Sunny Side Up Nutrition

Anna, Anna, and Elizabeth discuss how setting a positive example of a healthy and balanced relationship with food can have a huge impact on our children’s body image and relationship with food, and helps prevent the development of eating disorders. We talk through some specific steps someone can take towards shifting behaviors when it comes to food, the way we view bodies, and the way we talk about food and bodies.

This episode marks the end of season 4, and the beginning of a short break from podcasting. We will be around mid-2024 with fresh new episodes!

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Links:

• Virginia Sole-Smith’s book Fat Talk
• Virginia Sole-Smith’s Article The People Who are Afraid of Food
• Maintenance Phase podcast
• Christy Harrison’s book The Wellness Trap
• Laura Thomas’s Can I have Another Snack substack
• Regan Chastain’s Weight and Healthcare substack
• Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition
• https://thirdwheeled.com/
• https://m8.design/
• https://www.sonics.io/

Anna Lutz chats with Livia Sara, an autism eating disorder recovery coach. They discuss why we often see people with autistic traits develop disordered eating behaviors, and why the way in which we talk about food is especially important among people with autism. They also discuss protective ways parents and teachers can talk to all children about food.

Links:

• Livia’s Website
• Livia's Books Website
• Livia’s Instagram
• Livia’s Podcast
• Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition
• https://thirdwheeled.com/
• https://m8.design/
• https://www.sonics.io/

Livia is an autism advocate and eating disorder survivor that now helps others overcome their own mental barriers through her courses, coaching programs, and books. She is the creator behind the blog livlabelfree.com and the host of The Liv Label Free Podcast.

Anna L. and Elizabeth chat with Marsha Dunn Klein, a Pediatric Occupational Therapist and expert in the field of feeding children. They discuss how pressure and other factors such as the sensory aspects of eating affect our children's relationship and connection to food. They explore strategies parents and caregivers can use to feel supported in their efforts to feed their children, and ways to help children feel safe and regulated at mealtimes.

Links:

• Get Permission Institute
• Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition
• https://thirdwheeled.com/
• https://m8.design/
• https://www.sonics.io/

Marsha Dunn Klein is a pediatric occupational therapist with over 53 years of experience. She has been a clinician, an author, an inventor and an educator. She co-authored the first pediatric feeding book, PreFeedingSkills in 1986 with Suzanne Evans Morris. They revised that book in 2000 and also co-authored Mealtime Participation Guide and Homemade Blended Formula Handbook. She co-authored Feeding and Nutrition for the child with Special Needs with Tracy Delaney. Her most current book is Anxious Eaters, Anxious Mealtimes: Practical and Compassionate Strategies for Mealtime Peace. Marsha designed the TeetherHeart and Duospoon, both available through Special Supplies. (Use code marsha20 for a 20% discount). Marsha co-founded the Get Permission Institute as an online teaching platform with courses for professionals and parents. Check out "Dear Parent", a free class for parents of picky eaters! Currently Marsha presents nationally and internationally on feeding challenges with children. She loves to cook, eat and travel, all the while, celebrating food!

Anna L. and Elizabeth chat with Jenna Werner, a Registered Dietitian (RD), who runs a virtual ​​nutrition coaching practice. They discuss the diet culture-fueled experiences people often face during the holidays, and tips for navigating these moments. They also explore some advice specifically for parents to help navigate scenarios such as feeling guilty about the foods we eat instead of focusing on enjoying them, and how to handle other adults who make negative comments about food and weight within earshot of children.

Links:

• Happy Strong Healthy RD
• What the Actual Fork Podcast
• Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition
• https://thirdwheeled.com/
• https://m8.design/
• https://www.sonics.io/

About Jenna: I am a food-loving, diet-hating, Registered Dietitian, online nutrition coach and mama. Happy Strong Healthy™ is not your average virtual nutrition coaching practice. It’s built on the foundation that nutrition should not be a source of stress in your life. Food should make you feel good. Eating should be fun. And learning how to nourish your body with a “forever” mindset should be on your to-do list. My life’s purpose is to help you quit dieting and fall in love with the way food makes you feel. Other than my 15 years of experience as a Registered Dietitian, I’m qualified to help you because I was you. I obsessed over “wellness” and tried every diet. I worked out for hours on end. I hated my body. Until I learned to eat to nourish my body, not to make myself smaller. And to love myself in that process. It’s possible for you too. That’s why we’re here — to help you become your happiest, healthiest, and strongest self!

