#45 - Is This a Diet Too? Why 'Healthy Eating' is So Confusing for Non-Dieters, with HAES Dietitian Glenys Oyston and Body Image Coach Sarah Vance

In this episode I talk with fellow HAES dietitian Glenys Oyston
and body image coach Sarah Vance about the confusing and
difficult space between “non dieting” and “healthy eating”.
There’s a process to changing to a non-dieter, which includes
letting go of food rules, and then working with your individual
food preferences as you build intuitive eating skills and learn
how to “feel your feels”.


We go many different places in this conversation from the
“Unicorn Drink Craze” that showed us how sugar phobic our culture
really is today and how emotional eating can be informative and
even helpful in life, especially while you’re overcoming dieting
and working on coping with negative emotions in ways other than
food.


Overall, we complain that dieting has ruined the idea of healthy
eating because it labels individual foods as good or bad vs one’s
overall pattern of eating, which literally can include all foods.
We agree that “healthy eating” is highly individual and should
not be tied to weight.


We close out our chat about weight stigma and the fact that we
wouldn’t be so obsessed with “healthy eating” and dieting if we
didn’t have fat phobia. Plus we reaffirm that giving up on
dieting is not giving up on health (total MYTH!) and in fact
giving up on dieting is one of the most important things you can
do for mental health.


About Glenys
Glenys Oyston is a registered dietitian and eating coach who
dares women to stop dieting and start living. As someone who
struggled with her weight and feeling out-of-control around food
for years, she knows exactly what others are going through and
how to get them to food freedom. She coaches people in person in
her Los Angeles office, online or by phone through one-on-one and
group coaching programs.


Website | The Dare to Not Diet Society - Facebook Group
| Facebook | Twitter | Dietitians Unplugged
podcast


About Sarah


Sarah Vance is a body image & self-worth coach, host of the
Reclaiming You Podcast, and creator of the life changing Breaking
Boundaries Program. She specializes in helping women all over the
world let go of diet dogma, body hate, perfection, and all or
nothing thinking so they can live their damn lives feeling
worthy, confident, loved, free, and enough in whatever body they
have.


Website | Instagram | Facebook


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