Podcast appearances and mentions of summer innanen

Summer returns for her second (!!) time on the pod to speak with Abbie about the challenges of body image during perimenopause. With the ever-present pressure from diet culture -- preying on our insecurities, selling us anti-aging creams, 'fixes' for menopause symptoms, and endless diets to keep our bodies as small as possible -- it's exhausting. This conversation takes a deeper look at what's happening as we age out of the beauty standard, the challenges we face with body grief, and how we can truly support ourselves and our changing bodies. We chat about so much in this one, including... What's happening to the body in perimenopause Why body image can worsen in midlife Navigating physical and hormonal changes Experiencing body grief as we age The effects of psychosocial and life stressors on body image How diet culture targets women in midlife Marginalized identities and aging Social comparison and anti-aging culture Managing social media around diet culture and aging Taking a compassionate approach to aging How to challenge our negative beliefs about getting older Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence. She is the host of the podcast Eat The Rules and creator of You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame. She also co-runs the Body Image Coach Certification program with Danni Adams to train professionals to be better equipped to work with clients around body image. She helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com.   Support the show: Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at Patreon.com/fullplate   Group program: Looking for more support and concrete steps to take to heal your relationship with food and your body? Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching   Group membership: Already been at this anti-diet culture thing for a while, but want community and continued learning? Apply for Abbie's monthly membership: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group   Social media: Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness   Transcripts: If you're looking for transcripts, you can find those on Abbie's website, www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/podcast   Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy Podcast Editing by Brian Walters This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate  

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Body image coaches Danni Adams and Summer Innanen talk to Stacy about why a social justice lens and intersectionality cannot be separated from the concept of body image in world where beauty standards are all rooted in systems of oppression. Danni and Summer share their own experiences of beauty, why practicing community care is also self-care, and give us plenty of resources to get started on our own journey. Find Summer: BodyImageCoachCertification.com SummerInnanen.com Facebook.com/SummerInnanenCoach Instagram.com/summerinnanen SummerInnanen.com/etr (Eat the Rules Podcast) Find Danni: BodyImageCoachCertification.com Amapoundcake.com Instagram.com/amapoundcake Facebook.com/amapoundcake Tiktok.com/@amapoundcake Amapoundcake.myshopify.com (Girlfriends Self-Care Journal) Don't forget to subscribe to this channel and visit realeverything.com! If you haven't yet unlocked ad-free content, checkout patreon.com/thewholeview. Your subscription goes to support this show and gets you direct access to submit your questions! We also want to give a big thank you to this week's sponsors! LumeDeodorant.com | Use code WHOLEVIEW for $5 off your first Starter Pack Shopify.com/thewholeview | Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Body Love Binge podcast, host Victoria Kleinsman interviews Summer Innanen, a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. They have an in-depth discussion about accepting and loving your body, even when you don't necessarily like what you see in the mirror. Listeners can expect to gain a new perspective on separating your self-worth from your appearance. Main Discussion Points: - How to enjoy being in your body when you don't like the way it looks - Using body image issues and dieting to cover up deeper emotional issues - Fear of judgment from others about your body - Building intimacy with a partner when you have body image struggles - The pressure for new mothers to "bounce back" and lose baby weight Guest Bio: Summer Innanen is the host of the podcast Eat the Rules, which has almost 2 million downloads. She is the creator of You on Fire, an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame. Summer also co-runs the Body Image Coach Certification program to train professionals on supporting clients with body image issues from a social justice perspective. WEBSITE & SOCIAL MEDIA Website Podcast: Eat the Rules Instagram: @summerinnanen Facebook Twitter PROGRAMS Summer's free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover, here is the link. Summer's Body Image Coaching Roadmap for Professionals. Key Quotes: "What if your perfect body was the one you're in today?" (00:06:42) "We're not here to our purpose on this earth is not to give some guy named Chad on the Internet a boner." (00:06:57) "I'm going through one of the most difficult, vulnerable time periods of my life, and it makes sense that I would fixate on my body, but changing my body isn't gonna change that." (00:42:09) Connect with me: NEW group coaching: https://victoriakleinsman.com/group-coaching/  Get a FREE taste test of my paid Body Love Binge Program: https://victoriakleinsman.com/free-access-to-first-few-modules/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victoriakleinsmanofficial/  FB: https://www.facebook.com/victoriakleinsman YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/victoriakleinsman Podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4iNYvEWvgW9a0wNaj4m9hf?si=caq_P-V2TLSAmx1Swuh3yQ Podcast Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/break-free-from-binge-eating-with-victoria-kleinsman/id1464324636?uo=4  #BodyPositivity #SelfWorth #BodyImageAcceptance --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/victoria-kleinsman/message

How has toxic diet culture affected the way you see and feel about yourself? Are you left feeling bad about yourself after watching movies or spending time on social media? How can you learn to spot toxic diet messaging so that you can protect your mental health? In this podcast episode, I speak about how to spot and challenge toxic diet culture with Summer Innanen. Sign up for the FREE e-course to understand your eating disorder and embark on the road to recovery. We reflect on the harm caused by mirrors, comparing ourselves, and wearing the wrong clothing sizes.  SHOW NOTES: Click here Follow me on Instagram @behind_the_bite_podcast Visit the website: www.behindthebitepodcast.com

How has toxic diet culture affected the way you see and feel about yourself? Are you left feeling bad about yourself after watching movies or spending time on social media? How can you learn to spot toxic diet messaging so that you can protect your mental health? In this podcast episode, I speak about how to spot and challenge toxic diet culture with Summer Innanen. Sign up for the FREE e-course to understand your eating disorder and embark on the road to recovery. We reflect on the harm caused by mirrors, comparing ourselves, and wearing the wrong clothing sizes.  SHOW NOTES: Click here Follow me on Instagram @behind_the_bite_podcast Visit the website: www.behindthebitepodcast.com

Have you ever read the “Am I The Asshole” questions on Reddit? If you don't know what AITA is: People ask the internet if they were in the right or wrong about a situation that happened in their life. Well, these questions are a source of endless entertainment for me! I brought my friend Summer Innanen from Eat The Rules podcast to get her verdict on four AITA posts that I picked out around weight and diets. Some of these AITA question askers are grade-A donkeys and also there are some grey areas where things are less clear. TW: anti-fatness, ableism, gender A-Hole behaviour. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/183 Support me on Ko-Fi and get the Size Diversity Resource Guide: https://ko-fi.com/fiercefatty/tiers Potato recipe: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz6-TUWozwf/ When You Don't Believe Your Partner Is Attracted to You: https://fiercefatty.com/153 IG roundup on above podcast episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/CnntWYqSf_r/?img_index=1 AITA for telling my SIL she wasn't invited due to her weight. https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/173rk9a/aita_for_telling_my_dil_she_wasnt_invited_due_to/ AITA for putting my 9yo on a diet and 'emotionally damaging' her? https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/f6eejv/aita_for_putting_my_9yo_on_a_diet_and_emotionally/ AITA for embarrassing my friend's obese boyfriend by making him sit on a chair different from everyone else's at dinner? https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/q4yjm5/aita_for_embarrassing_my_friends_obese_boyfriend/ WIBTA for imposing a diet on my wife if she wants to travel with me? https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheEx/comments/12i22oz/wibta_for_imposing_a_diet_on_my_wife_if_she_wants/ AITA for covertly losing weight as a bridesmaid & refusing to be set up with her friend after overhearing the bride call me fat? https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/r05kk3/aita_for_covertly_losing_weight_as_a_bridesmaid/ AITA for telling my girlfriend to lose weight? https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/yeflsb/aita_for_telling_my_girlfriend_to_lose_weight/

Today I am joined by two empowering women, Danni Adams and Summer Innanen! Danni, aka Ama Pound Cake, is a body image coach, writer, activist and highly sought after speaker. Summer is a professionally trained life coach who specializes in body image, confidence and self-worth and is the host of Eat the Rules. Together, they co-created the Body Image Coach Certification Program where they train providers on how to support their clients with body image through a social justice lens.   During our empowering conversation, we dive into all things body image, self-worth, and the impact of societal beauty standards. Danni and Summer share their insights into unhooking from unrealistic standards, building self-compassion, and creating environments that promote self-empowerment. We discuss the global influence of Eurocentric beauty standards and the importance of reimagining beauty. Join us as we delve into the complex relationship between body image and societal norms, and discover tangible tips to empower yourself on the path to self-worth and acceptance.   In today's episode, you'll hear: How beauty standards impact our body image Practicing self-compassion while building your confidence Our best tips on creating an environment around you that promotes self-empowerment  The global influence of Eurocentric beauty     CONNECT WITH DANNI AND SUMMER: https://summerinnanen.com https://amapoundcake.com https://www.instagram.com/summerinnanen   CONNECT WITH DYLAN: Website: www.freemethodnutrition.com IG: www.instagram.com/dylanmurphy

Welcome to the Pursuing Private Practice Podcast! In this episode, Jennifer is joined by Summer Innanen and Danni Adams, two seasoned body image coaches. They discuss their journey into creating a certification process for supporting professionals to confidently help clients improve body image. They also discuss the impact of feedback, and how their collective approach brings different perspectives and experiences into a rich learning environment. Join the conversation as they discuss: Continuous Learning: Certification programs should be flexible and continually updated based on feedback and emerging insights. Values Alignment: Professionals should align with their values and engage with current events sensitively. Coaching Skills Matter: Coaching skills, not just knowledge, are vital for effective support in body image coaching. Transparency and Collaboration: Transparency and collaboration can enhance the development and impact of certification programs.   Danni “Amapoundcake” Adams (https://www.instagram.com/amapoundcake/) is an influencer, writer, activist, body image coach, and sought-after speaker from Sanford, Florida. The audacious body image coach has been invited to speak at Harvard University, University of Ottawa, Bethune Cookman University and more about race, beauty, and other topics. She's been featured on ABC's Tamron Hall Show, Dr. Phil and The Sisaundra Show. Summer Innanen (https://summerinnanen.com/) is a professionally trained coach who's been specializing in body image, confidence and self-worth since 2014 and has helped hundreds around the world. She is the best-selling author of the book Body Image Remix and host of Eat The Rules - a podcast ranked in the top 0.5% of all podcasts dedicated to anti-dieting, body image, and intersectional feminism.   Connect with Pursuing Private Practice on Instagram If you want to set up your business, start to see your first few clients and grow to create more impact, Business School is for you! This transformative program includes education, connection, support, and accountability to help you take up space and become the business owner you were meant to be.

Welcome back to This Is Not About Your Body! I'm joined this week by Summer Innanen who is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image self worth and confidence, and has also been known to call herself the Antichrist of dieting! She's also the author of The Body Image Remix, the co-creator of the Body Image Coach Certification and the host of the Eat the Rules Podcast. Find more from Summer on her website and follow her on social media: https://www.thebodyimagecoach.com/ https://www.instagram.com/summerinnanen/ - - - - - - My book, "Body Neutral: A Revolutionary Guide to Overcoming Body Image Issues" is OUT NOW! Pick up a copy from your favorite retailer today! I've also released a new course which pairs nicely with the book which you can purchase from my site: The Body Neutrality Blueprint https://www.jessikneeland.com/product-page/BodyNeutralityBlueprint - - - - - - My e-book is out! Grab a copy of Sustainable Movement here: https://www.jessikneeland.com/product-page/sustainable-movement-a-body-neutral-guide-to-health-fitness Intro to the 4 Body Image Avatars: https://youtu.be/SsxQ9qO0-a4 Get my full Body Image Avatar Guide here: https://www.jessikneeland.com/product-page/the-avatar-guide Find more resources here: https://jessikneeland.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessikneeland/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jessikneeland Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dgrRFaBYO

On this week's guest episode, Hannah interviews the awesome duo, Summer Innanen and Danni “Amapoundcake” Adams! Summer and Danni share about their journey to entrepreneurship and their offering of The Body Image Certification Program. They also chat about how their certification emphasizes being an ally, leader, and teacher and how mentorship ties into running a successful business. Janelle Monae's InstagramBody Image Coach Certification Danni Adams InstagramAmapoundcake WebsiteSummer Innanen's WebsiteSummer Innanen's InstagramSign up for our newsletter for pep talks, business round ups, and a chance to win a 30 minute business coaching session! This podcast is brought to you by Morgan and Hannah's daily consumption of coffee. You can buy us a coffee here! Follow Weight Inclusive Innovators on Instagram.Email us with questions or show topics at hello@weightinclusiveinnovators.com.Join us in Mexico City in August 2023 for a group admincation!

 Do you have anxiety? If you do then check out Kate's podcast called "Anxiety Hacks" https://www.buzzsprout.com/2026782/shareIn this fun fireside chat, Kate is joined by Summer Innanen. She is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. She helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com.She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix and creator of You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame. She is also the host of Eat The Rules, a podcast dedicated to anti-dieting, body image, intersectional feminism and empowering people to live life on their own terms.                            ****************** ANNOUNCEMENTS ********************Kates's new book is out now on Amazon.                                                                     “Anxiety Hacks”                                      Proven Techniques, Tools and Tips to Calmness In this conversational and life-changing book, anxiety psychotherapist Kate Hudson-Hall will teach you step by step the techniques, tools, and tips taught to thousands of her anxiety clients. Finally, overcome your fears and anxieties and enjoy a healthy, happy life.  You will learn how to:  •          Take yourself from being completely overwhelmed by your anxiety to showing you easy ways you can learn to cope with your anxiety behaviors and instantly calm yourself, some, in less than 90 seconds. •      Create your own toolbox to manage your stress, worry and anxiety that work. •        Improve your life with the support of the FREE companion course containing downloadable worksheets and bonus videos of Kate demonstrating each powerful strategy revealed throughout the book.  If you or someone you know is struggling with Anxiety, Worry, or Panic Attacks? Then this anxiety book is full of proven, tried, and tested strategies that can help with anxiety, and start to work immediately. Link to all of Kate's books:https://linktr.ee/katehudsonhallbooksReach out to Summer:Website: summerinnanen.comPodcast: Eat the RulesInstagram: @summerinnanenFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/SummerInnanenCoach/Twitter: https://twitter.com/summerinnanenSupport the show Support the showReach out to Kate at:For all Kate's links: https://linktr.ee/katehudsonhallWebsite: katehudson-hall.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BulimiaSuckIG: https://www.instagram.com/katehudsonhall/Email: katehudsonhall@gmail.com

If you are tired of diet culture and obsessing about what to eat, how you look, and how to change it… know, you're not alone. The negative thoughts you have about your body are not your fault. The diet culture has us obsessing about “fixing” ourselves and it's draining our time and energy. My guest today, Summer Innanen is also a Coach and she specializes in body image, self-worth, and confidence. And these are all things we need to talk about! She is also a best-selling author and the host of the Eat the Rules podcast where she features interviews with leading experts in body image, the anti-diet movement, self-help, and feminism.   Links mentioned in this episode:  Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/addictionunlimited Book A Call With Angela: addictionunlimited.com/call Bodies Are Cool (book for kids):  https://a.co/d/aJCSASj   Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple Podcasts “I love Angela & Addiction Unlimited Podcast.”

(Disclaimer: This episode is a re-run. It was originally published on September 30, 2022)“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself”. -Maya AngelouFor this "5 Things Friday" we're covering steps you can take to improve your body image.How we think about ourselves is such an important factor in how we treat ourselves. Our perception of our body gets filtered through our beliefs, experiences, upbringing, and other sociocultural factors. The good news is our perception of self and body can change.Tune into advice from Summer Innanen on how to break out of the diet culture cage so you can wear, say, and do whatever you want.SHOW NOTES:Read show notes HERECONNECT WITH SUMMER: Website Instagram Twitter Facebook THE DAILY GROWTH HABIT

Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. She helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix, host of the podcast Eat The Rules, and creator of You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame. She also co-runs the Body Image Coach Certification program helping anti-diet professionals learn to work with clients around body image. In this episode, Summer discusses her personal journey breaking free from body shame and diet culture, steps people can take to heal their relationship with food, how she tackles the mental part of deconstructing and rewriting what we've been taught about our bodies and self-worth, the messaging in our media that reinforce these cultural beliefs, and the importance of giving ourselves compassion, respect, and love. Bridgett and Summer also discuss the importance of exposing ourselves to environments that show body diversity, how to spot warning signs for toxic health and fitness influencers and curate a following that makes you feel good about yourself, and how to make a bad body image day not turn into a catastrophe.

"Dieting is the most normalized drug in our culture"Today we have Summer Innanen on the show. She's a podcaster and a body image coach who uses her past struggles with fitness, dieting, and substance abuse to help others break free from diet culture. Her podcast is called “Eat The Rules”, a show dedicated to empowering you to break free of societal standards and body shame, so you can live life beyond the scale. In this episode, we will be covering body image, the anti-diet movement, the language of recovery, and the parallels between dieting and addiction.  THE DAILY GROWTH HABIT

Summer Innanen joins the pod to talk about body image and self-worth. We go into a little bit of everything on this one – from Summer's experience of diet culture growing up, to the crossfit world and Paleo diet, to bargaining with herself as she learned about intuitive eating and body acceptance.  We explore tangible tips on how to get out of a negative body image spiral, how dieting harms our confidence and self-esteem, and the ways in which our sense of worth and value is tied up in our appearance.  Summer is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix.   Follow Summer on IG: @summerinnanen Summer's website: https://summerinnanen.com/  Abbie's IG: @abbieattwoodwellness Abbie's website: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/

Welcome back to The Balanced Dietitian Podcast! Happy December! I hope you are doing well! During my disordered years, this time of year was my most stressful time. Holidays became scary and full of anxiety. Having healed my relationship with food and my body it is so fun to find pleasure in the holidays again and really connecting to the experience of being with family and enjoying food.   Today on the podcast we have Summer Innanen who is here with us. Today we are talking about body image and self worth. More precisely we are going to talk about how we can start detaching our self worth from our body image. I know you are going to get so much out of this episode.    In this episode, we discuss:  [06:02] Summer's background and story    [15:55] What is body image?   [18:11] Our body is a neutral thing   [22:06] Detaching our self worth from our body [31:48] Rebelling against body shame and diets    [37:31] Working through the hard feelings   [41:48] Recovery - outcomes and building resiliency  [47:43] Summer answers the fun questions   Ready to heal your relationship with food FOR GOOD? Join the waitlist for The Balanced Program . Next cohort starts in January!   Connect with Marie-Pier: On Instagram: @The.Balanced.Dietitian The Balanced Practice on Facebook The Balanced Practice on Instagram   Connect with Summer: On Instagram: @summerinnanen Summer's Website Eat the Rules Podcast The Body Confidence Makeover

Here is an additional episode because the drama surrounding T. Swift's latest video antihero has brought up some feelings for lots of women including us! When have we gone too far? When are artists going to be able to share their art with raw vulnerability again? Will they ever be able to share their emotions again without the impending backlash from social media and the faceless army of trolls who create campaigns to tear people down and hit cancel on their art, their careers, and their potential to create again? Whatever happened to having different experiences and being ok with that? Why do we have to have backlash over everything?If someone shares their innermost insecurities and demons do we then have the right to vilify them because they aren't fat enough? Sorry not sorry internet, we don't have the right to bully someone (celebrity or not) into submission. We all have feelings around our bodies and our own individual insecurities so when is that going to be enough? Why doesn't the conversation shift from shaming, blaming, and hating on someone to wow, you feel that way about your body too? Cancel culture is out and quite frankly we're sick of it. Join us in this raw unfiltered discussion about women's bodies and eating disorders. If you struggle with an eating disorder and need help please contact the national eating disorder helpline: (800) 931-2237 or nationaleatingdisorders.org If you are in crisis and need help immediately text NEDA to 741741. As mentioned in the show today check out disordered eating podcasts that have helped Brooke with her own issues around food and body image like Eat the rules with Summer Innanen. Sound off on social media and tell us what you guys think about the whole video situation. Enjoy your weekend XO, B & A As always, our discussions are based on our own unique experiences and in no way meant to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure any illnesses or disorders.

Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence. She helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching offers. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix, host of the podcast Eat The Rules and creator of You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame. Connect with Summer - www.thebodyimagecoach.com Connect with Summer on IG - http://www.instagram.com/summerinnanen/ Feedback & questions for the show, DM me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/lillibewley/ Lilli's Feminine Dating Archetype Quiz - Reveal your blocks to love & find your true love match. www.lillibewley.com/quiz Support the show: https://anchor.fm/thelillibewleypodcast - Click on support. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thelillibewleypodcast/support

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself”. -Maya AngelouFor this "5 Things Friday" we're covering steps you can take to improve your body image.How we think about ourself is such an important factor in how we treat ourself. Our perception of our body gets filtered through our beliefs, experiences, upbringing, and other sociocultural factors. The good news is our perception of self and body can change.Tune into advice from Summer Innanen on how to break out of the diet culture cage so you can wear, say, and do whatever you want.THE FIVE STEPS: Embrace Body Neutrality (3:00) Ditch the Scale (5:00) Cultivate Self-Compassion (9:00) Stop Checking the Mirror (13:00) Rewire your Brain (15:00) SHOW NOTES:https://recoverywarriors.com/FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE: Summer Innanen, body image coach and author of Body Image Remix Website  |  Instagram  |  Twitter  |  Facebook

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Today I have Summer Innanen on the podcast. Summer is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix, host of the podcast Eat the Rules and creator of You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame. She also co-runs the Body Image Coach Certification program helping anti-diet professionals learn to work with clients around body image. On this podcast we touch on: - The REAL reason we often become obsessive around food and exercise, and what we are truly trying to accomplish. - Practices to accepting our bodies without "giving up" - Loosening the reins and rewiring our relationship to food, body, exercise, and movement. - Sustainable health over short term diet plans Find Summer on IG: @SummerInnanen My IG: @Britleyann Website: DivineYourLife.Co

Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. She helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix: Embrace your body and unleash the fierce confident woman within and the creator of the flagship You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people break out of the diet culture cage, get free from body shame and live life on their own terms so they can wear, say and do what they want. She is the host of Eat The Rules, a podcast dedicated to anti-dieting, body image, intersectional feminism, and empowering people to live life on their own terms, where she has interviewed leading body image and anti-diet experts and activists such as Isabel Foxen Duke, Virgie Tovar, Chrissy King, and Ragen Chastain. She has been featured in Refinery29, FabUplus Magazine, The Huffington Post, Beautiful Magazine, and featured on several chart-topping podcasts including, Food Psych, Listen to Your Body, and The F*ck It Diet Podcast. She lives in Vancouver, BC Canada with her husband and toddler son. On this episode of the Food Junkies podcast, we bring you Clarissa's BEST FRIEND from high school, Summer Innanen, to talk about all things body image, body neutrality, and healing from body dissatisfaction. Summer is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix, host of the podcast Eat The Rules, and creator of You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame. She also co-runs the Body Image Coach Certification program helping anti-diet professionals learn to work with clients around body image.  Growing up, and in high school, Clarissa and Summer both had body image issues but Clarissa doesn't remember talking about it or sharing any deep conversations about what they thought of themselves. After high school, we both began an unhealthy and disordered relationship with food where we struggled with weight, diets, and the societal pressures to be thin. Even at their thinnest they still hated our bodies.  Today Summer shares her personal journey to body image recovery and healing. She shares how body image develops, how diet trauma affects us, perfectionism, why we are always comparing ourselves to others, and how we must let go of the relentless pursuit of thinness and free ourselves by rejecting the rules and reclaiming our power. How changing the way you feel about your body isn't actually about liking the way you look.  Clarissa and Summer have different stories of healing and recovery with food. While Clarissa's includes being abstinent from addictive foods, Summer's lead her to an intuitive eating approach where she stopped trying to makeover her plate and start making over what was going on inside her head. Just because we don't eat the same way doesn't mean we can't heal the same way when it comes to transforming the way we see ourselves and igniting our hope, our power, and shifting our outlook on life. So in this episode, we don't talk about the food, we talk about the thoughts and feelings about ourselves that often lead us to EAT THE DRUG FOODS to drown out the noise and numb out.  Follow Summer: Website Podcast: Eat the Rules Instagram: @summerinnanen Facebook Twitter The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede the professional relationship and direction of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.

