Binge Dieting Podcast Betsy Thurston/weight Loss/intuitive Eating/binge Eating/healthy Eating/dietitian/eating Disorder/holis

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about some common roles in the family and how they might influence eating behaviors. She also covers some of the unspoken rules that are often present in families that can create enormous internal upset.   At the beginning of the podcast Betsy lists 8 eating ideas and habits that can help you feel more in control and confident.  

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about how to communicate in a way that will leave you with less stress, with a better outcome, and with your need to be heard being met.  Eating problems can happen when you avoid communication and conflict altogether, or when you go the other direction and explode into anger, nagging, or tears.  Betsy gives specific client examples and explains the method known as Nonviolent Communication. 

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about codependent relationships, and how these can create emotional disruption and overeating.  She talks about the concept of codependency and what to do to move towards healthier relationships with those who we love. 

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about how people pleasing creates exhaustion, resentment, and an inauthentic life. She talks about ways to recognize and change this behavior, and how it connects with perfectionism, communication, setting boundaries, and codependency. When people have a calmer internal world, there will be a much greater ability to make healthy food choices 

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about the internal tug of war between the part of us that desperately want us to eat, and the part of us that wants us to "be good", lose weight and not obey our food cravings. Using an email sent in from a client, she breaks the down the conflict and walks through the process of how to reduce the intensity of the internal noise.  Once the parts become less extreme we can learn how to live a more balanced life.  

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about how to view the struggles with eating, body weight and body image with perspective so you can gain peace of mind and heal.  She plays a song by Bob Sima and talks about it's message and also covers the fundamental food rules that you need to follow in order to get on track.  

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about how to work with loneliness to minimize its ability to derail our goals for healthy eating.  She talks about ways to manage it as well as the perspective that lonely isn't always a bad thing. 

On this short podcast Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about the topic of feeling helpless around dieting, food and weight struggles.  She explains how to work with a brain that tells you to give up, who cares, why bother, it's out of your control........

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about the common experience of being put on a diet or teased about the body as a child. She talks about the development of destructive eating patterns and how to get them to relax.   She sites three specific examples of clients she has worked with and how they began the process of healing their problems with eating and over-dieting. 

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about the numerical scale of emotions presented by David Hawkins and its implications for how it can help anyone struggling with eating and dieting.  In this podcast Betsy talks about how to change your lifestyle so you can take a huge leap out of draining emotions and into emotions which are more empowering. 

Betsy Thurston MPH RD looks at the idea of dieting for weight loss and comments on the keto diet, weight watchers, and several others that are common. She also looks at the topics of gluten, food sensitivities, sugar and carbohydrates

Betsy Thurston MPH RD tackles two distinctly different topics in this podcast. First, she briefly presents a review of the basics about carbohydrates, protein and fats and how to choose what to eat. Second, using examples of clients she has worked with, she describes how setting a goal of risking disapproval from others can help with efforts at weight loss.  One key concept and one key word is essential for success, which she explains at the end of the podcast

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about the importance of being gentle with yourself, especially when under the influence of the parts of us that make us feel shame or frustration or fear.  She talks about the model of internal family systems and how to recognize the parts triggered in the fight and flight response, with ideas about how to respond to them. 

Betsy Thurston MPH RD identifies the 6 most common reasons why people procrastinate working on their health and eating goals.  She provides specific ideas on how to start reversing the procrastination problem. 

Betsy Thurston MPH RD addresses the questions of what to eat, how to get back on track and how to have success with weight struggles. She looks at two separate areas: realm of what to DO and also what you need to KNOW in order to succeed. This podcast has a lot of practical information while also looking at the big picture!

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about how to calm the fears and emotions that arise when we try to be a more authentic person or to set boundaries. She describes three different clients, their food and eating goals, and their experiences when feeling exposed or scared and with setting boundaries.  She teaches an effective tool for calming anxiety in the moment. 

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about denial and how it plays out to keep you in old patterns and to sabotage success.  She describes specific clients and how their subconscious or conscious patterns of denial get in the way.  

Betsy Thurston MPH RD provides 4 steps and equation to help listeners recover from the trap of all or nothing dieting and all or nothing eating.  

In this 15 minute podcast Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about work with a specific client and her efforts to improve her relationship with eating and reduce her pattern of chronic dieting.  Several important questions are posed to help listeners improve their personal relationship with dieting, eating, and food. 

Betsy Thurston MPH RD begins her series of short podcasts with the topic of anxiety.  She uses the stories from clients in her practice who are stuck in fear or regret over eating too much or gaining weight or feeling out of control.   You can contact her at betsythurstonrd@aol.com to make a skype appointment.