50 Shades of Food & Nutrition – Details, episodes & analysis

That's a wrap for season 1 of the 50 Shades of Food & Nutrition Podcast 🍪 Thank you SO much for listening to the 11 episodes, and if you haven't listened yet, please do go back and listen to them all 💟 Please make sure to give us a 5 star review and any feedback too 🌟

Huge thank you to Mimi for joining me for the final episode of season 1 🌼

In this episode we cover:

✨ Shifting the conversation in EDs, disordered eating, and OCD

✨ What is Orthorexia? The signs + symptoms

✨ Food trends

✨ The line between disordered eating + “healthy eating”

✨ Connection + quality of life

✨ Food exposure

✨ Sitting with discomfort

More from Mimi

Instagram @the.lovelybecoming

Website

Orthorexia + OCD course

The Lovely Becoming Podcast

More from Isa Robinson

Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition

Book an appointment for nutrition counselling

Extra resources

Instagram use + Orthorexia Nervosa symptoms - research paper by Turner, P., & Lefevre, C.

Beauty Myth book by Naomi Wolf

Blog: Diet Culture

Thank you so much for tuning into this weeks episode. Do make sure to leave a 5 star rating if you enjoyed 🌟

It was a pleasure to be joined by a member of the team, thank you Jess! You can inquire about working 1-1 with Jess here ✨

In this episode, we cover:

🌸 Jess’ career journey to date

💐 Weight & health, diet culture, and the thin ideal

🌸 Body privilege & discomfort

💐 COVID-19 & mental health services

🌸 The harm of government rhetoric's & social media

💐 Intuitive Eating & ED recovery

🌸 The importance of carbohydrates in ED recovery 🥯

💐 Satisfaction & pleasure

🌸 Coping with fullness & taking care of yourself 💗

💐 Reclaiming movement

More from Jess

Instagram

Website

More from Isa Robinson

Find me on Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition

Looking for 121 nutrition counselling support? enquire on our website

Mentions

London Centre for Intuitive Eating - @laurathomasphd & team. Check out ep 2 of the pod where I chat to Laura all about diet culture 🎙

📚 The Rooted Project - Helen West & Rosie Saunt. “Is Butter a Carb?” is a go-to resource all about nutrition

Lindo Bacon

Vicky Bellman - ep 4 all about body image

Extra resources & reading

DSMG podcast ep w/ Lindo Bacon - "Challenging the assumptions of the weight-normative approach"

📚 Health At Every Size book by Lindo Bacon

📕 Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch

What is HAES? Read our blog.

Intuitive movement - read our blog.

In the very first ever episode of the 50 Shades of Nutrition podcast, I’m joined by the co-founder of Intuitive Eating, Evelyn Tribole!

Another huge thank you to Daye, use the code "shades5" which will give you £5 off your first box!

In this episode we chatted about:

✨What actually is Intuitive Eating? And the science behind it

✨Why diets don’t work, and why everyone thinks they will be in that 1% of “successful dieters”

✨How dieting disrupts your life 

✨What Intuitive Eating IS NOT and how to spot fake IE - diet culture is a shapeshifter

✨How to start making peace with food, and the nuances of this principle Evelyn often calls the “paradox principle”

✨Thin privilege when healing your relationship to food

✨How to start your IE journey, plus how to get training as a healthcare professional

More from Evelyn

Evelyn’s new book! Order on Amazon

Evelyn’s website

Instagram @evelyntribole

More about Intuitive Eating

Want to know more about IE? Order the Intuitive Eating book (4th edition)

Intuitive Eating website

The peer support community

Facebook support group

Health care professionals: Become an IE counsellor

Check out our “what is IE?” blog

Our blog on “common IE myths”

All Intuitive Eating research up to 2018

A CNN article about a person's experience of IE healing their relationship to food {TW: Reference to eating disorders and disordered eating behaviours}.

More from Isa Robinson

Find me on Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition

Looking for 121 nutrition counselling support? Enquire on our website

Hear Isa speaking to Laura Thomas about “what gym bros get wrong about IE” on the Don’t Salt My Game podcast 

& hear Jess talking about “real vs fake IE”

Extra resources/study mentioned

2020 pilot study using the IE workbook

Body positivity / body confidence accounts to follow

Welcome to the 50 Shades of Food & Nutrition podcast, from Isa Robinson!✨

Follow now to never miss an episode, and to see who is the 1st guest is on April 6th. I can't wait for you to hear the amazing line up of speakers for season 1 💫 In this season I speak to incredible guests about Intuitive Eating, diet culture, body image, screen time, IBS, orthorexia, and so much more...

🌸 Make sure to follow me on Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition to keep up to date 🌟

Thanks for much for tuning into this weeks episode 🥰

And a big thanks to Dr Ian Wootton for joining me to chat all things control 💫

In this episode we covered:

✨ Over & under control

✨ Culture & control

✨ Social signals in different sides of control

✨ Ways that COVID-19 lockdown praised over control

✨ The bell shaped curve of control & psychological well being

✨ The importance of fun in food & movement

✨ DBT vs RO DBT

✨ Eating disorders and disordered eating & RO DBT

✨ How to start becoming “unstuck”

More from Ian

Website - Flexible Mind Psychology for 1:1 consultations & training

More from Isa Robinson Nutrition

💟Book an appointment with Isa or Jess! Support for eating disorders, disordered eating, body image, and so much more 

Instagram

Read our blogs

Extra resources

Read some more about RO DBT

All podcasts & videos about RO DBT

Book: The Skills Training Manual for RO DBT {for clinicians}

Thank you so much for tuning into another episode, and I hope you enjoyed listening to the brilliant Maeve Hanan, RD! 

And another huge thank you to Bimuno. Use the code "shades20" for 20% off your order ✨

In this episode we covered:

🌠  The importance of nutrition communication

🌠  Food realism vs perfectionism 

🌠 The fear of weight gain

🌠 Why the healthiest choice isn’t always the most nutritious choice

🌠 It’s all about the long game - why all types of health matter

🌠 Debunking common myths about detoxes, gluten, dairy, and food intolerance tests

🌠 Maeve’s top tips for everyday gentle nutrition

More from Maeve

Instagram @dietitcallyspeaking

Your No-Nonsense Guide to Eating Well book!

Website - including 100s of blogs debunking online claims

Facebook page & Twitter

Nutrimote Instagram @nutrimote

More from Isa Robinson

Find me on Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition

Looking for 121 nutrition counselling support? Enquire on our website

Extra reading & resources

Introduction to gluten & should you cut it out? On Maeve’s blog

10 myths about dairy debunked on Maeve’s blog

What’s the harm with fad diets? Maeve’s blog

Maeve’s top tips for eating well, on The Food Medic’s blog

What’s the low FODMAP diet & do I need to do it?

What does “detoxification” actually mean? Out blog post

Our blog on calorie counting

Are food intolerance tests legit? Check out my Instagram post here

Another huge thank you to Revive Active & their Mastermind supplement for supporting this episode 💟

Make sure to check out the “isa10” for a discount on your first order. This supplement contains omega-3, vitamin D, vitamin B12, and choline, which may be appropriate for those following a plant-based diet ✨

Thank you so much for tuning into this episode all about screen time with Dr Aric Sigman, I hope you enjoyed listening! 🙏

I apologise for the sound gaps in this episode, there were some tech difficulties. But I do believe the episode would have been a powerful listen ✨

In this episode, we spoke about:

🌟 What is excessive screen time? 

🌟 What free screen time means for mental health, brain health, and body image

🌟 How much free screen time should we even have in a day?

🌟 Children and teens, and non-school screen time impact on development & IQ

🌟 Genetic predispositions play a huge role in mental health, and environment can amplify this

🌟 How the social determinants of health affect screen time use

🌟 By 85 years old, our recreational screen time equals 20 years!

🌟 How social media links with self-comparison & cultural standards of beauty/attractiveness 

🌟 Diet culture & weight stigma

More from Dr Sigman

Dr Sigman website

LinkedIn

The Body Wars book

Remotely Controlled: How Television is Damaging Our Lives book

More from Isa Robinson

Find me on Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition

Looking for 121 nutrition counselling support? Enquire on our website

Looking for support with any of the topics covered?

Enquire at the Isa Robinson Nutrition clinic

Beat UK have great resources & guides

Extra reading & resources

What are the social determinants of health? Check out our blog

Bigorexia/muscle dysmorphia blog

Blog all about weight stigma

Blog all about what diet culture actually is

A short breakdown of social media & body image on BPS

DSMG pod episode w/ Dr Amy Slater, How Social Media Impacts Our Body Image

Studies & publications mentioned

Link to PDFs for clinicians & parents all about screen time

Thank you so much for listening to this weeks episode with Dr Sula Windgassen!