Diabetes! High blood pressure! Joint pain! Sleep apnea! Surely these are all things that can only be avoided by not being fat and treated primarily by being on a diet? Yeah, we all know that dieting doesn't work, but what if you NEED to lose weight for health or mobility reasons? Summer Innanen and I talk about that today in our last Death to Diets episode and also share the 2 reasons why you may choose to go on a diet or intentionally lose weight. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/120 Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible! https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org Nicola Salmon - Fat positive fertility: https://www.instagram.com/fatpositivefertility/ HAES Health Sheets: https://haeshealthsheets.com/

When I was a little girl, I remember my super evangelical, conservative mama telling me, “There's this sinful notion out there that if something feels good, you should do it.” I'm sad to say this was one of the first messages I received that all things pleasurable were actually of the devil. I shit you not. Of course this message certainly applied to sex and drinking and other debachery [she says sarcastically], but this message was also super harmful around the pleasure derived from food. From enjoying delicious meals and treats. I mean one of the seven deadly sins is gluttony, for fuck's sake. You may have grown up with a similar sentiment around the morality of food. Not necessarily that Jesus would be after you, but think about how many times you've indulged in a decadent cake or delicious ice cream and have said something like, “Oh, I'm being so bad.” Or if you opt for the kale over the cupcake, you get to label yourself as “good”. Listen, food has nothing to do with morality and the idea that we deny ourselves a basic human pleasure like the taste of yummy food is incredibly harmful and furthermore, ruminating on what our bodies look like takes up waaaaay too much mental space. Like, how fucked up that we spend soooo much time and energy worried about our food choices and our body image. On this week's show, I dial up my pal, Summer Innanen, who is a body image coach and mentor who helps us look at the way we've been taught to constantly pursue thinness… at nearly all costs. Sometimes it's a cost of pleasure, but other times it's incredibly damaging to our mental health. Hands raised, amiright!? In this episode, we explore how the goal of “liking how you look” may be causing you more harm than good, how fixating on diet struggles can hinder us from addressing deeper traumas, and where to start if you can't imagine ever having a loving relationship with your body.  This pod explores: The connection between food and pleasure and how many of us have been taught that pleasure is a bad word Summer's tactics for setting intentions around your health that have nothing to do with what you look like How we've equated “taking care of ourselves” with thinness and how thinness is a inaccurate gauge of health How to adopt an additive (versus reductive) perspective around your body image, health, and food choices HIRE ME TO SPEAK AT YOUR EVENT! ACCESS ‘ENOUGHNESS'. POWERFULLY NAVIGATE FEAR. SPEAK UP FOR YOURSELF. I have three battle-tested (and badass) keynote speeches that are ready to be delivered to your company, organization, group, or association. If you or anyone you know could benefit from me droppin' some gems (um, like, who couldn't use some new tools?) please send them to THIS FANCY INFO PAGE on my site where you/they can message me directly about specific needs. ______ PERKS FOR THE POD-IENCE This podcast is sponsored by LetsGetChecked and The Bold-Faced Truth Podcast listeners get a whoppin' 30% off their first test kit of choice at tryglc.com/boldtruth or simply enter code boldtruth at checkout. Hello!! Getting necessary medical testing can be simple, safe, and easily done in the privacy of your own home. Check out this killer offer from LetsGetChecked and save 30% on your first test kit! Check it out ~> ______ ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: POD #437: [Dial An Expert] The Truth About Body Positivity With Dr. Lexie Kite When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession, Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter  Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own, Joy Arlene Renee Cox Ph.D.  __ THIS WEEK'S ‘DIAL AN EXPERT' GUESTIE Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence. She helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix, host of the podcast Eat The Rules, and creator of You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame. She also co-runs the Body Image Coach Certification program helping anti-diet professionals learn to work with clients around body image.  Connect with Summer on Insta, Twitter, and Facebook. ___ HOW TO LEAVE APPLE PODCASTS REVIEWS: Click the “Subscribe on Apple Podcasts” button below or go HERE Click on blue button that reads “view in Apple Podcasts” which will open the podcast into your personal Apple Podcasts account Click “Ratings & Reviews” under the show title Click the star rating of choice and then click the “Write a Review” button You can also click “Subscribe” under the podcast photo to be automatically notified of new episodes ______ WANT TO SUBMIT A SHOW TOPIC? Swing by THIS PAGE and let us hear what you would like us to sound off on!

We've got something a little different for you this week…Death To Diets is a candid, honest chat led by professional body image coach Summer Innanen and world-leading expert on dismantling fatphobia and diet culture, Vinny Welsby. Together, they invite listeners to join them in conversation as they share their topical takes and empowering insights on body image. This week, they're sharing tips on setting boundaries and how to respond to diet talk during the holiday season. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/222 In this episode, we talk about: - An overview of our stance on diets and fatphobia, - That we sometimes have to let go of the idea that we can change people's minds, - The importance of having empathy for your past self and people still caught up in diet culture, - Vinny's formula for dealing with fatphobia, - The Fierce Fatty JABB technique for setting boundaries, - How boundaries can be a gift to the other person, Plus so much more! Get the shownotes:  summerinnanen.com/222

Our guest on the show this week is body image expert, Summer Innanen. She shares her years of experience with us to explain why making peace with your body isn't about loving how you look. We get deep into conversation with Summer to help you explore healing your relationship with your body without trying to fall in love with every part of it. Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. She helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix, host of the podcast Eat The Rules, and creator of You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame. She also co-runs the Body Image Coach Certification program helping anti-diet professionals learn to work with clients around body image. Topics covered: Body Image & Positive Body Image Body Neutrality & Body Liberation Weight stigma Dismantling Anti-fat bias Self-worth Values & Beliefs Connect with Summer Innanen using the following links: Website Podcast: Eat the Rules Instagram: @summerinnanen Facebook Twitter Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email us at theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster_coaching Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

OMG, there is a chemical in my food…and I can't pronounce the name of it, never mind spell it!!! AND I am definitely addicted to TOXIC sugar! I must be, I can't stop eating it! Did you see the new Jonathan Van Ness show called Getting Curious where they answered the question “Why Do I Love Snacks So Much?” Instead of a delighted foray into the wonderful world of snacks this episode took a dark turn into debunked science from 1996, fatphobia, and food shaming. Fun! Summer Innanen and I break down the BS around it and other “toxic” food myths. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/113  Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible! https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org 

We've got something a little different for you this week….Death To Diets is a candid, honest chat led by professional body image coach Summer Innanen and world-leading expert on dismantling fatphobia and diet culture, Victoria Welsby. Together, they invite listeners to join them in conversation as they share their topical takes and empowering insights on self-image. This week, they're sharing tips on setting boundaries and how to respond to diet talk during the holiday season. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/108 Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible! https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org Join me on Fireside: https://firesidechat.com/victoriawelsby

When a woman has a child, society forces immediate pressure on her to get her ‘pre-baby body back'. These conversations can be difficult to navigate, and it takes some adapting to learn how to embrace your new body and a new phase of life. If you are struggling to understand how to welcome strength into your life as a new mom, this is the episode for you. Key Takeaways If You Want To Have A More Body Neutral Approach to Movement, You Should: Create a habit of unfollowing people on social media that do not align with your goals or make you feel bad about yourself Remember who you are outside of your identity as a mother or someone who looks a certain way Find movement patterns that work for your new body and phase of life while addressing your unique symptoms  Movement and Mindset for Mothers Dara Bergeron is a veteran trainer and movement educator specializing in body-neutral movement and mindset for mothers. Through her coaching and online programs, Dara teaches women how to weed diet culture from their movement ethic and parent themselves around exercise, focusing on functional strength, mobility, and core & pelvic floor awareness. Taking Back Your Worth For many women, giving birth is the first time they feel their physical appearance compromises their value. Who can blame them when the patriarchy and society place a premium on your ability to procreate and how you look. Dara is on a mission to disrupt this mentality and help moms focus on bringing back parts of their identity that have nothing to do with either of those things. By reconnecting with other parts of your identity and discovering who you are outside of motherhood, the importance of your appearance begins to shrink, and in turn, you can stop wishing you had a different body and start enjoying the one you have. Mom Bod Love Being a mom requires a lot of physical labor. Mom bods have to be ready at a moment's notice to jump into action when needed. This is why it is so important to use movement and strength training exercises to prepare yourself and avoid injury.  You don't have to spend hours at the gym to achieve this either. All it takes is understanding how and why your movements matter and finding a set of exercises that work for you, your pelvic floor, and your symptoms. By creating movement patterns that work for your schedule and your new body, you can include a more well-rounded version of fitness in your life and get back to doing what you love most. Are you ready to embrace your mom bod? Share which of Dara's tips you are going to try with me in the comments on the episode page. In This Episode How to navigate the minefield that women and new parents are told about their bodies (8:32) Dara's response to those who are desperate to get their ‘pre-baby body back' (13:23) Comparing ‘dad bods' and ‘mom bods' and how to find ‘mom bod love' (18:41) The three core pillars of mobility, pelvic floor connection, and full-body strength (22:40) Tips for integrating compound movements during your home workouts (33:54) Quotes “I just decided that I wasn't okay being on the side of the line that was encouraging bounce-back culture and postpartum fat loss and that sort of thing. So I began shifting my own focus and my own fitness and how I worked with clients to a more body neutral approach.”  (6:39) “There is so much more to us than just that we can procreate and that we look a certain way.” (17:02) “There is some real physical labor that a ‘mom bod' has to be prepared to do, and it doesn't always come up at a time when we are prepared or thinking about it. So my belief is when we are engaging in smart strength and mobility and core and pelvic floor connection work, then we are going to be prepared for those things. And it also allows us to be better parents and more active and confident parents.” (21:02) “It can feel a little weird to think about treating that area with a professional or working with a coach on that area, but as with all aspects of your health and your body, it's not just about the pelvic floor.” (29:13) “The sensation of connection to the pelvic floor is feasible for everyone. And dealing with symptoms is feasible for everyone. It's just about how you create the routine for you and the patterns and cues for you that help you feel confident.” (32:19) Featured on the Show Join the Group Strength Nutrition Unlocked Waitlist Here Dana Bergeron Website Belly Bootcamp Website Mama Reset Website Follow Dana on Instagram | Twitter | YouTube | Pinterest Check out the full show notes here! Follow Steph on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Pinterest I'd really love it if you would take 1 min and leave us a rating and review on iTunes! Podcast production & marketing support by the team at Counterweight Creative Related Episodes LTYB 334: How Strong Women Can Lift Eachother Up with Molly Galbraith LTYB 262: How To See The Value Outside Your Body & Overcome Self-Doubt with Summer Innanen

Oh baby! Join Isabelle as she chats with her friend Lyndsi about experiencing pregnancy and postpartum in our diet culture laden society. What is a belly only pregnancy and why are we told to strive for it? What recovery tools were helpful when growing a person? How has having a child changed her perspective of her own body? We'll delve into these questions and many more. Content Warning (CW) - We discuss disordered eating, disordered behaviors, and pregnancy in this episode. Food for your feed: Summer Innanen, Caroline Dooner, Jade Beall, Sarah Nicole Landry, and Plus Size Birth

In deze podcast ontdek je: - Hoe je weet of je last hebt van ‘body image issues' - In hoeverre Summer Innanen last heeft (gehad) van perfectionisme in haar leven - Wat haar heeft geholpen om dit los te laten Meer weten over Summer Innanen? - Doe Summer's gratis 10 Day Body Confidence Makeover: www.thebodyimagecoach.com - Schrijf je in voor Summer's e-mails speciaal voor coaches: https://summerinnanen.com/mentorship/ - Volg Summer op social media (overal @summerinnanen) En dit zijn drie manieren waarop je direct aan de slag kunt met het loslaten van je perfectionisme: 1. Volg de gratis masterclass HSP & Perfectionisme via www.doelgerichtecoaching.nl/hsp 2. Lees mijn boek! Het heet Goed Genoeg - 50 tips om je perfectionisme los te laten. Bestellen doe je via www.evelienbijl.nl/boek (Fysiek boek: €21,99, eBook: €9,99) 3. Doe mee aan Goed Genoeg, hét online programma voor perfectionisten die relaxter & gelukkiger willen worden. Meer info op www.doelgerichtecoaching.nl/goedgenoeg Volg me op Instagram voor meer tips over perfectionisme en een eerlijk kijkje achter de schermen: www.instagram.com/evelien_bijl

In today's solo episode we explore how to work WITH your inner critic (and why you don't need to get mad at it or work to eliminate it).TODAY YOU WILL LEARN:Why so many women struggle to speak their truth  How to tame the inner critic/perfectionist/people pleaser so you can stop overthinking and start creating the life you want You will learn a 5-Step Framework for working with your ICThank you to Summer Innanen for teaching me the 5 step framework and for her mentorship. Go check out her Eat The Rules podcast for all of her wisdom! **MENTOR WITH ELIZABETH MARBERRY:For a limited time, Elizabeth is offering free 30 minute breakthrough calls. You can grab yours at TalkToElizabeth.comIn this FREE Session you'll learn:What's holding you back from owning your self-worth, freeing your voice and feeling confident in your skin Your exact healing path required to clear your body image & self-love blocksWhether we're a fit to work together, I may invite you to work with me in my Confident Feminine Mentorship ProgramBe sure you fill out the application or your appointment will be canceled. Book your special time at TalkToElizabeth.com Hang out with Elizabeth on social:IG: https://www.instagram.com/elizabethmarberry/FB: ConfidentFeminineBodyGroup.comEmail: Elizabeth@ConfidentFeminineBody.com*Please subscribe/rate/review this podcast -- so that we can reach the ears (and hearts) of people who identify as feminine all over the world! 

In this fun fireside chat, Kate is joined by Summer Innanen. She is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. She helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com.She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix and creator of You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame. She is also the host of Eat The Rules, a podcast dedicated to anti-dieting, body image, intersectional feminism and empowering people to live life on their own terms.Kate is the author of Bulimia Sucks! It is an inspiring, practical book written to empower people to break through the barriers stopping them from taking that first step to freedom from bulimia. With astounding new approaches and techniques, to learn how to reprogram their mind to freedom.                                  ********************* ANNOUNCEMENTS ********************                                                                               JUST  LAUNCHEDWE HAVE RECENTLY LAUNCHED PATREONIt's so exciting as we have launched with Patreon. If you aren't familiar with Patreon, it's an easy way for those interested in my podcast and work to see new exclusive content and updates before anyone else. By contributing as little as $5 per month, patrons will enable me to dedicate more of my time to creating by helping cover the many costs incurred from my podcast. Link below.BULIMIA SUCKS! AUDIOBOOK  HAS ALSO LAUNCHED ON AMAZON, AUDIBLE, AND ITUNES.Kate felt very passionate about narrating the book herself. With her spiritedness for helping others and the subject of bulimia deeply cushioned within her heart. She felt incredibly enthusiastic about the importance of the delicate nurturing and guiding, no one could explain it like she felt it needed explaining.If you would like a free copy of this email Kate at: katehudsonhall@gmail.com and she will send you the free code.Reach out to Kate at:Bulimia Sucks book: https://amzn.to/3ycH4CNWebsite:  www.bulimiasucks.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BulimiaSuckIG: https://www.instagram.com/katehudsonhall/Connect with Summer:Website: summerinnanen.comPodcast: Eat the RulesInstagram: @summerinnanenFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/SummerInnanenCoach/Twitter: https://twitter.com/summerinnanen Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/bulimiasucks)

If raising kids is priceless, why does it cost so much? That's the question we're diving into today for the 5th in an 8 part Masterclass with Meridian Credit Union. Nancie Taylor, Senior Wealth Advisor at Meridian Credit Union joins me to discuss the price tag that comes with kids, and how with a little planning you can avoid some major pitfalls. It's all part of our big plan to get you financially fit in 2021. In a world seemingly divided on just about everything, there is one ability that can inspire and connect, and is repeatedly being hailed as a superpower. That skill is empathy and my next guest, Erin Thorp, is on a mission to help all leaders learn this powerful skill and implement it in their leadership. She joins me to share how mastering empathy can get you further ahead at work and in life. This is the time of year that Anne Brodie works around the clock with TIFF in full swing. This week she joins me to share the best of the capsule reviews she's seen so far including Night Raiders, a disturbing story in its own right paralleling the traumas of the residential school system for generations of First Nations. Plus some new movies and shows you won't want to miss in theatres and at home. The negative thoughts we have about our body are not our fault. They are learned from the culture we live in where we've been conditioned to believe that our worth is in our appearance, SPOILER (it's not!). Summer Innanen, a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence joins me to share ways to break free of the noise. When the pandemic first hit, women across the country were forced into their homes and into their kitchens. After cooking roughly 1 MILLION Meals or at least it feels that way, we want a break. Thankfully Jannine Rane, co-founder of Zing, a Toronto based company that makes chef- prepared pantry shortcuts to help home cooks bring a meal from your fridge to your table in 15 minutes or less joins me to share the inspiration behind the company making cooking easier for at home chefs. Finally, Play is an essential part of child development, exploration and how we learn about the world and how it works. Sadly, it is often dismissed. Frances Fishman is the founder of The Play Base, a behavioural services provider that helps kids grow through what they need most: play. She joins me to share why play is so crucial in development and how to get more of it in your life. Social Media Meridian Meridian Credit Union Website: https://www.meridiancu.ca/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeridianCU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MeridianCreditUnion/ Instagram: @meridiancreditunion Erin Thorp Website www.erinthorp.ca Twitter https://twitter.com/erin_thorp Instagram https://www.instagram.com/elthorp Facebook https://www.facebook.com/erinthorpcoaching LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-thorp-speaker Summer Innanen Website https://summerinnanen.com/ Twitter https://twitter.com/summerinnanen Instagram https://www.instagram.com/summerinnanen/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SummerInnanenCoach/ Zing Website cookwithzing.com Instagram @cookwithzing TikTok @cookwithzing LinkedIn @cookwithzing Frances Fishman 
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Today on the podcast I have Summer Innamen who is a body image coach that helps women stop hating their bodies. Summer is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. She helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales! She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix and the host of Eat The Rules, a podcast dedicated to anti-dieting, body image, intersectional feminism, and empowering people to live life on their own terms. Today Summer and I discuss: How to let go of the desire to lose weight in a culture that demands it Why we don't need to love our body The cost of only focusing on our image Action steps to stop hating our body Plus so much more! For more on Summer: Website Podcast: Eat the Rules Instagram: @summerinnanen Facebook Twitter Victoria Evans Science-Based Intuitive Eating Coach NEW FREE TRAINING: https://www.victoriaevansofficial.com/freetastetest Craving Food Freedom 6 Week Course: https://www.victoriaevansofficial.com/craving-food-freedom-course To follow me on Instagram: @victoriaevansofficial https://www.instagram.com/victoriaevansofficial/ To sign up for the biweekly newsletter: https://www.victoriaevansofficial.com/foodforthoughtsignup --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/victoriaevans/support

Summer's life used to be dominated by exercise and dieting. She spent nearly two decades battling her body before she realized that the issue was not her size, but her mindset. Now, Summer Innanen is a podcaster and life coach who dedicates her time helping people overcome their obsession with food and body. Learn how she broke away from her toxic relationship with diet culture and began to reconnect with the things in life that bring her true happiness.

This episode is a dream manifested - I interviewed one of my Body Image mentors Summer Innanen -- a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence.We dished on:What having a positive body image really means (hint: it has little to do with the mirror)Summer's story of chronic dieting and chasing a thinner/healthier bodyHow the pandemic impacted our diet thoughts and body imageAction steps you can take right now to let go of the dieting mentality and build your self-worthWhy so many women are obsessed with trying to "fix" their bodiesA practice you can use when you find yourself "mirror checking"Why Anti-Diet is NOT Anti-HealthBlowing up the bullsh*$ around the idea that you're not going to “take care of yourself” if you accept your bodyHow Motherhood can reflects our own insecurities (this is where I get some hot seat coaching with Summer) AND MORE!!!! Find Out More About Summer's Work:WebsitePodcast: Eat the RulesInstagram: @summerinnanenFacebookWORK WITH ELIZABETH MARBERRY:IG - @elizabethmarberryFB - ConfidentFeminineBodyGroup.com ->->Book your 30 minute Body Confidence Breakthrough Session with Elizabeth to see if the 12-Week Confident Feminine Body Mentorship Program is right for you: TalkToElizabeth.com

Today I'm joined by special guest Natasha “Tash” Ngindi. Tash is a Canadian Non-Diet Nutritionist, Zumba Instructor, and Entrepreneur. She spent years being a slave to diet culture but she was never able to keep the weight off. After hitting rock bottom, she finally gained food freedom and learned to truly love herself. Her lived experiences inspired her to help others gain food freedom and accept their bodies too.   In this episode, Tash and I discuss: ✨ Her journey into the intuitive eating space and how it changed her life ✨ The parallels between intuitive eating and entrepreneurship ✨ How embracing the principles of intuitive eating has helped Tash build her business in a way that feels good ✨ Why learning to love and trust yourself makes the biggest difference in both your health and your business success ✨ Tash's best tips to help you cultivate self-trust and show up as yourself    Plus more!   There's so many golden nuggets in this episode and I hope you love it as much as I loved recording it! Connect with Tash: https://www.instagram.com/thethicknutritionist/  https://www.thethicknutritionist.com Tash's Recommendations: -The Original Intuitive Eating book by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch -Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison -The F*ck It Diet by Caroline Dooner -Eat the Rules Podcast with Summer Innanen

Today's episode is with Summer Innanen. Summer is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. And that's what we're talking about here! I know you all will love this conversation and learn so much from Summer.   Connect with Summer at https://summerinnanen.com/ This podcast is for the high-achieving woman, that's you!, wanting to find balance and calm around food and in other areas of her life. Don't worry, balance here isn't about juggling a million balls in the air all at once… and doing it perfectly. It's about slowing down enough to listen to your own body, trusting your voice, and finding what healthy means for you. If you're ready for this new kind of balance, one where you feel calm around food and confident in yourself, then you're in the right place! Subscribe for encouragement in how to feel your best self every week!    Join us for “Enough”, my brand new body image course! Join HERE.   You can also find me at victoria-yates.com & on Instagram @nondiet_rn

This week I explore the topics of diet culture, body image, and intersectional feminism with guest, Summer Innanen. Summer is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix and creator of You, On Fire – the online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame and live life on their own terms. She is also the host of Eat The Rules, a podcast dedicated to anti-dieting, body image, and intersectional feminism. Personally, I succumbed to diet culture for decades and have been going through a process of unlearning all of the internalized messages that never served me. Extricating oneself from diet culture is a unique journey for every woman. To echo Summer’s words, “Acceptance is not a destination, it’s an ongoing practice of meeting yourself where you are at and where you need to be.”  In this episode you’ll hear: A brief definition of diet culture and what it revolves around (various layers of oppression). (8:24) For women, worrying about body image is a universal condition and is rooted in internalized misogyny. (12:10) Summer talks about how the way to feel better in your body isn’t about “liking the way you look” and how this can make it harder for us to accept ourselves. (14:14) The importance of knowing the truth about weight science. (23:04) Summer’s response to the assumption that if you accept your body, you're "giving up" and not going to "take care of yourself". (25:27) We can reject diet culture and go on to do amazing things. (32:40) "Tools of avoidance," dieting and fixating on our bodies. (36:00) How diet culture is related to patriarchy and white supremacy. (48:09) http://andreaowen.com/387  

