How To Love Your Body

This week on the podcast we are chatting all things MINDSET. UnDieting starts and ends in our thoughts and beliefs. But if these things need to shift, how do we do that? Mindset work can sound complicated but it doesn't have to be overwhelming. Tune into today's episode to learn about UnDieting Your Mind and how powerful this can be for your relationship with food and your body. Love, Lauren and Jenna PS - If you want to work on UnDieting Your Mind be sure to grab your free UnDiet your Mind November Calendar!

In this episode Lauren and Jenna have a conversation about how there is no wiggle room for pursuing weight loss in UnDieting. Not only does it affect your ability to be intuitive and listen to your body if pursuit of weight loss is on the brain - anyone that promotes Intuitive Eating and weight loss is not genuinely teaching Intuitive Eating. Tune in to listen to the full discussion!    You can join the waitlist for the re-opening of our APP, The UnDiet Collective here - http://thebodylovesociety.com/undietwaitlist/

This week Jenna and Lauren discuss the pros and cons on focusing on the science surrounding Intuitive Eating. How important is it to know the science? Is it all relevant? What should you listen to and what should you disregard? As with everything in UnDieting and Intuitive Eating there is no black and white answer but in this episode the Counselors discuss some different ways of thinking about it so you can make the best decisions for you! Please rate and review the podcast if you haven't yet, it helps the UnDieting message get out there!

In this episode Lauren and Jenna discuss when someone posts about their weight loss on social media. It's hard not to compare and think, "I was that person. I "should" be posting about my transformation. I should be getting all the likes and validation." Society has taught us that weight loss equals health. Weight loss equals attention. Weight loss equals being a good human. This makes sense AND it's not the truth. If you've ever been triggered by someone posting about their weight loss on social media, you aren't alone. Tune in and listen to the full discussion.  If you enjoy this podcast, please rate and review so the UnDiet message can reach more people! xo 

In this episode Lauren and Jenna discuss HOW to build up trust in your body. Tune in if you are having a hard time trusting that your body knows what it needs! Body trust is a vital part of UnDieting, without it you cannot tap into your Intuitive Eating skills.  

On today's episode Lauren and Jenna have a conversation about why being full is actually a GOOD thing. Diet culture has taught us that fullness is something to avoid, something to fear, something to feel shame and guilt over. This is not the truth. You'll learn why honoring your hunger and allowing you to get your fill is an important part of becoming an UnDieter. Tune in! The doors to The UnDiet Collective will be opening exclusively to the waitlist so if you would like to join us in an awesome community of like minded women go to http://thebodylovesociety.com/undietwaitlist/

This week Lauren and Jenna are discussing the privilege involved in the wellness industry and how closely intertwined dieting is with consumerism, spending money and how YOU can figure out if you're investing in your "wellness" in a way that is self honouring or just about marketing.   Be on the lookout for some exciting new things coming from The Body Love Society (think something you can hold in your hands!). You can join the waitlist for The UnDiet Collective App here www.thebodylovesociety.com/undietwaitlist

Lauren and Jenna have a conversation about emotional eating. Why we need to shift the wording of emotional eating to take the judgment out of it, how it actually is a part of Intuitive Eating, being okay with using food as a coping mechanism, and what else you can do that will serve you when dealing with challenging emotions. Diet culture has created emotional eating into something "bad" and "wrong." This episode talks about why it's not and how you can normalize it.  The UnDiet Collective App will be opening to the waitlist in the next month - you can join the waitlist here - http://thebodylovesociety.com/undietwaitlist/

In this episode Lauren and Jenna discuss a community concern (a member of The UnDiet Collective). This person was wondering what to do because the people around them were making comments that what they're doing (UnDieting and Intuitive Eating) must not be working because they gained weight. How do you explain to people in diet culture what this work is about and that the weight is not the point? Get more info about how to work with Lauren and Jenna here - www.thebodylovesociety.com/membership  

Welcome to How To Love Your Body. On today's episode Lauren and Jenna discuss triggers. What they are, when to avoid them, when to embrace them, and how they can actually provide an insight to your healing in this process in becoming an UnDieter and creating a peaceful relationship with food and your body.  You can join the waitlist to the APP The UnDiet Collective at http://thebodylovesociety.com/undietwaitlist/ 

In this episode Lauren and Jenna have a conversation about being in survival mode, self compassion, inevitable change, doing your best, and listening to your body internally.  This all relates to being an UnDieter, Intuitive Eating, and body image! Tune in! 

Hi I'm Jenna Free and this is Lauren McAulay, we are intuitive eating counsellors here to help you heal your relationship with food and your body. Welcome to this week’s episode of How to Love Your Body. Today we are talking about weight neutrality and body neutrality, what is it, when is it useful and how can you use it to start feeling better about your body? The weight-neutral approach acknowledges that body weight is determined by a complex set of genetic, metabolic, physiological, cultural, social, and behavioral determinants, many of which individuals cannot change. Instead of focusing on a weight-oriented outcome, participants in weight-neutral programs are taught to take charge of the factors they can, such as thoughts and behaviors, which ultimately lead to improved well-being, regardless of weight.   Body neutrality is rooted in acknowledging what your body does, not how it appears. Your body allows you to exercise, travel the world and experience new cultures. Your body gives you the ability t

