeartSpace Insiders FACEBOOK COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HeartSpacePodcast/ GET WEEKLY-ISH COACHING NOTES ALL ABOUT BODY IMAGE HEALING, FOOD FREEDOM & SELF-WORTH: https://corinnedobbas.lpages.co/newsletter/ WORK WITH ME: https://corinnedobbas.com/work-with-me/ APPLY TO HEARTSPACE ACADEMY: https://corinnedobbas.lpages.co/heartspace-academy/

Today I’m chatting with my coaching partner Emily Fonnesbeck, RD about the problem with weight loss. We’re teaching 2 free online masterclasses this week on a similar topic, Why Your Weight Isn’t the Problem, and this podcast episode is a great addition to that class! You can join us Wed. Aug. 22nd for the live free online class, or catch the replay later, at nutritionredefined.co/masterclass. Watch the Poodle Science video I referenced here!

Emily Fonnesbeck joins me to talk about an Intuitive Eating (IE) principle that is challenging for many people—#4 how to challenge the food police.  We review the various types of Food Police that may be directing traffic in your mind on any given day–from the Ally to the Informant—and how to start distinguishing the foes from the friend. Food police may be most familiar to those who have had an eating disorder. The voices sound a lot like an example provided by Dr. Laura Hill in her TEDx talk on anorexia. Even in the absence of an eating disorder, diet culture employs food policing thoughts that influence how we eat throughout the day.  In the episode, we emphasize that restrictive eating is NOT healthy eating, and that not everyone obsesses over food. It is possible to go throughout your day without these food policing thoughts and internal debates.  Check out more of Emily's writing and work on her site: EmilyFonnesbeck.com  Next up: Kim Hoban, and principle #5: How to respect your fullness!  Questions? Reach out anytime: RDRealTalk at Gmail dot com. For more information about this series, and my work, visit HeatherCaplan.com or follow along @HeatherDCRD on Twitter, @RDRealTalk on Instagram, and Facebook. Register for the EDRDPro Symposium for 12 CEUs and information from 12 Eating Disorder experts! The symposium starts March 1, 2018. Subscribe to the weekly RD Real Talk newsletter for more show notes, Off the Air anecdotes, and weekly reads!

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 the podcast this week to discuss her personal story with transitioning into motherhood and how her relationship with food changed during this transition in her life. We also discussed her eventual recovery from orthorexia and what eating and self-care in general look like for her now as a mother and dietitian. We talk about her experiences with pregnancy and how this has affected her own recovery and body image.   We also dive into strategies for caring about your health and your eating without caring too much and how to honor the wisdom of your cravings.    Share this episode with friends and family who might benefit!   Links mentioned: Emily's website: http://www.emilyfonnesbeck.com/ Emily on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilyfonnesbeck_rd/ Leave a review for the podcast here Educate, Embrace, Empower online course

One of my favorite things about hosting this podcast is my guests' willingness to share their stories. Today's guest, Emily Fonnesbeck, was so generous in sharing her personal history with orthorexia, and how her eating disorder recovery now informs her practice as a dietitian. Emily is a Registered Dietitian and her practice is in southern Utah. Here are some of the highlights from this episode:   Orthorexia   Orthorexia, directly translated means “perfect eating”. It is typically accompanied by a lot of food rules, elimination diets or “cleanses”, and an obsession with “clean” or “pure” eating. Emily talks about how her “functionally dysfunctional” relationship with food and exercise snowballed, overtime, into “full-blown” orthorexia. Orthorexia, combined with an exercise addiction lead to a pelvic stress fracture, a weak and fatigued body, and a slew of digestive issues (all of which are very common side effects of undereating and overexercising). Orthorexia, exercise addiction, and perfectionism are really praised in our culture. Emily talks about how the biggest lie her eating disorder told her was that, in order to be strong, she needed to ‘stick to the diet'. Discerning Between Food Rules vs. Food Values Emily talks about how food rules are really anxious, and often driven by perfectionism and a need to control; they often elicit dichotomous thinking and deal in absolutes (separating foods as good or bad, healthy or unhealthy). Food values on the other hand, are really empowering. Now, Emily's number one food rule is that food has to be flexible. When your behaviors are no longer in conflict with your values, you can start listening to the “healthy self” versus the “eating disorder self”. Digestive Health Emily and I were both trained in an extreme approach to digestive health, where the number one solution was an elimination diet. Listen to my episode with Lauren Dear to see that there is more than one way to treat digestive dysfunction! Emily states “I will maintain that elimination diets are what caused orthorexia for me”. Elimination diets have no place in eating disorder treatment and can easily trigger an eating disorder in an individual who is predisposed. Before we put someone on an elimination diet, we need to do a VERY thorough screening to see if someone has eating disorder tendencies or qualities. It's important to note that often, greater flexibility with food supports digestive function. And to add fuel to that fire, under-eating can exacerbate (and cause) inflammation. If you have digestive issues, there are things we can do that will support your digestive health, without an elimination diet. And, if you're in recovery from an eating disorder with a digestive issue, you can take steps to improve your symptoms without fear of relapse, under the care of a trained professional of course! Bottom line: DO NOT DIY GUT HEALTH. Resources This episode + Printable quotes: http://www.JessiHaggerty.com/blog/blp26 BodyLove Project Bonus Episode Jessi's Nutrition & Movement Therapy Services Emily's Website

