Diet Culture Rebel Podcast

“Food neutrality does not mean every food is nutritionally identical. It simply means your worth as a person does not change based on whether you ate bread, broccoli, brownies, or whatever else.”
Food guilt can steal the joy from eating and leave you second-guessing every meal. But the good news is that you have the power to change it. In this episode, I explain why food guilt isn't actually about the food itself, how diet culture and food rules can fuel those guilty feelings, and three practical strategies to help you reconnect with your body's cues, challenge unhelpful beliefs, and approach eating with more confidence and peace.
✅ What You'll Learn:
Why food guilt has more to do with internalized food rules than the food itself
How to separate feelings of guilt from your body's actual hunger, fullness, and satisfaction cues
Why checking in with your body's experience can help you make more confident, grounded food decisions
How to identify and challenge the diet culture messages that fuel food guilt
What food neutrality is and how it can help you enjoy food without labeling it as "good" or "bad"
Practical strategies to build trust with your body and create a more peaceful, guilt-free relationship with food

🔗 Resources:
Grab the Hunger & Fullness Scale Guide at DietCultureRebel.com/hungerfullnessscale and take your next step toward building trust with your body and food
Connect with me over on Instagram at @diet.culture.rebel

Struggling with food, but not sure where to start?
You don’t have to feel 100% ready to get support. If you're tired of obsessing over food or feeling stuck in the diet cycle, my team of Registered Dietitians is here to help. We offer one-on-one nutrition counseling—and we accept insurance! Spots are limited, so head to https://dietculturerebel.com/insurance to see if we’re covered in your state and learn how to get started.

When body image feels harder than ever in today's culture, it can be easy to believe your body is the problem. This episode revisits a powerful conversation with motivational speaker Kenzie Brenna about overcoming diet culture, navigating difficult body image days, and building resilience instead of chasing perfection. Kenzie explains why body image healing isn't about reaching a place where you love your body every day. It's about building resilience so that difficult body image moments no longer define your life.
✅ What You'll Learn:
Why positive body image doesn't mean loving your body every day, and what real healing actually looks like
How dieting can damage your relationship with food, your body, and your sense of self, even when it seems "healthy"
Practical ways to navigate difficult body image days, including curating your social media feed and building a supportive community
How to cope with the fear of weight gain and stop letting your body size determine your worth or hold you back from living your life
Mindset shifts that can help you become more resilient to diet culture, body criticism, and unrealistic beauty standards

🔗 Resources:
Connect with Kenzie on IG @kenziebrenna
Grab the Hunger & Fullness Scale Guide at DietCultureRebel.com/hungerfullnessscale and take your next step toward building trust with your body and food
Connect with me over on Instagram at @diet.culture.rebel

Struggling with food, but not sure where to start?
You don’t have to feel 100% ready to get support. If you're tired of obsessing over food or feeling stuck in the diet cycle, my team of Registered Dietitians is here to help. We offer one-on-one nutrition counseling—and we accept insurance! Spots are limited, so head to https://dietculturerebel.com/insurance to see if we’re covered in your state and learn how to get started.

"Creating a more positive relationship with food often requires us to challenge the things diet culture has taught us to normalize."
Diet culture leaves us with so many questions, especially when we're trying to heal our relationship with food and our bodies. In this Q&A episode, I'm answering three questions from Rebels in our community about balancing "healthy" and "junk" foods, my experience with hypothalamic amenorrhea, and how to stop letting the number on the scale control your thoughts and food choices. You'll hear practical mindset shifts that can help you build more trust with your body and challenge the beliefs diet culture has taught us to accept as normal!
✅ What You'll Learn:
How to find balance between eating foods diet culture labels as "junk" and foods that support your health
Why food neutrality can help you build a more peaceful relationship with eating
My personal experience with losing my period and what it taught me about underfueling
How to recognize when the scale is affecting your mood, food choices, or self-worth
Questions to ask yourself to decide whether weighing yourself is helping or hurting your healing
One small action step you can take today to build more trust with your body

🔗 Resources:
Cadbury eggs Instagram reel
Episode 242: Is Your Cycle Trying to Tell You Something? Hypothalamic Amenorrhea and the Impact of Disrupted Periods with Dr. Nicola Skyes
Grab the Hunger & Fullness Scale Guide at DietCultureRebel.com/hungerfullnessscale and take your next step toward building trust with your body and food.
Connect with me over on Instagram at @diet.culture.rebel.

