No weight loss required: What actually helps people with diabetes

Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful episode, Jess sits down with Megrette Fletcher, registered dietitian, diabetes care and education specialist, and co-author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes.

Megrette is a pioneer in weight-inclusive diabetes care, and this conversation is packed with perspective shifts and gentle challenges to the way we've all been taught to think about blood sugar, food, and health. Together, Jess and Megrette explore the power of language in diabetes care, the emotional and physical toll of weight-centric messaging, and why success shouldn't be defined by weight loss or perfect numbers.

Megrette shares how we can shift from a restrictive, shame-based approach to one rooted in agency, autonomy, and ease and why those concepts aren’t just helpful, but essential for sustainable care.

This episode also includes a powerful reflective exercise that left Jess rethinking her own approach to care. Whether you're living with diabetes, supporting a loved one, or working in healthcare, this conversation is one you’ll want to revisit.

Learn more about Megrette at megrette.com and subscribe to her newsletter No Weight Loss Required.

If you're living with diabetes or prediabetes and want personalized support from a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist covered by insurance, visit diabetesdigital.co to connect with our culturally aware and weight-inclusive team. And if you love the show, don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes or Spotify—it makes a huge difference! For additional resources and show notes, head to diabetesdigital.co/podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Diabetes Digital podcast. You guys, this I think is one of my favorite episodes of this year. I am going to suggest that all of our dietitians listen because I learned so much. And we had an icon on the podcast. So today we interviewed Meagrit Fletcher, who is a dietitian, diabetes care
0:24.4	and education specialist and author dedicated to reducing stigma through weight inclusive diabetes
0:30.2	care. She co-authored, Eat What You Love What You Eat with Diabetes, and writes the newsletter,
0:36.4	No Weight Loss Required. Meagrit also sees clients through Nourish and you can love what you eat with diabetes and writes the newsletter, no weight loss required.
0:38.5	Meagrit also sees clients through Nourish and you can learn more at Meagrit. That's M-E-G-R-E-T-T-E.com.
0:47.1	Definitely bookmark that link because you're going to want to revisit it at the end of the episode.
0:52.0	In today's episode, we talk about language and why that matters for somebody
0:57.5	with diabetes. So if you have diabetes or pre-diabetes and you have just been told the same old
1:03.2	rhetoric of lose weight, or if you were in a thinner body, this would be easier, or your numbers
1:08.9	are bad, or you need to control your blood glucose.
1:13.5	This episode is for you. We talk about redefining success for diabetes care without weight
1:20.8	or perfect numbers and how we can focus on an additive approach to nutrition and not a subtractive approach to nutrition,
1:30.6	as well as how can we as not only patients, but also providers, work to lift people up or
1:38.1	lift ourselves up and not be oppressive to other people as providers and also as patients
1:43.5	being oppressive to ourselves.
1:45.8	It was honestly like there's so many aha moments for me and also the way that she illustrates a
1:50.6	lot of her points with examples. And there was one instance where like I kind of played patient
1:55.8	and she was provider and she walked me through an exercise. It was so good, you guys. So definitely listen until
2:02.1	the end because you're going to enjoy this episode. Welcome to the Diabetes Digital podcast. I'm Wendy
2:08.7	and I'm Jess and we're best friends, registered dieticians and diabetes educators. Through our telehealth
2:14.7	platform, diabetes digital.co, we offer accessible and personalized virtual
2:19.4	nutrition counseling for people with diabetes and prediabetes.
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