What if you could experience food joy instead of food guilt this holiday? You can! Before Melissa and the podcast go on break - she'll teach you how to plan ahead for food joy at upcoming celebrations using Satisfaction skills from the Intuitive Eating framework. To get you to this point where you're no longer in food guilt and extremes, Melissa wi…

Today we’ve enlisted Zoë Bisbing, an eating disorder therapist, activist, mother of three and co-founder of @fullbloomproject to talk about body positive parenting skills and inner child work. If you’ve ever felt like you *WANT* to be body positive (so you can push back on the very diet culture that hurt you!)…but struggle to feel positive about YO…

For years, Summer didn’t even consider her dieting to be a “problem”. How could it be? A self proclaimed “good girl’ - she was convinced clean eating and weight loss were good girl things to do. Her takeaway when diets failed her? SHE was the problem. Coming from a family of generational dieters, and eager to do whatever it took to get dieting “rig…

How long have you been dieting? Has it been an ACTUAL lifetime? Extended exposure to dieting may come new worries: can you really change after all this time? Is it worth even trying at this point? Can you be healthy as you get older AND recover your relationship with food at the same time? Too many women tell themselves "it's not that bad" - furthe…

Do you ever just wish your family was “normal’ when it came to food and body image stuff? Especially as you start to learn more about Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size, you can’t help but grieve what could have been if only YOUR mother had learned to break the diet cycle so that you didn't have to. What would life be like if diet culture we…

The doors for The Gentle Nutrition Intensive are opening on Weds 11/16 through black friday 🎉 Add your name to the waitlist and I’ll send you all the details! https://mailchi.mp/5d3986bd6987/nomoreguiltgroups Today on the podcast Melissa interviews Dr. Maggie Landes - board-certified physician, public health nutritionist, and anti-diet wellness exp…

Do you take any medications? If not, do you ever worry you’ll have to go on them some day because of your health habits? Many people worry no longer dieting will lead to health concerns that require medications. This idea is a MAJOR roadblock to progressing in your Intuitive Eating work. How do you stop letting this common fear hold you back from b…

Favorite halloween candy on three! 1, 2, 3. JUNIOR MINTS! Whatever your go to halloween sweet - we need to talk. It's okay if you love sweets - including halloween candy. And, it's okay if you love food in general. Too often new Intuitive Eaters try to banish their love of food by turning Intuitive Eating into a restrictive diet. When it comes to s…

What was your relationship to food and body image like in college? Many clients report their disordered eating behaviors began or worsened during the college years. And many did not receive care or support during this time which is why, in part, they still struggle with food and body image today. What is the impact of diet culture on college studen…

So you deleted your MFP (myfitnesspal) or other food tracking apps but still sometimes find your thumb hovering over the “download” button on your negative body image days? You're not the only one and it’s time we talk. Even when you want to stop tracking, you mind may gravitate toward it without your permission! In this episode, Melissa and fellow…

Sam Abbott (@pcos.nutritionist) is back on the pod to share something near and dear to her heart: reality television. In this episode, Melissa and Sam talk about the way reality TV portrays stories about body image, diet culture, and eating disorders. We explore storylines from the Real Housewives franchise, Love is Blind, Love Island, Selling Suns…

CALLING ALL BOOK LOVERS! Is your anti-diet, body positive “TO BE READ” pile just eyeing you, collecting dust? In this episode, Amy Rapone MS, RD (@radlovenutrition), fellow Anti-Diet Registered Dietitian, talks about: How to find the best books for your Intuitive Eating and body image journey Fiction vs. non-fiction books - which are better to supp…

So many people love the idea of Intuitive Eating but struggle with putting it into practice because it feels WAY too scary to start on your own. In this episode, former No More Guilt client Aston Moody shares her main fears about Intuitive Eating before coming into the No More Guilt program over a year and a half ago, how she overcame her fears of …

Do you ever worry “eating what you want” will 100% backfire on you? Like you can’t handle the responsibility of being without ANY kind of structure or plan? You’re not alone. Having grown up in a diet culture - it would make sense! Many generational dieters never had a role model for a healthy relationship with food and need more structure than the…

If you grew up in a family that valued thinness and diets… and then went on to diet yourself for YEARS - your brain is now set up to think of food as series of rules and steps to follow. Then enters Intuitive Eating with all its messages to: “jUsT LisTeN to YouR BoDy” and “eAt WHaT yoU wAnT”. Especially if you are a black-and-white thinker who *LOV…

I mean - we can assume most of us have an origin story here, right?! Food guilt doesn’t spring out of nowhere...when did it start for you? My client Nicole shares when her body image problems started, when she realized it was time for her to make a change, and how she leaned on the No More Guilt program for 3 months to: Stop harmful dieting practic…

Last week we replaced the question “does eating more help you lose weight?” with an even better one: "what regulates our weight in the first place?" And is it even food? As it relates to nutrition, there are two accepted theories about why some people are in bigger bodies compared to others. We talk about which theory makes sense with our available…

