Truce with Food with Ali Shapiro, MSOD, CHHC
Ali Shapiro, MSOD, CHHC
You've done Weight Watchers. Therapy. The functional medicine workup. You know more about nutrition than most people. And yet, you still can't make it stick. So now you're wondering if you're just the problem.You are not the problem. The framework you needed—that integrates real, lasting change—just never showed up, so you keep blaming yourself instead.Truce With Food® is a podcast for women in perimenopause and menopause who are exhausted from emotional eating, binge eating, overeating, and food noise taking up more space in their lives than they ever wanted. If you're eating when you're not hungry, can't figure out why what used to work no longer does, or just want a real conversation about your relationship with food and your body, you're in the right place.Host Ali Shapiro is a holistic nutritionist, cancer survivor, and creator of the research-based Truce With Food® framework that’s also built on 19 years of real client results. She healed her own relationship with food and has spent nearly two decades helping other women do the same through honest conversations about food, psychology, physiology, and why showing up with a C+ effort gets you further than any plan that demands perfection ever will. And how the real work is to be counterculture and trust in satisfaction, not more discipline. New episodes every other Wednesday.
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Jul 12, 2017 • 22min
89. What The Health (Netflix Documentary Review)
Now on Netflix, What the Health is an inspiring documentary on the power of nutrition to reverse chronic disease. There are wonderful points this movie makes and some key points that would’ve made the documentary stronger. In today’s episode, I’ll share what I loved about this documentary, including more resources if you’re interested in the conflicts of Big Food and our health, how it missed the mark saying veganism is the answer and sugar isn’t a problem and tips to become a better consumer of health media so you can become empowered not overwhelmed when new nutrition studies and media come out.
Jul 5, 2017 • 1h 14min
88. How to Use Astrology to Achieve Your Health Goals with Molly Morrissey, MS
Most of us know if we’re a Libra or a Capricorn. But did you know that is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to classical astrology? It turns out much like today’s nutrition information, mainstream astrology is reduced to a one-size-fits-all assumption based on one planet in your chart. The reality is when you understand the uniqueness of your entire chart, you can understand more about yourself and how to use your essence to support your health goals. What I love about Molly and reason I wanted to have her on the show is she has studied astrology and human behavior deeply. In this fascinating interview, you will get a perspective on astrology that’s totally different than what you’re expecting.In this episode, you’ll learn:1. How traditional astrology, which assumed each of our physical bodies had a spiritual essence, was historically the primary basis of health and medicine.2. The four traditional astrological elements and how identifying your elemental make-up empowers you to know what foods and emotional patterns support your nature so you can work with yourself instead of fighting yourself.3. How traditional astrology’s healing elements were stripped away because they worked and the powers that be at the time wanted to keep the knowledge for themselves. And, how many royal families still use astrology today!
Jun 28, 2017 • 26min
87. Is Caffeine Good or Bad for Me?
A lot of people are feeling anxious today, tired but wired and having intense cravings. Could caffeine be the cause? Or can we blame it all on Trump? In today’s episode, I’ll share the symptoms that indicate you may need to modify or change your caffeine habits. Healthy guidelines for caffeine use: it doesn’t have to be all or nothing and lastly, how to work through the hurdles of going off caffeine.
Jun 21, 2017 • 1h 9min
86. Leah Lizarondo, 412 Food Rescue co-founder: Innovating Ways to End Food Waste
In talking with clients, a lot of them struggle with portions because they feel bad wasting food. Their conscious is on the right track. Today, will clarify more effective ways than stuffing yourself to reduce food waste. As dood waste is not only a hunger issue but a climate change issue.In today’s episode, 412 Food Rescue co-founder Leah Lizarondo shares with us:1. How we as individuals can truly eliminate food waste in our day to day lives (and it doesn’t involve finishing your plate)2. How Leah’s organization is connecting people who are food insecure with really healthy food that would otherwise go into a landfill and theamazing results they are getting (and hopefully, coming to a city near yousoon)3. The cultural issues and influences that have played to an abundant yet inefficiently distributed food supply. These statistics will shock you
Jun 14, 2017 • 1h 24min
85. Dr. Susan Blum, Functional Medicine Pioneer On Healing Your Gut for Chronic Disease Relief
Most of today’s chronic health issues – from psoriasis to depression to Hashimoto’s –stem from an autoimmune response in an unhealthy gut. For two decades, Dr. Susan Blum has been providing relief to her patients by getting to the root of their chronic illness through a ground breaking whole body approach that with precision, addresses the physical and emotional roots of these issues.In today’s episode, I get the scoop from Dr. Blum on:The most effective testing to see if you have gut issues and how this test is also a tool to feeling relief you didn’t know was possible. This is important because not all gut issues show up in your digestive system!The nitty gritty details of gut healing, including expected timelines, when pre and probiotics make sense and how you don’t have to eat “perfect” to be able to get relief How much stress influences gut issues and how much weight you should give to stress relief in relation to dietary changes. The % will surprise you!This also lead to a discussion on Dr. Blum’s own spiritual anchors and beliefs that guide her, including her own health challenges she recently had and recovered from.
