Fitness & Nutrition
**Find Your Food Voice**

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Find Your Food Voice–formerly The Love Food Podcast–is a podcast—and a movement—to fix diet culture. Because you don’t need fixing. I’m your host, registered dietitian and food behavior expert Julie Duffy Dillon. Join in as we ditch cookie cutter approaches, expose the lies that society feeds us, and rewrite the rules around food, eating and our bodies. We call this “Finding Your Food Voice,” and it’s vital we do it together. Find YOUR food voice each week here on my website, or listen on your favorite podcast app.

Latest Episodes:

**(120) Can food cure me?** May 21, 2018
Show notes

How many times have you read about someone curing their diabetes or PCOS with food? Feel frustrated you can't too?? Listen to latest Love Food Podcast episode for ways to move forward while healing your relationship with food and your body.

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This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Enrollment is now open! You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.

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The transcribed episode can be found here.

**Episode's Key Points:**

Do you have a long history of dieting in your efforts to control or cure a medical condition or to just feel like you fit in within our society?

Many of the medical conditions we experience are blamed on ourselves. You are not to blame! Food is not to blame! These conditions are often genetically-based and incurable.

The "Shoulds" imposed on us by society lead to guilt, shame, and distrusting our innate wisdom that we all have for identifying our body's needs

Diet seduction/"Should Eat Fantasy Compliance" is commonly experienced upon embarking on a new diet as we feel like we are moving towards meeting societal body standards. However, this distracts us from the destructive nature of dieting.

Research shows that diets do not work long-term and they predict weight gain and exacerbate many of the markers of medical conditions. So, why do diets continue to be sought out? Fat Phobia, White Supremacy, and Misogyny. We want to feel accepted, safe, and at home in our own skin. This is completely understandable. However, we don't need to be fixed and our bodies don't need to be fixed. Rather, society needs to be fixed.

Connecting with fat activists is an important step in dismantling the "Should Eat Fantasy Compliance" and fat phobia.

**Show Notes:**

Julie Dillon RD blog

Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus.

Meredith Noble Instagram **---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1**

Julie Dillon and Kimberly Singh blog posts---> **This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2**

Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here.

**Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.**

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**How do I change my eating without restricting? (Episode 119 with Vincci Tsui)** May 14, 2018
Show notes

Have diabetes, high cholesterol, a food intolerance or PCOS and been told to cut something out of your regular eating? Have you finally rejected diet culture and found food peace, but are struggling with *gentle nutrition*? Are you concerned that changing your food choices due to health concerns might lead you back to restriction and deprivation? Listen now as special guest, Vincci Tsui, and I break down this part of the Food Peace™ journey.

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This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Enrollment is open! Receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.

Check out the whole Love, Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you.

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The transcribed episode can be found here.

**Episode's Key Points:**

Nutrition is NOT an exact science!! It's a fluid concept, and very individual.

Vincci Tsui joins us to chat about gentle nutrition and intuitive eating!

Finding the balance between gentle nutrition and diet mentality can be so hard. Too much of the nutrition information out there is so tainted with diet culture!

What even is gentle nutrition? It's less about food rules, and more about what makes our bodies feel good. It's all about our INTENTION!

Nutrition is super individual! Your own experience with certain foods is way more important than what the current research says.

There are way too many books out there that claim to be non-diet, but still perpetuate diet culture and the thin ideal. It's so hard to escape it! So be careful with the anti-diet media that you consume, and decide for yourself which parts of these books and films are helpful, and which parts are harmful. Rely on your intuition to tell you which is which!

It's about what works for YOU! The research may give us some parameters, but we need to rely on our own body cues to figure out what actually works for us. It's literally about experimenting on ourselves.

You can incorporate foods that are typically considered "diet foods" without them being about dieting and weight loss. It's about making choices out of self-care! When the intention is different, it makes ALL the difference.

**Show Notes:**

Julie Dillon RD blog

Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus.

