The Full Plate Podcast with Abbie Attwood, MS Abbie Attwood

Therapist Edie Stark joins the pod to chat all about anxiety, perfectionism, disordered eating, red flags to look out for when finding or working with a therapist, and how to protect our peace on social media.
Edie has become a dear friend of mine, and I had so much fun chatting with her about her lived experience with mental health and learning differences, what drove her to become a therapist, and coping strategies to create calm and safety in our lives. Most importantly, we discuss chocolate chip cookies for a good ten minutes at the start of the episode, so if that’s not up your alley, just go ahead a hit that fast forward button. I’ll never know. 
Edie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and owner of Stark Therapy Group, a psychotherapy group practice specializing in eating disorders, trauma and anxiety from a humanistic, fat positive and inclusive lens. She believes in the value of lived experience being met with clinical knowledge to create a collaborative therapeutic experience for all of the client at STG. Edie is passionate about Trader Joe’s snacks, dismantling the US healthcare system, and the complete and total takedown of diet culture ( in no particular order). Foillow Edie: @ediestarktherapy and @starktherapygroup
 
Support the show: Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at Patreon.com/fullplate
 
Group program:
Looking for more support and concrete steps to take to heal your relationship with food and your body? Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching
 
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
 
Transcripts: If you’re looking for transcripts, you can find those on Abbie's website, www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/podcast
 
Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy
Podcast Editing by Brian Walters
This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate

Have you ever thought about how diet culture has impacted your professional life, the career path you've chosen, or how you've been able to show up in that area of your life more generally?
In this conversation, Abbie is joined by career and leadership coach Rachel Garrett (who is also a client of Abbie's!). We explore Rachel's story with her body and food -- from childhood influences and coping mechanismsm, to her ongoing struggle with self-acceptance, and the constant pursuit of aligning her life with her values.
In particular, we focus on the intersection between diet culture and professional growth, the parallels between societal pressures in career and diet culture, focusing on productivity, appearance norms, and power dynamics.
Tune in to here more about the impact of diet culture on mental space, personal values, and professional achievements, along with the effects of childhood trauma on disordered eating behaviors.
Rachel Garrett is a Career and Leadership Coach supporting clients in designing careers on their own terms. With a combination of mindset shifting tools and personal branding know-how from her 15-year career in marketing, she inspires clients to confidently “speak elevator pitch", build out career paths based on their priorities and step into their worth. Prior to starting her coaching practice, Rachel built a successful career in digital and social marketing at brands like American Express, Reader’s Digest, and VNS Health. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Rachel just celebrated one year of her anti-diet journey (WOOT!) after joining one of Abbie's group programs. It's been a healing time and also one of noticing how much her eating/body road has intertwined with her career failures and successes. Learn more at rachelbgarrett.com and rachelbgarrett.com/connections.
 
Support the show: Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at Patreon.com/fullplate
 
Group program:
Looking for more support and concrete steps to take to heal your relationship with food and your body? Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching
 
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
 
Transcripts: If you’re looking for transcripts, you can find those on Abbie's website, www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/podcast
 
Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy
Podcast Editing by Brian Walters
This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate

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Ragen Chastain is back for part two with us this week. This time, we continue our "is being fat bad for your health?" conversation by answering your questions about GLP-1s. We chat about the current hype around weight-loss drugs, how they "work" (or don't), and the truth about their risks and side effects.
If you haven't listened to part one of my conversation with Ragen, head back to episode 116. It's a really good one, and sets the stage for our discussion about weight-loss drugs in this episode. 
Ragen Chastain is a speaker, writer, researcher, Board Certified Patient Advocate, multi-certified health and fitness professional, and thought leader in weight science, weight stigma, health, and healthcare. Utilizing her background in research methods and statistics, Ragen has brought her signature mix of humor and hard facts to healthcare, corporate, conference, and college audiences from Kaiser Permanente and the Diabetes Education Specialists National Conference, to Amazon and Google, to Dartmouth, Cal Tech and canfitpro. Author of the Weight and Healthcare newsletter, the book Fat: The Owner's Manual, co-author of HAES Health Sheets, and editor of the anthology The Politics of Size, Ragen is frequently featured as an expert in print, radio, television, and documentary film. In her free time, Ragen is a national dance champion, triathlete, and marathoner who holds the Guinness World Record for Heaviest Woman to Complete a Marathon. Ragen lives in Oregon with her fiancée Julianne and a rotating cast of foster dogs.
PS: I highly recommend signing up for Ragen’s Weight and Healthcare newsletter.
 
