Episode 96: Almond Moms & Generational Dieting w/ Brenna O'Malley


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In this episode of The Up-Beet Dietitians podcast, Emily and Hannah are joined by non-diet dietitian, Brenna O’Malley. Brenna discusses the online term “Almond Mom” and the potential harm that these individuals can pass down to their children. Additionally, Brenna dives into common phrases or examples of “Almond Mom” behavior and provides useful steps for our listeners who are moms to prevent passing disordered eating behaviors down to their children. Be sure to tune in!

About Brenna: Brenna is a nationally recognized registered dietitian who practices from a non-diet and weight-inclusive approach. Brenna is passionate about helping clients heal their relationships with food and body image and change the language we use to talk about food and our bodies. She is the founder of The Wellful, a virtual private practice based in San Francisco, CA.

Hear more from Brenna O’Malley

Website: www.thewellful.com

Instagram: @thewellful

TikTok: @brennaomalleyRD


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    Hello everybody welcome back to a brand

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    new episode of the upbeat dietitians

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    podcast today we are joined by a brand

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    new guest we are joined by Brenna

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    O'Malley Brenna is a nationally

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    recognized registered dietitian who

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    practices from a non-diet and weight

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    inclusive approach Prana is passionate

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    about helping clients heal their

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    relationships with food and body image

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    and change the language we use to talk

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    about food in our bodies she is the

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    founder of the wealthful of virtual

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    Private Practice based in San Francisco

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    California we're so excited to share

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    this episode with you guys and enjoy

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    enjoy

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    hi Brenna welcome to the podcast thank

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    you I'm excited to be here thank you for

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    coming we are so excited too today for

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    those who didn't read the title I guess

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    um we were talking about almond moms

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    which we're very excited about because

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    it is first of all a very Niche topic

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    we'll kind of have Brenda explain what

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    that really means but it's also very

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    trendy so if you are but the tick tock

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    Trends I'm sure you've heard of almond

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    moms so we're going to go into

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    um what those are kind of the the

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    negatives behind that like what can be

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    the con of you know growing up with an

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    almond mom

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    um and if you are an almond man

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    listening we're gonna get some tips too

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    on how to maybe not pass those

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    disordered eating habits onto children

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    so we've got a lot to cover today but

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    um Brenna we'll have you first start by

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    introducing yourself what's like a day

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    in the lifelike what do you do for work

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    education Hobbies all that fun stuff

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    yeah absolutely so I'm a registered

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    dietitian I am from the East Coast

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    originally so I grew up in state New

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    York and then went to school in New York

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    City at NYU for my undergrad and did my

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    training at MGH in Boston for my

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    dietetic internship

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    and then lived in Bermuda for a year

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    which was kind of a random bit of my

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    traveling around

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    um my brother was living there at the

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    time and I like lived there with him for

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    a while as I was kind of like starting

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    to work for myself

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    um and now I'm on the west coast so I'm

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    in San Francisco

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    um have a private practice the wow full

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    and see mostly clients around their

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    relationships with food body image

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    disordered eating or eating disorders

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    and

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    um yeah I have loved being out on the

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    west coast I feel like kind of aligns

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    more with my hobbies like I love hiking

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    and being outside and I can bike to the

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    beach which is not like a hot like you

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    know Beach but it's like a cold like

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    windy kind of bundled up Beach which is

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    fun

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    um and camping is like something newly

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    sort of trying to get into so that's

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    kind of exciting

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    um day in the life is a mix of clients

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    um content creation different projects

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    or writing admin types of things

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    um

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    so it's like a nice a nice mix I kind of

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    like try to make certain days like you

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    know more clients than and then like

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    have some other days that I'm doing

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    other projects or admin and writing and

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    stuff so it kind of makes it a nice a

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    nice flow that is so fun how you've been

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    on both coasts so now you can

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    give all the

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    like first-hand experiences of the

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    differences

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    um we're also both outdoorsy people so

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    that's very fun we both enjoy that

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    um and we love that you're Private

