E31. Challenging Binary Thinking: Not Good or Bad with Registered Dietitian, Diabetes Care and Education Specialist Megrette Fletcher

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 CDE
• Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World- Vivek H Murthy M.D.
• AMA- Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes
• Megrette Fletcher’s Newsletter
• Megrette Fletcher’s Substack- Inclusive Diabetes Care
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together- Heather McGhee
• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body- Roxane Gay
• Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul- Evette Dionne
• https://www.inclusivediabetescare.com/
• Discover Mindful Eating Second Edition- Megrette Fletcher
• https://www.thecenterformindfuleating.org/
• https://belonging.berkeley.edu/