Podcasts about your weight

Nutritionist Lyndi Cohen discusses the complexities of weight and health and the balance needed in weight loss approaches. She shares the importance of sustainable healthy habits, the impact of sleep on eating behaviours, plus practical budgeting tips for healthy eating. HOTN SPECIAL OFFERS! You can get $50 off Lyndi’s program Boozebreak here. And come join us for the 4-week Health of the Nation challenge and get one month FREE access to Kic here. WANT MORE FROM LYNDI?You can listen to Lyndi’s audiobook Your Weight is not the Problem here, check out her website here, or follow her @nude_nutritionist or via TikTok here. WANT MORE BODY + SOUL? Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Or, TikTok here. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley. In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Health & Longevity, Dr. John Westerdahl's featured guest is Dr. Wayne Scott Andersen - Physician, Medical Director of Optavia, Cofounder and Architect of Take Shape for Life and Author of Discover Your Optimal Health - The Guide To Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Vitality, Your Life. Dr. Andersen, one of the nation's foremost physicians in nutrition intervention, has devoted his career to creating optimal health through a comprehensive approach that addresses and breaks through logistical and psychological barriers. He discusses how to achieve optimal health by using an integrative approach that begins with developing (and maintaining) healthy habits each day. Dr. Andersen shares his concepts of how a little attention and discipline now can avoid a health crisis down the road. He describes how to control your weight and health by using healthy, nutritionally balanced meal replacements as part of a nutritional strategy that can lead to achieving weight loss goals.

Do you find yourself constantly battling negative thoughts about your body, especially as you age?    If so, you're not alone. In today's solo episode of the Wellness Revolution Podcast, I share my journey and insights on cultivating a positive body image in midlife.   A younger body doesn't necessarily mean a better body. As we age, our priorities shift, and it's crucial to focus on optimizing our health from the inside out. Let go of the belief that a skinnier body is better and instead embrace the idea that strong is the new sexy.   If you're ready to transform your perspective on body image and learn valuable tips for embracing your body at any age, be sure to tune in to this powerful episode. I hope my insights inspire you to shift your focus towards living a healthy lifestyle and appreciating the incredible journey your body has been through.   Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible: ReNewU Interest List: Join for free here https://products.ambershaw.com/signature-waitlist  Solluna: Use code 15AMBER and shop at mysolluna.com   Find more from Amber: Instagram: @msambershaw TikTok: @msambershaw Website: ambershaw.com  Free Weight Loss, Health & F   What I Discuss:  00:00 The Journey of Body Image 04:06 Insights for Cultivating a Positive Body Image 07:56 Letting Go of the Skinnier Body Ideal 10:46 Prioritizing a Healthy Lifestyle 13:04 Your Worth is Not Defined by Your Weight 16:39 The Illusion of Social Media   Key Takeaways: Cultivating a positive body image is important for overall well-being. A younger body does not necessarily mean a better body. Let go of the belief that a skinnier body is better; focus on being strong and healthy instead. Prioritize a healthy lifestyle over constant dieting. Your worth is not defined by your weight. Social media is not real and should not be compared to real life.  

I once fell into the trap of setting wildly ambitious New Year's resolutions that fizzled out before February even whispered hello. It's a familiar story, isn't it?Contrary to popular belief, New Year's resolutions are not just glorified ‘to do' items for the first week of January.The New Year can actually be a magical opportunity for small mental shifts that can bring about meaningful change.Each year, around 69% of Aussies make at least one New Year's Resolution but only around a quarter of us actually stick to our good intentions and achieve the results. Well, I say this year can be different. Here's how to set New Year's resolutions that actually stick. If you've listened and have decided you're ready for a Booze Break in 2024 - head to My Booze Break to get started.Have you tried a bajillion diets, only to regain the weight (and more)? It's likely that diet culture is keeping you stuck in this vicious cycle, full of empty promises and failed attempts. If you want to build real health, check out my best-selling book Your Weight is Not the Problem. Get the details and access to a free audio sample HERE.You haven't failed diets. Diets have failed you. The Back to Basics app is your non-dieting BFF, offering you the reminders and tools you need to live a vibrantly healthy life. It's customisable framework helps you create a healthier relationship with food—no rigid rules or diet plans required! Try it free

Have you ever felt like there's something holding you back from achieving your health and wellness goals? In this episode we are looking at some of the habits you include in your life. And more importantly... are they still serving you?  Numerous ‘healthy habits' have been widely advocated for years. But how healthy are they really?Perhaps you jump on the scales everyday? Maybe your mum won't stop commenting about your weight? Or you focus on other's peoples bodies or food intake? Try to eat clean 100% of the time? Or scroll on your phone when you are out with friends?Let's see what habits should stick around & what ones we can leave in 2023. If you've listened and have decided you're ready for a Booze Break in 2024 - head to My Booze Break to get started. Have you tried a bajillion diets, only to regain the weight (and more)? It's likely that diet culture is keeping you stuck in this vicious cycle, full of empty promises and failed attempts. If you want to build real health, check out my best-selling book Your Weight is Not the Problem. Get the details and access to a free audio sample HERE. Ready to cook at home more? Download my budget friendly recipes. They will be delivered via email straight into your inbox! 

During the holiday season, healthy eating can feel tough. It doesn't take long before the non-stop eating and drinking at the Christmas parties and BBQs begins to feel overwhelming… and the thoughts about how to avoid holiday weight gain this season are starting to creep in.But are you ready to enjoy this special time of the year with your loved ones? Leaving the food guilt and weight worries behind?Even just adopting one of these 10 habits can help you feel healthier and happier! Ready to flip the narrative? Let's do it. Once you've listened... come back and grab some freebies!Cook more at home this holiday season, maybe get some ideas to bring to your next BBQ, with some FREE budget friendly recipes. Do you have a question for the podcast? On this topic or maybe another?  Click this link, and send me a voice note - I would LOVE to hear from you.Your Weight is not the Problem. Not sure if my book is for you? I'm giving away a free sample of the first section!

Faith is important in any struggle. Jen's aim is to encourage and challenge you in learning to hear God's voice better, with really practical, really fun conversations about everything that real life throws at us and how to follow the Holy Spirit's lead in it all.  Which Includes Food and Your Weight. Jen is a Pastor, boy-mom of four, and wardrobe stylist, You'll catch her talking about Jesus, family, and fashion. If you are having a tough day and emotional eating is taking over listen to the end because Jen says a special prayer just for you. Follow Jen Here to connect further Javawithjen Listen to Jen's Podcast Java with Jen: Hearing God's Voice for Everyday Life Jenilee Samuel Javawithjen.org Coupon Code: Freedom Within Connect Here ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My Offers Below Download now ⁠⁠Freedom Within Freebie⁠⁠ ⁠⁠No Scale Needed Program: More Details⁠⁠ Purchase DIY No Scale Needed now for ⁠⁠⁠Enjoyable, Energetic Pleasurable, & Sustainable Weight Loss⁠⁠⁠ Apply to work with me ⁠⁠⁠⁠1:1 options available here⁠⁠⁠⁠ Organic Wine & Coffee ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Emotional Eating Podcast Binge Eating Support Weight Loss Tips for Women Intuitive Eating Insights Self-Love and Wellness Body Image Healing Stop Dieting Strategies Boosting Energy Naturally Energetics and Wellbeing Mindful Eating Practices Emotional Wellness Podcast Overcoming Binge Eating Women's Health and Nutrition Intuitive Eating Coach Building Self-Compassion Positive Body Image Journey Non-Diet Lifestyle Energy Healing Techniques Holistic Health for Women Mind-Body Connection Healing Your Relationship with Food Weight Loss Mindset Intuitive Nutrition Empowerment and Wellness Emotional Eating Recovery --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jennifer-wojciechowicz/message

