Body Kindness

In a diet-obsessed world, how do we raise our kids to grow up with a healthy relationship with food? My guest today is Sally Kuzemchak of Real Mom Nutrition, and we share our philosophies about feeding children. Sally explains how she’s allowing her children to experience all foods and teach them about balance without restriction. Find out what happened when Sally experimented with giving her kids access to ‘forbidden’ food. We also talk about food fear mongering, the crazy pressure put on Moms to serve up perfect nutritionally balanced food, as well as the importance of finding our “caregiver voice”. --- Get to know Sally Sally Kuzemchak, MS, RD. Sally is a registered dietitian, educator, author, and mom. She blogs at RealMomNutrition.com, a “no-judgments” zone all about feeding families and blogs weekly for Parents magazine. In 2014, she collaborated with Cooking Light on Dinnertime Survival Guide, a cookbook for busy families, and she recently released an e-book called The Snacktivist’s Handbook: How to Ch

Why is moderation not as alluring in the food world as the idea of "eliminate"? In this episode, I chat with licensed nutritionist and professionally trained chef Monica Reinagel, host of the long-running hit podcast Nutrition Diva. We talk about moderation, how the constant nutrition noise we're served up by the media makes eating well confusing, and how our unique lived experiences with food can make moderation challenging. Monica's podcast was the first I ever listened to, and she shares her journey from professional opera singer to nutrition expert and podcasting diva. --- Get to know Monica Monica Reinagel, MS, LD/N, CNS is a board-certified, licensed nutritionist and professionally trained chef. Her advice is regularly featured on the TODAY show, Dr. Oz, CBS News, Morning Edition, and in the nation’s leading newspapers, magazines, and websites. She’s also a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, Scientific American, Food and Nutrition magazine, and My Fitness Pal, as well as a busy public speaker a

Is your healthy eating plan really a diet? Most of today’s diets look like healthy recipes touting the benefits of eating wholesome foods, but they also carry with it a bunch of ridiculous (and restrictive) rules. I’m looking at you, “no beans allowed” Paleo lovers. In this episode, I chat with award winning chef, dietitian, and mom Ellie Krieger. She shares how she has been burned by gimmicky weight loss diets from her modeling days and why it’s so important to her to sit down as a family and enjoy a delicious meal together. Ellie shares some fabulous tips for getting food on the table without overthinking it and she helps you understand why a little butter and salt can be a good thing. --- Get to know Ellie Host of the new cooking series “Ellie’s Real Good Food” on Public Television, and well known from her hit Food Network show “Healthy Appetite,” Ellie Krieger is a leading go-to nutritionist in the media today, helping people find the sweet spot where “delicious” and “healthy” meet. Ellie’s success can be

In today's episode we fill you in on Bernie’s progress from chronic dieter to Body Kindness champ. Find out what happens when his labs surprise him. We discuss the myths vs realities of health, behavior, and weight. Learn about how we uncovered a root problem that may be impacting his mental health. If you have difficulty separating health behaviors from size or if you ever had a horrible weight-shaming visit at the doctor, this podcast will speak to you. --- You can subscribe to Body Kindness on iTunes and Stitcher. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1073275062 Are you ready for Body Kindness? Get started today with my free e-course and on-demand digital training. Learn more - http://bit.ly/2k23nbT The New York Times Book Review calls Body Kindness “simple and true”. Publisher’s Weekly says it’s “a rousing guide to better health.” http://bit.ly/2k228t9 Watch my videos about why we need Body Kindness on YouTube. https://youtu.be/W7rATQpv5y8?list=PLQPvfnaYpPCUT9MOwHByVwN1

You may have heard diets don’t work. You may also know that dieting can lead to eating disorders. Both are true. But how do you actually detox yourself from the allure of diets and weight loss if you struggle with self-acceptance? Kari Anderson says we have to practice mindfulness. It’s not “woo,” it’s the WAY. When you’re mindful to what is going on with your mood and emotions, you can make better decisions about what your body needs. Learn how dieting sets you up to eat emotionally and can lead to binge eating disorder. Kari shares her personal and professional journey to real health through loving self care. Find out what I loved about attending Green Mountain at Fox Run when I first became a dietitian. Get a free #BeHerNow training at Fitwoman.com. Get to know Kari Dr. Kari Anderson has been treating eating disorders for 25 years, with emphasis on Binge Eating Disorder. She currently is Executive Director for Green Mountain at Fox Run in Ludlow, Vermont and acts as President of the Women’s Center for Bing

