Non-Diet Yogi
Non-Diet Yogi explores and dismantles the world of #BigWellness, where yoga, spirituality, fitness, diet culture, white supremacy and toxic female entrepreneurship collide in a dizzying spectacle of goji berries and designer mala beads.This podcast is for you if you - love yoga, but don’t always love yoga culture - wish to form a deeper connection with your body and with the natural world around you, minus the wellness wankery - are tired of the classism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fat phobia and other threads of white supremacy woven throughout #BigWellness. Hosted by Casey Conroy, non-diet dietitian, naturopath in training, and yoga teacher.
Non-Diet Yogi
Ep 10. Gym Culture without Weight Loss Challenges: Bringing HAES®, Intuitive Eating and Body Positivity into Fitness with Monique Jephcote
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Casey Conroy, MNutrDiet, APD, YT
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Episode 10
Gym culture can be incredibly toxic for people struggling with body image and eating concerns. Monique Jephcote, APD, PT and Intuitive Eating Counsellor, is infusing weight-neutral principles into the fitness world with compassion, respect and gusto.
In this episode:
- How and why Monique opened her non-diet private practice soon after graduating
- HAES just makes sense: “Every single body deserves dignity and respect” (and weight loss dietetics is SO boring!)
- Monique’s lived experience of disordered eating recovery from her days as a competitive bodybuilder (including the fun, sassy “Beyonce” side of things)
- “We get obsessed with food when we’re under-eating”
- How Monique never disliked her body as much as she did when she was closest to society’s ideal body shape
- The contrast in body diversity and body acceptance between the bodybuilding VS powerlifting scenes
- The myriad ways diet culture manifests in the gym setting
- On being a non-diet dietitian in a gym, and dealing respectfully with weight-centric fitness professionals: “We don’t know what we don’t know”
- The way Monique is challenging perspectives on weight and health in the gym world
- The importance of informed consent, body autonomy and compassion regardless of whether clients take a weight-centric or weight-neutral approach
- Low energy availability or RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport), Hypothalamic Amenorrhoea in female athletes, and the problem with dismissing menstrual disturbances as “just what happens to active women”
- Monique’s experiences with Vipassana meditation, and where this fits in with her work as a dietitian and fitness professional
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