EP72 - Does Giving up Dieting Mean Eating Doughnuts all day? w/ Paige Smathers of Positive Nutrition
Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD
Laura Thomas
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2018
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
HEY OH! Look who's back. Coming in with a book update, followed by a conversation that desperately needed to be had, and I couldn't think of a more perfect guest for it than dietitian Paige Smathers (of the Nutrition Matters podcast). Paige and I are addressing some recent criticisms made about the non-diet movement like we're a) telling everyone to eat doughnuts all day long and b) shaming people who want to lose weight. This is in response to an article that was published recently which criticised the non-diet movement without appreciating some of the subtleties or nuance of the approach. Paige and I are discussing the concerns, doing a little reflecting, and trying to figure out how we can make the approach more accessible.
We discuss:
✨ Why it's important not to jump into nutrition too fast or too hard
✨ Knowing your audience and protecting the most vulnerable
✨ Why it's important to expose people to a variety of foods
✨ How we can bring make out message accessible to people without alienating others
✨ Why we need to be critical of the non-diet approach to help it move forward
✨ Why being critical of the non-diet approach doesn't mean you're for diets
✨ Why you shouldn't feel ashamed for wanting to lose weight or being on a diet BUT
✨ Why it's also important to understand the forces working on us that make us feel like we need to lose weight to he healthy, happy, or comfortable in our bodies
✨ Why doing the work of a non-diet advocate is HARD and why I had to delete Twitter the other week
Show Notes
{Paige on Instagram | Facebook}
{Nutrition Matters Podcast}
{Paige's Website}
{Long-term weight-loss maintenance: a meta-analysis of US studies}
{Ineffectiveness of commercial weight-loss programs for achieving modest but meaningful weight loss: Systematic review and meta-analysis}
{The National Weight Control Registry: A Critique}
{Sofie Hagen's Made of Human Podcast}
{Sofie Hagen's Shimmer Shatter Show (Highly recommend)}
{Is the Anti-Diet Movement Leading us Astray?}
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | She's got the expert guest to help you feel your best. |
| 0:06.0 | Shats down what diet shed. |
| 0:08.0 | You shouldn't bother with get all the real talk from the plate-based talk. |
| 0:14.0 | Feeling good's in the frame. |
| 0:16.0 | Now on Don't Salt My Game. |
| 0:18.0 | No, don't salt my game. Hey guys, welcome to Don't Salt my game. No, don't salt my game. |
| 0:22.6 | Hey, guys, welcome to Don't Salt My Game. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm Laura Thomas. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm a registered nutritionist specializing in Intchutuzzi Fetting, Weight Inclusive, and Non-Diative Nutrition. |
| 0:31.3 | And we're here having conversations with game changers in nutrition and health, food, body positivity, and some other stuff thrown in |
| 0:39.6 | for good measure. Okay, so we are back for now at least. And for those of you who don't know yet, |
| 0:48.1 | I had to pump the brakes on putting out weekly podcasts because I was writing a book. I have written a book. Ah, that's so weird to say out |
| 0:56.6 | loud. So I had hoped to put out a new episode every other week while I was writing the book, |
| 1:02.8 | but we decided to move the book publication date up earlier. So it's going to come out January 2019 |
| 1:09.5 | instead of April 2019, which means that you're |
| 1:13.6 | going to get to hold it in your hands right as the diet culture shit show blows up in our faces |
| 1:19.9 | in January. But it also meant that I had to pretty much drop everything so I could get it |
| 1:24.7 | finished on time. So where I'm up to is that I handed in my first draft |
| 1:30.4 | of the manuscript last Friday, so the week before this is coming out. And I'm waiting for my |
| 1:36.4 | editors get back to me with the first set of edits. I have no idea if she loves it or if she hates it at this point or how much editing |
| 1:46.4 | I'm going to have to do. I mean, it's going to be a lot of editing. I already know that because |
| 1:51.5 | nobody just writes a perfect book first time, right? Anyway, all of this is to say I'm not |
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