Rachel Popik

For this minisode, PCOS Power Community Manager Rachel Popik chats about how foraging and learning about where her food comes from helped her on her journey to find her food voice.Please follow us on TikTok and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: Rachel's Instagram / Rachel's TikTok / @blackforager on Instagram / @alexisnicole on TikTok / @lindablackelk on Instagram / @lindablackelk on TikTok / Sam Thayer’s Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Of Eastern and Central North America / Leda Meredith’s Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Beach Plums to Wineberries / iNaturalist app / Seek appFood peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS ManifestoIf you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources here.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For this minisode, PCOS Power Community Manager Rachel Popik chats about how foraging and learning about where her food comes from helped her on her journey to find her food voice.Please follow us on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@foodvoicerd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TikTok</a> and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/staydoughy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rachel's Instagram</a> / <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@staydoughy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rachel's TikTok</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/blackforager/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@blackforager on Instagram</a> / <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@alexisnikole?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@alexisnicole on TikTok</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/LindaBlackElk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@lindablackelk on Instagram</a> / <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@linda.black.elk?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@lindablackelk on TikTok</a> / <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Thayers-Field-Guide-Edible-Plants/dp/0976626640" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sam Thayer’s Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Of Eastern and Central North America</a> / <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Northeast-Foraging-Flavorful-Edibles-Wineberries/dp/1604694173" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Leda Meredith’s Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Beach Plums to Wineberries</a> / <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iNaturalist app</a> / <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seek-by-inaturalist/id1353224144" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Seek app</a>Food peace resources: <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/great-news-for-pcos-sufferers-there-is-another-way/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap</a> / <a href="https://julieduffydillon.thinkific.com/courses/the-pcos-and-food-peace-course" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Course</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Food Peace Syllabus</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTnKFFPrRt5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My PCOS Manifesto</a>If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1076673018?ls=1&amp;mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources <a href="https://julieduffydillon.com/voice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

[Minisode] Foraging and Abundance with Rachel Popik

Coleen Bremner

This week, Coleen Bremner leads us through a soothing meditation to give you some comfort and ground you on your food voice journey. Listen when you need a moment to care for yourself.Please follow us on TikTok and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: Coleen BremnerFood peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS ManifestoIf you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources here.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, Coleen Bremner leads us through a soothing meditation to give you some comfort and ground you on your food voice journey. Listen when you need a moment to care for yourself.Please follow us on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@foodvoicerd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TikTok</a> and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/abraudabroad/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Coleen Bremner</a>Food peace resources: <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/great-news-for-pcos-sufferers-there-is-another-way/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap</a> / <a href="https://julieduffydillon.thinkific.com/courses/the-pcos-and-food-peace-course" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Course</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Food Peace Syllabus</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTnKFFPrRt5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My PCOS Manifesto</a>If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1076673018?ls=1&amp;mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources <a href="https://julieduffydillon.com/voice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

[Minisode] A Meditation For Your PCOS & Food Voice Journey with Coleen Bremner

If you're a bookworm, this minisode is for you! Yeli talks us through three books she's recently read and loved that have amazing fat main characters.Please follow us on TikTok and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado / Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade / Electric Idol by Katee RobertFood peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS ManifestoIf you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources here.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If you're a bookworm, this minisode is for you! Yeli talks us through three books she's recently read and loved that have amazing fat main characters.Please follow us on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@foodvoicerd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TikTok</a> and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/648097/fat-chance-charlie-vega-by-by-crystal-maldonado/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado</a> / <a href="https://oliviadade.com/books/spoiler-alert/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade</a> / <a href="https://www.kateerobert.com/electric-idol" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Electric Idol by Katee Robert</a>Food peace resources: <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/great-news-for-pcos-sufferers-there-is-another-way/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap</a> / <a href="https://julieduffydillon.thinkific.com/courses/the-pcos-and-food-peace-course" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Course</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Food Peace Syllabus</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTnKFFPrRt5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My PCOS Manifesto</a>If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1076673018?ls=1&amp;mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources <a href="https://julieduffydillon.com/voice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

[Minisode] Yeli's Top 3 Romance Books with Fat Main Characters

This week, Julie walks us through the things she's learned about how to help kids find their food voice. Listen for more on how to be intentional with your words, navigating perfectionism, and considering eating rules. Please follow us on TikTok and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: Ellyn SatterFood peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS ManifestoIf you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources here.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, Julie walks us through the things she's learned about how to help kids find their food voice. Listen for more on how to be intentional with your words, navigating perfectionism, and considering eating rules. Please follow us on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@foodvoicerd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TikTok</a> and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: <a href="https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ellyn Satter</a>Food peace resources: <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/great-news-for-pcos-sufferers-there-is-another-way/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap</a> / <a href="https://julieduffydillon.thinkific.com/courses/the-pcos-and-food-peace-course" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Course</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Food Peace Syllabus</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTnKFFPrRt5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My PCOS Manifesto</a>If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1076673018?ls=1&amp;mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources <a href="https://julieduffydillon.com/voice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice! Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

[Minisode] How to Help Kids Find Their Food Voice

Tune in this week for some behind-the-scenes details from Coleen, Rachel, and Yeli, the Find Your Food Voice &amp; PCOS Power team. Learn more about how the podcast lands in your feeds and what goes into running the PCOS Power course.Please follow us on TikTok and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: Yeli's Instagram / Coleen's Instagram / Rachel's Instagram / Rachel's TikTokFood peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS ManifestoIf you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources here.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tune in this week for some behind-the-scenes details from Coleen, Rachel, and Yeli, the Find Your Food Voice &amp; PCOS Power team. Learn more about how the podcast lands in your feeds and what goes into running the PCOS Power course.Please follow us on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@foodvoicerd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TikTok</a> and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yelibertcruz/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yeli's Instagram</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/abraudabroad/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Coleen's Instagram</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/staydoughy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rachel's Instagram</a> / <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@staydoughy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rachel's TikTok</a>Food peace resources: <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/great-news-for-pcos-sufferers-there-is-another-way/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap</a> / <a href="https://julieduffydillon.thinkific.com/courses/the-pcos-and-food-peace-course" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Course</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Food Peace Syllabus</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTnKFFPrRt5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My PCOS Manifesto</a>If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1076673018?ls=1&amp;mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources <a href="https://julieduffydillon.com/voice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

[Minisode] Behind the Scenes of Find Your Food Voice & PCOS Power

This week's minisode is all about how Julie quit her old job and how it led her to start her private practice and help people heal their relationship with food. She walks us through where she started after grad school, the big cry, and the aftermath.Please follow us on TikTok and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS ManifestoIf you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources here.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week's minisode is all about how Julie quit her old job and how it led her to start her private practice and help people heal their relationship with food. She walks us through where she started after grad school, the big cry, and the aftermath.Please follow us on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@foodvoicerd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TikTok</a> and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Food peace resources: <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/great-news-for-pcos-sufferers-there-is-another-way/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap</a> / <a href="https://julieduffydillon.thinkific.com/courses/the-pcos-and-food-peace-course" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Course</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Food Peace Syllabus</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTnKFFPrRt5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My PCOS Manifesto</a>If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1076673018?ls=1&amp;mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources <a href="https://julieduffydillon.com/voice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

[Minisode] How Julie Quit Her Job

Rachel hosts this week's minisode to tell us about how she found her food voice. Listen for more about how she began to reject diets, learn about fat liberation, and reclaim cooking. Please follow us on TikTok and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: She's All Fat / Rachel's Instagram / Rachel's TikTokFood peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS ManifestoIf you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources here.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Rachel hosts this week's minisode to tell us about how she found her food voice. Listen for more about how she began to reject diets, learn about fat liberation, and reclaim cooking. Please follow us on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@foodvoicerd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TikTok</a> and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: <a href="https://shesallfatpod.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">She's All Fat</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/staydoughy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rachel's Instagram</a> / <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@staydoughy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rachel's TikTok</a>Food peace resources: <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/great-news-for-pcos-sufferers-there-is-another-way/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap</a> / <a href="https://julieduffydillon.thinkific.com/courses/the-pcos-and-food-peace-course" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Course</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Food Peace Syllabus</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTnKFFPrRt5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My PCOS Manifesto</a>If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1076673018?ls=1&amp;mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources <a href="https://julieduffydillon.com/voice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

[Minisode] How Rachel Found Her Food Voice

Coleen joins us for our minisode this week to chat through her journey to finding her food voice. She walks us through her history with dieting, her first steps to finding #bodypositivity, and more.Please follow us on TikTok and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: Intuitive Eating / Coleen's InstagramFood peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS ManifestoIf you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources here.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Coleen joins us for our minisode this week to chat through her journey to finding her food voice. She walks us through her history with dieting, her first steps to finding #bodypositivity, and more.Please follow us on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@foodvoicerd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TikTok</a> and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: <a href="http://www.intuitiveeating.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Intuitive Eating</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/abraudabroad/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Coleen's Instagram</a>Food peace resources: <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/great-news-for-pcos-sufferers-there-is-another-way/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap</a> / <a href="https://julieduffydillon.thinkific.com/courses/the-pcos-and-food-peace-course" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Course</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Food Peace Syllabus</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTnKFFPrRt5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My PCOS Manifesto</a>If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1076673018?ls=1&amp;mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources <a href="https://julieduffydillon.com/voice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