Welcome to How to Love Your Body--  on todays episode we are talking about 5 quick but powerful facts on body image…  Healing your relationship with food is of course an essential part to becoming an UnDieter... So is working through body image. Here are 5 facts about body image: 1. You don't have to love your body 100% of the time as an UnDieter - but you can absolutely respect it. ​ 2. It's okay if you still care about what you look like (we're human in a society obsessed over looks!). That doesn't mean you can't improve your body image. 3. It's okay to start with neutrality. A powerful exercise when starting to work on body image is not putting pressure on yourself to shift every negative body image thought to a positive thought. We are not about toxic positivity. What you can do is start to shift judgmental thoughts to neutral thoughts. ​ ​Ex. "I don't like the way my arms look in this shirt" to "I have arms." ​ 4. Our bodies go through phases and circumstances of life. It's normal that bodies change

Stopped dieting and it's just feeling blah? Here is the best way to get over that just "not dieting" feeling and actually become an UnDieter and Intuitive Eater for life! Get more info at www.thebodylovesociety.com/membership

This week's podcast episode on How to Love Your Body is a little different. When we were getting ready to record a different podcast episode for the previous week we started talking about a topic that we felt needed to be recorded on the cuff and turned into a podcast episode. In this episode we share about how we, as Intuitive Eating Counselors, can have times when we care about how we look. We go into more detail in the episode and talk about specific examples. The reason we wanted to bring this up is because we live in a world/ society that is built off of diet culture and beauty standards so of course you may have feelings of wanting to look a certain way. You aren't wrong for that. The thing to consider is how far are you willing to go to fit into societal standards? If it's making you obsessed and miserable to obtain these standards, is it really worth it? At what cost? We also get into the topic of wellness without the obsession. Tune in to listen to the full discussion! PS. If you have't yet sig

In Today’s episode we want to address UnDieting for life and what it can look like for you. The reason we want to talk about this is because UnDieting is not just another diet. It’s something that can actually be sustainable for life. This is why this way of living is most realistic (and freeing) - there’s an ebb and flow, a balance - once you really find your groove with UnDieting it just becomes your way of life, it becomes second nature. It’s not something you are following, it doesn’t have a set of rules. It’s just you and your body trusting, listening, and being.    Before we dive in - this episode is brought to your by our free UnDiet For Life Kickstart Course that you can sign up for at www.thebodylovesociety.com/undietforlife 10 signs you’re going to be an undieter for life: You live your life free and at peace with food and your body - meaning no rules shoulds, cants or have tos with food. You don’t think about it a lot, you just live! Instead of focusing on weight; the focus is on how your

Welcome to How to Love Your Body today we have a special guest - actress, singer and activist Melanie Field. You may recognize her from shows like You, The Alienist: Angel of Darkness and Shrill, yes Shrill and even more importantly creator of the powerful song and music video “Now I Know”, which we will play at the end of this episode so if you want to have a good cry we highly recommend you stay tuned for that. Questions asked in this episode: Tell us the story behind the song Now I Know, what is it about, and why did you feel the need to make it. What has the reaction been to the song? Do you have any insights after hearing from so many people resonating with the song? Discuss how we were talking about the body acceptance movement, anti fat bias etc - we need EVERYONE on board to make a difference.  WHILE also recognizing thin privilege, of COURSE but if the people with the privilege are happy how things are things won’t change. Listen to Melanie's FULL song, "Now I know" at the end of this podcast

On today’s episode we are talking about how long it takes to become an Intuitive Eater. We get this question a lot which makes sense because of course we want to know specific timelines. We want to know how long things are going to take and when we can expect to achieve the goal of x. In this case - the goal is Intuitive Eating.  Coming off of dieting and learning how to be an Intuitive Eater is amazing. To not feel restricted and confined to a diet plan is so freeing. That being said, coming off a diet and into Intuitive Eating can be scary because at first you may feel out of control with food, which is extremely normal. There will be a swing of restriction of food as a dieter to possible “overload” with food as a new Intuitive Eater. This process must happen in our opinion because there is no such thing as being a strict dieter and then finding peace and harmony with food the second you choose to learn about Intuitive Eating. It’s going to feel messy and out of control at times, and that’s okay!  Goi

Welcome to How to Love Your Body - this week’s podcast episode is a review of Reverse Dieting. One of our community members sent us a post confused about whether it was a good non diet option so we wanted to review it to let you know what we think. Disclaimer: This episode will discuss dieting behaviors, some calorie numbers and for the love of god, do not google reverse dieting if you are trying to avoid diet culture and before and afters. The reason we are explaining it here is because it is one of those diets that don’t look like diets, it’s something that people trying to UnDiet may look at and be convinced that it’s a safe diet alternative… Here's what we found. Let’s start by explaining what reserve dieting is: Reverse dieting is often described as the diet after the diet, it is slowly increasing calories after a period of restriction. Here’s where the first diet culture red flags come in - the intention of this is often weight loss or prevention of weight gain. And honestly when we were first sen

Today on How to Love Your Body we are talking to Mary Jelkovsky from Mary's Cup of Tea. She is the author of the book The Gift of Self Love and in this episode we dive into all things body image and romantic relationships. Whether you're single or in a relationship, doing UnDiet work can affect how we seek out or how we interact with a romantic partner. Tune into this episode to get tips and insights into how to set boundaries with your partner and be able to UnDiet without being limited by your romantic relationships. Mary is our guest expert in the Collective on June 30th! To access her Self Love Workshop be sure to join the waitlist for the Collective reopening in July!