EP 122 - How To Just Eat It: Chapter 2 - Breaking Up With Diet Culture
Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD
Laura Thomas
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It Came out yesterday! Episode 3 of this series will drop on Tuesday 12th Jan!
In today’s episode I’m talking to Nadia Craddock, a body image researcher and host of the Body Protest and Appearance matters podcasts. In this episode we’re talking all about the impact (positive and negative) social media has on our body image.
In this episode we talk about:
- How social media can shape how we feel about ourselves (both positively and negatively)
- What exactly self objectification theory is and the impact it has on our ability to engage in things that are meaningful to us
- How we can build a nurturing social media environment
- How we can learn to ‘zoom out’ and ‘soften our gaze’ when it comes to viewing our own image on social media
There’s also a brilliant definition of Fat Phobia for your glossary on page 35/36 of HTJEI from body liberation coach Nicola Hagget. Stay tuned for a whole episode with Nikki soon!
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Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_
Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating
Guest Information:
Nadia Craddock - Instagram Twitter
Nicola Haggett- Instagram Website
Previous podcasts with Nadia
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey team, welcome to don't salt my game. I'm Laura Thomas. I'm a registered nutritionist, |
| 0:09.6 | director of London Santa Fein Cheats of Eating, an author of Just Eat It, as well as my new book, |
| 0:14.8 | How to Just Eat It. We're here having conversations with game changers in nutrition and health, |
| 0:19.6 | food, body liberation, and some other things thrown in for shits. |
| 0:23.4 | This episode is a takeover of my new book, How to Just Eat It, a step by step guide to escaping diets and finding food freedom. |
| 0:32.6 | Each episode in the How to Just Eat It series corresponds to a different chapter in the book. |
| 0:38.6 | In this episode, |
| 0:44.8 | we're talking about chapter two, breaking up with diet culture. Before we get into today's episode, I just wanted to say thank you so much to everyone who has already bought the book and |
| 0:49.4 | shared a picture on Instagram. I really, really appreciate it. And thanks to those of you who have left a kind |
| 0:56.0 | review on Amazon. It only takes a second to do, but it makes a huge difference in terms of |
| 1:01.0 | gaming the algorithm and helping more people to see the book. So if you haven't already, |
| 1:05.4 | please take a second to leave a review. All right, so chapter two, breaking up with diet culture. In this chapter, I help you to reflect on |
| 1:14.3 | the personal cost of dieting. Diet culture deprives us of so much more than food. It takes our money, |
| 1:20.4 | our peace of mind, our time, our ability to connect meaningfully with friends and family, and robs us |
| 1:26.5 | of our ability to engage in work, volunteering, |
| 1:28.9 | and activism. It steals our precious resources and lines the pockets of diet and wellness companies |
| 1:35.0 | who don't actually give a crap about our well-being. Diet culture is the wider system of oppression |
| 1:40.8 | that upholds body dissatisfaction and frankly life satisfaction. It affects people |
| 1:46.3 | across the weight spectrum but is especially harmful to fat folks and other marginalized groups. |
| 1:52.4 | Diet culture teaches us that we're not okay in the body that we're in. And in order to be happy, |
| 1:58.6 | successful, safe and lovable, we need to shrink our bodies. |
| 2:03.1 | Diet culture dictates that we should always be watching what we eat and how much we exercise. |
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