Lyndi Cohen, Nutritionist and Dietician, Author and Business Owner is back to answer THE SEVEN; seven questions that get to the bottom of the routines and mindsets that have led our guests to success - whatever that means to them.  You can find Lyndi on instagram @nude_nutritionist, listen to her podcast No Wellness Wankery here, or head to her website, Lyndicohen.com, to find out more about her book Your Weight is not the Problem or her Keep It Real program.  Follow Turia on Tik Tok: @turia_pitt or Instagram @Turiapitt. Sign up for Turia's weekly newsletter here: turiapitt.com/letter-gang/.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Struggling with your health and/ or the onslaught of diet culture? Dietitian and nutritionist Lyndi Cohen shares her genius hierarchy of healthy habits to change your health for the better.    WANT MORE FROM LYNDI? You can listen to Lyndi's audiobook Your Weight is not the Problem here, or check out her website here. Follow her on Instagram @nude_nutritionist or TikTok, here.   WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Or, TikTok here. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dietitian and nutritionist Lyndi Cohen used to REALLY hate her body, but now advocates against the insidious impact of diet culture on women. She shares the key ways she's learnt to love her body over the years.   WANT MORE FROM LYNDI? To hear today's full interview, where she chats about the hierarchy of health habits...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods. You can listen to Lyndi's audiobook Your Weight is not the Problem here, or check out her website here. Follow her on Instagram @nude_nutritionist or TikTok, here.   WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Or, TikTok here. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The pressure to 'bounce back' is one most mums will will be the familiar with. But the idea of 'bouncing back' ignores one crucial thing... that pregnancy and child-birth fundamentally changes everything about your body, from hip placement, boob-size... even your DNA! Accepting this is an important part to feeling comfortable in your new, better body. That's what Nutritionist and Dietician Lyndi Cohen thinks. She shares her personal identity transformation since becoming a mother, and how she moved past harmful ideas of what society thinkgs mothers should look like. You can find Lyndi on instagram @nude_nutritionist, listen to her podcast No Wellness Wankery here, or head to her website, Lyndicohen.com, to find out more about her book Your Weight is not the Problem or her Keep It Real program.  Follow Turia on Tik Tok: @turia_pitt or Instagram @Turiapitt. Sign up for Turia's weekly newsletter here: turiapitt.com/letter-gang/.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What would happen if you loved your body unconditionally? Is chasing 'beauty' robbing us of the present? How do we make sure our kids grow up with good body-image? These are the questions Turia puts to Dietician and Nutritionist Lyndi Cohen, aka The Nutritionist.  You can find Lyndi on instagram @nude_nutritionist, listen to her podcast No Wellness Wankery here, or head to her website, Lyndicohen.com, to find out more about her book Your Weight is not the Problem or her Keep It Real program.  Follow Turia on Tik Tok: @turia_pitt or Instagram @Turiapitt. Sign up for Turia's weekly newsletter here: turiapitt.com/letter-gang/.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

By the age of 11, half of Aussie girls would have been on a diet. By the time we reach adulthood, we've lost sight of what 'heath' really means... and we might not be the only ones. Lyndi Cohen (aka The Nude Nutritionist) tells Turia how the BMI is not the health indicator we thought it was according to new research. She also breaks down a bunch of other wellness trends and the first steps to break free of binge eating.  You can find Lyndi on instagram @nude_nutritionist, listen to her podcast No Wellness Wankery here, or head to her website, Lyndicohen.com, to find out more about her book Your Weight is not the Problem or her Keep It Real program.  Follow Turia on Tik Tok: @turia_pitt or Instagram @Turiapitt. Sign up for Turia's weekly newsletter here: turiapitt.com/letter-gang/.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What happens when you say goodbye to toxic diet culture forever? Lyndi Cohen, aka The Nude Nutritionist, did just that; and it changed her life in ways she could never imagine. Now, she's on a mission to make our generation the last to pass on harmful eating habits. She tells Turia where her journey began, what 'wellness' rules she had to break, and how others can start re-thinking their relationship with their bodies. You can find Lyndi on instagram @nude_nutritionist, listen to her podcast No Wellness Wankery here, or head to her website, Lyndicohen.com, to find out more about her book Your Weight is not the Problem or her Keep It Real program.  Follow Turia on Tik Tok: @turia_pitt or Instagram @Turiapitt. Sign up for Turia's weekly newsletter here: turiapitt.com/letter-gang/.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The average person will go on 126 diets in their lifetime - how depressing is that? Think of all those hours wasted counting calories, the number of social functions spent obsessing over the menu & days determined by the number on the scales. It is time to ditch this toxic cycle, the diet culture BS & start to build a great relationship with food. Today my guest is going to teach you how. Lyndi Cohen is a nutritionist, dietitian & the author of Your Weight is Not The Problem.  If you enjoyed this episode, you'll LOVE this one with Intuitive Eating co-creator Evelyn Tribole: Intuitive Eating 101. CONNECT WITH USConnect with That's Helpful & Ed Stott on Instagram. Find Lyndi on Instagram & Facebook. BOOKSGrey Area Drinking: How To Re-Evaluate Your Relationship with AlcoholYour Weight is Not The Problem PODCASTNo Wellness Wankery Got an episode suggestion or feedback for me? Email me - ed@edwinastott.com  

Ever felt like your relentless thoughts about food are working against you rather than for you? Consider this your golden opportunity to shift that narrative. Thinking about food when one is hungry or making cooking plans is completely normal. But thinking about food constantly? That may be a sign that something is up. Understanding the reason behind your persistent thoughts about food is key to overcoming them. Keep in mind that foods differ in nutritional value, not moral value. Unfortunately, diet culture has led us to mistakenly attach moral judgments to certain foods.And gee, does Lyndi understand that. At the age of 11, she was made to be scared of pasta, eating carrot noodles long before zoodles were even a thing. Lyndi started a food tracker, writing down everything she ate and obsessing over every mouthful. For over a decade, as long as she followed her regimen, she was fine. However, if she felt compelled to break her dieting rules, enter anxiety. In today's episode, Lyndi shares her tips to shift your focus and stop obsessing over food. Resources this episode:Are you an emotional or binge eater? Take the quizIntuitive Eating 101 & the hunger scaleFree 5 day course for binge eatingIf you are ready to share your real story on the podcast, please email hello@lyndicohen.com - we would love to hear from you. And remember, your words have power. If you have read Lyndi's book Your Weight is not the Problem, leaving reviews for can inspire others to join us and kick diet culture to the curb.

