138: Sports Nutrition & How Athletes Can Work with their Bodies

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

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

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Fiona Sutherland is Director of The Mindful Dietitian & Body Positive Australia and has been practicing for 15 years primarily in the areas of eating behavior, eating disorders, body image, sports nutrition & education/training. She has been integrating the Non Diet Approach into Dietetic practice for over 12 years, and is passionate about supporting Health Professionals to develop skills in understanding more about the complexities of client presentations, and how we can focus on wellbeing. As an Eating Disorders specialist, Fiona has a particular interest in binge eating and finding evidence-based, compassionate ways of working with people in diverse bodies. Fiona is also a Sports Dietitian, working with emerging professional dancers at The Australian Ballet School and host of The Mindful Dietitian Podcast.

Fiona is a dedicated mindfulness practitioner and Yoga Teacher, bringing a particular emphasis on mindful eating and the intersection of food environment, eating psychology and body image into her work and training. She has trained in MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction), MSC (Mindful Self Compassion) and MB-EAT (Mindfulness Based Eating Awareness Training). Fiona is guest lecturer within Deakin University Dietetics course within the areas of eating behavior, Body Image, counseling skills and the Non Diet Approach.

In this episode, Fi discusses her career path and how she landed in the sports nutrition realm. She discusses the female athlete triad, bone health and the pressures athletes experience around performance and body. She shares some advice for coaches in supporting athletes' best interests and shares how all of us can support athletes in working with their bodies, rather than against their bodies.

Links mentioned:

Fiona's website: http://www.themindfuldietitian.com.au/
Positive Nutrition 101 online course.
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1:01.6	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Nutrition Matters podcast. My name is Paige, and I'm your host,
1:07.1	and as always, I'm thrilled to have you here and also thrilled to share this conversation
1:13.7	that I had with such a fantastic dietitian named Fiona Sutherland. So Fiona and I in this
1:21.6	podcast episode we talk about sports nutrition and its intersection with weight neutral care.
1:28.9	And I couldn't think of a better person to talk with this about.
1:32.3	Fiona is an expert in sports nutrition as well as a really well-respected force to be
1:37.9	reckoned with in the health at every size space.
1:42.8	You can keep in touch with her at the Mindful Dietitian on Instagram and Facebook.
1:48.5	She also has a group if you're a dietitian, a group called The Mindful Dietitian on Facebook
1:53.3	that's really great. And there's lots of good discussion that happens there. So just by way of
1:58.3	introduction a bit, Fiona is the director of the mindful dietitian and Body Positive Australia and has been practicing for 15 years, primarily in the areas of eating disorder, eating behavior, eating disorders, and body image, sports nutrition, and education and training.
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