Vincci's guest episode of the Nutrition Matters Podcast with Paige Smathers

"Can Meal Planning and Meal Prep Work with Intuitive Eating?" by Vincci Tsui **---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1**

Vincci's Free E-Book, *Stop the Food Fight***---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2**

Get in touch with Vincci on her website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here.

**Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.**

Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

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**Food controls my life. (Episode 118)** May 07, 2018
Show notes

Do you feel like food has way too much power in your life and don't see a way out?

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This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Enrollment is open! Receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.

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The transcribed episode can be found here.

**Episode's Key Points:**

How do we know when food has too much power? It's when we're thinking about it ALL DAY LONG. At night, while you're eating a meal... all day.

We as humans are wired to survive, and if we're not getting access to enough food, our bodies are going to send food preoccupation into overdrive. But there are ways to think about food in a calmer way! And it isn't more restriction.

Remember, food preoccupation is you being a successful human. We don't want to demonize that!

Diet culture and body hatred perpetuate all of these food rules and body rules, but these rules are manmade... they don't actually help us, and they disconnect us from our internal wisdom.

Using food to soothe is a SKILL! It's not something to feel shameful about. But maybe this coping skill doesn't suit you anymore, and that's okay.

Unconditional permission to eat is KEY to reducing food preoccupation, and as long as you're giving yourself permission, you can explore what I call symbolic hunger.

Food also has too little power in our life... but what does this mean? It means that we aren't giving ourselves room within our relationship with food for anything but food as fuel. We also need food for pleasure, and we need to give ourselves true unconditional permission to eat.

You don't need to be fixed... the world does!

Food is the GREATEST connector. It unites us, and it connects us to ourselves.

Our relationship with food is a great window into our relationship with ourselves. When we make peace with food, we make peace with ourselves.

**Show Notes:**

Julie Dillon RD blog

Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus.

My guest spot on Don't Salt My Game Podcast

The She's All Fat Podcast

My blog post, "When Relying on Hunger is Too Scary" **---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1**

My blog post, "What is Symbolic Hunger?" **---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2**

Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here.

**Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.**

Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

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**I'm a food addict. I will never make peace with you. (Episode 117)** Apr 30, 2018
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Have you ever described your relationship with food as an addiction? Do you think that Food Peace™ will never work for you because you're addicted to certain kinds of food? Listen now to get my take on this Food Peace™ challenge.

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This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Enrollment is open! Receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.

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The transcribed episode can be found here.

**Episode's Key Points:**

Your feelings about being addicted to food are valid... BUT, it's important to investigate WHY we feel that way, and to dig deeper.

We live in a world where controlling our food and having a certain body size are thought to go hand-in-hand. We think that if we eat less, we're going to weigh less, and that people in larger bodies just don't have "discipline" when it comes to food. But this just isn't true!!

Internalized fatphobia and the desire to find acceptance in our thin-obsessed culture can drive us towards dieting, and the desire to restrict our food. It can also push us towards removing pleasure from our lives, whether it's about food, sex, or anything else!

If we were allowed to embrace pleasure, I think that the feeling of addiction around food would change.

If we aren't giving ourselves PERMISSION to have pleasure, we are going to subconsciously restrict and deprive ourselves of food.

This is not your fault! Our body pushes us to be preoccupied with food when we deprive ourselves of food. Restriction keeps the food-preoccupation going!!

Compassion and permission are key, not keeping ourselves "under control."

Name the moments when food has too much power!!

Our bodies and our brains just want us to stay alive, and the feeling of food addiction is actually how our bodies continue to try and stay alive.

Remember, your needs aren't a burden. You are NOT too needy! Redefine your expectations around meeting your needs.

Consider how thin privilege plays a role in feeling like we need to fix ourselves. Put the anger and the burden where it belongs! Not on us, but on the fatphobic society in which we live.

Strive for embodiment, pleasure, satisfaction, and compassion.

Patients with PCOS often experience even more intense feelings about being addicted to food, especially because most doctors encourage people with PCOS to cut out carbs. But carbs are not the enemy! By removing them from your diet, you just increase the need for them, and the feeling of being out of control around them.

