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When does healthy eating become disordered eating, and how can you tell when your relationship with food has started to become unhealthy?

In this episode of the All or Something Podcast, we sit down with Registered Dietitian and coach Rachel Hobbs to have a nuanced conversation about dieting, eating disorders, disordered eating, binge eating, fitness culture, and what it actually means to have a healthy relationship with food.

Rachel describes her philosophy as “anti-diet culture, but not anti-diet, a distinction that opens up a much bigger conversation about where healthy nutrition ends and problematic behaviors begin.

We talk about the difference between an eating disorder and disordered eating, whether dieting actually causes eating disorders, and the warning signs that someone's relationship with food may be becoming problematic.

We also discuss binge eating, including some of the common misconceptions surrounding it and why simply telling someone to “have more willpower” completely misses the bigger picture.

The conversation then moves into the fitness world, where behaviors like calorie tracking, following meal plans, getting lean, cutting weight and pursuing a certain physique can be completely normalised. 

We explore what happens when someone genuinely wants to improve their health but doesn't want food and dieting to consume their life. 

What can you do if you're constantly thinking about food? What if you struggle to adhere to a calorie target or meal plan? And does failing to follow a diet mean you've failed, or could the approach itself be part of the problem?

We also discuss how parents can help children develop a healthy relationship with food without unintentionally creating fear, guilt or unnecessary food rules.

In this episode, we discuss:
- What “anti-diet culture, but not anti-diet” actually means
- The difference between eating disorders and disordered eating
- Whether dieting causes eating disorders
- Warning signs of a problematic relationship with food
- Why binge eating is often misunderstood
- Calorie tracking and meal plans
- Why struggling with adherence doesn't necessarily mean you've failed
- Food obsession and constantly thinking about eating
- When healthy fitness behaviors become unhealthy
- Disordered eating in athletes and strength sports
- Why losing your period shouldn't simply be dismissed as part of being lean
- How to help children develop a healthy relationship with food
- Whether you can improve your health without traditional dieting

The goal isn't to stop caring about nutrition or to imply that nutritious diets are not health promoting. It's to make sure nutrition doesn't become the thing controlling your life.

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Liam Layton, better known online as The Plant Slant, joins us to unpack and defend his hottest health and nutrition takes.
Liam has built a huge audience with his unique comedic style, allowing him to deliver health and nutrition information to the masses. So, with such a large audience, if he had to pick a handful of the most important lessons that he could communicate to everyone, what would they be?
We discuss the concept of “good” and “bad” foods, whether there are specific foods you should or shouldn’t eat, why the perfect diet doesn’t exist, and why Liam prefers to focus on foods to add into your diet rather than what you should take out of it. Of course, we also discuss beans, because he is known as “the bean guy”.
We also discuss his social media ethos, why he decided to lean towards comedy and away from strict education content, what topics on social media really annoy him, and what frustrates him about health and fitness influencers specifically.
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If you are interested in fat loss science, you can purchase Ben's best-selling comprehensive fat loss book, Everything Fat Loss. http://geni.us/EverythingFatLoss

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What are we getting wrong about mental health?

Mental health is talked about more openly than ever, but more conversation doesn't necessarily mean better understanding.

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Mike Banna to unpack some of the biggest misconceptions around mental health, mental illness, lifestyle, and modern medicine.

We discuss where the line is between normal emotions like sadness, stress and anxiety and a diagnosable mental health disorder. We talk about the warning signs that someone may not be coping as well as they think, how to approach someone you're worried about, and whether efforts to “remove the stigma” can sometimes blur the distinction between struggling with life and having a mental illness.

We also explore the role of lifestyle.

How much can sleep, exercise and nutrition actually influence mental health? When can lifestyle changes genuinely help and when do they become an inadequate substitute for professional treatment?
Mike also opens up about losing roughly a third of his body weight and how experiencing that transformation himself changed the way he thinks about health, prevention and the advice he gives to patients.

And we challenge some common criticisms of modern medicine:
- Do doctors focus too much on treating disease rather than preventing it?
- Is the idea that doctors simply “push pills” fair?
- How much do doctors actually learn about nutrition and lifestyle?
- What are legitimate criticisms of the medical system?
- And can we really trust social media for health and fitness information?

This isn't an argument that lifestyle changes can replace therapy or medication, or that modern medicine has all the answers. It's a conversation about understanding the difference between them and being more careful about how we talk about mental health in the first place.

If you've ever struggled with your own mental health, worried about someone close to you, or wondered where lifestyle fits into the bigger picture, this episode is for you.

P.S., If you want to support us and would like monthly lifting workouts, you can join the Momentum by Sohee fitness app. http://momentumbysohee.com

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Intermittent fasting was supposed to change the way we think about eating. For years, fasting was one of the biggest trends in nutrition and health. 

The idea was simple, when you eat might be as important or more important than what you eat. Timing your meals properly could help you lose weight, improve your metabolic health, reduce your risk of disease, and perhaps even live longer.

16:8 became a household term. The 5:2 diet exploded in popularity. Alternate-day fasting attracted serious scientific attention. Books, podcasts and social media turned intermittent fasting into one of the most talked-about approaches to nutrition.

But over time, this hype seems to have started dying down. Intermittent fasting (and time restricted feeding) are still very popular, but they don't seem as dominant as they once were.

In this episode of the All or Something Podcast, we take a step back and look at the rise and fall of intermittent fasting. 
- Why did fasting become so popular in the first place? 
- What did the early research actually show? 
- How much of the excitement was supported by good evidence?

We break down the different forms of intermittent fasting, including time-restricted eating, 16:8, the 5:2 diet and alternate-day fasting, and explain how they actually compare with conventional calorie restriction.

We also look at one of the biggest questions surrounding fasting: does fasting have unique benefits, or does most of the benefit come from the fact that people simply end up eating fewer calories?

As always, people misinterpret these videos as us saying intermittent fasting doesn't work, but that isn't what we are saying at all. We are saying that maybe it doesn't work as well as what many people claimed, and maybe it works for a different reason as well.
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In this episode, Sohee opens up about something she hasn’t talked about publicly before (or privately, really). This is her experience with postpartum depression and the mental health challenges she has faced since becoming a mum.
We talk honestly about what postpartum depression can actually look and feel like, why it doesn’t always look like the stereotypical picture of depression, and the feelings that can be difficult to admit.
We also discuss postpartum rage, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, the enormous transition into parenthood, and why new mothers can struggle even when they desperately love their baby.
This is a deeply personal conversation, but it’s also an important one. If you’re a new parent, know someone who is, or simply want to understand more about postpartum mental health, we hope this episode helps you feel a little less alone.
If you’re struggling with your mental health after having a baby, please speak to someone you trust and seek professional support. You do not have to deal with it alone.
P.S., If you want to support us and would like monthly lifting workouts, you can join the Momentum by Sohee fitness app. http://momentumbysohee.com
If you are interested in fat loss science, you can purchase Ben's best-selling comprehensive fat loss book, Everything Fat Loss. http://geni.us/EverythingFatLoss