105: But, I Don't Want to Accept This Body

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

Weightloss, Eatingdisorder, Kids & Family, Eating, Nutritionist, Nutrition, Health, Dietitian, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Food, Mindfulness

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The body positive movement has so many elements to love about it. Not only is it making significant headway politically, but we are also seeing more and more research being conducted to look at weight stigma and other impacts on health beyond nutrition. More and more research is mounting against the dieting and weight manipulation paradigm and in support of pursuing health, not diets.

One of the questions I get most often about the concept of body positivity is the idea of how to embrace body positivity if you feel like that's not in the cards for you. People all too often reject the paradigm outright because body positivity can feel overwhelming or impossible.

This podcast episode explores one woman's journey toward self-acceptance. Anna Sweeney, MS, RD, CDN, CEDRD-S is an eating disorder registered dietitian who lives in a disabled body. She talks about her struggles with accepting her body and it's limited ability to perform certain tasks. She talks about how her disability affects the work she does with clients trying to find body positivity and shares her own journey of how she's moved toward acceptance. Her story is a powerful look at resiliency and positivity.

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1:03.6	Hey, everyone. Welcome to Nutrition Matters podcast. My name is Paige Smathers, and I'm so glad you're here,
1:09.8	and I'm so excited to share this conversation that I had with Anna Sweeney, who is such an incredible person with such a great story and so many interesting things to share about her perspective when it comes to body image and nutrition and food, and you're just in for a real treat here.
1:29.9	So I can't wait to share this with you. So just to introduce Anna to you, she is a dietitian
1:35.9	and a supervisor, a clinical supervisor, and specializes in a non-diet health at every size approach
1:43.6	to nutrition and health. And she
1:46.6	primarily focuses her practice on eating disorders and disordered eating. And she is on a supervisory
1:54.6	role at multiple eating disorder treatment centers, including Montaimito. I hope I'm saying that
2:00.8	right. She's the owner of Whole Life Nutrition
2:03.4	Counseling in Concord, Massachusetts. So if you're local and looking for someone, check her work
2:09.5	out, check her out. Okay. And I apologize for the stuff he knows here. I've been a little bit sick,
2:15.2	as many of us have been this winter, but thanks for rolling with
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