The Full Plate Podcast with Abbie Attwood, MS

Full Plate by Abbie Attwood
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Full Plate is a podcast about healing from diet culture, creating peace with food, reclaiming body autonomy and trust, and taking a weight-inclusive approach to our well-being. Each week, Abbie interviews guests or answers listener questions that explore our relationship to food and our bodies. Abbie is an anti-diet nutritionist with a master’s in nutrition and integrative health. She is also the founder and owner of Abbie Attwood Wellness, a virtual private practice dedicated to weight-inclusive care, food freedom, body image healing, and dismantling diet culture. Find Full Plate on Instagram @fullplate.podcast Abbie is @abbieattwoodwellness This show is ad-free and listener-supported. For bonus episodes and more content, join us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fullplate abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com

  1. The Chronic Pain and Diet Culture Connection Nobody's Talking About with DK Ciccone, Author of You're Meant to Move

    3d ago

    The Chronic Pain and Diet Culture Connection Nobody's Talking About with DK Ciccone, Author of You're Meant to Move

    I'm joined by DK Ciccone — comprehensively certified Pilates instructor, pain reprocessing therapy practitioner, and author of You're Meant to Move — for a conversation that is both deeply personal and clinically rich. We talk about what chronic pain actually is, why so many people have been dismissed or mislabeled, and what it looks like to rebuild a relationship with movement that isn't driven by fear, punishment, or diet culture. This was originally a paid episode. Consider upgrading to a paid subscription to keep Full Plate going: https://abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe In this episode: DK's journey with chronic pain and her past as a dancerHow chronic pain forms and why the pain is real even in the absence of ongoing tissue damage The nervous system science behind pain sensitization — and why catastrophizing physically amplifies pain Kinesiophobia: the fear of movement that develops after chronic pain, and how to work through it Somatic tracking and pain reprocessing therapy as tools for understanding pain signalsHow to explore the difference between pain and discomfort DK's "refuge and reach" framework for rebuilding a movement practice incrementally Exploring functional movement versus "exercise"The research debunking weight loss as a solution for chronic pain Why restriction and dieting actually increase chronic pain risk — and the clinical evidence behind it How trauma and disconnection from the body compound the chronic pain experience What embodied movement looks like when you're coming back from years of diet culture messaging About DK Ciccone: Dana Karen ("DK") Ciccone is a comprehensively certified Pilates instructor who helps people in pain improve strength, mobility, and well-being in a weight-neutral environment. She is trained in pain reprocessing therapy through the Pain Psychology Center and is the founder of Movement Remedies, a chronic pain–focused Pilates studio and movement coaching business. Her book, You're Meant to Move: A Guide to Conquering Chronic Pain, Increasing Stress Resilience, and Reclaiming an Active Life, was released in December 2023. Support the show: Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Substack for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe   Apply for Abbie’s Group Membership: Already been at this anti-diet culture thing for a while, but want community and continued learning? Apply for Abbie's monthly membership: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group   Social media: Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 5m

  2. Jun 15

    Reclaiming Childfree: Chrissy King & Claire Gould on Bodily Autonomy, Reproductive Justice, and Wanting More Than "Fine"

    This week's episode is one I have been so excited to share. I'm joined by two brilliant, generous, and deeply thoughtful guests — writer, educator, and body liberation advocate Chrissy King, and creative and founder Claire — who have co-created the Child-Free Coven, a community and mutual aid space for people who are child-free, by choice or by circumstance. In this episode: *What the word “childfree” actually means — and why Chrissy and Claire are actively reclaiming it *Why being childfree is not anti-child, and the James Baldwin quote at the center of their community *Chrissy’s story: ending a marriage, being the first woman in her lineage to have this choice, and what liberation actually feels like *Claire’s story: knowing from her early teens, navigating a partner’s uncertainty, and how 25 years of undiagnosed endometriosis is inextricably linked to her childfree journey *The things people say to childfree women and what to make of them *The connection between body liberation and the childfree experience *Race, reproductive justice, and how this conversation is profoundly different depending on who you are *The political moment we’re in — bodily autonomy, forced birth, and what history tells us about these tactics *What it means to pour your love, attention, and energy into the world without motherhood as the vehicle *The difference between grief and regret *What Chrissy means when she says she wanted more than “fine” Resources: Find The Childfree Coven on Substack and Instagram Chrissy’s book: The Body Liberation Project Claire on Instagram and Chrissy on Instagram Rachel Cargill / Rich Auntie Supreme Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands Tricia Hersey / Rest is Resistance Support the show: Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Substack for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe Apply for Abbie’s Group Membership: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group  Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 10m
  3. Diet Culture Recovery, OCD, and Size Inclusive Fashion: Viva Voce Founder Kate Zigrang on What Healing Actually Requires (Part Two)

