NWP Episode 164: Quitting Whole 30 for Intuitive Eating with Dana Monsees LD/N
Today’s episode is incredible! Our guest in today's show, Dana Monsees, is open, honest and raw about her personal experience as a Whole 30 coach, and making the decision to transition to an intuitive eating philosophy and health at every size aligned approach for her clinical nutrition practice and education she provides on her blog and podcast.
Dana Monsees CNS, LD/N, MS is a fun-sized entrepreneur, podcaster, and food lover who loves to make people laugh. She is a a Board-Certified Nutritionist, Licensed Dietitian-Nutritionist, and Body Image Coach teaching women how to fix their sh*tty relationship with food and their bodies, ditch the diet cycle for good, and heal and thrive with real food, one delicious meal at a time.
In this episode we discuss:
Dana’s current work as a non-diet nutritionist and her speciality in the middle ground approach, making nutrition easy to understand and intuitive eating aligned.
Dana’s journey from being a Whole 30 coach to practicing instead from an intuitive eating philosophy. Dana shares what caused this shift, why it was no longer ethical for her to recommend the Whole 30 and why she could no longer recommend it to her clients and audience.
Why the Whole 30 cannot be used to fix your relationship with food.
How Dana practices intuitive eating as someone who personally has Celiac disease.
How Dana practices wellness without obsession.
Stay tuned to the end of today’s episode to learn about my 3 identifiers of diet culture, which you can also learn more about in this episode, all about what exactly is diet culture.
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