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Ready to eat without guilt, support your actual health, and start giving diet culture the middle finger? You’re in the right place. The Diet Culture Rebel podcast is your trusted space for breaking free from food rules, healing your relationship with your body, and learning how to eat without shame, stress, or obsession - while honoring your health in a way that actually feels good. Hosted by Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor Bonnie Roney, each episode delivers straightforward, no-BS guidance to help you ditch diets for good. Through expert interviews and solo deep dives, Bonnie brings you heal...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A steady anti-diet guide for listeners rebuilding trust around food, movement, body image, and health decisions.
Diet Culture Rebel Podcast belongs in Health & Fitness because it keeps returning to the places where nutrition advice, body image, medical care, and self trust run into each other.
You want your wellness algorithm cross-examined before it sells you another rule.
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A steadier take on processed-food panic, with careful attention to how diet history can shape eating behavior.
Bonnie keeps the focus on what the research actually says about ultra-processed foods, and that steadier frame helps cut through the panic around them.
A compassionate look at why finishing your plate can feel safer than stopping.
This episode treats clean plate club habits as learned coping rather than a personal failing. Bonnie adds a personal account of being praised for eating a lot as a child, then traces how scarcity, dieting, less conflict at the table, and approval for being a good eater can teach…
A weight loss headline gets traced back to the study that drove the 15% claim.
The episode takes on a tidy headline claim and does the more useful thing: it slows down enough to show where the 15% figure comes from and where it stops.
A grounded look at why carbs get blamed, and why blood sugar is shaped by more than food alone.
Diet Culture Rebel treats carbs less like a villain and more like one piece of a bigger health picture. Bonnie links restriction and yo-yo dieting to insulin resistance, while also widening the frame to include sleep, stress, and hormones that can move glucose readings around.
A compassionate case for moving without shame.
Jessamyn Stanley and Bonnie frame movement as something that should not be bound up with diet culture or shame. The episode makes its strongest point when it treats body acceptance as a practice, not a slogan: respect the body that is here, keep showing up, and let trust return…
A thoughtful case for letting values, not diet-culture shoulds, guide health choices.
The episode treats values as a practical tool for repairing the relationship with food and the body, not as a feel-good slogan. Bonnie and psychotherapist Erika Jossa trace how values get shaped, bent, and gradually recovered when people stop living by society's shoulds and…
A careful conversation about how a changed period can signal stress, under-fueling, and more.
Bonnie's link between gymnastics, praise for leanness, and the quiet slide into under-fueling lands with real force. The episode explains hypothalamic amenorrhea plainly, moving from regular cycles to wider gaps and then to no period at all without getting lost in jargon.
A calm reset for anyone whose worth has gotten tangled up with achievement, food, or self-surveillance.
This episode looks closely at toxic striving, tracing how hustle culture, diet culture, and wellness culture can teach people to judge themselves by productivity, discipline, and control. Bonnie Roney and Dr.
Shawn Stevenson interviews researchers and coaches on nutrition, sleep, hormones, and fitness.
Supplement labels, decoded with conviction.
Practical health conversations for reducing overwhelm.
Bonnie and psychotherapist Erika Jossa center the conversation on values.
Bonnie Roney opens with a personal reflection on the anger that can come up during food healing.
Bonnie Roney frames the hunger and fullness scale as a 1-to-10 tool that helps listeners check internal cues instead of calorie, macro, or point rules.
Bonnie, a registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor, uses Diet Culture Rebel Podcast episode 247 to unpack why ultra-processed foods are getting framed as uniquely dangerous.
Bonnie critiques a meta-analysis cited in a doctor’s Instagram video that claimed intentional weight loss reduces all-cause mortality by 15%.
Bonnie Roney opens by questioning the limits of mainstream body positivity.
Bonnie explores why the 'clean plate club'—the struggle to stop eating when full—persists from childhood into adulthood.
Bonnie Roney discusses why food and body comments from family and friends can be triggering, especially when healing from diet culture.
Bonnie, host of the Diet Culture Rebel podcast and a registered dietitian, says she trademarked the phrase “giving diet culture the middle finger” and uses it to frame five personal practices.
Bonnie opens by pushing back on the idea that carbs are the enemy.
Diet Culture Rebel Podcast episode 236 features Bonnie Roney and Dr.
Bonnie opens by speaking to the listener who feels worn down by food and the constant mental chatter around eating.
Ginger Zee, ABC News chief meteorologist and climate correspondent, traces her food fears to childhood comments like her dad calling pasta "pointless" and her mom saying she had eaten too much.
Bonnie, a registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor, uses this solo Q&A to answer three listener questions about calorie counting, binge foods, and stopping scale use.
Bonnie, a registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor, breaks down sodium and potassium in hydration products like Element and Liquid IV.
Bonnie Roney frames the conversation around how hustle culture, diet culture, and wellness culture overlap.
Bonnie opens with her own teen gymnastics story, where heavy training and praise for being lean hid the fact that she was under-eating.
Bonnie Roney opens with a pregnancy appointment where a doctor told her, "Thank God you're skinny," and then connects that experience to gestational diabetes advice that assumed she needed to "walk more and eat better." Dr.
Bonnie opens by asking listeners to name three words for their relationship with exercise.
Host Bonnie Roney explains what mindful eating truly means and offers three practical tips to apply it without diet culture's influence.
The host reframes movement from punishment to self-care, sharing her personal journey with pelvic floor therapy and strength training to support body health and improve relationship with food.
A registered dietitian answers community questions about coming off GLP-1 medications, eating in a rush, and shares her own intuitive eating journey.
Host Bonnie Roney answers listener questions about overeating, food indecision, and calorie concerns from an intuitive eating perspective.
Host Bonnie Roney interviews professional footballer Katrina Gorey about the hidden connection between disordered eating, eating disorders, and sport, exploring how athletic pressures shape food and body relationships and the healing power of pregnancy and motherhood.
Bonnie Roney discusses how to approach meal planning in a positive, non-restrictive way that aligns with intuitive eating principles.
Host Bonnie Roney interviews psychologist Dr.
Bonnie Roney answers follower questions about intuitive eating, addressing fears of losing control and balancing health with body acceptance.
Bonnie Roney debunks the myth that joint pain is caused by weight, using her own experience with plantar fasciitis to illustrate how diet culture wrongly blames body size for health issues.
Bonnie Roney interviews Elise Resch, co-founder of Intuitive Eating, discussing the future of intuitive eating through a social justice lens and its impact on marginalized communities.