The One About Food Fear, Diet Culture, and Giving Yourself Permission to Eat with Abbey's Kitchen

The Papaya Podcast

Mental Health, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode, Sarah welcomes registered dietitian Abbey Sharp to discuss the nuances of diet culture, the role of dietitians, and Abbey's Hunger Crushing Combo method. They explore the misconceptions around dieting, the impact of social media on body image, and the importance of a balanced approach to nutrition. Abbey shares insights on how to navigate diet culture, the significance of evidence-based practices, and how her method promotes a healthier relationship with food.

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0:00.0	Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole,
0:10.2	and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom
0:15.6	or something like that. So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital
0:23.3	space together. All right, everyone, welcome back. I am so excited to have today's guest on
0:34.2	because they are somebody that I've followed for many years and it actually helped me a lot when it comes to dissecting some of our thoughts around food and our body.
0:41.7	We have registered dietitian Abby Sharp here today. Welcome, Abby. It's been a long time coming.
0:47.2	I know. I'm so excited to chat with you. So this is very exciting for me.
0:51.1	So let's like base bare bones, like start with what is a registered
0:56.2	dietitian and how does it differentiate from, or I guess, divest from diet culture? Like what is,
1:02.2	I think we hear the word diet and we immediately consume that as something that means it's meant
1:07.7	to lose weight or it's meant to do this or that. There are so many different, we have weird relationships with the word diet. And so I would love for you to sort of
1:14.7	just intro us into what a dietitian does and how they work to support. That's a really
1:21.6	great point about the semantics of it all. It is unfortunate that that is our kind of official title.
1:27.4	But, you know, a registered
1:29.0	dietitian, we are trained in evidence-based practice to help support folks and meet them
1:37.2	where they are in their food and body journeys. And of course, for some people, that may mean
1:43.0	managing a chronic disease like diabetes,
1:45.9	others may mean trying to, you know, reach a healthy weight. And for others, it's, you know,
1:51.6	trying to improve their relationship with food in a way that helps them get away from
1:58.1	diet culture. Yeah. And I think we, like you mentioned, like we think of dietitians
2:02.6	always like, you're going to put me on a diet or, you know, like let's follow Canada's food guide or
2:08.5	whatever. But the reality is that our job is really to take the science and what we know from the
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