Chat with My High School Best Friend: Healing Our Disordered Eating & Diet Culture During Pregnancy

The F*ck It Podcast

Caroline Dooner

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture

4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Today I'm sharing my chat with Annie, one of my very best friends from all the way back in High School. We talk about our disordered eating that started in high school, and how we got out of the diet cycle in our twenties. Annie also just had a baby and has things to say about toxic diet culture during pregnancy. Content Warning: Talk about disordered habits, disordered thoughts, and pregnancy weight gain amounts. Annie's current favorite pregnancy & post-partum accounts: @Drsterlingobgyn @drcassidy @mypelvicfloormuscles @ourmamavillage @prenatalyogacenter @karrie_locher @drnicolerankins @onestrongmamaprenatal Annie also mentioned that if anyone has questions for her about pregnancy/post-partum, they can follow her private instagram @anniebmccarthy and DM her :-) *** Sponsors: -TANYA MARK. Tanya is a non diet nutritionist, body image coach, and she’s professionally certified in Intuitive Eating and Eating Psychology. She gets it. It’s not easy ditching diet culture’s BS messages. And she has a plan for you. If you’re ready to ditch food guilt and body shame for good, grab her free guide: 5 Steps to Stop Feeling Crappy About Your Body & Make Eating Easy. Grab the free guide and get started today. And follow Tanya on Instagram! -SIDE BY SIDE NUTRITION. Side By Side’s dietitians work to empower people to become their own nutrition experts. Their team of health at every size and weight inclusive nutrition therapists work virtually all over the United States - and locally in Colorado. They work both individually with clients of all ages, genders, and diagnoses in addition to running ongoing online groups - including an IE and body image support group, meal support groups, Binge Eating Disorder Support Group, and Restorative Yoga. They put out free weekly content on their YouTube channel, blog, and instagram to help inspire your journey to a trusting and self-compassionate relationship with food and your body. They offer one on one nutrition and body image therapy to those who struggle with eating disorders, disordered eating, chronic dieting, they also take a variety of insurances including the large commercial insurance companies Cigna, Aetna, and United Healthcare. If you are ready work one-on-one, you can email [email protected] or call 708-717-7394. sidebysidenutrition.com

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0:00.0	Tanya Mark is a non-diet nutritionist, body image coach, and she's professionally certified in intuitive eating and eating psychology. She gets it. It's not easy ditching diet culture's BS messages, but she has something for you. If you are ready to ditch food guilt and body shame for good, you can grab her free guide, five steps to stop feeling crappy
0:22.1	about your body and make eating easy. Just go to tanya mark.com. Grab the free guide and get started today.
0:29.3	You can find the links to find her website in the show notes.
0:34.4	Happy New Year, everyone. It's me, Caroline, and you're listening to the Fuck It Diet podcast.
0:42.9	Oh, man. I'm recording this on January 3rd. I just got back to my little house after living with my parents for two weeks out in the suburbs.
0:55.6	And it was fun.
0:58.0	My sister was home.
0:59.6	It was like getting to revert to childhood a little bit.
1:03.1	I was just planning on being there for a week through Christmas.
1:07.7	And then my grandmother passed away two days after Christmas so I stayed for an extra week
1:15.0	to go to the funeral and then I bought a new car I got a new car yesterday I have driven a little
1:24.2	red fiat for four and a half years and I finally got a bigger car that has four doors.
1:31.1	And it is what my grandmother would have wanted for me, as my dad said.
1:35.6	It was my, she was my dad's mother, and she was very, very generous.
1:41.5	She lived a very good long life.
1:43.2	She did not pass away from COVID. She had Alzheimer's. But because of COVID, we weren't able to see her, which was really, really sad. My dad and his siblings did get to see her just that very last day. And she wasn't lucid at all. But we didn't get to see her. It was really sad. We had a
2:03.0	funeral with just immediate family, meaning just the children, their spouses, meaning my
2:09.7	aunts and uncles, and the grandchildren. That's it. And she had so many friends. So it would
2:16.8	have been a huge funeral if we had been able to
2:19.3	have one so it was sad very sad but as my father did say yesterday when i got so i'm leasing a car
2:28.8	which helped me get a little bit nicer of a car than i would have been able to buy outright
2:33.6	he said you know it's kind of appropriate because if Riri, that was my grandmother's name,
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