    Jun 8

    Diet Culture Recovery, OCD, and Size Inclusive Fashion: Viva Voce Founder Kate Zigrang on What Healing Actually Requires (Part Two)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com This is part two of my conversation with Kate Zigrang, founder of Viva Voce — and this is where everything shifts. To hear it: abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe We left off last week with Kate at a turning point: an OCD diagnosis, a doctor who finally told her the truth about her health, and something beginning to loosen. This episode is about what came next — the harder, slower, more relational work of actually stepping out of diet culture after a lifetime inside it. We cover: * Going no contact with her parents — the decision, the grief, and what space it created * The complicated dynamic with her mom: over-apologizing, enmeshment, and why leaving felt both impossible and necessary * The slow, specific work of separating her own body from her mother's — learning to look at herself without dread * Religious deconstruction happening simultaneously with the body acceptance work and the mental health work — all three threads unraveling at once * The Manhattan pants incident — eighteen months of traveling the world, unable to find a single pair of pants in her size anywhere in New York City, and the rage that became a turning point * What Viva Voce actually is — a marketplace vetting brands for ethics, sustainability, and genuine size inclusivity * Why she insists on carrying straight and plus sizes in the same space * The pop-up strategy — and why she's bringing it to smaller cities on purpose * A data project collecting real body measurements to understand how clothes could actually be made better * Why belonging is at the center of every decision she makes — and what that looks like in practice This episode is for paid subscribers. If you'd like access to this conversation and the full archive, you can subscribe here: abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe Find Kate and Viva Voce at vivavoce.live and on Instagram @vivavoce.live Support the show: Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Substack for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe Apply for Abbie’s Group Membership: Already been at this anti-diet culture thing for a while, but want community and continued learning? Apply for Abbie's monthly membership: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy Podcast Editing by Brian Walters

    6 min

  4. Jun 1

    Inherited Body Shame, Disordered Eating, and Learning to Stop Fighting a Body You Were Always Going to Have with Kate Zigrang

    Kate Zigrang is an advocate, entrepreneur, impact investor, and the founder of Viva Voce — a size-inclusive fashion marketplace and community rooted in body justice. But before we get to what she's built, we go back to where it all started. In this first part of a two-episode conversation, Kate takes us through her personal history with her body — from watching her mom navigate the world in a larger body and absorbing the shame that surrounded her, to puberty changing her own body in ways she wasn't prepared for, to a disordered relationship with food that developed in her late teens and went unnamed for years. We also get into her OCD diagnosis at 31 — more than a decade after onset — and what it meant to finally have language for what her brain had been doing all along. This is a conversation about the things diet culture teaches us before we're old enough to question them, and what it actually takes to unlearn them. We talk about: *Growing up watching her mom be treated as a problem to be fixed, and inheriting that shame before she had words for it *How her body changed at puberty while she was already carrying that inherited weight *The food rules in her home growing up, the restriction and binge cycle they created, and how it planted seeds for a disordered relationship with food *Moving away from home at 21, marriage, pregnancy, and her body changing again in ways that felt out of her control *The wellness journey — naturopathic doctors, juice cleanses, a month-long juice fast, and crying in the shower *Getting an OCD diagnosis at 31 and finally understanding what her brain had been doing since she was a teenager *A doctor who told her, simply, that she was healthy — and how much that cracked open *Finding Maintenance Phase, Aubrey Gordon, and Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings, and what it meant to finally have the research match what she'd lived Find Kate and Viva Voce at vivavoce.live and on Instagram @vivavoce.live. Books mentioned: What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon; Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings Get 40% off of your Hungryroot order with code abbie40 Support the show: Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Substack for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe   Apply for Abbie’s Group Membership: Already been at this anti-diet culture thing for a while, but want community and continued learning? Apply for Abbie's monthly membership: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy Podcast Editing by Brian Walters This podcast is ad-free and support comes from your support on Substack. Subscribe HERE. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe

    39 min
  5. Is It OCD, Anxiety, or Disordered Eating? The Overlap, the Misdiagnosis, and Why It Matters for Recovery with Dana Colthart, LCSW

    May 25

    Is It OCD, Anxiety, or Disordered Eating? The Overlap, the Misdiagnosis, and Why It Matters for Recovery with Dana Colthart, LCSW

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com Abbie sits down with Dana Colthart, LCSW, a therapist specializing in OCD and eating disorders, to explore one of the most under-diagnosed and misunderstood overlaps in mental health. From intrusive thoughts to diet culture to why you can’t logic your way into recovery, this conversation explores what's truly driving our fears, our coping strategies, and the compulsions holding us back. The first part of this episode is free for everyone. Paid subscribers can hear the entire conversation. You can upgrade here: https://abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe In this episode: * Why OCD is so much more than hand-washing and organization — and what it actually looks like * The key difference between OCD and generalized anxiety disorder, and why misdiagnosis is so common * How the OCD cycle works: the obsession, the compulsion, the temporary relief, and why that relief is the trap * What reassurance-seeking is, why it counts as a compulsion, and how it shows up in relationships with food and body image * Pure-O OCD — when the compulsions are entirely mental, and why this goes undiagnosed so often * Taboo and shameful intrusive thoughts: why the people most disturbed by a thought are almost never the ones who’d act on it * What ego-dystonic versus ego-syntonic means, and why that distinction matters in disentangling OCD from eating disorders * How diet culture functions like a mass OCD delivery system — rules, rituals, fear, and relief that never quite arrives * Why clinicians treating eating disorders are often the only voice in a client’s life saying “you don’t have to do this” — and how hard that is * The particular cruelty of food and body-related intrusive thoughts in a world that confirms them everywhere * How OCD and eating disorders mimic each other, overlap, and take turns — and what that seesaw can look like in recovery * What ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention) actually is and why the discomfort is the point * Why your brain watches your actions, not your words — and what that means for recovery * The systemic piece: how disordered behaviors get praised in some bodies and diagnosed in others * What to do if you’re recognizing yourself in this episode but aren’t ready to call a therapist yet About Dana: Dana Colthart, LCSW, is the clinical director of Clear Light Therapy, a boutique practice based in Englewood, New Jersey. She provides evidence based treatment for OCD, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders, blending Exposure and Response Prevention, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and integrative mind body approaches. Dana is also a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist. Support the show: Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Substack for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe   Apply for Abbie’s Group Membership: Already been at this anti-diet culture thing for a while, but want community and continued learning? Apply for Abbie's monthly membership: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy Podcast Editing by Brian Walters This podcast is ad-free and support comes from your support on Substack. Subscribe HERE.

    24 min
  6. Moving Without Punishment: A Weight-Neutral Approach to Exercise with Anna Maltby

    May 18

    Moving Without Punishment: A Weight-Neutral Approach to Exercise with Anna Maltby

    Abbie speaks with Anna Maltby — health journalist, personal trainer, and author of the How to Move newsletter — for a conversation that pulls back the curtain on the fitness industry. At the heart of this episode is: what does look like to rebuild a relationship with movement that isn’t rooted in shrinking, earning food, or “fixing” your body? They talk about how fitness media manufactures insecurity to sell us solutions, what people are unlearning when they come to weight-neutral movement, why decoupling exercise from aesthetics can temporarily leave people unmotivated (and what to do about that), and why your squat is probably fine. Tune in for more on: * The “body as business card” problem in fitness and nutrition * How magazine cover lines were engineered to exploit seasonal body insecurities * Anna’s origin story: from Eat This Not That to anti-diet fitness journalism * The Refinery29 moment that changed everything (shoutout to Kelsey Miller’s Anti-Diet Project column) * What people are unlearning: trusting their bodies, eating before workouts, modifications that aren’t lesser * Why losing aesthetic motivation can feel like losing all motivation, and how to find intrinsic intentions * The importance of where you are in recovery before reintroducing movement * How to experiment with movement without judging yourself on the first try * The “you’re doing it wrong” trend and why it’s harmful even in anti-diet spaces * Body diversity and squat mechanics (yes, really) For more from Anna: https://howtomove.substack.com/ https://www.instagram.com/howannamoves/ Support the show: Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Substack for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe   Apply for Abbie’s Group Membership: Already been at this anti-diet culture thing for a while, but want community and continued learning? Apply for Abbie's monthly membership: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group   Social media: Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcast Find Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness   This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe

    56 min
  7. Why Girls Are Struggling With Their Bodies More Than Ever with Dr. Charlotte Markey

    May 11

    Why Girls Are Struggling With Their Bodies More Than Ever with Dr. Charlotte Markey

    Body image researcher and Rutgers University psychology professor Dr. Charlotte Markey is back for a second time on the podcast. She has spent nearly three decades researching body image, and has written books for tweens, teens, boys, girls, and adults. We get into so much…including: * Body image as relational: how environment and relationships shape how we feel in our bodies * The father dynamic, achievement culture, and how a critical home environment affects girls * Biohacking and wellness culture as diet culture in disguise * What happens when food gets moralized into good and bad * Parents disparaging their own bodies and how it lands on daughters * Body dissatisfaction across racial, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds * Puberty: why normalizing it matters and why the conversation needs to extend beyond adolescence * How diet culture exploits women’s hormonal life stages * Whether there is a critical window for body image intervention * Social media’s impact on body shame and how to learn media literacy for critical thinking and protection * Body diversity and why the bodies we’re sold are not achievable for most people * The protein obsession in wellness culture and why it’s concerning in adolescents * What to do when your daughter is already struggling * How parents can audit their own relationship with food and body in service of their kids Charlotte Markey, Ph.D., is a world-leading expert in body image research, having studied body image and eating behavior for nearly three decades. She is passionate about understanding what makes us feel good about our bodies and helping people to develop a healthy body image and relationship with food. Charlotte is an experienced book author, research scientist, clinician, speaker, and psychology professor at Rutgers University, Camden.Her books: https://www.thebodyimagebook.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/char_markeySubstack: https://drcharlottemarkey.substack.com/Find Full Plate on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fullplate.podcast/Find Abbie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abbieattwoodwellness/Subscribe to the newsletter: https://abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/Listen to the first episode with Dr. Charlotte Markey Full Plate by Abbie Attwood is a reader-supported publication. To receive special posts, bonus episodes, and support this work, consider becoming paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe

    55 min
  8. Dating in Recovery: On Vulnerability, Diet Culture in Relationships, and Finding Someone Who Can Handle the Hard Stuff (Bonus Episode)

    May 4

    Dating in Recovery: On Vulnerability, Diet Culture in Relationships, and Finding Someone Who Can Handle the Hard Stuff (Bonus Episode)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com Abbie answers a listener question about one of the most complicated intersections: dating (relationships) and diet culture — especially when you're carrying a history of body shame, disordered eating, and the ongoing, nonlinear work of recovery. Elizabeth, a listener in her early 30s, writes in about the men she keeps encountering on the apps — the gym-obsessed ones, the salad-only ones — and asks a question that cuts to the heart of it: is this my gut, or is this fear? What you'll hear: *Why "too sensitive" isn't a useful frame — and what to ask instead *Safety and self-worth as the foundation of dating in recovery *Learning to trust your intuition when diet culture has distorted it *When to share your mental health history (and when you don't have to) *The difference between a trigger and something to work through *Revisiting your dating app parameters — and the biases built into them *Abbie's own experience navigating ED recovery while dating Then Jeb, Abbie's husband, joins for an unplanned conversation about what it was actually like when they met — both carrying things they weren't sure how to share. *What happened when Jeb disclosed his sobriety on a rooftop, early on *Why vulnerability can work as a filter, not just a risk *What Jeb was looking for in a partner when he was newly out of treatment *The moment Abbie knew he was someone she could be with through hard things This episode is ultimately about openness — what it costs, what it protects, and what becomes possible when you find someone willing to meet you there. This is a BONUS episode for paid subscribers on Substack. To hear it, upgrade here: https://abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe

    7 min
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Full Plate is a podcast about healing from diet culture, creating peace with food, reclaiming body autonomy and trust, and taking a weight-inclusive approach to our well-being. Each week, Abbie interviews guests or answers listener questions that explore our relationship to food and our bodies. Abbie is an anti-diet nutritionist with a master’s in nutrition and integrative health. She is also the founder and owner of Abbie Attwood Wellness, a virtual private practice dedicated to weight-inclusive care, food freedom, body image healing, and dismantling diet culture. Find Full Plate on Instagram @fullplate.podcast Abbie is @abbieattwoodwellness This show is ad-free and listener-supported. For bonus episodes and more content, join us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fullplate abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com

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