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    Practice because we both also have our

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    own private practice but it's always fun

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    to hear what other people are doing and

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    kind of it's crazy how much your

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    day-to-day change is

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    so

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    you mentioned content creation so we

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    know that you and we're bringing you on

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    as our specialist in Almond moms so

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    let's start off with kind of what is an

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    almond mom if people are listening and

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    they're like what the heck are they even

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    talking about are these people made of

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    almonds like

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    what are we going to talk about today so

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    we'll start with that then

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    for sure so I actually as I was thinking

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    about this episode I was like familiar

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    with the term from Tick Tock and you

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    know the trends and everything but then

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    I didn't actually wear it like maybe

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    fully started from

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    um but evidently it was like Gigi Hadid

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    was on the phone with it's this clip I

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    don't know if it's from like from some

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    from the show or something but this clip

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    of Gigi Hadid being on the phone with

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    her mom saying she was feeling really

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    weak and her mom responding with have a

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    couple of almonds and chew them really

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    well

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    and so that is you know not necessarily

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    what would really help you if you're

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    feeling super weak but it kind of became

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    indicative of this like umbrella of sort

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    of a Vibe of like quote like nothing

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    tastes as good as skinny feels or the

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    idea of responding to something like oh

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    you're not hungry you're just thirsty or

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    um you know we don't keep snacks in the

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    house so we're like a quote ingredients

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    only household where maybe you know you

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    don't have ice cream or dessert but you

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    have like the cow nibs or like dark

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    chocolate chips and that was like the

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    sweet thing that was around

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    um so it's like pretty it I mean it's

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    it's definitely like meant to be I think

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    like a comical lens on this thing that's

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    obviously a bit heavier and kind of

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    Darker which is like kind of this like

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    normalized disordered eating or these

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    disordered messages

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    um pretty heavy diet talk that would be

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    coming from this

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    um and a lot of the like point of views

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    are coming from like the moms like kids

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    or like people who are around these like

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    quote-unquote almond moms

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    um kind of saying like oh I'm out to

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    dinner with her family and my like

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    everyone ordered burgers and like you

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    know mom is like having like this like

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    small side salad and I think it's kind

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    of speaks to this like I also like top I

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    think generational piece of I don't know

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    if you two experience this but I find

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    it's interesting to different clients

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    that they work with like I work with

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    clients a lot of different ages and I

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    find that clients who are like under 30

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    or under 35 have like much more

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    um like language and awareness and like

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    peers who are also being critical of the

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    eye culture and of these messages and of

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    disordered eating and like that's like

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    more in their like vocabulary and they

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    can you know make joke about it and

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    identify it and then my clients who are

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    like 45 or older I feel like there's

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    like this feeling of almost

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    so few like so few of these

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    conversations for them growing up and it

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    was so normalized and now it's like sort

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    of this

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    um period of like there was like no

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    conversation this is like so new to talk

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    about and like now I think peers are

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    also talking about it but it feels like

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    there's like this 30-year Gap where

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    there was less awareness

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    um so just to say I think there's like

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    we have compassion I think for the

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    Almond moms as well

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    um in this conversation but I I think

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    that's what I've seen as

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    um a lot of the talk and kind of

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    descriptors around the trend or or the

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    things that are out there about it with

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    the age Gap thing you mentioned it's so

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    true I work part-time uh as a clinical

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    outpatient dietitian and so I tend to

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    see like a really big range there of

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    course more so than I do my practice

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    clients

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    um but I have some patients who are like

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    75 like even like 80 and they're

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    sometimes one of the hardest nuts to

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    crack in terms of like that diet culture

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    mindset they have been living that way

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    for like 40 plus years so that's such a

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    good a good point to bring up for sure

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    and it is really nice that the like less

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    than 30 less than 35 crowd is kind of

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    grasping that critical thinking part of

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    it because

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    it's not only makes it a little bit

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    easier to like work with and kind of

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    change their mindset around it but also

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    just like the exposure that they

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    probably see a lot more on social media

