Your child was born trusting their body. Somewhere between the high chair and kindergarten, the adults around them start teaching them not to.

Registered dietitian and mom of three Kerry Miller joins me to talk about body trust in kids. She is the author of Violet Learns to Pause, a picture book about listening to your body.

Kerry spent years working with women who traced their struggles with food back to childhood. A parent on a diet. A doctor's comment. A relative watching them go for seconds.

We talk about what to say at the dinner table, what to say about bodies, and what to say about GLP-1s.

In this episode you'll learn:

• What interoception is and why it is the foundation of body trust
• Why picky eating can take 20 to 30 exposures to shift, and how to stay pressure-free
• What to say when your child asks "Do I look pretty?"
• How to respond when another kid calls your child fat
• How to talk to your kids about GLP-1s, including if you take one

Mentioned in the show:

Violet Learns to Pause on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/106787870X

Kerry's website: https://violetlearns.com/

Companion resources for families: https://families.violetlearns.com/

Kerry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kerry.millerrd

Join the Confident waitlist: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

You can't learn to trust your hunger while taking a drug designed to switch it off.

Elyse Resch co-created Intuitive Eating. She has 44 years of practice in eating disorders and disordered eating, and she is updating the fifth edition of the book right now.

In this conversation, we talk about what GLP-1s at weight loss doses do to hunger, appetite, and pleasure. We talk about what happens when the drug stops. And we take on food addiction, teens, and neurodivergence.

What you'll learn:

• Why GLP-1s for intentional weight loss and intuitive eating pull in opposite directions
• What happens to hunger and fullness signals after stopping the drug
• Why Elyse rejects the idea of food addiction, and what the studies leave out
• How to help teens resist diet culture without banning everything
• Why neurodivergence doesn't rule anyone out of intuitive eating

Mentioned in the show:

Confident 5-Week Body Acceptance Challenge: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

Elyse Resch: https://elyseresch.com/EResch/

Intué, the official Intuitive Eating app: https://www.intue.app/

Informed consent for GLP-1 (free PDF): https://sizeinclusivemedicine.org/glp1/

Elyse on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elyseresch/

Elyse on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elyse.resch

The GLP-1 isn't what puts your muscle at risk. Not eating enough is.

Registered dietitian Aoife McMahon has worked in weight-loss clinics, bariatric surgery, and weight-loss drug prescribing. Today she practices from a weight-inclusive lens, with a background in eating disorders.

In this episode of the Beyond GLP-1 series, we talk about sarcopenia, bariatric surgery, and why so many of the answers people are looking for don't exist yet.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What sarcopenia is, and why muscle mass and muscle function are two different things
• How appetite suppression can quietly lead to undernourishment and muscle loss
• Why "I lost weight and I could move better" doesn't tell the whole story
• What the research does and doesn't say about weightlifting as protection
• Why eating disorder screening and informed consent are missing from most GLP-1 prescribing

Mentioned in the show:

CONFIDENT 5-week Body Acceptance Challenge: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

Aoife on Instagram - That Irish Dietitian: https://www.instagram.com/thatirishdietitian

Inside Bariatrics podcast (Aoife's show): https://open.spotify.com/show/033nYDCJmhWHC3zZ8Uh3H7?si=46ed876255a14e04

Aoife's professional training: https://centreforliberatingnutrition.com/for-professionals/