The news media are a major source of diet culture BS. Every day there's an apparently "inspirational" story in which diverse bodies are shrunk down to diet culture's version of acceptability. We're literally brainwashed into viewing increasingly disordered, bizarre and downright dangerous behaviours as "#inspirational". Join me and my guest, anti-diet warrior and coach Summer Innanen as we present some truly epic examples of "SHITSPIRATION" from Australia and Canada. You will not believe how ludicrous they are! Grown up humans are supposed to be #inspired by a 'doubledown diet' which reduces calorie intake to almost nothing, a BARBIE DOLL (I am not joking), and....a Malamute? You have to hear this to believe it, it's next level #ridiculous. Trigger warning for this episode - very explicit language and we're discussing diet, calorie counts, etc, in (critical) detail. This one's not for the faint hearted! But if you're ready to get your rage-o-meter cranked up to ALL FIRED UP, this episode's for you! Show Transcript Louise Adams: Oh, Summer, thank you so much for coming on the show. Summer Innanen: Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here with you. Louise Adams: Tell me, what's firing you up? Summer Innanen: Well, I saw an article recently in Women's Health, and it's about... it's supposed to be like a, you know, quote unquote 'weight loss inspiration story'. And it's about a woman who had a very significant weight loss experience by doing a very disordered diet. And I think what fired me up so much about it was not just the content within it, which I'm sure we'll you know, dissect and talk about it. But the fact that in 2015, in December 2015, Women's Health came out and it was a huge... we got a lot of headlines, a lot of publicity around the fact that they were taking the words, 'bikini body' and 'drop two sizes' off of their covers. So they sort of made this like quasi- body- positive stance. Like, 'hey,  we've heard you, our readers. And we've heard that, you know, you don't like us sort of using this very patriarchal, sexist language'. Yeah. Yeah. And so, like I remember at the time this was shared, like even people within the sort of anti-diet community were sharing it, saying 'this is great, like nice to see a major publications sort of making these changes' and then, you know, to, to look and see here we are five years later and it's the same shit. Louise Adams: It's back. Summer Innanen: Worse. Like I would argue what this what's contained in this article is so terrible from the perspective of promoting disordered eating and like really what this person is talking about is like, the way that they eat to me sounds like a, like an eating disorder, which obviously like I'm not here to diagnose or go... Louise Adams: it's disordered eating practices. Right? It's promoting starvation. Summer Innanen: Yeah. So it's a combination of keto and intermittent fasting. So it's like keto isn't bad enough on its own. So it's like, we're going to make intermittent fasting onto it. Louise Adams: It's an unholy marriage. Summer Innanen: It is honestly, and that's like, for me, I think why I was so fired up about it too, is because when I sort of reached the end of the line with my own disordered relationship with food, I was doing, I was trying to...attempting, it would only last like three days...to do something kind of similar. And it's what absolutely destroyed my body. Like just... like put me into amenorrhea, even with like a higher body weight percentage, and like completely disrupted my hormones. And when I work with clients, I see the same kind of behaviors really being kind of the end of the line for a lot of people. Like the one that really, really kind of messes up their head and their physical, like their actual, you know, physiology a lot worse than other diets that they have done previously. Louise Adams: Oh, this is an awesome thing to get completely fired up about because like we have Women's Health magazine here, which is... it's not health, it's women's starving magazine. They did no such thing as  like...to tell us that they're not going to do the 'bikini body', but how gaslighting to say, 'Oh, we're not going to do that anymore. Hello, here's something  worse'. And like to use that kind of little bit of that... they just wanted the publicity of that. 'We want to perform the idea of body positivity, but like, hell no, we're not actually going to stick to that'. Summer Innanen: Yes, yes. Louise Adams: It's going to go back to this apparently inspirational behaviour of this lady. Who is doing the very thing that tipped you into like a severe eating disorder? That's so disturbing. Summer Innanen: Yes. Yes. And, you know, they give a outline of what she eats in a day and as I think, as I emailed you before, I was like, that's kind of what I eat for breakfast. Like, it's the same amount of calories that I consume for breakfast. Like, that's it. And I remember being in that frame of mind where you would read a magazine and they would sort of show like, 'oh, here's what somebody eats in a day'. Or 'here's what a celebrity eats in a day'. And I remember always feeling like, so ashamed because I ate so much more than that. And I was always like, 'what's wrong with me? Like, why can't I eat as little as this?' And you know, I just can't believe that stuff is still being put out there, like that the author of that piece didn't think like, 'Hey, this might really promote an eating disorder.' When it's that blatant! Literally... Louise Adams: my dog eats more than that. When it's that blatant and there's, you know, throughout every article that we're going to talk about today is...oh, except the last one. There's literally no critical thought. Or even appreciation of the damage that's being spread by these, like it's full on evil messaging as far as I'm concerned, dressed up as inspiration. That the fact that a journalist...journalists, as far as I know, are trained to be critical thinkers and, and yet it's like that goes out the window when it comes to these apparently inspirational stories. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Yeah. Like there's absolutely no consciousness at all. That's what I felt like. Cause you know, it's just, it was one of those things. That's, it's almost like when I first read it, I was like, it's almost too ridiculous to believe this is...that they actually publish this as something that's supposed to be inspirational. But it's to me like, you know, I think the readership probably skews a little bit, you know, on the younger side, you know, maybe more like 20 to 30 age group or younger, probably teen, a lot of teenage girls and you know, to be reading that at such an impressionable age and to think 'oh, this is how...this is what I should be doing'. Which is essentially like starvation as well as like malnutrition and just something that would put such a high amount of both physical and mental stress on your body, that would really create like long lasting damage. Yeah, both biologically and psychologically. Louise Adams: And that's, that's who I see, you know, my clients are the diet casualties, people who have had these experiences and then...you know? Dieting like this, crash dieting...because this is, this lady is on a severe calorie restriction. And then she's added intermittent fasting, which basically means you're only allowed to eat for six hours a day and squish in your tiny little bits of food into six hours. Like when you really think about that, that is so many levels of fucked up and she's saying, 'oh, it's so good'. And I feel for her being in that diet head, And who knows maybe an eating disorder head, but there's  ...the payoff is so great for her because the weight loss like that, the whole article is about her trying to shift the last bit. And she's still got a way to go. And her poor body, if her poor body could talk would be going, 'I'm starving. I'm slowing down this cause it's getting dangerous'. And she's like, 'right, I'm going to double down using the halo of intermittent fasting', which is starving. Summer Innanen: Yes. Yeah. And the other thing too, that stood out to me, well, two things. One is the amount of caffeine that she talks about drinking in terms of hydration. Cause it says, like, what really works for her. It's like, 'I'm really hydrating'. And it's like so much coffee and green tea. And I'm like, if I had that much caffiene I'd be, I don't even know what I would be doing. Louise Adams: That's a question I ask when I'm seeing people with eating disorders, like, what are you drinking? Because quite often when you get an eating disorder, you will drink caffeinated stuff to kill your appetite. So, she's calling that hydration. Summer Innanen: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And then the other thing too, is that she uses the language of 'food freedom' to talk about how she feels, because  she says you know, 'food is really just food. It's not good or bad. I don't obsess about it anymore'. And it's like, really that could be pulled from any sort of anti-diet playbook, which is what we want, but it's so counter to what she's actually doing. And I think that it kind of shows like when you're really into, like, when you' re really kind of overtaken your mind, you're sort of riding this, this buzz or this wave where it does feel like that. But, you haven't woken up to how you really are looking at things that way. And you really are, you know, like if you're tracking every calorie, which is what she says she was doing... Louise Adams: How is that freedom? Summer Innanen: Yeah. That's not freedom. And that's, that's like, maybe she's sort of, you know, like kidding herself. She's at the sort of like, kidding, 'I'm kidding myself' phase. Like, it's like, you know, most of us when we were sort of dieters were like, 'well, no, no, no, I'm doing it for my health. Like I'm doing no, this is for my health', but really underneath it's, you know, there's, there's some other stuff going on, but I hate it when they kind of steal, like they sort of co-opt the language of intuitive eating and co-op the language of the anti-diet message and really use it to promote something that's so restrictive. It just makes... Louise Adams: You know who came to my mind when you were saying that is Rebel Wilson. Summer Innanen: Yes Louise Adams: she's an Aussie actor and has always been in a larger body. Apparently like her kind of whole catch phase for 2020 was that it was her 'year of health'. Summer Innanen: Yes! Louise Adams: But the behaviors are restriction and starvation and over-exercise, but she's masking that in the language of 'I'm so healthy now'. Like, 'I don't think about food anymore. My habits are so great', but it's the same thing. Summer Innanen: Exactly. Exactly. Louise Adams: Worlds apart from what the anti-dieting and intuitive eating stuff is actually about. Summer Innanen: Yeah. And, and like, it's not their fault. Like, I don't like talking about this. I'm not, I don't want to like, shame this, this woman at all. Louise Adams: As an individual, no. Summer Innanen: Or Rebel Wilson. It's like, but it's really about. You know, the it's really about the culture diet culture, and just the fact that we feel as women and more, you know, more specifically that we have to go to these extremes to really like, you know, show our, our worthiness as humans, like in our value. And like, Rebel Wilson is so talented. Louise Adams: I know, so funny. Summer Innanen: She's an awesome actress. And now it's like, everyone's just talking about her body and her weight loss. And it's like, it takes away from all these other amazing things that she's done. Louise Adams: And when it's really uncritical, as well. It's like, why is she so much better now than she's small? That just reinforces the diet culture message and keeps stories like the woman you talking about going. It's like, I can get all this attention, uncritical, positive attention, but it's like, we're not seeing what's right in front of it. Like we are teaching and promoting women in this case did a really, really sick eating disordered and stuff under the flag of health. Summer Innanen: And that is like, supremely unhealthy. Yeah. Yeah. It's so frustrating too, because you see all these positive changes happening in the way of, you know, women becoming more liberated or just having, you know, bigger voices taking up more space. And yet it's just like the same old shit is still there as it relates to our bodies and our value and, and... Louise Adams: There's such an uptick too, in January, isn't there. Summer Innanen: Oh yeah. It's a predictable tsunami of the weight loss. The walls of relentless inspiration, whether we want it or not. It's just, it's here. ESpecially with the pandemic, you know, because everyone, a lot of people have...maybe their bodies have changed a little bit, which makes a ton of sense because we're under a lot of stress or just life changes that have happened. So I think that, you know, depending on where you live, if there's still a lot of restrictions, which I was saying to you before, like there still is here. Dieting gives you like a bit of hope, almost like weight loss gives you a bit of hope. In this time when maybe some of us are feeling a little hopeless or just like really kind of sick of, sick of the isolation and everything else. And so I wouldn't be surprised that maybe your body's changed a bit during quarantine. I wouldn't be surprised if this year really you see like just a lot more people really engaging in dieting as a way to cope with the emotion, emotional discomfort of living through a pandemic. Louise Adams: That is a really good point, isn't it. Dieting can be a bit of a lifeline. It can feel like it, like something familiar to do in a scary time. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Some sense of control, some sense of like, you know, hope, something else to focus on other than like the fact that there's a lot of horrible things happening in the world. Yeah, absolutely, a hundred percent. And I just, I, you know, I've heard it from people that I work with just feeling more urges to diet lately. And I think that, yeah, it's just something to be mindful of. If anyone listening is experiencing that too, like I think it's pretty normal to be experiencing more of those urges, but hopefully you can... Louise Adams: LIsten to today's episode and get your bullshit detector back. Summer Innanen: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't drink the Kool-Aid it's not actually going to help. Louise Adams: It's not control! Summer Innanen: Yeah, exactly. Louise Adams: It's so interesting because like, Canada is very similar to Australia, culturally in lots and lots of ways. And it's funny...not funny. It's not funny. Cause like, you're talking about really disturbing uncritical weightless articles. And we've got them here in Australia too. And I really want to talk to you about the lady who lost weight, because she wanted to look like Barbie. Yes. And Summer Innanen: I, so you said that to me, I honestly, it was like, okay, this needs to be a tabloid. Like this can't be like a real, and, and then you told me that it's actually a very legit publication. Louise Adams: Yeah. Oh, I'm so ashamed of ourselves. So, this is on Nine News. Channel Nine is Murdoch press and it's, you know, one of it's a huge...it's the number one news platform in Australia for news. I want to say news, right? News. Okay, exciting. And in this news, I'm just using air quotes.  It's this story from late gen a Barbie fan has dropped a whopping blah-blah-blah kilos in a bid to look like a favorite doll. And it's a story about a lady called...a 35 year old lady called Kayla. Who's apparently battled with her weight since she was seven, and has done all of the diets in the book and… Like, I just, I can't even, because yes, Nine News is promoting this as, as awesome. This lady that the article is...littered with her dressed as Barbie. She's a full grown female adult woman dressed as Barbie. And the whole story is about how she's had a gastric sleeve and, and is also starving herself, post gastric sleeve, and now she's very happy and...like I just, I mean, I can't get this article out of my head because it's on a major news platform also. I've just realized it was on the TV on a morning show. She now lives in Las Vegas pursuing her Barbie lifestyle. And I'm not criticizing Kayla herself whatsoever, but what I'm criticizing is the news. Which, by the way, I've also found out isn't even news, because this is from Jan 2021. When I'm Googling, to send you the article. THis article actually came out in June last year, it's old, it's not, it's old. It's not news. But it's been rehashed - guess why, it's January - it's Diet season and then some, you know, money hungry gastric sleeve doctors, and some people who want to sell their diets saying 'let's get her on TV, and uncritically throw this... it's an appallingly ridiculous idea that we need to look like a doll in order to reach the pinnacle of our existence. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think like, you know, there were, I don't even...there were so many things wrong with this piece. Louise Adams: It's hard to know where to start. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Okay. Well, let's start with when she was a kid, because she talks about how, you know, 'it didn't matter how hard I tried or what side I was on. I could rarely shift the weight or I would lose some and then regain double'. And it's like, well, yeah, that's what diets do. And so, this poor girl probably had her parents putting her on diets, which we know she did actually. Louise Adams: It says 'my obsession with Barbie began as a child and has continued into my adult life. I used to have over 200 dolls as my parents use them as an incentive to go on a diet and lose weight'. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Yeah. Which is so messed up. Louise Adams: That just made me want to cry. Yeah. Because as a parent to, bribe your a child with a Barbie doll, like the poor thing, she's seven. I know. And I don't know, that's at least 200 diets, isn't it? Summer Innanen: Well, exactly, like how horrifying is that? So, her metabolism is probably been so altered and she has no sense of her own  instincts on what actually, you know, feels good for her. And her parents basically instilled like this belief that like you're better or you're good or you're more worthy when you lose weight, And like, to think about the damage that that would do to someone's self-worth and their body image and the way that they feel it. Yeah. Yeah, right. Louise Adams: Cause it's...I see this as a real heartbreaking story and I cannot understand how this is inspiration. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Yeah. It's so awful. It reminds me of the there's this book. I don't know if you've ever read it. It's called 'The Heavy' and it's about a mother who puts her daughter on a diet and it's...it's a memoir written from the mother's perspective and she keeps putting her, she can't figure out why her daughter can't lose weight. She keeps putting her on diet after diet, after diet. And like, it just reminds me of that because the parent is...has so much  internalized fat phobia and their own disordered relationship with food that then they pass down to their kids. And like, that's what I see. I'm sure you see all the time with the people that we work with is that what our parents did, which they kind of were doing out of this like, protection. They wanted to protect us by helping us lose weight or commenting on our body or restricting food...actually completely backfired and made us feel like we, you know, we weren't worthy of their approval, of love, like of our own existence, unless we looked a certain way unless we lost weight, unless we ate a certain way... Louise Adams: All contingent on weight, which is it's insane because a weight is not under our control. And when we do the diet thing, all we guarantee is a slowed metabolism and weight regain. And she even says in this that she would lose it, then lose weight and then regain like that. Plus some, which is, we know that's perfectly normal as a response to starvation her. And cause her parents obviously have that internalized weight stigma, and she has it, you know? This is a story about her internalized weight stigma and how, you know, rather than kind of pushing back or being able to push back against it. She's really drunk the Kool-Aid. Summer Innanen: Yeah, yeah. And again, they highlight what she eats in a day, which is like, why, why these places do this is like, beyond me, because... Louise Adams: Well, they go into so many stereotypes too. Cause like it's the, it's the traditional thing like, 'Oh, before I had my gastric sleeve, I was a bad person and I ate terribly'. And ignoring the fact that perhaps her, part of her weight issues was to do with the diets themselves. Summer Innanen: Right? Louise Adams: Yeah. So that's ignored and so about...'it was definitely 100% my personal fault' quote unquote, 'that my body was large and I ate terribly but now I eat great'. But, what we see actually, like when you look at that, what she used to eat, she used to starve herself all day and then eat at night. Summer Innanen: Right? It's like, well of course you're going to binge at night. If you starve all day, that's no surprise there. You're going to be so hungry. You'll eat anything that's not locked down. And then what she eats now is like, it's so dangerous. It's like such a low amount of food and... Louise Adams: And says, 'I ate,'...I'm going to read some numbers here so trigger warning. Cause it's just, I just want to get across the point of how restrictive it is. She's had 80% of her stomach removed, and then she's saying 'I eat 90 grams of protein a day, 10 grams of carbs and five grams of sugar'. Everyday. Summer Innanen: Do you know what...10 grams. That's not even a banana. Right? 10 grams of carbs. Like that's like, that's like what? Like a few baby carrots or something like that? Louise Adams: There's no actual veggies. Breakfast is a protein shake. Lunches, chicken or beef with cheese, dinner is chicken or steak or a protein shake. And the snacks, cashews or walnuts. Like there's there's no fruit or veggies. Poor thing. In a stomach which is 80% removed, amputated. Summer Innanen: And can't be reversed. They also say that, which is another thing. Louise Adams: And it says this article has the hide to say 'she now has a good relationship with food'. Summer Innanen: Yes. I highlighted that too, because again, it's like, co-opting this language of food, freedom and, and using it in like a place where it's like clearly a very disordered. Louise Adams: How is that a good relationship with food? Summer Innanen: Yeah, it's sad. Louise Adams: And works out seven days a week. Summer Innanen: That, right. That was the other thing that really stood out because also extremely unhealthy to be, to be doing something like that. And you just sort of wonder, like what's going to happen to this individual. You know, and they may be riding the sort of like validation of having a significant weight change and getting the publicity and feeling really good about that. Louise Adams: But, you know, as we all know totally done it, you know, as a psychologist, she's finally saying to her mum, 'look, I am the Barbie doll'. I just...it's heartbreaking. I totally get why she's doing it. Summer Innanen: Right. Louise Adams: But I find it an incredibly sad story. Summer Innanen: I know, and I feel bad for her as a child. Louise Adams: I feel like I'm kind of alone in seeing her as a really sad story. Summer Innanen: No, it's really sad. It is really sad. And it's, and it's this idea like, again, it's like this idea that it's our fault, like, and it's a kid's fault if they are in a larger body instead of thinking, 'okay, well, this is just, you know, genetics'. Louise Adams: Here's my child, here's my kid. Give her a barbie doll, for fuck's sake, if she wants one. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Not to earn it by restricting food or whatnot. To put all the onus on her and to, you know, that she had to earn it by losing weight, earn Barbie dolls by losing weight. Like, it's so sad. And yet it's being like, you know, applauded and praised and... Louise Adams: It's sickening. How like diet culture, it's weight loss at all costs. And this is an extreme example of the costs, but I mean...2015,  right? Women's Health magazine is talking about, 'Oh, we see the harm done by diet culture. We see that talking about women as if they're a bikini body and stuff is not cool anymore. Well, we're going to stop doing that'. But now, like we just talked about like two really extreme articles promoting starvation. Like there's no problem here. And we've gaslit ourselves to the point where these things are being called lifestyle changes or health behaviors. Summer Innanen: Yeah, exactly. Louise Adams: We're talking about stuff that's much, much worse than the good old diet industry days. Summer Innanen: Right, right. Yeah. It seems to have gotten a lot more extreme, hasn't it? Like it's, it's something that has, it's always sort of been extreme, but it seems to be even more....I guess now the extremism is normalized. Louise Adams: Yeah. And it's mainstream. It's like pro-ana used to be pro-ana, cause we could see it as being different to what the world was. Summer Innanen: Exactly. Exactly. Louise Adams: Yeah. Someone said to you, I only ate in a six hour window and I don't eat any vegetables or fruit or carbs. We're like, 'Oh, you're so healthy. How do you do it?' Summer Innanen: Yes. Yes. 'Let me put you in my magazine. You're a success story'. But I wonder if like, if either of them took, you know, assessments on whether or not you have an eating disorder or disordered relationship with food, you would most likely see that they would probably check most of the boxes in terms of the things that they would say that they're thinking and doing as it relates to...you know, the behaviors, but I was going to say as well, it also just shows how weight stigma plays a role here. Because if this was an already thin person eating this stuff, you know, we as....there might be more people sort of calling this out as like very disordered or an eating disorder, but because they were in larger bodies and they went to these extreme measures to get in a smaller body it's applauded and like, that's the influence of weight stigma. It's like, we prescribed these eating disorder behaviors to people in larger bodies that we would diagnosis an eating disorder and somebody in a smaller body. Louise Adams: Yeah. that's Deb Burgard's point, isn't it. That's so like... Summer Innanen: Yes, exactly. Thank you. Cause I was like, I'm saying this and I'm like, I can't remember....thank you. Louise Adams: I know, it's such a slam dunk awesome quote because it's exactly what's happening here. Summer Innanen: Yes, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Louise Adams: You know, I wonder, I literally wonder, like what you're saying about, if it was someone smaller, would, would the media alarm bells ring. Because I'm thinking, well, if that was Gwyneth Paltrow's day in a plate, we'd probably still be going, 'Ooh, isn't she cool?' Summer Innanen: You know what, you're right. And I saw that recently because Aaron Flores who hosts the Dieticians Unplugged podcast, he posted...I think it was via Glamour magazine. It was like what Kelly Ripa eats in a day. And it was the same thing. It was like, she was basically talking about how she eats dust. But...it was honestly very similar to what the first, the girl in the Women's Health magazine was talking about eating in a day. And so, you're 100 percent right. So, so maybe my point is... Louise Adams: I do think it's viewed differently. But I actually think that we're getting to the point where like it's competitive, not eating is at such extreme levels that we're not, it's only the people in the eating disorder industry who are going, 'hello, what the hell', like it has become so unfashionable to eat like a grownup. Summer Innanen: Yeah, yeah. Eat like a grown ass adult is what I say exactly. Exactly. Yes. I remember. I remember in the one that the Kelly Ripa, when she says, like, she called it...'my first chewable food of the day is around like 11:00 AM' or something, like that was the way that she described it. And I just, I remember commenting on it when Aaron and I was like, I can't believe she just used the expression, my first chewable food of the day. Like if, if that's not a red flag that you're describing the way you eat stuff, using those terms. And I don't mean to laugh. It sounds like a laughing at someone with a disordered relationship with food, but it really is horrifying. Just how normalized and then praised and applauded that is. Louise Adams: Like, 'oh, oh no, it's any 10 o'clock. Should I be chewing? Oh my God'. Summer Innanen: Yes, exactly. And I just, and again, like, I just remember always looking at those things and feeling so ashamed and always just being like, why can't I do that? Like, why can't. And thank goodness, my body couldn't do that because it was the reason why I didn't actually have like a full blown eating disorder and instead was just a chronic dieter. Louise Adams: We really need to stop this. We really need to stop listing what people like in a day. It's ridiculous. It's kind of like comparing what we eat to each other, it's encouraging  externalization of eating behavior? We cannot continue to do that. Like really, the articles about 'what I eat in a day' should just be followed by the phrase 'is going to vary every single day', and it's none of your damn business'. Right. Summer Innanen: Yes. Yes. That's the headline right there. Louise Adams: Right. Eyes on your own plate. Does it matter? It's not a fricking competition. It's not like we're going like, 'ooh, what my poo looks like every day. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe that's where we are  we going? Comparing physical functions. We just need to stop. It's so true. You kind of quid pro quo's me with, like, I came up with the Barbie ridiculous story and you came up with a whopper from Canada. Summer Innanen: The dog? Louise Adams: Yeah. Summer Innanen: So, this was on the CBC. So CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company, it's like our major national news network. And like, that's the one place I go when I want to get unbiased, like just straight up, really factual news. And they have this article that they posted called 'meet Woody a massive Malamute, serving up weight loss inspiration for the new year'. I just couldn't believe this was on the CBC and it's literally like this story, this weight loss story of a dog that like dropped half its weight and also had like shared it on social media as a way to inspire others to, you know... Louise Adams: Other dogs? Summer Innanen: No, no, no. Oh no. Humans. Louise Adams: This is a new low, eat like a dog. Summer Innanen: This is... Louise Adams: Oh my God. It says, 'If you're looking for inspiration to meet your new year's resolution to trim the fat, look no further'. Summer Innanen: Exactly. Yeah, no, it's to inspire humans. Louise Adams: Oh, please stop inspiring me. Oh my God. Summer Innanen: It's such a cute dog though. I just, as a side note, he's a really, really cute dog, but you know, this has come up. I don't know if you've been...you've probably been asked this question too before, but people will say like, well, you know, why is it okay to put pets on diets, but not humans? Do you have a good answer for that? By the way? Before I was going to say what I say. Louise Adams: I don't think I have actually had that question put to me. Summer Innanen: Oh, you haven't? Just me. I've gotten that. Louise Adams: Why is it okay? I don't, I don't know if it is okay. Like, I haven't looked at the weight loss research for dogs, but I'm assuming it's going to be physiologically similar to humans. Right? I don't know. I don't know. Summer Innanen: I don't know. My answer is like, we're not dogs. Like we aren't dogs, dogs aren't influenced by like diet culture. Like dogs don't have fat phobia., cause they're not like looking at thinner dogs everywhere and thinking like, 'I'm not good enough because I don't look like that'. Like they're... Louise Adams: Oh my God, you're reminding me of poodle science, you know, ASDAH's awesome little  video. Which is like, it's illustrating what body diversity is like, you know. But in weight science it's like, all the poodles are in charge and they're telling everyone, all the breeds of dogs to like, they like 'be like me, be like the poodle', but like a starving mastiff will never be the same as a poodle. Summer Innanen: Right, exactly. Yeah. One of the first like, quotes that I said many years ago was 'we're not Golden Retrievers'. We're not all meant to look the same. It's one of the things that I still say to this day, because it's true. And you know, in this article, like it's a pretty basic...they're just restricting the dog's food and making the dog exercise. But this idea that like we're similar at all. It's just so, it's so backwards to me because it completely ignores the culture that we live in. And like the fact that we are emotional being...dogs are emotional beings too. Yes. I will give you that. I love dogs. But they don't have the same. Not living in like a patriarchal society. They're not exposed to sexism. Like they're not, they're not exposed to fatphobia like, I don't think they're internalizing those charts at the vet that have like pictures of the different dogs with the big classifications like we would be. They don't feel ashamed when they step on the scale. Louise Adams: There's no diet culture in dogs, but there's diet culture in the humans that own them. And you can hear that in this article, can't you? Because it's like...actually it's everywhere. Like this sentence, 'he once weighed double what he should have'. How do you know what he should? He's a fucking Malamute. Summer Innanen: Yeah, yeah. Louise Adams: 'Should have'. So, we've decided what he should weigh and we starved him down there. And then, Pam Hedgie, who's the foster mom, apparently she's known for doing this. Starving the dogs so that they're adoptable. Now, that is awful. And...but the woman she's like, totally like lost it. She puts it on social media and...here we go. She says, 'humans have something to learn from dogs. They're so willing. I think that's the most amazing part about them. They don't get down, they get up everyday, they're happy to go to the park. And it has to be hard work. It can't be a breeze, but they're so happy and willing to do it. We could all learn a little bit about that'. I'm sure what he likes going for walks. Yeah, but I'm also sure that if Woody could talk, he'd say 'why are you starving me?' Summer Innanen: Yeah. I think it's, again it's like, you know, it just shows, 'okay, you have to do something extreme to be healthy'. Whereas really it's like, of course the dog wants to go out and play. And if we just let them do that by letting them tell us and get them outside, and they listened to their bodies, kind of like humans do..then you wouldn't have to, you know...It's not like this, like... 'oh, you should work out every day and you have to like push yourself through'. It's like dogs are naturally hardwired to kind of want to be that way anyways. And so long as we give them an environment where they can do those things, then they're going to be healthy regardless of their size. And that's, that's sort of similar to humans in a way. Louise Adams: His health is not even mentioned.  Like it'e literally just his size. And this assumption that he has to be half his size. Like we don't even know it was here actually just a larger dog in good health? We don't even know how old he is? Summer Innanen: No, you're right. You're right. Because yeah, because malamutes are huge to begin with anyways. Louise Adams: Yeah. Well, I've got a Great Dane and like big dogs, the big dogs. And like, my vet, there is no correct weight. And like, I love my vet because my vet is like full of body diversity. It's like, there's a great big range in Great Danes. You can have smaller Great Danes and big Great Danes.  And they're all Great Danes. Summer Innanen: That's so refreshing. Wow. Louise Adams: Thank you. I'm in the right place. Summer Innanen: People used to criticize my dog all the...my dog might, we lost my dog a few months ago. People used to like stop me on the street and like...not me actually, they would always do my husband for some reason. Cause they probably saw the look on my face and was like, 'I'm not going to say anything'. They would say like, 'what are you feeding your dog? Like your dog is too big' because we had a pug and he was really big and he was just naturally. Really big. He'd always been really big and like, vets were always totally fine with him. We never had a vet say, 'hey, you know, you gotta watch this weight' or anything like that. But, you know, people in the street would stop and comment. And I remember just saying to my husband, I was like, 'I swear if someone did that to me, I would just rip them to...', I don't know why they always stopped him. Louise Adams: Yeah. Actually now you say it. I get that about my Great Dane, Dolly. Her name is Dolly Pawton. It's so cute. They stop us and they're like, Oh, what is, what does he ate? Oh, first of all, they say 'he', cause obviously a big dog is always a 'he'. 'What do you feed him? He must eat you out of house and home.' This dog eats, you know, not as much as my boxer that I used to have. So there's assumption about size and what they eat. Let's look to our dogs,  right? No as inspirational weightless stories, but as diversity right in front of us. Summer Innanen: Yes. Louise Adams: And connection. Summer Innanen: And how we just love them regardless of their size. Louise Adams: I know. Like, poor old Woody, he's not more oveable now he's starved into submission. Summer Innanen: It's so silly to me that they would use that as a story of inspiration. Must've been a slow news day in Canada. Like you don't have a pandemic going on, I don't know why. Louise Adams: The sad point is that it appears that Woody has more variety in his diet than the Barbie lady. Summer Innanen: Oh yeah, at least he's eating lots of fruits and vegetables. I know. Oh my gosh. Right. Louise Adams: God. So, we've arrived at our last. Article, which is an interesting one in Good Housekeeping. That's just come out. Jan 29th, 2021. 'The unbearable weight of diet culture', which...it's such an exciting article cause it's really long, really in-depth, and it's talking about this whole idea of diet culture. In the intro, it says this: 'throughout 2021, Good Housekeeping will be exploring how we think about weight, the way we eat and how we try to control or change our bodies in our quest to be happier and healthier. While Good Housekeeping also publishes weight loss content, and endeavours to do so in a responsible science backed way, we think it's important to present a broad perspective that allows for a fuller understanding of the complex thinking about health and body weight'. So, kind of cool. Summer Innanen: Kind of reminded me of the Women's Health 2015 publicity. What I do like about this article, I will say, is Judith Matz and Christy Harrison are quoted quite a bit through it. Louise Adams: And Sabrina Strings. Summer Innanen: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Which I thought was great because they tied in that component too, like the race component. And I thought it was one of those articles that you could probably send to a family member or a friend that didn't understand why you were doing Intuitive Eating or that had questions about it, but you didn't really know how to give them the information in a way that was a little more palatable. And I thought that this article was one of those things that you could totally pass along to them. It's easy to read, makes a lot of sense, kind of hits all the main points.  It's one that I'll probably bookmark for people. Louise Adams: It's nice too as evidence that the wider culture is taking the whole concept of not dieting and looking at the Health At Every Size sort of stuff seriously. Summer Innanen: Yes. And actual people who are in the space instead of like the people who are in between who talk about this stuff yet still promote weight loss, you know, like the sort of like, you know, Geneen Roths of the world and whatnot. So, I thought it was really great that they actually had a lot of, like a lot of like really well-respected experts weighing in and some good links and things like that, but there was still a little problem with it. Did you want to talk about that or do you want me to talk about it? Louise Adams: So it's at one point it says, look like it's all this awesome, awesome and stuff.  And then it  says, loo... they're talking about how the media in particular can promote dieting, and it says 'even Good housekeeping's own article on 1200 calorie diets is a tricky juxtaposition. The article aims to serve the approximately 40,500 people who search for 1200 calorie meal plans on Google every month. Despite the 2015 study that shows this number of calories falls within the realm of clinical starvation'. And that's, that's been changed... Summer Innanen: It has actually, because I... Louise Adams: I think it said something about the Holocaust before? Summer Innanen: Okay. So I have it, cause I cut and paste it into a document. It says, this is what used to say. It says, 'It's the most popular article here on Good Housekeeping's own website, about 1200 calorie diets that netted over 2 million search users in 2019 alone. Our second most read story of the year, despite the fact the number of calories falls within the realm of clinical starvation. In brackets - Holocaust concentration camp prisoners were fed 1,250 to 1400 calories per day'. So, that's really interesting that they changed it. Louise Adams: They've watered it down, haven't they? They've removed a bit of culpability. Like, cause that example of like in a concentration camp, you would get more food. Summer Innanen: It reminds me of the Minnesota starvation study, which, which was around like 1500... Louise Adams: 1500. Summer Innanen: 1500 calories a day. Louise Adams: And they all went around the twist from that over six months. Summer Innanen: Yeah, exactly.  Exactly. Louise Adams: I'm so glad you cut and pasted that. Summer Innanen: Yes. So that, and then the other big thing is they still link to the goddamn diet. Like they still link to it. They link to the 1200 calorie day diet. Like it's like they're saying, 'okay, we're exploring this'. And then they're linking to the thing that is probably the most like harmful triggering thing that you could put in that article. Louise Adams:  'We're not actually going to stop doing it because it's the second most popular thing we do'. Summer Innanen: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Louise Adams: That is so fucked up. Summer Innanen: It's like these publications want to explore these topics and they admit that they're complicit and they get publicity because of that, they get a bit of applause and then they continue to uphold and perpetuate the same dangerous stuff. Louise Adams: Get off the fence, Good Housekeeping. Get the splinter out of your ass. Take the article down. Summer Innanen: Yeah, take it down, take it down. If you want to, you know, put your money where your mouth is... but they don't, they want to keep taking other people's money. And then you were telling me this was the article that people were opening and then they were seeing weight loss advertisements, right? Was it this one? Louise Adams: Yeah. So I was saying chats and people like reading the article, but in between the text of the article, were getting sold weight loss stuff. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Yeah. Louise Adams: I mean, geez. I mean, can we, at some point stop the fence sitting and stop performing the recognition of diet culture as harmful and, and start actually stopping the harm. So we protect little kids, like little miss Barbie. Summer Innanen: Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Louise Adams: And we stop the metabolic and physiological harm. If nothing else, you know. People are so worried. In the article, Good housekeeping. It's talking about how more people are dieting than ever before. Did you see ...'In November, 2020, the CDC, Centre for Disease Control, reported that more people are actually dieting now compared to 10 years ago', you know? Dieting, even though no one's dieting, more people are dieting than in 2010. And we are in massive trouble from the perspective of psychological damage and also from the perspective of long-term metabolic damage. And if I hear one more person bang on about diabetes, insulin resistance, you know, metabolic problems from being fat and they haven't kind of put the pieces together about actually, maybe it's the people who are dieting because it's the dieting that's doing that kind of physiological damage. You know, we need to wake up. So Good Housekeeping aren't just able to politically fence it because it sells sharticles and sells hits on their harmful website. We've got to. If we care  about health, let's start caring about it. Right, right. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Yeah. And I think that historically Good Housekeeping's always had like, you know, advertisements for Slim Fast and like diet, weight loss drugs in their magazine. And so I, you know, I would wager  I guess, that that's still going to be there. And, you know, I think the reason why diets have probably gone up like over the last 10 years is because it's all shrouded in health now. Louise Adams: Yeah, it's 'not dieting' Summer Innanen: Like everyone thinks that, yeah. It's like, this is our quote unquote 'healthy lifestyle'. Louise Adams: 'I've got a good relationship with food'. Summer Innanen: Right. And it seems, it's almost seen, like positioned as more empowering versus restrictive. And so like, more people are buying into it, but like you said, it's all the same bullshit when you look at it. Louise Adams: Just wrapped in glitter. Summer Innanen: Right, exactly. It's like that meme that the HAES student doctor says, it's like the poo emoji called 'diet' and then like in glitter, it's like 'lifestyle change'. It all, you know, it all upholds fatphobia. And dangerous dieting. And quick weight loss. And this idea that... Louise Adams: And a massive industry. Let's not forget that this is all a bloody huge  industry. It's...what is it? 600 billion in the States every year. Summer Innanen: Yes. Louise Adams: Yeah. This is a business and the media is in the business of keeping these businesses going. And even when they admit it, they don't stop it. Summer Innanen: Well because they would lose their sponsors. And, and then it would, I mean, it would all probably collapse. So it's a tough  situation. It's a tricky situation. I don't think it's an easy fix. I think you have to really stand out. You have to be willing to say like, 'okay, we're going to really be, you know, these are our company values and we're going to, you know, stand, actually stand by them regardless of what the fallout is from that'. But I mean, my hope is that more people are going like, you know, would support those messages. Cause I think there are, there's also a growing population of people who are sick of it and who are, are tired of that crap and who know that diets don't work. Louise Adams: Yeah. I think the pushback is happening. It is maddening when we see stuff nearly, nearly get it. And then kind of, whiplash straight back into it, but we keep pushing. We keep these voices going and the voices are getting louder and louder and more diverse and more strident. And I think, you know, 2021 January has been the usual bullshit tsunami, but I hope that this conversation for the listeners helps get the bullshit detector flashing. Push back against this whole idea that insane levels of starvation are somehow healthy. And you know, what we can do is like articles, comment on articles like that. I haven't read too many of the comments on that article, 'The unbearable weight of diet culture', but I did see the usual shit fight starting underneath. Summer Innanen: I did too. Louise Adams: 'Oh my God, you're  killing people'. Summer Innanen:  I know, that's going to happen. That's going to happen. But you know what, like good on them for at least publishing that and getting it out there. And let's hope that five years from now, they're not, they're still standing by those things and not totally changing. Although I think I might be...I'm going to be cautiously optimistic on that one. Louise Adams: Uh, I mean, it's so crappy when you go to that little bit about the 1200 calorie diet. It says 'follow this and you will feel satisfied and drop all the weight', which is exact opposite of what we've just spent like half an hour telling you. Yeah. Summer Innanen: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like enough for maybe a seagull or something, but not a human being. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's...I'm still like, I'm just still in amazement that they took out the reference to the Holocaust concentration camp prisoners, because I think that, that was like, that was such a huge thing to say that...but maybe it was because then they didn't want to take down the 1200 calorie-a-day article. And so therefore they... Louise Adams: Interesting too that they hid the idea that this is our second most read article. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Louise Adams: That's pretty huge. Summer Innanen: It really lowered the number of people who had requested it or looked for it, or what did you say?  It was like 45,000? Louise Adams: It was annually rather than by the month. Like it's just kind of interesting that they tapped in...they altered that part of the article. Which is kind of the bit, which says this is the bit where complicit with. Summer Innanen: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. So, have media literacy. Louise Adams: Yeah. Oh my God. But thank you so much for coming on and unpacking the crappy diet culture stuff that's circulating in our countries. Summer Innanen: Thank you so much for having me. I loved chatting with you. I loved, yeah, just kind of dissecting all this stuff. Yeah. Louise Adams: All the rage. So thank you for getting it off your chest and thanks for coming on. Summer Innanen: Thank you so much, Louise.   Resources Mentioned in the Show: (Major trigger warning - all of these sharticles discuss weight loss in excruciating detail !!) The lady who lost weight to look like Barbie Woody the Weight loss guru Malamute The horrendous Keto plus fasting diet that claimed to be inspiring us (the same method that spiralled Summer's eating disorder) The Good Housekeeping article "The unbearable weight of diet culture" Find more about the wonderful Summer Innanen here Summer's wonderful podcast Eat The Rules  

