Well-fed Women: Health | Nutrition | Fitness | Mindset

In this episode, we unpack one of the most misunderstood topics in wellness: weight loss without diet culture. Michelle shares her unique approach to supporting intentional weight loss without shame, restriction, or disordered thinking. We also answer some hard questions relating to metabolism and leptin, and unpack the flawed idea that all restriction is diet culture. Buckle up, this one is a deep dive!Timestamps:[1:39] Noelle intro[3:47] Conversation with Michelle[4:09] Talk about your own personal experience with diet culture[10:47] Let’s talk about body neutrality and being science neutral [21:43] What are some strategies that you recommend to clients to have a positive relationship with food before starting to make changes that will put them in restriction?[25:54] What strategies do you have for the push-pull relationship of wanting overall health and wanting to be smaller while trying to accept your body where it is?[29:18] How do we know someone "needs" to lose weight (in their head) versus i