Do you feel like your worth is tied to your weight or what you eat? In this episode, I uncover how diet culture erodes self-confidence and keeps you stuck in a dieting cycle. Plus, I share my #1 mindset shift to help you rebuild trust with your body, ditch food guilt, and feel truly confident around food. Ready to break free? Tune in now! 🎧✨
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I'm Emma Townsin, a Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor. This podcast is my opinion based on extensive specialist training and many years of working with people who have spent many years dieting and/ or have stressful relationships with food and eating disorders.
This isn’t personalised support and please do see your healthcare provider if you have health concerns or are worried you may have an eating disorder.
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Get in touch/ work with me- www.foodlifefreedom.com
Calories are everywhere—on food labels, menus, and weight loss programs. But how accurate is the "calories in, calories out" model? In this episode, Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor Emma Townsin uncovers the truth behind calorie calculations, metabolism, and why the 2000kcal per day guideline isn't what it seems.
We dive into how calorie counts are determined, why our bodies adapt to calorie intake, and how focusing on numbers can harm our relationship with food. Instead of rigid calorie tracking, Emma shares how intuitive eating can help you reconnect with your body’s natural hunger and fullness cues for a healthier, more balanced approach to eating.
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I'm Emma Townsin, a Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor. This podcast is my opinion based on extensive specialist training and many years of working with people who have spent many years dieting and/ or have stressful relationships with food and eating disorders.
This isn’t personalised support and please do see your healthcare provider if you have health concerns or are worried you may have an eating disorder.
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Get in touch/ work with me- www.foodlifefreedom.com
Have you ever turned to food after a tough day or during moments of worry? Stress eating isn’t a lack of willpower—it’s your body’s natural way of coping.
In this episode, we break down the science behind stress eating and explore why it’s so common, what triggers it, and how you can manage it without guilt or shame.
You’ll learn:
✨ Why stress makes us crave certain foods
✨ How your body’s stress response impacts hunger and cravings
✨ Simple, practical tools to feel calmer and more in control around food
Tune in to discover how to navigate stress and food in a way that works for you!
👉 Listen now and take the first step toward food freedom!
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More support:
👉 Ready for a peaceful relationship with food for good? Join the Anti-Diet Guide To Overcoming Emotional Eating!
👉 Explore more: FREE Overcoming Emotional Eating Video Training
______________________ I'm Emma Townsin, a Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor. This podcast is my opinion based on extensive specialist training and many years of working with people who have spent many years dieting and/ or have stressful relationships with food and eating disorders.
This isn’t personalised support and please do see your healthcare provider if you have health concerns or are worried you may have an eating disorder.
👉 Get in touch/ work with me: www.foodlifefreedom.com
Are you worried you have a slow metabolism because you don’t seem to eat very much but then struggle to lose weight or put on weight?
In this episode we explore:
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I'm Emma Townsin, a Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor. This podcast is my opinion based on extensive specialist training and many years of working with people who have spent many years dieting and/ or have stressful relationships with food and eating disorders.
This isn’t personalised support and please do see your healthcare provider if you have health concerns or are worried you may have an eating disorder.
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Get in touch/ work with me- www.foodlifefreedom.com
For times you feel strong or out of control urges, impulses or drives. This will support you to find safety and to calm your nervous system response so you can make decisions from a calmer place.
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I'm Emma Townsin, a Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor. This podcast is my opinion based on extensive specialist training and many years of working with people who have spent many years dieting and/ or have stressful relationships with food and eating disorders.
This isn’t personalised support and please do see your healthcare provider if you have health concerns or are worried you may have an eating disorder.
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Get in touch/ work with me- www.foodlifefreedom.com
Do you want to stop the all or nothing cycle of feeling obsessed with food but when you try to move away from diets, you panic and turn to another diet?
Then this episode is for you.
We will look at the physiological and emotional reasons why this happens and how you can get past this to truly find a peaceful diet-free relationship with food.
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I'm Emma Townsin, a Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor. This podcast is my opinion based on extensive specialist training and many years of working with people who have spent many years dieting and/ or have stressful relationships with food and eating disorders.
This isn’t personalised support and please do see your healthcare provider if you have health concerns or are worried you may have an eating disorder.
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Get in touch/ work with me- www.foodlifefreedom.com
This is the episode for you!
We explore what hunger can feel like, why you shouldn't wait as long as possible to eat and what signs to look out for to know you should eat now!
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I'm Emma Townsin, a Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor. This podcast is my opinion based on extensive specialist training and many years of working with people who have spent many years dieting and/ or have stressful relationships with food and eating disorders.
This isn’t personalised support and please do see your healthcare provider if you have health concerns or are worried you may have an eating disorder.
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Get in touch/ work with me- www.foodlifefreedom.com
Take-away can be a fun, satisfying and easy meal option.
But if you feel frustrated with how much you rely on take-away foods, this is for you.
Let's explore the reasons we can get caught in a 'take-away-for-dinner' cycle and some tips for a better relationship with take-away foods.