If you want to improve your digestion, your immune system, and your overall health, one might begin with a focus on a healthy gut microbiome. Today we're talking with Stanford University professor of microbiology and immunology Dr. Justin Sonnenburg, co-author of the book entitled, "The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health." He and his wife, research scientists Dr. Erica Sonnenburg, argue that our typical modern diet has caused the microbial diversity or intestine to shrink substantially. Turns out that's a big problem. Interview Summary My impression is that this field of work on the microbiome is just exploding. It seems like every day something new comes out, something exciting, some kind of major breakthrough. It's wonderful to have a leading scientist like you to join us to help explain this. Let me begin with this question. I recently read something very interesting in the article that discussed your work, namely that you've hypothesized, and this is a quote from this article, "Humans may merely be elaborate vessels "designed for the propagation of bacterial colonies." Now that's pretty interesting. Tell us more if you would? Yes, absolutely. I should note that this is an idea that has been propagated, just as microbes are propagated over time. I did say that, but I'm now attributing it to the great scientists that came before me. I will say that the microbes in our gut have been for a long time a curiosity. For hundreds of years we've known that they live there. Over time we've learned that they're affected by what we eat. We know that they're involved in digestion and gut health. But what is really phenomenal is, as you alluded to in the introduction just the ability of these microbes to impact so many dimensions of our health. Everything from our immune system, to metabolism, to things like moods, behavior, and neurodegeneration. When you start to think about microbes getting passed from generation to generation - because as a new baby is born, their gut is sterile in the womb, and then they're rapidly colonized when they come to this world largely by microbes from their mother and other adults around them - you start to realize that these microbes may actually be the ones calling the shots and dictating aspects of our biology to promote their growth through evolutionary time. It does change the way you think about this relationship in some ways. One might jump to the conclusion that microbes are a bad thing, and you'd like to have fewer of them. That's in fact what antibiotics do, they get rid of them. But we need more rather than less, and it sounds like the shrinking diversity of the microbiome is really a problem. How do our diet and lifestyles damage the vitality of the human microbiome? I'm imagining this is a 'let me count the ways question,' but what are the leading concerns in your mind? Yes, completely. I think you're right in that it's very hard to single out one particular factor, because as populations become more industrialized and embrace all of the technologies and medical practices that go along with the industrialized lifestyle, we have so many factors that can impact our microbiome. Certainly, diet is a major factor, and we can come back to this. But we know that most of the microbes in our gut reside at the far reaches of our digestive tract - at the very end of the line down in our colon in our large intestine. That means that if we're eating simple nutrients, like most of the things in a western diet - sugars, starch, fat, protein - a lot of those things get digested and absorbed in our small intestine, which leaves nothing remaining for the microbiota. It's really complex carbohydrates and dietary fiber, that serve as the major fuel for the microbiota because we can't digest those complex carbohydrates. The western diet has greatly reduced dietary fiber content, which has left a lot of our gut microbes starving. But there are other aspects of diet, certainly artificial sweeteners, emulsifiers, and probably the high fat content of the western diet are not great for our microbiome. Then beyond diet, antibiotics as you mentioned known to be great for fighting infectious diseases, but not so great for maintaining all of the friendly microbes that we harbor in our body. A variety of other factors like C-sections, baby formula, the incredible sanitation in our environment, again, a lot of these things are a trade-off because we have reaped a lot of benefits from a lot of the lifestyle medical practices technologies. But at the same time, we've implemented these in the absence of understanding the importance of our gut commensals, and the other commensals on our body for our health. Now we really need to start thinking about do we need to restore diversity to this community? Certainly, we need to start thinking about taking care of the community more diligently. You mentioned in some detail how diet affects the gut, but how does it happen in the reverse? Is there a reciprocal relationship going on? Yes, it's a great question, and there are some papers that have been published looking at how gut microbes can affect food choice in model organisms like fruit flies and other organisms that are studied in the lab. We know that microbes in the gut as they metabolize things are producing a lot of interesting chemicals, little metabolites that get absorbed into our bloodstream can circulate through our body. Certainly, some of them cross the blood-brain barrier and can interact with our central nervous system. Now, whether some of those molecules can actually impact our food choice, I think is an interesting topic, we don't know a lot about that. You can imagine a microbe that's really good at, for instance, degrading pectin and it might grow very well. We know there are many microbes that grow well when we, for instance, eat an apple. If that microbe happens to produce a molecule just by chance that then can go in and increase our craving for an apple, that microbe has hit the jackpot for proliferating, it can guide our actions to choose an apple and then it actually profits from the pectin that comes in when we eat the apple. While this would be a very rare quirky event to happen, when you think about the trillions of microbes that exist in every person and have existed in every person across the planet throughout time. It's possible that things like this have happened, and it's a matter of us as scientists trying to track down those stories. There's at least some optimism that there could be virtuous cycles that gets set up rather than these destructive cycles potentially. Help us place this in some sort of a context. You talked about a myriad of dietary things that could affect the microbiome, and probably other things out there in the world too. How serious is the impact? Yes, and this brings up kind of the question of what is a healthy microbiome? Has lifestyle impact that our microbiome? What would be ideal would be to have a time machine to go back, and actually survey what the microbiome looked like thousands of years ago before industrialization, and maybe even going back greater than 10,000 years to what our gut microbiome looked like when we were hunter-gatherers even before we started farming. Just to get a sense of what are the microbes that humans harbored over long periods of time during our evolution with the idea that perhaps our human genome was shaped over evolutionary time in some way by these microbes, that we have adapted our human biology to deal with the specific set of microbiome features or species. We don't have a time machine, but there have been groups that have surveyed paleo feces for instance - the fossilized stool from humans from 1 to 2000 years ago. These data indicate that the microbiome has changed drastically. As we have industrialized, we have totally departed from this more ancestral microbiome. The other way that we can gain insight into this is by looking at modern humans that live lifestyles similar to our ancestors. Hunter-gatherer populations and rural agriculturalists, and we've done a lot of work studying the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania looking at their gut microbiome. That exactly supports what the paleo feces have told us. That there were features in the microbiome from before industrialization that have changed drastically. We've lost species, they've gone extinct. Hunter-gatherers and many rural populations still harbor these microbes. We expect that there's probably around 500 to 1000 different species of bacteria in an individual's gut microbiome. We've lost hundreds of these species over the course of industrialization. Then, the flip side of that is hundreds of other species have come in and replaced them. We've actually had this kind of wholesale change in configuration in our gut microbiome, and what this means to our biology, we're trying to figure out right now, but it is a really marked change. I have to say I admire the breadth of your work all the way from basic laboratory studies to in the field studies with hunter-gatherers. I could see how your big picture view of this is really pretty unique. Let's talk about how the gut communicates with the brain, and does the health of the microbiome affect things like eating regulation? We've talked about that a little bit already, but also things like mental health. I just want to start by saying that this is a field of research that is in very early days still, we have a lot of work to do to really figure out the connections. You can imagine then the gut microbiome composed of hundreds of species, and then trillions of cells and changing over time within an individual, and different between individuals, and then secreting thousands of chemicals that go into the bloodstream. Then put on top of that the complexity of the central nervous system and brain, and then try to map the interactions between the microbiome and the central nervous system is exceedingly complex.  I think that one of the really important things to note here is that if you look at a lot of the anxiety, and depression, Alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration in general at this center of a lot of these diseases much like other diseases of the industrialized world lies inflammation. The immune system actually becoming too inflammatory, and that leading to, you know, in some cases autoimmune diseases, but in other cases Alzheimer's disease, and/or anxiety and depression. One of the things that our lab is focused on is really trying to understand how when you change the gut microbiome, how does the immune system change? How does the inflammatory status change of the system? Because we really think that this is the key mediator of many of the things that have gone wrong including things like diabetes and metabolic syndrome.  We're now at the point of understanding that certainly if you go into an animal model and you change the gut microbiome in a major way like industrialization has changed the microbiome of people living in the United States, you completely change how the immune system functions. You can really change how an individual would react to a respiratory infection, how well they would respond to an immunotherapy if they were battling cancer, you can just completely change immune system functionality. In trying to understand this better we've started to do dietary interventions in people to see if we change the gut microbiome in beneficial ways with diet, can we make the immune system less inflammatory? We've done this so far in healthy adults, and now we're really interested in extending this into all sorts of populations that are suffering from different inflammatory diseases, including things like anxiety, and depression, and neurodegenerative diseases. We'll have more information about this. There's some beautiful fundamental research out there that shows unequivocally that the gut microbiome is regulating behaviors, and cognition, and fundamental aspects of what happens in our brain. But a lot of this has been done in animal models, and it's very hard to extend to humans in a detailed way. I can't wait to see these studies, they're just absolutely fascinating and so important. You know, something occurred to me as I was thinking about this, and this may be outside the area of work that you're focused on, but there's a lot of interest out there in the world and the impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals, or things that leach from plastics and things known as forever chemicals, and their impacts on a whole host of things like cancers, and obesity, diabetes and more. Is there any reason to worry about the microbiome in this context? Yes, completely. I think everything that we come in contact with, particularly things that we ingest, but even things that are absorbed through our skin or we inhale, the microbes that live in and on us are just incredibly sensitive detectors of everything going on in the environment. I mean, their survival depends upon it. One of the, in fact, key features of one of the first species from the gut microbiome to have its genome sequenced, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron this is a bacterial species that was sequenced in the lab of Jeffrey Gordon, it was published in 2003. One of the key interesting features of that genome was the expansion of environmental sensors that were encoded by that genome. It was very clear that this bacterium was living in a dynamic environment, and having to sense and respond to minute to minute variations in the chemical cues that were coming in. That means that when you start to change those chemical cues, you start to change the function of the microbiome because those sensors that those bacterial encode are wired into their function and how they behave. This is again, hypothesis, but I think your question is a a great one because there are these realms of inquiry where we are just right at the beginning of understanding that major things that are going on in our environment could be impacting this really essential component of our biology. And we really have no specific idea of how the perturbations may cascade through our microbiome and our biology. A lot to look at there, but I have no doubt that those chemicals are having an impact on this community filled with environmental sensors. It's going to be so interesting to see that work take shape. It would be great if community of people working on the microbiome could come together with the people in interested in the impact of these forever chemicals on health so that a full picture of their impact can get painted. So what do you think are the most pressing scientific questions that need to get addressed? I think that we're still really searching for the definition of a healthy microbiome. And this is something that dates back to a wonderful project that was started by the National Institutes of Health, the Human Microbiome Project. That was an effort from sequencing centers that had sequenced the human genome to turn these sequencing technologies to this uncharted aspect of our human biology, our microbiome. One of the goals of that sequencing project was to determine what a healthy gut microbiome is. And our assumption at the time was, well, we should sequence a bunch of healthy Americans, and kind of look at what's common between them. We now understand that the healthy American most likely harbors a microbiome that is not really optimal for health, it's actually probably a microbiome that's predisposing us to a number of inflammatory conditions.   Our human genome probably dictates whether you as a person will get an autoimmune disease, or cancer or you know, a different inflammatory disease. But it's really a microbiome that appears to be pro-inflammatory, and so that doesn't mean that it's terrible and that we need to scrap the whole thing. But it means that it probably can be improved. A big part of that improvement probably can come through feeding it better food and getting better functionality out of the microbes we have. But it also probably means that we need to bring back certain functions or certain species that we've lost over the course of industrialization, to bring back some of that biodiversity.  You know, I think of the microbiome as similar to this complex rainforest, just hundreds of species interacting in this really dynamic way, and as you start to degrade that ecosystem it's really hard to maintain its full functionality. You start to lose functions, and it starts to operate suboptimally. And so thinking about ways to bring back the health and biodiversity of this ecosystem, I think is super important. One of the key things that we have to do as a field, and I want to just reflect back on the work that we're doing with hunter-gatherers and implications for what might be a healthy microbiome. It is not at all clear that all of the microbes that we've lost are healthy and need to be reinstalled in our gut. I think that we've probably lost species that we, you know, just as soon not have. But mapping which ones are health-promoting, and in which context, because you know, what's health-promoting for one person may not necessarily be health promoting for someone else that's going through something very different in their life in a different life phase. So we need to understand all that complexity, and really crystallize how can we optimize a microbiome for an individual in a given context.  This sounds like a really complex problem, and it is, but I think that one of the really exciting things that's happening in the field right now is this combination of what we call omics data, the ability to measure so many different aspects of the microbiome at one time so we can get a really detailed picture. Then all the great computational approaches for bringing all that data together, using things like machine learning and artificial intelligence on big data sets to really distill out meaningful signals that give us a better idea of some of these complex questions. It is a complex thing to go after, but I think it's not out of reach and that's I think the big frontier for the gut microbiome. Well, speaking of the big frontier, let's end with a big picture question. What can be done to make things better? You mentioned improving diet would be one thing, but how do you look at those big picture questions? One of the incredible things about the gut microbiome and its relationship to its human host, is this like feedback system. For instance, if you are in a slightly inflammatory state, it can be hard to get out of that inflammatory state because the inflammation is reinforcing microbes that are then reinforcing the inflammation. You end up with these feedback loops that are very hard to break, so even if you were to do something like a fecal transplant in some instances of inflammation where you try to reinstall healthy microbes, those may not engraft and take up residence because the host inflammation will get rid of the good microbes and select in the microbes that feed the inflammation. There are these feedback loops that are very hard to break, and we know the gut microbiome is very resilient, so you can perturb it and it will by and large return to a starting state, not exactly what the starting state was, but there is this great resilience and recalcitrant to change over short time periods. This is why industrialization has been so powerful because it's happened over multiple generations across an entire population, and it's driven our microbiome in one direction.  I think if we want to bring back a more diverse healthy microbiome, it requires changes in our habits, changes in what we eat day after day for years on end to really change the species that are in our microbiome and what those species are doing. We got a little bit of insight into this, but I'll finish with one specific example. One of the dietary interventions that we did, we compared a high fiber diet, so this is eating things like legumes, whole grains, vegetables, fruits, thinking that that would be kind of optimal food for a healthy gut microbiome. We compared that diet with a high fermented food diet, so another cohort of individuals, we gave kombucha, kefir, yogurt, kimchi sauerkraut, food with living microbes in it that had been transformed by fermentation. Basically, so these were just healthy adults we let them eat those foods, they ramped up on the foods for four weeks, and then for six weeks they maintained high levels of those foods. We actually saw that the high fiber diet had very different effects on individuals depending upon their starting microbiome. If you had a very diverse microbiome to start with, you actually improved your inflammatory status, you got less inflammatory over the course of the intervention. But if you start with a low diversity microbiome, the high fiber diet doesn't do much for you. The fermented foods actually had a really amazing effect, they increased microbiome diversity and they also decreased over two dozen inflammatory markers that we were able to survey through these great technologies that give us comprehensive immune profiling. We really saw a signature of exactly what we'd want to see to counter the industrialized deterioration of the gut microbiome with the fermented food diet, increased microbiome diversity, decreased inflammation, and this was just over the course of a 6 to 10 week intervention. We're really curious to pursue these findings in more detail, and see if now we can go into diseases that are pro-inflammatory, and counter those diseases to actually treat them in some way with the fermented food diet.  If I were to tell people what to do to counter all the negative impact of industrialization on our microbiome, I would say consume some fermented foods every day, and then start to integrate dietary fiber. As you eat the fermented foods, you'll increase your microbiome diversity. And our hope is that will allow you to harness the benefit of the high fiber diet as your microbiome diversity increases. Bio Justin Sonnenburg is a professor of microbiology and immunology at Sanford University. His research focuses on the basic principles that govern interactions within the intestinal microbiota and between the microbiota and the host. He is the coauthor of The Good Gut: Taking Control of your Weight, Your mood, and Your Long-Term Health.  

