The Whole View with Stacy Toth, Season 3, Episode 140: Can You Have Wellness WithOUT Diet Culture? w/ Phoebe Lapine

Chef and author Phoebe Lapine joins Stacy to discuss navigating wellness without falling into diet culture. As a culinary expert, Phoebe highlights how to enhance meals with delicious, nutrient-packed ingredients and why breakfast truly matters. Together, they delve into autoimmune disorders, elimination diets, and balancing short-term therapeutic approaches with long-term health goals.

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Key Takeaways 

Introductions

  • Phoebe is an author and award-winning blogger. Her work is inspired by her own health journey with fertility issues and multiple pregnancy losses. Combined with her Hashimoto’s diagnosis, this pushed her to navigate gut-friendly carb consumption, and how to incorporate this essential macronutrient into a healthy lifestyle. 
  • Phoebe combines science-backed strategies for managing your blood sugar with dishes that feed your cravings in her newest book, Carbivore. She shares about debunking all misconceptions about women trying to conceive (TTC), the gut microbiome, food sensitivities, and wellness trends that aren’t doing your gut any favors. 

Wellness Without Diet Culture

At the end of the day we are resilient, we are flexible, and the perfectionism can be such a thorn in the side of anyone trying to heal from anything. – Pheobe Lapine

  • Breakfast is an incredibly important meal and Pheobe is a big proponent of savory breakfast! She’s less about “carb counting” and more about focusing on different choices the kick of the day and stabilize blood sugar, especially since stress really impacts blood sugar.
  • The main things that slow carbs down are fat, fiber, and protein. As a self-proclaimed “culinary person” she likes to focus on adding, instead of omitting. She asks, what are some of the things that can make our meals even more delicious and make our carbs work harder for us?
  • It’s really important to make sure that our short-term therapeutic approaches are not going to contradict or detract from our long-term goals. And everyone’s long-term goal should be to eat as diverse, as many plants, as diverse a diet as possible.
  • Our bodies are not this closed system, everything is connected and, even if the laundry list can seem really long and daunting, it doesn’t matter where you start. Everyone can find their own through a different avenue. And, so long as you are able to get even the smallest foothold, a lot of other things are able to fall into place as a result.
  • For people who are trying to avoid diet culture and elimination diets and all the problematic wellness woo woo – while also trying to life a full, healthy life, where do you start? Do what you can at home, control what you can control, and have more freedom out in the world.

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Note: Stacy and her guests are not medical professionals. This podcast is for general educational purposes only. It is NOT intended to diagnose, advise, or treat any physical or mental illness. We always recommend you consult a licensed service provider.

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