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I'm Emma Townsin, a Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor. This episode is my opinion based on extensive specialist training and many years of working with people who have spent many years dieting and/ or a stressful relationship with food and eating disorders.
This isn’t personalised support and please do see your healthcare provider if you have health concerns or are worried you may have an eating disorder.
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Get in touch/ work with me- www.foodlifefreedom.com
The soup and shake weight loss diets involve replacing food with special nutritional shakes that are fortified with vitamins and minerals.
But, do they work? What are the risks? And is it worth giving up eating actual food for the promises of weight loss and/ or diabetes remission?
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I'm Emma Townsin, a Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor. This episode is my opinion based on extensive specialist training and many years of working with people who have spent many years dieting and/ or a stressful relationship with food and eating disorders.
This isn’t personalised support and please do see your healthcare provider if you have health concerns or are worried you may have an eating disorder.
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Get in touch/ work with me- www.foodlifefreedom.com
Links and helpful info from the episode
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjyy7280lzo
https://www.jeffreyhunger.com/uploads/3/4/4/8/34481134/hunger_smith___tomiyama__2020__-_sipr.pdf
It's been a while! But I'm happy to be back :)
What to expect from future episodes:
I'm Emma Townsin, A Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian and a Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor, based in London, UK.
Let me know what topics you want to hear about by leaving me a message here or through my website at www.foodlifefreedom.com
I'm really looking forward to seeing you back here.
Stressful emotional eating issues often stem from issues with our body. In this episode we will explore
So you can feel good around food!
For more support, join the Anti-Diet Guide to Overcoming Emotional Eating online course. With lessons, exploratory activities and practical tools to feel good around food into 2024 and beyond!
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I'm Emma Townsin, a Registered Dietitian, a Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor and founder of Food Life Freedom. I support you to stop out-of-control emotional eating, binge eating and feeling stressed over food... without falling into a diet cycle.
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This is the final episode of the season! I will be back soon for season 3 :)
*This podcast can't provide individualised health or nutrition advice. We are all unique . Please use this as an opportunity to learn and explore but if something does not sit with you then it's not meant for your unique self. And if you have any health concerns, please seek personalised support from a registered healthcare provider.
The holidays is no holiday for diet culture. These 3 steps can help you stay grounded and confident in your own body and avoid being drawn back into dieting.
For more support, join the Anti-Diet Guide to Overcoming Emotional Eating online course. With lessons, exploratory activities and practical tools to feel good around food into 2024 and beyond!
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I'm Emma Townsin, a Registered Dietitian, a Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor and founder of Food Life Freedom. I support you to stop out-of-control emotional eating, binge eating and feeling stressed over food... without falling into a diet cycle.
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*This podcast can't provide individualised health or nutrition advice. We are all unique . Please use this as an opportunity to learn and explore but if something does not sit with you then it's not meant for your unique self. And if you have any health concerns, please seek personalised support from a registered healthcare provider.
Grace and I discuss how navigating chronic body symptoms and chronic illness can negatively impact on our body image. And how easily this can spiral in dieting, disordered eating or an eating disorder.
Grace wonderfully weaves her story of navigating MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome) and vulvodynia into her professional knowledge as we explore body image as more than just our appearance but our sense of self and body trust. She shares some support and tips for how to improve body image for those navigating a chronic condition.
About Grace Hamner
Grace is a Body Image Resilience and Intuitive Eating Coach. She is a serial entrepreneur and a homeschooling mother of 3. Grace is an avid proponent of authenticity, mental health, awareness, vulnerability, creativity and civil discourse. As such Grace strives to incorporate these elements into her various entrepreneurial endeavors including an online Body Image Resilience Course, body positive art and a blog.
You can learn more about Grace through the following links: Website: www.gracehamner.com Instagram: @theseasonsofgrace
Tiktok: @gracehamner
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Free e-book: “5 steps to get started with intuitive eating”
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Music: Making progress by Dan Phillipson
*This podcast can't provide individualised health or nutrition advice. We are all unique . Please use this as an opportunity to learn and explore but if something does not sit with you then it's not meant for your unique self. And if you have any health concerns, please seek personalised support from a registered healthcare provider.
Krista and I discuss the first principle of intuitive eating - rejecting the diet mentality. We explore why we can feel stuck dieting, how to spot sneaky "not-a-diet" diets and the first steps you can take to move away from dieting to make space to become an intuitive eater.
About Krista Krista Beck is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and dieter turned intuitive eater. After struggling with her own disordered eating, Krista has made it her mission to expose diet culture for what it really is and help as many women as possible ditch the diets for good and mend their relationship with food and their bodies.
You can learn more about Krista through the following links:
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I’m your host Emma Townsin, a UK Registered Dietitian, a Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor and founder of Food Life Freedom. I support you to move away from lifelong dieting, emotional eating and other stressful eating to develop a positive relationship with food and connection with your body.
For support for stressful or out-of-control eating, join me in my Anti-diet guide to overcoming emotional eating online course.
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Music: Making progress by Dan Phillipson
*This podcast can't provide individualised health or nutrition advice. We are all unique . Please use this as an opportunity to learn and explore but if something does not sit with you then it's not meant for your unique self. And if you have any health concerns, please seek personalised support from a registered healthcare provider.