Have you ever felt that intense urge to know, what is your weight? I remember when I was trying to stop the habit I had formed of weighing myself multiple times a day, that the urge at times felt unbearable.   So if you can relate, in today's podcast episode we will discuss why you feel like you need to or should weigh yourself, what to do when you want to weigh yourself and how to navigate getting weighed in healthcare situations. Listen to learn more!   Grab our free guide, the Hunger Fullness Scale, for the final week before it's archived by clicking here.    Other episodes on weight and body image: 5 Ways to Feel More Confident in Your Body on a Daily Basis, Your Weight is Not Your Worth and 5 Stages of Body Grief.   Right now, we are currently booking May and June spots for private coaching! Private coaching is the highest level of care we offer at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, and will help you leave behind food, body and wellness obsession.    What this means is that you can feel comfortable in your body and confident in your food choices again. Reach out today to schedule a discovery call to learn more and see if you're a good fit for our coaching programs!   Resources for you: Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support. Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop to have all the resources you need to make peace with food and your body, and live wellness without obsession. Interested in private coaching? Click here to learn more about our breakthrough sessions and 3 and 6 month packages.   Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN: Victoria's Instagram Victoria's Website Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram Nourishing Minds Nutrition website

Do you relate to the idea of grieving your body? Have you ever heard this term before, body grief? We know that for SO many of our clients, the term body grief finally offers a description of how they feel IN their bodies. It offers language to the challenging emotions you feel about your body.   Grief is a challenging and intricate emotion. Our emotions affect our ability to care for ourselves, and experiencing grief is no different.     Grief will absolutely affect how we care for our bodies.  This is why it's important to allow ourselves to grieve and mourn what is lost, even if that means grieving the idea of a body that we never actually had.  We grieve the loss of our “ideal” body.  We grieve the loss of the fantasy of what a perfect body will give us in our lives.   This is where I often tell clients that the only way out is through.  Through the grief, through the pain, through the disappointment and frustration. Listen to today's episode to learn more about body grief including the 5 stages of body grief so you can identify the specific stage you're in.   Grab our free guide, the Hunger Fullness Scale, for a limited time only by clicking here.    Other episodes on body image and body grief: Your Weight is Not Your Worth, 5 Ways to Feel More Confident in Your Body on a Daily Basis, Allowing Yourself to Grieve Your Here and Now Body with Bri Campos, and Signs Your Relationship with Your Body Needs Repair.   Right now, we are currently booking April and May spots for private coaching! Private coaching is the highest level of care we offer at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, and is certainly the fastest way to reach your goals of food and body peace, leaving food (and wellness) obsession behind in 2023.    Reach out in the next week to grab our spring special including $50 off breakthrough sessions and $150 off your first installment of a 3 or 6 month package.   Resources for you: Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support. Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop to have all the resources you need to make peace with food and your body, and live wellness without obsession. Interested in private coaching? Click here to learn more about our breakthrough sessions and 3 and 6 month packages.   Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN: Victoria's Instagram Victoria's Website Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram Nourishing Minds Nutrition website  

In this week's episode Cass is joined by Lyndi Cohen - also known as the Nude Nutritionist. Lyndi is an anti diet dietitian, best selling author, and host of the ‘No Wellness Wankery' podcast. Her latest book is Your Weight is Not The Problem… and that's really the topic of our conversation today.  In a world that places so much emphasis on, particularly women's physical body and being thin and beautiful, how can we move away from a diet, and weight, obsessed culture and into a place where we are happy with our body and improving our relationship with food. Cass and Lyndi explore: What is a diet and the rules we inherit and carry as souvenirs from a life of dieting and diet culture. How to know if you're on a diet or making a ‘lifestyle change'. Ways to start changing your relationship with your body. If you'd like to learn more about Lyndi and grab a copy of her amazing book, head to her website. And you can follow her on instagram here. To find out more about Cass' programs and books head to cassdunn.com. And you can connect with Cass on Instagram and TikTok. Feel free to DM Cass if there's a topic you'd like her to explore. Cass' brand new Audible Original “The Imposter Solution: Five Steps to Ditch Self-Doubt and stop feeling like a fraud” is available worldwide on Audible and is included in the Audible Plus catalogue which means it's FREE to download if you are an Audible subscriber. You can sign up for a free 30-day trial on Audible and listen right now!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode I am thrilled to be bringing back one of our much loved guest here at BodyMatters Lyndi Cohen. Lyndi is a media dietitian, best-selling author and one of Australia's most well-known nutritionists, who also goes by the name of the Nude Nutritionist. You may have also seen Lyndi on TV as the dietitian on Channel 9's TODAY show! On this weeks episode I am so happy to be speaking with Lyndi about the topic of food freedom.  As Lyndi has done a lot of work in the space around food freedom as well as had her own challenging experiences with disordered eating. Where Lyndi is most popular for calling out nutrition nonsense and promoting real health through a healthy body image. Today Lyndi has kindly opened up and shared information from her new book 'Your Weight Is Not the Problem'. Where Lyndi so beautifully promotes new understandings around food, bodies, happiness and life.  So on that note, I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did, enjoy! Podcast Summary  1. Your weight is not a determinant of your self- worth  2. Mainstream media promoting eating disorder content  3. Generational disordered eating  4. Having food freedom around all foods  5. Striving for a healthy body image as a practice not a destination  6. Checking in with your body with food freedom  Lyndi Cohen Links: Order Lyndi's new book, Your Weight is Not The Problem: https://www.lyndicohen.com/your-weight-is-not-the-problem/ Find Lyndi on Instagram: @nude_nutritionist http://instagram.com/nude_nutritionist Listen to the No Wellness Wankery Podcast: https://www.lyndicohen.com/podcast/ Check out Lyndi's website: https://www.lyndicohen.com/ Use the code PODCAST to get 20% off her Back to Basics app and/or her Keep It Real Program, to help with binge and emotional eating.  Links from the episode: BodyMatters Australasia Website: https://bodymatters.com.au/ BodyMatters Instagram: bodymattersau Butterfly Foundation Helpline:  Call their National Helpline on 1800 33 4673. You can also chat online or email