Body-positive dietitian Emily Fonnesbeck shares how her family helped her develop a healthy relationship with food in childhood, why that went awry and led her down the path to orthorexia, how she overcame her disordered eating and discovered Health at Every Size, why she thinks elimination diets and food-sensitivity testing are dangerous for most people, and lots more. Emily Fonnesbeck is a Registered Dietitian and owns her own private practice in southern Utah. Her nutrition passion consists of helping individuals free themselves from diets, food anxiety, poor body image and obsessive exercise. She has a non-diet, weight-neutral, client-centered approach to help people make peace with food and their bodies. Find her online at EmilyFonnesbeck.com. To learn more about Food Psych and our guest, visit christyharrison.com/foodpsych Join Christy's intuitive eating online course at christyharrison.com/course How healthy is your relationship with food? Take the quiz and get free resources at christyharrison.com/quiz!

  Did you grow up living without consistent access to food caused by poverty and/or constant dieting?? Are you super successful in every area of life yet can't stop eating? It's not you, it's something else. Listen now for the details and hear from the fabulous Emily Fonnesbeck RD. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Get your Food Peace Syllabus signing up for my FREE Food peace Newsletter. Link below. Food insecurity causes many people to binge eat, hoard food, and feel obsessed with food. Not a cop out. Legitimate cause of urges to binge and feeling unable to stop eating. Childhood food patterns influence adult behaviors. Takes courage to peal back the darkness. First steps to work toward healing: Food is symbolic. Wonder what food represents missed during childhood? Be that for herself. Validate have wants and needs. Appreciate how much deprivation contributes to bingeing, feeling unable to stop eating. It's a physiologically programed response. Want to heal your relationship with food? Stop pursuing weight loss or will continue to feel like can't stop eating. It wasn't your fault you keep eating. Your body was/is trying to save you. Your not broken, needing to be fixed. Kick that shame to the curb!! Make room for the feeling without feeling shame for it being there. Compassionate curiosity is the foundation for food peace. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Emily Fonnesbeck RD 

"Be very clear about your message and you'll attract the individuals that need your help." - Emily Fonnesbeck  Emily Fonnesbeck is a Registered Dietitian and owner of Emily Fonnesbeck Nutrition Consulting. She considers herself a different kind of dietitian - she prefers to focus less on what you eat and much more on why you eat. Her nutrition passion consists of helping individuals free themselves from diets, food guilt, poor body image and obsessive exercise. She has a non-diet, client-centered approach to help people escape the restriction/choas cycle caused by dieting or food anxiety and replace it with a flexible, satisfying and nourishing self-care plan.   Connect With Emily: Website | Facebook | Instagram | @EmilyFonnesbeck | Pinterest | LinkedIn   Subscribe to the Outlier Newsletter: Click Here Brought to you by: OUTLIER ENTREPRENEURS Request Invite If you enjoy Outlier On Air, please Subscribe & Review on iTunes or Stitcher