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    and a lot more discussions around what

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    dye culture is things with like a

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    non-dying approach but yeah it's so

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    tough

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    when they're older and it's just like

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    all they know it's not their fault it's

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    they grew up with like

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    I feel like I'm blinking on all the like

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    60s 70s 80s diet culture

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    I mean courses and that's kind of

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    low-fat diets I mean all that yeah yeah

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    you mentioned a couple common phrases

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    and a couple some that I wanted to point

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    out where I feel like the chocolate

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    chips or something that anyone who had

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    like a call home and Mom in the

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    household has like a core memory of I

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    I don't know I don't know if my mom

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    listen to the podcast but she'll be okay

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    if I say it is but I distinctly remember

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    like chocolate chips was like a sweet of

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    mine I would go to all the time if I

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    wanted anything sweet in the house

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    growing up

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    um

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    and then also the salads I think that's

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    also a common almost like

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    comedic play online where people like

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    always like show what they're eating and

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    then they show their mom like with like

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    this tiny plate of

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    salad or like sometimes I even like will

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    somehow convince the mom to put almonds

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    on the plate I've seen that before I'm

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    like how did you convince them to do

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    that but

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    they're very real citizens that happen

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    despite kind of the comedic relief

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    around it

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    I'm trying are there other common phase

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    phrases that you can think of

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    that all my moms might say or examples

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    of

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    yeah I think some are you know I think

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    like the homemade snacks instead of like

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    store-bought snacks like chips that are

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    homemade instead of buying them at the

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    store or you know maybe like a common

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    thing of like cleanses being a thing

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    that were like juice cleanses or

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    um like really particular around meals

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    or not eating between meals I think some

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    of them were you know I think the trend

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    kind of touches on like some things that

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    the like a mom specifically would be

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    doing and then some things that are end

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    up being sort of a household like thing

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    like oh we don't eat you know we're

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    about to have dinner no eating before

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    dinner like you know we're we're about

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    to eat that sort of a thing or morality

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    around food or just judgment around food

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    which I think we

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    also know from like working in this

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    field that a lot of the times someone

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    else is like you know what they say is

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    their food rules or like things that

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    they might be expressing judgment around

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    are often very reflective of like what's

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    going on for them internally around

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    their own thoughts around food or their

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    own judgments

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    um and so sometimes that like comes out

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    in like you know body comments about

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    themselves or about like you know their

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    kids just because I think we have this

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    little like Mom kid kind of dynamic

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    going

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    um but anyone who's around like

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    sometimes that's like rules around

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    Halloween candy or sweets in particular

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    um or you know just the like mental

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    piece of maybe if you grew up in like an

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    almond household maybe friends houses

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    felt like they had the fun food so you

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    could actually snack on or want it to

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    snack on versus like your own house

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    maybe didn't really feel like that yeah

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    yeah

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    to all of that yeah well I think it's a

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    good segue actually because these things

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    might seem to some people like the

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    healthy thing to do like you know to

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    have homemade chips instead of regular

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    chips in the house so our next question

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    kind of goes right along with that and

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    will you help explain to listeners who

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    do view these things maybe I was like

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    helping a little bit confused why it's a

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    problem like how could this be a problem

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    for almond moms so to speak to pass

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    these behaviors onto children yeah I

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    think I think when we think about

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    relationships with food I think a lot of

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    the traits and phrases or

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    characteristics of like this caricature

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    we're sort of thinking of is the like

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    the rigidity around it or the

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    inflexibility the Judgment the harshness

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    um and like the in like the like

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    morality that comes with it and that the

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    stakes are really high and I think that

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    when we think about you know risk for

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    disorder eating and like kind of the the

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    trajectory of that I think we know that

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    like dieting is like one of the best

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    predictors of you know like resulting in

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    disordered eating or kneading disorder

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    and I think that even when these things

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    are coming from a positive place it's

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    not to say that you know having any sort

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    of like rule or

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    um preference around Foods or you know

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    deciding when you serve meals in your

