#75: How to Build a Body-Positive Business Without Selling Weight Loss w/Melissa Toler, Non-Diet Health and Wellness Coach
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2016
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Fellow anti-diet health and wellness coach Melissa Toler shares how she began dieting and fighting against her body, what led her to give up the fight and embrace body positivity, why she no longer sells weight loss (and what that means for her business), and lots more!
Melissa Toler is non-diet, weight-neutral health and wellness coach, speaker and writer. Her goal is to help women connect the dots between our culture's ridiculous beauty standards and our personal struggle with self-acceptance. She helps women unlearn the toxic messages and behaviors from lifelong dieting so they can learn a new set of skills. Melissa uses her background as a pharmacist, a certified health & wellness coach, and her 25-year history with dieting in her work.
Melissa gave up the weight loss quest years ago and it was one of the best decisions she's ever made. Find her online at MelissaToler.com, and check out the blog post we discussed, "Why I Stopped Selling Weight Loss."
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Food Psych, a podcast about nutrition, |
| 0:02.7 | eating disorders and body image. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm your host, Christy Harrison, |
| 0:06.2 | and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist |
| 0:08.1 | and certified intuitive eating counselor, |
| 0:10.4 | specializing in health at every size. |
| 0:12.8 | Join me as I talk with interesting people |
| 0:14.6 | from all walks of life about their relationships to food. |
| 0:17.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:18.5 | I remember I was tearing, little gums bleeding, |
| 0:23.9 | crying every evening, it was all about eating. |
| 0:26.7 | When I became a teen, it was all about beefing out, |
| 0:29.6 | ready for the world, trancing, my teeth, it, stacking it. |
| 0:33.4 | Hey guys, welcome to episode 75. |
| 0:36.0 | My guest today is Melissa Toller, |
| 0:38.0 | a fellow weight neutral and non-diet wellness professional. |
| 0:41.8 | She is a coach who doesn't sell weight loss ever. |
| 0:45.0 | She helps people make peace with food |
| 0:47.0 | from a totally weight neutral and size, |
| 0:49.8 | accepting perspective, and it just has such a great story |
| 0:53.4 | and a great stance on all of this stuff. |
| 0:56.0 | And I can't wait to share that with you guys. |
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