S7 EP25: Overcoming Food & Body Image Anxiety with Abbie Attwood
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Do you really want to spend your life counting calories, tracking food intake, and generally having an unhealthy and joyless relationship with food? Probably not. In today’s podcast, you’ll hear from Abbie Attwood, a nutritionist who is anti-diet, weight inclusive, and helps women heal their relationships with food and how they think about eating.
Listen to the episode to hear Abbie, Rachael, and Kelsea talk about the intersection of autoimmune disease and diet culture, how to think about emotions and eating, and the science behind set point weight.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- How Abbi got to this place in her career
- Creating safety with disordered eating
- The intersection of autoimmune diseases and diet culture
- How to support when they’re ready to get out of diet culture
- How emotions intertwine with eating
- Pursuing healthy behaviors without making it about our body size
- Why diets don’t work in the long term
- The harm of fatphobia and medical advice that supports it
- The diet culture system of oppression
- Trusting yourself
- Understanding what you’re really looking for when you’re tracking or calorie counting
- What you want to do with the rest of your life
RELATED LINKS
- The CVG Nation app, for iPhone
- The CVG Nation app, for Android
- Our Fitness FB Group.
- Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
- Constantly Varied Gear's Workout Leggings
- Abbie's Website
- Abbie's Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There's nothing wrong with any of these behaviors, like eating the chips later, eating the ice cream later. |
| 0:04.8 | Those are wonderful. |
| 0:06.0 | But the fact that we feel chaotic and out of control around those foods is a direct result of the fact that we've labeled those foods as quote unquote bad and something that we're not allowing ourselves to enjoy. |
| 0:23.0 | The big question. The big question is this. |
| 0:27.0 | In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, |
| 0:31.4 | how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:35.7 | We are an army of hardworking women, |
| 0:39.2 | changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:42.7 | Wherever you are at on your journey, |
| 0:45.1 | we have the answers to how to make working out |
| 0:48.3 | and eating well a part of your life. |
| 0:51.9 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 0:55.9 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:01.1 | Guys, we are so excited to let you hear from our guest this week. |
| 1:05.8 | Abby Atwood is an anti-diet nutritionist with a master's degree and clinical nutrition and |
| 1:12.7 | integrative health. She provides nutrition therapy and body image coaching for her clients through |
| 1:17.7 | one-on-one counseling and group programs. Abby's philosophy is rooted in intuitive eating, fat, positive, |
| 1:24.3 | weight, inclusive care, and health at every size approach. |
| 1:28.2 | And her, our podcast with her was incredible. |
| 1:31.3 | I'm so excited. |
| 1:32.6 | I'm so excited. |
| 1:34.8 | You guys are absolutely going to love this. |
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