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    house or what foods you have in your

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    house is like inherently going to lead

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    some like you know devastating

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    consequence but I think like in the

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    context of this we're sort of looking at

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    like a lot of rules heavy judgment

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    um strictness a real difference also in

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    just like social eating like if you're

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    eating with a group of people and one

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    person who's like a role model for you

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    like a parent or a caregiver is like

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    eating much differently

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    um and you're like noticing that

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    behavior you're kind of fat or being

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    influenced by that too right even if

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    maybe they say oh this is just about me

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    you don't need to do this or maybe like

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    you don't need to do this quote yet

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    which I think is another common message

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    that kids get sometimes

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    um

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    is like that you you learn from that and

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    you kind of take that with you and that

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    influences your own relationship with

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    food too

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    yeah and you look up to that person too

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    A lot of times and so if Mom is doing

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    the paleo diet because she hates the way

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    her belly looks or whatever it is you

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    hear her say those things and you think

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    it's the right thing to do

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    so I was this is not a question on here

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    this is I'm we're deterring already and

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    this is not the topic so we don't have

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    to go in depth with it but is there a

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    term for like dads

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    like there's like almond moms

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    but I haven't heard many phrases about

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    like not on my dad's

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    that's a good point I mean I think

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    something I think is interesting about

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    this whole piece is I think it puts so

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    much emphasis on like you know in

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    particular like women who also do feel

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    like the brunt I think of

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    um like a lot of diet and like Beauty

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    and thinness messages too not to say

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    that like other people don't they for

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    sure do but

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    um so I think it's like interesting too

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    that it has been labeled in that way

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    because it's like you're kind of like

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    who's maybe experiencing a lot of this

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    and like reacting to it or trying to

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    um like navigate through it by maybe

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    following some of these pieces because

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    that's like

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    how people are also like treated better

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    when they're in body sizes and like look

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    a certain way

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    um but I don't know about the dot I have

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    seen like some

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    like one-off sort of trends of like

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    someone being like a response to this

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    and being like you have a normal mom I

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    have like and then it's some other

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    phrase that's like their parents name

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    and it's like either a mom or dad or

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    someone who's

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    um like incur like always giving them

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    like access to food and like doesn't

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    have food rules and has like this like

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    lovely relationship with

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    um food but sorry I haven't seen like an

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    exact like flipped Trend but I've seen

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    some like lovely videos

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    Around It generally they're refreshing

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    to see then maybe

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    I oftentimes like to send Hannah videos

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    that like are very psychology focused

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    and like all you things that like you

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    don't realize until it's right in front

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    of you and you're like oh

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    that makes sense to why I'm this way I'm

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    waiting for a dad Trend one where like

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    someone pieces together this Dad

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    character I'm like and people realize

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    that because I know the mom's enough

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    there's a lot on their plate so

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    all in Mom's do have their flaws

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    but I think equal criticism is important

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    here so all right done we're done

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    deterring we'll go back and now so

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    how can our listeners

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    with almond moms protect themselves from

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    potentially developing disordered eating

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    or if they've already started to kind of

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    pick up some of those habits focus on

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    improving their relationship with food

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    I think a lot of that comes from like it

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    depends and if you're still like let's

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    say like living in the same household as

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    like your almond parent or you know like

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    this influence

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    um

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    a sibling it could be like a friend you

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    know I think that this kind of title is

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    like catchy with almond mom but it

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    really is like someone who's engaging in

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    a lot of these behaviors and sort of

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    like

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    intentionally or not intentionally kind

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    of like pushing them a little bit on you

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    or you're around them a lot

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    um so I would say if you're still if

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    you're out of the house like you're no

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    longer living in the same space then I

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    think like a lot of it might be

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    boundaries

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    um figuring out what that means to you

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    is that

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    um like working on maybe when you're out

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    of the house like trust with your own

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    relationship with food figuring out what

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    this looks like for you kind of

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    separating out is this my food rule is

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    this like someone else's food rule is

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    this something that's been an example