[Minisode] How Coleen Found Her Food Voice

This week, we're introducing our minisodes! For the next couple of months we'll be dropping short episodes in your feeds for a quick listen on the go. To kick us off, Yeli Cruz is talking about how she found her food voice, leaning on body liberation, and how her relationship to food has changed.Please follow us on TikTok and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: She's All FatFood peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS ManifestoIf you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources here.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, we're introducing our minisodes! For the next couple of months we'll be dropping short episodes in your feeds for a quick listen on the go. To kick us off, Yeli Cruz is talking about how she found her food voice, leaning on body liberation, and how her relationship to food has changed.Please follow us on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@foodvoicerd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TikTok</a> and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: <a href="https://shesallfatpod.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">She's All Fat</a>Food peace resources: <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/great-news-for-pcos-sufferers-there-is-another-way/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap</a> / <a href="https://julieduffydillon.thinkific.com/courses/the-pcos-and-food-peace-course" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Course</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Food Peace Syllabus</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTnKFFPrRt5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My PCOS Manifesto</a>If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1076673018?ls=1&amp;mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review on iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources <a href="https://julieduffydillon.com/voice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

[Minisode] How Yeli Found Her Food Voice

In this week's Diet Culture IRL segment, we're changing things up a bit - Julie and Coleen discuss current wins, small victories, and forward movement in the fight for equity for folks in larger bodies. Please follow us on TikTok and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: Carb Cravings Open House  / New York City to ban discrimination based on weight / Why These Women Are Proudly Embracing Their Bodies In The Midst of Toxic Diet Culture / B'way Body Positivity Project / Kimmie Singh Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS ManifestoIf you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources here.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this week's Diet Culture IRL segment, we're changing things up a bit - Julie and Coleen discuss current wins, small victories, and forward movement in the fight for equity for folks in larger bodies. Please follow us on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@foodvoicerd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TikTok</a> and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.Mentioned in this episode: <a href="https://julie-duffy-dillon.ck.page/pcospowercravings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carb Cravings Open House</a>  / <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/22/weight-discrimination-ban/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New York City to ban discrimination based on weight</a> / <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?ab_channel=TamronHallShow&amp;v=SbLmnKeFB-Q" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Why These Women Are Proudly Embracing Their Bodies In The Midst of Toxic Diet Culture</a> / <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?ab_channel=TamronHallShow&amp;v=SbLmnKeFB-Q" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">B'way Body Positivity Project</a> / <a href="https://www.bodyhonornutrition.com/about" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kimmie Singh</a> Food peace resources: <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/great-news-for-pcos-sufferers-there-is-another-way/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap</a> / <a href="https://julieduffydillon.thinkific.com/courses/the-pcos-and-food-peace-course" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS + Food Peace Course</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Food Peace Syllabus</a> / <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTnKFFPrRt5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My PCOS Manifesto</a>If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click <a href="https://juliedillonrd.com/freebies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey!Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1076673018?ls=1&amp;mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Find FREE food voice resources <a href="https://julieduffydillon.com/voice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

[Diet Culture IRL] Celebrating Our Fat-Positive Wins

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.

Relatable and personable.  It’s good to hear the fresh perspective coming from this podcast.

Fresh and Real

i love this podcast!! it is interesting &amp; helpful &amp; great! it has helped me a lot!

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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.

Find Your Food Voice

Along your Food Peace™ journey you may have connected with how you were raised around food and how to treat your body. Did you learn early on that only thin bodies were acceptable? That we MUST diet in order to keep our weight low and letting go was a failure? Not surprising then that the desire to lose weight will continue. How do you stop wanting to lose weight? How do you accept your body? Listen now to the latest Love Food podcast episode for insight along this part of your journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.  This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peaceand Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.  I want to share the work going on within Decolonizing Fitness. The person behind it, Ilya Parker, is a trans person of color Physical Therapist Assistant and  Medical Exercise Coachwith over 13 years of rehabilitative and functional training experience. He is a social justice advocate and educator whose work centers gender, racial and healing justice. He decided to merge his love for restorative based movement practices and community advocacy to create Decolonizing Fitness, LLC; which is a social justice platform that provides affirming fitness services, community education and apparel in support of body diversity. Check out www.decolonizingfitness.com.  This episode's Dear Food letter:   Dear Food,   I've been struggling with you for almost my entire life.  When I was little I remember watching my Dad go on diet after diet and rigidly refusing to go up a pant size.  It looked so miserable but I also wanted to be like him.  I also knew (from what my parents had told me) that I was getting fat.  So when I was 8, I went on my first diet and began counting calories.  Later, around age 15, I began to reject dieting and wanted to relax and eat what I wanted.  This made my parents uncomfortable and eventually they began to mandate that I diet and exercise.  I began to sneak you up to my bedroom and eat you in the middle of the night.  I was riddled with shame, guilt, and self-hatred.  Even when I was outside of my parent's control, I carried their voices of judgment with me and continued dieting throughout most of my adult life.   Now I'm 31 and I've tried so hard to redefine my relationship with you and my body.  I've seen a counselor and nutritionist who come from an intuitive eating approach.  I was fortunate enough to be part of a 10-week intuitive eating group and I loved it!  But a job change caused me to move away from those resources and now I feel stuck.  I'm heavier than I've ever been in my entire life and I'm so ashamed of my body.  I don't even recognize myself when I look in the mirror.  While the dream of being smaller is still tempting, the thought of dieting repulses me.  I know dieting isn't the answer, but I can't seem to get the hang of intuitive eating.  I feel like I'm making zero progress on my journey to food peace.   Often I still feel like that rebellious teenager who would overeat (whether it made her feel good or not) just to spite her parents.  I still want to lose weight but I know that intuitive eating isn't suppose to be about that.  How do I stop the incessant desire to be smaller when it's been a part of my life for so long?   I'm also feeling scared because sometimes listening to my body and choosing to stop eating when I'm full/satisfied or not eat something because my inner wisdom is telling me that I don't truly want it reminds me of the rules and restrictions I lived under for so long.  Intellectually I know that responding to my body and inner wisdom is different than dieting.  But emotionally they sometimes feel the same.  Eventually I end up still engaging in rebellious eating even though I'm not sure what/who I'm rebelling against.  Then I feel like I've fallen off track and give up and shame takes over.  I know this is a diet mentality but I can't seem to shake it!  I'm not sure how to interrupt this cycle and stop thinking of intuitive eating through this dieting lens.  I want to move forward in my food and body peace journey but I'm not sure how to get past this hurtle.  I just want to find peace with you and my body but I'm not sure what the next step should be.   Love,   Stuck In The Cycle   Show Notes:  6 Keys To Food Peace™️ blog post Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. The PCOS and Food Peace Podcast Eating Disorder Dietitians  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Along your Food Peace™ journey you may have connected with how you were raised around food and how to treat your body. Did you learn early on that only thin bodies were acceptable? That we MUST diet in order to keep our weight low and letting go was a failure? Not surprising then that the desire to lose weight will continue. How do you stop wanting to lose weight? How do you accept your body? Listen now to the latest Love Food podcast episode for insight along this part of your journey. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> <blockquote> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a>and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I want to share the work going on within Decolonizing Fitness. The person behind it, Ilya Parker, is a trans person of color Physical Therapist Assistant and <a href="https://decolonizingfitness.com/products/medical-exercise-program" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Medical Exercise Coach</a>with over 13 years of rehabilitative and functional training experience. He is a social justice advocate and educator whose work centers gender, racial and healing justice. He decided to merge his love for restorative based movement practices and community advocacy to create Decolonizing Fitness, LLC; which is a social justice platform that provides affirming fitness services, community education and apparel in support of body diversity. Check out <a href="http://www.decolonizingfitness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.decolonizingfitness.com</a>. </blockquote> This episode's Dear Food letter: <blockquote> Dear Food,   I've been struggling with you for almost my entire life.  When I was little I remember watching my Dad go on diet after diet and rigidly refusing to go up a pant size.  It looked so miserable but I also wanted to be like him.  I also knew (from what my parents had told me) that I was getting fat.  So when I was 8, I went on my first diet and began counting calories.  Later, around age 15, I began to reject dieting and wanted to relax and eat what I wanted.  This made my parents uncomfortable and eventually they began to mandate that I diet and exercise.  I began to sneak you up to my bedroom and eat you in the middle of the night.  I was riddled with shame, guilt, and self-hatred.  Even when I was outside of my parent's control, I carried their voices of judgment with me and continued dieting throughout most of my adult life.   Now I'm 31 and I've tried so hard to redefine my relationship with you and my body.  I've seen a counselor and nutritionist who come from an intuitive eating approach.  I was fortunate enough to be part of a 10-week intuitive eating group and I loved it!  But a job change caused me to move away from those resources and now I feel stuck.  I'm heavier than I've ever been in my entire life and I'm so ashamed of my body.  I don't even recognize myself when I look in the mirror.  While the dream of being smaller is still tempting, the thought of dieting repulses me.  I know dieting isn't the answer, but I can't seem to get the hang of intuitive eating.  I feel like I'm making zero progress on my journey to food peace.   Often I still feel like that rebellious teenager who would overeat (whether it made her feel good or not) just to spite her parents.  I still want to lose weight but I know that intuitive eating isn't suppose to be about that.  How do I stop the incessant desire to be smaller when it's been a part of my life for so long?   I'm also feeling scared because sometimes listening to my body and choosing to stop eating when I'm full/satisfied or not eat something because my inner wisdom is telling me that I don't truly want it reminds me of the rules and restrictions I lived under for so long.  Intellectually I know that responding to my body and inner wisdom is different than dieting.  But emotionally they sometimes feel the same.  Eventually I end up still engaging in rebellious eating even though I'm not sure what/who I'm rebelling against.  Then I feel like I've fallen off track and give up and shame takes over.  I know this is a diet mentality but I can't seem to shake it!  I'm not sure how to interrupt this cycle and stop thinking of intuitive eating through this dieting lens.  I want to move forward in my food and body peace journey but I'm not sure how to get past this hurtle.  I just want to find peace with you and my body but I'm not sure what the next step should be.   Love,   Stuck In The Cycle </blockquote> Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a>™️ blog post</li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li><a href="https://pcosandfoodpeace.com/podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The PCOS and Food Peace Podcast</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a></li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(154) How do I stop wanting to lose weight?

