Tough Love - Episode 4: Disrupting Diet Culture with Laura Thomas Tough Love

Have you ever been on a diet? Compared the size of your waist to someone else’s? Felt guilt over eating a doughnut? Then this episode is for you. This week, Holli is joined by Laura Thomas PhD to discuss our relationship with food, how it got so complicated and how we can reconnect with our intuition and learn to trust our own bodies. Laura is a qualified practitioner of Intuitive eating – a method that aims to help people recognise innate hunger and fullness cues – and wants to free us from restrictive dieting, disordered eating and punishing exercise. Laura is a breath of fresh-air in a world full of nutritional advice. 

Laura Thomas, PhD, RNutr is an Associate for Nutrition Registered Nutritionist based in London who isn’t afraid to speak back against faddy diet trends and the dark side of the diet industry. Laura has a BSc in Health Sciences (Health & Nutrition) from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from Texas A&M university and she completed her post-doctoral work at Cornell University in community nutrition. In her clinic, The London Centre for Intuitive Eating, Laura helps people develop a healthy relationship with food using the principles of intuitive eating, Health at Every Size, and non-diet nutrition. She is also the author of Just Eat It, an anti-diet guide.

Buy Laura's book Just Eat It here
Follow Laura on Instagram @laurathomasphd

A Just Breathe Production @justbreathe
Presented by Holli Rubin @thehollirubin
Music by Loni Lincoln @lonimusic
Produced by Tor Cardona