Laura is a 35 year old feminist, nurse, mom of two boys ages 10 and 5 and a spouse to a dental student at the college of dentistry. She has survived two babies with colic and post-partum depression and all the boys in her house have ADHD which is another daily struggle she deals with. Laura has had a mixed relationship with her body since she was pretty young and is a previous disordered eater. She was on the University of Iowa Women’s rowing team for a short while, which you’ll hear helped with some of her restrictive eating patterns at the time. Laura is currently at the heaviest weight she has ever been and says that she is, “doing daily work to appreciate all the things this body has done instead of focusing on what I wish it looked like.”
In this episode Laura and I dive into a variety of topics. We talk about her work in healthcare and how she has witnessed folks in larger bodies not receiving proper care due to their size. Laura details her experience with disordered eating and how her relationship with food and movement has changed overtime, sharing how it started after a break up and has morphed and shapeshifted over the years. We do discuss specific calorie counts and restrictive behaviors that may be triggering for folks who are struggling with their relationship with food. We chat about the role control has played in both of our choices with food and movement and the importance of grooming your social media. We also talk a little bit about food marketing and labeling after we both listened to episode 315 of the Armchair Expert Podcast with Dax Shephard and we thought it was really interesting so we wanted to talk about it. Laura talks parenting and body changes, and so much more. A really cool episode with an amazing woman.
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