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Beyond the Food Blog
A catalog of evidence-based articles written by Stephanie Dodier Clinical Nutritionist on all topics supporting the non-diet approach to health.
Welcome to
Beyond the Food Blog
A catalog of evidence-based articles written by Stephanie Dodier Clinical Nutritionist on all topics supporting the non-diet approach to health.
Our Most Recent Articles

Where do you start to make peace with food?

Does my weight loss journey sound like yours?
I suspect that my journey with food and weight, like for many of you, began many years ago. My sincere hope is that you might see yourself somewhere in this story and can find some glimmer of hope that having a normal relationship with food and being at peace with your body is possible.

This Is Why You Struggle With Food
Whenever I meet new women and tell them about my mission of spreading awareness about how women can end their struggle with food and be at peace with food and their body without being on a diet. That we can be healthy without being thin and we can access optimal health and happiness unconditionally. It’s actually our birth right, sister. You and I weren’t born to be on diet and hate our bodies.

Anti-Diet Training for Health Coaches
How do I make money as a non-diet coach? This is one of the frequent questions from health coaches who encounter my work in the non-diet approach for the first time. I had the same question 6 years ago when I first came to the world of anti-diet health coaching. If we don’t tell people what to eat, when to eat, and how to eat, what will they pay us for? Right?

Non-Diet Approach for Health Coaching
When I first started in my nutrition practice the term “non-diet approach” didn’t even cross my mind. “Anti-diet approach” didn’t even exist. Unbeknown to me, I was practicing the “diet approach to nutrition” simply because that’s what was taught in health & nutrition school.
Fast forward close to 10 years now, a lot have changed. The non-diet approach is growing rapidly, so has the anti-diet approach and intuitive eating is booming.

Non-Diet Business Training
Non-Diet Business Training is essential for any women health entrepreneurs starting their business adventure in the non-diet health approach.
Your business success means women’s learning how to ditch diet culture. Your willingness to accept that your business success means more lives transformed is key to your being successful in your professional journey. Are you investing in yourself to be successful in your business?

Our Anti-Racism Commitment

Business Transition to Non-Diet Model
The business transition from traditional model of nutrition and health to the non-diet model can be scary but also can be life-changing. As with everything in life, how you approach the need for you to transition your business will make the journey scary, filled with anxiety and uncertainties OR you will make the journey pleasurable, filled with learnings and growth both personally and professionally.

Feminism and Diet Culture
Women don’t diet because they enjoy dieting. Women who diet do it because they think they have to. These women think they are their body, thus, their bodies’ ability to meet the diet culture expectations define their worth. Helping women leave and recover from diet culture is a feminist issue.

The Non-Diet Approach
Addressing the root cause is a fundamental philosophy, and honestly, the pride of alternative health approaches: resolving the root cause vs. just dealing with side effects. On today’s episode, I open the discussion to find out if we really addressing the real root cause with our traditional health coaching and nutrition model.

Non-Diet Business Coaching & Marketing
Non-Diet Business Coaching Framework & Non-Diet Marketing is essential when running an intuitive eating business. Attracting clients ready to stop dieting is easy! Learn how you can implement it in your own practice.

Diet Mindset Professional Training
Diet mindset professional training was not available when I started my transition to a non-diet approach to nutrition and health as a clinical nutritionist. I had to figure it out on my own. Piece it all together…

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I’m Stephanie Dodier - Clinical Nutritionist, Intuitive Eating expert, Podcast host, and Creator of the Going Beyond The Food Method™️, which was born from my own journey with chronic dieting & body image and has since grown into a global movement.
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