120: Practicing Mindful Eating & Self-Compassion with Diabetes

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

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

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Can mindfulness and mindful eating work with a diabetes diagnosis? Is the compassionate approach to health—Health at Every Size and Intuitive Eating paradigms—in alignment with diabetes management and treatment?

Megrette Fletcher, registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator, joined me on the podcast to discuss this very important intersection between mindful eating and diabetes. We talk about mindfulness-based nutrition therapy can improve health outcomes with a diabetes diagnosis.

LINKS MENTIONED

For individuals:

Am I Hungry - Diabetes https://amihungry.com/programs/mindful-eating-for-diabetes/
Am I Hungry - Handouts to get you started https://amihungry.com/programs/mindful-eating-for-diabetes/resources/
Am I Hungry - Webinar training https://amihungry.com/marketplace/mindful-eating-for-diabetes-online/
For individuals interested in weight neutral diabetes care: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1X9v86aK7anFjPwKo5yp2Ct9QMBPMQtWi

For Professionals:

For professionals interested in weight neutral diabetes care: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EbMDm53sSMOnJI-f4lkPo8eRY85tTa5q
Diabetes Counseling and Education Activities https://megrette.com/diabetes-counseling-education/book/
Weight Neutral for Diabetes Care - Professional Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/WN4DM/
The Core Concepts of Mindful Eating http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Megrette

Mindful Eating Resources:

Improving Blood Sugars (recorded webinar for individuals) https://www.thecenterformindfuleating.org/Improving-Blood-Sugars
Finding Your Health Weight - Marsha Hudnall MS RD https://www.thecenterformindfuleating.org/Healthy-Weight

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1:01.0	Hi everyone. Thanks for joining me for another episode of Nutrition Matters podcast. My name is
1:07.6	Paige and I'm your host and today I'm speaking with Meagrit Fletcher who is a registered
1:13.7	dietitian and a certified diabetes educator who's worked in diabetes care since 1995.
1:20.8	She's written a few books and she talks about them during the podcast episode and she
1:26.0	has this really unique expertise where her passions for mindfulness
1:32.4	and for meditation kind of are intersecting with diabetes care and it's such an important
1:39.8	conversation to have and what we do in this episode is we talk about how mindfulness can totally
1:44.9	benefit your health, whether you have diabetes or you don't, you're going to want to listen.
1:49.5	And then we kind of put to rest some of the most common misconceptions people have about diabetes
1:54.8	and about maybe a compassionate approach to health. So we talk about both, all of those things and kind of help you understand where the
2:05.3	misconceptions lie and really clarify what this whole mindfulness thing is about.
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