It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching

If you restrict all week and crash on the weekend, look at how you work before a deadline. My guest Sabrina Magnan healed her relationship with food. Then the same pattern followed her into her business. Overwork, launch, burn out, feel the shame, try harder. We talk about why this isn't a discipline problem, and what changes when you stop trying to fix yourself and start learning to feel. In this episode you will learn: Why the belief driving restriction is often the same belief driving overwork The difference between survival energy and regulated energy behind your choices How internal family systems explains protective behaviors like overeating and perfectionism What it means to feel an emotion in your body, and how that capacity grows How small, doable actions build internal safety and make behavior change possible Mentioned in the show: Sabrina's website: http://sabrinamagnan.com Food Freedom Academy: https://sabrinamagnan.com/ffa Sabrina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sabrina.magnan.health Sabrina on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sabrina.magnan.health Live Unrestricted podcast (Sabrina's show): https://open.spotify.com/show/1rGqpkqxaM72vpt5fRJ9DI Confident: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

You were told to lose weight and cut carbs. What if neither one is the treatment for type 2 diabetes? I was diagnosed with prediabetes at 38, right after my last diet. Today I don't have diabetes, and I'm in a bigger body than I was then. So I brought every type 2 diabetes myth I've heard in 10 years of coaching to Kristie Messerli, a registered dietitian and certified diabetes care and education specialist who works weight-neutral. In this episode, you'll learn: What type 2 diabetes actually is, and why it starts years before the diagnosis Why sugar and body size are not the causes you were told they were How weight cycling affects insulin resistance over time Why cutting carbs can backfire, and what to do instead The difference between reversal and remission, and why medication is not a moral failure Mentioned in the show: Kristie's website: https://dietitiankristie.com/ Kristie on Instagram (@type2diabetes.nutritionist): https://www.instagram.com/type2diabetes.nutritionist/ Kristie's podcast, Simplifying Diabetes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/simplifying-diabetes/id1895055236 Confident, my program on body acceptance and the confidence that grows from it: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/confident

Your child was born trusting their body. Somewhere between the high chair and kindergarten, the adults around them start teaching them not to. Registered dietitian and mom of three Kerry Miller joins me to talk about body trust in kids. She is the author of Violet Learns to Pause, a picture book about listening to your body. Kerry spent years working with women who traced their struggles with food back to childhood. A parent on a diet. A doctor's comment. A relative watching them go for seconds. We talk about what to say at the dinner table, what to say about bodies, and what to say about GLP-1s. In this episode you'll learn: What interoception is and why it is the foundation of body trust Why picky eating can take 20 to 30 exposures to shift, and how to stay pressure-free What to say when your child asks "Do I look pretty?" How to respond when another kid calls your child fat How to talk to your kids about GLP-1s, including if you take one Mentioned in the show: Violet Learns to Pause on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/106787870X Kerry's website: https://violetlearns.com/ Companion resources for families: https://families.violetlearns.com/ Kerry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kerry.millerrd Join the Confident waitlist: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

You can't learn to trust your hunger while taking a drug designed to switch it off. Elyse Resch co-created Intuitive Eating. She has 44 years of practice in eating disorders and disordered eating, and she is updating the fifth edition of the book right now. In this conversation, we talk about what GLP-1s at weight loss doses do to hunger, appetite, and pleasure. We talk about what happens when the drug stops. And we take on food addiction, teens, and neurodivergence. What you'll learn: Why GLP-1s for intentional weight loss and intuitive eating pull in opposite directions What happens to hunger and fullness signals after stopping the drug Why Elyse rejects the idea of food addiction, and what the studies leave out How to help teens resist diet culture without banning everything Why neurodivergence doesn't rule anyone out of intuitive eating Mentioned in the show: Confident 5-Week Body Acceptance Challenge: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident Elyse Resch: https://elyseresch.com/EResch/ Intué, the official Intuitive Eating app: https://www.intue.app/ Informed consent for GLP-1 (free PDF): https://sizeinclusivemedicine.org/glp1/ Elyse on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elyseresch/ Elyse on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elyse.resch

The GLP-1 isn't what puts your muscle at risk. Not eating enough is. Registered dietitian Aoife McMahon has worked in weight-loss clinics, bariatric surgery, and weight-loss drug prescribing. Today she practices from a weight-inclusive lens, with a background in eating disorders. In this episode of the Beyond GLP-1 series, we talk about sarcopenia, bariatric surgery, and why so many of the answers people are looking for don't exist yet. In this episode, you'll learn: What sarcopenia is, and why muscle mass and muscle function are two different things How appetite suppression can quietly lead to undernourishment and muscle loss Why "I lost weight and I could move better" doesn't tell the whole story What the research does and doesn't say about weightlifting as protection Why eating disorder screening and informed consent are missing from most GLP-1 prescribing Mentioned in the show: CONFIDENT 5-week Body Acceptance Challenge: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident Aoife on Instagram - That Irish Dietitian: https://www.instagram.com/thatirishdietitian Inside Bariatrics podcast (Aoife's show): https://open.spotify.com/show/033nYDCJmhWHC3zZ8Uh3H7?si=46ed876255a14e04 Aoife's professional training: https://centreforliberatingnutrition.com/for-professionals/

You do not need to eat perfectly to be healthy, and one snack will not undo you. I just spent five months living out of a quarter of a fridge. Coming home to my own pantry nearly knocked me over. Eight garbage bags later, I finally understood what gentle nutrition actually is, and what it is not. This classic episode breaks down Evelyn Tribole's definition of gentle nutrition, why intuitive eating is a process and not an endpoint, and why food and exercise only account for 15% of your health. What you'll learn: What gentle nutrition actually means, straight from the woman who coined the term Why wellness culture sells the same fraud as diet culture, just with a healthier label The real reason obsessing over nutrition rarely makes you healthier How to tell the difference between gentle nutrition and healthism Why intuitive eating is a process, and gentle nutrition is where it leads Mentioned in the show: Confident - Join the waitlist: https://stephaniedodier.com/confident

Your doctor said lose weight. Science never actually proved that was the fix. This is the episode I keep sending new listeners to, and now I am sending it to you. I walk through the real research on weight, health, and control, and the six things that actually move your health forward without a diet in sight. What you'll learn: Why no disease exists exclusively in higher weight bodies The history of the BMI index and who it was actually built for What the World Health Organization says health really is The one question to ask your doctor when weight comes up Six things you can do for your health that have nothing to do with the scale Mentioned in the show: Confident: https://stephaniedodier.com/confident

Everyone is making less money right now, and almost nobody is saying it out loud. Hilary Kinavey has been doing weight-neutral work for twenty-five years. Right now, she is making less money. So am I. In this conversation we name the shame underneath that, and the grief of watching the anti-diet movement lose ground to GLP-1 marketing. Then we get practical. How to market without betraying your values. Why your email list is the one asset that actually belongs to you. What a lifestyle business looks like when you build it on purpose. What you'll learn: Why weight-neutral clinicians are making less money right now, and what to do with the shame that comes with it How to market ethically in a landscape built on false promises Why personal branding is outperforming clinical content right now What a lifestyle business is, and how to build one that supports your life instead of consuming it What Hilary's Ember program is, and who it is for Mentioned in the show: Episode 227 with Dana Sturtevant, Center for Body Trust (2020). https://stephaniedodier.com/episodes/227-healthism-the-desire-to-be-healthy-gone-wrong-with-dana-sturtevant/ Hilary Kinavey website: hilarykinavey.com Hilary Kinavey on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hilarykin Hilary Kinavey on Facebook: facebook.com/people/Hilary-Kinavey/100000200748021 Center for Body Trust: https://centerforbodytrust.com/ Center for Body Trust on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/center4bodytrust Ember, Hilary's business container for clinicians. www.hilarykinavey.com/ember Beyond GLP-1 series: program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1 Non-Diet Coaching Certification: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Most women who call themselves a binge eater are just eating normally after years of restricting. Dr. Sarah Cooke was an NHS doctor for twelve years before a Crohn's diagnosis sent her down a completely different path. Now she works exclusively with women untangling binge eating, emotional eating, and the belief that they have no off switch with food. In this conversation we get specific about what actually separates binge eating from overeating from normal eating, why the “no off switch” feeling almost always traces back to restriction, and what the emerging research on GLP-1 for binge eating is actually showing. What you'll learn: The real difference between binge eating, overeating, and normal eating Where the “no off switch” feeling actually comes from Why food noise is so hard to research, and what it actually is Sarah's clinical take on GLP-1 medications for binge eating specifically How to tell if occasional emotional eating is a problem or just being human Mentioned in the show: Thursday Sessions- Free training (Until Sept 2, 2026) - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/thursday-sessions NDCC - Registration - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/ Free Intake assessment Forms - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment Beyond GLP-1 series - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1 Connect with our guest: Dr. Sarah Cooke's Instagram: instagram.com/drscnutrition Dr. Sarah Cooke's Facebook: facebook.com/drscnutrition Dr. Sarah Cooke's Free 7-Step Guide: sarahcookenutrition.lpages.co/entry-offer-lead-magnet-7-steps-registration-page Dr. Sarah Cooke's Podcast: When Food Feels Hard: https://open.spotify.com/show/66AUrj0RUROUykrwOKPQD9

You can look at another woman's body and see nothing but beauty. Look at your own, and the story changes completely. That gap has a name and a research base behind it. In this episode I teach the psychology of body acceptance in two parts: why the gap exists, and what actually moves you through it once you're ready to close it. What you'll learn: The psychological theory that explains why women learn to see their bodies as objects before they see themselves as people Why body positivity keeps women in the same trap as body hatred, and what body neutrality does differently The real reason resistance shows up once you've decided to change your relationship to your body A three-step process, compassionate self-leadership, internal safety, and self-consent, to build the self-trust that makes lasting change possible Mentioned in the show: Thursday Sessions- Free training (Until Sept 2, 2026) - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/thursday-sessions NDCC - Registration - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/ Free Intake assessment Forms - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment Beyond GLP-1 series - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Most people who start a GLP-1 will stop taking it eventually. When they do, the weight comes back. Often fast. This episode is for anyone coaching a client through that moment, GLP-1 or not. In this episode you will learn The six reframes to hold before coaching anyone through weight regain How to acknowledge thin privilege without making it about you The exact questions to ask when a client wants to quit over weight gain Why solving weight gain does not mean losing weight What Stephanie predicts for the industry starting in 2027 Mentioned in the show: Thursday Sessions- Free training (Until Sept 2, 2026) - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/thursday-sessions NDCC - Registration - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/ Free Intake assessment Forms - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment Beyond GLP-1 series - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

GLP-1 clients are already in your practice. The question is whether you have a clinical framework for what comes next. After the Beyond GLP-1 series and months of supervision conversations with my mentoring students, I compiled the list that keeps getting longer: 15 clinical considerations every non-diet practitioner needs when working with clients who are on GLP-1, thinking about it, or coming off it. This is not a position statement. It is a framework built from what I am seeing in the field right now. What you will learn: How GLP-1 disrupts hunger, fullness, and satisfaction cues — and how to coach each one Why the food noise that goes quiet on GLP-1 comes back with a vengeance when the medication stops Why body image work is non-negotiable and why I am predicting a body image crisis in 2027 The bridge analogy and the one coaching question that opens everything Why group coaching is the wrong container for this work What post-GLP-1 coaching actually looks like, including the first six weeks My answer to the episode question: yes, but Mentioned in the show: Thursday Sessions- Free training (Until Sept 2, 2026) - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/thursday-sessions NDCC - Registration - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/ Free Intake assessment Forms - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment Beyond GLP-1 series - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

The Thursday Sessions are a series of conversations on the underpinning of why we, as women, keep going back to wanting to shrink our bodies as the thing that finally lets us have the life we want. Moving forward together, stronger, in a non-diet approach to health, at the peak of the medicated weight loss era. 👉 Details and Registration

Confidence is not a personality trait you either have or don't. That is the conversation in this episode. Denise Wogan, a psychotherapist and Non-Diet Coaching Certification graduate, joins me four years after we worked together on the exact thing she was too scared to build: her own business. She has since done her first national TV interview, finished a psychotherapy degree, and started building a bricks and mortar clinic in Ireland. We talk about what actually changed. In this episode, you'll learn: Why confidence is created, not inherited The difference between fake confidence and the quiet, unshakable kind What self-trust actually feels like in the body Why anxiety is a messenger, not an enemy How eating became one woman's practice ground for trusting herself everywhere else Mentioned in the show: Denise Wogan on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/denisewogan_wellbeing Coach Corner Vault - https://stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/ Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/ Groundwork Waitlist - https://stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Right as weight-inclusive medicine started gaining real ground, GLP-1 walked in and put BMI back at the center of the conversation. Dr. Lesley Williams has spent the last several years practicing weight-inclusive medicine inside a system built around this class of drugs. She is not on a side. She is in the room, every day, holding both a weight-neutral framework and a patient who wants a prescription. This conversation goes into what that actually looks like in practice. What you'll learn Why the rise of GLP-1 felt like a step backwards for weight-inclusive medicine, even to a practitioner who believes in it The shared decision-making framework she uses before ever discussing medication Why rapport has to outrank advocacy if a practitioner wants to stay in the room long term What she is already seeing: early adopters starting to come off the medication Where she believes weight-inclusive care is headed over the next five to ten years Mentioned in the show: Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1 Dr. Lesley Williams website: http://www.lesleywilliamsmd.com Dr. Lesley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrLesleyW/ Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/ Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/ Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