Julie Duffy Dillon wants everyone to love food again so much that her podcast is devoted to "Love Letters" from food to the people who are struggling with having a healthy relationship to food. In this podcast, we discuss our transformation from weight loss focused dietitians to weight inclusive dietitians. We also chat about diet culture, size diversity, and what “non-diet” actually means (hint, it’s not eating a bag of Oreos or a tub of ice cream). Get to know Julie Duffy Dillon Julie is a registered dietitian and food behavior expert who wants to help you enjoy eating again. Using her training in mental health counseling and decades experience, she walks along beside you to find the right tools for you to experience Food Peace. Julie was Whitney Thore's dietitian on TLC's My Big Fat Fabulous Life and host of the weekly podcast Love Food. You can find out more about her at JulieDillonRD.com. Follow Julie Website - http://www.juliedillonrd.com Love Food Podcast - http://www.juliedillonrd.com/lovefoodpodcast

Connie Sobczak lost her sister to an eating disorder and pushed herself to the edge in her own body despair and eating disorder. She now helps people heal their body image with her book Embody and successful workshops and programs with youth and adults. We cover a lot of ground in this rich discussion including: How grief helps you heal Why befriending your critical voice helps you take care of yourself (learn how to do this skill on the episode) How blaming “the weight” shames “the body” and is unhelpful in motivating self-care About Connie Connie Sobczak is an author, educator, mentor, and video producer. Her experience with an eating disorder in her teen years and the death of her sister Stephanie inspired her life’s work to create a world where all people are free to love their bodies. In 1996, she co-founded The Body Positive, a nonprofit organization that teaches people how to overcome self-hatred and value their beauty and identity so they can use their energy and intellect to make positive changes i

We’re all in this together - including me! In this episode, I chat with my body kindness buddy, Bernie Salazar about the chaos of time and our need to have quality "me time" even when life (and our calendars) are messy. Bernie shares his concern about needing to go for a checkup with a doctor because he has been shamed about his body before and I share a story of how my thin husband had an abnormal lab value - weight isn’t always “to blame” and that body kindness means facing your fears and then making changes with compassion and common sense. --- You can subscribe to Body Kindness on iTunes and Stitcher. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1073275062 Are you ready for Body Kindness? Get started today with my free e-course and on-demand digital training. Learn more - http://bit.ly/2k23nbT The New York Times Book Review calls Body Kindness “simple and true”. Publisher’s Weekly says it’s “a rousing guide to better health.” http://bit.ly/2k228t9 Watch my videos about why we n

What does religion have to do with diets? Probably more than you think. In this episode I talk with professor of religious studies and author of the book, The Gluten Lie, Dr. Alan Levinovitz. We’ll discuss why “cleansing” and forms of restriction we see with today’s diet culture is not about health at all. Alan shares his personal story of his “holier than thou” feeling he got from a very short term “challenge” he did with his wife in the name of book research. You’ll hear why we both think the “sugar is going to kill you” headlines are utterly untrue and unhelpful. Alan shares a few food trends he think will grow in 2017 and I share how we can make improvements to our eating patterns without going too crazy. About Alan Alan Levinovitz received his PhD in religion from the University of Chicago where he specialized in classical Chinese thought. He is now assistant professor of religious studies at James Madison University, where he teaches classes on religion, Chinese philosophy, and the connection between re