Support the show: Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at Patreon.com/fullplate
 
Group program:
Looking for more support and concrete steps to take to heal your relationship with food and your body? Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching
 
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
 
Transcripts: If you’re looking for transcripts, you can find those on Abbie's website, www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/podcast
 
Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy
Podcast Editing by Brian Walters
This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate
 
 

The idea that fatness and weight gain are synonymous with poor health has become a seemingly incontestable truth in our society. So much so that you have undoubtedly heard that “we’re in the midst of an obesity epidemic”. But where did this claim originate? And what does the research actually say about the relationship between weight and health outcomes?
These two things may be connected, but not in the way we’ve been led to believe.
This week, I am joined by the incredible and incomparable Ragen Chastain — who is a groundbreaking researcher in weight science, as well as a writer, speaker, and thought leader (among so many other things.)
We explore the assumption that continues to uphold diet culture and anti-fat bias: “Isn’t being fat bad for your health?”
Ragen helps us unpack the science — as well as the social rhetoric — that continue to perpetuate lies about fatness, health, and disease. And oh yes, we get into pharmaceutical companies, weight loss drugs, and celebrity culture.
Topics discussed include:
What's on Ragen's plate Ragen's food and body story, starting as a young kid Dance culture and body image The origin of the word "obese" The many problems with the term "obesity epidemic" Weight stigma in healthcare and its impact on health outcomes Weight cycling, yo-yo dieting, and cardiovascular risk How the weight-loss industry pathologized bodies for profit Public opinion, medical guidelines, and the myths about weight and health How weight loss studies are funded and designed The flaws in the research on how weight and health are related Medical education and anti-fat bias If not weight loss for health, then what?  
About Ragen: 
Ragen Chastain is a speaker, writer, researcher, Board Certified Patient Advocate, multi-certified health and fitness professional, and thought leader in weight science, weight stigma, and health. She is the author of the Weight and Healthcare newsletter, the blog Dances With Fat, the book Fat: The Owner's Manual, editor of the Praeger Anthology "The Politics of Size," co-author of the HAES Health Sheets. In her free time, she is a national dance champion, triathlete, and marathoner who holds the Guinness World Record for Heaviest Woman to Complete a Marathon. She lives in Oregon with her fiancée Julianne and their adorable foster dogs.
 
Support the show: Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at Patreon.com/fullplate
 
Group program:
Looking for more support and concrete steps to take to heal your relationship with food and your body? Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching
 
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
 
Transcripts: If you’re looking for transcripts, you can find those on Abbie's website, www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/podcast
 
Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy
Podcast Editing by Brian Walters
This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate

You're in for a treat! This week on the pod we’re chatting with the incredible Becca King (who you may know as @adhd.nutritionist on Instagram), a registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor who specializes in helping folks with ADHD heal their relationship with food. Becca is an ADHDer herself, so we chat about her personal experience with disordered eating, the interplay of neurodivergence with the binge/restrict cycle, and how she approaches nutrition now for herself and for her clients.
Becca is here to help us bust myths about nutrition for ADHD as we delve into what it really means to support yourself, use nourishment as self-care, and create a more peaceful relationship with food (and your body!) as an ADHDer.
 
Tune in to hear more about…
What’s on Becca’s plate (a favorite food combination she's eating, and what's on her life plate right now) How Becca was diagnosed with ADHD What ADHD feels like for her The impact of ADHD on her eating disorder, and vice versa Going from anorexia to binge eating Feeling out of control with food Why ADHDers are at a higher risk for disordered eating How body signals like hunger and fullness can be dulled in ADHDers Navigating medication and loss of appetite Why binge eating is so common with ADHD Recovering from the binge-restrict cycle Whether you should eat processed foods if you have ADHD How dopamine and carbohydrates are related The research on sugar and ADHD symptoms Becca’s favorite snacks for ADHDers  
About Becca: Becca King is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor from Charlotte, North Carolina. As an adult with ADHD who struggled for years with disordered eating, Becca is passionate about helping other ADHDers who struggle with binge eating, chronic dieting, and body image issues find food freedom and improve their self-esteem. She uses the Principles of Intuitive Eating and a weight-inclusive approach to nutrition for ADHD in her virtual practice. Follow Becca on IG @adhd.nutritionist
 
Support the show on Patreon: Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Patreon for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at Patreon.com/fullplate
 
Group program:
Looking for more support and concrete steps to take to heal your relationship with food and your body? Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching
 
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
 
Transcripts: If you’re looking for transcripts, you can find those on Abbie's website, www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/podcast
 
Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy
Podcast Editing by Brian Walters
This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate

This is a free preview of a bonus episode! You can hear the full episode at patreon.com/fullplate. 
This week, I’m joined by body image coach and children’s book author, Debbie Saroufim. We delve into why it's vital to adopt a fat-positive, anti-diet perspective when it comes to children's well-being, and how parents can take an active role in supporting their children’s body image. We also discuss practical strategies to help kids foster body acceptance, navigate conversations about weight and health, and cultivate body autonomy with food.
 
Listen to hear more about…
What’s on Debbie’s plate right now
Going on her first diet at the age of six
The impact of having a mother with an eating disorder
Ways to make your home a safe-haven from food and body shame
Disordered eating in the acting world
Using body neutrality rather than body positivity
The moral messages we get about our bodies as kids
How schools are perpetuating diet culture and weight bias
What you can do as a parent if you notice diet culture in your child’s school environment
How to talk to your kids about food choices
Speaking with teachers about food and body talk
Debbie’s book, Fat and Beautiful, and how it promotes body neutrality for children
Language and phrases to avoid when talking to children about bodies
Examining the word “beauty” and reclaiming it
 
Group program:
Looking for more support and concrete steps to take to heal your relationship with food and your body? Apply for Abbie's next 10-week group program: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching
 
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
 
Transcripts: If you’re looking for transcripts, you can find those on Abbie's website, www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/podcast
 
Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy
Podcast Editing by Brian Walters
This podcast is ad-free and support comes from our Patrons on Patreon: Patreon.com/fullplate