**Show Notes:**

Julie Dillon RD blog

Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus.

Amy Pershing's work

Episode 70 of the Love, Food Podcast with Marci Evans

Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here.

**Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.**

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**I've been at a higher weight and lower weight. I fear my body changing again. (Episode 116 with Sarah Thompson)** Apr 23, 2018
Show notes

Are you healing your relationship with food and your body and are coming to the point of beginning to crave joyful movement and gentle nutrition, but are worried that delving into this part of the Food Peace™ journey will jeopardize your recovery? Are the people around you still stuck in diet culture, and you're finding your relationship with them increasingly difficult as you move closer to Food Peace™? Listen now as special guest, Sarah Thompson, and I give our take on these Food Peace™ challenges.

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This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Enrollment opens TODAY! Receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.

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The transcribed episode can be found here.

**Episode's Key Points:**

Sarah Thompson joins us to break down this week's letter!

Internalized weight stigma and diet culture are challenging to let go of, but it's necessary to find peace with food and our bodies.

Fatphobia is SO entrenched in all of us, and it hurts everyone no matter our body size!

Everyone is indoctrinated into diet culture, especially those of us who have been socialized as women.

Family dynamics can play a big role in how we relate to food and our bodies, especially if as children we're made to act in a parental role.

Embracing food and body actions that stereotypically have ties to dieting and restriction can be scary, but we don't have to engage with joyful movement and gentle nutrition in a disordered way! They can be nourishing actions, and they don't have to belong to diet culture.

Body changes can be triggering, and weight loss may make us feel like we're betraying the fat-acceptance community. Body changes can also throw our body-acceptance process for a loop, making us have to start the process of embracing our new shape all over again. But body changes are inevitable!

Make sure that you're aware of your privilege, and acknowledge it! Make room for marginalized voices.

We get to enjoy salads and movement without promising ourselves weight loss and without falling down a disordered rabbit hole.

The more that we heal our relationship with food, the less we will feel that foods are "healthy" or "unhealthy."

There are people in larger bodies that have an active lifestyle! We DON'T have to be a small body to enjoy movement, and we don't have to pursue movement for the sake of weight loss. Movement belongs to everyone!

We're all continually doing our own work and finding our own path.

**Show Notes:**

Julie Dillon RD blog

Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus.

Be Nourished's e-course, Promoting Body Trust in Your Work (plus the Spanish version!), their Embodied Practitioner retreat, and The Body Trust Provider Certification Training **---> This week's Food Peace™ Syllabus addition**

Find Sarah on her website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here.

**Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.**

Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

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**I have to be careful with food. And, I am tired of it. (Ep 115)** Apr 16, 2018
Show notes

Are you struggling to find a peaceful relationship with food? Do you just want to feel normal again around food? Do you feel like food is taking up too much of your brain space? Listen now to get tips on how to handle this part of the Food Peace™ journey.

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This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in April, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.

Check out the whole Love Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you.

Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you.

The transcribed episode can be found here.

**Episode's Key Points:**

Food is an ultimate connector! It helps us to define our culture, family, and community.

Health at Every Size was started during the late 60s to discuss the mistreatment of people in larger bodies.

Mealtime should be pleasurable, but for some of us, it becomes a battlefield.

Obsession around food develops from deprivation around food! But this means food starts to develop TOO MUCH meaning, to the point that it interferes with our life.

Our relationship with food is often a mirror image to how we're relating to something or someone else in our life. It indicates an unmet need! We have everything within us to meet our needs, and so investigating what those needs are might be the key!

What would it be like to no longer fight the power that food has in your life? What if you gave food the power that it wants, and gave yourself permission to spend more time with food? Or to bring new foods home? To eat them and appreciate them? Instead of fighting food, what if you gave it the power that it's been yearning for? Connect with food in a way that gives you space to experiment!

**Show Notes:**

Julie Dillon RD blog

Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus.

*The Intuitive Eating Workbook* by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch **---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition**

Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here.

**Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.**

Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.