Anna L. and Elizabeth chat with Sammy Previte, a Registered Dietitian (RD), Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Certified Personal Trainer, and the Founder of Find Food Freedom®. Find Food Freedom® is a virtual private practice where Sammy and her team are dedicated to their mission of helping humans make peace with food and their body.

They discuss why Halloween can feel so stressful to parents, some of the common pitfalls, and share some advice for parents as they navigate Halloween this year.

Links:

• Find Food Freedom
• What the Actual Fork Podcast
• Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition
• https://thirdwheeled.com/
• https://m8.design/
• https://www.sonics.io/

Sammy Previte is a Registered Dietitian (RD), Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Certified Personal Trainer, and the Founder of Find Food Freedom®. She is also lover of all things media, hosting the Find Food Freedom® Podcast, co-hosting of the What The Actual Fork™ Podcast. and featuring in many segments including CBS Mornings & The Drew Barrymore Show! She earned her Bachelor’s of Science at Penn State University and then went to Adagio Health in Pittsburgh, PA to earn her RD credential. After completing traditional schooling, she went on to gain additional certifications in Intuitive Eating & Body Image which is where she found her true passion and Find Food Freedom® was born. Find Food Freedom® is a virtual private practice made up of a team of Intuitive Eating Professionals dedicated to their mission of helping humans make peace with food and their body. Find Food Freedom® is a fierce team of women who are committed to bettering the lives of everyone they reach. The Find Food Freedom® team:

• Believes that food was made to provide our bodies with nourishment and pleasure.
• Treats each client with individualized care based on their specific needs.
• Does not support the $72 billion diet industry.
• Is rooted in Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size (HAES).
• Believes that all humans deserve fair, unbiased health care regardless of the size of their body.

Anna M. and Elizabeth chat with Dr. Mary Himmelstein a professor and researcher in psychological sciences at Kent State University. Mary is the director of the SWAG Lab, a social and health psychology lab where she examines biopsychosocial mechanisms which influence health and disease processes, and conducts research broadly on identity, stress, and coping processes in weight stigma and masculinity.

They discuss:

• Weight stigma and the different ways people can experience it.
• How negative body-related feelings affect our perspectives and the way we move through the world, and how this also affects the way we parent.
• The kinds of conversations parents should be having with their children about weight stigma and masculinity, and some helpful ways to frame the way we talk about body size and social identities.
• Research findings from the SWAG Lab work on masculinity, social identities and barriers to health.

Links:

• About Dr. Himmelstein
• Dr. Himmelstein’s SWAG Lab
• Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition
• https://thirdwheeled.com/
• https://m8.design/
• https://www.sonics.io/

Dr. Mary Himmelstein earned her PhD in social psychology and intradisciplinary health psychology from Rutgers, New Brunswick in 2016. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University. She has published over 50 peer reviewed papers primarily on weight stigma or masculinity as they relate to health.

Anna L. and Elizabeth chat with Gwen Kostal, a Registered Dietitian who helps teachers and educators teach about food safely in the classroom. When Gwen first started out as a dietitian, she was trained to contribute to diet culture, encourage weight loss, recommend restrictions, and talk to kids about how to choose the “best” foods. When she realised that this is not appropriate or helpful for kids Gwen set up Dietitians 4 Teachers to help teachers find meaningful language and lessons that link to the curriculum and make life easier while making the classroom safer.

They discuss:

• Examples of diet culture in schools and the harm it can cause.
• Strategies to approach teachers to discuss concerns about diet culture in education.
• Some resources for teachers to get diet culture out of schools.
• Changes that need to be made to nutrition curricula to eliminate diet culture messaging.
• How parents can support teachers in getting diet culture out of the classroom.

Links:

• Dietitians4Teachers website
• Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition
• https://thirdwheeled.com/
• https://m8.design/
• https://www.sonics.io/

Gwenis a dietitian with diverse experience working on different teams and with many different clients and families over the years and with expertise and training in quality improvement, change, and engagement. Nutrition allowed Gwen to find that the most impactful work we can do is listen to understand and move forward together. To the families and clients and staff that I have worked with, you are without a doubt, the greatest teachers I have ever had. Gwen is also a parent, who has experienced true partnerships with educators throughout our family’s school experiences. Change and improvement science are often the missing pieces in great ideas. Gwen is driven towards shared understanding, and problem-solving, and remains a research enthusiast at heart.

Anna M. chats with Dr. Georgie Buckley, a dietitian and postdoctoral researcher who currently works as an eating disorder and body image consultant. Georgie is also a queer, neurodivergent woman, and a trauma survivor with a history of an eating disorder.

They discuss:

• The nature of disordered eating and body image issues are among pre-teen, teen and collegiate athletes.
• The things that need to happen not just to raise more awareness, but shake things up so prevention becomes a core tenet of all youth and school sports programs.
• How youth sports has evolved into a system where kids tend to be pushed to specialize earlier than in previous decades, and the impact this can have on a young athlete’s mental and physical health.
• Ways for a parent or caregiver to handle a situation where a pre-teen or teenager expresses anxiety about their body, their weight, or their food intake.

Links:

• Georgie’s Website
• Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition
• https://thirdwheeled.com/
• https://m8.design/
• https://www.sonics.io/

About Georgie: I have a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Nutrition, a Master of Dietetic Practice and a PhD in psychology. I.e. I'm a very proud education lover who spent many many years in Universities and can contextualize the experiences we have through academic literature...not to mention critique the massive gaps research can offer the most marginalized of us. My PhD explored disordered eating in current and former athletes, whilst critiquing the systems and cultures that cause and maintain disruptions to our food and body relationship.

I have worked in and alongside prestigious international universities, major sporting organizations and inclusive clinical eating disorder settings. My favorite places to work are the ones that value the individual and their experiences, ones that understand how inequity happens, and ones that value an individual for who they are at their core - their chaos and messiness included. This is what I bring to my consulting work.

For me, I am so lucky and grateful to have recovered from my own eating disorder and body image concern experiences. I have also learnt to accept my own brain and body and appreciate nothing more than joyful experiences with food and gentle movement. I competed at a top national level in athletics for over 10 years and will always have a special interest in protecting those who are vulnerable and marginalized in sporting environments.

Anna L. and Elizabeth chat with Diana Rice, a registered dietitian who works with both children and adults to put positive family feeding dynamics into practice, and heal food-related issues brought on by medical conditions or years of chronic dieting.

They discuss:

• Why packing school lunches can feel like such a chore to parents.
• The problem with Bento boxes/insta-ready lunches.
• Managing packing lunches day-to-day, week-by-week.
• Recommendations for packing lunches for picky eaters.
• When kids can start packing their own lunches, or at least help packing lunches.

Links:

• Diana Rice Tiny Seed Nutrition
• Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition
• https://thirdwheeled.com/
• https://m8.design/
• https://www.sonics.io/

About Diana: she is the founder of Tiny Seed Family Nutrition. Family feeding is my passion, but people are often surprised to find out that I care a lot more about how your family feels about food than exactly what you’re eating! Don’t get me wrong, as a dietitian and as a parent myself, I absolutely believe that all children (and adults!) deserve and will benefit from great nutrition. I hope to help you achieve that. But without the foundation of a healthy relationship with food, gentle nutrition is a lot harder to put into practice.As parents and caregivers, our own relationships with food and our bodies will influence our children’s approach to these things more than any other factor. Because of this, Tiny Seed Family Nutrition works with both children and adults to put positive family feeding dynamics into practice and heal food-related issues brought on by medical conditions or years of chronic dieting.

Anna M. and Elizabeth chat with Amy Palanjian, a recipe developer, content creator, cookbook author and mom to three kids. Amy is the creator of Yummy Toddler Food, the go-to resource for busy parents to create meals families swear by.

They discuss:

• How the Yummy Toddler Food blog and social media came about.
• What it’s been like for Amy to navigate the kids Wellness landscape, where many influencers attempt to “healthify” everything, or make posts containing dire warnings about toxic this or that.
• Advice for parents to let go of some of the pressure around feeding kids.
• The concept of responsive feeding and safety in the context of feeding kids.
• Some strategies to make meal time less stressful.

Links: 

• Yummy Toddler Food
• Dinnertime SOS Cookbook on Amazon
• Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast 
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition
• https://thirdwheeled.com/
• https://m8.design/
• https://www.sonics.io/

Amy Palanjian is the creator of Yummy Toddler Food, the go-to resource for busy parents to create meals families swear by. Her expertise was honed over a decade of experience working in print and digital media as the lifestyle director of FamilyFun magazine, a food editor with Better Homes & Gardens, and deputy editor of ReadyMade magazine. Amy lives in Pennsylvania with her family.