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Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD

Ep 128 - How To Just Eat It - Chapter 8: Mindful Eating and Finding Pleasure in Food

Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD

Laura Thomas

Wellness, Bodypositivity, Plantbased, Nutrition, Medicine, Health, Vegan, Health & Fitness, Wellbeing, Mindfulness, Nutritionist, Dontsaltmygame

4.8807 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 29 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 is out now! Episode 9 of this series will drop on Tuesday 2nd Feb!

 

In today’s episode I’m talking to Jenna Hollenstein (MS, RDN, CDN). Jenna is an anti-diet dietitian who helps heal disordered eating using a combination of Intuitive Eating, mindfulness techniques, and meditation to help her clients move toward greater peace, health, and wellness. In this episode we’re talking about why the pursuit of weight loss is antithetical to Mindful Eating & Intuitive Eating, what Mindful Eating actually is (and what it isn’t) and how you can start to practice it in your daily life.

 

In this episode we talk about:

  • How Diet Culture has co opted Mindful Eating 
  • Why Mindfulness practice and weight loss are incompatible
  • What Mindfulness really is
  • Acknowledging our thoughts in the moment
  • Meditation
  • Breath awareness
  • Regaining trust in our own bodies
  • Is your desire to be vegan coming from a place of control or compassion

Jenna shares her experience, expertise and advice on how to incorporate Mindfulness into our daily lives to help support our Intuitive Eating practices. 

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Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_

Find me on social media: Instagram Twitter 

Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating

 

Guest Information:

Jenna Hollenstein - Instagram Website Twitter Book

 

Resources Mentioned:

Jenna’s website: https://jennahollenstein.com/

The Open Heart Project: https://openheartproject.com/

DSMG episode with Fiona Sutherland: Ep 121 - How To Just Eat It - Chapter 1: Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit

Transcript

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0:00.0

Don't Sol My Game.

0:04.2

Hey, team. Welcome to Don't Salt My Game. I'm Laura Thomas. I'm a registered nutritionist,

0:09.3

director of London Center for Enchates of Eating, an author of Just Eat It, as well as my new book,

0:14.5

How to Just Eat It. We're here having conversations with game changers in nutrition and health,

0:19.3

food, body liberation, and some other

0:21.5

things thrown in for shits. In this episode, we're talking about chapter 8, mindful eating

0:26.8

and the pleasure principle. In today's episode, I'm talking to the incredible Jenna Hollenstein.

0:33.4

Jenna is an anti-dietitian in New York City and she helps people struggling with

0:38.7

chronic dieting, disorders eating and body image. She uses a combination of intuitive eating,

0:44.6

mindfulness techniques and meditation to help her clients move towards greater peace, health and

0:49.9

wellness. In this episode, Jenna and I discuss why the pursuit of weight loss is antithetical

0:55.6

to mindful and intuitive eating, what mindful eating actually is and what it isn't, and how you can

1:02.5

start to practice it in your day-to-day life. Jenna has so much insight and interesting bits to

1:08.2

share, so I just want to get straight to the episode.

1:11.5

Just one quick side note.

1:13.3

If you hear a baby crying in the background, that's mine.

1:16.4

And don't worry, he was with a responsible adult the whole time.

1:19.5

He was just feeling extra cranky with teething that day.

1:23.2

All right, team, here's Jana.

1:31.2

Thank you. All right, team. Here's Jenna. So, Jenna, diet culture has co-opted mindfully eating as a strategy to encourage you to eat less in an attempt to control your weight.

1:42.6

And you wrote a beautifully concise blog about why mindfulness practice and weight loss are incompatible.

1:50.0

Can you please explain to the listeners why this is?

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