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**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:

**The Worst Diets for PCOS: Keto, Weight Watchers, and Low Calorie {PCOS Bonus Episode}** Jan 18, 2018
Show notes

Are you or is someone you know affected by PCOS? I have some bonus episodes for you! Listen now for the first bonus episode all about which diets are the WORST for PCOS management.

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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 on January 25th, 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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**Episode's Key Points:**

The primary treatment for PCOS is dieting... but diets don't work long-term! So what do we do?

We're going to look at three different diets and break down why they don't work for PCOS management...

Low-calorie diets: if you have PCOS, reducing calories below a certain point promotes inflammation, which is ultimately super harmful for our health, contributes to extreme exhaustion, drives up insulin levels, and encourages weight gain in the long-term.

The Keto diet: Keto diets promote a low-carb, low-fat, low-protein eating style, and if you have PCOS, you need more protein in your diet than the average person! Plus, there's ZERO published research looking at folks trying Keto plans who also are managing PCOS. The majority of the research also doesn't look any further than 4-6 weeks, which isn't long enough to claim long-term weight-loss success!! Long-term, Keto is going to promote weight gain and obsession over your food choices (which can ultimately lead to eating disorder behavior!!).

Weight Watchers: WW is similar to the low-calorie meal plan, but it may actually be the WORST for PCOS! That's because it's super accessible, and it co-opts body-positive language to pretend it's not a diet. Plus, they encourage low-fat and low-protein consumption, and remember, if you struggle with PCOS, you need more protein!! Less protein contributes to fatigue! Plus, WW has done their very own diet research that shows that 80% of their participants regain the weight within two years (and it's probably higher than that!).

You deserve a recommendation that's going to be health-promoting in the long term. So what do you do?? Any kind of style of eating that you're doing should promote energy and make room for connection with family and friends. You should also make sure to choose something that has been shown to work long-term through the research (including through your personal evidence!).

The number one predictor of weight gain is dieting, and the more we diet, the more we gain! But this is NOT your fault!! You've been given the wrong tools.

Letting go of dieting is NOT letting yourself go... it's letting yourself BE.

Wondering how to promote health with PCOS without dieting? Tune into the next Love, Food bonus episode to find out!

**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.

Traci Mann's research, including *Secrets from the Eating Lab*

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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**Will I ever feel free in my body? {Ep 102 with Meredith Noble}** Jan 15, 2018
Show notes

Do you still have days where you struggle to stay true to your anti-diet convictions? Is body image an issue that you're still grappling with, even if you've been on this journey for some time? Listen now to hear my conversation with Meredith Noble, and get our tips on how to navigate this part of theFood 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 on January 25th, 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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**Episode's Key Points:**

The world needs to be fixed, and we need to eradicate diet culture!!

Opting out of diet culture is a constant process.

Meredith Noble comes on the show to talk about struggling with what we see in the mirror.

It's so normal to understand anti-diet work on an intellectual level, but that doesn't mean we're integrating it into our lives.

Shame plays a big role!

We're all trying our best to survive in this fatphobic culture... remember, it's SO normal to feel the urge to go back to diets when we've been triggered because many of our struggles stem from this fatphobia.

Any work we've done before, even if we go back to dieting, is never wasted!

Many of us are fine with their bodies... until we see a photo of our bodies. When you feel triggered by a photo, try to change the focus from what your body looks like, to what you were feeling and experiencing in that moment.

Part of body acceptance is also making it a goal to look at bodies of all shapes and sizes, especially larger bodies. Instagram is a great resource for this! We can start to dismantle our own internalized fatphobia when we continually expose ourselves to the beauty of larger bodies.

It also may be helpful to look at photos of our OWN bodies more often. Take photos of yourself! Take selfies! Learn to appreciate them! And remember, don't limit yourself to your "best" angles... look at yourself from ALL perspectives!!

You don't need to be fixed... the WORLD needs to be fixed!

**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.

Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor

GlitterandLazers and Nakitende_Esther on Instagram

Vivienne McMaster's Be Your Own Beloved program **---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #1**

Find Meredith on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and on her website

Meredith's Instagram resource list **---> 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!

Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.

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**Food, you have always helped me feel comforted. But I can't accept that. {Episode 101}** Jan 08, 2018
Show notes

Has diet culture kept you from making real Food Peace™? Did you think you were making progress, only to find yourself struggling again? Listen now to hear a letter from someone struggling with the same thing, and get my take on how to overcome 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 later this month, 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.

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

**Episode's Key Points:**

We live in a world suffering from it’s own eating disorder!

Diet culture has infiltrated our society, and the majority of us suffer because of it.

Intuitive eating is a super important step in the food peace journey! There’s lots of research out there now that illustrates how intuitive eating promotes health.

Cultural fatphobia: you’re only acceptable if your body stays acceptable.

If your body doesn’t get enough food (which is what happens when a family member restricts our access to it), we feel deprived, and we respond by bingeing and hoarding food.

When we give ourselves permission to embrace food in whatever way we need to, we open the door for food peace and remove the threat of deprivation enough to be mindful about our needs.

We as human beings yearn for acceptance… and that’s one of the reasons we are so vulnerable to diets! They promise us that when we lose weight, we’ll finally fit in and be accepted. But this isn’t true! Not only will diets not give you lasting weight loss, but they also won’t give you lasting happiness.

Trauma can have a huge impact on our food peace journey, so be sure to honor that.

Know that making peace and “letting yourself go” with food DOESN’T mean you’re giving up… it means you’re letting yourself be.

Our relationship with food isn’t health or unhealthy… things aren’t so black and white! The way we relate to food is COMPLEX!!

What would happen if we accepted our bingeing behaviors?

Food is meant to be pleasurable and comforting! Unfortunately we often demonize that part of our relationship with food, but that really isn’t fair. Can we honor the ways food comforts us?

Bingeing is just a way our body lets us know that there’s an unmet need… and the bingeing helps us! It helps us stay alive, it helps comfort us, and it helps us survive.

It’s important to challenge beauty ideals and call out diet culture and oppression. Seek out support on social media to help you on that journey!

You deserve happiness in the skin you’re in today!

**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* by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, IntuitiveEating.org, and the 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating

Summer Innanen

Love, Food Podcast Episode 20

@bodyposipanda AKA Megan Jayne Crabbe **---> 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!

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I'm tired of fighting the world to not diet. I'm tempted to try again. {Episode 100 Season 2 Premiere} Jan 01, 2018

Show notes

Are you feeling tempted by all of the New Years diet talk? Do you know diets don't work, and yet find yourself thinking that maybe this time it'll be different? Listen now for my reminders on why intuitive eating and food peace are the way to true empowerment and health.

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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 January 2018, 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.

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

Episode's Key Points:

We know that diets don't work long-term... and yet, the New Year brings the tempting diet message to the forefront, especially for those of us in larger bodies that face weight stigma.
What is intuitive eating? How can it help us to find Food Peace™?
The more we try to restrict, the more we feel chaotic around food, and the more likely we are to experience weight gain and eating disorders.
This process of Food Peace™ is SO much harder if we live in a larger body!
Diets are this big, seductive fantasy designed to keep us stuck in ideas around what makes us worthy.
Let's find a way to make our bodies acceptable right NOW.
Diets also hold this idea of hope for connection and acceptance, which is part of what makes it so tempting.
I believe in body liberation and body autonomy... you can do what you want with your body! But I still encourage you, when you feel the pull of dieting, to consider what triggered that thought process. Investigate it, and if the root of it is yearning to connect with others, consider that connection is what you really want, not weight loss.
Working towards radical self-acceptance can feel isolating! Remember that part of the seduction of dieting is hope for connection and acceptance to and from others.
People in larger bodies are often praised for seeking out weight loss. It can help you feel more accepted and create a mode of connection... but that doesn't mean it's the right way forward.
It's possible that diets are trying to help you meet unmet needs of acceptance and connections. Diving deeper into the WHY is so important!!
Shame is likely a part of this as well, so investigate that and unwrap the true motivations behind this urge.
Ask yourself, what are you really yearning for?

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 and The Intuitive Eating Workbook by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
Jes Baker's blog and book, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls
The Body Positive and their book, Embody
"Wanting to Lose Weight Isn't Shameful" by Hilary Kinavey at Be Nourished
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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