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Diet Culture Rebel Podcast

Ready to eat without guilt, support your actual health, and start giving diet culture the middle finger? You’re in the right place. The Diet Culture Rebel podcast is your trusted space for breaking free from food rules, healing your relationship with your body, and learning how to eat without shame, stress, or obsession - while honoring your health in a way that actually feels good. Hosted by Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor Bonnie Roney, each episode delivers

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275. Can You Love Fitness But Hate Fitness Culture?

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/10/07

“Taking the first step is always intimidating, whether it’s to therapy, or whether it’s to finding a non-traditional fitness space for you to feel safe, heard, and acknowledged in.”You can love fitness, but hate the anti-fat bias and weight stigma that is baked into so much of it. Today I’m talking with Wendy Welsher, a USA Weightlifting Level Two coach, masters athlete, and founder of My Jam, about finding your way back to fitness and building a healthier relationship with movement. Wendy shares

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274. How to Read a Nutrition Label Without It Feeling...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/09/30

“A nutrition facts label for one particular food cannot take the context of your meal or day of eating into account.”Nutrition labels can provide useful information, but they can also become a source of food rules, guilt, and shame when diet culture takes over. In this episode, I’m breaking down where the 2,000-calorie reference point came from, why serving sizes are not recommendations for how much you should eat, and how to use nutrition labels in a way that supports nourishment rather than

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273. How to Set Realistic Expectations When Healing...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/09/23

“As human beings, we’re complex. There’s lots of nuance in all of this. Healing takes time, it’s not linear.”In this replay episode, I’m joined by Dr. Rachel Millner to talk about setting realistic expectations about what healing your relationship with food and your body can really look like. As a psychotherapist and fat activist helping others recover from chronic dieting, disordered eating, and eating disorders, she explains why healing often isn’t linear, and why letting go of food rules can feel

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24:53

272. Food Noise, Food Tracking, and Social Eating:...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/09/16

“The goal is not to never think about food. Food is a part of life, we have to think about food sometimes. The goal instead is for food thoughts to take up an appropriate amount of space in your brain, instead of feeling constant, urgent, critical, or all-consuming.”In this Q&A episode, I’m answering three questions that come up often when people are trying to break free from diet culture: Can you reduce food noise without medication? How do you let go of weighing, measuring, and tracking your

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271. Kids and Body Image: What to Say When Your Child...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/09/09

“That safety to talk to your parent about anything, including bodies and appearances, it’s an essential ingredient to then being able to have body confidence.”I’m joined by Zoë Bisbing, a certified family-based treatment practitioner and founder of Body Positive Therapy NYC, to talk about how we can navigate difficult body image conversations with our kids. We discuss what to say when a child says they feel ugly or fat, why immediately reassuring them may not be the most helpful response, and how

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270. Rethinking Nutrition: 3 Simple Ways to Add More,...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/09/02

“When we approach nutrition from a place of addition rather than restriction, I think it can become so much more approachable, doable, and honestly, fun.”In this episode, I’m sharing a different approach to nutrition: focusing on what you can add rather than what you should cut out. I walk through three of my favorite ways to add nutrition while emphasizing that eating enough comes before focusing on variety or optimization. I also talk about how healing your relationship with food can give you more

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269. How to Stop Feeling Guilty When You Can’t Exercise

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/08/26

"I really tried to pay attention to the messages my body was giving me in terms of my foot’s recovery, and honor every stage of recovery I was at."After breaking my foot and needing to take an unexpected break from exercise, I realized how much my relationship with food and movement had changed over the years. In this episode, I share five mindset shifts that helped me navigate rest without guilt or spiraling, including understanding my metabolism, finding the positives in slowing down, and

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268. When Your Mom Struggles With Food with Joshua Hills