As the harms - and ineffectiveness - of dieting become more well known, Melissa has noticed an interesting phenomena. A lot of “weight loss experts” are starting to give you messages like “of course you’re not losing weight, you’re not eating enough!” - in stark contract to older messages like “learn to eat less”. In this episode, Melissa explains …

Meet Stephanie! Stephanie is a No More Guilt Client who is sharing her story on today’s episode. We talk: how to let go of the idea of “good” and “bad” foods, mindset skills from Melissa’s No Guilt Framework that helped Stephanie find peace with former binge foods, and the RADICAL insight she learned about emotional eating (spoiler alert: sometimes…

Melissa’s back to talk you through how to sort yourself out when you’re feeling stuck in your Intuitive Eating Process. In this episode, she’ll show you how to decide what to do next in order to *REALLY* progress in your Intuitive Eating Journey simply by asking: what does future you want? If you've ever felt like you *know* what to do, but you’re …

Many people ask: how do you know when "gentle nutrition" is working for you without the scale? If you too are healing your relationship with food and want to pursue health, then you’ll want to know about Intuitive Eating Principle 10: Honor Your Health with Gentle Nutrition. Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Dalina Soto and Melissa Landry intervie…

Do you have a complicated relationship with movement? You’re not alone. Though there are undoubtedly mental and physical benefits to moving regularly - many chronic dieters find themselves struggling to find motivation without goals of weight loss creating all-or-nothing extremes! In today’s episode Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Dalina Soto an…

Body respect can feel difficult after years of dieting. If all you’ve ever known is trying to change your body into something different, then you’ll want to know about Intuitive Eating Principle 8: Respect Your Body. Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Dalina Soto and Melissa Landry interview Allison Latham-Jones, stylist and Intuitive Eater to cove…

Feeling feelings is hard! In today’s episode Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Dalina Soto and Melissa Landry talk about Intuitive Eating Principle 7: Cope with Your Emotions with Kindness. Learn: why emotional eating is NORMAL and NATURAL! the difference between binge eating vs emotional eating Why you emotionally eat and, What tools you can use …

Do you struggle to listen to your fullness? Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Dalina Soto and Melissa Landry interview Ex-Dieter and member of Melissa’s No More Guilt Community, Suzanne, to talk about one of the most difficult to master Intuitive Eating skills: feeling your fullness. Suzanne gives her real-life take on: In today’s episode we cover…

Dalina’s interview her client and fellow Chula Adriana to discuss Dalina’s favorite Intuitive Eating principle: discovering the satisfaction factor. Next to rejecting diet mindset, this is one of the most important skills you can learn as an intuitive eater, and in fact, is the ENTIRE point of the process! In today’s episode we cover: How food sati…

We’re continuing on in our Intuitive Eating Skill series with Principle 4: challenge the food police. In this episode, Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Dalina Soto and Melissa Landry discuss: Where the inner “food police voice” comes from How Intuitive Eating uses cognitive behavioral therapy to shift negative self-talk and food guilt The differe…

We’re continuing on in our Intuitive Eating Skill series with Principle 3: make peace with food. In this episode, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Dalina Soto interviews her former client Vanessa to discuss her experience: Getting out of the binge-restrict cycle so many chronic dieters find themselves in overcoming fears when giving yourself uncon…

Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Dalina Soto and Melissa Landry discuss Intuitive Eating Principle 2: Honor your Hunger as they walk you through Intuitive Eating with more detail. In today’s episode we discuss: Primal hunger: what is it? The importance of carbs and eating enough What does hunger even feel like? How chronic dieting can mess up you…

Does Intuitive Eating sound good, but you’re not sure if you can get past the idea of it being “bad for your health”? This episode helps dispel the myth that intuitive eating means “giving up” or “just eating what you want” as we kick off our Intuitive Eating skill series with Principle One: Reject the Diet Mentality! Registered Dietitian Nutrition…

It had to happen eventually, right?! It’s no less bittersweet to say: we’re taking a paise. In this episode Melissa and Dalina reflect on their 2 years creating 80+ episodes of fun, informative podcasts with dozens of guests. We chat about why it’s time for our Break the Diet Cycle partnership to evolve, how our values for content creation are chan…

In the work Dalina and Melissa do, we uncover a lot of *stuff* about mindset - and often hear the refrain "I realized my relationship to food is kind of like my relationship to money". Have you ever noticed this too? It’s like sometimes mindless, other times too restrictive, other times too "spendy” (aka a money binge)? That’s why we asked Bola Sok…

As anti-diet dietitians we encourage you to eat what you want. This may be VERY different from what you have heard in the past about food, so it’s expected that we get asked: “what about health?” or “what about diabetes - are we REALLY going to tell people with DIABETES to eat what they want?” - and the simple answer is YES! You are allowed to eat …