Whether it's about your clothes getting tight, or anxiety about your partner seeing you naked, you are not alone. In fact, this kind of body self-criticism causes many of us to have a troubled relationship with eating, says dietitian Lyndi Cohen, author of ‘Your Weight is not the Problem'.  In this episode Lindy details tips and strategies to cut the negative self-talk and develop a healthy relationship with food and with your body. Get Lyndi's book Your Weight Is Not The Problem through Prevention's Book Club hereSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Losing weight to only gain it right back has got to be one of the hardest parts of a weight loss journey, am I right? It can make you fearful of taking a vacation (what if I gain the 10 pounds back again?), or red with anger when the scale is fluctuating (why can't the weight just stay off?), or resigned to not staying at your goal once you get there (why bother if I'm just going to put it back on?). But what does gaining weight really mean? Is the higher number you see on the scale truly a bad thing? In this week's episode of the Get Your GOAL podcast, I'm sharing my personal weight loss and gain (and loss and gain and loss and gain!) story, dispelling some common fears and anxieties that clients have about weight gain, and offering actionable advice about how to move forward with your weight loss, even if you gain. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: Why weight gain ISN'T the end of the world What you're ACTUALLY afraid of (it's not the scale!), and What to DO to guarantee that you won't be bothered by weight gain ever again Don't let the idea of gaining weight stop you from getting to your goal – listen now to move forward with confidence in your weight loss journey. RESOURCES MENTIONED: Episode. 235: Your Weight is a Number: https://getyourgoal.com/podcasts/235-weight-is-a-number/ Download The 5-0 Method, Weight Loss for Women over 50: https://getyourgoal.com/ Join the Get Your GOAL Mastermind group: https://getyourgoal.com/work-with-me/

In this episode, Part 1 of the New Beginnings Series: Five Factors to Great New Beginning on Your Weight  Loss. You'll learn the five factors to a great new beginning so that you are successful on your weight loss journey and living a healthy and abundant life. Scriptures of focus: Genesis 11:26-32, Genesis 12:1-8, Proverbs 3:6 Book a Consultation DM me on Instagram

Think of this like a cheat sheet to intuitive eating. Dietitian and nutritionist Lyndi Cohen explains what it is, the hunger scale and the health halo effect.  WANT MORE FROM LYNDI? Find Lyndi's new book Your Weight is not the Problem (Murdoch Books, $32.99) here or check out her website, here. You can follow her on Instagram @nude_nutritionist. WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Or, TikTok here. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV here. In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania).   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Break-free from the New Year diet mindset and set yourself up for a nutritious 2023 with advice from dietitian and nutritionist Lyndi Cohen. WANT MORE FROM LYNDI? To hear today's full interview, where Lyndi chats through intuitive eating...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods. Find Lyndi's new book Your Weight is not the Problem (Murdoch Books, $32.99) here or check out her website, here. You can follow her on Instagram @nude_nutritionist. WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Or, TikTok here. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV here. In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Grab the book here in written or audiobook format.This is the first 30 minutes of my new book, Your Weight is not the Problem.  It's a simple, no-diet plan for healthy habits that stick.Our constant fixation with losing weight is exhausting. We're stuck in a vicious diet cycle, gaining weight after each failed attempt and never feeling good enough. Diet culture and unattainable #bodygoals contribute to burnout, overwhelm and feeling out of control around food. It's time to embrace a new approach.Liberate yourself from food guilt and self-blame with a new approach to health that doesn't rely on willpower or counting calories, because you can't live a full life on an empty stomach.Grab the book here in written or audiobook format. 

Are your New Year's goals setting you up for failure? Do you find that you have run out of steam by February or March and simply give up because it's all too hard?This episode is all about setting New Years resolutions that don't suck... if you decide to set any at all! Kiah and Meg discuss:Avoiding perfectionism and the 'all or nothing' mindset when goal settingThe types of goals that we want to avoidHow you can set intentions instead, and break goals into smaller and more realistic stepsGiving yourself permission for goals to change across the yearSome examples of goals in different domains of life (boundary setting, hobbies, work, self-care)How to set sustainable nutrition and health goalsBooks mentioned in the episode:1. Your Weight is not the Problem by Lyndi Cohen2. Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch3. 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder by Carolyn Costin4. The F*ck It Diet by Caroline Dooner5. Just Eat It by Laura ThomasAt Imbodi Health, our mission is to empower you to ditch diet culture, make friends with food and find peace with your body. Find your version of ‘whole health' no matter your body shape or size.Tune in weekly for bite-sized episodes on all things non-diet nutrition, disordered eating recovery, joyful movement, self-care and body acceptance.Join the community on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbodihealth/Visit The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au/Imbodi Health website: www.imbodihealth.comIf you enjoy our episodes, please give us a written review on Apple podcasts. It helps our podcast to be shown to more people!

Most former athletes (like us) think “Getting in the Zone” refers to an athletic environment (which it does). But what if you can get  “In the zone” in other areas of your life?   What if you can get in the zone with…   -Your Weight loss? -Your Marriage and relationships? -Your Career?   We cover 4 components of how to get in the zone.  Commit to Excellence  Concentration  Practice Harder than the Game (i.e. Life)  Radiate Confidence   Every day ordinary people live an extraordinary life by getting in the zone with their priorities in life.    Peace ✌

“I'm not mad!” she shouts as she throws her backpack and slams the door while leaving you shaking your head. Passive aggressive behavior… when words and non-verbal communication don't match. Sadly, we're all probably fairly competent when it comes to this sort of communication. How does passive-aggressive behavior interfere with the weight loss process? To begin with, there's a lot of emotional eating associated with saying things we don't really mean and then acting them out in a way that displays how we really feel. We also damage relationships with passive-aggressive behavior and risk destroying receiving much-needed support in our health journey. Listen in and learn more!Be sure to go to www.bariaftercare.com and sign up so you can hear the second part of BariAftercare's Communication Styles and Your Weight. Now, let's get started!Resources:7 tell-tale signs of passive-aggressive behavior, plus how to respond and address it in yourselfPassive-Aggressive Behavior9 Phrases That Make You Sound Like a Passive Aggressive JerkThe worst passive-aggressive phrases, according to Americans17 EXAMPLES OF PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR4 Strategies for Dealing with Passive-Aggressive PeoplePlease subscribe to the show and rate it on Apple Podcasts, download free information at www.conniestapletonphd.com, and follow me on Twitter (@cstapletonphd), Instagram (@cstapletonphd), YouTube, LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

Oh, boy! Today you're gonna learn a few ugly things about my communication skills in my young adult life.  Fortunately, with the help of others and quite a bit of effort, I have learned much healthier skills over the years that I now utilize… at least most of the time. Spoiler alert – I'm talking about being an aggressive communicator which is no good if your goal is to be the best, overall, healthiest you possible! When it comes to losing weight and maintaining weight loss, being an aggressive communicator is not going to be of service to you! Aggressive communicators stir up a lot of conflict within themselves and with others. This often turns into engaging in emotional eating. AND… check this out… aggressive communication toward self, which is otherwise known as negative self-talk, is a form of self-abuse. And that, of course, leads one right back to emotional eating. There's a lot to get through today, so let's get started!Be sure to go to www.bariaftercare.com and sign up so you can hear the second part of BariAftercare's Communication Styles and Your Weight. Now, let's get started!Four Types of Communication StylesAggressive Communication: How to Deal With Relationship AggressionWeight Loss: How to Stop Negative Self-TalkWeight Loss: How to Stop Negative Self-TalkOvercoming Negative Self-TalkWeight Loss: How to Stop Negative Self-TalkPlease subscribe to the show and rate it on Apple Podcasts, download free information at www.conniestapletonphd.com, and follow me on Twitter (@cstapletonphd), Instagram (@cstapletonphd), YouTube, LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

