Fiona is an Accredited Practising Dietitian & Nutritionist and Director of Body Positive Australia and The Mindful Dietitian. She is a specialist in Eating Disorders, eating behaviour, Body image and Mindfulness-based practice. Fiona has been active in the Eating Disorder treatment space for over 15 years in the private sector, primarily offering group-based and individual Nutrition Therapy for clients with Binge Eating Disorder and chronic dieting presentations. Fiona is also a Sports Dietitian, currently Nutrition Consultant at The Australian Ballet School. Fiona is active in the education and training space, with fellow Dietitians and students specifically in the integration of the Non Diet Approach to Dietetic treatment. She is a guest lecturer in the Masters Dietetics programs at Deakin University and Monash University in the areas of eating behaviour, body image, Non Diet Approach and Counselling Skills.
Fiona sits on the Executive of the Australia New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders (ANZAED) and the Board of the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH).
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Today's episode covers a lot of ground with a guest that is extremely fluent in the BodyLove Language. Isabel Foxen Duke is the Creator of Stop Fighting Food—a free video training program for women who want to "stop feeling crazy around food." After years of trying to overcome emotional eating, binge-eating and chronic weight-cycling through "traditional" and alternative approaches, Isabel discovered some radical new ways to get women over their "food issues" once and for all—not just by shifting the mindsets of individuals, but by challenging the dominant diet culture as a whole. A fixture and thought-leader in the greater body-positive movement, Isabel has been featured in the Huffington Post, Elle Magazine, XOJane, and has been praised by Ricki Lake. Her writing and free guide, How To Not Eat Cake, can be found at www.isabelfoxenduke.com and you can watch her free video training series at www.stopfightingfood.com.
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Meredith Noble is a certified coach who helps plus-size people find food and body peace. Her practice combines Health at Every Size and intuitive eating philosophies with feminism and fat acceptance. With her compassion and expertise, her clients learn how to feel more comfortable in their skin, be at ease around food, and leave toxic diet culture behind.
In this episode Meredith talks about how one doctor’s weight loss recommendation lead her down the road to disordered eating, body shame, and over exercise. It wasn’t until she discovered Health at Every Size that she was able to just live her life as a self-identified “small fat person”.
After going through her own healing process, Meredith decided to dedicate her career to to helping people in plus-size bodies build resiliency in a world that favors small bodies and diet culture. Now, she does the work to help people heal on an individual level, and also works as an activist to help us heal on a cultural level.
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