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/08/19

“Okay, if these people believe in me, then I need to maybe learn to believe in myself, even just a little bit, or at least have hope that things can change.”In this episode, I'm joined by registered associate nutritionist and author Joshua Hills for a heartfelt conversation about how his mom's decades-long battle with anorexia shaped their family, and how recovery has transformed their lives. Together, we explore the far-reaching impact of food struggles, the role diet culture plays in fueling shame

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24:05

267. 5 Nutrition Truths to Undo Your Diet Culture...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/08/12

“We need food to survive. We become more food-seeking when our access to food is limited.”What if some of the things you believe about food, metabolism, and your body aren't facts at all, but messages you've absorbed from diet culture? In this episode, I unpack five nutrition truths that challenge common misconceptions about metabolism, calorie needs, hunger, and body diversity. You'll learn why eating enough supports your metabolism, why restrictive dieting often backfires, and how recognizing diet

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23:14

266. 3 Ways To Reduce Food Guilt

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/08/05

“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

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265. How to Build Positive Body Image in a World...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/07/29

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

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264. Finding Balance with "Healthy" and "Junk" Food,...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/07/22

"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

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263. Healing Your “I’m Too Much” Story: Self-Worth...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/07/15

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

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29:38

262. 5 Tips for Improving Your Health Without Going...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/07/08

"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

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261. Food Order and the Glucose Scaries That Social...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/07/01

"The more unnecessary food rules we follow, the harder it becomes to trust ourselves around food."Are blood sugar hacks creating more fear than freedom? In this episode, I take a closer look at the research behind food order and the popular advice to eat carbohydrates last for better blood sugar control. We explore what the science actually says, some important limitations that often get left out of social media conversations, and why many of these studies don't reflect how people typically eat in

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260. Tigress Osborn on the Jillian Michaels Jubilee...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/06/24

"Our worth as human beings should not be dependent on our health profile."Millions of people watched Jillian Michaels debate body positivity advocates on Jubilee, but the version we saw on YouTube was only part of the story. In this episode, I sit down with Tigress Osborn to discuss what happened behind the scenes, why she chose to participate, and what viewers didn't get to see. We also dive into bigger conversations about body positivity, fat activism, weight stigma, size discrimination, and the

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259. Is Fasting Healthy or Just Another Diet Trend?

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/06/17

“Diet culture loves to exaggerate grains of truth and turn them into something extremely blown out of proportion.”Fasting is everywhere right now, but what does the research actually say? In this episode, I break down the claims, benefits, and red flags surrounding fasting, including why short-term results don’t always tell the whole story. We’ll also explore how fasting can impact your relationship with food, why it may function as another form of dieting, and the important difference between

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258. From Shame, Guilt, and Restriction to Food...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/06/10

"There was just this layer of shame. Whether I was a good or bad person essentially tied into all of my food choices."Food struggles can feel like they’re completely taking over, but healing really is possible, no matter how long you’ve felt stuck. In this episode, I sit down with Mary, a fellow Rebel, who shares her journey from years of food guilt, restriction, binge eating, and constant food noise to finally finding peace around eating. We talk about how sneaky diet culture can disguise itself as

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257. 3 Mindset Shifts That Helped Me Heal My...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/06/03

"Having a positive relationship with food is one of the most freeing, peaceful, life giving, amazing things you can do for yourself."Healing your relationship with food isn’t about being perfect. In this episode, I share the three mindset shifts that helped me move away from all-or-nothing eating patterns, build body trust, and respond to hard moments with more compassion instead of shame. Through personal stories and practical reflection, we talk about creating a relationship with food that feels

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22:56

256. Should You Take Creatine? Here's What to Know...

Diet Culture Rebel Podcast ·

2026/05/27

"Supplementing with creatine could have potentially benefited my exercise performance years ago, but I wasn’t ready for that then."Creatine is everywhere right now, but what does the research actually say, and should you take it? In this episode, I’m breaking down what creatine is, the benefits, which type of creatine is the gold standard, and how to think about supplements without letting diet culture drive your decisions. We’ll also talk about why eating enough and consistently has to come first,

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