PCOS has a new name, and the internet has a lot of opinions about why. It's called PMOS now. Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. Returning guest Julie Duffy Dillon joins me to break down what changed, what didn't, and what the research actually shows about GLP-1 medications and PCOS beyond weight loss. In this episode, you'll learn: Why PCOS was renamed PMOS after more than a decade of research What the name change does and doesn't change about your care What the research shows about GLP-1s and PCOS insulin resistance, triglycerides, and androgens Why insurance mostly covers the wrong dose, and who that leaves behind What to do when your provider starts talking about your weight again Mentioned in the show: Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1 Julie's Substack: https://findyourfoodvoice.substack.com/ Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/ Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/ Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

We have a body autonomy problem and a body liberation problem, and they are not the same thing. Abbie Attwood joins me to talk about the conversation everyone is having badly right now. Celebrities, GLP-1s, and what it actually means to comment, or not comment, on someone else's body. In this episode you will learn Why body autonomy and body liberation are not the same conversation What it means to critique a culture without critiquing a person Why transparency about GLP-1 use does not erase the impact of the message How neurodivergence and chronic illness shape vulnerability to diet culture What informed consent actually requires in the GLP-1 conversation Mentioned in the show: Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1 Abbie's Substack: abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com Abbie on Instagram: instagram.com/abbieattwoodwellness Full Plate Podcast (Abbie's podcast) Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/ Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/ Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Food noise isn't a diagnosis. It's not a brain disorder. It might be the most cleverly marketed word for something that's been happening to diet-culture survivors for decades. Dr. Erin Knopf is triple-board certified in pediatrics, adult psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry, and she specializes in eating disorders. In this episode of the Beyond GLP-1 series, she breaks down what food noise actually is in the brain, what GLP-1 medications do to it, and why silencing it with an injection is not the same as healing it. What you'll learn: The clinical definition of food noise — and why it's really hunger shaped by restriction and shame What GLP-1s actually do in the brain to quiet food preoccupation (and what that doesn't solve) Why there are only two published papers on food noise and no validated tool to measure it What 'body noise' is and how it shows up differently from food noise Why Dr. Knopf is deeply concerned about GLP-1 use in children and adolescents Mentioned in the show: Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1 Dr. Erin Knopf's Food Noise Reality Roadmap: https://foodnoiserealityroadmap.com/ VERY | Virtual Eating Recovery: https://very.health Dr. Knopf on Instagram: @drerinknopf Research: Food noise — concept and measurement (Nature, 2025): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41387-025-00382-x Research: Food cue reactivity framework (PMC, 2023): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10674813/ Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/ Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/ Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Nobody screens you for disordered eating before prescribing a GLP-1. That is not an accident. It is a gap in the entire informed consent process, and it is the subject of this conversation. I talk with Dr. Michelle Tubman, an emergency physician, about what informed consent for GLP-1 medications should actually include and rarely does. In this episode you will learn: What Michelle sees in the emergency room after patients start GLP-1 medications Why most people never connect their symptoms back to the medication What the two-year Ozempic study actually found about weight regain Why disordered eating screening is not required before a GLP-1 prescription What true informed consent would require, modeled on how oncologists handle chemotherapy Mentioned in the show: Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1 Dr. Michelle Tubman Community: http://enough.wayzhealth.com Dr. Michelle Tubman on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wayzahealth/ Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/ Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/ Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

GLP-1 medications are changing how people experience food. What no one is telling you is they may also be changing how people experience everything else. In this episode I sit down with Olivia Palmer, chartered health psychologist and behavioral science specialist, to look at what these drugs are actually doing to the brain. Not the metabolic picture — the psychological one. We get into anhedonia, the flattening of the reward system, and what happens when the drive that was dampened for food also dampens motivation, connection, and the desire to pursue a meaningful life. Olivia also challenges one of the most common arguments circulating right now: that GLP-1 can serve as a behavioral kickstart that makes lasting health change easier. Her read of the behavioral science says otherwise. In this episode: What anhedonia is and how GLP-1 interacts with the brain's reward circuitry Why the reward dampening effect is not selective to food What behavioral science says about building health behaviors while biology is altered The gap in research — and why no one is asking the right questions What to actually focus on for sustainable health behavior change, with or without GLP-1 Mentioned in the show: Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1 Website-Olivia Palmer: http://oliviapalmer.co.uk Olivia Palmer Substack: https://substack.com/@oliviapalmerhealth Instagram - Olivia Palmer: https://www.instagram.com/oliviapalmerhealth/ Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/ Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/ Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork