Info

The BodyLove Project with Jessi Haggerty

Welcome to The BodyLove Project Podcast, I’m Jessi Haggerty a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Personal Trainer living in Boston and, your host! Each episode we’ll dive into a different topic where we dig deep to develop a healthier relationship with food and your body. In a nutshell, this podcast is about loving your body. Whether that means learning how to nourish your body with food, movement, meditation, or positive self talk. My hope is to help listeners take one step closer to mending their relationship with food and their body, so they can show up for the parts of their life that matter most.
RSS Feed
The BodyLove Project with Jessi Haggerty
2019
July
June
May
April
March
February
January


2018
February
January


2017
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January


2016
December
November
October


Categories

All Episodes
Archives
Categories
Now displaying: June, 2017
Jun 21, 2017

In this episode we talk about: 

  • How Shira experienced weight stigma as a child, and how that set her on a path to disordered eating.
  • How she found dance and yoga in a dark and sad time in her life. And how it both made her feel both connected and disconnected to her body at the same time.  
  • How she was suffering from anorexia for months, and simultaneously being praised by colleagues and friends on her “dedication”.
  • How she worked with an eating disorder therapist and dietitian to help her recover.

Join the conversation: http://www.JessiHaggerty.com/blog/blp27

Resources

Jun 14, 2017

One of my favorite things about hosting this podcast is my guests’ willingness to share their stories. Today’s guest, Emily Fonnesbeck, was so generous in sharing her personal history with orthorexia, and how her eating disorder recovery now informs her practice as a dietitian. Emily is a Registered Dietitian and her practice is in southern Utah.

Here are some of the highlights from this episode:  

Orthorexia

 

  • Orthorexia, directly translated means “perfect eating”. It is typically accompanied by a lot of food rules, elimination diets or “cleanses”, and an obsession with “clean” or “pure” eating.
  • Emily talks about how her “functionally dysfunctional” relationship with food and exercise snowballed, overtime, into “full-blown” orthorexia.
  • Orthorexia, combined with an exercise addiction lead to a pelvic stress fracture, a weak and fatigued body, and a slew of digestive issues (all of which are very common side effects of undereating and overexercising).
  • Orthorexia, exercise addiction, and perfectionism are really praised in our culture. Emily talks about how the biggest lie her eating disorder told her was that, in order to be strong, she needed to ‘stick to the diet’.

Discerning Between Food Rules vs. Food Values

  • Emily talks about how food rules are really anxious, and often driven by perfectionism and a need to control; they often elicit dichotomous thinking and deal in absolutes (separating foods as good or bad, healthy or unhealthy).
  • Food values on the other hand, are really empowering. Now, Emily’s number one food rule is that food has to be flexible.
  • When your behaviors are no longer in conflict with your values, you can start listening to the “healthy self” versus the “eating disorder self”.

Digestive Health

  • Emily and I were both trained in an extreme approach to digestive health, where the number one solution was an elimination diet. Listen to my episode with Lauren Dear to see that there is more than one way to treat digestive dysfunction!
  • Emily states “I will maintain that elimination diets are what caused orthorexia for me”.
  • Elimination diets have no place in eating disorder treatment and can easily trigger an eating disorder in an individual who is predisposed.
  • Before we put someone on an elimination diet, we need to do a VERY thorough screening to see if someone has eating disorder tendencies or qualities.
  • It’s important to note that often, greater flexibility with food supports digestive function. And to add fuel to that fire, under-eating can exacerbate (and cause) inflammation.
  • If you have digestive issues, there are things we can do that will support your digestive health, without an elimination diet. And, if you’re in recovery from an eating disorder with a digestive issue, you can take steps to improve your symptoms without fear of relapse, under the care of a trained professional of course!
  • Bottom line: DO NOT DIY GUT HEALTH.

Resources

Jun 7, 2017

Read the full blog post: http://www.JessiHaggerty.com/blog/blp25

1