#194: The Truth About Weight-Loss "Success Stories" with Carrie Dennett, Anti-Diet Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Journalist
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Fellow anti-diet dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and journalist Carrie Dennett joins us to discuss her experiences with “successful” dieting and being part of the National Weight Control Registry (NWCR), why she ultimately stopped dieting and embraced Health At Every Size®, the many problems with the NWCR, why the vast majority of intentional weight-loss efforts fail, how weight stigma affects people of all sizes, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about whether to expect weight loss with intuitive eating.
Carrie Dennett is a Pacific Northwest-based registered dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating counselor, journalist, author and blogger. She writes a weekly nutrition column for The Seattle Times and contributes regularly to The Washington Post. Carrie is the author of Healthy For (Your) Life: A Holistic Approach to Optimal Wellness, which blends intuitive and mindful eating with a non-diet approach, current nutrition science, and a lot of nutrition myth-busting—principles she also brings to her virtual private practice. She is a second-career dietitian who worked as a newspaper journalist for many years before earning her Master of Public Health in nutritional sciences from the University of Washington. Find her online at NutritionByCarrie.com.
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| 0:15.6 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, |
| 0:20.0 | body liberation, and taking down diet culture. I'm your host, Christy Harrison, |
| 0:24.6 | and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor, |
| 0:28.7 | offering online courses and programs to help people all over the world make peace with food. |
| 0:33.3 | Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life |
| 0:37.0 | about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:58.8 | Hey there, welcome to episode 194 of Food Psych. I'm your host, Christy Harrison, |
| 1:09.5 | and today I'm talking with fellow anti-diet dietitian certified intuitive eating counselor |
| 1:14.0 | and journalist, Carrie Dennett. We discuss her experiences with quote-unquote successful |
| 1:18.7 | dieting and being part of the national weight control registry. Why is she ultimately stopped |
| 1:23.2 | dieting and embraced health at every size? The many problems with the national weight control |
| 1:27.5 | registry, why the vast majority of intentional weight loss efforts, aka diet's fail, |
| 1:32.8 | how weight stigma affects people of all sizes, and so much more. It's a really great episode, |
| 1:37.8 | and I can't wait to share it with you in just a moment. But first I'll answer this week's listener |
| 1:41.7 | question, and just a heads up on this one that there's some fat phobic language and beliefs in |
| 1:46.1 | the question itself. So if you think that might be triggering for you, then you can skip ahead about |
| 1:50.4 | a minute to my answer, where I'll be pushing back against those beliefs. It's from a listener named |
| 1:55.2 | Liu, who writes, I'm with another food coach, and your work was mentioned in our Facebook group. |
| 1:59.7 | I'm listening to your podcasts and love all the body positivity and non-diet messages. |
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