Do you refer to yourself as an emotional eater? Do you feel shame whenever you feel soothed by food? Listen to this latest Love Food Podcast episode exploring the normal side of emotional eating and how to redefine your next steps toward Food Peace™. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.  This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I've just discovered the Body Love Box and it looks like a fantastic resource for people who live in large bodies or anyone who wants to improve their body image. It's a monthly subscription box that gets mailed to your home and it includes things like body-positive stickers and pins as well as deeper resources on body acceptance, health at every size and intuitive eating. Each box includes items from fat and marginalized creators, and pays them a living wage for their work. The monthly subscription can be found at  www.thebodylovebox.com, and use the code LOVEFOOD for 15% off your first month.  This episode's Dear Food letter:  Dear food,  I’m 32 and I’ve only just started listening to my thoughts/emotions and how my eating patterns are effected. If I’m not feeling good enough, when I’m dumped by a boyfriend, ignored or shut out by a person then I binge eat. I’m so sad that I go straight for the whole tub of ice cream and a whole bag of chips etc... If I’m worried or stressed then I have no appetite and forget, or just cannot physically eat. I would love to take charge of my emotional eating as it causes me to feel sluggish, heavy, I don’t know why I do it because it doesn’t make me feel better. I would really like to take control of my emotional eating. As I understand it I have to tackle my emotional connection to food which is triggered by not being good enough. I’m early in this and looking forward to learning more about other people’s journeys which will support me on my own. Many thanks, Trapped Emotional Eater  Show Notes:  6 Keys To Food Peace™️ blog post Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Eating Disorder Dietitians  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you refer to yourself as an emotional eater? Do you feel shame whenever you feel soothed by food? Listen to this latest Love Food Podcast episode exploring the normal side of emotional eating and how to redefine your next steps toward Food Peace™. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> <blockquote> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a> and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I've just discovered the Body Love Box and it looks like a fantastic resource for people who live in large bodies or anyone who wants to improve their body image. It's a monthly subscription box that gets mailed to your home and it includes things like body-positive stickers and pins as well as deeper resources on body acceptance, health at every size and intuitive eating. Each box includes items from fat and marginalized creators, and pays them a living wage for their work. The monthly subscription can be found at <a href="http://www.thebodylovebox.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> www.thebodylovebox.com</a>, and use the code LOVEFOOD for 15% off your first month. </blockquote> This episode's Dear Food letter: <blockquote> Dear food,  I’m 32 and I’ve only just started listening to my thoughts/emotions and how my eating patterns are effected. If I’m not feeling good enough, when I’m dumped by a boyfriend, ignored or shut out by a person then I binge eat. I’m so sad that I go straight for the whole tub of ice cream and a whole bag of chips etc... If I’m worried or stressed then I have no appetite and forget, or just cannot physically eat. I would love to take charge of my emotional eating as it causes me to feel sluggish, heavy, I don’t know why I do it because it doesn’t make me feel better. I would really like to take control of my emotional eating. As I understand it I have to tackle my emotional connection to food which is triggered by not being good enough. I’m early in this and looking forward to learning more about other people’s journeys which will support me on my own. Many thanks, Trapped Emotional Eater </blockquote> Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a>™️ blog post</li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li><a href="http://www.eddietitians.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a></li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(143) How do I control my emotional eating?

Welcome to the Season 4 premier of the Love Food Podcast! I am so glad you are here. Let's dive into exploring a history of complicated family dynamics, genetic ties to eating disorders, trauma, and feeling stuck in binge cycles. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Looking want more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Projecton Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peaceand Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode's Dear Food letter: {CW: trauma, ED behaviors} Dear Food,   I don't really know exactly when my relationship became complicated with you, or quite how it came to control my life. I remember when I was in my early teens, being the one to say diets are bullshit, and not thinking about what I ate. Being anti-diet culture was practically a part of my identity, and such is where my values sit today, but I live in complete contradiction. At some point in my teens, I started restricted and using my vegetarianism to always choose the salad option at school. But it wasn't controlling, it wasn't overwhelming; it felt more like a natural reaction to being at an all girls school in the society that we live in - an image-based thing. Sometimes, it was reactionary, in spite of my (well-meaning) mother who would always tell me that 'soup is a starter not a meal', and check if I was eating enough despite her smaller portions. (I later learned she had a struggled with anorexia for years, and would still struggle to eat in times of stress.) I developed anxiety and depression by age 16, which ruled and ruined my sixth-form life. Perhaps it was the exam stress, the family troubles - growing up with a drug abusing brother who was in and out of school, in and out of home, in and out of hospital (not that I was always told straight away). We had a complex relationship with my father, who always vied for my brother's attention and allegiance against my mother. I tried to be always neutral, always loving of all parties - because I was, and couldn't not be. But with this came a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, and the earnest desire to always tread this precarious, and often punishing line.  Of course, when I couldn't - and can't today - there is guilt. I was a straight A* student until the slump during my sixth form years, when my energy broke, and I scraped my way through the last 2 years. I used to be, and still feel like I should be, the person who was able to succeed at anything and everything without dropping the ball - but suddenly I could do nothing, and have struggled ever since. Around this time I realised there was probably something wrong - a cause. Through an explosive conversation with my mother, I was pushed to a consultation with a therapist and given the diagnosis - anxiety and depression - but didn't receive further help.   In my first year of uni I tried to access help myself, but was turned away by the uni counselling services after a few sessions, saying they didn't know how to help me as I had already thought everything through so much myself. It was in this year I had a few episodes of bingeing and purging. This continued around occasional periods of stress, such as exams, but not as a regular method of coping.   In second year, my mental health worsened. Restricting, binging and purging became a secret indulgence, but never something I saw as a problem as it was so sporadic. I had difficult relationships with my flatmates, though I had stronger friendships elsewhere, I felt alone. I became so ill I had to defer my exams. I worked towards the summer session, hoping I could somehow manage. But two weeks before I was due to take them, I was raped.  Utterly broken, I moved back in with my parents for a few months, during which time I tried to use food to console myself while I tried to process what happened. But when a close family member was admitted to hospital with terminal cancer, I began majorly restricting. When they passed away and my family fell apart, I moved back to my uni town and started a new job, trying to get my life back on track. Pretty much all the friends I thought I had were no longer there for me. I managed to access CBT for 9 weeks, but developed bulimia in an dramatic way, binging and purging at least 3 times in a day, at one time losing a stone in a month. This continued through another exam deferral, and another.  I fought for a year to access treatment, being passed from waiting list to waiting list, rejected for being too symptomatic, too complicated or not fitting criteria. Along the way, I met someone who truly loves me and cares for men and helps me through these struggles. When I am with him, I eat normally and don't purge, but will find myself in tears most evenings because of food. My weight is stable at a healthy BMI, but I am miserable in my skin, mentally exhausted, and absolutely terrified: of this relationship with food that dominates my life. I cannot have food around me and resist it, regardless of whether I am hungry - I am so anxious about when I might need to eat, that I am constantly aware of a hunger, and I cannot discern the emotional from the physical. I know I use bingeing and purging as both a means of occupying myself when I am alone, as an emotional control and as a form of self-harm. And what started as a tool has grown like a weed to something that I am constantly aware of, and bothers me even when I am happiest. I love to cook, and often cook with my boyfriend, but cannot enjoy a meal without resenting myself and being overwhelmed with frustration as a result. In a month, I will finally be starting treatment (psychotherapy with a trauma focus), but I am worried about managing my relationship with food during this time, as I know it will be a gradual process, and not the focus of my treatment. Additional private treatment isn't easily an option for me. I am also worried about the strain I place on my boyfriend, who is always there for me, but who cannot fight the battle for me, no matter how much he may want to try.  I am trying to keep the willpower to fight for myself, to maintain the relationships I have left and succeed in my final chance to pass these exams in just a few months. I desperately need peace with you food, so that I can have more energy to make peace elsewhere in my life.  Yours,  Terrified &amp; pleading for a truce Show Notes:  Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Find Eating Disorder Dietitiansnear you.  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome to the Season 4 premier of the Love Food Podcast! I am so glad you are here. Let's dive into exploring a history of complicated family dynamics, genetic ties to eating disorders, trauma, and feeling stuck in binge cycles. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> Looking want more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Projecton Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at <a href="http://patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast</a> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a>and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode's Dear Food letter: {CW: trauma, ED behaviors} Dear Food,   I don't really know exactly when my relationship became complicated with you, or quite how it came to control my life. I remember when I was in my early teens, being the one to say diets are bullshit, and not thinking about what I ate. Being anti-diet culture was practically a part of my identity, and such is where my values sit today, but I live in complete contradiction. At some point in my teens, I started restricted and using my vegetarianism to always choose the salad option at school. But it wasn't controlling, it wasn't overwhelming; it felt more like a natural reaction to being at an all girls school in the society that we live in - an image-based thing. Sometimes, it was reactionary, in spite of my (well-meaning) mother who would always tell me that 'soup is a starter not a meal', and check if I was eating enough despite her smaller portions. (I later learned she had a struggled with anorexia for years, and would still struggle to eat in times of stress.) I developed anxiety and depression by age 16, which ruled and ruined my sixth-form life. Perhaps it was the exam stress, the family troubles - growing up with a drug abusing brother who was in and out of school, in and out of home, in and out of hospital (not that I was always told straight away). We had a complex relationship with my father, who always vied for my brother's attention and allegiance against my mother. I tried to be always neutral, always loving of all parties - because I was, and couldn't not be. But with this came a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, and the earnest desire to always tread this precarious, and often punishing line.  Of course, when I couldn't - and can't today - there is guilt. I was a straight A* student until the slump during my sixth form years, when my energy broke, and I scraped my way through the last 2 years. I used to be, and still feel like I should be, the person who was able to succeed at anything and everything without dropping the ball - but suddenly I could do nothing, and have struggled ever since. Around this time I realised there was probably something wrong - a cause. Through an explosive conversation with my mother, I was pushed to a consultation with a therapist and given the diagnosis - anxiety and depression - but didn't receive further help.   In my first year of uni I tried to access help myself, but was turned away by the uni counselling services after a few sessions, saying they didn't know how to help me as I had already thought everything through so much myself. It was in this year I had a few episodes of bingeing and purging. This continued around occasional periods of stress, such as exams, but not as a regular method of coping.   In second year, my mental health worsened. Restricting, binging and purging became a secret indulgence, but never something I saw as a problem as it was so sporadic. I had difficult relationships with my flatmates, though I had stronger friendships elsewhere, I felt alone. I became so ill I had to defer my exams. I worked towards the summer session, hoping I could somehow manage. But two weeks before I was due to take them, I was raped.  Utterly broken, I moved back in with my parents for a few months, during which time I tried to use food to console myself while I tried to process what happened. But when a close family member was admitted to hospital with terminal cancer, I began majorly restricting. When they passed away and my family fell apart, I moved back to my uni town and started a new job, trying to get my life back on track. Pretty much all the friends I thought I had were no longer there for me. I managed to access CBT for 9 weeks, but developed bulimia in an dramatic way, binging and purging at least 3 times in a day, at one time losing a stone in a month. This continued through another exam deferral, and another.  I fought for a year to access treatment, being passed from waiting list to waiting list, rejected for being too symptomatic, too complicated or not fitting criteria. Along the way, I met someone who truly loves me and cares for men and helps me through these struggles. When I am with him, I eat normally and don't purge, but will find myself in tears most evenings because of food. My weight is stable at a healthy BMI, but I am miserable in my skin, mentally exhausted, and absolutely terrified: of this relationship with food that dominates my life. I cannot have food around me and resist it, regardless of whether I am hungry - I am so anxious about when I might need to eat, that I am constantly aware of a hunger, and I cannot discern the emotional from the physical. I know I use bingeing and purging as both a means of occupying myself when I am alone, as an emotional control and as a form of self-harm. And what started as a tool has grown like a weed to something that I am constantly aware of, and bothers me even when I am happiest. I love to cook, and often cook with my boyfriend, but cannot enjoy a meal without resenting myself and being overwhelmed with frustration as a result. In a month, I will finally be starting treatment (psychotherapy with a trauma focus), but I am worried about managing my relationship with food during this time, as I know it will be a gradual process, and not the focus of my treatment. Additional private treatment isn't easily an option for me. I am also worried about the strain I place on my boyfriend, who is always there for me, but who cannot fight the battle for me, no matter how much he may want to try.  I am trying to keep the willpower to fight for myself, to maintain the relationships I have left and succeed in my final chance to pass these exams in just a few months. I desperately need peace with you food, so that I can have more energy to make peace elsewhere in my life.  Yours,  Terrified &amp; pleading for a truce Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li>Find <a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a>near you.</li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(170) Season 4 Premier: I cannot have food around me and resist it.

Caroline Dooner

When did you learn that certain bodies were more valuable? When did you start your first diet? Recovering from chronic dieting or an eating disorder can't all be independent and individual. Culturally we must change together to help support your recovery. Listen to the latest Love Food Podcast episode and hear from Caroline Dooner, author of the book The Fuck It Diet. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.  This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peaceand Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.  I want to share the work going on within Decolonizing Fitness. The person behind it, Ilya Parker, is a trans person of color Physical Therapist Assistant and  Medical Exercise Coachwith over 13 years of rehabilitative and functional training experience. He is a social justice advocate and educator whose work centers gender, racial and healing justice. He decided to merge his love for restorative based movement practices and community advocacy to create Decolonizing Fitness, LLC; which is a social justice platform that provides affirming fitness services, community education and apparel in support of body diversity. Check out www.decolonizingfitness.com.  This episode's Dear Food letter:  Dear Food,  You are my best friend and my worst enemy. You are as familiar to me as my own backyard, and yet as foreign as the deepest realms of the ocean. I taste you and smell you and manipulate you with my two hands every day. I read about you. I peruse photographs of you on Instagram. I am obsessed with you. And yet, I hate you.  Currently, I work as a baker. I graduated last spring with a BS in nutrition. I’ve learned through my career how to meld delicious flavors and bake a custard to perfection. I’ve learned through my schooling how to teach others about ‘balanced’ eating. However, I don’t know how to eat. I’ve cycled through patterns nearly my whole life. Restriction, bingeing, purging, exercising and always compulsively weighing myself. I’ve probably spent at least $200 on bathroom scales. Once, in Italy, I pretended to tour a gym in interest of their membership, just hoping to find a scale. My weight is the center point of my life. Therefore, you are at the center point of my life.  My childhood was…interesting – as said in a negative, classically Minnesotan matter. I also don’t have the best memory of those days, but I can place pieces together. I ate for comfort, and my high weight quickly became an issue I could not escape. I don’t remember when I was first placed on a diet, but the on-again, off-again dieting cycle started some time in elementary school. My step-mom took me to doctors for weight loss medication. I’d take it, but with limited results. I remember shopping for clothes Old Navy. I remember my embarrassment having to purchase the XYZ T-shirts. I remember my step-mom telling me “if only you could lose some weight, your face is so pretty.” I remember when I was 11, my mother brought me to a plastic surgeon to consider liposuction. Thankfully, he advised us not to take this route because my body was still changing. At school, I was bullied. I remember a child in middle school telling me I was the cause of world hunger. I remember a girl at a birthday party asking me why I was invited. I was ‘too fat’ to sit in the hot tub.  Everything changed when I was 13. As a bit of background, my father had custody of me during the summer. Most children coveted summers, but I dreaded staying with him. He was almost always working and traveling – leaving me alone with only my stepmom. I felt lonely, isolated and, eventually, angry. I decided to take control: I stopped eating. Between the beginning of eighth grade and the beginning of ninth grade I lost over XYZ pounds. I could finally wear clothes designed for people my age. Boys finally noticed me. My mom finally told me I was pretty. I was also very hungry. I carefully watched my food intake. I obsessively counted calories. And I’d weigh myself every day. In high school, I started hiding my scale because my mom had realized it was an issue. At age 14, I was diagnosed with an eating disorder.  Since this diagnosis, I have been in and out of recovery. My eating disorder has shifted all over the board. I identify most closely with bulimia, but I also have restrictive tendencies. I still weigh myself compulsively. I hate myself on the days the needle hasn’t budged – I hate myself even more if the needle budges in the wrong direction. Some days I cry to myself in the mirror because I hate what I see. I pinch my fat rolls and tell myself over and over that I am fat and useless. Throughout the tougher battles, I’ve sought out treatment. But when I initially step out of the grip of my eating disorder, that hideous monster wraps his hands around me and draws me back. He convinces me I don’t need treatment. He convinces me I should have an abusive relationship with him instead of a healthy relationship with you. I am fortunate in that I have gone through periods of more mindful eating. Typically, this lasts only for a few months, but those months have always brought freedom and joy. Unfortunately, you’re so entangle with the eating disorder that he never leaves completely. He always finds his way back to me.  At the same time that I struggle, those around me don’t notice a thing. They praise me for my dedication to working out. They commend my healthy eating. “Oh, what’s for lunch today? A salad? Classic.” My co-workers don’t feel my isolation when they’re enjoying a staff lunch of barbeque while I quietly eat raw vegetables. My family doesn’t understand my pain when I’m the only one to deny dessert. They love my self-control. I tell them I’m a baker and I get sick of sweets. Really, I’m denying myself the current satisfaction only so I can secretly eat to no end later. As a baker, though, I still find enjoyment in you. My friends and I are fanatics of the restaurant industry, and I do admire you as a work of art. The eating disorder likes to deprive me of this adoration and leave me only with desperation.  Food, you make me so confused. I don’t know if I want to work with you full-time. I don’t know if my joys for cooking and nutrition are true, or if they only stem from the grips of my disorder. I am confused with my path in life, and my relationship with you is blocking my view. I want to remedy our relationship so I can navigate my future, but my self-hatred and fear of weight gain keeps me from full recovery. Although treatment has helped, I still feel trapped and terribly alone. Will I ever find my way out of this terrible maze? Sincerely, The Broken Baker  Show Notes:  6 Keys To Food Peace™️ blog post Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Caroline Dooner The Fuck It Diet Book Your Fat Friend on Instagram: @YrFatFriend Body Respect (aff) Health at Every Size(aff) Intuitive Eating (aff) Caroline Dooner on the PCOS and Food Peace Podcast The PCOS and Food Peace Podcast Eating Disorder Dietitians  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

When did you learn that certain bodies were more valuable? When did you start your first diet? Recovering from chronic dieting or an eating disorder can't all be independent and individual. Culturally we must change together to help support your recovery. Listen to the latest Love Food Podcast episode and hear from Caroline Dooner, author of the book The Fuck It Diet. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> <blockquote> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a>and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I want to share the work going on within Decolonizing Fitness. The person behind it, Ilya Parker, is a trans person of color Physical Therapist Assistant and <a href="https://decolonizingfitness.com/products/medical-exercise-program" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Medical Exercise Coach</a>with over 13 years of rehabilitative and functional training experience. He is a social justice advocate and educator whose work centers gender, racial and healing justice. He decided to merge his love for restorative based movement practices and community advocacy to create Decolonizing Fitness, LLC; which is a social justice platform that provides affirming fitness services, community education and apparel in support of body diversity. Check out <a href="http://www.decolonizingfitness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.decolonizingfitness.com</a>. </blockquote> This episode's Dear Food letter: <blockquote> Dear Food,  You are my best friend and my worst enemy. You are as familiar to me as my own backyard, and yet as foreign as the deepest realms of the ocean. I taste you and smell you and manipulate you with my two hands every day. I read about you. I peruse photographs of you on Instagram. I am obsessed with you. And yet, I hate you.  Currently, I work as a baker. I graduated last spring with a BS in nutrition. I’ve learned through my career how to meld delicious flavors and bake a custard to perfection. I’ve learned through my schooling how to teach others about ‘balanced’ eating. However, I don’t know how to eat. I’ve cycled through patterns nearly my whole life. Restriction, bingeing, purging, exercising and always compulsively weighing myself. I’ve probably spent at least $200 on bathroom scales. Once, in Italy, I pretended to tour a gym in interest of their membership, just hoping to find a scale. My weight is the center point of my life. Therefore, you are at the center point of my life.  My childhood was…interesting – as said in a negative, classically Minnesotan matter. I also don’t have the best memory of those days, but I can place pieces together. I ate for comfort, and my high weight quickly became an issue I could not escape. I don’t remember when I was first placed on a diet, but the on-again, off-again dieting cycle started some time in elementary school. My step-mom took me to doctors for weight loss medication. I’d take it, but with limited results. I remember shopping for clothes Old Navy. I remember my embarrassment having to purchase the XYZ T-shirts. I remember my step-mom telling me “if only you could lose some weight, your face is so pretty.” I remember when I was 11, my mother brought me to a plastic surgeon to consider liposuction. Thankfully, he advised us not to take this route because my body was still changing. At school, I was bullied. I remember a child in middle school telling me I was the cause of world hunger. I remember a girl at a birthday party asking me why I was invited. I was ‘too fat’ to sit in the hot tub.  Everything changed when I was 13. As a bit of background, my father had custody of me during the summer. Most children coveted summers, but I dreaded staying with him. He was almost always working and traveling – leaving me alone with only my stepmom. I felt lonely, isolated and, eventually, angry. I decided to take control: I stopped eating. Between the beginning of eighth grade and the beginning of ninth grade I lost over XYZ pounds. I could finally wear clothes designed for people my age. Boys finally noticed me. My mom finally told me I was pretty. I was also very hungry. I carefully watched my food intake. I obsessively counted calories. And I’d weigh myself every day. In high school, I started hiding my scale because my mom had realized it was an issue. At age 14, I was diagnosed with an eating disorder.  Since this diagnosis, I have been in and out of recovery. My eating disorder has shifted all over the board. I identify most closely with bulimia, but I also have restrictive tendencies. I still weigh myself compulsively. I hate myself on the days the needle hasn’t budged – I hate myself even more if the needle budges in the wrong direction. Some days I cry to myself in the mirror because I hate what I see. I pinch my fat rolls and tell myself over and over that I am fat and useless. Throughout the tougher battles, I’ve sought out treatment. But when I initially step out of the grip of my eating disorder, that hideous monster wraps his hands around me and draws me back. He convinces me I don’t need treatment. He convinces me I should have an abusive relationship with him instead of a healthy relationship with you. I am fortunate in that I have gone through periods of more mindful eating. Typically, this lasts only for a few months, but those months have always brought freedom and joy. Unfortunately, you’re so entangle with the eating disorder that he never leaves completely. He always finds his way back to me.  At the same time that I struggle, those around me don’t notice a thing. They praise me for my dedication to working out. They commend my healthy eating. “Oh, what’s for lunch today? A salad? Classic.” My co-workers don’t feel my isolation when they’re enjoying a staff lunch of barbeque while I quietly eat raw vegetables. My family doesn’t understand my pain when I’m the only one to deny dessert. They love my self-control. I tell them I’m a baker and I get sick of sweets. Really, I’m denying myself the current satisfaction only so I can secretly eat to no end later. As a baker, though, I still find enjoyment in you. My friends and I are fanatics of the restaurant industry, and I do admire you as a work of art. The eating disorder likes to deprive me of this adoration and leave me only with desperation.  Food, you make me so confused. I don’t know if I want to work with you full-time. I don’t know if my joys for cooking and nutrition are true, or if they only stem from the grips of my disorder. I am confused with my path in life, and my relationship with you is blocking my view. I want to remedy our relationship so I can navigate my future, but my self-hatred and fear of weight gain keeps me from full recovery. Although treatment has helped, I still feel trapped and terribly alone. Will I ever find my way out of this terrible maze? Sincerely, The Broken Baker </blockquote> Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a>™️ blog post</li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li><a href="http://thefuckitdiet.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Caroline Dooner</a></li> <li><a href="http://thefuckitdiet.com/book" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Fuck It Diet Book</a></li> <li>Your Fat Friend on Instagram: @YrFatFriend</li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2YgZYqG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Body Respect (aff)</a></li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2OpGBHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Health at Every Size</a>(aff)</li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2WgGXTM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Intuitive Eating</a> (aff)</li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/pcospod4/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Caroline Dooner on the PCOS and Food Peace Podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://pcosandfoodpeace.com/podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The PCOS and Food Peace Podcast</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a></li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(152) What if my recovered body is too big? (with Caroline Dooner).

Does anti-diet mean anti-health? Does intuitive eating mean letting go of health? Moving away from diets is not neglecting the evidence, it is using it. It's time to dive into how rejecting diets reunites us with health and dignified care. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Use the coupon code 'lovefood' at checkout for 30% off during the month of February 2020. Dear Food, My ideas surrounding you have always been related to health. Growing up in a larger body, with a mother who was a physician, had me constantly aware and ashamed of myself. For me, you were always supposed to be something I was conscious of. My own doctor would show me where I was on the growth curve, and constantly telling me that my BMI was unhealthy. These experiences were ingrained in me from a very early age. I was told "you burn more calories sitting up rather than laying down" when watching TV and only provided with "healthy" snacks, snacks that I never wanted. I was told to ignore my cravings and, instead, eat a handful of almonds. My mom and I were always dieting together, for the sake of "health". This quest for health led me to nursing school, hoping to be able to heal my sickness and the sickness of others. This is when I was subconsciously introduced to medicalized fatphobia. The nutrition class I had to take encouraged us to count calories in and count calories out. This only encouraged my obsessive weight loss behavior, getting to a point where I was regularly consuming less than X calories a day and obsessively exercising X days a week. Now that I am in school to become a midwife and also pursuing food peace through intuitive eating, I am much more aware and disturbed by the medicalized fatphobia that I am supposed to take part in. Learning the formula for "ideal body weight" (a real thing that was taught to me in one of my classes), I am "supposed" to be X lbs, a weight I have NEVER reached even with my days of severe restriction. I am learning how to make sure the pregnant people I take care of aren't gaining "too much weight" during their pregnancy and also how a lot of contraceptives are not designed for people in larger bodies. I desperately want to be a practitioner that lives outside the medicalized fatphobia, but I am worried that if I do, I will be shunned by my coworkers and superiors as a bad provider. I'm not sure how to reconcile my understanding of chronic health conditions that are supposedly related to larger bodies and also my desire to follow Health At Every Size principles. Love, Everyday Fighter of the System   Show Notes:  Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Anti-Diet book (aff) Intuitive Eating book (aff) and website Weight stigma Weight cycling Social determinants of health Rally--Food Peace™ principle Find an Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Does anti-diet mean anti-health? Does intuitive eating mean letting go of health? Moving away from diets is not neglecting the evidence, it is using it. It's time to dive into how rejecting diets reunites us with health and dignified care. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a> and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Use the coupon code 'lovefood' at checkout for 30% off during the month of February 2020. Dear Food, My ideas surrounding you have always been related to health. Growing up in a larger body, with a mother who was a physician, had me constantly aware and ashamed of myself. For me, you were always supposed to be something I was conscious of. My own doctor would show me where I was on the growth curve, and constantly telling me that my BMI was unhealthy. These experiences were ingrained in me from a very early age. I was told "you burn more calories sitting up rather than laying down" when watching TV and only provided with "healthy" snacks, snacks that I never wanted. I was told to ignore my cravings and, instead, eat a handful of almonds. My mom and I were always dieting together, for the sake of "health". This quest for health led me to nursing school, hoping to be able to heal my sickness and the sickness of others. This is when I was subconsciously introduced to medicalized fatphobia. The nutrition class I had to take encouraged us to count calories in and count calories out. This only encouraged my obsessive weight loss behavior, getting to a point where I was regularly consuming less than X calories a day and obsessively exercising X days a week. Now that I am in school to become a midwife and also pursuing food peace through intuitive eating, I am much more aware and disturbed by the medicalized fatphobia that I am supposed to take part in. Learning the formula for "ideal body weight" (a real thing that was taught to me in one of my classes), I am "supposed" to be X lbs, a weight I have NEVER reached even with my days of severe restriction. I am learning how to make sure the pregnant people I take care of aren't gaining "too much weight" during their pregnancy and also how a lot of contraceptives are not designed for people in larger bodies. I desperately want to be a practitioner that lives outside the medicalized fatphobia, but I am worried that if I do, I will be shunned by my coworkers and superiors as a bad provider. I'm not sure how to reconcile my understanding of chronic health conditions that are supposedly related to larger bodies and also my desire to follow Health At Every Size principles. Love, Everyday Fighter of the System   Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/36yIMR6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anti-Diet book</a> (aff)</li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/34fmiCZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Intuitive Eating book</a> (aff) and <a href="http://intuitiveeating.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a></li> <li>Weight stigma</li> <li>Weight cycling</li> <li>Social determinants of health</li> <li>Rally--Food Peace™ principle</li> <li>Find an <a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a> near you.</li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(206) What about health and intuitive eating?

Diet culture is literally everywhere: in safe spaces, sacred spaces, and progressive spaces. How do you break up with diets when the world celebrates their worth and demands their adherence? Listen to the latest Love Food podcast to give you mojo as you radically reconnect with your body. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.  This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peaceand Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.  I want to share the work going on within Decolonizing Fitness. The person behind it, Ilya Parker, is a trans person of color Physical Therapist Assistant and  Medical Exercise Coachwith over 13 years of rehabilitative and functional training experience. He is a social justice advocate and educator whose work centers gender, racial and healing justice. He decided to merge his love for restorative based movement practices and community advocacy to create Decolonizing Fitness, LLC; which is a social justice platform that provides affirming fitness services, community education and apparel in support of body diversity. Check out www.decolonizingfitness.com.  This episode's Dear Food letter:  Dear Food, I am not sure if you and I can ever have a peaceful relationship. Lately, I am exhausted with recovery and the daily struggles of trying to eat intuitively, feeling like I am failing, and wanting to change my body. It feels like there is too much stress in my life that I do not have any energy left to try to go against the mainstream's ideas on food and dieting that on bad days I wish that I had never heard of intuitive eating and embarked on this journey.   I realized that we had a complicated relationship after reading Intuitive Eating for the first time. I bought it on a whim, looking for an end to the food and exercise tracking madness, but still desperately wanting to change my body. I wanted to teach myself the "right" way to eat. I thought I was doing well, eating intuitively, and generally feeling at peace. This was until it was pointed out to me that I was following the "intuitive eating" diet, and this realization launched a pretty steep decline in my recovery. I know that the behaviors I had were not healthy and that at one time I realized that I needed help with them. But since I am not able to separate Intuitive Eating with the "intuitive eating" diet, I am so confused and apprehensive to try to re-learn it. Was everything I had learned the last 3 years completely wrong and how could I have missed the mark so much? Part of me wants recovery and the other part of me knows it will continue to be very challenging and I do not feel like I have it in me to stay on this path. I don't think I can go back to how I was before, but I continue to be in what feels like a half-recovered space. Working through my disordered food behaviors illuminated that I have a lot of personal trauma and feelings that I was using disordered behaviors to cover up and deal with. As I work through those, I notice the disordered food behaviors creeping back in like an old friend, wanting to help me cope.   I realize diet culture is everywhere. And because it is everywhere, I feel exhausted by constantly defending my position to people and not giving in to the allure of what I know now to be another diet. My extended family gatherings that involve food consist of comments about amounts of food, "good/bad" food, needing to "work off" the food, or some special ingredient that will save us all from disease. Yoga has been a refuge but walking into the studio I might read a flyer for a weight loss cleanse, overhear conversations about diets, hear body negativity from other yogis and even some of the teachers. I attended a yoga teacher training informational session, thinking it would be a good challenge for myself to take my yoga practice to a new level and left feeling completely defeated after learning that one of the training modules was around "how to eat like a yogi". Sharing my own baked treats with co-workers inevitably invites a litany of body and diet comments as well as their own personal justifications for eating or not eating the food I brought. I created an Instagram account for my dog because I thought it would be a fun way to share the funny things he does. Do you know how much diet culture permeates instagrams about dogs? A lot. I cannot shut off the continuous diet culture that is everywhere in my life. Something has to change.   Perhaps I am not fully on board with Intuitive Eating and HAES and that there are still pieces of diet culture I am hanging on to. All I know right now, food, is that I am mad. I am mad that I know that my food behaviors aren't healthy for me but that I want to keep doing them because it felt like I was in control. I have so much shame for having this problem at all that I can hardly admit it to myself. I justify this by fully embracing that I hate my body and that, of course, then the disordered eating makes sense. I am so tired of starting over with different therapists, finding yet another book that I put my salvation into, hoping that, yes, maybe this one will click and I will magically love my body and I will become a true Intuitive Eater. Will I ever feel normal around you, food? Will I ever want to take care of my body instead of punishing myself for making a mistake at work, getting into an argument with a loved one, or accidentally reading a diet message on a magazine cover and feeling self-loathing? Can I enjoy you, food, without feeling an intense desire to want to exercise or restrict later? Can I trust you, food, knowing that my IBS may cause days or weeks of intense intestinal pain and fear of you, food? Will I be able to go to my doctor and not be completely obsessed for weeks after accidentally seeing my weight (and shame for feeling good that it was lower than what I thought)? It all feels too much, and I feel entirely un-grounded. I realize that this letter is even contradictory, stating that I wish I could have my old food behaviors back and also knowing that I have learned and made progress. I am just not sure, food, that I am on the right path, or even what the right path is.   Sincerely, Wanting to Check Out   Show Notes:  6 Keys To Food Peace™️ blog post Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. The PCOS and Food Peace Podcast with Sophie Carter-Kahn The Should Eat Fantasy Compliance Discussed the "Intuitive Eating Diet" with Caroline Dooner on Ep 152 of the Love Food Podcast The F*ck It Diet book by Caroline Dooner (aff) Intuitive Eating by Tribole and Resch (aff) Eating Disorder Dietitians  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Diet culture is literally everywhere: in safe spaces, sacred spaces, and progressive spaces. How do you break up with diets when the world celebrates their worth and demands their adherence? Listen to the latest Love Food podcast to give you mojo as you radically reconnect with your body. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> <blockquote> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a>and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I want to share the work going on within Decolonizing Fitness. The person behind it, Ilya Parker, is a trans person of color Physical Therapist Assistant and <a href="https://decolonizingfitness.com/products/medical-exercise-program" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Medical Exercise Coach</a>with over 13 years of rehabilitative and functional training experience. He is a social justice advocate and educator whose work centers gender, racial and healing justice. He decided to merge his love for restorative based movement practices and community advocacy to create Decolonizing Fitness, LLC; which is a social justice platform that provides affirming fitness services, community education and apparel in support of body diversity. Check out <a href="http://www.decolonizingfitness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.decolonizingfitness.com</a>. </blockquote> This episode's Dear Food letter: <blockquote> Dear Food, I am not sure if you and I can ever have a peaceful relationship. Lately, I am exhausted with recovery and the daily struggles of trying to eat intuitively, feeling like I am failing, and wanting to change my body. It feels like there is too much stress in my life that I do not have any energy left to try to go against the mainstream's ideas on food and dieting that on bad days I wish that I had never heard of intuitive eating and embarked on this journey.   I realized that we had a complicated relationship after reading Intuitive Eating for the first time. I bought it on a whim, looking for an end to the food and exercise tracking madness, but still desperately wanting to change my body. I wanted to teach myself the "right" way to eat. I thought I was doing well, eating intuitively, and generally feeling at peace. This was until it was pointed out to me that I was following the "intuitive eating" diet, and this realization launched a pretty steep decline in my recovery. I know that the behaviors I had were not healthy and that at one time I realized that I needed help with them. But since I am not able to separate Intuitive Eating with the "intuitive eating" diet, I am so confused and apprehensive to try to re-learn it. Was everything I had learned the last 3 years completely wrong and how could I have missed the mark so much? Part of me wants recovery and the other part of me knows it will continue to be very challenging and I do not feel like I have it in me to stay on this path. I don't think I can go back to how I was before, but I continue to be in what feels like a half-recovered space. Working through my disordered food behaviors illuminated that I have a lot of personal trauma and feelings that I was using disordered behaviors to cover up and deal with. As I work through those, I notice the disordered food behaviors creeping back in like an old friend, wanting to help me cope.   I realize diet culture is everywhere. And because it is everywhere, I feel exhausted by constantly defending my position to people and not giving in to the allure of what I know now to be another diet. My extended family gatherings that involve food consist of comments about amounts of food, "good/bad" food, needing to "work off" the food, or some special ingredient that will save us all from disease. Yoga has been a refuge but walking into the studio I might read a flyer for a weight loss cleanse, overhear conversations about diets, hear body negativity from other yogis and even some of the teachers. I attended a yoga teacher training informational session, thinking it would be a good challenge for myself to take my yoga practice to a new level and left feeling completely defeated after learning that one of the training modules was around "how to eat like a yogi". Sharing my own baked treats with co-workers inevitably invites a litany of body and diet comments as well as their own personal justifications for eating or not eating the food I brought. I created an Instagram account for my dog because I thought it would be a fun way to share the funny things he does. Do you know how much diet culture permeates instagrams about dogs? A lot. I cannot shut off the continuous diet culture that is everywhere in my life. Something has to change.   Perhaps I am not fully on board with Intuitive Eating and HAES and that there are still pieces of diet culture I am hanging on to. All I know right now, food, is that I am mad. I am mad that I know that my food behaviors aren't healthy for me but that I want to keep doing them because it felt like I was in control. I have so much shame for having this problem at all that I can hardly admit it to myself. I justify this by fully embracing that I hate my body and that, of course, then the disordered eating makes sense. I am so tired of starting over with different therapists, finding yet another book that I put my salvation into, hoping that, yes, maybe this one will click and I will magically love my body and I will become a true Intuitive Eater. Will I ever feel normal around you, food? Will I ever want to take care of my body instead of punishing myself for making a mistake at work, getting into an argument with a loved one, or accidentally reading a diet message on a magazine cover and feeling self-loathing? Can I enjoy you, food, without feeling an intense desire to want to exercise or restrict later? Can I trust you, food, knowing that my IBS may cause days or weeks of intense intestinal pain and fear of you, food? Will I be able to go to my doctor and not be completely obsessed for weeks after accidentally seeing my weight (and shame for feeling good that it was lower than what I thought)? It all feels too much, and I feel entirely un-grounded. I realize that this letter is even contradictory, stating that I wish I could have my old food behaviors back and also knowing that I have learned and made progress. I am just not sure, food, that I am on the right path, or even what the right path is.   Sincerely, Wanting to Check Out </blockquote> Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a>™️ blog post</li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li><a href="https://pcosandfoodpeace.com/podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The PCOS and Food Peace Podcast with Sophie Carter-Kahn</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/theshouldeatfantasycompliance/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Should Eat Fantasy Compliance</a></li> <li>Discussed the "Intuitive Eating Diet" with <a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/lovefood152" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Caroline Dooner on Ep 152 of the Love Food Podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2UkslkQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The F*ck It Diet book by Caroline Dooner</a> (aff)</li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2ZgTZmu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Intuitive Eating by Tribole and Resch</a> (aff)</li> <li><a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a></li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(155) F*ck off diet culture.

