This week we chatted with Cate Navarrete about the Body Positive Alliance, a student-led non-profit organization committed to advocating for the acceptance and representation of all bodies regardless of physical ability, size, gender, race, or appearance. While it started out as a club at her high school, the organization has expanded to multiple other schools, including universities. In this clip, Cate talks about her realization that disordered eating and negative body image were ubiquitous at her high school and in her social circles, and how that realization spurred her on to create the BPA.
Listen to the whole conversation here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-kids-are-alright/id1542642470?i=1000547388752
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Hello, Lisa here - My family and I went to the Polar Express today. And here’s a clip of an entire song and dance routine about hot chocolate because these fine people know what’s good.
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Lisa here - The other day @oona_hanson asked on Twitter what are some signs that you are more at peace with food now. And I realized mine: I’m trying to stick to a grocery budget because what I’ve spent in recent months is just appallingly embarrassing and I have to take my lumps now for it. But shopping from a flyer isn’t something I would have felt comfortable doing when I had an eating disorder because it requires food freedom. So this was week one of my food flyer food freedom experiment and it is going great so far. A huge chicken thigh package cost less than $3 and yielded this Greek Avgolemono soup. Tonight I’ve got a huge beef round bottom roast in the slow-cooker and that will yield dozens of tacos. Turns out food freedom isn’t just good for your mind and body, it’s excellent for your wallet, too.
On that note, here’s a link to our latest episode where we interview foodie and author Hannah Howard: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hannah-howard-and-plenty-a-memoir-of-food-and-family/id1542642470?i=1000544058222
And I’ll take any and ALL of your favorite cheap dinner meal ideas.
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(Lisa here, good morning!) The biggest misconception I hear about eating disorders is that people who suffer just dislike food. No, no, no. On the contrary, many of us are obsessed with food. We struggle with the pleasure and pain we find in food and our cravings. We dream about food. When we recover we sometimes realize we’re really good at cooking because we revere food.
On this week’s Hunger Trap Podcast we chatted with food writer Hannah Howard, author of Plenty: A Memoir of Food And Family and Feast: True Love In and Out of the Kitchen. Here she is telling us in her own words how she embraced that food pleasure after struggling with her eating disorder.
Give the episode a listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hannah-howard-and-plenty-a-memoir-of-food-and-family/id1542642470?i=1000544058222
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Happy Birthday to The Hunger Trap Podcast. We’ve been at it a whole year, folks!
It has been an amazing experience, and we’ve been so fortunate to have guests share their lived experience with eating disorders, as well as experts in the field share their knowledge.
We are incredibly grateful to all of our listeners and look forward to our second year.
Do you have a unique story around eating disorders and body image that you’d like to share? Have some feedback or a burning desire to learn about a particular topic? Drop us a line.
Please rate, review, subscribe, and most of all thank you so much for your support this past year.
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Luigi Pedalino: Thank you for being a friend!
Lisa and I want to take the time to thank Luigi, our high school
buddy, for his amazing contributions to our episode this week. Television has always been a passion of his, and he has channeled that energy into the amazing Married With Children Podcast, linked below. His excellent editing skills and creative flair helped us produce this very special episode of The Hunger Trap, where we explore how TV from the 80s shaped our view of women, body image, weight, and eating disorders.
Find our latest episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hunger-trap-podcast/id1542642470?i=1000541918836
Check out The Married With Children Podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/married-with-children-podcast/id1534577841
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Strap in, kids! This a long one, but a good one. On this very special 2-hour episode of The Hunger Trap, Lisa and Diana go back to the future with special guest Luigi Pedalino at the wheel of the DeLorean to revisit how women, weight, body image, and eating disorders were handled on the sitcoms and commercials of yesteryear. Spoiler alert: They weren’t exactly handled well!
Special thanks to Luigi for editing this episode and weaving in show clips and relevant commercials to give our listeners a truly immersive experience.
Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hunger-trap-podcast/id1542642470?i=1000541918836
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In this week’s episode on The Hunger Trap we chat with Kate Stephens, a licensed clinical professional counselor at @empoweringyoullc about the connection between trauma and eating disorders. In this clip Kate talks a bit about why clinicians who treat eating disorders may need to take a blunt but empathetic approach in treatment; although they are dysfunctional, eating disorders act as coping mechanisms, and patients may be a bit reluctant to (a) face the harm they cause, and (b) let them go because they do serve a functional (albeit dysfunctional) purpose.
Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hunger-trap-podcast/id1542642470?i=1000540343536
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Hello there! This week on the Hunger Trap Podcast we spoke with Endocrinologist Dr. Gregory Dodell who explains in this clip why yo-yo dieting affects your metabolism, how our metabolisms have a set point, and how yo-yo’ing can lead to gaining weight back. We tackled a few interesting topics with Dr. Dodell, including weight cycling, how yo-yo dieting can put you more at risk for Type 2 diabetes, and the connection between weight, sugar and Type 2 diabetes.
Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-yo-yo-dieting-can-harm-your-health/id1542642470?i=1000538175382
Please remember to rate, review, and share the episode!
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Eating Disorders and ADHD:
Weekend listening: We spoke with Dr. Roberto Olivardia at Harvard about the link between ADHD and eating disorders. Here he is talking a bit about how girls present with ADHD differently, as well as some lesser known components about ADHD and executive functions (including eating!). Give it a listen here and please rate, review, and share the podcast so we can get the word out: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/comorbid-adhd-and-ed-with-dr-roberto-olivardia/id1542642470?i=1000537435904
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In this week’s episode “Eating Disorders are a Family Affair” we learn about family based treatment, a method used at Equip for treating eating disorders in children and young adults. JD Ouellette, Director of Mentorship, has personal experience with FBT; she and her family used the method to help her daughter recover from anorexia. In this clip JD talks a bit about her “full apron approach” to FBT and how empathy, compassion, love, and a determination to not let the ED win helps a family overcome this disease together.
(Note: Images sourced from https://www.facebook.com/joinequip)
Listen to the episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eating-disorders-are-a-family-affair/id1542642470?i=1000536715399
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Shock. Disbelief. Shame. Embarrassment. Anorexia? Me? But I’m not dangerously “underweight”. How can that possibly be?
Oh, it be, folks, it be. Today Lisa and I chat with Allison Sardo: A vibrant, funny, intelligent, kind, thoughtful, excellent speech pathologist who is also a rockstar wife and mom, all-around badass, friend, daughter, sister. Oh, and she has atypical anorexia and has been battling her eating disorder for well over a decade.
What is atypical anorexia? Well, it has all of the mental attributes of regular ol’ anorexia, but the person struggling with the disease presents with a “normal” body size, or even a “larger” body. In a society rife with fat phobia those of us with atypical anorexia do not pass go or collect $200 in the game of eating disorder diagnosis and treatment. We often get sent directly to jail; a prison of self-doubt, mocking, suffering in silence for years before seeking help, paradoxically receiving praise for shrinking our bodies during the peak of our mental suffering,but hearing no support or even ridicule when we finally work on our mental health and (sometimes) recover into a larger body.
In this clip Allison talks about the frustrations of recovery into a larger body. I urge you to check out the entire episode, “There’s Nothing Atypical About Atypical Anorexia" to learn more about why it’s not really atypical at all, when you take the time to peel back the layers and look inside the person who is suffering.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/theres-nothing-atypical-about-atypical-anorexia/id1542642470?i=1000535981697
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SEASON 2 PREMIERE!
Diana here. Earlier this summer a dental device that locked people’s jaws shut to promote weight loss received a lot of mainstream media attention and scrutiny. Barbaric! Cruel! Inhumane! While I agreed with these sentiments, I couldn’t help but chuckle to myself at these reactions; did everyone really think this was modern medicine’s first rodeo with regards to wacky weight loss drugs/devices/strategies?
Here’s the thing when it comes to fatness: Our society views it as a moral failing, the embodiment of laziness and stupidity, a calling card that broadcasts to the world, “I am less than.” Combine that with the classification of obesity as a disease that needs to be eradicated, is it really any wonder that prescribed treatments might be a little, shall we say, “out there”? If the idea that fat people are subhuman is a steel thread tightly woven into the fabric of our society, then they should endure pain, discomfort, and frankly diminished overall health to achieve smaller bodies…right? Wait, but I thought this was all about making fat people healthier…or is it?
In our Season 2 opener Lisa and I played two truths and a lie. I presented diets, medications, and medical devices that have been prescribed over the years to promote weight loss — two of the examples are true, one is a lie — and Lisa had to sniff out the rotten egg.
Well, in our opinion, they’re all pretty rotten. In this clip Lisa grapples with the concept of implanting devices in your abdominal cavity to promote weight loss. Listen to the rest of it here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/season-2-premiere-tapeworms-gastric-balloons-other/id1542642470?i=1000535139225
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ENCORE: Eating Disorders Run Rampant In Restaurants: One Chef’s Story
Lisa and Diana chat with Jennifer Ophir, a renowned chef, food stylist, culinary producer, and recipe developer, about her experiences cooking in some of New York City’s hottest kitchens, including the Michelin-star awarded Perry Street, while also struggling with an eating disorder. Jennifer shares about how the grueling hours and tense atmosphere “on the line” fueled her own struggles with food and body image, and how she now strives to balance her passion for cooking with her own well-being.
Religion & Wellness: Cut From The Same Cloth?
Diana and Lisa chat with Religion Scholar Dr. Alan Levinovitz about religious food restrictions, how they relate to eating disorders, and the modern day phenomenon of achieving a spiritual state through practices like Intermittent Fasting and keto diets.
Body and Pole
Lisa and Diana chat with NASM-certified, award-winning, brilliant AND hilarious Roz the Diva Mays about pole dancing, her career as a personal trainer, struggles with body neutrality/love, and finding passion for fitness in whatever size body you have.