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

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

The Ozempic era did not create weight stigma. It just showed us how shallow the acceptance always was. Dr. Angela Meadows is a social psychologist, weight stigma researcher, and founder of the International Weight Stigma Conference. She has spent her career studying how weight stigma operates at the individual, relational, and systemic level. In this conversation, she brings her research lens directly to the GLP-1 moment. This is the conversation mainstream health is not having. In this episode, you'll learn: Social identity theory — why the GLP-1 era exposed what body positivity was always missing What weight stigma actually is at the structural level, and why interpersonal niceness cannot fix a systemic problem The public health data on GLP-1 that is buried in supplementary materials and not being read How medicalized weight stigma is shifting — and why refusing GLP-1 is becoming its own form of clinical target Whether it is possible to live in this culture and not internalize weight stigma, and what intentional protection requires Mentioned in the show: Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1 International Weight Stigma Conference: https://weightstigmaconference.com/ GLP-1 Informed Consent Resource — Size Inclusive Medicine: https://sizeinclusivemedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MSSI-GLP1-Informed-Consent-1-1.pdf Related episode — Beyond GLP-1 with Ragen Chastain: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/episodes/glp-1-science-research-weight-loss/ 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 being prescribed with no eating disorder screening and no monitoring. What could go wrong? According to eating disorder specialist and registered dietitian Marci Evans, quite a lot. Marci has spent her career at the intersection of body image and eating disorder care. In this conversation, she shares what she is actually seeing in her clinical practice and why it frightens her. What you will learn in this episode: Why weight loss does not reliably improve body image, even for people who want it How GLP-1 medications can fuel and accelerate existing eating disorder behaviors Why there is almost no research on GLP-1 and body image, and what that tells us What the absence of screening and monitoring means for eating disorder risk How weight-neutral practitioners can hold space for clients on GLP-1 without abandoning their clinical ethics Mentioned in the show: Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1 Marci Evans Newsletter on her website: https://marcird.com/ Marci Evans on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcird/ Research — GLP-1 and body image: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40267815/ Research — GLP-1 and binge eating disorder: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11156433/ 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

The science on GLP-1 drugs is not what the marketing says it is. Ragen Chastain has been studying weight science, weight stigma, and healthcare practice for over 20 years. In this episode, she gives us the clearest breakdown yet of what the research actually supports — as of May 2026 — and how to tell the difference between evidence and pharmaceutical strategy. This is part of the Beyond GLP-1 expert interview series on It's Beyond The Food. What you'll learn in this episode: Why GLP-1 drugs are solid for type 2 diabetes but how the weight loss dose is a fundamentally different use What the weight regain data actually shows — including what happens while people are still on the drug How secondary use claims get built and why the cardiovascular trial results apply to far fewer people than the approval suggests What the death data shows — and why Novo Nordisk was cited for under-reporting serious adverse events Specific questions to ask your provider before starting a GLP-1 medication — and how to ask for weight-inclusive care Mentioned in the show: Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1 Ragen Chastain's Weight and Healthcare Substack: https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/ Dances With Fat: https://danceswithfat.org/ Ragen's speaking website — Sized for Success: https://www.sizedforsuccess.com/ Dr. Rachel Fox's anti-obesity assemblage dissertation: https://www.rachelefox.com/research.html GLP-1 Informed Consent (Medical Students for Size Inclusivity, 2023): https://sizeinclusivemedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MSSI-GLP1-Informed-Consent-1-1.pdf Louise Adams on GLP-1 — listen to the earlier episode in the Beyond GLP-1 series: https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/468-beyond-glp-1-a-triumph-of-marketing-over/id1172102796?i=1000766587046

GLP-1s did not just change medicine. They changed a movement. Virgie Tovar is a weight stigma expert, activist, and journalist who has been watching this unfold from a perspective most voices in this conversation don't have. In this episode, she traces exactly what happened to body positivity and fat activism when Ozempic entered the room, and she does not soften the analysis. In this episode: The real difference between body positivity and fat activism, and why that distinction has never mattered more How body autonomy became a political shield for choices that carry collective consequences What "lab coat washing" means, and how GLP-1 marketing uses it to disguise a financial machine as a health intervention Why GLP-1s work through starvation states, and what that does to desire, mood, and the capacity to resist The intergenerational fallout Stephanie is already seeing coming in the next wave of clients Mentioned in the show: Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1 Virgie Tovar's Substack: http://virgietovar.substack.com Virgie Tovar's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/virgietovar Virgie Tovar's GLP-1 Truth Serum Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1t00VeiyyzD7ITDxjDzGnC 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

The reason the non-diet approach didn't work isn't the approach. It's that the work stayed too surface level. Most weight-neutral health coaching teaches behaviors. It doesn't touch identity. And without identity work — without building the version of yourself you are becoming — the old patterns always come back. This episode is about the piece that's been missing. What you'll learn: What future self work actually is and why it's grounded in behavioral science, not manifesting The two phases of future self work — unintentional model first, future self construction second Why the future self feels like a stranger and what neuroscience says about why The specific socialization patterns that make this work harder for women The daily question to use in micro-decisions to start aligning with who you are becoming Mentioned in the show: The Groundwork: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork The Stranger Effect study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2656877 Connecting to our future self & behavior change study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666518223000323 Beyond GLP-1 expert interview series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1 Free Non-Diet Coaching Assessment: stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment