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

Ep 139 - Raising Anti-Diet Kids as a form of Rebellion w/ Jeanette Thompson-Wessen

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

Laura Thomas

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

4.8 • 807 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

You’re gonna love this one team! This week’s episode is here and this time, I’m joined by Jeanette Thompson-Wessen, AKA @themindsetnutritionist. Jeanette is an anti-diet, Intuitive Eating, fat positive nutritionist and all-round bad-ass in this field. In this conversation, we cover things like;

  • Jeanette’s experience of bumping up against anti-fat maternity policies
  • How leaning into social justice helped her make peace with her body
  • Snapback culture and our experiences of breastfeeding
  • Modeling healthy body esteem to our kids
  • How diet culture shows up in our parenting
  • How raising anti-diet kids is a form of resistance and rebellion 

This is such a great conversation ya’ll, so don’t forget to subscribe and give it a share if you enjoyed it!

Show Notes:

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

So there has been that shift in myself, my body, as well as literally a shift in my energy.

0:09.4

Like I don't want to waste my time and energy and thinking about my body right now.

0:15.0

Like my body is just doing what it's going to do. It has an ebb and flow.

0:18.0

Our bodies are supposed to change. My body isn't supposed to

0:21.4

look like when it was 18 years old. It's not supposed to look like what it looked like before I

0:26.8

had my first baby and three babies down the line. Like there's a lot of changes that's gone on.

0:32.9

And we've got to be kind to ourselves about that.

0:38.2

Hey team. Welcome back to DundFault My Game, where we are having conversations with

0:43.3

game changers who are flipping diet culture on its head. I'm Laura Thomas. I'm a registered

0:48.3

nutritionist who specializes in intuitive eating and anti-diet nutrition. And I'm also the author

0:53.9

of Just Eat It and How to Just Eat It.

0:56.5

Today I am talking to the lovely Jeanette Thompson-Wesson, aka the Mindset Nutritionist.

1:02.6

I really can't wait for you to hear this episode, but first a quick ad break.

1:16.2

I just wanted to give a quick plug for my OG CPD course applying intuitive eating and non-diet approaches in practice. It's a great foundational course if you are a

1:22.6

nutritionist or a dietitian or other healthcare professional new to intuitive eating and non-diet work,

1:28.3

or if you are a seasoned professional and want to update and refresh your skills.

1:35.1

The course is super practical with lots of resources and worksheets that you can use in your practice.

1:41.7

We cover an introduction to intuitive eating and the non-diet approach and

1:47.9

weight science. We then go on to explore reliance on hunger and satiety cues, unconditional

1:54.0

permission to eat, understanding emotional eating, body food choice congruence, as well as intuitive

2:00.5

movement. So covering all of the

2:03.5

fundamental principles of intuitive eating. Plus, you can join our monthly live Q&A to ask

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