Embodied Nourishment

Welcome to an inspiring episode of the Embodied Nourishment Podcast, featuring the badass certified strength and conditioning specialist, Coach Jess Burke who also has a masters in kinesiology. This episode dives deep into reshaping our relationships with exercise without sacrificing our relationship with food. Come with us as we move away from diet culture and towards a more balanced and holistic approach to exercise.

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Welcome to the Embodied Nourishment Podcast! In this episode, join me as I delve into the complexities surrounding weight loss, the anti-diet movement, and disordered eating recovery. I share my personal journey as a registered dietitian and offer eye-opening insights into the missing nuance in diet culture discussions.

Discover why extreme calorie restriction can harm your metabolism and learn about the significant role of basal m...

A little while ago I had been thinking about my different experiences working as a Registered Dietitian. And I can say that the most frustrating area I ever worked was my short time spent as a Lactation Consultant.

Babies are the most intuitive feeders. And breastfeeding can be so easy if one were truly able to surrender to the lead of their baby. But it’s our own expectations and rig...

I know you hate your body and you think that weight loss will make you love it, so you restrict HARD.

But a malnourished brain is a brain that can’t perceive things accurately, so the image of yourself becomes increasingly distorted.

And then whatever body changes you do experience might make you feel better in some ways, but deep down it doesn’t solve everything.

So you might try a different diet...and then a different diet...and ...

If you've been trying intuitive eating and you feel like it is not working to bring you the peace and health you are looking for, I am going to tell you why right now...

The practice and principles of intuitive eating are IDEALISTIC. They are the end goal. But the end goal is not always the means to that end. Yes it sounds IDEAL to trust your hunger and fullness and to not have any food rules, BUT if you have a bunch of internalize...

"I want to lose weight because I am just so uncomfortable in my body."

Raise your hand if you've said these words!

What if I told you that there was a way to learn how to be comfortable in the body that you are in right now?

And what if I told you that your resistance to learning this comfort is not protecting your health like you think it is?

I know what you are thinking. You're sitting there saying "If I learn how to be comfortab...

If you don’t eat a 700 calorie cheeseburger because you think it’s unhealthy but then proceed to eat a bunch of “healthy” stuff devoid of the essential proteins, fats, and nutrients that your body was craving in the cheeseburger, bringing your total calorie intake to 1,200….why do you keep doing that?

So many times people will express to me that they eat so healthy but can’t understand why they keep gaining weight. Well guess what,...

Relationships that are characterized by control and manipulation stem from a lack of trust. When we are in a relationship with someone we don't trust, we tend to deploy our controlling side. This might look like creating rules to follow, invading the other person's privacy by going through their things, and picking fights.

What does your relationship with food look like? Is that relationship also characterized by control and manipu...

I know you think that stepping on the scale is giving you control over your body and your food intake. But what if I told you that stepping on the scale is the very thing that is making you out of control?

It goes a little something like this:

1 - You step on the scale

2 - If the number is higher than desired, you eat less. If the number is lower than expected you continue eating less to “continue your progress”

3 - Your food intak...

This episode is a little different today. I talk about my unmedicated birth story, kink, sex, divesting from oppressive systems and somehow tie it all together back to diet culture. I understand this episode may not be for everyone, it sure is a little "out there."

If you're a kinky freak, you'll certainly love it. 

Regardless of your sexual preferences, I recommend that everyone read the book that I referenced in this podcast,

Exi...

I can not count the number of times I've met people who have confused anxiety for a food allergy or food sensitivity.

Serotonin is a mood regulator and is responsible for helping us to manage our emotions. Most of our serotonin is created in our guts. In the case of anxiety, extra serotonin is produced which can cause stomach discomfort and ruin appetite.

Many people will bounce between gastroenterologists and functional medicine d...

Meet exercise culture - diet culture’s fraternal twin sister.⁣ ⁣ Are you under the impression that unless you’re doing a bootcamp 7 days a week and you’re sweating for an hour straight each time, the workout doesn’t count?⁣ ⁣ What if I told you that that’s not what’s necessary to reap the health benefits of exercise? I can bore you with the research…”exercise is beneficial for health…”blah blah blah, yes, yes it is beneficial for h...

The research behind nutrition is very limited. I’m not talking about cold hard nutrition facts such as “Vitamin C helps in the production of collagen.”

Not that.

I’m talking about hypotheses that are studied. Hypotheses such as “a diet high in cholesterol leads to high blood cholesterol levels.”

Those studies are super limited. And the conclusions that are drawn from them are often debunked after several years. I mean, remember whe...

How many times have you ever said to yourself "why can't I just eat a sandwich without thinking about calories and carbs and just move on with my life?"

Why can't you, do you think? I know you want to be free from food rules and dieting. Maybe the questions we need to start asking ourselves is "why do food rules even exist?"

Where did they come from?

Why are they even here?

What is the goal of them? And for what purposes?

I have a ...

Shaming yourself doesn't work to break toxic cycles. You can not shame your way into make better choices for your life.

How many times have you overate a food and then resorted to speaking meanly to yourself?

"I'm such an idiot."

"What's wrong with me?"

"I have no self control."

"I hate myself."

We all know the cliche saying "would you speak to your friend the way you speak to yourself?" And of course you wouldn't talk to your frie...

Hi friends! This podcast is a little different today. The first 6 episodes were more "professional" sounding and "containerized" if you will.

But I didn't quit my clinical job to continue being containerized. You see, the standardized practice of care doesn't let practitioners go below the surface of "what are you eating?"

And yet, all of the things that cause disordered eating and negative body image are found below the surface of...

I know you think that keeping clothes that are too small for you in your closet is motivating you to "eat healthy" or to "lose weight." But what if I told you that keeping these clothes in your closet is actually destroying your relationship with food and is making you unhealthy?

In this podcast episode I talk about how important it is for your health to acquire clothes that fit your body, how to grieve those old clothes, and I fin...

In this podcast episode I talk about how major corporations do a really good job of making us feel personally responsible for their waste and corruption and how this also plays out in generational family patterns.

I also talk about PEOPLE PLEASING and how being afraid to hurt people’s feelings may also be causing us to eat beyond our fullness cues.

And finally at the end I show you how reconnecting with your body and learning consc...