Renee Hamati

What is it like to eat with others on your Food Peace™ journey? How do you experience the talk about bodies or exercise or where to go to lunch? Do you find yourself comparing yourself to other people and feeling like a failure in comparison? Is this keeping you stuck? Let's discuss in this week's Love Food Podcast with guest Renee Hamati @SensiblyYou on Instagram. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I want to learn more about you! I would love if you could take the 2020 Love Food survey: access it here: JulieDillonRD.com/Survey. This episode's Dear Food letter: Dear Food, I have struggled to write this letter for a while now as I couldn’t really think of a good way to organize what went all wrong over the past couple of years. You and I are definitely on better terms by now and I am glad about that. Yet more often than I want to, my past keeps creeping up the back of my head again.  Let me take you back a little, to a time when food had been effortless and easy, enjoyable and pleasurable. I remember that I have always loved you and didn’t really think of any part of you as good or bad. I loved chocolate as much as I loved my broccoli. I had no hard time stopping whenever I was full nor did I give myself a hard time when I overate on occasion. I just shrugged it off and moved on.  I have always been slim since I was a kid and to be honest, I never worried about how my body looked. I loved it for being able to move, to dance, to breathe.  For a little further explanation of the following let me tell you that I have 2 sisters. A twin and an older sister.  We spent much time together as 3 even though my older sister has always been busy with being a good student. Nonetheless we had a good relationship … until over time she grew distant and cold, irritated for seemingly no reason. We noticed her eating behavior changing. Long story short, everything ended with her being so deep into Anorexia that she had to be force-fed in the recovery clinic. Even after her stay in the clinic, she struggled for years and her eating behavior did not change as much with the difference of her maintaining a weight that wouldn’t get her medical treatment again.  I thought this time had been shocking enough to our family and really tore a hole that lingered like a dark cloud and you should know better but then I noticed my twin starting with a similar eating behavior. She developed a fully grown bulimic disorder. Needless to say that this shook our family to the very core. The atmosphere was filled with distrust, control, unspoken fear and questions over questions. I started to ask myself how something so pleasurable and beautiful could have so much power over a human being, especially in the obvious face of the damage an eating disorder could cause.  It has been years from now since my twin developed her eating disorder and even though things are not as extreme anymore in terms of purging, I often find her resorting to these old patterns whenever things are getting emotionally difficult and straining. She does not starve herself anymore but her control mechanisms shifted into quite an unhealthy relationship to workouts, tracking and rigid rules.  This was by the time we started to go to University in the same city. I never really noticed that I had gained quite some weight until I saw her figure changing to a very lean and muscular build and me being rather curvy in comparison. Not that I cared by the time, I was still happy with myself but wanted to spend more time with her as she was elbows deep into working out and eating clean. So one of the only ways to reconnect with her was working out together. It worked! We spent much more time together and I also noticed myself changing in the process. It was nice to see my body getting leaner and I wanted to “support” the process by changing my – admittedly not very healthy – eating habits that came with university.  I slowly became obsessed with calories, how many I could eat, how much I needed to work out, which foods were good and which foods weren’t. I felt so ashamed of myself when I discovered how seemingly “unhealthy” I had been eating when all I really did was enjoying good food whenever I wanted.  I started to demonize certain foods, restricted and cut out sugars, junk-food and even eventually certain food groups like carbs. Hell, I was so afraid to have rice with any of my other foods because in my eyes it was way too calorific.  I lost much weight until I was at my desired size but what price did I pay?  I missed out on so much fun as I didn’t allow myself to indulge in delicious foods on social events, I annoyed everyone around me with my clean eating, it severely affected my relationship and friendships, took so much of my time and energy until I felt run-down and so so exhausted.  I started to discover intuitive eating and was fascinated with it from the very beginning although it was hard for me to let go of my old diet behavior. I now have a better relationship with you and occasionally feel like this could really work but then I see my sister (we live together) munching on her salad or not eating until 3 in the afternoon. I see her freaking out over not being able to go to the gym or doing heavy HIIT for hours because she allowed herself to enjoy a night out the night before. And suddenly the cookie in my hand feels like it would add up 100 pounds to my hips, just like I thought back then. She has a very muscular build by now and gets a ton of compliments for it and sometimes if I am honest I feel jealous of it and wonder if it is wrong to have a softer body.  I really try to not let food dictate my life anymore but I cannot help myself when a disordered eating behavior is so very close to you, emotionally and physically. How can I manage to get rid of the little voice telling me that I am not beautiful if I am not muscular like her? How can I better set boundaries for myself in terms of her eating behavior and mine? How do I deal with the struggle of my body gaining weight and me still finding myself desiring to lose it again as I have always been slim and somehow cannot deal with the thought of gaining more. I really wanna move away from food thoughts dictating my day and my still present diet mentality. I want to focus on loving myself and doing what I love. Still, it is so hard sometimes …  Please help me reconnect with you in a healthy way. Love,  Confused and frustrated Show Notes:  Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Be sure to follow Renee Hamati on Instagram @SensiblyYou Joyn Movement Classes for Everybody Follow these Instagram Hashtags--#bodyneutrality #fatacceptance #haes #haesig #infinifirst #intuitiveeating #intuitiveeatingofficial HAESCommunity.org HAES Principles HAES Fact Sheet HAES Expert Guidelines Intuitive Eating book (aff) and website Find an Eating Disorder Dietitian near you.  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What is it like to eat with others on your Food Peace™ journey? How do you experience the talk about bodies or exercise or where to go to lunch? Do you find yourself comparing yourself to other people and feeling like a failure in comparison? Is this keeping you stuck? Let's discuss in this week's Love Food Podcast with guest Renee Hamati @SensiblyYou on Instagram. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a> and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I want to learn more about you! I would love if you could take the 2020 Love Food survey: access it here: <a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/Survey" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JulieDillonRD.com/Survey</a>. This episode's Dear Food letter: Dear Food, I have struggled to write this letter for a while now as I couldn’t really think of a good way to organize what went all wrong over the past couple of years. You and I are definitely on better terms by now and I am glad about that. Yet more often than I want to, my past keeps creeping up the back of my head again.  Let me take you back a little, to a time when food had been effortless and easy, enjoyable and pleasurable. I remember that I have always loved you and didn’t really think of any part of you as good or bad. I loved chocolate as much as I loved my broccoli. I had no hard time stopping whenever I was full nor did I give myself a hard time when I overate on occasion. I just shrugged it off and moved on.  I have always been slim since I was a kid and to be honest, I never worried about how my body looked. I loved it for being able to move, to dance, to breathe.  For a little further explanation of the following let me tell you that I have 2 sisters. A twin and an older sister.  We spent much time together as 3 even though my older sister has always been busy with being a good student. Nonetheless we had a good relationship … until over time she grew distant and cold, irritated for seemingly no reason. We noticed her eating behavior changing. Long story short, everything ended with her being so deep into Anorexia that she had to be force-fed in the recovery clinic. Even after her stay in the clinic, she struggled for years and her eating behavior did not change as much with the difference of her maintaining a weight that wouldn’t get her medical treatment again.  I thought this time had been shocking enough to our family and really tore a hole that lingered like a dark cloud and you should know better but then I noticed my twin starting with a similar eating behavior. She developed a fully grown bulimic disorder. Needless to say that this shook our family to the very core. The atmosphere was filled with distrust, control, unspoken fear and questions over questions. I started to ask myself how something so pleasurable and beautiful could have so much power over a human being, especially in the obvious face of the damage an eating disorder could cause.  It has been years from now since my twin developed her eating disorder and even though things are not as extreme anymore in terms of purging, I often find her resorting to these old patterns whenever things are getting emotionally difficult and straining. She does not starve herself anymore but her control mechanisms shifted into quite an unhealthy relationship to workouts, tracking and rigid rules.  This was by the time we started to go to University in the same city. I never really noticed that I had gained quite some weight until I saw her figure changing to a very lean and muscular build and me being rather curvy in comparison. Not that I cared by the time, I was still happy with myself but wanted to spend more time with her as she was elbows deep into working out and eating clean. So one of the only ways to reconnect with her was working out together. It worked! We spent much more time together and I also noticed myself changing in the process. It was nice to see my body getting leaner and I wanted to “support” the process by changing my – admittedly not very healthy – eating habits that came with university.  I slowly became obsessed with calories, how many I could eat, how much I needed to work out, which foods were good and which foods weren’t. I felt so ashamed of myself when I discovered how seemingly “unhealthy” I had been eating when all I really did was enjoying good food whenever I wanted.  I started to demonize certain foods, restricted and cut out sugars, junk-food and even eventually certain food groups like carbs. Hell, I was so afraid to have rice with any of my other foods because in my eyes it was way too calorific.  I lost much weight until I was at my desired size but what price did I pay?  I missed out on so much fun as I didn’t allow myself to indulge in delicious foods on social events, I annoyed everyone around me with my clean eating, it severely affected my relationship and friendships, took so much of my time and energy until I felt run-down and so so exhausted.  I started to discover intuitive eating and was fascinated with it from the very beginning although it was hard for me to let go of my old diet behavior. I now have a better relationship with you and occasionally feel like this could really work but then I see my sister (we live together) munching on her salad or not eating until 3 in the afternoon. I see her freaking out over not being able to go to the gym or doing heavy HIIT for hours because she allowed herself to enjoy a night out the night before. And suddenly the cookie in my hand feels like it would add up 100 pounds to my hips, just like I thought back then. She has a very muscular build by now and gets a ton of compliments for it and sometimes if I am honest I feel jealous of it and wonder if it is wrong to have a softer body.  I really try to not let food dictate my life anymore but I cannot help myself when a disordered eating behavior is so very close to you, emotionally and physically. How can I manage to get rid of the little voice telling me that I am not beautiful if I am not muscular like her? How can I better set boundaries for myself in terms of her eating behavior and mine? How do I deal with the struggle of my body gaining weight and me still finding myself desiring to lose it again as I have always been slim and somehow cannot deal with the thought of gaining more. I really wanna move away from food thoughts dictating my day and my still present diet mentality. I want to focus on loving myself and doing what I love. Still, it is so hard sometimes …  Please help me reconnect with you in a healthy way. Love,  Confused and frustrated Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li>Be sure to follow Renee Hamati on Instagram @SensiblyYou</li> <li><a href="https://www.joyn.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joyn Movement Classes for Everybody</a></li> <li>Follow these Instagram Hashtags--#bodyneutrality #fatacceptance #haes #haesig #infinifirst #intuitiveeating #intuitiveeatingofficial</li> <li><a href="http://HAESCommunity.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HAESCommunity.org</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.sizediversityandhealth.org/content.asp?id=76" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HAES Principles</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.sizediversityandhealth.org/content.asp?id=161" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HAES Fact Sheet</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.sizediversityandhealth.org/content.asp?id=207" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HAES Expert Guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/34fmiCZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Intuitive Eating book</a> (aff) and <a href="http://intuitiveeating.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a></li> <li>Find an <a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitian</a> near you.</li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(208) I can't stop comparing myself to others (with Renee Hamati)

