Real Talk With Dana | Nutrition, Health & Fitness With A Healthy Side Of Sarcasm

This past week marks the 3-year anniversary of Real Talk with Dana (crazy, right?!) so I wanted to do something different for this week’s show – a fun, uncensored, off-the-cuff episode to get to know your hosts (me and Cristina) a little better behind the scenes! We’re answering your questions unrelated to nutrition, fitness, or...

On today’s episode we have a return guest, who was last on the show almost exactly two years and 100 episodes ago! This time, Brianna Diorio and I are chatting about Seasonal Affective Disorder, Mental health & Nutrition for Immunity, and of course all from a non-diet, non-restrictive approach to nutrition. We’re also chatting about...

Michelle Smith is the food + lifestyle blogger behind the Whole Smiths and today we’re diving into how her philosophy around food has shifted over the years, tools for taking away food rules and shoulds (especially for new moms), and getting to a place of a more peaceful relationship with food and our bodies, and...

Jen Broyles is a Holistic health coach, breathwork therapist and founder of the Sacred Breath Community. In this episode you’ll learn more about the benefits of breathwork for stress, anxiety, and trauma healing, the different types of breathwork practices, and more of the physical, emotional, and mental benefits of doing this practice consistently. We’re also...

It’s Thanksgiving week so I’ve got a fun solo workshop-style episode on how to create a Non-Diet Holiday Mindset! We’re digging into how to assess your current relationship with food, exercise, and your body from past holiday meals, how to prepare for the big holiday meal or event, and what you can do after the...

Non-diet nutrition & nutrition science myth busting alert! There is a new study that has come out about how our perception of certain foods can have a greater physiological impact on the body than the actual content of that food – meaning what we believe or assume to be true about certain foods can have...

Bonus episode coming your way today! In the Non-Diet Community Facebook group, Cristina Hoyt and I have been hosting a book club discussion for the past few months to put a Whole-Hearted Eating™, neutral nutrition spin on some popular nutrition + body image books out there. Right now, we’re reading + discussion the F*ck it...

We’re getting back to the neutral nutrition + Whole-Hearted Eating™ basics this week with a solo episode talking about food sensitivities vs intolerances vs allergies and food sensitivity testing! This is always a highly requested topic so I wanted to dig into the details for you guys. We’re discussing: What are food sensitivities, food intolerances,...

Kaely McDevitt is a dietitian specializing in women’s health, specifically gut and hormone health and we’re digging deep into some neutral nutrition science today. But first, we’re starting off by chatting about why we have such a big disconnect with our bodies and our relationship with food.  We also discuss:  Seasons of stress How different...

This week we have a fun episode about allergen-friendly treats since it’s the week of Halloween! In my practice I have a lot of clients who are both trying to break out of the cycle of elimination diets, heal their relationship with food…AND they have a chronic illness, autoimmune disease, or other symptoms that are...

Meredith McKinney is a dietitian who works with women and athletes to bridge science with intuition and find an attuned way of living free of dieting, restriction, and food/body obsession. On the show today we’re discussing the female athlete triad, non-diet nutrition for athletes, and how to approach nutrition in a neutral, non-restrictive way for...

Cristina Hoyt is back on the show today to talk about Whole-hearted Eating ™: the philosophy we created together that describes exactly how we approach nutrition (through an evidence-based, non-diet, weight-inclusive, HAES lens) on this podcast, working with individual clients, in our group coaching programs. It grew out of a need and void that we...

Amanda Montalvo is a women’s health dietitian that helps women get to the root cause of hormone imbalances and have healthy menstrual cycles using a non-diet, functional medicine approach. In today’s episode we’re chatting about the most common hormonal imbalances women experience and the common mistakes they make while trying to fix them with food...

Emily Vazquez is a dietitian and food freedom coach who helps her clients end the binge-restrict cycle. On today’s episode we’re chatting about how different types of restriction can lead to binge eating – for example, you can still binge even if you think you’re eating enough, if you think you’re eating things in moderation,...

Today’s podcast guest is Maria Sylvester Terry, a registered dietitian dedicated to sharing a message of food freedom through myth-busting and, of course, her wild case of the sillies. We have some fun conversations on the show today on what real nutrition science says about fad diets, diet culture vs. healthism, and some of the...

Sarah Speers is an Energy Work Practitioner & Coach who specializes in food, eating and body issues, and managing stress and emotional overwhelm. Sarah takes a unique approach that fuses traditional modalities with alternative energy healing techniques, such as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Emotion Code and Reiki to help individuals access the energetic component of...

Feel like you’ve tried intuitive eating and it just isn’t working for you? You threw away all the rules, you’re eating all the things, and sitting here thinking to yourself – when will this stop? This feels like a never-ending food fest of all the things  not supposed to be eating. When will I start...

Georgia Foster is a self-proclaimed Alcohol, Self Esteem & Anxiety Reduction Expert & clinical hypnotherapist and today we’re chatting about alcohol. Specifically, we’re getting into the emotional issues that can come up when alcohol is used as a coping mechanism (um, hello 2020), the different personality traits that come up with drinking, including the perfectionist,...

Maya Diamond is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) is an expert Dating & Relationship Coach and host of the Rewire Your Attachment Style podcast. On today’s podcast we’re going in a little bit of a different direction from the last few weeks – when we’ve been talking about neutral nutrition approaches to healing...

Dr. Heather Rhodes is a holistic pharmacist who specializes in healing hormonal imbalances, like PCOS, without the meds. On today’s episode we’re doing a deep dive into PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome), its signs and symptoms, and the different sub-types of PCOS. the pitfalls of traditional/conventional treatment, and how under-eating and over-exercising can lead to hormonal...