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This week I'm replaying an amazing discussion I had one year ago with registered dietitian Glenys Oyston. She lost weight, kept it off for years, and was considered a true success story. What people didn't realize is she didn't feel successful at all but instead was a full-time food and body obsession. Details on the episode are below. I'll be back next week with a new episode!!! * * * I am so excited to bring you this latest episode of Speaking of Hungry! I’ve been listening to the Dietitians Unplugged podcast with Glenys Oyston and Aaron Flores for quite some time now. Recently I was reading Christy Harrison’s Anti-Diet book and Glenys popped up. Then I was listening to the Pursuing Private Practice podcast and Glenys was the guest. I am beyond thrilled that Glenys, a Los Angeles-based anti-diet dietitian, joined me to chat on Speaking of Hungry. I know you’re going to like this one! Glenys joins me and talks about her relentless pursuit of weight loss, how losing weight was never enough, and that keeping weight off for several years meant taking obsessive measures. We talk about: Her dieting history starting in her early 20’s that led her to sign up for the National Weight Control Registry. How Glenys was a weight-loss “unicorn” who kept the weight off for over five years but this wasn’t all rainbows and butterflies. She explains the obsessive measures required to keep her weight off. How her weight loss journey led her to pursue becoming a registered dietitian. How her reaction to stressful times in her life was to tackle her weight and try to shrink her body. When her weight loss pursuit took a “dark turn” and persisted despite the struggle to keep losing. Her work with clients and Health at Every Size (HAES) program for diabetics currently in the works with Rebecca Scritchfield. Take your mind off of all that’s going on in the world right now. While most of us are in quarantine, we must be mindful that we still have needs and we still have our recovery to work on. We may not be able to give it 100% at this time but we have to try to give it something! Mentioned in this episode: Glenys’ website DareToNotDiet.com HAES Care for Diabetes Concerns Glenys on Facebook Dietitians Unplugged podcast Traci Mann’s Secrets from the Eating Lab Kate Harding’s The Fantasy of Being Thin * * * Need more resources to help with the restrict-binge cycle? Grab my free workbook: 5 Steps to Ditch Diets!! What will you get in this guide? This is a sample of work I do with my private, 1:1 clients. I’ll take you through: #1 - examining your personal history with dieting #2 - reflecting on how diets interfered with your life #3 - how to slowly get rid of dieting tools you may still use. #4 - identifying hidden forms of dieting you may still engage in but don’t realize you are and how it interferes with your work to become more intuitive. #5 - a worksheet on how to stop the self-critical talk. GRAB THE GUIDE HERE! ***** If you love the show, please leave a rating and review on Apple podcasts! Please go to iTunes and leave a rating and review!! ***** Curious about working with me? You can schedule a complimentary 20-minute Zoom with me to let me know what you are struggling with and determine if my program is a good fit for you! Need MORE help healing your relationship with food AND exercise? Consider joining my FREE Intuitive Eating & Body Compassion Facebook community!!!
I am so excited to bring you this latest episode of Speaking of Hungry! I’ve been listening to the Dietitians Unplugged podcast with Glenys Oyston and Aaron Flores for quite some time now. Recently I was reading Christy Harrison’s Anti-Diet book and Glenys popped up. Then I was listening to the Pursuing Private Practice podcast and Glenys was the guest. I am beyond thrilled that Glenys, a Los Angeles-based anti-diet dietitian, joined me to chat on Speaking of Hungry. I know you’re going to like this one! Glenys joins me and talks about her relentless pursuit of weight loss, how losing weight was never enough, and that keeping weight off for several years meant taking obsessive measures. We talk about: Her dieting history starting in her early 20’s that led her to sign up for the National Weight Control Registry. How Glenys was a weight-loss “unicorn” who kept the weight off for over five years but this wasn’t all rainbows and butterflies. She explains the obsessive measures required to keep her weight off. How her weight loss journey led her to pursue becoming a registered dietitian. How her reaction to stressful times in her life was to tackle her weight and try to shrink her body. When her weight loss pursuit took a “dark turn” and persisted despite the struggle to keep losing. Her work with clients and Health at Every Size (HAES) program for diabetics currently in the works with Rebecca Scritchfield. Take your mind off of all that’s going on in the world right now. While most of us are in quarantine, we must be mindful that we still have needs and we still have our recovery to work on. We may not be able to give it 100% at this time but we have to try to give it something! Mentioned in this episode: Glenys’ website DareToNotDiet.com HAES Care for Diabetes Concerns Glenys on Facebook Dietitians Unplugged podcast Traci Mann’s Secrets from the Eating Lab Kate Harding’s The Fantasy of Being Thin ———————————————— If you are enjoying my podcast, please go to iTunes and leave a 5-star rating and review!! Send me a DM on Instagram or Facebook (@AlisonBarkmanRD) with your comments or a question you'd like answered on the show! -------------------------------------- Need help healing your relationship with food AND exercise? Consider joining my FREE Intuitive Eating & Body Compassion Facebook community!!! I am currently booking clients for my 1-on-1 online intuitive eating program! You can schedule a FREE 20-minute call with me to tell me more about where you're at in your intuitive eating journey and ask any questions about how we can work together!
Aaron and Glenys welcome Kristina Bruce to the show to help our listeners challenge negative, unhelpful beliefs about themselves and their bodies. Kristina is a certified Integrative Life Coach, Body Acceptance Coach and Certified Body Trust® Provider and a strong advocate for Health at Every Size®. She employs Byron Katie's method, The Work, to help clients question beliefs that cause them stress and to help see those beliefs for what they are - thoughts, not reality. Kristina shared an important tool to help do this work and this episode will be pivotal for anyone hoping to get free from the negative beliefs they feel about their body. BONUS: Our sponsor, Ori, is offering FREE SHIPPING to our listeners until the end of August. Make sure you use this link: www.wearori.com/unplugged. Visit Kristina Bruce at her website Kristina's Instagram Kristina's YouTube Channel More about Glenys More about Aaron Get on this list to be the first to hear about HAES Care for Diabetes when it launches this fall!
We welcomed Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RDN, CDN, author of the book Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life, to the podcast to talk about her framework, which is based in Buddhism, for healing disordered eating. In this episode, she explains the six Paramitas (generosity, discipline, patience, exertion, meditation and wisdom) and how we can apply them in approaching intuitive eating. Her compassion-based framework asks us to see ourselves as a beloved other in learning how to listen to our inner wisdom and bring about sustainable, positive self-care. Show Notes: Find Jenna Hollenstein: www.eat2love.com Instagram @jennahollenstein Facebook Learn more about Aaron's Mens Body Trust Group Learn more about Glenys Dare to Not Diet Sign up for updates about the upcoming HAES Care for Diabetes Program
Glenys and Aaron invite Meredith Noble of Made on a Generous Plan to the show to discuss a blog post she wrote a while back that our hosts love and refer to frequently. Meredith, a Certified Body Trust® Provider and coach who helps plus-size and fat-identifying people find food and body peace and fat liberation, wrote a poignant essay about how grieving the thin ideal is essential in our body acceptance journey. Glenys and Aaron have been sharing this article with clients for a long time so it was such a pleasure to have Meredith come on the show and take a deep dive into this work and what it looks like. Meredith also shared her number one tip for improving your body image. You won't want to miss this episode. Learn more about Meredith Noble Merideth's Essay - Body Acceptance Begins with Grieving the Thin Ideal Jeanne Courtney's Article that inspired this work Kate Harding's "The Fantasy of Being Thin" Learn more about Aaron's Mens Body Trust Group Learn more about Glenys Dare to Not Diet Sign up for updates about the upcoming HAES Care for Diabetes Program
Aaron and Glenys dive deep into the body with Tracy Brown, RDN, LD/N. Tracy is a somatic nutrition therapists who helps her clients reconnect with the wisdom of their bodies through the principles of Intuitive Eating. Glenys, Aaron and Tracy discuss the effects of trauma on the body, how "feeling fat" isn't really about body size at all, how the fight/flight/freeze reflex can keep us trapped in the diet cycle and how reconnecting with the body can help end the cycle. Bonus content: Witness Glenys' spectacular demo of how disconnection with the body can lead to total brain meltdown! Learn more about Tracy Brown, RDN Check out Tracy's Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/tracybrownrd/ Here is a great blog post explaining the Window of Tolerance Sign up for updates for HAES Care for Diabetes More about Aaron www.bvmrd.com More about Glenys www.daretonotdiet.com
Aaron and Glenys tackle the topic of orthorexia. Orthorexia, while not an official eating disorder, describes the the obsessive behavior that some people develop in pursuing a "healthy" diet. Like any eating disorder, it can be complex and involve other mental health issues, such as anxiety disorders. And while most people don't have orthorexia, your hosts see more and more people showing up in their practices who are suffering from symptoms of orthorexia linked to years of chronic dieting - and it's not helping their health in any way. Show notes: Read the blog that inspired this episode Need help with diabetes management from a HAES perspective? Register now for HAES Care for Diabetes, starting in March! More about Aaron www.bvmrd.com More about Glenys www.daretonotdiet.com
Is it Ample? Aaron and Glenys talk to Alissa Sobo, the creator of Ample, the first app that rates businesses specifically on their accessibility and inclusiveness towards marginalized bodies (fat, trans, people of color and more). In this episode, Alissa talks about her origin story of being fat-shamed at the doctor when she was pregnant and why she decided she needed to create a review site for people in marginalized bodies whose needs are just not being met. She also explains how this amazing resources works and how we can all help build on it. This is something all our listeners can help contribute to and we can't wait to introduce you to Ample! BONUS CONTENT: stay tuned to the very end to listen to our first bonus content! Show notes: Check out Ample HAES Care for Diabetes starting soon - get on the mailing list! More from Aaron More from Glenys
If you're new to the Body Kindness philosophy, breaking free from diets, and Health at Every Size (HAES) our new podcast series is made for you! Body Kindness Learn & Grow is a podcast series that will boost your hope and confidence in leaving diets behind from exactly where you are today. Think of it like “Body Kindness for beginners.” Today is the first episode in our new series where Bernie and I reflect on our personal growth in the past two years through the lens of our earliest 1/1 episodes which many new listeners have flagged as their favorite. Tune in to hear our honest conversation and reflections for inspirations to help you learn and grow with Body Kindness --- Get started with Body Kindness If you’re ready for more Body Kindness, the book is a great place to start. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Want signed copies or bulk orders? Click here. Get started today with my free body kindness coaching, straight to your inbox. Sign up right here. --- Register now for MENDEnrollment for MEND is now open! In this 8 week virtual workshop we'll focus on the process of building radical self acceptance and body image resilience. You'll get live calls and email access to us over the entire program, plus videos reflections and meditations. Rosie Molinary, author of Beautiful You, and I created this for everyone who feels the heartache of believing that they can’t “accept themselves” just as they are— in fact, radical self-acceptance leads to powerful change. Take a look: BodyKindnessBook.com/mend --- September groups starting soon - HAES® Care for Diabetes ConcernsRegistration is open for the September HAES Care for Diabetes support groups! If you're worried about your diabetes or pre-diabetes risk or diagnosis, or other related metabolic-type condition and how best to care for yourself with nutrition, we can help. Get loads of support in a small group setting, with the goal of helping you feel good about your self care plans, led by myself and Glenys Oyston, RDN. Join us here. --- Support the show Thank you to our generous supporters! We are working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page. --- You can subscribe to Body Kindness on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1073275062 Are you ready for Body Kindness? Get started today with my free e-course and on-demand digital training. Learn more - http://bit.ly/2k23nbT The New York Times Book Review calls Body Kindness 'simple and true'. Publisher's Weekly says it's 'a rousing guide to better health.' http://bit.ly/2k228t9 Watch my videos about why we need Body Kindness on YouTube. https://youtu.be/W7rATQpv5y8?list=PLQPvfnaYpPCUT9MOwHByVwN1f-bL2rn1V --- Enjoy the show? Please subscribe and rate it. Have a show idea or guest recommendation (even yourself!) E-mail podcast@bodykindnessbook.com to get in touch. Join us on the Body Kindness Podcast Facebook group where you can continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners. See you there! Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.
In this episode, I’m talking about Body Kindness in the family with a fellow HAES dietitian and mom, Anna Lutz. You’ll hear us chat about topics like how to approach food at home that supports HAES and why it is never a good idea to label foods as good or bad, how to support kids of all sizes, how to talk about yourself and others' bodies with kids, how to talk to children about nutrition at a developmentally appropriate level. Anna is a Nutrition Therapist based in Raleigh, NC and she specializes in eating disorders and pediatric/family nutrition. She studied Psychology at Duke University and she has a .Master of Public Health degree in Nutrition from The University of North Carolina. Anna is passionate about family feeding and the non-diet approach in dietetics as well as how schools can “do no harm” in their nutrition education. She blogs at SunnySideUpNutrtition.com Don’t miss these topics on her blog: Raising Body Confident Kids and Variety - It's not Just about fruits and veggies. Follow Anna Website | Twitter @annalutzrd @sunnysideupnutrtionists | Instagram @annalutzrd @sunnysideupnutrtionists | Facebook @lutzandalexander @sunnysideupnutritionists --- Join me and Rosie Molinary for ConnectEnrollment for the next round of MEND is opening soon - it's my course on radical self acceptance with author of Beautiful You, Rosie Molinary. In this 6 week virtual workshop we'll focus on the process of building radical self acceptance. We will have a live call, Facebook group and videos with reflection material to do on your own time. In the meantime, we invite you to start with our FREE mini course -- Connect -- to help you befriend your body and begin to mend. Click here to sign up! We'll also let you know when MEND enrollment opens. --- September groups starting soon - HAES® Care for Diabetes ConcernsRegistration is open for the September HAES Care for Diabetes support groups! If you're worried about your diabetes or pre-diabetes risk or diagnosis, or other related metabolic-type condition and how best to care for yourself with nutrition, we can help. Get loads of support in a small group setting, with the goal of helping you feel good about your self care plans, led by myself and Glenys Oyston, RDN. Join us here. --- Support the show Thank you to our generous supporters! We are working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page. --- You can subscribe to Body Kindness on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1073275062 Are you ready for Body Kindness? Get started today with my free e-course and on-demand digital training. Learn more - http://bit.ly/2k23nbT The New York Times Book Review calls Body Kindness 'simple and true'. Publisher's Weekly says it's 'a rousing guide to better health.' http://bit.ly/2k228t9 Watch my videos about why we need Body Kindness on YouTube. https://youtu.be/W7rATQpv5y8?list=PLQPvfnaYpPCUT9MOwHByVwN1f-bL2rn1V --- Enjoy the show? Please subscribe and rate it. Have a show idea or guest recommendation (even yourself!) E-mail podcast@bodykindnessbook.com to get in touch. Join us on the Body Kindness Podcast Facebook group where you can continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners. See you there! Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.
Aaron and Glenys talk to Queer Fat Femme Bevin of Fat Kid Dance Party about how she's helping people heal from body oppression through fun and accessible dance classes. A childhood of bullying because of her weight kept her off the dance floor until she found body liberation activism, the idea that all bodies are worthy of love no matter what. She has been reclaiming dance floors along with teaching, performing and writing about body liberation for over fifteen years. She is an AFAA certified group exercise instructor and developed Fat Kid Dance Party (For All Sizes to Heal from Body Oppression) to help other folks learn to love their bodies, embrace their awkwardness and open up to self care! www.fatkiddanceparty.com *** HAES Care for Diabetes starting Sept 11 and 13 https://www.bodykindnessbook.com/haescarefordiabetes/ Men's Body Trust Group starting Sept 4 http://www.bvmrd.com/groups Work with Aaron www.bvmrd.com Work with Glenys www.daretonotdiet.com
Aaron and Glenys talk to Cori Rosenthal, a mindfulness-based marriage and family therapist, meditation and mindful eating teacher about introducing mindfulness and self-compassion in your self-care routine. Cori shares with us her experience of dieting since childhood and the critical inner voice she finally came to recognize after practicing mindfulness. She explains the neurobiology of our brains on mindfulness and how it can truly change the way our brains function in a positive way that enhances health and self-cre. We also talk about our current culture of tough love and how it doesn’t support positive self-care, and what we can do about it (spoiler alert: it’s all about mindful self-compassion). This episode will give you some great new tools to add to your self-care tool-box that you can start using today, with only a minute of time. Find out more about Cori Rosenthal here http://www.corirosenthal.com/ Follow Cori on Instagram @cori_lmft Yale Street Therapy https://www.yalestreettherapy.com/ Hear Cori on the Evenflow meditation app https://www.evenflow.io/ Self-Compassion with Dr. Kristin Neff http://self-compassion.org/ HAES Care for Diabetes Virtual Groups https://www.bodykindnessbook.com/haescarefordiabetes/ Body Kindness Research for Pregnant and Post-Partum Women https://www.bodykindnessbook.com/research/ Work with Aaron www.bvmrd.com Work with Glenys www.daretonotdiet.com