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Cake Over Keto

MonkeyPants Productions

Registered Nutritionist, intuitive eating practitioner and non-diet counsellor Mel Wakeman provides a fortnightly slice of food and body truth, dollops of compassion and sprinkles of salvation as she serves up a non-diet and weight inclusive podcast that stands up against diet culture so you can eat the goddamn cake without anxiety and guilt. Cake Over Keto helps you make peace with food and your body so you can focus on the stuff in your life that really matters; not what the scale says, not the

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22:45

Episode 22. The Goldilocks Dilemma

Cake Over Keto ·

2023/05/12

There are many social expectations, showing up as ‘proper’ (aka neurotypical) table manners that can ultimately make eating really uncomfortable and stressful. Sit still, keep your elbows off the table, don’t talk whilst food is in your mouth, don’t slurp, hurry up, slow down, take your cap off (which my brother heard at least a million times). Then we get the ‘healthy eating’ brigade who insist on things like eat your veggies first, carbs are bad for you, euww beige food is sooooo bad for you.

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Episode 21. Desperately seeking Dopamine

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2023/04/28

Welcome to Season 3! What’s it like when your brain lacks dopamine? Pretty crap to be honest. Nothing feels exciting. It takes effort to find joy in things, because it’s all BORRRINNGG. The most mundane of tasks, like getting out of bed and having a wash have no appeal. So it makes sense we try to find Dopamine, and it can be by any means necessary. With ADHD, we might learn that constantly moving, whether that’s fidgeting and not being able to sit still…or needing to exercise, gives us a hit

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22:01

Episode 20. We’re not broken

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2023/02/24

“ADHD is like being in a car that’s on autopilot. Rather than it taking you directly to your planned destination, you go on an all-day adventure to some far-off place because the name sounded interesting. Or it just stops in the middle of a busy road and refuses to move” “It’s lying awake at night thinking of all the things you want and need to do the next day, then doing none of them”. ADHD is a life of extremes. It can be exhilarating as neurodivergent folk speak of superpowers. But it can also be

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20:15

Episode 19. I don’t bloody want avocado pudding (why...

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2023/02/10

Healthification. See also healthified, healthifying. Adapting a recipe, meal or way of eating to improve its health value; to make it healthier. Sounds good right? It depends on how you define health. Because if becoming pre-occupied with making food healthier causes stress and anxiety, it ain’t good. If the focus is just to achieve weight loss, it ain’t gonna be good. Especially when there is negligible evidence to prove healthification does what it sets out to. Because we live in a world that is

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30:26

Episode 18. Part 2 The true cost of weight loss drugs

Cake Over Keto ·

2023/01/27

In part 2 of this episode, I spill what the drug trial data really shows; not the rosy-coloured-spectacle -buy-our-drugs-BS. I talk about short term weight loss and weight regain, neither of which Novo Nordisk wants you to know. You'll hear about the other weight loss drugs that have been withdrawn AFTER launch because they were NOT SAFE. Saxenda and Wegovy are no different. The pharmaceutical industry does not care about your health. It only cares about money. The industry that says it wants to

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26:56

Episode 18. Part 1 The true cost of weight loss drugs

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2023/01/13

If you were offered a drug you could take just once a week, that was clinically proven to lead to sustained weight loss, without the nasty side effects, you’d be tempted right? If you were offered a drug you had to self-inject, that would give you nausea, vomiting and upset stomach for months, that you needed to take forever (that you’ll have to pay for) otherwise weight regain would occur, that might increase your chances of developing cancer or even dying, I’m guessing you wouldn’t be so keen.

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26:00

Food and the Festive Season:- navigating Christmas...

Cake Over Keto ·

2022/12/23

It’s difficult to think of Christmas beyond the food. Indulgence is the focus, with the expectation of laughter, love and joy. But the reality is often very different. Not only is the whole experience overwhelming, but it’s also riddled with fear and guilt. How the hell do you get through all this? In this episode, Mel helps you put a strategy in place; one that helps to remove your attention from your eating disorder, that takes the focus away from the food and helps you navigate any tricky or

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18:34

What does Anxiety have to do with food issues?

Cake Over Keto ·

2022/12/09

Using food to cope with difficult emotions, including anxiety is called being human. If you’ve ever opened up a tub of ice cream, a sharing bag of crisps you have no intention of sharing or sitting on the sofa with a whole cheesecake and one spoon, you are human. Food has the ability to soothe, comfort and numb. It can nourish mind, body and soul and it can heal, which I think is rather marvellous. To be honest, there are many worse things we could do other than eat. Although our culture will do

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28:14

Diabetes, intuitive eating and weight inclusivity

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2022/11/25

There is so much stigma around diabetes, particularly type ll. A huge blame culture exists with the idea that people give themselves diabetes, by being lazy and eating the “wrong” foods. But anyone can develop type ll diabetes; in any size body, at any age, eating any kind of diet. Fatness doesn’t cause diabetes. Sugar doesn’t cause diabetes. But weight loss and carb cutting continues to be pushed with the promise of prevention and cure which opens the door to an increased risk of disordered eating

