That's a wrap for season 1 of the 50 Shades of Food & Nutrition Podcast 🍪 Thank you SO much for listening to the 11 episodes, and if you haven't listened yet, please do go back and listen to them all 💟 Please make sure to give us a 5 star review and any feedback too 🌟
Huge thank you to Mimi for joining me for the final episode of season 1 🌼
In this episode we cover:
✨ Shifting the conversation in EDs, disordered eating, and OCD
✨ What is Orthorexia? The signs + symptoms
✨ Food trends
✨ The line between disordered eating + “healthy eating”
✨ Connection + quality of life
✨ Food exposure
✨ Sitting with discomfort
More from Mimi
Instagram @the.lovelybecoming
Orthorexia + OCD course
The Lovely Becoming Podcast
More from Isa Robinson
Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition
Book an appointment for nutrition counselling
Extra resources
Instagram use + Orthorexia Nervosa symptoms - research paper by Turner, P., & Lefevre, C.
Beauty Myth book by Naomi Wolf
Blog: Diet Culture
Thank you so much for tuning into this weeks episode. Do make sure to leave a 5 star rating if you enjoyed 🌟
It was a pleasure to be joined by a member of the team, thank you Jess! You can inquire about working 1-1 with Jess here ✨
In this episode, we cover:
🌸 Jess’ career journey to date
💐 Weight & health, diet culture, and the thin ideal
🌸 Body privilege & discomfort
💐 COVID-19 & mental health services
🌸 The harm of government rhetoric's & social media
💐 Intuitive Eating & ED recovery
🌸 The importance of carbohydrates in ED recovery 🥯
💐 Satisfaction & pleasure
🌸 Coping with fullness & taking care of yourself 💗
💐 Reclaiming movement
More from Jess
More from Isa Robinson
Find me on Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition
Looking for 121 nutrition counselling support? enquire on our website
Mentions
London Centre for Intuitive Eating - @laurathomasphd & team. Check out ep 2 of the pod where I chat to Laura all about diet culture 🎙
📚 The Rooted Project - Helen West & Rosie Saunt. “Is Butter a Carb?” is a go-to resource all about nutrition
Vicky Bellman - ep 4 all about body image
Extra resources & reading
DSMG podcast ep w/ Lindo Bacon - "Challenging the assumptions of the weight-normative approach"
📚 Health At Every Size book by Lindo Bacon
📕 Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch
What is HAES? Read our blog.
Intuitive movement - read our blog.
Thanks for much for tuning into this weeks episode 🥰
And a big thanks to Dr Ian Wootton for joining me to chat all things control 💫
In this episode we covered:
✨ Over & under control
✨ Culture & control
✨ Social signals in different sides of control
✨ Ways that COVID-19 lockdown praised over control
✨ The bell shaped curve of control & psychological well being
✨ The importance of fun in food & movement
✨ DBT vs RO DBT
✨ Eating disorders and disordered eating & RO DBT
✨ How to start becoming “unstuck”
More from Ian
Website - Flexible Mind Psychology for 1:1 consultations & training
More from Isa Robinson Nutrition
💟Book an appointment with Isa or Jess! Support for eating disorders, disordered eating, body image, and so much more
Read our blogs
Extra resources
Read some more about RO DBT
All podcasts & videos about RO DBT
Book: The Skills Training Manual for RO DBT {for clinicians}
Thank you so much for tuning into another episode, and I hope you enjoyed listening to the brilliant Maeve Hanan, RD!
And another huge thank you to Bimuno. Use the code "shades20" for 20% off your order ✨
In this episode we covered:
🌠 The importance of nutrition communication
🌠 Food realism vs perfectionism
🌠 The fear of weight gain
🌠 Why the healthiest choice isn’t always the most nutritious choice
🌠 It’s all about the long game - why all types of health matter
🌠 Debunking common myths about detoxes, gluten, dairy, and food intolerance tests
🌠 Maeve’s top tips for everyday gentle nutrition
More from Maeve
Instagram @dietitcallyspeaking
Your No-Nonsense Guide to Eating Well book!
Website - including 100s of blogs debunking online claims
Nutrimote Instagram @nutrimote
More from Isa Robinson
Find me on Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition
Looking for 121 nutrition counselling support? Enquire on our website
Extra reading & resources
Introduction to gluten & should you cut it out? On Maeve’s blog
10 myths about dairy debunked on Maeve’s blog
What’s the harm with fad diets? Maeve’s blog
Maeve’s top tips for eating well, on The Food Medic’s blog
What’s the low FODMAP diet & do I need to do it?
What does “detoxification” actually mean? Out blog post
Our blog on calorie counting
Are food intolerance tests legit? Check out my Instagram post here
Another huge thank you to Revive Active & their Mastermind supplement for supporting this episode 💟
Make sure to check out the “isa10” for a discount on your first order. This supplement contains omega-3, vitamin D, vitamin B12, and choline, which may be appropriate for those following a plant-based diet ✨
Thank you so much for tuning into this episode all about screen time with Dr Aric Sigman, I hope you enjoyed listening! 🙏
I apologise for the sound gaps in this episode, there were some tech difficulties. But I do believe the episode would have been a powerful listen ✨
In this episode, we spoke about:
🌟 What is excessive screen time?
🌟 What free screen time means for mental health, brain health, and body image
🌟 How much free screen time should we even have in a day?
🌟 Children and teens, and non-school screen time impact on development & IQ
🌟 Genetic predispositions play a huge role in mental health, and environment can amplify this
🌟 How the social determinants of health affect screen time use
🌟 By 85 years old, our recreational screen time equals 20 years!
🌟 How social media links with self-comparison & cultural standards of beauty/attractiveness
🌟 Diet culture & weight stigma
More from Dr Sigman
Dr Sigman website
The Body Wars book
Remotely Controlled: How Television is Damaging Our Lives book
More from Isa Robinson
Find me on Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition
Looking for 121 nutrition counselling support? Enquire on our website
Looking for support with any of the topics covered?
Enquire at the Isa Robinson Nutrition clinic
Beat UK have great resources & guides
Extra reading & resources
What are the social determinants of health? Check out our blog
Bigorexia/muscle dysmorphia blog
Blog all about weight stigma
Blog all about what diet culture actually is
A short breakdown of social media & body image on BPS
DSMG pod episode w/ Dr Amy Slater, How Social Media Impacts Our Body Image
Studies & publications mentioned
Link to PDFs for clinicians & parents all about screen time
Thank you so much for listening to this weeks episode with Dr Sula Windgassen!
Another huge thank you to Symprove for their support with this episode. Make to use the code "SHADES50" for 15% off your first order 💫
In this episode we spoke about:
💫 How physical health conditions present mental symptoms
💫 The placebo and the nocebo effect
💫 How our perceptions have a physiological response
💫 What actually is IBS?
💫 Biopsychosocial factors in IBS
💫 The digestive system
💫 How under fuelling affects the digestive health
💫 How anxiety & stress around food impacts bowel function ft gluten
💫 Symptom focusing
💫 How to identify deep concerns about symptoms & Sula’s starting tips to explore these
💫 Stress-management tools & mindfulness
💫 Why self-kindness is important for helping suffering
More from Sula
Instagram @the_health_psychologist_
Sula’s writing on Medium
More from Isa Robinson
Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition
Looking for 1:1 nutrition counselling? Enquire here
Studies mentioned
IBS RCT as part of Sula’s PhD
Perceived sugar intake vs actual intake study plus a full breakdown in this blog
Predictive factors for IBS 2013 study
Resources and extra reading
Marci Evans EDs & GI symptoms summary
How to start meditation & mindfulness, Mindful
Coping tools for physical response to stress
Box breathing (YouTube)
Progressive muscle relaxation (YouTube)
Another huge thank you to Rubies in the Rubble for supporting this episode. Make sure to check out their website to see their amazing range of products w/ a purpose & use the code "50shades" for 20% off your first order! Check out their Instagram too ✨
Thank you so much for listening to this episode with Paige Smathers, RDN!
Today we spoke about:
✨ Why connection is so important in food and body image help, and in everyday life
✨ How Paige got into dietetics and how it fits into her personal qualities
✨ How an intuitive approach fits into business: what feels best?
✨ Social media can confuse the Intuitive Eating message - you can still eat veggies & nuance matters!
✨ Reclaiming your authority around both food and social media is important
✨ Making peace with ALL food is important… Cookies, donuts and Brussel sprouts, raspberries - take away that power of them being “superfoods”
✨ What is positive nutrition?
✨ Talking about nutrition as a nutrition professional isn’t taboo - it’s nuanced!
More from Paige
Paige’s podcast, Nutrition Matters {Or search on Spotify}
Instagram @paigesmathersrd
Paige’s website
Nutrition Matters podcast episode w/ Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch {Or ep #179 on Spotify}
More from Isa Robinson
Find me on Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition
Looking for 121 nutrition counselling support? Enquire on our website
Extra reading & resources
What is pseudo dieting and why is it harmful? Our blog
Nuance matters: Intuitive Eating myths debunked blog
Nuance w/ the IE principles matters: You can eat when you’re not hungry blog by Christy Harrison
Thank you so much for tuning into this weeks episode of the 50 Shades of Food & Nutrition podcast! A huge thank you to our sponsor Organico Candles🌟 Make sure to check out the website & Natalie's Instagram
I hope you enjoyed listening to Vicky's expertise & insight... In this episode we covered:
✨Not feeling at home in your body
✨How this culture oppressive and is hostile to many bodies
✨What is body image, and what then is body image healing?
✨World systems that oppress certain bodies
✨Why self compassion is so much deeper than social media suggests
✨Medicalised weight stigma + mental health professional weight stigma
✨The idea that “worries” are hot potatoes, and therapy helps build oven mitts
✨What actually is Health At Every Size ® ?
✨And Vicky’s starter tips to cultivating self-compassion + embodiment
Make sure to follow to never miss an episode 🌟 And another huge thank you to Organica candles
More from Vicky
Instagram @concentriccounselling
Instagram @a.modern.practice
Vicky’s website
More from Isa Robinson
Find me on Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition
Looking for 121 nutrition counselling support? Enquire on our website
Extra reading & resources
Vicky’s beginner guide to developing body acceptance
How self-compassion is a tool in finding peace with food - our blog
What is positive body image? Blog
Why weight bias hurts everyone by Christy Harrison, includes link to pod w/ Fiona Sutherland
DSMG pod episode w/ Ashlee Bennett: How to start building positive body image
Kristen Neff’s book Self-Compassion
Kristen Neff’s free self-compassion exercises
Thank you so much for tuning into this week's episode all about lockdown easing & how you can be gentle with yourself in this “new, new normal” 💓
CW: This episode discusses eating disorder & disordered eating behaviour references - all in the hope to help you ease out of lockdown.
Another huge thank you to Linwoods for sponsoring today's episode. Check out their huge range on their website or find them in the aisles of their many stockists.
Big thanks to Kaysha for sharing all her wisdom!
In this episode we covered:
✨ Variety is the spice of life! In all areas
✨ Social eating & restaurants
✨ How those with eating disorders & disordered eating were impacted in COVID-19
✨ Food insecurity
✨ Exercise & body concerns
✨ Family dynamics
✨ Diet culture & COVID-19
✨ Body change is normal
✨ Exit strategies for social situations
✨ Refresh your wardrobe
✨ Navigating returning to the gym & signs that movement is too much for you
✨ The importance of resting
More from Kaysha
Instagram @kayshathomas
More from Isa
Looking for 1:1 support for eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, or any other support through a non-diet, compassionate lens? Enquire here
Extra reading & resources
Reach out for support from Beating Eating Disorders (Beat)
Kaysha & Isa on binge eating disorder & self-compassion - IG live
Anti Diet Riot Club free event in May!
Are you worried about lockdown weight gain? Read my IG post
Our blogs: Intuitive movement part 1 & part 2
Alissa Rumsey blog: Diet talk
Joyful movement accounts: @tallyrye @missfitsworkout
Beat UK's tips on eating out - IG post
@wellwitholi tips on dealing with weight gain in recovery - IG post
@nutritionari tips for dining out with friends during recovery - IG post
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings book
2 books to start ditching dieting: Just Eat It by Laura Thomas PhD & Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
In the very first ever episode of the 50 Shades of Nutrition podcast, I’m joined by the co-founder of Intuitive Eating, Evelyn Tribole!
Another huge thank you to Daye, use the code "shades5" which will give you £5 off your first box!
In this episode we chatted about:
✨What actually is Intuitive Eating? And the science behind it
✨Why diets don’t work, and why everyone thinks they will be in that 1% of “successful dieters”
✨How dieting disrupts your life
✨What Intuitive Eating IS NOT and how to spot fake IE - diet culture is a shapeshifter
✨How to start making peace with food, and the nuances of this principle Evelyn often calls the “paradox principle”
✨Thin privilege when healing your relationship to food
✨How to start your IE journey, plus how to get training as a healthcare professional
More from Evelyn
Evelyn’s new book! Order on Amazon
Evelyn’s website
Instagram @evelyntribole
More about Intuitive Eating
Want to know more about IE? Order the Intuitive Eating book (4th edition)
Intuitive Eating website
Health care professionals: Become an IE counsellor
Check out our “what is IE?” blog
Our blog on “common IE myths”
All Intuitive Eating research up to 2018
A CNN article about a person's experience of IE healing their relationship to food {TW: Reference to eating disorders and disordered eating behaviours}.
More from Isa Robinson
Find me on Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition
Looking for 121 nutrition counselling support? Enquire on our website
Hear Isa speaking to Laura Thomas about “what gym bros get wrong about IE” on the Don’t Salt My Game podcast
& hear Jess talking about “real vs fake IE”
Extra resources/study mentioned
2020 pilot study using the IE workbook
Body positivity / body confidence accounts to follow
Welcome to the 50 Shades of Food & Nutrition podcast, from Isa Robinson!✨
Follow now to never miss an episode, and to see who is the 1st guest is on April 6th. I can't wait for you to hear the amazing line up of speakers for season 1 💫 In this season I speak to incredible guests about Intuitive Eating, diet culture, body image, screen time, IBS, orthorexia, and so much more...
🌸 Make sure to follow me on Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition to keep up to date 🌟