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You want to eat well, but you also don't want to wait until you feel confident in your body to live your life. You've tracked calories endlessly in the past, you got obsessed or depressed or both. You want a better way to look after yourself without the toxic messaging of diet culture. Same, babe, same. Rachel Hunter is an evidence-based nutrition coach informed in body image work, tired of the status quo, and here to help. You want a good relationship with food and your body, and you want it to be delivered with a bit of banter? Good news, you're in the right place...
Episodes
88 episodes
Ep. 86 Listen to this When the Self-Defeat Demon is Winning and 'Giving Up' Sounds Better
I am currently in a bit of a rut at the moment with my movement, and I wanted to talk about the choices that lie ahead when it comes to letting yourself down. Feeling defeated, and when you've been trying to change something forever...
Ep. 85 In the Rise of "SkinnyTok" should you feel guilty for wanting to lose weight?
Are you a bad person for wanting to lose weight? You know that your body image and relationship with food has been savaged by diet culture, you know you've hated your body at least a little bit in every single size that you have ever been BUT d...
Ep. 84 More Data, More Better?
You can track your sleep, your VO2 Max, your recovery score, your calories, your steps, your heart rate, but is all of that data giving you the life that you want? Do you feel more empowered or less? And what are you getting out of ...
Ep. 83 So You're Afraid of Getting Bulky, But you Know Weight Lifting is Good for you... Now What?
Does your fear of getting bulky have a lot to do with your actual muscles? And if it does, then why, when someone says 'don't worry about getting bulky, it's actually quite hard,' do you not feel any better?Is that down to you...
Ep. 82 Electrolytes, Aluminium deodorant and Chub Rub shorts, Oh My!
It is hotter than the sun in the UK at the moment, and we all need to have a bit of a reprieve from the heat, but all of the wild and wonderful marketing campaigns can make that hard. Do you actually need to be chugging electrolytes...
Ep. 81 "But I don't want to be fat and happy"
I hear this all the time as a nutritionist who helps to unravel decades of diet culture and get people feeling confident in their bodies. Ignoring your body image is futile because you have one whether you work on it or not. But bec...
Ep. 80 Is it just me or has your body image tanked with the warmer weather? WHY?
Seasonal body image is a known phenomenon in the research, but hearing that just sounds like a bunch of gobldy-gook. What the hell do you mean by phenomena in the research? I'm a living, breathing human being and feel like crap about my body fo...
Ep. 79 Should you change your relationship with being a loser? (I don't think you're a loser though)
When it comes to changing our behaviour, we often have high expectations of ourselves. And listen, fellow overachiever, I fully support you in your desire to do well and have high standards. HOWEVER, the expectation that nothing will ever go wr...
Ep. 78 Don't trust yourself around chocolate? Here's how to fix that
It's really common to feel a bit panicky around foods that you've restricted for so long, but you also feel frustrated that you know what to do, but you're just not doing it. Well, your relationship with food is often the bottleneck between wha...
Ep. 77 [HOT TOPICS] 'Strong not skinny' is a trash take (as someone who is strong and not at all skinny)
The strong vs. skinny debate is growing legs. I had a lovely follower on Instagram send me a DM asking my thoughts on another creator's video of 'strong vs. skinny. And as someone who is very much strong and not at all skinny, my views might ac...
EP. 76 Fat loss and improving your body image? Is that an oxymoron?
I rarely ever see anyone talking about the nuanced middle of improving your body image, and that you don't have to feel guilty for losing weight. In this episode, I break down a conversation that I had with one of my clients a few weeks ago bec...
Ep. 75 Do you *just* need some accountability?
We all do well with accountability, right? But you've had accountability in the past, like a nutritionist or a PT and then when you stopped seeing them, you weren't all that accountable to yourself, and then you felt like crap that all of your ...
Ep. 74 No need to panic about going off plan this Easter- listen for a practical guide
Logic has its limits when it comes to making us feel better about our behaviour. So hearing that 'a calorie is just a calorie' doesn't really make you feel any better about overdoing it on the Easter bunnies this weekend. Fear not, ...
Ep. 73 I'm not anti-diet BUT (lots of people missed the point when I talked about gaining weight, and losing it again)
Are you stuck in a cycle of healthy days, maybe even weeks and then 'fck it' days, weeks or even months? You know you 'should' be doing more to look after your health but you don't want to track calories or live and die by what the scale tells ...
HOT TOPICS Ep. 72 Manosphere, Misogyny & Body image OH MY!
I have had requests for my hot takes on the 'Inside the Manosphere' documentary, and who am I to say no? As a self-proclaimed admirer and lover of women, and have a fairly feminist world-view, I am here to provide my thoughts and op...
Ep. 71 Am I a hypocrite for talking about my weight as a body image coach?
Am I a hypocrite for talking about my weight as a body image coach? I'm sure some people would argue that I am. Listen to the episode and decide for yourself. We chat about why I gained weight and whether I spiral. Did I do it on purpose? Why d...
Ep. 70 Do you want practical tips to build your confidence? GOOD.
Confidence is something that we can all resonate with, right? Body image and relationship with food are two biggies, where we assume that it is something other people have and we do not. But in this episode, I chat about a couple of simple stra...
Ep. 69 Is reducing your snacking really that hard?
"I know what to do, so I should just be able to do it." But should you? As a nutrition coach who specializes in helping people with body image and disordered eating patterns, I hear this a lot from my clients. But the thing about eating behavio...
Ep. 68 HOT TOPICS Is an 'ADHD Coach' necessary support or a sales pitch? With Special Guest Michelle Carroll
ADHD is currently a hot topic, but if you have ADHD espeically if you're late-diagnosed, you don't feel so 'hot' about it, do you? I certainly didn't, anyway! And there is a growing trend in the fitness industry to talk about how their coaching...
Ep. 67 Your New Year’s Resolutions Haven't Gone to Plan? Good.
It's six months from now, you're no longer obsessing over food or watching the lettuce in the back of your veggie crisper go brown. Your New Year's Resolutions haven't gone to plan so far in 2026, but 'slipping up' is normal; giving up for days...
Ep. 66 You’re Not Failing at ‘Snacking Less’ You’re Stuck in a Pattern No One Explained
You have your shit together in every area of life, but you always feel like you could be snacking less? I unpack the hidden patterns behind emotional eating and snacking in a way that has nothing to do with shame or willpower, revolutionary, I ...
Ep. 65 I didn't want to work on my body image either...
It's really normal not to want to work on your body image, but it's often necessary to get the outcome that you desire. I certainly didn't realize that or know that or see the value in it, and yet I had to. In this episode, I go int...
Ep. 64 Facing something I can't ignore anymore: My Ignorance is NOT Bliss...
Making a hard decision that feels shit in the short-term, but ultimately you know is better for you in the long-term, is crap. And I'm going through that right now. If you don't want to feel alone in having to confront your own avoidance, give ...
Ep. 63 When 'Just do it" hasn't worked for your gym panic, what do you do instead?
It's January, the gyms are busy, and everyone seems to want some time on the equipment. But maybe you're not quite there right now, and you know you want to be, but the fact that it's going to be busy puts you off even more.
Ep. 62 Simplest ways to improve your nutrition without cutting out your favourite foods
Cutting out your favourite foods never worked anyway...so you probably need a better strategy. Give this episode a listen if you really want to improve what you eat and you don't want to lose your mind... Submit your ques...