The news media are a major source of diet culture BS. Every day there's an apparently "inspirational" story in which diverse bodies are shrunk down to diet culture's version of acceptability. We're literally brainwashed into viewing increasingly disordered, bizarre and downright dangerous behaviours as "#inspirational". Join me and my guest, anti-diet warrior and coach Summer Innanen as we present some truly epic examples of "SHITSPIRATION" from Australia and Canada. You will not believe how ludicrous they are! Grown up humans are supposed to be #inspired by a 'doubledown diet' which reduces calorie intake to almost nothing, a BARBIE DOLL (I am not joking), and....a Malamute? You have to hear this to believe it, it's next level #ridiculous. Trigger warning for this episode - very explicit language and we're discussing diet, calorie counts, etc, in (critical) detail. This one's not for the faint hearted! But if you're ready to get your rage-o-meter cranked up to ALL FIRED UP, this episode's for you! Show Transcript Louise Adams: Oh, Summer, thank you so much for coming on the show. Summer Innanen: Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here with you. Louise Adams: Tell me, what's firing you up? Summer Innanen: Well, I saw an article recently in Women's Health, and it's about... it's supposed to be like a, you know, quote unquote 'weight loss inspiration story'. And it's about a woman who had a very significant weight loss experience by doing a very disordered diet. And I think what fired me up so much about it was not just the content within it, which I'm sure we'll you know, dissect and talk about it. But the fact that in 2015, in December 2015, Women's Health came out and it was a huge... we got a lot of headlines, a lot of publicity around the fact that they were taking the words, 'bikini body' and 'drop two sizes' off of their covers. So they sort of made this like quasi- body- positive stance. Like, 'hey,  we've heard you, our readers. And we've heard that, you know, you don't like us sort of using this very patriarchal, sexist language'. Yeah. Yeah. And so, like I remember at the time this was shared, like even people within the sort of anti-diet community were sharing it, saying 'this is great, like nice to see a major publications sort of making these changes' and then, you know, to, to look and see here we are five years later and it's the same shit. Louise Adams: It's back. Summer Innanen: Worse. Like I would argue what this what's contained in this article is so terrible from the perspective of promoting disordered eating and like really what this person is talking about is like, the way that they eat to me sounds like a, like an eating disorder, which obviously like I'm not here to diagnose or go... Louise Adams: it's disordered eating practices. Right? It's promoting starvation. Summer Innanen: Yeah. So it's a combination of keto and intermittent fasting. So it's like keto isn't bad enough on its own. So it's like, we're going to make intermittent fasting onto it. Louise Adams: It's an unholy marriage. Summer Innanen: It is honestly, and that's like, for me, I think why I was so fired up about it too, is because when I sort of reached the end of the line with my own disordered relationship with food, I was doing, I was trying to...attempting, it would only last like three days...to do something kind of similar. And it's what absolutely destroyed my body. Like just... like put me into amenorrhea, even with like a higher body weight percentage, and like completely disrupted my hormones. And when I work with clients, I see the same kind of behaviors really being kind of the end of the line for a lot of people. Like the one that really, really kind of messes up their head and their physical, like their actual, you know, physiology a lot worse than other diets that they have done previously. Louise Adams: Oh, this is an awesome thing to get completely fired up about because like we have Women's Health magazine here, which is... it's not health, it's women's starving magazine. They did no such thing as  like...to tell us that they're not going to do the 'bikini body', but how gaslighting to say, 'Oh, we're not going to do that anymore. Hello, here's something  worse'. And like to use that kind of little bit of that... they just wanted the publicity of that. 'We want to perform the idea of body positivity, but like, hell no, we're not actually going to stick to that'. Summer Innanen: Yes, yes. Louise Adams: It's going to go back to this apparently inspirational behaviour of this lady. Who is doing the very thing that tipped you into like a severe eating disorder? That's so disturbing. Summer Innanen: Yes. Yes. And, you know, they give a outline of what she eats in a day and as I think, as I emailed you before, I was like, that's kind of what I eat for breakfast. Like, it's the same amount of calories that I consume for breakfast. Like, that's it. And I remember being in that frame of mind where you would read a magazine and they would sort of show like, 'oh, here's what somebody eats in a day'. Or 'here's what a celebrity eats in a day'. And I remember always feeling like, so ashamed because I ate so much more than that. And I was always like, 'what's wrong with me? Like, why can't I eat as little as this?' And you know, I just can't believe that stuff is still being put out there, like that the author of that piece didn't think like, 'Hey, this might really promote an eating disorder.' When it's that blatant! Literally... Louise Adams: my dog eats more than that. When it's that blatant and there's, you know, throughout every article that we're going to talk about today is...oh, except the last one. There's literally no critical thought. Or even appreciation of the damage that's being spread by these, like it's full on evil messaging as far as I'm concerned, dressed up as inspiration. That the fact that a journalist...journalists, as far as I know, are trained to be critical thinkers and, and yet it's like that goes out the window when it comes to these apparently inspirational stories. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Yeah. Like there's absolutely no consciousness at all. That's what I felt like. Cause you know, it's just, it was one of those things. That's, it's almost like when I first read it, I was like, it's almost too ridiculous to believe this is...that they actually publish this as something that's supposed to be inspirational. But it's to me like, you know, I think the readership probably skews a little bit, you know, on the younger side, you know, maybe more like 20 to 30 age group or younger, probably teen, a lot of teenage girls and you know, to be reading that at such an impressionable age and to think 'oh, this is how...this is what I should be doing'. Which is essentially like starvation as well as like malnutrition and just something that would put such a high amount of both physical and mental stress on your body, that would really create like long lasting damage. Yeah, both biologically and psychologically. Louise Adams: And that's, that's who I see, you know, my clients are the diet casualties, people who have had these experiences and then...you know? Dieting like this, crash dieting...because this is, this lady is on a severe calorie restriction. And then she's added intermittent fasting, which basically means you're only allowed to eat for six hours a day and squish in your tiny little bits of food into six hours. Like when you really think about that, that is so many levels of fucked up and she's saying, 'oh, it's so good'. And I feel for her being in that diet head, And who knows maybe an eating disorder head, but there's  ...the payoff is so great for her because the weight loss like that, the whole article is about her trying to shift the last bit. And she's still got a way to go. And her poor body, if her poor body could talk would be going, 'I'm starving. I'm slowing down this cause it's getting dangerous'. And she's like, 'right, I'm going to double down using the halo of intermittent fasting', which is starving. Summer Innanen: Yes. Yeah. And the other thing too, that stood out to me, well, two things. One is the amount of caffeine that she talks about drinking in terms of hydration. Cause it says, like, what really works for her. It's like, 'I'm really hydrating'. And it's like so much coffee and green tea. And I'm like, if I had that much caffiene I'd be, I don't even know what I would be doing. Louise Adams: That's a question I ask when I'm seeing people with eating disorders, like, what are you drinking? Because quite often when you get an eating disorder, you will drink caffeinated stuff to kill your appetite. So, she's calling that hydration. Summer Innanen: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And then the other thing too, is that she uses the language of 'food freedom' to talk about how she feels, because  she says you know, 'food is really just food. It's not good or bad. I don't obsess about it anymore'. And it's like, really that could be pulled from any sort of anti-diet playbook, which is what we want, but it's so counter to what she's actually doing. And I think that it kind of shows like when you're really into, like, when you' re really kind of overtaken your mind, you're sort of riding this, this buzz or this wave where it does feel like that. But, you haven't woken up to how you really are looking at things that way. And you really are, you know, like if you're tracking every calorie, which is what she says she was doing... Louise Adams: How is that freedom? Summer Innanen: Yeah. That's not freedom. And that's, that's like, maybe she's sort of, you know, like kidding herself. She's at the sort of like, kidding, 'I'm kidding myself' phase. Like, it's like, you know, most of us when we were sort of dieters were like, 'well, no, no, no, I'm doing it for my health. Like I'm doing no, this is for my health', but really underneath it's, you know, there's, there's some other stuff going on, but I hate it when they kind of steal, like they sort of co-opt the language of intuitive eating and co-op the language of the anti-diet message and really use it to promote something that's so restrictive. It just makes... Louise Adams: You know who came to my mind when you were saying that is Rebel Wilson. Summer Innanen: Yes Louise Adams: she's an Aussie actor and has always been in a larger body. Apparently like her kind of whole catch phase for 2020 was that it was her 'year of health'. Summer Innanen: Yes! Louise Adams: But the behaviors are restriction and starvation and over-exercise, but she's masking that in the language of 'I'm so healthy now'. Like, 'I don't think about food anymore. My habits are so great', but it's the same thing. Summer Innanen: Exactly. Exactly. Louise Adams: Worlds apart from what the anti-dieting and intuitive eating stuff is actually about. Summer Innanen: Yeah. And, and like, it's not their fault. Like, I don't like talking about this. I'm not, I don't want to like, shame this, this woman at all. Louise Adams: As an individual, no. Summer Innanen: Or Rebel Wilson. It's like, but it's really about. You know, the it's really about the culture diet culture, and just the fact that we feel as women and more, you know, more specifically that we have to go to these extremes to really like, you know, show our, our worthiness as humans, like in our value. And like, Rebel Wilson is so talented. Louise Adams: I know, so funny. Summer Innanen: She's an awesome actress. And now it's like, everyone's just talking about her body and her weight loss. And it's like, it takes away from all these other amazing things that she's done. Louise Adams: And when it's really uncritical, as well. It's like, why is she so much better now than she's small? That just reinforces the diet culture message and keeps stories like the woman you talking about going. It's like, I can get all this attention, uncritical, positive attention, but it's like, we're not seeing what's right in front of it. Like we are teaching and promoting women in this case did a really, really sick eating disordered and stuff under the flag of health. Summer Innanen: And that is like, supremely unhealthy. Yeah. Yeah. It's so frustrating too, because you see all these positive changes happening in the way of, you know, women becoming more liberated or just having, you know, bigger voices taking up more space. And yet it's just like the same old shit is still there as it relates to our bodies and our value and, and... Louise Adams: There's such an uptick too, in January, isn't there. Summer Innanen: Oh yeah. It's a predictable tsunami of the weight loss. The walls of relentless inspiration, whether we want it or not. It's just, it's here. ESpecially with the pandemic, you know, because everyone, a lot of people have...maybe their bodies have changed a little bit, which makes a ton of sense because we're under a lot of stress or just life changes that have happened. So I think that, you know, depending on where you live, if there's still a lot of restrictions, which I was saying to you before, like there still is here. Dieting gives you like a bit of hope, almost like weight loss gives you a bit of hope. In this time when maybe some of us are feeling a little hopeless or just like really kind of sick of, sick of the isolation and everything else. And so I wouldn't be surprised that maybe your body's changed a bit during quarantine. I wouldn't be surprised if this year really you see like just a lot more people really engaging in dieting as a way to cope with the emotion, emotional discomfort of living through a pandemic. Louise Adams: That is a really good point, isn't it. Dieting can be a bit of a lifeline. It can feel like it, like something familiar to do in a scary time. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Some sense of control, some sense of like, you know, hope, something else to focus on other than like the fact that there's a lot of horrible things happening in the world. Yeah, absolutely, a hundred percent. And I just, I, you know, I've heard it from people that I work with just feeling more urges to diet lately. And I think that, yeah, it's just something to be mindful of. If anyone listening is experiencing that too, like I think it's pretty normal to be experiencing more of those urges, but hopefully you can... Louise Adams: LIsten to today's episode and get your bullshit detector back. Summer Innanen: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't drink the Kool-Aid it's not actually going to help. Louise Adams: It's not control! Summer Innanen: Yeah, exactly. Louise Adams: It's so interesting because like, Canada is very similar to Australia, culturally in lots and lots of ways. And it's funny...not funny. It's not funny. Cause like, you're talking about really disturbing uncritical weightless articles. And we've got them here in Australia too. And I really want to talk to you about the lady who lost weight, because she wanted to look like Barbie. Yes. And Summer Innanen: I, so you said that to me, I honestly, it was like, okay, this needs to be a tabloid. Like this can't be like a real, and, and then you told me that it's actually a very legit publication. Louise Adams: Yeah. Oh, I'm so ashamed of ourselves. So, this is on Nine News. Channel Nine is Murdoch press and it's, you know, one of it's a huge...it's the number one news platform in Australia for news. I want to say news, right? News. Okay, exciting. And in this news, I'm just using air quotes.  It's this story from late gen a Barbie fan has dropped a whopping blah-blah-blah kilos in a bid to look like a favorite doll. And it's a story about a lady called...a 35 year old lady called Kayla. Who's apparently battled with her weight since she was seven, and has done all of the diets in the book and… Like, I just, I can't even, because yes, Nine News is promoting this as, as awesome. This lady that the article is...littered with her dressed as Barbie. She's a full grown female adult woman dressed as Barbie. And the whole story is about how she's had a gastric sleeve and, and is also starving herself, post gastric sleeve, and now she's very happy and...like I just, I mean, I can't get this article out of my head because it's on a major news platform also. I've just realized it was on the TV on a morning show. She now lives in Las Vegas pursuing her Barbie lifestyle. And I'm not criticizing Kayla herself whatsoever, but what I'm criticizing is the news. Which, by the way, I've also found out isn't even news, because this is from Jan 2021. When I'm Googling, to send you the article. THis article actually came out in June last year, it's old, it's not, it's old. It's not news. But it's been rehashed - guess why, it's January - it's Diet season and then some, you know, money hungry gastric sleeve doctors, and some people who want to sell their diets saying 'let's get her on TV, and uncritically throw this... it's an appallingly ridiculous idea that we need to look like a doll in order to reach the pinnacle of our existence. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think like, you know, there were, I don't even...there were so many things wrong with this piece. Louise Adams: It's hard to know where to start. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Okay. Well, let's start with when she was a kid, because she talks about how, you know, 'it didn't matter how hard I tried or what side I was on. I could rarely shift the weight or I would lose some and then regain double'. And it's like, well, yeah, that's what diets do. And so, this poor girl probably had her parents putting her on diets, which we know she did actually. Louise Adams: It says 'my obsession with Barbie began as a child and has continued into my adult life. I used to have over 200 dolls as my parents use them as an incentive to go on a diet and lose weight'. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Yeah. Which is so messed up. Louise Adams: That just made me want to cry. Yeah. Because as a parent to, bribe your a child with a Barbie doll, like the poor thing, she's seven. I know. And I don't know, that's at least 200 diets, isn't it? Summer Innanen: Well, exactly, like how horrifying is that? So, her metabolism is probably been so altered and she has no sense of her own  instincts on what actually, you know, feels good for her. And her parents basically instilled like this belief that like you're better or you're good or you're more worthy when you lose weight, And like, to think about the damage that that would do to someone's self-worth and their body image and the way that they feel it. Yeah. Yeah, right. Louise Adams: Cause it's...I see this as a real heartbreaking story and I cannot understand how this is inspiration. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Yeah. It's so awful. It reminds me of the there's this book. I don't know if you've ever read it. It's called 'The Heavy' and it's about a mother who puts her daughter on a diet and it's...it's a memoir written from the mother's perspective and she keeps putting her, she can't figure out why her daughter can't lose weight. She keeps putting her on diet after diet, after diet. And like, it just reminds me of that because the parent is...has so much  internalized fat phobia and their own disordered relationship with food that then they pass down to their kids. And like, that's what I see. I'm sure you see all the time with the people that we work with is that what our parents did, which they kind of were doing out of this like, protection. They wanted to protect us by helping us lose weight or commenting on our body or restricting food...actually completely backfired and made us feel like we, you know, we weren't worthy of their approval, of love, like of our own existence, unless we looked a certain way unless we lost weight, unless we ate a certain way... Louise Adams: All contingent on weight, which is it's insane because a weight is not under our control. And when we do the diet thing, all we guarantee is a slowed metabolism and weight regain. And she even says in this that she would lose it, then lose weight and then regain like that. Plus some, which is, we know that's perfectly normal as a response to starvation her. And cause her parents obviously have that internalized weight stigma, and she has it, you know? This is a story about her internalized weight stigma and how, you know, rather than kind of pushing back or being able to push back against it. She's really drunk the Kool-Aid. Summer Innanen: Yeah, yeah. And again, they highlight what she eats in a day, which is like, why, why these places do this is like, beyond me, because... Louise Adams: Well, they go into so many stereotypes too. Cause like it's the, it's the traditional thing like, 'Oh, before I had my gastric sleeve, I was a bad person and I ate terribly'. And ignoring the fact that perhaps her, part of her weight issues was to do with the diets themselves. Summer Innanen: Right? Louise Adams: Yeah. So that's ignored and so about...'it was definitely 100% my personal fault' quote unquote, 'that my body was large and I ate terribly but now I eat great'. But, what we see actually, like when you look at that, what she used to eat, she used to starve herself all day and then eat at night. Summer Innanen: Right? It's like, well of course you're going to binge at night. If you starve all day, that's no surprise there. You're going to be so hungry. You'll eat anything that's not locked down. And then what she eats now is like, it's so dangerous. It's like such a low amount of food and... Louise Adams: And says, 'I ate,'...I'm going to read some numbers here so trigger warning. Cause it's just, I just want to get across the point of how restrictive it is. She's had 80% of her stomach removed, and then she's saying 'I eat 90 grams of protein a day, 10 grams of carbs and five grams of sugar'. Everyday. Summer Innanen: Do you know what...10 grams. That's not even a banana. Right? 10 grams of carbs. Like that's like, that's like what? Like a few baby carrots or something like that? Louise Adams: There's no actual veggies. Breakfast is a protein shake. Lunches, chicken or beef with cheese, dinner is chicken or steak or a protein shake. And the snacks, cashews or walnuts. Like there's there's no fruit or veggies. Poor thing. In a stomach which is 80% removed, amputated. Summer Innanen: And can't be reversed. They also say that, which is another thing. Louise Adams: And it says this article has the hide to say 'she now has a good relationship with food'. Summer Innanen: Yes. I highlighted that too, because again, it's like, co-opting this language of food, freedom and, and using it in like a place where it's like clearly a very disordered. Louise Adams: How is that a good relationship with food? Summer Innanen: Yeah, it's sad. Louise Adams: And works out seven days a week. Summer Innanen: That, right. That was the other thing that really stood out because also extremely unhealthy to be, to be doing something like that. And you just sort of wonder, like what's going to happen to this individual. You know, and they may be riding the sort of like validation of having a significant weight change and getting the publicity and feeling really good about that. Louise Adams: But, you know, as we all know totally done it, you know, as a psychologist, she's finally saying to her mum, 'look, I am the Barbie doll'. I just...it's heartbreaking. I totally get why she's doing it. Summer Innanen: Right. Louise Adams: But I find it an incredibly sad story. Summer Innanen: I know, and I feel bad for her as a child. Louise Adams: I feel like I'm kind of alone in seeing her as a really sad story. Summer Innanen: No, it's really sad. It is really sad. And it's, and it's this idea like, again, it's like this idea that it's our fault, like, and it's a kid's fault if they are in a larger body instead of thinking, 'okay, well, this is just, you know, genetics'. Louise Adams: Here's my child, here's my kid. Give her a barbie doll, for fuck's sake, if she wants one. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Not to earn it by restricting food or whatnot. To put all the onus on her and to, you know, that she had to earn it by losing weight, earn Barbie dolls by losing weight. Like, it's so sad. And yet it's being like, you know, applauded and praised and... Louise Adams: It's sickening. How like diet culture, it's weight loss at all costs. And this is an extreme example of the costs, but I mean...2015,  right? Women's Health magazine is talking about, 'Oh, we see the harm done by diet culture. We see that talking about women as if they're a bikini body and stuff is not cool anymore. Well, we're going to stop doing that'. But now, like we just talked about like two really extreme articles promoting starvation. Like there's no problem here. And we've gaslit ourselves to the point where these things are being called lifestyle changes or health behaviors. Summer Innanen: Yeah, exactly. Louise Adams: We're talking about stuff that's much, much worse than the good old diet industry days. Summer Innanen: Right, right. Yeah. It seems to have gotten a lot more extreme, hasn't it? Like it's, it's something that has, it's always sort of been extreme, but it seems to be even more....I guess now the extremism is normalized. Louise Adams: Yeah. And it's mainstream. It's like pro-ana used to be pro-ana, cause we could see it as being different to what the world was. Summer Innanen: Exactly. Exactly. Louise Adams: Yeah. Someone said to you, I only ate in a six hour window and I don't eat any vegetables or fruit or carbs. We're like, 'Oh, you're so healthy. How do you do it?' Summer Innanen: Yes. Yes. 'Let me put you in my magazine. You're a success story'. But I wonder if like, if either of them took, you know, assessments on whether or not you have an eating disorder or disordered relationship with food, you would most likely see that they would probably check most of the boxes in terms of the things that they would say that they're thinking and doing as it relates to...you know, the behaviors, but I was going to say as well, it also just shows how weight stigma plays a role here. Because if this was an already thin person eating this stuff, you know, we as....there might be more people sort of calling this out as like very disordered or an eating disorder, but because they were in larger bodies and they went to these extreme measures to get in a smaller body it's applauded and like, that's the influence of weight stigma. It's like, we prescribed these eating disorder behaviors to people in larger bodies that we would diagnosis an eating disorder and somebody in a smaller body. Louise Adams: Yeah. that's Deb Burgard's point, isn't it. That's so like... Summer Innanen: Yes, exactly. Thank you. Cause I was like, I'm saying this and I'm like, I can't remember....thank you. Louise Adams: I know, it's such a slam dunk awesome quote because it's exactly what's happening here. Summer Innanen: Yes, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Louise Adams: You know, I wonder, I literally wonder, like what you're saying about, if it was someone smaller, would, would the media alarm bells ring. Because I'm thinking, well, if that was Gwyneth Paltrow's day in a plate, we'd probably still be going, 'Ooh, isn't she cool?' Summer Innanen: You know what, you're right. And I saw that recently because Aaron Flores who hosts the Dieticians Unplugged podcast, he posted...I think it was via Glamour magazine. It was like what Kelly Ripa eats in a day. And it was the same thing. It was like, she was basically talking about how she eats dust. But...it was honestly very similar to what the first, the girl in the Women's Health magazine was talking about eating in a day. And so, you're 100 percent right. So, so maybe my point is... Louise Adams: I do think it's viewed differently. But I actually think that we're getting to the point where like it's competitive, not eating is at such extreme levels that we're not, it's only the people in the eating disorder industry who are going, 'hello, what the hell', like it has become so unfashionable to eat like a grownup. Summer Innanen: Yeah, yeah. Eat like a grown ass adult is what I say exactly. Exactly. Yes. I remember. I remember in the one that the Kelly Ripa, when she says, like, she called it...'my first chewable food of the day is around like 11:00 AM' or something, like that was the way that she described it. And I just, I remember commenting on it when Aaron and I was like, I can't believe she just used the expression, my first chewable food of the day. Like if, if that's not a red flag that you're describing the way you eat stuff, using those terms. And I don't mean to laugh. It sounds like a laughing at someone with a disordered relationship with food, but it really is horrifying. Just how normalized and then praised and applauded that is. Louise Adams: Like, 'oh, oh no, it's any 10 o'clock. Should I be chewing? Oh my God'. Summer Innanen: Yes, exactly. And I just, and again, like, I just remember always looking at those things and feeling so ashamed and always just being like, why can't I do that? Like, why can't. And thank goodness, my body couldn't do that because it was the reason why I didn't actually have like a full blown eating disorder and instead was just a chronic dieter. Louise Adams: We really need to stop this. We really need to stop listing what people like in a day. It's ridiculous. It's kind of like comparing what we eat to each other, it's encouraging  externalization of eating behavior? We cannot continue to do that. Like really, the articles about 'what I eat in a day' should just be followed by the phrase 'is going to vary every single day', and it's none of your damn business'. Right. Summer Innanen: Yes. Yes. That's the headline right there. Louise Adams: Right. Eyes on your own plate. Does it matter? It's not a fricking competition. It's not like we're going like, 'ooh, what my poo looks like every day. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe that's where we are  we going? Comparing physical functions. We just need to stop. It's so true. You kind of quid pro quo's me with, like, I came up with the Barbie ridiculous story and you came up with a whopper from Canada. Summer Innanen: The dog? Louise Adams: Yeah. Summer Innanen: So, this was on the CBC. So CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company, it's like our major national news network. And like, that's the one place I go when I want to get unbiased, like just straight up, really factual news. And they have this article that they posted called 'meet Woody a massive Malamute, serving up weight loss inspiration for the new year'. I just couldn't believe this was on the CBC and it's literally like this story, this weight loss story of a dog that like dropped half its weight and also had like shared it on social media as a way to inspire others to, you know... Louise Adams: Other dogs? Summer Innanen: No, no, no. Oh no. Humans. Louise Adams: This is a new low, eat like a dog. Summer Innanen: This is... Louise Adams: Oh my God. It says, 'If you're looking for inspiration to meet your new year's resolution to trim the fat, look no further'. Summer Innanen: Exactly. Yeah, no, it's to inspire humans. Louise Adams: Oh, please stop inspiring me. Oh my God. Summer Innanen: It's such a cute dog though. I just, as a side note, he's a really, really cute dog, but you know, this has come up. I don't know if you've been...you've probably been asked this question too before, but people will say like, well, you know, why is it okay to put pets on diets, but not humans? Do you have a good answer for that? By the way? Before I was going to say what I say. Louise Adams: I don't think I have actually had that question put to me. Summer Innanen: Oh, you haven't? Just me. I've gotten that. Louise Adams: Why is it okay? I don't, I don't know if it is okay. Like, I haven't looked at the weight loss research for dogs, but I'm assuming it's going to be physiologically similar to humans. Right? I don't know. I don't know. Summer Innanen: I don't know. My answer is like, we're not dogs. Like we aren't dogs, dogs aren't influenced by like diet culture. Like dogs don't have fat phobia., cause they're not like looking at thinner dogs everywhere and thinking like, 'I'm not good enough because I don't look like that'. Like they're... Louise Adams: Oh my God, you're reminding me of poodle science, you know, ASDAH's awesome little  video. Which is like, it's illustrating what body diversity is like, you know. But in weight science it's like, all the poodles are in charge and they're telling everyone, all the breeds of dogs to like, they like 'be like me, be like the poodle', but like a starving mastiff will never be the same as a poodle. Summer Innanen: Right, exactly. Yeah. One of the first like, quotes that I said many years ago was 'we're not Golden Retrievers'. We're not all meant to look the same. It's one of the things that I still say to this day, because it's true. And you know, in this article, like it's a pretty basic...they're just restricting the dog's food and making the dog exercise. But this idea that like we're similar at all. It's just so, it's so backwards to me because it completely ignores the culture that we live in. And like the fact that we are emotional being...dogs are emotional beings too. Yes. I will give you that. I love dogs. But they don't have the same. Not living in like a patriarchal society. They're not exposed to sexism. Like they're not, they're not exposed to fatphobia like, I don't think they're internalizing those charts at the vet that have like pictures of the different dogs with the big classifications like we would be. They don't feel ashamed when they step on the scale. Louise Adams: There's no diet culture in dogs, but there's diet culture in the humans that own them. And you can hear that in this article, can't you? Because it's like...actually it's everywhere. Like this sentence, 'he once weighed double what he should have'. How do you know what he should? He's a fucking Malamute. Summer Innanen: Yeah, yeah. Louise Adams: 'Should have'. So, we've decided what he should weigh and we starved him down there. And then, Pam Hedgie, who's the foster mom, apparently she's known for doing this. Starving the dogs so that they're adoptable. Now, that is awful. And...but the woman she's like, totally like lost it. She puts it on social media and...here we go. She says, 'humans have something to learn from dogs. They're so willing. I think that's the most amazing part about them. They don't get down, they get up everyday, they're happy to go to the park. And it has to be hard work. It can't be a breeze, but they're so happy and willing to do it. We could all learn a little bit about that'. I'm sure what he likes going for walks. Yeah, but I'm also sure that if Woody could talk, he'd say 'why are you starving me?' Summer Innanen: Yeah. I think it's, again it's like, you know, it just shows, 'okay, you have to do something extreme to be healthy'. Whereas really it's like, of course the dog wants to go out and play. And if we just let them do that by letting them tell us and get them outside, and they listened to their bodies, kind of like humans do..then you wouldn't have to, you know...It's not like this, like... 'oh, you should work out every day and you have to like push yourself through'. It's like dogs are naturally hardwired to kind of want to be that way anyways. And so long as we give them an environment where they can do those things, then they're going to be healthy regardless of their size. And that's, that's sort of similar to humans in a way. Louise Adams: His health is not even mentioned.  Like it'e literally just his size. And this assumption that he has to be half his size. Like we don't even know it was here actually just a larger dog in good health? We don't even know how old he is? Summer Innanen: No, you're right. You're right. Because yeah, because malamutes are huge to begin with anyways. Louise Adams: Yeah. Well, I've got a Great Dane and like big dogs, the big dogs. And like, my vet, there is no correct weight. And like, I love my vet because my vet is like full of body diversity. It's like, there's a great big range in Great Danes. You can have smaller Great Danes and big Great Danes.  And they're all Great Danes. Summer Innanen: That's so refreshing. Wow. Louise Adams: Thank you. I'm in the right place. Summer Innanen: People used to criticize my dog all the...my dog might, we lost my dog a few months ago. People used to like stop me on the street and like...not me actually, they would always do my husband for some reason. Cause they probably saw the look on my face and was like, 'I'm not going to say anything'. They would say like, 'what are you feeding your dog? Like your dog is too big' because we had a pug and he was really big and he was just naturally. Really big. He'd always been really big and like, vets were always totally fine with him. We never had a vet say, 'hey, you know, you gotta watch this weight' or anything like that. But, you know, people in the street would stop and comment. And I remember just saying to my husband, I was like, 'I swear if someone did that to me, I would just rip them to...', I don't know why they always stopped him. Louise Adams: Yeah. Actually now you say it. I get that about my Great Dane, Dolly. Her name is Dolly Pawton. It's so cute. They stop us and they're like, Oh, what is, what does he ate? Oh, first of all, they say 'he', cause obviously a big dog is always a 'he'. 'What do you feed him? He must eat you out of house and home.' This dog eats, you know, not as much as my boxer that I used to have. So there's assumption about size and what they eat. Let's look to our dogs,  right? No as inspirational weightless stories, but as diversity right in front of us. Summer Innanen: Yes. Louise Adams: And connection. Summer Innanen: And how we just love them regardless of their size. Louise Adams: I know. Like, poor old Woody, he's not more oveable now he's starved into submission. Summer Innanen: It's so silly to me that they would use that as a story of inspiration. Must've been a slow news day in Canada. Like you don't have a pandemic going on, I don't know why. Louise Adams: The sad point is that it appears that Woody has more variety in his diet than the Barbie lady. Summer Innanen: Oh yeah, at least he's eating lots of fruits and vegetables. I know. Oh my gosh. Right. Louise Adams: God. So, we've arrived at our last. Article, which is an interesting one in Good Housekeeping. That's just come out. Jan 29th, 2021. 'The unbearable weight of diet culture', which...it's such an exciting article cause it's really long, really in-depth, and it's talking about this whole idea of diet culture. In the intro, it says this: 'throughout 2021, Good Housekeeping will be exploring how we think about weight, the way we eat and how we try to control or change our bodies in our quest to be happier and healthier. While Good Housekeeping also publishes weight loss content, and endeavours to do so in a responsible science backed way, we think it's important to present a broad perspective that allows for a fuller understanding of the complex thinking about health and body weight'. So, kind of cool. Summer Innanen: Kind of reminded me of the Women's Health 2015 publicity. What I do like about this article, I will say, is Judith Matz and Christy Harrison are quoted quite a bit through it. Louise Adams: And Sabrina Strings. Summer Innanen: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Which I thought was great because they tied in that component too, like the race component. And I thought it was one of those articles that you could probably send to a family member or a friend that didn't understand why you were doing Intuitive Eating or that had questions about it, but you didn't really know how to give them the information in a way that was a little more palatable. And I thought that this article was one of those things that you could totally pass along to them. It's easy to read, makes a lot of sense, kind of hits all the main points.  It's one that I'll probably bookmark for people. Louise Adams: It's nice too as evidence that the wider culture is taking the whole concept of not dieting and looking at the Health At Every Size sort of stuff seriously. Summer Innanen: Yes. And actual people who are in the space instead of like the people who are in between who talk about this stuff yet still promote weight loss, you know, like the sort of like, you know, Geneen Roths of the world and whatnot. So, I thought it was really great that they actually had a lot of, like a lot of like really well-respected experts weighing in and some good links and things like that, but there was still a little problem with it. Did you want to talk about that or do you want me to talk about it? Louise Adams: So it's at one point it says, look like it's all this awesome, awesome and stuff.  And then it  says, loo... they're talking about how the media in particular can promote dieting, and it says 'even Good housekeeping's own article on 1200 calorie diets is a tricky juxtaposition. The article aims to serve the approximately 40,500 people who search for 1200 calorie meal plans on Google every month. Despite the 2015 study that shows this number of calories falls within the realm of clinical starvation'. And that's, that's been changed... Summer Innanen: It has actually, because I... Louise Adams: I think it said something about the Holocaust before? Summer Innanen: Okay. So I have it, cause I cut and paste it into a document. It says, this is what used to say. It says, 'It's the most popular article here on Good Housekeeping's own website, about 1200 calorie diets that netted over 2 million search users in 2019 alone. Our second most read story of the year, despite the fact the number of calories falls within the realm of clinical starvation. In brackets - Holocaust concentration camp prisoners were fed 1,250 to 1400 calories per day'. So, that's really interesting that they changed it. Louise Adams: They've watered it down, haven't they? They've removed a bit of culpability. Like, cause that example of like in a concentration camp, you would get more food. Summer Innanen: It reminds me of the Minnesota starvation study, which, which was around like 1500... Louise Adams: 1500. Summer Innanen: 1500 calories a day. Louise Adams: And they all went around the twist from that over six months. Summer Innanen: Yeah, exactly.  Exactly. Louise Adams: I'm so glad you cut and pasted that. Summer Innanen: Yes. So that, and then the other big thing is they still link to the goddamn diet. Like they still link to it. They link to the 1200 calorie day diet. Like it's like they're saying, 'okay, we're exploring this'. And then they're linking to the thing that is probably the most like harmful triggering thing that you could put in that article. Louise Adams:  'We're not actually going to stop doing it because it's the second most popular thing we do'. Summer Innanen: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Louise Adams: That is so fucked up. Summer Innanen: It's like these publications want to explore these topics and they admit that they're complicit and they get publicity because of that, they get a bit of applause and then they continue to uphold and perpetuate the same dangerous stuff. Louise Adams: Get off the fence, Good Housekeeping. Get the splinter out of your ass. Take the article down. Summer Innanen: Yeah, take it down, take it down. If you want to, you know, put your money where your mouth is... but they don't, they want to keep taking other people's money. And then you were telling me this was the article that people were opening and then they were seeing weight loss advertisements, right? Was it this one? Louise Adams: Yeah. So I was saying chats and people like reading the article, but in between the text of the article, were getting sold weight loss stuff. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Yeah. Louise Adams: I mean, geez. I mean, can we, at some point stop the fence sitting and stop performing the recognition of diet culture as harmful and, and start actually stopping the harm. So we protect little kids, like little miss Barbie. Summer Innanen: Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Louise Adams: And we stop the metabolic and physiological harm. If nothing else, you know. People are so worried. In the article, Good housekeeping. It's talking about how more people are dieting than ever before. Did you see ...'In November, 2020, the CDC, Centre for Disease Control, reported that more people are actually dieting now compared to 10 years ago', you know? Dieting, even though no one's dieting, more people are dieting than in 2010. And we are in massive trouble from the perspective of psychological damage and also from the perspective of long-term metabolic damage. And if I hear one more person bang on about diabetes, insulin resistance, you know, metabolic problems from being fat and they haven't kind of put the pieces together about actually, maybe it's the people who are dieting because it's the dieting that's doing that kind of physiological damage. You know, we need to wake up. So Good Housekeeping aren't just able to politically fence it because it sells sharticles and sells hits on their harmful website. We've got to. If we care  about health, let's start caring about it. Right, right. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Yeah. And I think that historically Good Housekeeping's always had like, you know, advertisements for Slim Fast and like diet, weight loss drugs in their magazine. And so I, you know, I would wager  I guess, that that's still going to be there. And, you know, I think the reason why diets have probably gone up like over the last 10 years is because it's all shrouded in health now. Louise Adams: Yeah, it's 'not dieting' Summer Innanen: Like everyone thinks that, yeah. It's like, this is our quote unquote 'healthy lifestyle'. Louise Adams: 'I've got a good relationship with food'. Summer Innanen: Right. And it seems, it's almost seen, like positioned as more empowering versus restrictive. And so like, more people are buying into it, but like you said, it's all the same bullshit when you look at it. Louise Adams: Just wrapped in glitter. Summer Innanen: Right, exactly. It's like that meme that the HAES student doctor says, it's like the poo emoji called 'diet' and then like in glitter, it's like 'lifestyle change'. It all, you know, it all upholds fatphobia. And dangerous dieting. And quick weight loss. And this idea that... Louise Adams: And a massive industry. Let's not forget that this is all a bloody huge  industry. It's...what is it? 600 billion in the States every year. Summer Innanen: Yes. Louise Adams: Yeah. This is a business and the media is in the business of keeping these businesses going. And even when they admit it, they don't stop it. Summer Innanen: Well because they would lose their sponsors. And, and then it would, I mean, it would all probably collapse. So it's a tough  situation. It's a tricky situation. I don't think it's an easy fix. I think you have to really stand out. You have to be willing to say like, 'okay, we're going to really be, you know, these are our company values and we're going to, you know, stand, actually stand by them regardless of what the fallout is from that'. But I mean, my hope is that more people are going like, you know, would support those messages. Cause I think there are, there's also a growing population of people who are sick of it and who are, are tired of that crap and who know that diets don't work. Louise Adams: Yeah. I think the pushback is happening. It is maddening when we see stuff nearly, nearly get it. And then kind of, whiplash straight back into it, but we keep pushing. We keep these voices going and the voices are getting louder and louder and more diverse and more strident. And I think, you know, 2021 January has been the usual bullshit tsunami, but I hope that this conversation for the listeners helps get the bullshit detector flashing. Push back against this whole idea that insane levels of starvation are somehow healthy. And you know, what we can do is like articles, comment on articles like that. I haven't read too many of the comments on that article, 'The unbearable weight of diet culture', but I did see the usual shit fight starting underneath. Summer Innanen: I did too. Louise Adams: 'Oh my God, you're  killing people'. Summer Innanen:  I know, that's going to happen. That's going to happen. But you know what, like good on them for at least publishing that and getting it out there. And let's hope that five years from now, they're not, they're still standing by those things and not totally changing. Although I think I might be...I'm going to be cautiously optimistic on that one. Louise Adams: Uh, I mean, it's so crappy when you go to that little bit about the 1200 calorie diet. It says 'follow this and you will feel satisfied and drop all the weight', which is exact opposite of what we've just spent like half an hour telling you. Yeah. Summer Innanen: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like enough for maybe a seagull or something, but not a human being. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's...I'm still like, I'm just still in amazement that they took out the reference to the Holocaust concentration camp prisoners, because I think that, that was like, that was such a huge thing to say that...but maybe it was because then they didn't want to take down the 1200 calorie-a-day article. And so therefore they... Louise Adams: Interesting too that they hid the idea that this is our second most read article. Summer Innanen: Yeah. Louise Adams: That's pretty huge. Summer Innanen: It really lowered the number of people who had requested it or looked for it, or what did you say?  It was like 45,000? Louise Adams: It was annually rather than by the month. Like it's just kind of interesting that they tapped in...they altered that part of the article. Which is kind of the bit, which says this is the bit where complicit with. Summer Innanen: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. So, have media literacy. Louise Adams: Yeah. Oh my God. But thank you so much for coming on and unpacking the crappy diet culture stuff that's circulating in our countries. Summer Innanen: Thank you so much for having me. I loved chatting with you. I loved, yeah, just kind of dissecting all this stuff. Yeah. Louise Adams: All the rage. So thank you for getting it off your chest and thanks for coming on. Summer Innanen: Thank you so much, Louise.   Resources Mentioned in the Show: (Major trigger warning - all of these sharticles discuss weight loss in excruciating detail !!) The lady who lost weight to look like Barbie Woody the Weight loss guru Malamute The horrendous Keto plus fasting diet that claimed to be inspiring us (the same method that spiralled Summer's eating disorder) The Good Housekeeping article "The unbearable weight of diet culture" Find more about the wonderful Summer Innanen here Summer's wonderful podcast Eat The Rules  