Another huge thank you to Symprove for their support with this episode. Make to use the code "SHADES50" for 15% off your first order 💫

In this episode we spoke about:

💫 How physical health conditions present mental symptoms

💫 The placebo and the nocebo effect

💫 How our perceptions have a physiological response

💫 What actually is IBS?

💫 Biopsychosocial factors in IBS

💫 The digestive system

💫 How under fuelling affects the digestive health

💫 How anxiety & stress around food impacts bowel function ft gluten

💫 Symptom focusing

💫 How to identify deep concerns about symptoms & Sula’s starting tips to explore these

💫 Stress-management tools & mindfulness

💫 Why self-kindness is important for helping suffering

More from Sula

Instagram @the_health_psychologist_

Sula’s writing on Medium

Website

More from Isa Robinson

Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition

Looking for 1:1 nutrition counselling? Enquire here

Studies mentioned

IBS RCT as part of Sula’s PhD

Perceived sugar intake vs actual intake study plus a full breakdown in this blog

Predictive factors for IBS 2013 study

Resources and extra reading

Marci Evans EDs & GI symptoms summary

How to start meditation & mindfulness, Mindful

Coping tools for physical response to stress

426 breathing

Box breathing (YouTube)

Progressive muscle relaxation (YouTube)

Another huge thank you to Rubies in the Rubble for supporting this episode. Make sure to check out their website to see their amazing range of products w/ a purpose & use the code "50shades" for 20% off your first order! Check out their Instagram too ✨

Thank you so much for listening to this episode with Paige Smathers, RDN!

Today we spoke about:

✨ Why connection is so important in food and body image help, and in everyday life

✨ How Paige got into dietetics and how it fits into her personal qualities

✨ How an intuitive approach fits into business: what feels best?

✨ Social media can confuse the Intuitive Eating message - you can still eat veggies & nuance matters!

✨ Reclaiming your authority around both food and social media is important

✨ Making peace with ALL food is important… Cookies, donuts and Brussel sprouts, raspberries - take away that power of them being “superfoods”

✨ What is positive nutrition?

✨ Talking about nutrition as a nutrition professional isn’t taboo - it’s nuanced!

More from Paige

Paige’s podcast, Nutrition Matters {Or search on Spotify}

Instagram @paigesmathersrd

Facebook

Paige’s website

Nutrition Matters podcast episode w/ Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch {Or ep #179 on Spotify}

More from Isa Robinson

Find me on Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition

Looking for 121 nutrition counselling support? Enquire on our website

Extra reading & resources

What is pseudo dieting and why is it harmful? Our blog

Nuance matters: Intuitive Eating myths debunked blog

Nuance w/ the IE principles matters: You can eat when you’re not hungry blog by Christy Harrison

Thank you so much for tuning into this weeks episode of the 50 Shades of Food & Nutrition podcast! A huge thank you to our sponsor Organico Candles🌟 Make sure to check out the website & Natalie's Instagram

I hope you enjoyed listening to Vicky's expertise & insight... In this episode we covered:

✨Not feeling at home in your body

✨How this culture oppressive and is hostile to many bodies

✨What is body image, and what then is body image healing?

✨World systems that oppress certain bodies

✨Why self compassion is so much deeper than social media suggests

✨Medicalised weight stigma + mental health professional weight stigma

✨The idea that “worries” are hot potatoes, and therapy helps build oven mitts

✨What actually is Health At Every Size ® ?

✨And Vicky’s starter tips to cultivating self-compassion + embodiment

Make sure to follow to never miss an episode 🌟 And another huge thank you to Organica candles

More from Vicky

Instagram @concentriccounselling

Instagram @a.modern.practice

Vicky’s website

More from Isa Robinson

Find me on Instagram @isarobinson_nutrition

Looking for 121 nutrition counselling support? Enquire on our website

Extra reading & resources

Vicky’s beginner guide to developing body acceptance

How self-compassion is a tool in finding peace with food - our blog

What is positive body image? Blog

Why weight bias hurts everyone by Christy Harrison, includes link to pod w/ Fiona Sutherland

DSMG pod episode w/ Ashlee Bennett: How to start building positive body image

Kristen Neff’s book Self-Compassion

Kristen Neff’s free self-compassion exercises