Experiencing stressful eating is more common than we realise but we don't talk about it enough!
This episode we will explore
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Get more support in the Anti-diet guide to overcoming emotional eating - learn more here!
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I'm Emma Townsin, a Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor.
I support you to move away from lifelong dieting, emotional eating and other stressful eating to develop a positive relationship with food and connection with your body.
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Music: Making progress by Dan Phillipson
*This podcast can't provide individualised health or nutrition advice. We are all unique . Please use this as an opportunity to learn and explore but if something does not sit with you then it's not meant for your unique self. And if you have any health concerns, please seek personalised support from a registered healthcare provider.
Today Sherry and I discuss the challenges many women face while navigating midlife and menopause while living in a diet culture. From navigating emotions, weight changes, life changes and our society's erasure of aging women, there can be a lot to process and accept which can for some lead us toward dieting as a way to try control a changing internal and external world. Sherry shares some non-diet support and tips for those approaching or navigating this time of life.
About Sherry Pratt Sherry is a certified coach and trained intuitive eating counselor. She left an accomplished and successful 25 year career as an IT professional and corporate executive to start her own health coaching business. Her passion is helping women in midlife break free from yo-yo dieting and live comfortably in their bodies without feeling like they're giving up on themselves or their health. When she's not helping women reach their health goals, you can find her parenting her 2 teenage sons, behind the wheel of a tractor helping her husband out on their grain farm, tending her rather large vegetable garden, staying active playing pickleball and curling within her local community or relaxing with a glass of wine and a good book.
You can learn more about Sherry through the following links:
Website: www.sherrypratt.ca
Instagram: @sherrypratt_healthcoach
Non-diet Meal Planning Guide: https://wellness.sherrypratt.ca/mealplanning-podcast/
Here’s how to learn more from me, Emma Townsin (Registered Dietitian and Intuitive Eating Counsellor)
Instagram: @food.life.freedom
Website: www.foodlifefreedom.com
Binge eating is very common, although if we are struggling with out-of-control eating, it might not feel like it. It is a topic we don't talk about much in our culture.
Toni and I are here to change that and take the shame and stigma out of binge eating. We explore:
Toni Rudd is a Specialist Binge Eating Dietitian. From the UK, she now works online with women all over the world to support them to reduce binge eating and stop the diet cycle.
You can connect with Toni at:
IG: @the.binge.dietitian
Website: www.thebingedietitian.com
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I’m your host Emma Townsin, a UK Registered Dietitian, a Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor and founder of Food Life Freedom. I support you to move away from lifelong dieting, emotional eating and other stressful eating to develop a positive relationship with food and connection with your body.
If you are looking for further support for stressful eating, I would love you to join my Anti-diet guide to overcoming emotional eating. Learn more here!
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Music: Making progress by Dan Phillipson
*This podcast can't provide individualised health or nutrition advice. We are all unique . Please use this as an opportunity to learn and explore but if something does not sit with you then it's not meant for your unique self. And if you have any health concerns, please seek personalised support from a registered healthcare provider.
Dieting tells you your body cannot be trusted. It tells you your body is wrong and it's normal to feel in a fight between body and mind.
This is not true and we can feel at peace with food while supporting our bodies to feel their best. The key is having a strong mind-body connection.
We will cover:
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For more support: Anti-diet guide to overcoming emotional eating online course. Learn more here
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I'm Emma Townsin, a Registered Dietitian, a Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor and founder of Food Life Freedom. I support you to stop feeling stressed over food or feel overwhelmed with out-of-control eating experiences and to find joy in eating and in connection with your body.
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Music: Making progress by Dan Phillipson
*This podcast can't provide individualised health or nutrition advice. We are all unique . Please use this as an opportunity to learn and explore but if something does not sit with you then it's not meant for your unique self. And if you have any health concerns, please seek personalised support from a registered healthcare provider.
Raquel and I discuss body image after pregnancy and how societal pressures and "bounce back" culture can fuel poor body image and sometimes lead to a difficult relationship with food. Raquel shares really helpful tips for navigating body image in the postpartum phase.
About Raquel Griffin
Raquel (she/her) is a queer therapist, Registered Social Worker and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor based in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia. In her private practice she specialises in disordered eating, grief and supporting trans and non binary folks in accessing gender-affirming care.
You can learn more about Raquel through the following links:
Here’s how to learn more from me, Emma Townsin (Registered Dietitian and Intuitive Eating Counsellor)
Instagram: @food.life.freedom
Website: www.foodlifefreedom.com
Today I am talking about what to do if you experience constant, obsessive or stressful thoughts about food. Often referred to as a lot of "food noise". I will talk through 5 reasons why food might be on your mind all the time. And, if you relate to this, I will offer some gentle steps you can take so food becomes less obsessive and more peaceful.
Here’s how to learn more from me, Emma Townsin (Registered Dietitian and Intuitive Eating Counsellor)
Instagram: @food.life.freedom
Website: www.foodlifefreedom.com