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    for me is this something that I have

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    just always kind of done because this is

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    how food was taught to me and this is

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    you know how I make my salad and this is

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    how I decide how much dressing to use

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    and this is what I say to myself when

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    I'm hungry in between meals and sort of

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    checking in on some of that dog which is

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    a lot of work like that's hard to notice

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    that and to check in on that but it also

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    sort of brings it back to like centering

    18:17

    you in your choices around food

    18:20

    um because you know if you have all

    18:22

    these different influences it's kind of

    18:24

    like okay how can we sort of figure out

    18:26

    what you actually like and what actually

    18:28

    feels good to you

    18:31

    um if you're still in the household I

    18:33

    think then it's maybe

    18:36

    like a bit different like kind of

    18:38

    figuring out how to sort of say this is

    18:40

    about you know this is about them this

    18:41

    is not about me or I'm like working on

    18:44

    figuring out my own relationship with

    18:46

    food or maybe you talk other people in

    18:49

    the house and try to like get some

    18:51

    support for yourself or like have like

    18:53

    an ally in you know the way that maybe

    18:55

    you're making choices around food and

    18:57

    like this person is making choices

    18:58

    around food whether it's your mom or

    18:59

    someone else

    19:01

    um kind of allowing there to be some

    19:03

    separation that you can both sort of

    19:05

    like try to be more parallel instead of

    19:07

    you know super tied in that way I like

    19:11

    that you gave the like both

    19:13

    in the household example because

    19:15

    sometimes you can't leave the house and

    19:18

    the out of household example too foreign

    19:23

    let's kind of turn it on the flip side

    19:25

    then you've provided really great advice

    19:27

    and great first steps for someone who

    19:30

    might be living around I love I like the

    19:33

    Almond parent because that's a very good

    19:34

    way to put it or the Almond relative

    19:38

    because the Almond caregiver oh my God

    19:43

    what are

    19:44

    steps for our listeners who maybe are

    19:47

    mothers or future mothers

    19:51

    and they want to kind of prevent

    19:54

    non-disordered eating habits or eating

    19:57

    disordered eating behaviors to their

    19:59

    children what would you advise them to

    20:01

    kind of focus on

    20:04

    yeah I would say that this is like maybe

    20:06

    one of the most common things that

    20:08

    clients say when they like reach out to

    20:11

    work with me is that either they have

    20:13

    kids like their own that they want to

    20:16

    like be sure they're not passing this on

    20:18

    to you or they just think about in the

    20:19

    future whether it's like having their

    20:21

    own kids or just being around anyone

    20:23

    young and like if you're like a really

    20:25

    important value to them that they like

    20:27

    don't pass this on and like do this work

    20:29

    for themselves so I would say that's

    20:31

    like a really good place to start is

    20:35

    um like working on your own relationship

    20:36

    with food because I think I because I

    20:39

    think even if you think of it as you

    20:41

    know I think sometimes we can have this

    20:42

    thought of like oh I would really like

    20:44

    to you know do this you know not pass

    20:47

    this on to someone else right and it's

    20:49

    like maybe you think of it as like oh

    20:50

    because for their benefit because this

    20:51

    was hard for me when someone passed this

    20:53

    on to me and I think kind of giving

    20:56

    yourself the credit of like it would

    20:57

    also be nice to give that to yourself

    20:58

    even if you're an adult now like give

    21:01

    yourself that piece of like your

    21:02

    relationship with food even if you're

    21:03

    and the goal is that you're not passing

    21:06

    that on but also like you'd be

    21:08

    benefiting from that too so I would say

    21:11

    that piece of like ignoring what your

    21:15

    own relationship with food is like and

    21:16

    like what kind of feels like it did

    21:18

    trickle in or you know what's what's