Struggling with food, but not sure where to start?
You don’t have to feel 100% ready to get support. If you're tired of obsessing over food or feeling stuck in the diet cycle, my team of Registered Dietitians is here to help. We offer one-on-one nutrition counseling—and we accept insurance! Spots are limited, so head to https://dietculturerebel.com/insurance to see if we’re covered in your state and learn how to get started.

So many of us have spent years believing we're too much. Too emotional. Too sensitive. Too needy. Too loud. Or maybe we've believed we need to make ourselves smaller (physically or emotionally) to finally deserve love, acceptance, and belonging. In this conversation, author and founder of Date Brazen, Lily Womble, shares how those beliefs shaped her body image, relationships, and self-worth after years of dieting and questioning whether she was enough. Together, we explore why your body isn't what stands between you and love, how the weight loss fantasy keeps us stuck, and what it looks like to stop shrinking yourself and trust that you are already enough.
✅ What You'll Learn:
Why believing you're "too much" can affect your body image, confidence, and relationship with food
How internalized messages about worth shape the way we show up in our relationships
What the "weight loss fantasy" is and why it keeps so many women stuck
How body neutrality can help you build a healthier relationship with yourself
Practical ways to build self-compassion and become more resilient in the face of rejection
Why you don't have to change your body to be worthy of love, belonging, or a fulfilling life

🔗 Resources:
Lily's book: Thank You, More Please
Date Brazen
Grab the Hunger & Fullness Scale Guide at DietCultureRebel.com/hungerfullnessscale and take your next step toward building trust with your body and food.
Connect with me over on Instagram at @diet.culture.rebel.

Struggling with food, but not sure where to start?
You don’t have to feel 100% ready to get support. If you're tired of obsessing over food or feeling stuck in the diet cycle, my team of Registered Dietitians is here to help. We offer one-on-one nutrition counseling—and we accept insurance! Spots are limited, so head to https://dietculturerebel.com/insurance to see if we’re covered in your state and learn how to get started.

"Health extends far beyond what we eat and how we move."
Trying to be healthier often comes with a long list of diet rules, food fears, and pressure to do everything perfectly. But what if pursuing health actually meant doing less of what diet culture tells you to do? In this episode, I'm sharing five surprising ways to pursue health without dieting, including why letting go of comparison, managing stress, questioning nutrition myths, and embracing intuitive eating can support your health far better than another set of food rules.
✅ What You'll Learn:
Why comparing your food choices and body to other people keeps you stuck
How an unhealthy relationship with food can become a major source of stress
The nutrition myths that may be standing in the way of your health
Why a growth mindset matters when you're healing your relationship with food
What the research says about intuitive eating and long-term health
Five practical ways to pursue health without dieting

🔗 Resources:
Grab the Hunger & Fullness Scale Guide at DietCultureRebel.com/hungerfullnessscale and take your next step toward building trust with your body and food.
Episode 111: Everyone Benefits When Your Doctor Supports Your Healthy Relationship with Food and Your Body
Episode 116: How Nicole is Breaking Generational Dieting While Healing from 30 Years of Food Issues
Episode 120: 3 Risks of Buying Into Diet Culture That We Don't Talk About Enough
Connect with me over on Instagram at @diet.culture.rebel.

Struggling with food, but not sure where to start?
You don’t have to feel 100% ready to get support. If you're tired of obsessing over food or feeling stuck in the diet cycle, my team of Registered Dietitians is here to help. We offer one-on-one nutrition counseling—and we accept insurance! Spots are limited, so head to https://dietculturerebel.com/insurance to see if we’re covered in your state and learn how to get started.