In this episode Registered Dietitians Dalina Soto and Melissa Landry discuss healthism with Patrilie Hernandez. We discuss the common refrain “I’m all for body positivity, but what about health?” - where it comes from and why concerns about health are so often the last hurdle when it comes to food freedom and body liberation. You’ll learn practical…

In this episode we interview Jen, a member of Dalina’s Chula Club, about the four types of hunger: emotional, physical/biological, practical, and taste. Jen gives real examples of how she went from diet extremes to Intuitive Eating. We hope you feel inspired to understand your hunger so you can eat, move on, and enjoy your life without all the guil…

In today’s episode, we interview Steph, Melissa’s former client, about her journey learning Intuitive Eating. Steph shares her "dieting story" and why she decided to pursue Intuitive Eating. We explore what it was like for her to be a new Mom and some of the unique challenges she faced around food and body image: including the pressure she felt to …

In this episode - we talk with fellow Registered Dietitian, Rebecca King. Rebecca was inspired to build her private practice to her own struggles with ADHD. She explains why Intuitive Eating is the perfect fit for anyone else struggling out there, just like she was! This episode is for you if you struggle with ADHD, know someone with ADHD, or strug…

Meal planning can feel super difficult for a few reasons. What if you don’t have the time? What if you don’t feel like it? And - if you’ve been on one too many diets before - what if it gives you the all out heebie jeebies to plan out *every* bite of food? Meal planning is a life skill, and doesn’t JUST belong to diet culture. We called in Colleen …

Do you think about food 24/7? Does it make you feel distracted and guilty? Many people minimize this experience by telling themselves “it’s not bad enough to get help” - which is why we want to share Lauren’s story as a former client of No More Guilt group coaching. Lauren talks about the ways in which her disordered dieting behaviors get normalize…

Do you remember hearing the words “hay comida en casa? Or “there’s food at home” whenever you asked your Mom to go to get pizza on the way home after school? The expectation to ALWAYS eat at home (or else risk being wasteful and unhealthy) sticks with us! Especially if like Dalina - your Mom did EVERYTHING by hand and taught you not to waste money.…

Dalina and I are not in menopause - but WE ARE NOW CONVINCED - we need to talk about menopause WAY sooner! We realized through this recording: we know nothing about our mother’s experience - and her story can be a major “tell” of how your menopause will go. And if you are in menopause? “THE CHANGE” has you managing symptoms like hot flashes and bod…

Many clients tell us that intimacy issues come up because of their body image. If you’ve ever had the idea your body was not sexy or desirable because of your shape or size – you may wonder: how do you start to become more sex positive as part of your body image work? What do you do if you had a negative experience in the past where a partner made …

For many people, the idea of no longer dieting is the easy part of Intuitive Eating. If you’ve dieted since you were 15 years old - you’re SO exhausted by now. It’s kind of a relief to hear “diets don't work” - because you’ve known it all along. But then what?! What often DOESN’T feel like relief for clients is the idea they are going to be stuck i…

Have you heard about the social determinants of health before? Addressing the impact of systemic problems on health is becoming more common - and for good reason! Though individual behaviors matter to your health, they are not the be-all-end-all solution that diet culture says they are. In this episode, we interview public health expert and Registe…

Today we’re sitting down with Erin from @foodsciencebabe on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. Many of you struggle with food rules centered on the idea of “clean eating”. You want to do the best for your health by choosing high quality foods, but is that really necessary for your best mental, emotional, and financial health? As a food scientist and …

Have you ever struggled with gas, constipation, bloating, or diarrhea? We asked Samina Qureshi, RD to talk about how you can improve these symptoms WHILE ALSO working on your food freedom goals. Listen to this empowering interview and learn: What causes IBS and why so many see improvements when they stop restricting What to do if your favorite or c…

How long have you dieted for? Most people we talk to say “more than half my life!” If being a beginner at Intuitive Eating (IE) feels both exciting, and let’s face it, scary - you’re not alone. We join forces with Bonnie Roney, Registered Dietitian and creator of @diet.culture.rebel to talk about ways for you to break through any beginner blues you…

Today is Blue Monday! What’s that? It’s the day dieting companies hope you feel *SO* down about yourself, you fall for their dieting claims as a way to feel better about yourself. EYE ROLL. We’re not falling for it! To help you focus on your goal of finding food freedom - and finally make this the first year you ditch diets for GOOD - we made a lis…

Ever since Dalina found out about “Blue Monday” - aka the diet industry’s best sales day, we’ve wanted to give you a complete breakdown on the popular dieting app Noom. Why? This app is NOTORIOUS for using words like “intuitive eating” and claiming it's not a diet in its advertisements and search fields. That sounds promising, but is it? Prior to t…

We’re back for Season 5! Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Dalina Soto and Melissa Landry discuss the tricks the diet industry plays to get you to diet year after year. We’ll show you how to stop falling for yet another “quick fix” trend this New Year, and instead take steps toward food freedom. In today’s episode we cover: Why you keep falling in…