Jun 7, 2017 • 52min
84. Unmasking the I'm Not Working Hard Enough to Lose Weight Belief
Clients often tell me they think everyone needs the work we’ve done together. Yet many of their friends or family believe they just aren’t working hard enough. It’s a common misconception when you know you reward yourself too much with food or don’t get to the gym enough. Yet it’s untrue. In today’s episode, I’llIn today’s episode, I’ll share:1. Why it’s so hard to stop believing you're just not working hard enough on your body and yet you must if you don’t want to miss out on what’s possible for you2. Why addressing your emotions are essential to revolutionary body freedom yet get dismissed in our body conversations and how you can make them part of your plan 3. 2 key questions to start working smart, not hard, for more agency and results with your body and food3. 2 key questions to start working smart, not hard, for more agency and results with your body and food
May 31, 2017 • 1h 15min
83. TED Superstar Dr. Terry Wahls on Transforming MS and Autoimmune Issues with Food
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Terry Wahls on her dramatic reversal of MS after eight years of decline on conventional drugs (including how she had to leave her 20 year vegetarian diet behind to get well), how her VA clients taught her how to eat healthy on limited resources, including incredible results without being organic and how Dr. Wahls learned to bring the medical and MS community skeptics along with her pioneering discoveries that apply to MS, Lupus, other autoimmune issues and even neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. She shares her incredible story of going from odd person out to visionary.
May 24, 2017 • 1h 23min
82. Earning a PhD in Body Image with Sera Snyder (Client Interview)
In today’s episode, I interview one of my first clients, Sera Snyder on her wild and dramatic healing journey that started with a battle with food and how her body looked and has transformed into her supporting patients and health care professionals to collaborate on better health experiences and outcomes for 21st-century holistic health-care that works. In today’s episode, Sera and I talk about:1.1. How a health-crisis or battle with your body can be an invitation into profound growth and power, but it won’t be a straight line. And you can leave those simple, overly-positive self-help tips at the door.2.2. How finding your voice is a key to healing and losing weight 3.3. The most progressive view of how health-care is evolving and transforming to offer better value to you as a consumer. And how to become the best advocate for yourself so you get the best outcomes.2.2. How finding your voice is a key to healing and losing weight3.3. The most progressive view of how health-care is evolving and transforming to offer better value to you as a consumer. And how to become the best advocate for yourself so you get the best outcomes.3.3. The most progressive view of how health-care is evolving and transforming to offer better value to you as a consumer. And how to become the best advocate for yourself so you get the best outcomes.
May 17, 2017 • 56min
81. Are you addicted to the Drama of Dieting?
Does the idea of dieting frustrate you yet you continue to pursue weight loss? Do you feel like you have no other choice but to be all or nothing? On or off? Would you like to find a way to get results without all the striving in diet and lifestyle plans?If so, today’s episode is for you. I’ll share:1. Why we pursue dramatic diet and weight loss efforts even though they rarely work.2. The key concept to replace discipline and gearing up so you can relax into your health efforts and results.3. And why it’s critical to stop thinking of your weight loss as a journey. I’ll share a better metaphor that will help you pace and sustain yourself with your approach.
May 10, 2017 • 56min
80. Transform Emotions into Power, Not Overeating with Melody Wilding, MSW
Feelings of self-doubt and inadequacy can drive us to overeat. Yet if we listen to conventional self-help to “just ignore your inner critic and crush your fears”, you lose self-trust. In this nuanced conversation, I talk with Melody Wilding, a licensed social worker, TEDx speaker and Human Behavior faculty member at the City University of New York.In today’s episode, we discuss the:1. The counter-intuitive way to make self-doubt an ally, not an enemy2. How being highly conscientious gives you a competitive edge yet can also turn into a weakness and how to mitigate the downside of being so on the ball3. The imposter syndrome and how it gets high achievers to question so much about themselves and the solution is NOT to play to your strengths!
