One Body to Love with Dr. Meredith MacKenzie
One Body to Love with Dr. Meredith MacKenzie is a space for honest, unfiltered conversations about food relationships, body image, and the emotional journey to self-acceptance. Hosted by binge eating therapist and intuitive eating coach Dr. Meredith MacKenzie, this podcast dives deep into what it really takes to break free from the cycles of bingeing, restricting and food guilt, in order to finally feel at home in your body. With warmth, insight, and lived experience, this show offers connection and guided support for women who are tired of chasing perfection and ready to reconnect with themselves in a more meaningful way, free from outside pressures.
Each week through solo episodes, guest interviews, and real-life coaching conversations, listeners are invited into real, grounded conversations. Ranging from topics of intuitive eating and binge eating recovery, to reclaiming your body, joyful movement, and navigating life in a culture obsessed with size. If you’ve ever whispered, “I don’t know what else to try,” One Body to Love will offer a new perspective, one rooted in compassion, curiosity, and sustainable change. Whether you’re in the thick of it or slowly finding your way forward, this is your reminder that healing is possible and you don’t have to do it alone.
One Body to Love with Dr. Meredith MacKenzie
Weight Watchers: Points, Perfection, Punishment & Unlearning It All
For decades, Weight Watchers was more than just a diet, it was a cultural institution. A meeting, a mindset, a “lifestyle” disguised as empowerment. But what happens when we look underneath the success stories and start asking harder questions? In this episode, I take you back to the beginning of Weight Watchers and walk you through how it shaped our beliefs about food, our bodies, and ourselves. From living room weigh-ins to GLP-1s and Oprah, this is the story of how a billion-dollar brand taught women to distrust their hunger and how we unlearn it.
In this episode, you will hear:
- 01:40 - Jean Nidetch's story and the emotional roots of Weight Watchers
- 06:16 - The rise of points culture: when food became math
- 08:55 - How the points system taught us to negotiate, not nourish
- 13:13 - The rise of body positivity and the cultural shift Weight Watchers couldn’t keep up with
- 15:17 - Curbo and food tracking for kids: what happens when restriction starts at 8 years old
- 19:41 — Enter GLP-1s: the pivot from community to medication
- 24:34 — Capitalism’s role in keeping us “not enough”
Ready to gently start unlearning this system? My self-paced program Food Freedom in a Weekend is designed to help you begin healing without restriction, shame, or another set of rules.
If today’s episode hit close to home, I want you to know you’re not alone - send me a DM on Instagram to share what came up for you. Listen to Episode 11 for a deeper dive into GLP-1s, body image, and the emotional side of hunger. It pairs beautifully with today’s conversation.
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