Listening to your body doesn't happen through a magic pill or a one-size-fits-all answer. It is about leaning into your self-trust and learning to embrace what makes you uniquely you. But how do we actually do that in a practical, hands-on way? The concept of self-trust is an all-encompassing one that considers a lot of different parts about who you are as a person, which is why it is essential to have the proper framework when diving into these topics. Key Takeaways If You Are Looking To Build Self-Trust You Should: Work on building up your consciousness, care, and compassion habits Acknowledge your privileges and how you can use them to help others in your community Lean into courage by questioning the things in your life that you may do out of habit Learn How To Build Self-Trust with Shohreh Davoodi Shohreh Davoodi is a self-trust coach who created her Three Pillars of Self-Trust Framework to help women overcome fear and self-doubt and become brave by conjuring up the courage inside of them. Her framework combines the three main pillars of self-trust, consciousness practices, care practices, and courage practices so that you can figure out who you are and what you value. The Three Pillars of Self-Trust The first step of self-trust is consciousness. This means having the awareness of the things in your life that you want to change, what is working for you in your life and what isn’t, and why. This usually deals with the systems in place in our society that are causing self-doubt, that really has nothing to do with you as an individual.  Next comes care practices. While we all know the importance of self-care, Shohreh takes it a step further and includes principles such as intuitive eating, intentional movement, sleep, and organization all as ways that you can care for yourself and let your body know that it can trust you to listen and take care of it.  The final piece of the puzzle is courage. Engaging with issues such as activism, setting boundaries, and having a more value-driven life are all ways that you can reconnect with your head, heart, and body, to do the things that make you feel good. It Takes a Village That Stands Together To See Real Change In order to engage more authentically with your own self-trust, you need to dive deep and look some scary stuff in the eye. We cannot self-trust our way into community liberation. It takes better community care and systemic changes so that everybody can have self-trust and a better relationship to food and their bodies.  There is no one right way to engage with these practices. By being more understanding and compassionate to the people around you, being in a community that lets you know that you are not alone, and dropping into your body in a time-sensitive way that feels good for you are the best ways to take steps to move closer to deeper self-trust. What is one way that you are going to lean into your courage and let your body know that it can trust you? Share which of Shohreh’s tips you're going to integrate into your routine with me in the comments on the episode page. In This Episode How the mentality of siloing everything you do is getting in the way of your ability to access body trust (9:12) Explore the three pillars of self-trust and the different parts of who you are that you need to consider (13:43) The role of marginalization and consciousness that play into the wellness space (19:32) Recommendations for advocating for the internal and external need for change on a systemic level (24:42) How to establish trust within your body through introspective awareness (27:55) Quotes “My niche is self-trust, but self-trust really encompasses so many different topics and ideas and ways of being in the world. So I can't just talk about self-trust, in talking about self-trust I have to talk about so many other things.” (11:10) “Each of these pillars are important and can stand on their own, but they are most powerful when they bridge together. And that is the foundation of self-trust for an individual.” (15:01) “Almost all of us have privileges in some places, even marginalized folks have privileges in some areas. So we can’t look at the marginalization without also looking at the privilege and how we contribute, knowingly or unknowingly, to the advancement of these systems.” (21:03) “So often when someone is struggling to trust their own body, it is actually because they have gotten messages about bodies like theirs, and what a body like theirs should be or should look like or should feel like.” (32:06) “For everyone who is interested in building more self-trust, the key to doing that is that you have to get to know you and what you want and what you value.” (35:08) Featured on the Show Food Freedom Mini-Course Strength Workout Mini-Course Follow Your Arrow Membership Program Shohreh Davoodi Website One-On-One Coaching with Shohreh Conjuring Up Courage Podcast Follow Shohreh on Instagram | Facebook | TikTok Steph Gaudreau Website Check out the full show notes here! Follow Steph on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Pinterest I'd really love it if you would take 1 min and leave us a rating and review on iTunes! Related Episodes LTYB 305: Using Body Language To Understand Yourself and Others Better with Tiff Lee LTYB 262: How To See Value Outside Your Body & Overcome Self-Doubt with Summer Innanen

