#267: Fiona Willer, AdvAPD - Health At Every Size, Non-Dieting & Weight-Neutral Approaches

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Fiona is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian (AdvAPD) and university lecturer in nutrition and dietetics. Her academic research areas are dietetic private practice benchmarking, interprofessional learning and HAES (Health At Every Size) integration into dietetics.

Fiona has close to a decade of academic work under her belt and has been employed by Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Central Queensland University (CQU) and the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC).

She will soon complete a PhD focusing on the clinical application of weight neutral approaches to weight concern in dietetics and it’s adoption into practice.

Fiona’s mission is to empower health professionals to adopt weight neutral practice by providing support and training in how and why to do so.

In This Episode We Discuss

Defining Health At Every Size (HAES)
Weight neutral program vs. weight loss program
Benefits of non-diet approaches
Long-term data on dieting
Can obese patients still improve their health even if there is no weight loss?
Problems with basing health status on bodyweight and/or BMI
Striking the balance of knowing weight loss is beneficial with the potential that focusing solely on weight change can be contraindicated
Intuituve eating

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0:00.0	My research has also shown there's quite a strong association between self-acceptance and non-dieting and self-apported quality of life.
0:21.6	So there is this really tangible outcome.
0:26.6	If it's not weight related, it can be quality of life related as well.
0:31.6	And of course, people can change their eating behaviours and physical activity behaviours
0:36.6	and have those kind of behavioural
0:38.7	outcomes and associated benefits independently from those things without any change in weight
0:45.5	or intentional change in weight. Hello, you are very welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio with me, Danny Lennon.
1:07.3	Thank you for tuning in.
1:08.8	We're at episode 267 of the podcast today, where today I'm going
1:14.6	to be talking to Fiona Willer, who is an advanced accredited practicing dietitian in Australia
1:20.7	and a university lecturer in nutrition and dietetics. She's also in the process of completing
1:26.6	her PhD and the work she's been doing for her doctoral work as well as one of the topics that she talks a lot about to other nutrition professionals for many years and as lectured on has been centered around non-diet approaches and the health at every size movement and looking at how some
1:46.2	of these concepts can be integrated into dietetic practice. So Fiona has been working in academia
1:53.0	for close to 10 years now and has been worked with Queensland University of Technology,
1:59.2	Central Queensland University and the University of the Sunshine Coast.
2:02.6	And with her own practice and workshop she's delivered, she has been focusing on that clinical
2:07.7	application of weight neutral approaches in dietetics and its adoption into clinical practice.
2:14.6	And so I wanted to get Fiona on to discuss some of these topics because number one,
2:19.5	we haven't really got into it in the full detail that I think this topic deserves yet on this
2:24.5	podcast. You will remember a recent episode with Ari Sniverson where we talked about some related
2:31.0	concepts around intuitive eating. We brought up health at every size as well.
2:35.0	And so to build off the back of that and really to bring more awareness and information to this topic
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