December 27, 2016 is a day I won’t soon forget. It’s the official “due date” of my “book baby” (yes, we all lovingly refer to “her” as a member of our family). This book is my voice. It’s also my life experiences that shaped the Body Kindness philosophy and who I am today. Filled with tools and exercises I have been using in my counseling practice for years, this book will take you through the necessary steps to reject dieting, make peace with food and your body, and set new goals to create meaningful change in your life. In this podcast episode, my good friend and Body Kindness accountability partner (and former chronic dieter / Biggest Loser “winner”) Bernie Salazar and I chat about how we reconnected at just the right time when Bernie needed a new approach to health. Dieting didn’t work, Biggest Loser didn’t work. Not doing anything didn’t work (If you’re a new listener, check out all of season one episodes 1-14 to get a feel for how we got together and Bernie’s mindset and life started to shift.) We’ll ta

Our original interview was released in 2016 and replaced with this update. As we enter November, Bernie and I have gratitude on our minds. It’s been 3 years since Bernie and I reconnected, and he began practicing Body Kindness. In this special episode, we reflect on the positive changes in his life and self compassion practice over time. We asked listeners to take a pause and share with us “what are you grateful for, big or small”. We also share our original conversation from 2016 where we talk about why gratitude matters to Body Kindness, and how a gratitude practice can be an important key to unlocking your “inner caregiver” voice and lead to more joy throughout the holiday season, even if you’re thinking about past holidays filled with “rules” “judgments” and emotional pain and wondering what “body kindness” looks like for you this year. We feel you. We hope this episode inspires you for finding gratitude in whatever comes to your mind. Maybe it’s a person in your life, a meaningful life event, acknowledgi

Today we’re talking about body positivity and weight loss. Can you be body positive and want to lose weight? Whether it’s the election or TV shows, there’s been an explosion of stories about weight stigma, self acceptance in the news and social media. We think it’s great that this conversation is growing so we’re diving right into this timely topic today. Here's what we talked about: What is body positivity? There’s not a singular approved definition. It’s a way of life and philosophy of respecting our bodies and treating them well that had its origins in the fat acceptance community. Body positivity is trending so much that I’m nervous it may jump the shark. There is growing chatter about mixing weight loss diet culture messages with body positivity messages and it’s making some people angry. Those who started the body positivity movement are moving to terms like “fat activism” and “fat positive” to ensure there are safe spaces where you can be fat, not just a fat person trying to lose weight. We talked abo

Today we’re talking about kids and weight, and how your body kindness practice can help the younger ones you love and even families that you don’t know. This is a touchy subject to say the least, but there’s been some changes recently that could make an impact on our population’s health. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have just updated their 2007 Guidelines on prevention of obesity and eating disorders in adolescents. Their new recommendations are dramatically different and make us excited that we could finally start changing the conversation around weight and dieting. Listen on to find out how you can be part of the change. Here's what we talked about… I opened with a story about a friend who was at the doctor’s office with her young son. She was shocked when the doctor commented on the son’s weight and poked his belly. This was an active kid, part of a family where wellbeing is woven into their values. But the doctor didn’t ask about lifestyle - he just made the judgment. This situation is not un

Our original interview was released in 2016 and replaced with this update. Grab a pen paper and get ready for some serious healing. It’s time to write about your relationship with your body. No matter how painful your past, you can cultivate what you desire through the power of the pen. Tune in to hear my “sorry body” letter from August 2016 and Bernie’s “peace offering” from July 2019. You don’t want to miss his reading and our reflection. We discuss the abuse he faced as a child and his post traumatic growth. Plus we share our best advice for anyone who wants to do this self reflection work. Need more inspiration and reflection prompts? Join our #scalesmash challenge this summer. It’s free! - BodyKindnessBook.com/scalesmash --- Get the Body Kindness book It's available wherever books and audiobooks are sold. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Order signed copies and bulk discounts here! --- Donate to support the show Thanks to our generous supporters! We're working toward our goal to fund

Our original interview was released in 2016 and replaced with this update. How would it feel to get an extra one to two hours of sleep per night? If the thought of that sounds absolutely amazing then you're like most people who don't get enough sleep. (side effects include daytime feelings of being drunk! fatigue! irritability!) Get our real life complaints and realistic advice for mindset and habit shifts that help. --- Get the Body Kindness book It's available wherever books and audiobooks are sold. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Order signed copies and bulk discounts here! --- Donate to support the show Thanks to our generous supporters! We're working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page. --- Get started with Body Kindness Sign up to get started for free and stay up to date on the latest offerings --- Become a client Check out BodyKindnessBook.com/breakthrough for the latest groups and individual support sessions --- Subscribe to th