Aren't we tired of the energy it takes to continually be thinking about our bodies and what other people think of them? Can you imagine what you could do with all the extra energy that you waste fretting about what size jeans you fit into? You would have more time for friends, for work, for actually being active, and you can bet your ass you'd be happier too. But it's not that easy. Especially for me. Designing a podcast episode around the subject of body positivity, body acceptance, and creating a more welcoming networking environment for our plus-sized colleagues and contemporaries wasn't something I could do alone because I haven't gotten there yet. At my heaviest, my weight pushed me into the category of clinically obese, and at my thinnest, I was so thin that I stopped getting my period at the age of 32. I'm 44 and I still have times when I downright obsess about my weight.  This is why for this episode I have asked Body image Coach and Best-Selling author Summer Innanen to join us. When I discovered Summer's website, with a picture of her taking a sledgehammer to a scale and then raising that sledgehammer in victory above her head, symbolizing a fiery, free and untamed life I knew she was the person to walk us through this conversation. In addition to being a best selling author and body positivity coach, she is the host of Eat The Rules, a podcast dedicated to empowering people to live life on their terms! This conversation taught me a lot of lessons. One, that body positivity doesn't mean that you love the way your body looks every day; it means that you don't think about your body in negative terms, that you accept it the way it is. And two, that it would be a lot easier for people in large bodies to accept their bodies if there wasn't consistent messaging by the media, advertising, their family, and the general surroundings that told them what they looked like wasn't beautiful or athletic or acceptable. Listen in for tips to feeling more positively for your body and learn how self-love can take you on that much-needed healing journey! The Drink of the Week is The Yellow Bird, a super fun combination of white rum, Galiano (a golden, sweet vanilla-anise Italian liqueur), triple sec, and lime juice. It is served straight up as a martini. For today's drink, I took inspiration from something Summer said in the interview- You're going to have bad days, and you will have really good days, but for the most part, we want balance in how we look at ourselves, like how the wings of a bird balance it in flight. If you liked what you heard today, please leave a review and subscribe to the podcast. Also, please remember to share the podcast to help it reach a larger audience. And if you would like a shout out for tipping your bartender and contributing to the ever growing This Sh!t Works bar tab click ​https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JulieBrownBD?locale.x=en_US to make a donation. No amount is too small, it will get drunk! Relevant Links: Summer Innanen https://summerinnanen.com/about-me/  https://www.instagram.com/summerinnanen/?hl=en https://m.facebook.com/SummerInnanenCoach/ Julie Brown https://juliebrownbd.com/ ​(Website) https://www.instagram.com/juliebrown_bd/ ​(Instagram) https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-brown-b6942817/​ (LinkedIn) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIwWVdayM2mYXzR9JNLJ55Q​ (Youtube) https://www.facebook.com/juliebrownbd/​ (Facebook)

Summer Innanen is a badass body image coach who is ready to help you ACCEPT YOUR DAMN SELF. Summer talks us through ditching diet culture, shedding body shame, and creating a better relationship with that skin suit you're wearing. Get ready for some "aha" moments and actionable steps to start feeling comfortable in your body TODAY.   We also talk about: Self-worth How family, friends, and media impact body image How loving your body doesn't have to be the goal   Connect with Summer: Eat The Rules Podcast summerinnanen.com @summerinnanen on Instagram   If you love us, check out: Honeydewmepodcast.com @honeydewmepodcast on Instagram Join our email list to receive our "10 Favorite (Sex) Things" download for FREE!    

Summer Innanen, body image coach, bestselling author of Body Image Remix and host of the Eat the Rules podcast joins Kim for a conversation all about body image. We discuss "overeating", practical ways to start improving your body image today, as well as ways to manage diet and body talk with family, friends and coworkers. Find Summer: Website Instagram Podcast: Eat the Rules Book: Body Image Remix You, On Fire Program FREE Body Confidence Makeover Follow Imperfect Health on Instagram  Follow Kelly: Instagram @kellyjonesrd | Twitter @kellyjonesrd | Facebook | Blog Follow Kim: Instagram @kimhobanrd |Twitter @kimhobanrd |Facebook | Blog SUPPORT the podcast If you're enjoying our show, please subscribe and leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Share it with your friends and let us know what you'd like to hear on future episodes! Our music is Brighten Your Day by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com

In this episode, Summer Innanen joins me, and we dig into why positive body image isn’t about ‘liking the way you look.’ We also explore separating your identity from your body size and food choices, strengthening your sense of self, and why accepting your body doesn’t mean ‘letting yourself go.’ Summer is a professionally trained coach through the internationally renowned Coaches Training Institute (CTI), who specializes in body image, self-worth, and confidence. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix and host of the podcast, Eat the Rules (formerly Fearless Rebelle radio). More specifically, inside the show we talk about: Why positive body image isn’t about 'liking the way you look' Why our value doesn’t lie in our aesthetic Separating your identity from your body size and food choices Understanding your beliefs about yourself Cultivating self-compassion in your thoughts and actions Why accepting yourself isn’t 'letting yourself go' How understanding intellectually that diet culture isn’t helpful is different than embodying this knowledge What does taking care of yourself mean? Why your health is not an obligation The privilege in taking care of ourselves Finding community Find Summer here. Learn more about the show host, Corinne, here.

Welcome back! Last week was a self-care smorgasbord with ALL my past guests. What a fun way to celebrate 100 episodes of Quit Dieting for Good. If you missed it, you can find it here (and learn about the PRIZES you can win)! Today, Summer Innanen joins me to talk about body image. She’ll share how loving your body doesn’t have to apply to only physical appearance. This episode is amazing for all women who could use a fresh perspective on body love! The Weight Loss Quest Summer is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. Her own body struggles started early, and she experienced decades of chronic dieting with many binge/repeat cycles. She also had a tendency to over-exercise (something Julie Newbry and I dive into on Ep. #87!) on her quest to “lose the weight once and for all”. She honestly thought that is what she was “supposed” be doing. Now, she sees the time, energy, and investment she put into pursuing that goal weren’t good for her or her body. Summer even quit her corporate job to pursue nutrition. She wanted to help other women eat “right” and lose weight as well, since it was something she was obsessed with in her own life. Eventually, however, she realized that she was hurting herself. Gradually she started to learn more about self-acceptance, self-love, and intuitive eating. When she realized that every single client coming to see her was there because they hated their bodies….she realized she needed to change how she worked with people. Now, Summer specifically focuses on body image with her clients. Self-Love Misconceptions Summer’s work now has almost nothing to do with food. If her clients are processing in that area she recommends intuitive eating resources, but she focuses her coaching efforts on body image. She’s found that our relationship with food naturally changes when we address our body image and self-love. She notes, however, that loving your body doesn’t HAVE to mean loving what you see in the mirror. One of the biggest misconceptions with body image work is that it’s all about how you look. And although there is nothing wrong with loving how we look, it’s the very surface level of body image work! Often, we feel the way we feel about our bodies because of various identities we hold, experiences we’ve had, and messages we’ve received. It comes down to self-worth, and our beliefs about our own worth. This comes down to inherent self-belief. As Summer notes, this isn’t just a matter of learning to find yourself attractive. It’s so much deeper than that! Loving Your Body As It Is Too often we’ve been that our worth is dependent upon our desirability. When this is what we believe, of course we want to look in the mirror and think of ourselves as attractive! However, you can find yourself worthy & desirable — without changing anything about your body or appearance. This practice of separating worth from appearance can help relieve some of the stress you might feel about your body. Summer also noted that many women hear about self-love and loving their bodies and feel overwhelmed and guilty: they take on the mindset of “I should love my body….and now I’m doing that wrong too!” There is so much freedom in letting go of that pressure and allowing yourself to simply BE, without needing to judge or evaluate anything. Letting go of your own expectation about how you “should” feel about your body can help you take your body love to another level! Summer’s Personal Body Love Journey Summer shares that her own journey with body-love involved a recognition of how she had desired validation from others. So much of the pressure to look a certain way was about having other people SEE that, and as a result to like her, to be impressed by her, or to think positively about her. This part of her journey involved letting go of people pleasing and the need for validation! She also had to let go of control and settle into surrender. This required her to release her own expectations and allow what WAS to simply be. Gradually, she was able to relax into the understanding that she is good enough, just as she is. There is no need to force her body into looking a certain way in order to control the way other people think about her. And she doesn’t need to change anything about her body in order to be more deserving of worth, value, and acceptance. Summer notes that the diet industry often gives us a sense of false hope. When we see a new food program, or start a new diet, we get a little dopamine rush of excitement. We imagine all the ways in which we are going to be better, stronger, thinner (more deserving of love and acceptance)…and it fuels our drive to reenter the dieting cycle. Letting go of that can be hard! In fact, we might even need to give ourselves time to grieve the loss of this magical “dream” body that we’ve spent a huge part of our lives seeking. Loving Your Body When you accept your body for what it is, what do you let go of? Shame, guilt, pressure, stress, body-hatred? All too often diets are disguised in packages of hope and glittering promises…but in reality the don’t serve us at all. Loving your body is a choice that can help you accept yourself fully. Once you’ve made a bit of body-love progress, it can be really hard to wake up and have a HARD body day. And yet…they still happen! Summer suggests that if (and when) this happens to you, don’t catastroph-ize it. Instead, tap into what you’re actually feeling. Not thinking! Feeling. (Thinking might be: I hate my hips. Feeling might be: I feel ashamed.) Are you feeling stressed, ashamed, frustrated, anxious? Try sitting with that. Acknowledge that it’s there. You could try journaling, or even sharing it with someone that supports you. She also suggests considering what else in your life might be contributing. For instance, one of Summer’s most recent body-shame experiences occurred shortly after her dad unexpectedly passed away. She realized she was completely overwhelmed with grief and sadness, and her body immediately triggered an old coping mechanism: shame over something “wrong” with herself that she needed to fix. Feeling Your Feelings It can be easier (in the moment) to pour yourself into body-hatred rather than to fully sit with grief and shame. When you give yourself the opportunity to really just sit with your feelings and let them be, however, you may be able to find that your problem really isn’t your body. This is a perfect opportunity for a self-compassionate response. Offer yourself whatever you would offer to a friend or child who was going through this same situation. Self-compassion can feel strange if it’s not something you’re used to practicing. Be patient with yourself and be willing to sit with things you might usually repress or push past. Also – don’t forget to care for yourself. Summer notes that often she’ll have clients going through a downward spiral, and when she asks them what they’ve done to care for themselves….the honest truth is NOTHING. No time for self-care! And yet, taking that time to care for yourself, even in a small way, can be a huge step towards bringing things back into balance.

Body-image coach Summer Innanen returns to the podcast to discuss weight-inclusive pregnancy and postpartum resources; raising socially conscious, anti-diet children; her experiences returning to work from maternity leave; why she rebranded her body-image course; and so much more. Plus, Christy answers a listener question about the current state of the science on COVID-19 and weight. Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence who helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix, the creator of the flagship You, On Fire – a 3 month online program to help women break free from body shame and live life on their own terms. And, she is the host of Fearless Rebelle Radio - a podcast about body image, anti-dieting, self-help and feminism. Find her online at SummerInnanen.com. For full show notes and a transcript of this episode, go to christyharrison.com/foodpsych. Ask your own question about intuitive eating, Health at Every Size, or eating disorder recovery at christyharrison.com/questions. Christy's book, Anti-Diet, is available wherever you get your books. Order online at christyharrison.com/book, or at local bookstores across North America, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Grab Christy's free guide, 7 simple strategies for finding peace and freedom with food, for some ideas of how to get started on the anti-diet path. If you're ready to break free from diet culture once and for all, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.

Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, body positivity, self-worth and confidence. She helps womxn all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix and host of Fearless Rebelle Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering womxn to live life on their own terms. Connect with her on  Facebook I Instagram I Twitter I Website I Podcast And check out her 10 Day Body Confidence Makeover   Have an idea for an upcoming episode? Let us know on our Facebook page. Huge thanks to Usual Wines for sponsoring this episode. Use code "W E I G H T I N G" at checkout to get your first glass of wine free. www.usualwines.com

It begins with a sigh. Jeremie's twiterpated and Bryde is loving the neuroscience of Jeremie's personal growth. Just the tips include "The Brain that Changes Itself", and "The Brain's Way of Healing", by Dr. Norman Doidge. Summer Innanen is a Body Image coach specializing in self-worth and confidence, and she shares her own story with the hosts. PATRONS: check out the video version of today's foreplay!Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/turnmeonFollow us on Instagram - @turnmeonpodcastThis episode and more have been transcribed thanks to Thisten: https://thisten.co/event/wmu9l------ALSO, if you’re looking to get spicy in the bedroom, Intamo Pleasurables makes plant-based lubes (and more) that nourish your body and leave you feeling sensational. Use promo code: TURNMEON15 for 15% off at www.intamopleasurables.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For this episode, I'm chatting with Summer Innanen (@summerinnanen on Instagram) about self worth work in body image healing.

We've all been there, we look at ourselves in the mirror and we don't like what we see. We pick apart certain areas and body parts and all the negative thoughts roll into our minds and you feel your energy sinking down. In this episode we discuss all this nitty gritty stuff and offer you tips and guidance on how to overcome these feelings and see yourself differently. Please reach out to us for help if you're struggling in this area, we're here for you!Dawn Dalili:https://dawndalili.com/Summer Innanen:https://summerinnanen.com/https://www.instagram.com/therealspooniesunite/https://www.therealspooniesunite.com/hello@TheRealSpooniesUnite.comhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/2443751542368935Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/therealspooniesunite)

I have a super special podcast episode for you today! I would be remiss if I didn't talk about the shit show that is COVID-19 and so here is an episode to help you cope with all of the fatphobic memes, all of the WhatsApp messages from your mum telling you that if you put a cucumber up your bum you won't get sick, all of the weird feelings around food and your body. Phew, it's A LOT to cope with right now. I am joined by guests; sex therapist Dawn Serra, plus-size personal trainer Louise Green and body image coach Summer Innanen (who also happen to be my friends from Vancouver!). Yay. We will be talking about overcoming food scarcity feelings, fighting negative body thoughts, fat positive self-care, and lots of other things to make your brain happy. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/023 Fat-Posi, Anti-Diet COVID-19 Resilience Resource PDF and Video: http://tiny.cc/fiercefattyfb  

Food is fuel and so much more. It is ok that food connects us to those warm fuzzy things in life--friends, family, pleasure, and humanity. Want to make this step on your Food Peace Journey™? Listen here now to the latest Love Food Podcast episode featuring guest expert Elizabeth Armstrong @PCOStherapist. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I want to learn more about you! I would love if you could take the 2020 Love Food survey: access it here: JulieDillonRD.com/Survey. Open until March 31, 2020. Check out my friend Summer Innanen's FREE Body Acceptance Masterclass. You will learn:  The 3 biggest mistakes people make when doing body acceptance work (and why they keep you stuck feeling bad about your body) Her 6-Part Framework for radically changing the way you feel about yourself and believing you are good enough regardless of your body size  Why it is possible for YOU (yes, YOU) to accept your body and feel more confident in who you are. Learn more about Summer's Masterclass (aff) here: JulieDillonRD.com/FREEmasterclass This episode's Dear Food letter: Dear Food, You have, and always will be, such a big part of life and identity. Growing up in an Indian household, you were everything - we would spend hours preparing delicious meals to eat and share with other people. My mum was an exceptional cook who loved nothing more than to research recipes to try out on me and her friends. Food, you are there in so many of my best childhood memories - going out for ice cream sundaes on the weekend, discovering the magic of baking, and making cheese toast as a midnight snack with my dad.  But now, at the age of 36, having battled with weight for as long as I can remember, and trying to figure out my PCOS, I realise that our relationship is really complicated. While you have brought me so much joy, you also come with a ton of fear and anxiety for me. I remember calorie counting with my mum in my early teens, being praised for controlling what I ate, and family members commenting on my body whether I had lost or gained weight. Food, I have starved myself of you so many times, and this always results in me punishing myself through binging and exercising. I'm tired of weight loss taking up so much of my headspace. I'm working really hard to get some neutrality on all of this but sometimes, even just noticing a shirt doesn't button up right anymore can set about a heap of negative thoughts. From  Working really hard Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Be sure to follow Elizabeth Armstrong on Instagram: @PCOSTherapist Elizabeth's website: PCOStherapy.com Julie's episode on Don't Salt My Game with a PCOS deep dive: People with PCOS can totally eat birthday cake. Weight inclusive PCOS care from Laura Thomas Hunger So Wide and So Deep Intuitive Eating book (aff) and website Find an Eating Disorder Dietitian near you. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

We've all been in the situation where someone has said things like “you look tired” or “you look too thin – you need to eat something” or “have you lost weight? you look so good!” or the best of all, “are you pregnant?”. While most people mean well and don't have any malicious intent by saying any of these things, the reality is that words are powerful and when such things are said without knowing exactly where the person on the receiving end is at, it has the potential to be harmful and damaging. In many cases, these words leave a lasting effect that end up acting like a catalyst years worth of disordered eating habits.Here to bring a humourous and sarcastic spin on how we can respond to such comments productively is Summer Innanen – a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, body positivity and confidence. Summer works with women all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching. She is Host of Fearless Rebelle Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering women to live life on their own terms; the best-selling author of Body Image Remix; and creator of the flagship You, On Fire – a 3 month online program dedicated to helping women break out of the diet culture cage and accept their bodies so they can live their badass lives to the fullest.  In this episode we discuss: Summer's disordered eating journey How disordered eating habits can often be disguised as “health habits” The key things to explore when healing body image Why positive body image has nothing to do with actually feeling beautiful  People's comments and how they say more about the person saying them rather than the person they're making the comment to How you response should be tweaked based on the person making the comment  Being mindful as the deliveree of comments and the receiver What to say in response to someone making a comment about: Looking tired Being too thin Praise around weight loss Reaching for a second helping at dinner  Being pregnant SAVE YOUR SPOT FOR SUMMER'S BODY ACCEPTANCE MASTERCLASS Learn how to quit hating your body and feel comfortable in your own skin when you attend Summer Innanen's Body Acceptance Masterclass on Wednesday April 8th at 5pm EST / 8 pm EST. All attendees will receive an extra special enrolment bonus! SAVE YOUR SPOT HERE. THE FILL YOUR CUP PODCAST AFTER SHOWLet's talk about sex, baby! Join us in The Fill Your Cup Podcast Online Community where you can debrief this episode in private with a network of trusted, like-minded women. JOIN NOW. EMOTIONAL EATING CHIT CHATIn this 1-hour Emotional Eating Chit Chat , you will learn how to identify your triggers, how to use emotional eating as a symptom to understand the greater issue at hand, how to manage emotional eating and find more satisfying ways to alleviate emotional eating. Book your appointment here.  RESOURCES: RSVP: Body Acceptance Masterclass Summer Innanen Website Summer Innanen Instagram You, On Fire – 3 month body image coaching program Book: When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies by Jane Hirschmann Book: Health At Every Size by Linda Bacon Book: Body Respect by Linda Bacon

This is a bonus episode!! Usually I do an episode every other week. But hey! The world is upside down! I am going to be putting out more episodes during this crazy world-wide quarantine. Today I talk about how forced shelter in place is very different from the way I define rest, I talk to body image coach Summer Innanen about quarantine self-care, and chat with my sister Margaret about her broken arm, her relationship with food, her health journey, and she spills lots of her secrets. *** Show Notes: 00:00 Hello! Welcome to the bonus episode!!! 3:10 I share how this forced quarantine is very different from my own personal definition of rest. Being forced to stay in your house is not inherently the same as resting. 8:57 My convo with Summer Innanen, body image coach :-) Find Summer Innanen's free workshop here! 42:30 My convo with my sister Margaret about her broken arm - and all of her secrets *** Also, you can find archived content from old programs and archived podcast episodes, like my Archived Episode with Summer from 2016 at patreon.com/carolinedooner. 

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Summer Innanen is one of the pioneers in the multi-faceted and multi-layered body image and disordered eating realm. While paying homage to the women who came before her, Summer works to highlight a woman’s ability to embrace her body however it looks.  Summer believes that your purpose if more than just your body and is here today to help you see the value outside of your body and overcome self-doubt and fear.  Truly Embrace Health At Any Size If you want to help those marginalized through weight stigma and discrimination, are looking for a friend to address the total chaos and body shame prevalent in new motherhood or are searching for a way to break free from the diet culture system, Summer is the expert for you. The self-professed ‘anti-christ of weightloss’, Summer wants you to stop your unhealthy relationship with food and start loving your body for all that it is.  All of the energy that you put towards constantly thinking about your body could be refocused into leading a more purposeful and passionate life and free up space in your mind for new thoughts and experiences. Once you embrace the fact that fat and thin are just mutual descriptors that hold no power over your ability to produce quality and substance you can truly embrace health at every size and become an advocate for treating yourself with kindness.  Are you ready to expose yourself to body diversity and stop perpetuating the idea that thinner is better? Share what you enjoyed most about Summer’s attitude in the comments on the episode page.    In This Episode Exploring the nuance of intuitive eating, body image, and diet culture (23:40) Lifting the veil on disordered eating and body image in the ‘wellness’ community (28:50) The power of changing your social media feed to include larger bodies (34:00) How to challenge your beliefs surrounding life in a bigger body (39:30) Health-promoting behaviors that can help people of any shape or body (46:20)   Quotes “It wasn’t about the food, it was about the way they felt in their body. And so really shifting my gears to focus on that has been something I am really so grateful for.” (13:42) “I really want people to know that they are more than their bodies. That we don’t need to make it about the body so much, we want it to be about what we have to say and our voices and our purpose.” (17:29) “I don’t know what is going to happen to people’s bodies. Their weight could go up, their weight could go down, it could stay the same. What we want to do is really create neutrality around those changes so they are not dictating our self-worth and how we feel about ourselves and our food choices and everything else.” (26:30) “It can be quite emotional and I think having someone helping you to process those things and see the deeper meaning and also the opportunities and the hope that can exist now that you are not a prisoner of that system.” (37:47) “Educate yourself on the link between weight and health and the success rates of diets. Because there is a lot that we can do with people’s health by taking weight out of the equation.” (43:46)   Links Summer Innanen Website The Body Image Remix Book by Summer Innanen Fearless Rebelle Radio with Summer Innanen Get the Free Body Confidence 10 Day Makeover Here You, On Fire 12 Week Group Coaching Program HTK 037: Summer Innanen Order The Core 4 Here Nutritional Therapy Association Harder to Kill Radio is sponsored by the Nutritional Therapy Association. Registration is now open for the NTA’s December class. You can learn more and save your seat by clicking here (and don’t forget to mention my name on your application!) You can also try out their free 7-day course, Nutritional Therapy 101 by clicking here. Check out the full show notes here! Follow Steph on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Pinterest I'd really love it if you would take 1 min and leave us a rating and review on iTunes!

This episode was so much fun! I chatted with Shannon Smith, a boudoir photographer about the book Body Image Remix by Summer Innanen. Some of the highlights of our conversations include: How Shannon came to be a boudoir photographer The importance of sticking to body positive people that you connect with The concept of you Future Badass Self (FSB) and the goal emotions play in goal setting The three stages of self-love The use of your inner critic in figuring out your progress What it means to be body positive The importance of language The place of thin allies in fat activism Internal/external factors that lead to poor body image Our personal memories of realizing our bodies were different What it means to have compassion in our journey Overall thoughts on the book

Today's episode features a compassionate and unfiltered conversation with Summer Innanen and Liz Libby about tending to postpartum needs. In this special episode, we share personal stories and professional insight about how to care for yourself that are particularly important for birth parents mucking through the thick of postpartum time but are widely applicable to anyone who wants to nourish their body and spirit. Tune in to hear us explore asking for help BEFORE you're at your breaking point, why "bouncing back" is bullshit, and navigating those first 100 days home with your baby. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today on the show I spoke with Summer Innanen, professionally trained coach specializing in body image, confidence and self-worth and the best-selling author of Body Image Remix. She teaches women how to radically shift their perspectives so they can stop hating their bodies and embrace the badass woman within.

Show Summary Today Karen talks to Leanne Vogel from Healthful Pursuit, Leanne is pretty much the queen of Keto, or at the very least one of the most knowledgeable people on the topic at the moment. They keep chat pretty light, Leanne has a wonderful presence and likeable personality, super confident and easy to listen to. You’ll hear Leanne discuss her journey with Keto and how she has tweaked it to work for her over the years because we simply aren't all build the same, and that’s ok. Leanne also used to be a raw vegan so she’s made quite the switch, brought her health back and also stopped certain medications. Karen and Leanne have a lot of fun, and discuss travel and bucking the trend of living a conventional life. Enjoy! Mentioned in the Show Cyclical Ketosis (https://www.healthfulpursuit.com/2016/09/keto-carb-ups-cyclical-ketosis/) Summer Innanen (https://summerinnanen.com) Tafelspitz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafelspitz) World Towning (https://worldtowning.com) The Keto Diet Book (https://amzn.to/2CsL8Fa) Head Strong Book (https://amzn.to/2OvDL7c) Grounding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grounding) Connect with Leanne Leanne's Website (https://www.healthfulpursuit.com) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/healthfulpursuit/) Podcast (https://www.healthfulpursuit.com/podcast/) Connect with Me The Building A Better Body Podcast Live Show (https://www.facebook.com/events/744581785899458/) If you enjoy the show please leave a review on iTunes, I would love it! iTunes Review (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/building-a-better-body/id1192279512?mt=2) Send Listener Questions to: info@karenmcclintock.co.uk Support The Show (https://karenmcclintock.co.uk/support/) My Social Media Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/buildingabetterbodypodcast) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/buildingabetterbodypodcast) Website (http://www.karenmcclintock.co.uk) HUNTER & GATHER Discount Code: karen20off MRS R'GANICS Discount Code: karen10off Hunter & Gather T's & C's (https://hunterandgatherfoods.com/bbb/) Hunter & Gather Store (https://hunterandgatherfoods.com/ourshop/) Mrs R'ganics Site (https://mrsrganics.com) Sponsor music credit (https://www.bensound.com) Special Guest: Leanne Vogel.

How to stop fighting the woman in the mirror. Loving & accepting our bodies is an incredible tool when getting free from binge eating. And the myths about weight loss & happiness! I talk to Summer Innanen, Body Image Coach about how to do just that & put your whole life at an advantage for recovery. For a free session with our team: http://www.LydiaLifestyle.com/session Summer Innanen is a Body Image Coach who helps women to stop living behind the numbers on their scales. She helps women all over the world to ditch their diet demons and amp up their confidence through her private and group coaching at http://bit.ly/2hfKTVC.

I loved interviewing Summer. She is a force in this space. She had so many interesting philosophies in how she explained what she does. We talked a lot about this place of neutrality with our bodies. Rather than body love as this place that we strive for, it's about removing the body love or hate or anything and just not focusing on the body. I would really love to hear your thoughts on how you feel about this interview and let me know your stance. It might be something that makes you think, “Wow, that would be so helpful for me. I would love to hear more about that.” Of course we have the body positivity/body love movement, which is obviously telling us to love our bodies ( and there's a large emphasis on that) I know for a lot of you, based on the feedback I've gotten, that feels really overwhelming because you've never known how to love your body so I think this interview is going to be really powerful for you.   About Summer Innanen Summer Innanen is a  professionally trained coach specializing in body image, body positivity, self-worth and confidence and best-selling author of Body Image Remix. She's the creator of You, On Fire – a 3 month online program that helps women break out of the diet culture cage so they can wear, say and do what they want. She's also the host of Fearless Rebelle Radio, a podcast dedicated to anti-dieting, body positivity and feminism. In this episode, Summer shares: How to accept our bodies at any weight. How elements of self doubt and criticism become rooted in our belief systems. Getting to a place where weight change and the way our bodies look doesn't affect our quality of life. How to feel more comfortable and lighter in your body without focusing on weight. You can find more of Summer at: Website | Facebook | Instagram Are you ready to end the battle with food and your body? Sign up for our signature program, The Society today! After successfully running this program for 5 years, we are permanently closing the doors in September!

Rachel Cole shares the mic with me as we share our experiences with pregnancy, about our fears about the postpartum period, weight stigma, body image and more. We chat about: - Our experiences with pregnancy thus far – the impact it’s had on our physical, spiritual and emotional well-being and whether it was what we expected, - The amount of self-care that we’ve had to allocate to managing the emotional and physical changes of pregnancy,  - The cultural pressure and beauty standards are put on pregnant people, - Weight stigma and the impact it has on pregnant people, - How pregnancy has impacted the relationship we have with our bodies and our body image, - The specific things we’ve done to support our body image throughout pregnancy,  - Rachel’s Belly Love Podcast to help people “get out of the homogenous stories of bellies" and feel more at ease, - Our fears about postpartum – depression, anxiety, isolation and what plans we’re putting in place to support us, - The importance of learning and talking about the postpartum period,  Plus, so much more! 

Episode 016: Welcome to this week’s episode of Real Health Radio, where I interview Summer Innanen. Summer is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner and Body Image Coach. She helps women all over the world to ditch their diet demons, amp up their confidence, and break free of chronic dieting and guilt through her private and group coaching […] The post Rebroadcast: Interview with Summer Innanen appeared first on Seven Health.

In Episode 43, Kylee & Clara chat with Summer Innanen all about learning how to give yourself permission and overcoming your "shoulds." Summer is a Body Image Coach & Best Selling Author, who inspires women to feel comfortable in their bodies, NOW! More on Summer: Website: https://summerinnanen.com/ Insta: @summerinnanen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SummerInnanenCoach/

Is Food Peace™ and intuitive eating your goal, but you're finding that being in a larger body is holding you back from that healing work? Listen now to get my tips on how to approach this part of the Food Peace™ journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in April, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode is also brought to you by my new Fat-Positive Dietitian t-shirt and mug! All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. The transcribed episode can be found here. Episode's Key Points: Food brings us health and connection, BUT it doesn't deserve the amount of power that we give it in diet culture. Food can't really cure us OR kill us! Thin privilege is very, very real! Our ability to heal our relationship around food IS impacted by our size and how the world treats us based on that size. You aren't "bad" based on your food choices! Food deprivation in our past can translate into our present in the form of dieting. Boys and men are often given permission to take up more space in the world and consume more food without negative associations. But growing girls need nourishment too! Intuitive eating is essential for Food Peace™, but it's important not to turn it into yet another diet rule. It isn't the eat-when-you're-hungry-stop-when-you're-full diet! It's about listening to your body and being curious about how certain foods make you feel. Intuitive eating is NOT a weight loss plan!! The desire to be in a smaller body is often about the need to be accepted, rather than the need to actually be physically smaller. Remember, you can still want to lose weight but not pursue it! The pursuit of weight loss is harmful for our health, but it can be hard to let go of that desire completely because we live in a fatphobic society. So put weight loss on the back-burner, otherwise Food Peace™ will continue to be out of reach. We can't listen to our fullness and hunger cues and honor them if we're worried about weight gain! Historical deprivation gets in the way of our intuition around food, so it's important to unpack that with an intuitive-eating professional. Intuitive eating work takes time, it's not linear, and it's messy. And the work is never really over because we live in diet culture! You're not doing it wrong. You're just in the process like everyone else. Too much of morality is wrapped up in our food choices, and it's time to reject that! If we don't eat enough during the day, our body pushes us to eat more at the end of the day. This is the restrict-binge cycle, and to stop it, you need to eat more! Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Evelyn Tribole Intuitive Eating, 3rd ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch Taste the Sweet Rebellion: Rebel Against Dieting Workbook by Dana Magee, Kaitlynn Fortunato Greenberg, and Rebecca Bitzer ---> This week's Food Peace™ Syllabus addition Reach out to Dana via email Summer Innanen and her Love, Food Episode Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.

In this episode, Aaron and Glenys talk to Summer Innanen about body image and finding your value outside of your body. Summer is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. She helps women all over the world through her private and group coaching to break out of the diet culture cage and cultivate their inner, rampant untameability so they can wear, say and do what they want. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix, creator of the You, On Fire online program, and host of Fearless Rebelle Radio, a podcast dedicated to anti-dieting, body positivity, and feminism. Show notes:  Free workshop Stop Being So Damn Hard on Yourself! You, on Fire *** Dare to Eat Online Program More about Aaron More about Glenys

This week we discuss Sophie’s new Ikea dresser, a special live performance announcement, and going to the doctor.   Help us out by filling out this survey!   Every week, Sophie and April listen to a pump up song to get them ready to record! Listen to this week’s pump up song here.   To get access to further reading on today’s topics and some stuff we didn’t have time for, join our Patreon!   Need advice? Email/send voice memo to fyi@shesallfatpod.com.   Follow us! Twitter / Instagram / Get updates!   You can find us on: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Google Play / Pocket Cast / PlayerFM / CastBox   Need something else? Check out our site: shesallfatpod.com   Mentioned in this episode:   I’m Obsessed: T-Pain tweets. T-Pain’s PYT. On Tessa and Scott. Glossier Solution. 20% at Glossier (thanks Joanna!) Bleedin’ for Amina. Get tickets to Flyover! Do No Harm Podcast.     The Meat Of It: The Fat Nutritionist. Summer Innanen. Made on Generous Plan. Food Psych Podcast.  Eating Toward Immortality. Five Things the Weight Loss Industry Doesn't Want You to Know. Kate Harding on "Isn't Fat is Unhealthy?" Dieting's Effect on Your Health. HAES Benefits. Study on Regaining Weight. Sophie’s Article on Advocating for Yourself at the Doctor. On Obesity Panic. HAES Resources.   More Studies Showing the Negative Health Outcomes of Weight Stigma: ... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Summer Innanen's life used to be dominated by exercise and dieting. She spent nearly two decades battling her body before she realized that the issue was not her size, but her mindset. Now, Summer is a podcaster and life coach who dedicates her time to helping people overcome their obsession with food and body. Learn how she broke away from her toxic relationship with diet culture and began to reconnect with the things in life that bring her true happiness. Sign up for a FREE pass to The FoodBodyLove Rally below https://rally.truewarrior.fm/ Show Notes: https://www.recoverywarriors.com/summer-innanen/ What You'll Learn: • Ways that seemingly healthy activities like Crossfit and the paleo diet can be harmful to someone with a negative body image • The parallels between diet culture and drug addiction • How embracing your emotions can help fill the void that diet culture leaves • Why it's okay to feel bored in life and how that can actually bring you a sense of peace • How her marriage improved when she stopped being so obsessed with food and body • Why it's so important to find a partner who will accept your body in any form Sign up for a FREE pass to The FoodBodyLove Rally below https://summit.truewarrior.fm/ Show Notes: https://www.recoverywarriors.com/summer-innanen/

Have you hit diet rock bottom? Are you struggling with internalized fatphobia? Do you desperately want to find food peace, but still feel stuck? Listen now for some solutions to these hurdles. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my FREE video training: Your First 3 Steps Towards Food Peace with PCOS. Get connected now and be the first to get it when it releases in mid-September. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Join our Facebook group to get extra support! Episode's Key Points: Diets don't work for ANYONE! "Success" with diets is not the typical experience. So, now what? Body image coach Summer Innanen joins to give us her insight!  Summer's body image coaching program, You, On Fire Leaving the food rules behind can be really hard when you haven't built up your intuitive skills to know what you need to eat and how you need to move to feel good in your body. Breaking out of the diet box can be scary!! The transition from dieting to intuitive eating can be long and hard and awkward! What are your next steps? Get rid of the scale and any trackers that make you hyper aware of your body size. You need to tune into what your body needs, not what your body looks like! Go out and find clothes that help you to NOT think about your body and to help you to not fixate on any physical changes that might happen during this process. When you start eating in a non-restricted way, you will probably start eating A LOT more than you think you should! You've been undernourished for so long, and your body needs to catch up. Plus, our perception of how much food we need to function like a normal human is SO skewed! Give yourself permission to eat as much as your body tells you to, even if it feels like too much, and be as compassionate as possible during the process. You can't force balance!! It's about mental and physical wellbeing, and should be measured throughout your lifetime, rather than in short time spans. You can only see it in hindsight! This is a process of UNLEARNING diet culture, and learning the language of body trust and intuition. The whole world reinforces diet culture, and that makes this process even harder! Food is food, and it doesn't deserve the power that we give it. Body acceptance and exploring what your body size means to you is key! Still not liking your body is okay, but coming to a place of body neutrality can be so healing. The goal is just to not think about our body on a consistent basis! We are untamable! Live your life outside of the diet cage. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blogLink to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace Syllabus. Melissa Fabello Summer's Body Confidence Makeover ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Summer's podcast, Fearless Rebelle Radio ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Summer's body image coaching program, You, On Fire ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3 Summer's website Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.

As a Body Image Coach, Summer has an amazing perspective on body love and body acceptance. However, she hasn't always had the privilege of being at peace with her own body. As a child she never felt comfortable in her body and grew up with the belief that thinner was better. This belief spiraled into an obsession with dieting, exercising and numerous weight loss attempts. At the time, Summer didn't realize that she was struggling with exercise bulimia, a condition where you use exercise to compensate for eating, and described her obsession with exercises as an addiction. After struggling for years she sought professional help because ultimately her obsession was taking a physical and emotional toll on her body. Summer clarifies that it wasn't necessarily the quantity of exercise that was the problem, but her relationship to exercise. For this reason disordered behavior in our society is so often overlooked. People do not realize it is more about the individual's thoughts rather than how that person looks. Summer also talks about what we lose when we diet, mainly, our self worth. She explains that most people enter into dieting because they lack self worth. As a society we do not believe we are good enough just as we are, and so we diet in an attempt to improve our self worth. Through her own experience as well as the experiences she has shared with her clients, Summer has come to realize that attempting to change your body size only further diminished self worth. It is only when you truly know yourself, that you can know just how worthy you actually are. Today Summer helps women improve their body image and self worth and to overall feel better about themselves. Loving our bodies does not mean we look in the mirror and think we are “attractive”. Instead, body love is about being more neutral with your body and cultivating respect, trust, compassion and kindness towards it. To learn more about body love and how Summer helps clients with self worth and feeling comfortable in their bodies listen to the full episode! Resources: Bonus Episode: Jessi's Free Intuitive Eating Audio Training Jessi's Masterclass Summer's Website When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls by Jess Baker HAES and Body Respect by Linda Bacon Body Image Remix by Summer Innanen Brene Brown Virgie Tovar Ragen Chastain   Article: The Real Reason Women Drink

Breaking free from dieting can be challenging (or appear that way) so Summer helped explain what we can do and why it's so important for a healthy body image to be diet free

Abigoliah Schamaun had a amazing conversation with Body Image Coach, Podcaster, and Author Summer Innanen. We talked: -Health at Every Size. -Can a person ave aesthetic goals and still remain body confident.  - How chronic dieting effects confidence. 

In the Episode I ask Summer about her childhood, when she first noticed she had a body and more importantly a bad one. It's so important for us parents to start positive self talk when our kids are young as many of my guest have found lots of our issues came from childhood. Summer is so cool, she's been on this BOPO journey a long time and in this episode you can tell she is authentic and truly happy in her body. Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence. She helps women all over the world to ditch their diet demons and amp up their confidence through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com .* She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix : Embrace your body and unleash the fierce confident woman within and host of Fearless Rebelle Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering women to live life on their own terms. Links:Free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover * Podcast – Fearless Rebelle Radio Facebook Private Facebook Community Instagram

Welcome to Episode 15 where I speak to my Body Image coach, Sarah Vance from Sarahvance.com. Sarah is a Body Positive Bad Ass Coach who helps women find and become the Inner Radiant Selves. She does this through helping you to love your body and restore your relationship with your body and food. I find Sarah to be authentic and living in her power. She is such a strong advocate for Body Positivity and her 'no rules' approach to living. We discuss her story, eating disorders and Body Building. Black and White thinking Fitness Industry Coaching Learning to love your body Her own Podcast and much more....... You can find more about Sarah here: https://www.facebook.com/SareVance/?fref=ts http://www.sarahvance.com/ Here more about her reclaim retreat with Summer Innanen here: http://www.sarahvance.com/reclaim-retreat/

Summer Innanen worked in the corporate world for almost 10 years, but when she turned 30, things changed for her. Summer quickly realized she didn't want to do this anymore and had to make a change. However, the so-called healthy habits she had built for herself quickly came apart and Summer found herself struggling with her self-worth and body image. Fast forward to today, Summer is a body image coach, helping women overcome their personal 'diet demons' and she is the best selling author of Body Image Remix.   Key Insights & Aha Moments: *Shout out to the Making The Maven Facebook community! *Summer helps women to stop worrying about the number they see on the scale. *Summer is also the best selling author of Body Image Remix. *When Summer turned 30, she came to the realization she had to make a change with her career. *The habits Summer perceived as being healthy, were actually not healthy at all. She had the same hormone levels as postmenopausal women. *Summer found out the issues she had stemmed from her own personal struggle with body issues and self-worth. *Own who you are! Stop trying to be someone else! *What kind of challenges has Summer faced? *What are some of your hiding strategies? *Summer knew her hiding strategies were stalling her from real, meaningful work. *Summer's fears continue to pop up, which is why she sees a coach every month to help her. *Fear happens at every level, no matter where you are in your business. *When I left my brick and mortar business, I really felt like I was killing my baby. *When did Summer realize she had hiding strategies that were preventing her from succeeding? *Summer admits there were a lot of tears along the way. *Summer also used to have a weird relationship with time. She constantly thought she didn't have time for anything! *The biggest takeaway is to keep going. *Summer loves reading biographies of celebrities, like Tina Fey, because despite being rejected time and time again, they keep going forward. *What has contributed to Summer's success? *Constant content creation is a huge contributor to getting your name out there. *You have to know and understand your audience well. Don't be afraid to ask them for feedback!   Maven Moment: Let's talk about perfectionism. Summer really inspired me when she spoke about hiding strategies and her struggles with perfectionism. I know so many of you are trying so, so hard to show up in the world, and one of the things that's holding you back is this false sense of perfectionism. If you're taking two weeks to write a blog post, that's an enormous amount of time wasted in the online world. You're setting yourself up for failure because there really is no such thing as perfect! I really want you to focus on ways to let go of your perfectionism. It's only setting you back! Go ahead and post that not-so-perfect webinar, course, blog, video, etc. Just keep trying and keep pushing forward!   Mentioned in This Episode: www.michellemcglade.com Maven Inner Circle Making The Maven Community on Facebook www.taramohr.com   Connect with Summer Website Body Image Remix by Summer Innanen Fearless Rebelle Radio

Download Episode! In this episode of the "Life Unrestricted" podcast, you are going to meet one of my favorite ladies in the world of body positivity and body image: It's Summer Innanen from Vancouver, whose podcast has literally changed my life. In my opinion, every woman can use a good dose of Summer in her life! She works as a Body Image Coach who has her own past with diets, restriction, body insecurity and exercise addiction, and she now helps women to stop living behind the number on their scales, to ditch the diet demons for good and to develop real inner confidence. Today, and only on the "Life Unrestricted" podcast, she's letting us know some things about herself that she hasn't shared anywhere else before. So listen in and learn: – How being  body-shamed, bullied and being surrounded by diet-talk and an ever-dieting mother contributed to her slipping into a very obsessive mindset – What she was trying to achieve by "becoming thinner" and why so many of us fall into this trap – Why she never realized she had a problem until very late in the "game" – What terrible advice she was given by various doctors before she found someone who was educated enough to know about the harmful effects of overexercising and restriction on the female body – How she stopped lying to herself – How she managed to break her exercise addiction and gave her body time to heal – How long it took her to get the "thin-obsession" out of her head – Why discovering Intuitive Eating and Health At Every Size (HAES) played such an important role in her recovery – What she learned about the underlying issues that keep women in the diet- and weight-obsession trap – Why anger and resentment are blocks to becoming an authentically kind and compassionate person – What women are REALLY trying to fix when they are trying to fix their bodies – What body positivity means to her – Why body image is much more than how we think about our thighs and stomachs – How learning about the mechanisms of diet-culture and the huge fitness- and weight-loss-industries can help us snap awake – Why developing an inner rebel helps on our journey towards accepting our bodies – How to find a tribe of likeminded rebels is key to the healing process – How she works with her clients and how she challenges them to step out of their comfort zones – Where she expects the most resistance in her coaching work – Why emotional eating is part of the process when healing body image, diet-obsession and exercise addiction – How having a healthy body image doesn't mean it's all sunshine and rainbows – Where her inner Gremlin shows up for her these days – Why she would never go back to that small life she previously had as a career dieter – How all of us can discover that freedom and solid self-worth beyond the scales and our jeans size... ... And so much more! Check out Summer's website and find out about her coaching business at: www.summerinnanen.com www.rockyourbodynow.com Details for the 2017 retreat are here: www.reclaimretreat.com ********* Don't forget!********* Make sure to join my tribe and meet some of the most supportive, loving and kind people of all shapes and sizes, including great coaches and leaders! We’re right over here at: http://www.lifeunrestricted.org/join/ Please consider supporting the podcast with a donation by becoming a "Patreon"; so that I can keep producing it. Thank you! Here's the link: https://www.patreon.com/lifeunrestricted Please: Do subscribe on iTunes (Apple): https://itunes.apple.com/ch/podcast/life.-unrestricted.-podcast/id1130713233?mt=2 or on Stitcher (Android): http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=93987&refid=stpr

Body Image Coach Summer Innanen shares her history of weight obsession, how she finally came to terms with her disordered eating, why she gave up her career as a nutritionist to become a body-positivity professional, how to push back against diet culture, and lots more! We'll be on vacation for the next 2 weeks, but check back here on September 13 for our Season 4 premiere!  Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in Body Image and Confidence. She helps women all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix: Embrace your body and unleash the fierce confident woman within and is the host of Fearless Rebelle Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering women to live life on their own terms. Grab her free body confidence makeover mini-course to start making peace with your body! To learn more about Food Psych and our guest, visit christyharrison.com/foodpsych Ready to make peace with food? Join Christy's intuitive eating online course!  How healthy is your relationship with food? Take the quiz and get free resources at christyharrison.com/quiz!

Download Episode! Lovely ones... Yay! Welcome to episode 5 of the "Life Unrestricted Podcast"... ... You are going to love what you hear. In this episode of the "Life Unrestricted Podcast", you are going to meet Sarah Vance from Cincinnati, a truly fabulous chick who knows exactly what it means when we let the mission to "get our goal body" take over our lives. Sarah experienced first hand how – back when "her body was a project" – life can feel increasingly horrible, and that the more obsessed we become with weight and appearance, the more our health is at the risk of declining. As a former bikini model and exercise addict who was severely obsessed with food, weight, fitness and her appearance, she knows the battle of so many people in today's society. She has managed to step out of restriction misery and has healed her compulsive relationship to exercise. It has become her mission to help others reclaim their freedom with their bodies and their relationship to food. She is a body image coach who specializes in banishing body hate and in getting a handle on emotional eating. This week, on the "Life Unrestricted Podcast", she shares with us: – How she slipped into the increasingly obsessive mindset where "good" was never "good enough" – How we often don't realize how sneakily a body- and weight-obsessed mentality can turn our life into a trap – Why she ignored her declining health (loss of period, injuries, hair falling out...) for so long – What the turning point for her was when she said "enough" – What the first crucial steps are when we want to heal our negative body image and self-loathing – How helpful it was to her to learn about the mechanisms of diet-culture and the way media portrays women – Why the majority of eating disorders aren't being detected and how our culture promotes disordered behavior as "healthy" – How body positivity helped her on her path towards body acceptance – What the most important steps are when we want to break free from obsessive behaviors – Why we need to detach "food" from "exercise" in our minds – How she got through the most difficult periods of recovery – Why she now celebrates every menstrual cycle she gets – How we can tackle the issue of "body image in the bedroom" – How she worked through her issues to now be able to enjoy a truly fulfilling sex life that was non-existent before – How she intends to help change the harmful existing paradigm that keeps so many people trapped in the idea that they have to "look good"... ... And so much more! Check out Sarah's awesome website and find out about her coaching business at: www.sarahvance.com Here's the link to the 2017 retreat in San Diego with Summer Innanen: www.reclaimretreat.com ********* Don't forget!********* Make sure to join my tribe and meet some of the most supportive, loving and kind people of all shapes and sizes, including great coaches and leaders! We’re right over here at: www.lifeunrestricted.org/join/ Please consider supporting the podcast with a donation by becoming a "Patreon"; so that I can keep producing it. Thank you! Here's the link: https://www.patreon.com/lifeunrestricted Please: Do subscribe on iTunes (Apple): https://itunes.apple.com/ch/podcast/life.-unrestricted.-podcast/id1130713233?mt=2 or on Stitcher (Android): http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=93987&refid=stpr

FULL SHOW NOTES POST.  Wellness Wonderland Notes: -Sign-up for the Wellness Wonderland newsletter! -Join the listener Facebook Group -Check-out and pre-order my book Let It Out: A Journey Through Journaling -Yay! DONATE TO THE SHOW!   | Amazon link Event Notes: -Get Tickets for the Live Podcast Recording in NYC with Christy Harrison of Food Psych (April 5th)  -Hangout and celebrate my book release with me, Gabby Bernstein, Jordan Bach and more at Gingersnap Organic (April 6th) Notes from the show: -Summer's Website |  Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest -Summer's FREE 'Love Your Body' video series: http://bit.ly/summerBODYlove -Summer's Podcast: Fearless Rebel Radio 

Join us in this episode where we discuss body image for moms with body image coach Summer Innanen. Find out why moms are under such pressure to look a certain way and how to surround yourself with more positive messaging, how to find internal validation for your worthiness, how to stop comparing yourself, whether you should get rid of your scale and how to make time for self-care in your life for the betterment of yourself and your whole family. Summer Innanen's bio: Summer Innanen is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner and Body Image Coach, specializing in helping women break free of chronic dieting. She helps women all over the world to ditch their diet demons, amp up their confidence, and break free of deprivation and guilt through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix: Embrace your body and unleash the fierce confident woman within and creator of the 21 Step Body Image Remix, a life-changing 21 day program that helps women to build unabashed body confidence. She is the host of Fearless Rebelle Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering women to live life on their own terms. You can get her free 10-day body confidence makeover at summerinnanen.com/freebies.   TIMESTAMPS: [0:00] Intro [2:11] Aglaee's updates [5:00] Summer's bio [7:14] Interview begins! [7:35] The best weight-loss diet in 2016! [10:58] How to deal with the contradictory messages around us [14:50] How to surround yourself with a more positive environment [17:20] Body image during pregnancy vs the fourth trimester [19:25] Getting rid of your scale? [26:00] How to find worthiness from within rather than looking for external validation [28:48] Self-care for moms for the betterment of everyone in your life! [35:23] The myth of balance [38:44] How to be who you are without comparing yourself [42:10] Stop staying just, sorry, think, try and actually! [46:33] Summer's 3 top tips to improve your body image today [50:50] Where to find Summer and her awesome resources   Click here to listen or find the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher!   Shownotes: Summer Innanen's website Summer's free 10-day body confidence makeover Summer's book: Body Image Remix: Embrace your body and unleash the fierce confident woman within Summer's podcast: Fearless Rebelle Radio Summer in the social medias: Facebook Private Facebook Community Twitter Instagram Periscope Pinterest Your homeworks: Make a list of what makes you worthy Make a list of what is more important to you than external validation Instagram accounts to follow: Love your lines 4thtribodies Other: Aglaée's post about the BRAT diet and her improved version   Disclaimer Please remember that the views on this podcast and website are not meant to be substituted for medical advice, shouldn’t be used to diagnose, treat or cure any conditions, and are intended for general information purposes only.

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We're back with episode #046 of The Paleo Women Podcast. Be sure to check back every Tuesday for a new episode, and head over to iTunes or Stitcher to subscribe! To leave a review for the podcast (HORRAY!), go to: https://coconutsandkettlebells.com/review In this episode, Stefani and Noelle hang out with special guest, Summer Innanen, and discuss hunger and anxiety, body-shaming from family members, and how to love and accept your body. Show notes can be found on Paleo for Women at http://paleoforwomen.com/episode46, or on Coconuts & Kettlebells at https://coconutsandkettlebells.com/episode46 Got a question you'd like us to answer? Email us at paleowomenpodcast@gmail.com. 10% of the funds we receive from our sponsors is donated directly to our partner charity, Dare Women's Foundation, which is working to empower women in Tanzania to become strong leaders through feminine hygiene care, entrepreneurship, nutrition education, and conservation. Because we get paid per download, you are actively supporting Dare Women's Foundation by downloading our podcast each week. Topics [11:30] Anxiety and Hunger [23:46] Body-Shaming From Family Members [36:02] Body Acceptance Links! Download our How to Love Your Body Printable Guide. You can find Summer Innanen at www.summerinnanen.com, or on her podcast, Fearless Rebelle Radio. Check out her free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover, and her book, Body Image Remix: Embrace Your Body and Unleash the Fierce, Confident Woman Within. What Losing 135lbs Looks Like - Paleo Parents Wild Foods Special offer! We are SO excited to welcome Wild Foods Company on as a supporter of the podcast because they provide products we absolutely love including coffee, chocolate, tea, and grassfed whey protein that not only taste out of this world - but also are sustainably sourced in a way that respects the environment and the laborers that produce the ingredients. As a special offer for podcast listeners, Wild Foods is offering FREE SHIPPING + a FREE bag of Wild Sweet Nibs when you use the code FREECOCONUTS at checkout! Head over to Wildfoods.co to check out to shop, and stock up! Dragonfly Traditions Special Offer! Stef and I are so excited to have Dragonfly Traditions as an official supporter of the podcast because we both love and use their products on our own skin. Dragonfly Traditions offers 100% natural skin and hair care products made from nourishing oils, butters, and beeswax. On the site, you'll find incredibly high-quality skin care products including facial cleansers and moisturizers, lip balms, and facial toners for extremely affordable prices. As a special offer for our listeners, Dragonfly Traditions is offering a FREE lip balm with any purchase! Simply add the product "Paleo Women Podcast" (at the bottom of the page!) for $.01 to your cart when you make an order. Never fear, when you receive your order, you'll get your penny back! To shop, head over to http://www.dragonflytraditions.com/shop. Thanks for your support, and for listening! We absolutely love being a part of your lives.

Episode 016: Welcome to this week’s episode of Real Health Radio, where I interview Summer Innanen. Summer is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner and Body Image Coach. She helps women all over the world to ditch their diet demons, amp up their confidence, and break free of chronic dieting and guilt through her private and group coaching […] The post 016: Interview with Summer Innanen appeared first on Seven Health.

Summer is a a rockin' woman- and someone who I have followed as for the last few months.  And, naturally, I was really excited to connect with her. Here's what we talk about:    Summer's personal journey and to body acceptance (including why she quit cross fit, and pretty much working out altogether, and the moment she learned that her desire to lose weight was robbing her of her health)    Top 3 steps you can do today to improve your own body image    The relationship between body weight and health    How she can eat what she wants, when she wants it, and why she knows you can too.We also talk about a 6 step process to overcoming body shame.  For the show notes and to download the awesome freebies, go to www.tanjashaw.com/13

Have you ever felt like it's hard to be well-informed about food? Ever asked yourself what's good for you and what's not? What are the foods that you can eat for health and vitality? And how much "good fat" should we be eating? Today's guest is Summer Innanen. She's one of America's top nutrition and diet coaches, and presents a cracking podcast herself. Please do take a listen, she's an inspiring individual, and starts on Zestology by telling her own story which is fascinating and led her to where she is today. When you listen you'll hear: Living with more energy Fat: clearing up the confusion. [9:00] Get happier through better nutrition. [10:26] Why grains raise your blood sugar more than sugar. [11:00] Supplements for support and not sustenance. [29:47] Easy, every-day tips for vitality Why complete carb depletion puts you at risk for hormonal imbalance. [14:00] The importance of “taking your food on a hot date.” [25:14] How eating in front of your T.V. or multitasking while you eat isn't great, and what you can do instead. [27:03] Finding purpose Listening to your body’s cues and symptoms when designing the eating habits that are right for you. [19:50] “Good” and “Bad” foods and improving your overall relationship with food [27:30] Be authentically you. Why you should show up as yourself [32:40] And lots more...

Episode 37: Summer Innanen is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner and Body Image Coach, specializing in emotional eating. She helps women all over the world to ditch their diet demons, amp up their confidence, and break free of calorie-counting, deprivation and guilt through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com. She is the creator of the 21 Step Body Image Remix, a life-changing program that helps women embrace their body and unleash the fierce confident woman within, and her flagship Rock Your Body online program gets women off the all or nothing roller coaster by dealing with the underlying issues associated with food. She is also the creator and host of Fearless Rebelle Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering women to live life on their own terms. You can grab her free e-book, "10 rules to break to ditch diets and love your body" on her website at summerinnanen.com. Here's what we chat about today: Summer's journey to body acceptance and fearless living (it involves losing her period, creating obsessions and overcoming it all!) Abandoning labels and changing your mindset towards food and your body Identifying your motivating factor How our childhoods can really shape our mindsets towards ourselves The importance of cultivating compassion Our fear of being judged Top 3 tips for creating a better body image How to create self-trust slowly but surely The Rock Your Body Video Training Series & who this is FOR! How your mindset towards your body transfers over to so many other aspects of life Why you need to DITCH the scale! Rock Your Body Free Video Training Series: http://bit.ly/1KNWI9E Are you the woman who can’t seem to get your food or weight 'under control'? Do you rebound between strict paleo (or other diets...but mainly paleo) and sabotage all in an effort to love your body for the first time in your life? Are you ready to stop obsessing over every bite and every flaw so you can live the life you've been dreaming of having? IF YES, sign up to receive Summer's free video series Rock Your Body and learn: Lesson #1: The #1 Reason You Can't Find Moderation Lesson #2: Why Body Image Feeds The Diet Mentality Lesson #3: How To Stop Obsessing Over Your Body Sign up here: http://bit.ly/1KNWI9E Have every podcast episode delivered right to your phone by subscribing to HERE. Enjoy!

The Fed+Fit Podcast | Nurturing a Healthy Mindset for a Healthy Lifestyle We're back with our 7th episode of the Fed+Fit Podcast! Remember to check back every Monday for a new episode and be sure to subscribe on iTunes! Find us HERE on iTunes and be sure to "subscribe." Episode 07 Topics: Introducing Summer Innanen! How and why she decided to break all the rules. How you can free yourself from the never-ending cycle of food/fitness reward & punishment. Ways to truly cultivate a healthy body image. What a healthy relationship with food can look like. Extras: Check out Summer's website HERE. Check out Summer's FREE Rock Your Body program right HERE! The first video goes live on February 23rd - be sure to sign up soon! Our Sponsors: The Granilla Bar - If you enjoy our podcast, you can show your support by also supporting another great small business! Place an order with The Granilla Bar and use the identifying code "FED+FIT" in the coupon field (though, there is no discount) so that they'll know who sent you. Special thanks to our producer Brandyn Miller of Primitive Wellness and the Paleo Uncensored Podcast! We would LOVE some feedback, so feel free to leave a review in iTunes, comment below, or even give us a shout on social media!

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Steph appears on 180 Radio talking about athletes & carbs with Matt Stone. July, 2014. Steph appears on Fearless Rebelle Radio with Summer Innanen. June 28, 2014. CrossFit Fortius hosts Steph for a Paleo Nutrition Seminar. June 8, 2014. Steph’s recipe for Paleo Zucchini Fritters was featured on BuzzFeed. June 6, 2014. Stupid Easy Paleo was featured in FOX News Magazine. May 30, 2014. Steph appears on episode 93 of The Paleo View podcast. May 20, 2014. Elle.com interviews Steph about Paleo and Instagram. May 6, 2014. Steph is quoted in the Huffington Post. April 28, 2014. Steph appears on episode 13 of the Bad Guy Muay Thai podcast. April 24, 2014. CrossFit Temecula South hosts Steph for a Paleo Nutrition Seminar. April 19, 2014. CrossFit Chickasaw hosts Steph & Dallas for the Whole Athlete Seminar. April 13, 2014. Steph speaks on the Supplementation for Performance Panel at PaleoFX. April 6, 2014. CrossFit Balboa hosts Steph for a Paleo Nutrition Seminar. March 10, 2014. Well+Good NYC interviews Steph about butter coffee. February 22, 2014. Steph talks nutrition at the Inov-8 Athlete Camp in Big Sur, CA. February 13, 2014. CrossFit West Houston’s Rob Exline interviews Steph about Paleo & athletes. February 2014. Steph’s recipe for Paleo Zucchini Frittata is featured on Breaking Muscle. January 25, 2014. CrossFit Fortius hosts Steph for a Paleo Nutrition Seminar. January 24, 2014. Nom Nom Paleo features The Paleo Athlete on her Forky Friday round-up. January 22, 2014. Prana Physical Therapy reviews The Paleo Athlete. January 18, 2014. CrossFit Team Academy hosts Steph & Dallas for the Whole Athlete Seminar. January 13, 2014. Whole9 writes Introducing The Paleo Athlete, about Steph’s new ebook. January 11, 2014. Bootcamp Fitness KC hosts Steph & Dallas for the Whole Athlete Seminar. January 9, 2014. A Dash of Meg reviews The Paleo Athlete. January 4, 2014. CrossFit Love hosts Steph & Dallas for the Whole Athlete Seminar. November 18, 2013. Whole9 announces the new Whole Athlete Seminar, a collaboration between Whole9 and Stupid Easy Paleo. November, 2013. Steph’s Kickin’ BBQ Shredded Chicken is nominated for a Best of 2013 Award (Best Savory Recipe—Online) from Paleo Magazine. October 23, 2013. What’s the Deal With Safe Starches?, Steph’s article for HellaLife.com, is published. October 1, 2013. Adventures in Creative Entrepreneurship (ACE) interviews Steph about how she started Stupid Easy Paleo. September 18, 2013. Fresh Rag’s Creative Business Podcast features an interview with Steph about why health is so important to entrepreneurs. September 14, 2013. Steph speaks at CrossFit Glasgow’s Paleo Challenge Seminar. September 14, 2013. Steph’s article, Ask a CrossFitter, is published on CaliforniaPaleoKitchens.com. September, 2013. Steph’s recipe for Kickin’ BBQ Shredded Chicken is featured on NomNomPaleo.com. August 22, 2013. Steph writes Eating In All Directions for RobbWolf.com. August 8, 2013. Popular Paleo interviews Steph about The Best Thing Stupid Easy Paleo Ever Ate. August 8, 2013. Steph’s recipe for Low and Slow: Chai Tea Braised Short Ribs is featured on HellaLife.com. July 31, 2013. Whole30 features Steph’s Whole30-only Pinterest board as a resource for readers. July 23, 2013. Steph’s tutorial for How to Pan Fry the Perfect Steak, posts to HellaLife.com. July 12, 2013. Steph’s article, 3 Reasons To Get Meat Adventurous, is featured on HellaLife.com. July 6, 2013. CrossFit Fortius hosts Steph for a Paleo Nutrition Seminar. June 28, 2013. Steph’s article, To Eat Grass-Fed Meat or Not? is featured on HellaLife.com. June 13, 2013. Steph’s article, Time to Eat a Steak: Why Red Meat Should Be On Your Plate, is published on HellaLife.com. May 5, 2013. Steph’s recipe for Watermelon Mojito Salad is featured on Mark’s Daily Apple’s Weekend Link Love. March 27, 2013. Spanish Cauliflower Rice, Steph’s recipe for HellaLife.com, is published. February 12, 2013. Steph joins HellaLife.com as a featured contributor. April 9, 2012. Mel Joulwan from The Clothes Make The Girl profiles Steph’s newest videos. October, 2011. Steph’s named a Whole30 Envoy Extraordinnaire!

Today, I was FLOORED to be able to have Summer Innanen, Diet Rebel, Food Lover, Nutritionist and creator of the 8-week Rock Your Body program on the show to talk her bad-ass 10 Day Confidence Makeover program, as well as her thoughts on self-esteem. Do. Not. Miss. This. Summer ROCKS it. She's hilarious (self-described as the […]The post Real Food Liz Radio 001: Summer Innanen’s Body Confidence Makeover! appeared first on Real Food Liz.