Find Your Food Voice (151) How do I get pregnant without dieting? (with Nicola Salmon)
Are you trying to navigate your Food Peace™ journey yet stuck within the Fertility Dieting Bubble? Do doctors tell you that you MUST diet to get fertility treatment? Do you have that primal desire to get pregnant yet grieve every month it doesn't happen? Listen to the latest Love Food podcast and hear from Nicola Salmon, a Fat Positive and Feminist Fertility Coach. We hope it helps you pave your way forward.
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This episode's Dear Food letter:
Dear food,
I’ve loved the last 8 months after finding intuitive eating and going on my non diet ‘adventure’, it’s helped me find peace with myself and explore food in a different way. I still am working on it and am not perfect, I’m learning every day and slowly learning to love my body and treat it with the compassion it deserves.
My partner and I have been trying to have a baby for the last two plus years and have been doing fertility treatments (including ivf) for the last year.
My fertility issues really started my journey into non- dieting after my quest to have a baby sent me trying every weird and wonderful diet and ultimately I hit diet rock bottom.
I’ve been a dieter most of my life but feel like it really spiralled when trying to conceive, I found intuitive eating after not feeling like I could embark on yet another diet.
Reading everything online about what you should and shouldn’t eat when trying to conceive was a downward spiral, I tried everything and anything (all which didn’t work!). Infertility really is an emotional mind fuck (excuse the language).
Now that I’ve found the non diet approach I try to treat myself with love and compassion, but all of the ‘research’ out there tells you to go keto or dairy free or eat pineapple or [focus on weight loss] etc how do I nurture myself when tying to conceive while following the non diet approach?
Thanks
Struggling with infertility
Show Notes:
- 6 Keys To Food Peace™️ blog post
- Julie shares her body image experiences along with infertility on this episode of the Love Food Podcast: episode 18: I am a hypocrite
- Nicola Salmon: Fat Positive and Feminist Fertility Coach
- The Fat Fat Girls Guide to Getting Pregnant
- Nicola Salmon on Instagram: @FatPositiveFertility
- Follow the #PlusSizePregnancy on IG
- Julie Dillon RD blog
- Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.
- Eating Disorder Dietitians
Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.
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