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Nutrition Matters Podcast

149: How Connecting to our Instinct to Eat can Help us Make Peace with Food

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

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

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

As a journalist, Virginia Sole-Smith tells stories of women. With her new book, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America, Virginia explores how we can find the power to reconnect to our bodies and our own innate understanding of how to eat in a culture that’s constantly giving women so many mixed messages about both those things. 

 

In this episode, Virginia shares about how she began her career giving diet advice in teen and women’s magazines and experiencing cognitive dissonance as she navigated her own body image struggles. Virginia shares how her daughter suddenly stopped eating as a newborn and how this affected her as a mother. She explores how seeing her daughter struggle with food helped Virginia challenge the dominate narrative that demonizes food. The Eating Instinct tells the stories of women, men, and children, all learning how to eat again, on their own terms and shares more about how her daughter finally reconnected to her eating instinct.

 

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0:00.0

You're listening to Nutrition Matters podcast with Paige Smathers, registered dietitian nutritionist.

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Nutrition Matters podcast explores how to approach food and your body in a whole new way.

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I interview people who share stories and expertise in rejecting diet culture, making peace with food,

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and discovering a more positive, realistic, and sustainable approach

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to health and well-being. I'm Paige Smathers, registered dietitian, nutritionist, and owner of

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positive nutrition, an in-person nutrition therapy practice in Salt Lake City, Utah. I offer

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free resources, including this podcast, a blog, and post on social media.

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If you're local to Salt Lake City, check out our services and availability for appointments

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and keep your eyes out for in-person groups on mindfulness, intuitive eating, body image

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resilience, and more. Go to positive-nutrition.com and hit subscribe if you'd like to keep in touch.

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I also offer online courses covering topics like the science of nutrition, mindfulness,

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and healing your relationship with food. Check those out at positive dash nutrition.com

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slash academy. If you like what you hear on the podcast, you can make a difference by leaving a review,

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sharing with friends and family, or making a donation.

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Thank you so much for your support.

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You can also find me on Instagram or Facebook if you'd like to have a little more food

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for thought at Paige Smathers-R-D.

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Thank you so much for listening.

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Hi, everyone.

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It's Paige.

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Welcome to Nutrition Matters podcast. As always,

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I'm so glad you're here and I loved this conversation I'm about to share with you with Virginia

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