Eating Disorders Across the Age Spectrum with Dietitians Meg and Susan

Understanding Body Matters Podcast

On this week’s episode I am super excited to be introducing our next special guests non- diet Dieticians Meg McClintock and Susan Williams. Meg and Susan have joined together as non- diet dietitian's to make a positive change in the area of media literacy, body image, health and nutrition. Meg and Susan have founded the organisation ‘Meg and Susan’ together where they provide courses, workshops, webinars, and skills challenges. Where they are seasoned presenters for universities, schools, TV, corporates, and podcasts. They also have an amazing website which offers freebies, a blog and a podcast called ‘Life’s Too Short to Count Almonds’. Meg and Susan have more than 20 years of experience as Dietitian's across fields such as in public health, industry, childcare, ages care, education and in private practice. They are both mums of 3, Meg has 3 boys and Susan has 3 girls!

A little more about Meg, Meg is an accredited practicing Dietitian and a body image advocate who has her own business ‘Meg McClintok, Healthy, Confident Lives’. Meg is also the Principal Dietitian and Founder of Choose Nutrition. In her practice Meg works with individuals, groups, and schools to move away from body dissatisfaction and towards a healthier relationship with nutrition. Where she conducts talks, seminars, and workshops for high schools on media literacy, body image, health and nutrition.

A little more on Susan, Susan is an accredited practicing Dietitian and a Clinical Supervisor who works from a Health at Every Size Approach. Susan is the owner of Zest Nutrition Consulting where she specialises in the provision of supervision to dietitians practicing from a weight inclusive, non- diet paradigm. Susan also works with clients experiencing eating disorders, and disordered eating complicated by trauma or adverse childhood experiences.

On this week’s episode we will be speaking about eating disorders, disordered eating, body image and diet culture across the age spectrum. Discussing various life stages from being a child, having babies, to becoming a grandparent. In the end, all ages are exposed to diet culture and media in a way that targets weight as a way to market products. This is where Meg and Susan go deep into unpacking the clever marketing of companies used on each of the different age groups. In a constant battle to control body size people can begin to forget the various changes that come with different ages and life stages. As well as all the positive, amazing parts that come into embracing all the different stages. So, to shed a little bit of light on the various facades and tricks constantly used on us in the media is Meg and Susan!

Podcast summary:

1. Social media algorithms target people according to their age

2. Your diet and appetite will change across different ages

3. Your body is trustworthy

4. The focus of recovery is different for different ages

5. Different life transitions may trigger disordered eating

6. What really matters in this time in your life?

Links to Meg and Susan

Website: https://www.megandsusan.co/

Instagram: @megandsusan

Facebook: Meg and Susan

Podcast: ‘Life’s Too Short to Count Almonds’

Links to Meg: https://www.megmcclintock.com/

Choose Nutrition: https://www.choosenutrition.com.au/

Links to Susan: https://www.zestnutrition.com.au/

Links from the episode:

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BodyMatters Instagram: @bodymattersau

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