Stop Dieting, Start Living with Allie Landry, MPPD, RD, LDN
Allie Landry is a non-diet dietitian and she's the owner of Make Life Peachy. Her mission is to help women stop obsessing over food, become confident in their skin, and make healthy eating easy so they can stop dieting and start living their dream life.
In this episode, Allie talks about the idea that a healthy lifestyle doesn't have to be restrictive or complicated and she shares her 4-step framework to being an intuitive eater.
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Show Notes
[00:01 - 06:56] Opening Segment
I introduce our guest for this episode
Allie talks about her dieting experience
She learned to count calories in school
Focusing on intuitive eating
Eating without tracking calories
How meeting a dietician inspired her to be a dietician
[06:57 - 12:30] Food and Grief
Emotional eating and grief
Emotional eating is normal
Food as part of the grieving process
Mindless emotional eating can lead to feeling guilt
Eating as a coping tool and mindfully eating food
Your body still needs energy
Stop dieting: eat at least 3x a day even if you don’t have appetite
[12:31 - 21:35] 4-Steps to Being an Intuitive Eater
Stop Dieting
Letting go of the dieting mindset
first step towards food freedom
Food Freedom
Encompasses multiple of the principles of intuitive eating
Approaching nutrition from a place of gentleness and flexibility
Gentle Nutrition
Having permission to eat all foods
Learning how to eat in a way that feels really good
Body Love/Body Respect
Focusing on body image body acceptance
Improving your body thoughts
Incorporating movement from a place of body respect
How Allie works with her clients
A lot of mindset reframing
Misconceptions about intuitive eating
Redefining health
[21:36 - 28:44] Closing Segment
Process of working toward body respect
The hardest part of the journey
Challenging these thoughts
Digging deep into the eating/dieting belief
How to navigate the world of losing weight
Having compassion
Connect with Allie through the links below
Final words
Connect with Allie through her Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok! You can also checkout her website atwww.makelifepeachy.com!
Tweetable Quotes
“What I would emphasize is, food can be a coping tool. We don't want it to be our only coping tool. and we also want to make it a mindful experience that actually helps our feelings rather than makes it feel worse.” - Allie Landry
“What if being healthy meant focusing on what to add and removing the good and bad labels?” - Allie Landry
“A lot of people feel like eating whatever you want can't be healthy. But that's often because they might be in a dieting mindset where they feel out of control around whole foods.” - Allie Landry
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