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20:23

The ups, downs and doubts of recovery

Cake Over Keto ·

2022/11/11

Believe me when I say, recovery looks different for everyone. And that in itself can make it scary; like you’re venturing alone on a treacherous journey, but you’re not quite sure where it will end. But you are not travelling alone and this episode proves this. In my experience recovery can bring a fear of beginning and a fear going backwards. It can feel relentless and confusing, not being sure which is your own voice and which is the old diet voice or eating disorder voice popping up. You will

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23:24

The sticky topic of Halloween sweets

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2022/10/28

Why would a nutritionist encourage you to buy more sweets and eat more sweets? She’s lost the plot surely, or is she just stupid? Well, no she hasn’t and no she’s not. Do you know what the scariest thing is about this Halloween? The amount of food and body shaming going on, and yes this is aimed at kids too. Do you know more children than ever are being treated for eating disorders? And children as young as 3 are worried about getting fat. This has nothing to do with having more access to sweets and

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27:22

What to do with fearing fullness

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2022/10/14

Feeling full can create some challenging feelings. We've been conditioned by diet culture to associate fullness with greed and a loss of self-control. And in order to regain this control (or a sense of it anyway), we start to restrict our intake of food, avoiding that feeling of fullness at all costs. Eventually we forget what it feels like to eat a hearty, satisfying meal and have a full tummy. This restrictive behaviour becomes our default way of living which can result in all sorts of gut issues

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28:10

Help I think I’m addicted to food!

Cake Over Keto ·

2022/09/30

Love, hate, guilt, out of control, shame, fear, disgust, are all feelings associated with addiction. They are also associated with food, particularly sugar which is frequently described as evil, deadly and “worse than crack”. The question is, is food really an addictive substance like cocaine? I see the word addiction being used too often when people talk about ‘bad’ and ‘unhealthy’ eating behaviours. There’s also a lot of shame and stereotyping attached to both, which certainly doesn’t help folk

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25:25

But my GP keeps telling me to lose weight (weight...

Cake Over Keto ·

2022/07/22

Picture this – you have really painful ankle. You’re not sure if you twisted it but you have been resting it when you can, applying ice and popping Neurofen for the last 3 weeks and it’s still no better. You walk into your GP’s room (yeah I know, imagine that!) and take a seat. They ask you how they can help, take a quick history and if you’re’ lucky they might even examine your ankle. You’re hoping you’re going to be told what’s wrong and how they can help you……what you get is an awkward

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20:43

The truth about weight loss surgery

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2022/07/08

What happens when an industry promises life changing results but this comes at a price? But a price they can’t quantify for you? Folk may opt to have surgery to help them lose weight and say they "know the risks" of the surgery, but do they? Will they be aware there is a 5% chance of them dying? Will they acknowledge that to lose a lot of weight, they will be making a functional digestive tract, dysfunctional? Will they understand they may not lose the weight promised because of their genetics or

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26:17

Menopause and Eating disorders.

Cake Over Keto ·

2022/06/24

Eating disorders don’t just affect young folk. Treatment centres are reporting huge rises in women over 35 seeking help and a perfect storm may be building for women in midlife. Life transitions (kids leaving home, changing jobs, moving house, supporting elderly parents, relationship difficulties health concerns) combined with menopausal hormonal changes can make dealing with ‘everyday’ life very challenging. To cope, some will turn to coping strategies that don’t help in the long term. This

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20:11

They said it to my face so it must be true - moving...

Cake Over Keto ·

2022/06/10

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” — Marcus Aurelius People will talk. They always have. And they always will. No matter what you do or say, how you behave, the way you walk or dress, how you act, or the decisions you make, will always be scrutinized by others. It’s the nature of the masses. Like the herd of lions swooping in for the kill, they prey on the weak, looking for those they can taunt and torment. And it gets to us. We allow

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26:10

Letting go of wanting to lose weight

Cake Over Keto ·

2022/05/27

The societal focus on weight and weight loss is associated with unrealistic ideals that doom most people to failure. And for many, the pursuit of thinness causes more harm than good. What this means is weight loss behaviours increase food and body preoccupation, repeated cycles of weight loss and regain, distraction from the wider health determinants, reduced self-esteem, eating disorders, weight stigma and discrimination. The premise of intuitive eating / not dieting / recovering from disordered

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26:26

5 Reasons Why Intuitive Eating Isn’t Working For You

Cake Over Keto ·

2022/05/13

Intuitive eating has become rather trendy. When celebrities start jumping on it, you know it’s going to pick up speed. I loved that Demi Lovato credited intuitive eating in helping her combat her disordered eating patterns but then Gwinnie ruined it (so did the author Dr Will Cole) when she promoted intuitive fasting. Dear Gwyneth (Paltrow), please stick to your vagina candles, at least they aren’t dangerous! The problem with media coverage is things can get twisted. Intuitive eating is a

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23:50

My Fitness Pal is Not Your Pal

Cake Over Keto ·

2022/04/29

If your pal hangs around like a bad smell, sucks the life out of you and doesn’t actually care about you, would you stay friends? Health apps like My Fitness Pal are more popular than ever, particularly since the pandemic lockdown. But we have evidence to suggest that a high proportion of users (specifically those with eating disorders) perceive MyFitnessPal as contributing to their eating disorder. When we factor in the recent NHS Health Survey (2019) reported more than 2 Million adults screened

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