#320: What the Research Says About Weight Loss with Alexis Conason (Revisited)

I’m joined by Ivy Felicia, The Body Relationship Coach. This is part 2 of our 2-part discussion on navigating the evolving relationship we have with our bodies as we age. In this second part, we talk about the tools we lean on to support us through body image challenges, how ableism and the fear of losing our health influences our relationship with our body, and what it’s like to realize you look like your parents. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/324   In this episode, we talk about: - How shifting our nervous system can help shift our thoughts, - The importance of priorities, because how you use your time matters, - How body awareness allows you to make decisions based on knowing what your body needs, - What it means to “tune out to tune in,”  - What helped Ivy navigate health changes, - That there’s no morality based on our bodies and what we can and can’t do, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/324   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m joined by Ivy Felicia, The Body Relationship Coach. This is part 1 of our two-part discussion on navigating the evolving relationship we have with our bodies as we age. In this first part we’re talking about our challenges with our aging bodies, how our relationship with our bodies has shifted, what messages we internalized about aging when we were growing up, and what we love about aging. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/323   In this episode, we talk about: - Why this topic is personal for both of us, - The fear mongering in anti-aging messaging, - How this stage of life can make you more vulnerable to this messaging, - How ableism mixes in with ageism, - That not everyone is going to age the same way, - The freedom of focusing on self-expression instead of external messaging, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/323   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m joined by Jessica Jones, weight-inclusive RD and CEO and co-founder of Diabetes Digital. We’re dispelling some of the common myths that people have about diabetes and what actually works in the long-run to help manage diabetes, including how to take an intuitive eating approach. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/322   In this episode, we talk about: - The difference between prediabetes and diabetes, - That carbs are not the enemy, - Why she doesn’t give meal plans to clients, - What it looks like to manage diabetes with intuitive eating, - How perimenopause and menopause influence blood sugar, - Her own experience with perimenopause and what we can learn from it, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/322   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m joined by weight inclusive, anti-diet personal stylist, Dacy Gillespie. We’re talking about the importance of having clothes that fit and you feel good in, and how to navigate the process of finding new clothes when your body has changed, or you’re not sure what your style is, or you’ve got budgetary constraints. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/321   In this episode, we talk about: - What got her into this work and inspired her to focus on weight inclusivity, - What the process can look like, - How buying clothes that fit can have a big impact on how you feel about your body, - Advice to someone who feels like they don’t know where to start in deciding what they want to wear, - How to shift body changes into an opportunity to find what you really like, - Advice on how to make the shopping process less overwhelming, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/321   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m revisiting my interview with Alexis Conason, clinical psychologist, eating disorder specialist, and author of The Diet-Free Revolution, unpacking everything that the research says about weight loss. Is it possible to lose weight in the long-term? What do you need to do to achieve that? Plus, how learning to eat more mindfully (in a non-diet way) can help you to become a more intuitive eater. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/320   In this episode, we talk about: - That long term weight loss and maintenance is extremely rare, and the industry knows it, - How researchers have used examples of people with eating disorders as lessons for weight loss, - That in the rare instances when people sustain weight loss long term, it’s often not in a healthy way, - A study on contestants from The Biggest Loser, and why we never see a follow-up episode of this show, - That health is not determined by weight and that most of what impacts health is out of our control,- How mindfulness can shift the way we see ourselves and how we interact with the world, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/320 Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m joined by Jenn Salib Huber, RD and Naturopathic Doctor who helps women manage menopause without diets and food rules. We’re talking about why we gain weight during the menopause transition, the impact of restricting and dieting during this phase of life, whether you need to eat loads of protein and lift heavy weights, and what is truly beneficial to your health during this period of life. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/319   In this episode, we talk about: - Her experience with early perimenopause, - What’s happening in perimenopause and menopause - The urgency that kicks in during this phase and how it plays into diet culture, - That we can’t preserve muscle and pursue aggressive weight loss at the same time, - The difference between doing something consistently versus perfectly, - Advice on how to navigate information relating to menopause nutrition and health, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/319 Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m joined by Vincci Tsui (she/her) registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor. We’re talking about Vincci’s experience working in bariatrics and what brought her to the anti-diet space, as well as her predictions for what will happen with the rise of weight loss drugs. We also talk about cultural sensitivity in the nutrition space and whether we can trust nutrition evidence. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/318   In this episode, we talk about: - Things she wishes people knew who are considering bariatric surgery, - Some of the trials going on with weight loss drugs, - What the proliferation of these drugs means for the body positivity/acceptance movement, - A definition of cultural sensitivity, - The importance of investigating what is forming the base of our evidence that we look to, and who is included in the studies, - Where she thinks some of the mainstream advice is falling short, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/318 Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

Danni and I are recapping some of the beauty and other related trends influencing our body image. We’re talking about the “ballerina body,” the soft voice, a face standard, trad wives, make America healthy again, and more. Plus, we’re excited to share about our Spring cohort of the Body Image Coach Certification opening for enrolment on January 28th, 2025. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/317   In this episode, we talk about: - The differences we’re seeing in beauty trends now compared to the past, - How this all ties into the white supremacist value of perfectionism, - How none of the make America healthy again rhetoric looks at things like the social determinants of health, - The lack of structural protections, - Some of the topics covered in our Body Image Coach Certification and how it works, - The way our course talks about power, privilege, and bias, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/317   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap   Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m sharing a summary of what the research says about eating disorders and disordered eating in mid-life, and why this lifestage can make people more vulnerable to EDs and disordered eating. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/316   In this episode, I talk about: - How a lot of perimenopause and menopause messaging promotes disordered habits, celebrating and normalizing it, - Some of the barriers to treatment, - That eating disorders are often associated with young women and the problems with this, - That data is limited since so few women actually seek and receive treatment, - The biological aspect of it, - What to do with this information, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/316   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap   Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m joined by Louise Green, personal trainer, author and creator of the Size Inclusive Training Academy. We’re talking about what we think about the new year/new you messaging and new year’s resolutions, how to know when you’re ready to set fitness goals, how to set those goals in a weight neutral way, and how she feels about the messaging around fitness and perimenopause. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/315   In this episode, I talk about: - The struggles she’s seen people experiencing when looking for size-inclusive training, - The trends she’s noticing in fitness when it comes to size inclusivity, - That many places don’t truly understand what size inclusivity means - The importance of understanding the why underneath the goal, - How easy it is to default to the weight loss mindset, - The truth about the body’s decline in perimenopause, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/315   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap   Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.