Our original interview was released in 2016 and replaced with this update. Stress has a function and so does emotional eating. How you relate to stress and frame your views of emotional eating can make all the difference in how you feel about your body. In this powerful Learn and Grow episode, you'll learn why Bernie needed to stop restricting in order to realize that it would help cut back his stress eating even when his life stress continued to rise. SOS: support our show at GoFundMe.com/BodyKindness. Pick up Body Kindness wherever books are sold and start healing your relationship with yourself. Music: A Good Start from the American Dreams Soundtrack by Monplaisir, courtesy of freemusicarchive.org --- Get the Body Kindness book It's available wherever books and audiobooks are sold. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Order signed copies and bulk discounts here! --- Donate to support the show Thanks to our generous supporters! We're working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you d

Our original interview was released in 2016 and replaced with this update. Don’t miss this important episode in the Learn & Grow Series. We talk about one of the longest studies on weight cycling and dieting — a study that followed the Biggest Loser contestants from Season 8 for six years. I help Bernie understand the outcomes of the journal article and how he can make peace with his experiences and move forward with body kindness instead of dieting. The study found that their bodies had “fought to regain weight”. Six years after the show: all but one contestant had regained a significant portion of their lost weight – an average of 70% their resting metabolisms had permanently slowed, burning an average 500 fewer calories a day than other people their age and size they had significantly lower levels of leptin, the body’s satiety hormone. A heads up: in this episode Bernie discusses his temporary weight loss and excessive efforts on The Biggest Loser. So take care of yourself when deciding to listen. My

Our original interview was released in 2016 and replaced with this update. Bernie Salazar has been a student of the body kindness philosophy for over two years. But early on in his practice, The Biggest Loser was still a popular show and Bernie was still trying to make sense of what it meant to be healthy. Though he was deeply concerned about the well-being of the contestants, he still had his own self love and compassion “work” to do. His original “Loser letter,” which you’ll hear again in this show, still had some disordered logic and diet talk. Now, we come full circle in this episode with a deep reflection on culture, the show, and who gets access to feeling happy and safe in their body. Bernie shares that his true, happy and healthy self was always meant to have a fat body. And he is finally embracing it. He encourages all of us to keep practicing body kindness and heal our relationships with ourselves. --- Get the Body Kindness book It's available wherever books and audiobooks are sold. Read reviews on

Our original interview was released in 2016 and replaced with this update. You already know that it’s not easy to make changes to your habits. At all. It requires serious effort and a compassionate mindset as you try, mess up, and try again. In the next episode of our "body kindness for beginners" Learn and Grow series, Bernie and I discuss what is usually missing from the "new habit equation" and we share our own struggles with habits and how we’re working our way through them. --- Get the Body Kindness book It's available wherever books and audiobooks are sold. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Order signed copies and bulk discounts here! --- Donate to support the show Thanks to our generous supporters! We're working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page. --- Get started with Body Kindness Sign up to get started for free and stay up to date on the latest offerings --- Become a client Check out BodyKindnessBook.com/breakthrough for the la

Our original interview was released in 2016 and replaced with this update. If you’re new to #BodyKindness our podcast mini-series, Learn and Grow, was made for you. Bernie Salazar and Rebecca Scritchfield reflect on Bernie’s early days saying “bye-bye” to his relationship with The Biggest Loser and diet culture forever! In Episode 5, you’ll hear us discuss mindfulness and the beautiful and subtle ways in which Bernie has been able to embrace mindfulness and emotion regulation skills in his life. Here’s what we talked about... What is mindfulness? It is awareness. It’s about being present in the here and now. Studies have shown we spend only about 5% of our time in the present. I explained that the core of Body Kindness is about trust and a commitment to self awareness - a mindfulness-based practice. This means feeling all our feelings and making room for them all without judgement. Starting a mindfulness practice is simple - you just need to start noticing things in the present moment. Ask yourself one simpl