46 min
E31. Challenging Binary Thinking: Not Good or Bad with Registered Dietitian, Diabetes Care and Education Specialist Megrette Fletcher The Air We Breathe: Finding Well-Being That Works for You
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Today on the podcast, I am joined by Megrette Fletcher, a registered dietitian who has worked as a diabetes care and education specialist for the past 30 years.
Megrette’s many accomplishments include authoring many books about discovering mindful eating and is the co-founder of the Center for Mindful Eating.
In this episode, we will discuss:
The false narrative of diet culture and how it wants to keep you in the binary (good/bad, right/wrong, black/white, etc.).The research around diabetes that she has and is still currently working on.Sort our feelings into three categories rather than staying in the binary.
Megrette also shared a mindset shift to lessen the impact of diet culture.
Mindset shift:
Listen to people with lived experiences and read books from those people to understand their experiences better.Find a sense of belonging to shift away from the binary.
Resources:
Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes: A Mindful Eating Program for Thriving with Prediabetes or Diabetes- Michelle May MD, Megrette Fletcher MEd RD CDETogether: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World- Vivek H Murthy M.D.AMA- Standards of Medical Care in DiabetesMegrette Fletcher’s NewsletterMegrette Fletcher’s Substack- Inclusive Diabetes CareThe Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together- Heather McGheeHunger: A Memoir of (My) Body- Roxane GayWeightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul- Evette Dionnehttps://www.inclusivediabetescare.com/Discover Mindful Eating Second Edition- Megrette Fletcherhttps://www.thecenterformindfuleating.org/https://belonging.berkeley.edu/
Today on the podcast, I am joined by Megrette Fletcher, a registered dietitian who has worked as a diabetes care and education specialist for the past 30 years.
Megrette’s many accomplishments include authoring many books about discovering mindful eating and is the co-founder of the Center for Mindful Eating.
In this episode, we will discuss:
The false narrative of diet culture and how it wants to keep you in the binary (good/bad, right/wrong, black/white, etc.).The research around diabetes that she has and is still currently working on.Sort our feelings into three categories rather than staying in the binary.
Megrette also shared a mindset shift to lessen the impact of diet culture.
Mindset shift:
Listen to people with lived experiences and read books from those people to understand their experiences better.Find a sense of belonging to shift away from the binary.
Resources:
Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes: A Mindful Eating Program for Thriving with Prediabetes or Diabetes- Michelle May MD, Megrette Fletcher MEd RD CDETogether: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World- Vivek H Murthy M.D.AMA- Standards of Medical Care in DiabetesMegrette Fletcher’s NewsletterMegrette Fletcher’s Substack- Inclusive Diabetes CareThe Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together- Heather McGheeHunger: A Memoir of (My) Body- Roxane GayWeightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul- Evette Dionnehttps://www.inclusivediabetescare.com/Discover Mindful Eating Second Edition- Megrette Fletcherhttps://www.thecenterformindfuleating.org/https://belonging.berkeley.edu/
46 min