    21:21

    that like for you and giving yourself

    21:22

    that space

    21:25

    um to like either like check in on some

    21:29

    of those rules again or notice the

    21:32

    patterns that feel really similar to

    21:34

    those things that you would like to

    21:35

    break or change and then also exploring

    21:37

    what it would be like for you to eat and

    21:40

    like live and have relationship with

    21:42

    food in your body outside of that and

    21:43

    like this space can come without you

    21:45

    know with that or the brain space or the

    21:48

    flexibility or those different pieces

    21:50

    too

    21:51

    um I love that I think that's

    21:53

    like some really good things to kind of

    21:55

    unpack and think about and I hear that

    21:57

    too from patients and clients that

    22:00

    a lot of times the mothers like really

    22:01

    especially like in the age group we

    22:03

    talked about earlier like that 25 to

    22:06

    like 40ish range I tend to understand

    22:08

    they might have those Tendencies and

    22:11

    food rules and if they are mothers or

    22:14

    want to become mothers they they do have

    22:16

    that is like almost like a motivation to

    22:19

    kind of unlearn those negative behaviors

    22:22

    and

    22:23

    improve that relationship with food so

    22:25

    those are some good things for them to

    22:27

    think about with that as their their end

    22:29

    goal Brandon we always like to end our

    22:32

    episodes with kind of letting you share

    22:34

    your final thoughts we joke that if our

    22:37

    listeners were to only tune in for this

    22:39

    part of the episode what would you kind

    22:42

    of want them to take away from all of

    22:44

    this

    22:45

    I think if you're an OP like if you are

    22:49

    identifying as an almond mom almond

    22:51

    person

    22:52

    um as in like maybe you're noticing

    22:55

    within yourself like a lot of these like

    22:57

    rigid rules and behaviors and maybe you

    23:01

    know even feeling like oh my gosh I have

    23:02

    like you know passed this on or been

    23:04

    this example for other people I think

    23:06

    like giving yourself some Grace and kind

    23:08

    of like but it takes a lot of awareness

    23:10

    and like it's hard to check in on those

    23:12

    pieces too and to like you know notice

    23:15

    that about yourself I think takes a lot

    23:19

    um and that like whatever age you're at

    23:21

    as well like whether this is something

    23:23

    you're thinking about right now you're

    23:25

    experiencing a lot of pressure around

    23:26

    your relationship with food and feeling

    23:28

    like this is an example for you or

    23:29

    you're feeling like I've been eating in

    23:31

    my whole life and I've just like you

    23:33

    know been like full of all of these

    23:36

    rules for so long that

    23:37

    I think that all three of us can

    23:39

    probably say that we've seen like

    23:42

    people be able to change their

    23:43

    relationships with food at a lot of

    23:44

    different ages and that

    23:46

    um it's not like a lost cause or

    23:49

    something that like you're destined to

    23:51

    also like repeat that you can kind of

    23:54

    like break that cycle of dieting or you

    23:56

    can work on this for yourself

    23:58

    um and I think that the awareness around

    24:01

    it and like the levity of like comedic

    24:03

    things like this like trend on like Tick

    24:06

    Tock are nice and that they raise

    24:08

    awareness about something and kind of

    24:09

    poke some holes in it and give us

    24:11

    something to chew on for you know a

    24:13

    better word

    24:15

    um and kind of think about how that

    24:16

    might be related to to you or something

    24:19

    that's important to you yeah I meant to

    24:21

    say that earlier

    24:22

    um you mentioned how like it can be a

    24:24

    really heavy dense topic and this kind

    24:28

    of brings it into like a more humorous

    24:30

    light there's pros and cons set of

    24:31

    course I mean when we do kind of like

    24:33

    humorize such deep topics it can

    24:35

    sometimes miss a lot of aspects of it

    24:37

    but I think the big Pro is that it kind

    24:40

    of makes it more trendy more accessible

    24:42

    more talked about and so it is kind of a

    24:46

    good thing that it is being more

    24:48

    discussed and I think that was a good

    24:49

    way to kind of sum it all up I think

    24:50

    that's really good I love that

    24:52

    foreign hello guys we are so sorry for

    24:56

    abruptly cutting off this episode but

    24:58

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    25:00

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