I've asked these questions before and I'm going to ask them again right now: Do you feel like a doormat in any of your relationships? Do you feel resentful of others because you give in to requests for the sake of not upsetting others, to be included in the group, to be liked, or because you learned from others to always be the one who does all of the things? Are you the person who refrains from saying what you think because you don't want to stir up any conflict? Do you go along just to go along? Do you blow your stack from time to time because you have kept so much emotion inside and can no longer stand it? Do you engage in emotional eating related to any of the above? This episode is to help you recognize if you are a passive communicator and if you are, I want to help you learn some skills to move from being a passive communicator to an assertive communicator, who respectfully, kindly, and without conflict, shares your honest thoughts, needs, wants and opinions. Let's jump right it! Be sure to go to www.bariaftercare.com and sign up so you can hear the second part of BariAftercare's Communication Styles and Your Weight. Now, let's get started!Resources:From Aggressive To AssertiveDo You Have A Passive Communication Style?What Is A Passive Communication Style?Please subscribe to the show and rate it on Apple Podcasts, download free information at www.conniestapletonphd.com, and follow me on Twitter (@cstapletonphd), Instagram (@cstapletonphd), YouTube, LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

Active listening is yet another healthy, assertive communication skill. But it is way more than that in terms of your bariatric journey. Actively listening - to yourself and how you communicate with yourself - can actually prevent you from being stuck in a vicious cycle of unhealthy emotional eating. Learning to listen to, and change negative self-talk into healthy, compassionate self-talk will also help you maintain a healthy weight. Active listening is also critical in the health of relationships with other people. Having solid, trusting relationships with others is essential! You want and need positive support throughout your weight loss journey and active listeners have healthier relationships. Listen in and learn more!Be sure to go to www.bariaftercare.com and sign up so you can hear the second part of BariAftercare's Communication Styles and Your Weight. Now, let's get started!Resources:Active Listening: The Art of Empathic ConversationListen to your body while eating to lose weight: Here's howDeveloping Listening SkillsPlease subscribe to the show and rate it on Apple Podcasts, download free information at www.conniestapletonphd.com, and follow me on Twitter (@cstapletonphd), Instagram (@cstapletonphd), YouTube, LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

The therapist my husband and I saw for several years when we started our journeys toward living an overall healthy lifestyle said to us over and over and over, “You always have the right to share your thoughts, your feelings and your observations.” It took us some time to learn to do so in a healthy way. For a long while, we found a way to somehow point the finger at one another, engage in unhealthy “you” statements instead of the much wiser “I” statements, and continue to engage in anything but healthy, assertive communication. Fortunately, for us, and for you, learning healthy communication skills will improve all of your relationships – most especially, the relationship you have with yourself! As your relationship with yourself improves, so will your relationship with food. And that means living at a healthier weight for the rest of your life! Listen in and learn more!Be sure to go to www.bariaftercare.com and sign up so you can hear the second part of BariAftercare's Communication Styles and Your Weight. Now, let's get started!Resources:Ten Better Ways to Say “I Think”Observation Versus Judgement: Do You Know the Difference?Difference Between Observation and ConclusionObservation vs. Evaluation: A Coaching Power Tool By Wendy SaddPlease subscribe to the show and rate it on Apple Podcasts, download free information at www.conniestapletonphd.com, and follow me on Twitter (@cstapletonphd), Instagram (@cstapletonphd), YouTube, LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

Dean Anderson, Behavior Psychology Expert, asked this question in an online article in 2006: “Would you believe me if I told you that knowing the answer to one simple question could improve your chances for weight loss success by up to 100%? Well, it's true. Here's the question:Which of the following is the single most important factor in long-term weight loss success?A. Calorie CountingB. Regular ExerciseC. Starting your sentences with the pronoun "I"D. Both a and bThe correct answer to this question is: C—starting your sentences with the pronoun "I".”I found this to be a very interesting way to start today's podcast! You'll have to listen in to learn the reason Mr. Anderson said this! Listen in… and work toward becoming your healthiest self in all areas of life!Be sure to go to www.bariaftercare.com and sign up so you can hear the second part of BariAftercare's Communication Styles and Your Weight. Now, let's get started!Resources:Put the “I” Back in Your VocabularyHow to use “I-Statements” – Changing Your Words Will Change Your RelationshipCommunication: “You” V/S “I” StatementsPlease subscribe to the show and rate it on Apple Podcasts, download free information at www.conniestapletonphd.com, and follow me on Twitter (@cstapletonphd), Instagram (@cstapletonphd), YouTube, LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

Being an assertive communicator, which will help you in your weight loss journey, is the ultimate communication goal – at least for people who want to be their healthiest adult selves! It would be great if everyone would learn to communicate in a healthy, direct, respectful manner! And for YOU… if you learn and practice and get really good at communicating in an assertive way, your weight loss journey will be easier and you will be more likely to get to, and maintain a healthier weight. From MY perspective as a psychologist, in addition to helping you lose and maintain weight, using assertive communication is a great way to increase self-esteem and improve every relationship in your life! Today we're doing a deep dive into this golden ticket for a better life! Listen in and get to work practicing your healthy assertive communication skills!Be sure to go to www.bariaftercare.com and sign up so you can hear the second part of BariAftercare's Communication Styles and Your Weight. Now, let's get started!Sources: https://positivepsychology.com/assertive-communication/#characteristicsPlease subscribe to the show and rate it on Apple Podcasts, download free information at www.conniestapletonphd.com, and follow me on Twitter (@cstapletonphd), Instagram (@cstapletonphd), YouTube, LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

Assertive? Passive? Aggressive? Or maybe Passive-Aggressive? Four different ways to communicate with others… and I suppose with yourself, as well! Do you know what communication style you most often utilize? And… can you guess which form of communication is the most effective? How about the style used least frequently? Oh… and, what do these communication styles have to do with your weight journey? So many questions! Listen to today's episode to learn the answer to all of these questions. Then make a conscious effort to increase your use of the communication style you'll learn is the most effective and how this will help you manage your weight and be the best version of your awesome self!Be sure to go to www.bariaftercare.com and sign up so you can hear the second part of BariAftercare's Communication Styles and Your Weight. Now, let's get started!Sources:Communication Styles QuizQuiz: What Is Your Relationship Communication Style?Please subscribe to the show and rate it on Apple Podcasts, download free information at www.conniestapletonphd.com, and follow me on Twitter (@cstapletonphd), Instagram (@cstapletonphd), YouTube, LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

What did you expect? There's a question we throw around quite often. Too often, what we expect something to be like does not exactly match the reality of the situation. Maybe you expected your last vacation to be trouble-free… that rarely happens! Perhaps you expected the new job to be the dream job… but it turned out that the new office had all of the drama of the previous office. If you've had bariatric surgery, is the outcome what you expected? Is life after surgery … after weight loss what you thought it would be like? If you're in the process of preparing to have a surgical bariatric procedure, what are your expectations? Listen in and hear some sound advice regarding expectations and the realities associated with bariatric surgery. It helps to have some direct, “fair and firm” information to help you establish realistic expectations of what bariatric procedures do and what they do NOT do as well as realistic outcomes based on scientific findings. Let's get started with today's episode… one you don't want to miss!Be sure to go to www.bariaftercare.com and sign up so you can hear the second part of BariAftercare's Expectations and Your Weight. Now, let's get started!Sources:Setting realistic expectations for weight lossWeight loss: 6 strategies for successManaging ExpectationsPlease subscribe to the show and rate it on Apple Podcasts, download free information at www.conniestapletonphd.com, and follow me on Twitter (@cstapletonphd), Instagram (@cstapletonphd), YouTube, LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

If, as we have talked about during the past few podcast episodes, you want to set healthy boundaries and stop neglecting yourself due to unhealthy people-pleasing behaviors, you need to commit to learning and using assertiveness skills! Not to worry, being assertive is not the same thing as being aggressive, rude or nasty. Being assertive is stating what you want and need in a healthy and direct way. Being your best self means learning to adult in a health way. Healthy adulting includes learning to overcome your fears of taking healthy risks. Being willing to learn about and practice assertive communication will increase your self-esteem and that, in turn, will result in your treating yourself in healthier ways. Healthy treatment of self translates to maintaining a healthy weight and enjoying a healthier quality of life. If you are unwilling to learn assertive communication skills, you are jeopardizing your relationships with others and with yourself. AND, if choose not to learn assertive communication skills, you are jeopardizing a healthy lifestyle designed to get you to, and keep you, at a healthy weight. You don't wanna do that so listen in! Now let's get started! Be sure to recommend BariAftercare to your friends and go to www.bariaftercare.com and sign up so you can hear the second part of BariAftercare's People Pleasing and its Effects on Your Weight! Now, let's get started! Resources:Assertive CommunicationBeing assertive: Reduce stress, communicate betterPlease subscribe to the show and rate it on Apple Podcasts, download free information at www.conniestapletonphd.com, and follow me on Twitter (@cstapletonphd), Instagram (@cstapletonphd), YouTube, LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

Are you a people pleaser? Well… if you have trouble saying “no,” feel responsible for other people's feelings, avoid conflict at all costs, apologize a lot, and feel like you never have time for yourself (especially if you're busy doing so much for so many others)… then it could be that you are, indeed, a people pleaser! There's nothing wrong with wanting to help others… unless you are so busy doing for so many others that you neglect to take care of yourself. If you say you're “too busy” or “don't have time” to meal prep, exercise, take ten minutes to do absolutely nothing, or grab yourself a protein drink in the morning on the way to work, you are probably people-pleasing your way through life at your own expense. This will result in not following through with what you need to do to lose weight or maintain weight. Listen to today's episode and learn more about how excessive people-pleasing behavior can sabotage your weight loss goals.Be sure to recommend BariAftercare to your friends and go to www.bariaftercare.com and sign up so you can hear the second part of BariAftercare's People Pleasing and its Effects on Your Weight! Now, let's get started!Resources:Are you ‘too nice'? Why people pleasing is making you overweight.How Do You Lose Weight When You Are a People Pleaser?Nice Girls Finish Fat- Is your People-Pleasing Keeping You Unhealthy and Overweight?From Parent-Pleasing to People-Pleasing (Part 3 of 3)How to Stop People-Pleasing (and Still Be Nice)Please subscribe to the show and rate it on Apple Podcasts, download free information at www.conniestapletonphd.com, and follow me on Twitter (@cstapletonphd), Instagram (@cstapletonphd), YouTube, LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

In Episode #191 I sit down with Stanford University Professor's Dr Christopher Gardner and Dr Justin Sonnenburg to talk about fermented foods, fibre, gut health and immunity. This conversation was organised following the results of their latest randomised controlled trial 'Gut-microbiota-targeted diets modulate human immune status' which was published in Cell Press in 2021. In this conversation we cover: Dr Sonnenburg's background and journey into studying the microbiome Defining the terms ‘microbiome' and ‘microbiota The development of technology in learning more about the microbiome What defines a healthy microbiome and dysbiosis Studying the microbiomes of traditional populations such as the Hadza tribe The benefits of microbiome diversity Lack of microbiome diversity Intestinal permeability How Justin and Christopher came to working together The mission behind their study of fibre and fermented foods The methodology of the study The definition of fermented foods Microbes being added to packaged fermented foods What the study found in terms of fermented food Conducting studies with humans vs animals What can the study tell us about the effectiveness of probiotics Sodium in fermented foods What the study found in terms of fibre intake Accuracy of stool/microbiome testing Key takeaways from the study and plenty more Justin Sonnenburg, PhD bio: Dr Sonnenburg is an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he studies the gut microbiota in health and disease and co-directs the Center for Human Microbiome Studies. He and his wife Erica, are the authors of the book The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health. Their laboratory at Stanford develops and employs diverse technologies to understand basic principles that govern interactions within the intestinal microbiota and between the microbiota and the host. An ongoing objective of the research program is to devise and implement innovative strategies to prevent and treat disease in humans via the gut microbiota. Current pursuits include genetic engineering commensal bacteria to enable therapeutic delivery within the gut, as well as understanding the health impact of microbiome change that has occurred during industrialization. Justin conducted his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego in the laboratory of Ajit Varki. His postdoctoral work was conducted at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri in the laboratory of Jeffrey Gordon. He has received an NIH Director's New Innovator Award and Pioneer Award. He serves on several scientific advisory boards and is a co-founder of Novome Biotechnologies. Christopher Gardner, PhD bio: Dr Gardner is the Rehnborg Farquhar professor of medicine at Stanford, the director of Stanford Prevention Research Center's (SPRC) Nutrition Studies Group, and the director of the SPRC postdoctoral research fellow training program. His primary research focus for the past decade has been randomized controlled nutrition intervention trials (soy, garlic, antioxidants, ginkgo, omega-3 fats, vegetarian diets, weight loss diets), testing the effects of these on chronic disease risk factors that have included blood cholesterol, weight, inflammatory markers, and the microbiome. His research interests have recently shifted to two new areas. The first is to approach helping individuals make healthful improvements in diet through motivators beyond health, linking to ongoing social

In Episode #191 I sit down with Stanford University Professor's Dr Christopher Gardner and Dr Justin Sonnenburg to talk about fermented foods, fibre, gut health and immunity. This conversation was organised following the results of their latest randomised controlled trial 'Gut-microbiota-targeted diets modulate human immune status' which was published in Cell Press in 2021.In this conversation we cover:Dr Sonnenburg's background and journey into studying the microbiomeDefining the terms ‘microbiome' and ‘microbiotaThe development of technology in learning more about the microbiomeWhat defines a healthy microbiome and dysbiosisStudying the microbiomes of traditional populations such as the Hadza tribeThe benefits of microbiome diversityLack of microbiome diversityIntestinal permeabilityHow Justin and Christopher came to working togetherThe mission behind their study of fibre and fermented foodsThe methodology of the studyThe definition of fermented foodsMicrobes being added to packaged fermented foodsWhat the study found in terms of fermented foodConducting studies with humans vs animalsWhat can the study tell us about the effectiveness of probioticsSodium in fermented foodsWhat the study found in terms of fibre intakeAccuracy of stool/microbiome testingKey takeaways from the studyand plenty moreJustin Sonnenburg, PhD bio:Dr Sonnenburg is an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he studies the gut microbiota in health and disease and co-directs the Center for Human Microbiome Studies. He and his wife Erica, are the authors of the book The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health. Their laboratory at Stanford develops and employs diverse technologies to understand basic principles that govern interactions within the intestinal microbiota and between the microbiota and the host. An ongoing objective of the research program is to devise and implement innovative strategies to prevent and treat disease in humans via the gut microbiota. Current pursuits include genetic engineering commensal bacteria to enable therapeutic delivery within the gut, as well as understanding the health impact of microbiome change that has occurred during industrialization. Justin conducted his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego in the laboratory of Ajit Varki. His postdoctoral work was conducted at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri in the laboratory of Jeffrey Gordon. He has received an NIH Director's New Innovator Award and Pioneer Award. He serves on several scientific advisory boards and is a co-founder of Novome Biotechnologies.Christopher Gardner, PhD bio:Dr Gardner is the Rehnborg Farquhar professor of medicine at Stanford, the director of Stanford Prevention Research Center's (SPRC) Nutrition Studies Group, and the director of the SPRC postdoctoral research fellow training program. His primary research focus for the past decade has been randomized controlled nutrition intervention trials (soy, garlic, antioxidants, ginkgo, omega-3 fats, vegetarian diets, weight loss diets), testing the effects of these on chronic disease risk factors that have included blood cholesterol, weight, inflammatory markers, and the microbiome. His research interests have recently shifted to two new areas. The first is to approach helping individuals make healthful improvements in diet through motivators beyond health, linking to ongoing social movements around animal rights and welfare, climate change, and social justice, and their relationships to food. The second is to focus less on trying to improve individual behaviors around food, and more on a food systems approach that addresses the quality of food provided by universities, worksites, hospitals, schools, etc., using a community-based participatory research approach and taking advantage of the many complementary disciplines represented on the Stanford campus, such as medicine, business, education, law, and earth sciences.Resources:The new study on fermented foods, fibre and the immune systemDr Gardner on TwitterThe Sonnenburg lab on TwitterSonnenburg Lab websiteThe Good Gut by Drs Justin & Erica SonnenburgPrevious episodes with Dr Christopher Gardner on plant-based meat and low versus high carb diets and weight loss.Want to support the show?If you are enjoying the Plant Proof podcast a great way to support the show is by leaving a review on the Apple podcast app. It only takes a few minutes and helps more people find the episodes.Simon Hill, Nutritionist, Sports PhysiotherapistCreator of Plantproof.com and host of the Plant Proof PodcastAuthor of The Proof is in the PlantsConnect with me on Instagram and TwitterDownload my two week meal plan

Well.. we've officially hit February and you know what that means? It's the month of looovvvvee.. It's the most romantic month of the year, so they say. Or at least it has the most romantic day of the year, right – Valentine's Day. But.. and it's a big but.. Valentine's Day can be hard for all my single ladies out there. Now I'm singing Beyonce in my head. You know, so are you! Valentine's Day can be a lonely day for single gals, especially those of us who are longing for a relationship, desiring for marriage. On this episode of The Diet Haters Podcast, we're going to dive deeper into some practical ways to celebrate ourselves on Valentine's Day. Maybe it's a day you've found yourself in the past, eating your way into comfort so you don't have to think about being lonely, or drinking more than a few glasses of wine, feeling sorry for yourself because you don't have anyone to celebrate with. Just because it's the most romantic day of the year, doesn't mean it can only be celebrated by couples, am I right? Today on The Diet Haters Podcast, we're going to talk about how to treat 10 fun ideas to celebrate yourself on Valentine's Day. Tune into today's episode here, whether you're the single gal or you might have some good ideas to pass onto your single friends. Links mentioned in this episode: Sundi Jo's Favorites Bone Broth Protein – Salted Caramel Bone Broth Protein – Chocolate Redeeming Love book Ep. 5: How to Understand Your Value on Your Weight loss Journey 40 Scripture Based Prayers to Pray Over Your Husband. Step Away from That Diet ebook Diet Haters Facebook Group Sundi Jo on Instagram Get my free weight loss ebook… And if you haven't already, you can download my free ebook, Step Away From That Diet: Five Simple Steps to Help You Lose Weight and Gain the Confidence You've Been Searching For. In the book I share simple, but not necessarily easy, steps to help you get back on track. You deserve better than what you're believing about yourself, my friend, and I'm ready to help you take the next right steps to get where you need to be! Step Away from that Diet will help you overcome the diet mentality, learn how to remove the barriers getting in the way of your freedom, find encouragement on your journey, and more! And don't miss the special prayer I've written at the end personalized just for you, my friend. Download it today at sundijo.com/saftd. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sundijo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sundijo/support

If you want to set him up for a lifetime of good health, it's essential to bolster the bacteria in his belly. As a microbiologist and a mom, I've got five science-based strategies for doing just that. I spend my weekdays studying the human microbiome (a fancy word for the trillions of bacteria that inhabit the human gastrointestinal tract) and examining how dietary choices, antibiotic use, and other factors affect it. Weighing in at a whopping 3 to 5 pounds per person, these bacteria help control the immune system, determining things such as whether your child has an allergic reaction to a peanut and how effectively she fights off a cold virus. In addition, the microbiome is involved in regulating metabolism and weight gain, and may be wired to the brain—meaning that it could influence mood and potentially protect your child from mental-health disorders such as autism or depression. Needless to say, these findings have impacted the way my husband (who, like me, works as a microbiologist at Stanford University) and I are raising our daughters, Claire, 10, and Camille, 7. We've also written about it in our book, The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health.

I would first like to thank all the guests that have made this podcast possible. Sharing our stories and lessons learned we can help others who may otherwise struggle for years and not know there may be solutions to their problems. I would also like to thank the listeners of the Calorie Conundrum Podcast. This podcast has been quite a bit of work to put together and it would all be wasted effort if there were nobody to listen to this information. Because of this I would also like to ask a favor. If you have listened the Calorie Conundrum Podcast and enjoyed it please share it with someone you know that may be in need of hearing these different ways of thinking. The slogan for the podcast is Expanding the Weight loss conversation beyond just calories but this mentality or way of thinking can be applied to health in general. The basic premise is if you are sick, overweight, or in pain and what you have tried in the past hasn't worked, keep searching. The answers are out there and I hope that this podcast can lead you towards the answers you are looking for. In the first episode of seasion 2 episode…021 - Calorie Conundrum's Mission, Vision, Core Values – I expand on the why behind the podcast. Listen to this podcast and let me know if you are in line with our mission. On episode022 - Anxiety and Weight Loss with Jodie Ellenor – we discuss a very common but rarely discussed struggle for many trying to lose weight. On episode…023 - What You Need VS What You Want with Carl Weston – We talk about the fundamentals of health and how sometimes what the body needs is different from what you may want. On episode…024 - Gaining Health to Lose Weight with Jimmy Moore – I sit down with the one and only Jimmy Moore a true pioneer in podcasting, self-experimentation, and sharing helpful information. On episode… 025 - Exploring Calorie Density with Chef AJ – We talk to the Vegan Chef Chef AJ and she drops numerous truth bombs that you must hear for yourself. On episode… 026 - The Answer to All of Your Health and Weight Loss Questions I do a solo episode and whether you lose weight or not may depend on if you listen to this episode. On episode… 027 - Fasting for Health with Chris James – We talk about one of the most powerful healing tools known to man. On episode…028 - The Pizza Diet with Chef Pasquale Cozzolino – we talk about how Chef Pasquale ate pizza and lost weight. In episode…029 - The 3 Problems with IIFYM with Coach Strick – I talk about some of the issues I have with the If It Fits Your Macro diet philosophy. In episode…030 - Environmental Toxins and Your Weight with Lara Adler – We discuss the ever increasing toxins and how they may be affecting your weight. On episode…031 - Jillian Michael's Calorie Counting Critique with Coach Strick – I do a critique of a youtube video posted by fitness guru Jillian Michaels where I disagree with most of her arguments for weight loss. In episode…032 - The Invisible Soda with Coach Strick – I talk about a new way of looking at diet and weight loss that could change the way you look at food forever. On episode…033 - The Dark Side of Social Media with Laura Lux – We discuss how trying to look good for the camera may not be good for your mental health. On episode…034 - Champion for Weight Loss with Coach Strick – I once again talk about why I started this podcast and my desire to help those in desperate need. On episode…035 - Your Wellness Detective with Berna Khoury – We discuss why you may need a detective to help you with your health. In episode…036 - LivFitFuel with Olivia Ruth Estela – we discuss new and unique ways to approach weight loss. On episode…037 - Six Miles to Supper with Kayla Cox – We talk about losin

It's time to bust some fitness myths! With new year's right around the corner, it can be easy to be sucked into the vortex that is fitness and nutrition marketing. Fear not though as we will discuss some of our top fitness myths, why they are absolute garbage, and provide you with the truth!   Time Stamps:   (1:00) Myth: Carbs Make You Fat (4:15) Maddy's Experience with Low Carb (10:15) Your Dream Body and Your Weight (14:22) Myth: Lifting Weights Will Make You Bulky (21:10) The Vortex of Misinformation (24:00) Santa Exposed (25:05) Myth: Fat Burners… Work (42:50) Trusting the Process (44:04) Please Share! ---------------------------- Follow Us on Instagram! @health_n_humor @maddy_cusumano @spencer_desiata ---------------------------- Ready to take your health and fitness to the next level and work with us 1-1? Click here to apply for coaching through DLDNation!

In the iconic book, titled The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, the author Don Miguel Ruiz shares ancient wisdom related to the source of our self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. The Four Agreements are: 1) Be impeccable with your word, 2) Don't take anything personally, 3) Don't make assumptions, and 4) Always do your best. In today's podcast, I share these words of wisdom and discuss how the four agreements apply to your journey through weight loss… as well as every other area of your life. The book The Four Agreements was on the New York Times best seller list for over a decade. Let's get started with the Four Agreements and Your Weight!The Four AgreementsPlease subscribe to the show and rate it on Apple Podcasts, download free information at www.conniestapletonphd.com, and follow me on Twitter (@cstapletonphd), Instagram (@cstapletonphd), YouTube, LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

This episode strays a bit from exercise into the closely related topic of eating habits. While most experts agree that dieting doesn't work, it is often looked as a way to manage weight. Jenna has learned about and now teaches a completely different approach to changing eating habits. She explains to us what intuitive eating is, how to learn from your body about what you should be eating, as well as what red flags to look out for if your eating habits need attention. Jenna Talleda has been a Registered Dietitian for over 13 years and became a Certified Intuitive Eater since 2017. She specializes in helping women transform their relationship with food and their body so they no longer feel guilty and out of control with food. She has had her own issues with yo-yo dieting, body image, and emotional eating; however after finding Intuitive Eating. All of those have improved significantly. Jenna lives In Gainesville, FL with her son and cat. To join her facebook group, Your Weight is not Your Worth, click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourweightisnotyourworth1

In Episode 15, we're back with another Ask Me Anything! Ben's question was: What do you tell yourself to stay motivated? So we're talking about talking to yourself!  Positive self-talk, plus personal update. Today, we also talked about two articles and a book. Links here: 25 Powerful Weight Loss Affirmations How Self Talk Makes (or breaks) Your Weight-loss Efforts The Science of Self Talk (Audiobook)

Here we are! Today's episode features Lindo Bacon PhD, a researcher on the inside track of weight regulation science – a scientist whose three graduate degrees, research, and clinical expertise uniquely prepare her to understand and translate the physiological, psychological, and socio-cultural underpinnings of weight control. Dr. Bacon is currently a Health Professor at City College of San Francisco and an Associate Nutritionist at the University of California, Davis. An internationally recognized authority on weight and health, Dr. Bacon has published her work in top scientific journals as well as the highly acclaimed bestseller, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight. Her recently released book, Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Fail to Understand about Weight, is a crash course in what you need to know about bodies and health.