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My mom criticizes my body and food choices. (Episode 114) Apr 09, 2018

Show notes

What do we do when our foundation for Food Peace™ is rooted in negative self-talk and shame? How do we find make peace with our body when those around us are hyper-critical of our appearance? Listen now to get my tips on how to handle this part of the Food Peace™ journey.

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This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in April, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.

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The transcribed episode can be found here.

Episode's Key Points:

Caregivers have a HUGE impact on our sense of self-worth and the development of positive self-talk. If our primary caregiver is a critical voice in our lives, we are unable to create our own internal compassionate voice.
If we have a caregiver with a personality disorder, it can be doubly hard to assert your right to your body. Personality disorders can be super rigid, and it's important to set boundaries around what is and isn't allowed. Tell this person that you won't talk about food and body with them anymore, period!
Specifically, having a primary caregiver with narcissistic personality disorder can really effect your ability to have a peaceful relationship with food and our body.
Our relationship with food MIRRORS our relationship with other aspects of our lives!
Experiencing a foundation of criticism related to our body will have a lasting impact on how we view our body.
The "shoulding" inner voice aims to shame us! It's important to react like a rebellious teenager to these shoulding voices.
When we deprive our bodies, they react by seeking out large amounts of highly palatable foods. This is the way our body tries to save us! It's important to reframe these experiences as something shameful, to something necessary for survival.
Compassionate curiosity is the foundation to Food Peace™. Seek out safe spaces to further enhance this journey, including online groups, therapists, and more.

Show Notes:

Julie Dillon RD blog
Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus.
The Shoulding Parent and Rebellious Teen Handout is found at JulieDillonRD.com/lovefood114
Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here.

Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.

Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.

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If I'm not focusing on weight am I making diabetes worse? (Ep 113 with Megrette Fletcher) Apr 02, 2018

Show notes

Does the non-diet approach make diabetes worse?? How does intuitive eating fit when a person has real health concerns are impacted by food choices? Listen now to get my Food Peace tips with Megrette Fletcher, diabetes AND mindful eating dietitian expert.

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This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in April, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.

This episode is also brought to you by my new Fat-Positive Dietitian t-shirt and mug! All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Check out the whole Love Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have an option with sizes ranging from XS to 5X.

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The transcribed episode can be found here.

Episode's Key Points:

Black and white thinking is a cognitive distortion. Real like, and real health, isn't like that at all. Being a weight-inclusive, fat-positive, non-diet dietitian is NOT an approach that harms health.
Gastric bypass does NOT rid the world of fatphobia! The answer to this problem is a combo solution: to help people heal their relationship with food AND with their bodies. Part of this means healing the cultural fatphobia our world is currently struggling with.
Megrette Fletcher joins us to talk about medical nutrition therapy!
Moving away from a job that doesn't support our passions and values is an amazing step.
The culture surrounding diabetes is super saturated by diet culture, and so moving out of the diet-centric paradigm in diabetes work is hard! Before insulin was invented, restriction was the only way we knew how to manage the disease.
We need to pause and think, why are we so afraid of nourishing the body?
When we teach diabetes from a Health at Every Size perspective, we address every body as an individual.
We're ALL marinating in diet culture, and people who struggle with diabetes exist in a diet-culture pressure cooker. We don't cause diabetes as it's a genetic disease, but so much of diet culture blames the individual and individual food and exercise choices.
Compassion is KEY for diabetes care, as there really isn't a cure and it's not a disease anyone asks for. It's a genetic condition that's VERY complex.
The goal needs to be to nourish the body, period. Where our weight ends up doesn't matter!
No matter what your body size, you need to eat! We need more food than we think, and we're allowed to nourish our bodies.

Show Notes:

Julie Dillon RD blog
Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus.
Intuitive Eating, 3rd ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon
The Rules of Normal Eating by Karen Koenig
Megrette's personal and professional guide to embracing a weight neutral approach to diabetes ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1
Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat by Michelle May and Megrette Fletcher
Find Megrette at her website! ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2
Julie's Love, Food letter
Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here.

Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.

Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.

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Everyday starts out good then I binge. Am I broken? (Ep 112 with Dana Magee) Mar 26, 2018

Show notes

Is Food Peace™ and intuitive eating your goal, but you're finding that being in a larger body is holding you back from that healing work? Listen now to get my tips on how to approach this part of the Food Peace™ journey.

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This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in April, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.

This episode is also brought to you by my new Fat-Positive Dietitian t-shirt and mug! All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you.

Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you.

The transcribed episode can be found here.

Episode's Key Points:

Food brings us health and connection, BUT it doesn't deserve the amount of power that we give it in diet culture. Food can't really cure us OR kill us!
Thin privilege is very, very real! Our ability to heal our relationship around food IS impacted by our size and how the world treats us based on that size.
You aren't "bad" based on your food choices!
Food deprivation in our past can translate into our present in the form of dieting.
Boys and men are often given permission to take up more space in the world and consume more food without negative associations. But growing girls need nourishment too!
Intuitive eating is essential for Food Peace™, but it's important not to turn it into yet another diet rule. It isn't the eat-when-you're-hungry-stop-when-you're-full diet! It's about listening to your body and being curious about how certain foods make you feel.
Intuitive eating is NOT a weight loss plan!!
The desire to be in a smaller body is often about the need to be accepted, rather than the need to actually be physically smaller.
Remember, you can still want to lose weight but not pursue it! The pursuit of weight loss is harmful for our health, but it can be hard to let go of that desire completely because we live in a fatphobic society. So put weight loss on the back-burner, otherwise Food Peace™ will continue to be out of reach. We can't listen to our fullness and hunger cues and honor them if we're worried about weight gain!
Historical deprivation gets in the way of our intuition around food, so it's important to unpack that with an intuitive-eating professional.
Intuitive eating work takes time, it's not linear, and it's messy. And the work is never really over because we live in diet culture! You're not doing it wrong. You're just in the process like everyone else.
Too much of morality is wrapped up in our food choices, and it's time to reject that!
If we don't eat enough during the day, our body pushes us to eat more at the end of the day. This is the restrict-binge cycle, and to stop it, you need to eat more!

Show Notes:

Julie Dillon RD blog
Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus.
Evelyn Tribole
Intuitive Eating, 3rd ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
Taste the Sweet Rebellion: Rebel Against Dieting Workbook by Dana Magee, Kaitlynn Fortunato Greenberg, and Rebecca Bitzer ---> This week's Food Peace™ Syllabus addition
Reach out to Dana via email
Summer Innanen and her Love, Food Episode
Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here.

Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.

Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

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Going home harms my relationship with food. (Ep 111) Mar 19, 2018

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Are you having success with healing your relationship with food, but are worried that going back into a toxic environment will jeopardize your newfound peace? Listen now to get my tips on how to approach this part of the Food Peace™ journey.

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Episode's Key Points:

Our relationship with food is a window into our unmet needs!
Instead of trying to avoid vulnerability, try sticking with it. It will help you tap into your own innate wisdom, and help guide you towards what you need to do next.
It's time to investigate our unmet need. Food can help distract us when we're going through challenging times, but figuring out the unmet need can provide some lasting relief. This strategy is called the Food Decoding Method!
Chronic illness is a tough experience on everyone, not just the person struggling with the pain. Remember that, and give yourself some compassion.
Hardship and health conditions are difficult, but they are NOT caused by being in a larger body. There's a relationship between body size and illness, but there's no research out there to prove that being in a larger body leads to ill health. In fact, there are lots of factors, like weight stigma, that aren't even considered in classic weight research.
Ending a relationship with your therapist is hard, but even going to a few sessions is worth it.
Explore the option of online therapy providers! Some of my colleagues doing virtual work include Christy Harrison, Erica Leon, and Paige Smathers.
You don't have to have your shit together. Transitions are messy, and adjustments take time!

Show Notes:

Julie Dillon RD blog
Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus.
Dr. Barbara Birsinger's work
Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here.

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