Eat the Rules with Summer Innanen

Eat the Rules with Summer Innanen

Eat the Rules is dedicated to empowering you to break free of societal standards, body shame and live life beyond the scale. Summer interviews the leading experts in body image, the anti-diet movement, self-help and intersectional feminism, covering a range of topics that include: body positivity, size acceptance, fat positivity, self-worth, self-esteem, intuitive eating and eating disorder recovery, health at every size and positive psychology. Summer also gives practical advice and shares personal experiences to help you accept your body and break free of diet culture. Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence and is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix.

Episodes

May 6, 2025 43 mins
I’m joined by Ivy Felicia, The Body Relationship Coach. This is part 2 of our 2-part discussion on navigating the evolving relationship we have with our bodies as we age. In this second part, we talk about the tools we lean on to support us through body image challenges, how ableism and the fear of losing our health influences our relationship with our body, and what it’s like to realize you look like your parents.
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I’m joined by Ivy Felicia, The Body Relationship Coach. This is part 1 of our two-part discussion on navigating the evolving relationship we have with our bodies as we age. In this first part we’re talking about our challenges with our aging bodies, how our relationship with our bodies has shifted, what messages we internalized about aging when we were growing up, and what we love about aging.

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I’m joined by Jessica Jones, weight-inclusive RD and CEO and co-founder of Diabetes Digital. We’re dispelling some of the common myths that people have about diabetes and what actually works in the long-run to help manage diabetes, including how to take an intuitive eating approach.

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/322

 

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I’m joined by weight inclusive, anti-diet personal stylist, Dacy Gillespie. We’re talking about the importance of having clothes that fit and you feel good in, and how to navigate the process of finding new clothes when your body has changed, or you’re not sure what your style is, or you’ve got budgetary constraints.

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/321

 

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I’m revisiting my interview with Alexis Conason, clinical psychologist, eating disorder specialist, and author of The Diet-Free Revolution, unpacking everything that the research says about weight loss. Is it possible to lose weight in the long-term? What do you need to do to achieve that? Plus, how learning to eat more mindfully (in a non-diet way) can help you to become a more intuitive eater.

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I’m joined by Jenn Salib Huber, RD and Naturopathic Doctor who helps women manage menopause without diets and food rules. We’re talking about why we gain weight during the menopause transition, the impact of restricting and dieting during this phase of life, whether you need to eat loads of protein and lift heavy weights, and what is truly beneficial to your health during this period of life.

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I’m joined by Vincci Tsui (she/her) registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor. We’re talking about Vincci’s experience working in bariatrics and what brought her to the anti-diet space, as well as her predictions for what will happen with the rise of weight loss drugs. We also talk about cultural sensitivity in the nutrition space and whether we can trust nutrition evidence.

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Danni and I are recapping some of the beauty and other related trends influencing our body image. We’re talking about the “ballerina body,” the soft voice, a face standard, trad wives, make America healthy again, and more. Plus, we’re excited to share about our Spring cohort of the Body Image Coach Certification opening for enrolment on January 28th, 2025.

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I’m sharing a summary of what the research says about eating disorders and disordered eating in mid-life, and why this lifestage can make people more vulnerable to EDs and disordered eating.

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/316
 
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I’m joined by Louise Green, personal trainer, author and creator of the Size Inclusive Training Academy. We’re talking about what we think about the new year/new you messaging and new year’s resolutions, how to know when you’re ready to set fitness goals, how to set those goals in a weight neutral way, and how she feels about the messaging around fitness and perimenopause.

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I’m joined by Abbie Attwood (she/her), an anti-diet, weight-inclusive nutritionist with a masters in clinical nutrition. We’re talking about Abbie’s experience with OCD and an eating disorder, why there is an overlap between these and what helped her most during recovery. We also talk about how to find your identity if it changes because you’re no longer obsessively dieting or exercising.

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I’m talking about how to manage holiday “overeating.” I give you specific ways to manage “overeating,” and guilt around eating certain foods.
 
 
In this episode, I talk about:
- The role that dieting and restriction can play in “overeating,”
- Why I don’t like the word “overeating,”
- How restriction can cause us to ...
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I’m joined by Caroline J Sumlin, author of We'll All Be Free: How a Culture of White Supremacy Devalues Us and How We Can Reclaim Our True Worth. We’re talking about how white supremacy culture influences our self-worth, the various ways that this manifests in our life, and how to start to break free from it. 

 

 

 

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/312
 
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I’m talking about a counterintuitive way to manage body anxiety - whether that be from pictures or the mirror or in social situations.

 

 

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/311
 
In this episode, I talk about:
- The personal fear that led me to create this episode,
- What I learned working through that fear,
- What I mean by body anxie...
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I’m joined by Dana Karen (“DK”) Ciccone, a certified Pilates instructor, owner of Movement Remedies, and author of You’re Meant to Move. We’re talking about how to recover from having a disordered relationship with exercise and whether you need to lose weight in order to help with pain. 

 

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/310
 
In this episode, we talk about:
- How pain can be...
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I’m talking about how attachment styles relate to body image. I’m sharing briefly about what the attachment styles are, how they relate to body image, self-compassion, body grief, and what we can do with this information.
Show notes: summerinnanen.com/309
 
In this episode, I talk about:
- The four main types of attachment styles and a brief overview of some of their characteristics,
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I’m joined by Shana Spence (she/her), Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and author of Live Nourished: Make Peace with Food, Banish Body Shame, and Reclaim Joy. We are talking about why the BMI is bullshit, whether processed foods are really bad for us, and her perspective that “all foods fit.”
Show notes: summerinnanen.com/308
 
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I’m exploring body grief ­– I talk about the different ways we might experience body grief, whether we can actually “overcome” it, why it’s so hard to grieve our ideal body, the factors that determine how we process this grief, and how we can move away from the stages of grief model to other models that may be more useful for moving forw...
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This is the premiere of Season 10 of Eat The Rules. I’m giving you an update on some changes that are happening and what to expect from this season
Show notes: summerinnanen.com/306


In this episode, I talk about:
- Why I started a ko-fi account - what it is and how you can contribute
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I’m revisiting the body image series, breaking down 5 reasons we struggle with body acceptance and how to work through these struggles. 
Show notes: summerinnanen.com/305


In this episode, I talk about:
- How the culture we live in can make body acceptance a challenge,
- What being stuck with body acceptance can look like,
- How dieting is addictive and a coping mechanism,
- That we’...

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