Carolina Guízar

Do you feel "all in" with a healthy eating pact then, next thing you know, in the throes of what feels like an uncontrollable binge? Does food fill your head and distract you from having fun and living your life? Listen up. Guest expert Carolina Guízar and I explore this on the latest episode of the Love Food podcast. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Projecton Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode's Dear Food letter: Dear Food, As a child, I never thought much about you. You were just the breakfast my mom made in the morning before she went to work. She put my brother and mine’s breakfast on a tray and lay it on her bed as she got ready. Usually you were something easy to make, eggos waffles smothered in syrup or scrambled eggs and ham with milk or orange juice. You were just the lunch my mom packed the night before - a sandwich filled with meat, cheese and mustard, chips, and sometimes a couple of chips ahoy cookies. Since my mom was a single working mother, my abuela would pick my brother and I up from school to take to her house until my mother was off work. We would be given vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup while we did our homework. FYI- my mother’s side is Cuban and if anyone hearing this is Hispanic they will understand that potatoes and rice are our vegetables. My abuela was an incredible cook and would always prepare some sort of meat with rice, black beans, and fried savory plantains she always made. My favorite meal was chicken fricassee- dark chicken meat, potatoes, olives, peas, and onion cooked in a flavorful tomato sauce. Looking back, I didn’t know much about you because I wasn’t able to explore you. You were just something that was put in front of me and I was told to eat. Every now and then we had some alone time when I went out with friends or to a drive through after I got my license. I came from a very frugal family, so our “dinner’s out” would be chick fil a, Panera, or Domino’s pizza. It wasn’t until freshman year of college where we finally had alone time. Starting college, I was thin and felt good about my body. As the year went on, I was overwhelmed with having free access to all the foods I love on my meal plan. Chick fil a, Au bon pain, panda express, starbucks, and food halls filled with candies, chips, ice cream and more. I stuffed my face with you thinking nothing of it while I went out drinking 4 times a week. Nights out usually ended with late night eating with friends. By the time spring break came, I realized just how much damage you had done to me. My clothes were tighter, my stomach was bigger, and my face had filled out a lot. I didn’t look like myself.  When I went home that summer, I made a pact with myself that I would work out and eat healthy. I wanted to see what my healthiest body would look like. I wanted girls to envy me and boys to desire me. I started to run every day and do a workout video off youtube. I stopped drinking for a month. I did a ton of research on healthy eating. Food, you changed into something I ate to give me the body I became obsessed with having. You changed to a form of rules that has damaged the way I see you even now. I ate cooked chicken and 99% lean turkey with no oil and only cayenne because I feared olive oil would make me fat. I only ate fruit in the morning because I read that the sugars metabolize differently in the afternoon. I only dressed my salads in balsamic vinegar because of the high calorie grocery store dressings. When you became these rules, the way I viewed everything changed. I was addicted to the praise I received when I got results, and didn’t see anything wrong with what I was doing because I was certain it was “healthy”. I had a boyfriend that summer who knew about my obsession with eating healthy. Every now and then, him or his family took me out to nice dinners where I allowed myself to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But that’s when it goes dark. Instead of being present, I would obsess over the food in front of me. I would eat past the point of full because I saw it as my only time to have this “unhealthy” food. I would be having a conversation, but I was really thinking about the eating everything and anything I could get my hands on while I could. Even after dinner, I’d drive out to cvs to get my favorite ice cream or candy. After these episodes I was convinced people could see the food I ate on my body. People noticed this cycle and I’ve received a few comments that my motto seemed to be all or nothing when it came to you, food. The next day after my binge, I’d feel so guilty and ashamed and I would go back to only eating healthy and working out until the next episode. I didn’t realize this cycle would stay with me for the next five years.  Of course,  our relationship has slightly changed over those years- I’m 24 and in my first two years of the working world. When my nutrition journey first started, I did grow to love fitness but now that I’m not active throughout the day at a desk job- my body is a little heavier than it was in college. I constantly aim to go back to the super skinny and fit shape I used to be in. I do my best to eat healthy and meal prep every week. I think about food constantly and often create meal plans and recreate them when I’m at work. Every now and then I try to convince myself I’m okay and I can have that piece of chocolate if I want it. But everytime I have a bite of something “unhealthy” it triggers a binge cycle and I find myself checking out at the grocery with sweedish fish, sour patch kids, and oreos. I kill myself at the gym six times a week. I’m constantly buying meal plans and fitness plans that promise amazing results. I stick with it a few weeks and then get frustrated when I don’t see immediate results. I go from having faith in myself to do it on my own to finding a new and shiner plan that will get me there. My binge episodes have become more frequent in a week and I’m sick of it. Now I have the same feeling I did my freshman year- I don’t recognize this body and I’m constantly torturing it.  Food, you’re taking over my life. When will this end? Aren’t you sick of this like I am? How can we get to a point where I feel safe with you no matter what?  Sincerely, Exhasted Show Notes:  Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Carolina Guízar's website Carolina Guízar's Instagram: Instagram.com/la_eathority The Latinx Health Collective Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you feel "all in" with a healthy eating pact then, next thing you know, in the throes of what feels like an uncontrollable binge? Does food fill your head and distract you from having fun and living your life? Listen up. Guest expert Carolina Guízar and I explore this on the latest episode of the Love Food podcast. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Projecton Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at <a href="http://patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast</a> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a> and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode's Dear Food letter: Dear Food, As a child, I never thought much about you. You were just the breakfast my mom made in the morning before she went to work. She put my brother and mine’s breakfast on a tray and lay it on her bed as she got ready. Usually you were something easy to make, eggos waffles smothered in syrup or scrambled eggs and ham with milk or orange juice. You were just the lunch my mom packed the night before - a sandwich filled with meat, cheese and mustard, chips, and sometimes a couple of chips ahoy cookies. Since my mom was a single working mother, my abuela would pick my brother and I up from school to take to her house until my mother was off work. We would be given vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup while we did our homework. FYI- my mother’s side is Cuban and if anyone hearing this is Hispanic they will understand that potatoes and rice are our vegetables. My abuela was an incredible cook and would always prepare some sort of meat with rice, black beans, and fried savory plantains she always made. My favorite meal was chicken fricassee- dark chicken meat, potatoes, olives, peas, and onion cooked in a flavorful tomato sauce. Looking back, I didn’t know much about you because I wasn’t able to explore you. You were just something that was put in front of me and I was told to eat. Every now and then we had some alone time when I went out with friends or to a drive through after I got my license. I came from a very frugal family, so our “dinner’s out” would be chick fil a, Panera, or Domino’s pizza. It wasn’t until freshman year of college where we finally had alone time. Starting college, I was thin and felt good about my body. As the year went on, I was overwhelmed with having free access to all the foods I love on my meal plan. Chick fil a, Au bon pain, panda express, starbucks, and food halls filled with candies, chips, ice cream and more. I stuffed my face with you thinking nothing of it while I went out drinking 4 times a week. Nights out usually ended with late night eating with friends. By the time spring break came, I realized just how much damage you had done to me. My clothes were tighter, my stomach was bigger, and my face had filled out a lot. I didn’t look like myself.  When I went home that summer, I made a pact with myself that I would work out and eat healthy. I wanted to see what my healthiest body would look like. I wanted girls to envy me and boys to desire me. I started to run every day and do a workout video off youtube. I stopped drinking for a month. I did a ton of research on healthy eating. Food, you changed into something I ate to give me the body I became obsessed with having. You changed to a form of rules that has damaged the way I see you even now. I ate cooked chicken and 99% lean turkey with no oil and only cayenne because I feared olive oil would make me fat. I only ate fruit in the morning because I read that the sugars metabolize differently in the afternoon. I only dressed my salads in balsamic vinegar because of the high calorie grocery store dressings. When you became these rules, the way I viewed everything changed. I was addicted to the praise I received when I got results, and didn’t see anything wrong with what I was doing because I was certain it was “healthy”. I had a boyfriend that summer who knew about my obsession with eating healthy. Every now and then, him or his family took me out to nice dinners where I allowed myself to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But that’s when it goes dark. Instead of being present, I would obsess over the food in front of me. I would eat past the point of full because I saw it as my only time to have this “unhealthy” food. I would be having a conversation, but I was really thinking about the eating everything and anything I could get my hands on while I could. Even after dinner, I’d drive out to cvs to get my favorite ice cream or candy. After these episodes I was convinced people could see the food I ate on my body. People noticed this cycle and I’ve received a few comments that my motto seemed to be all or nothing when it came to you, food. The next day after my binge, I’d feel so guilty and ashamed and I would go back to only eating healthy and working out until the next episode. I didn’t realize this cycle would stay with me for the next five years.  Of course,  our relationship has slightly changed over those years- I’m 24 and in my first two years of the working world. When my nutrition journey first started, I did grow to love fitness but now that I’m not active throughout the day at a desk job- my body is a little heavier than it was in college. I constantly aim to go back to the super skinny and fit shape I used to be in. I do my best to eat healthy and meal prep every week. I think about food constantly and often create meal plans and recreate them when I’m at work. Every now and then I try to convince myself I’m okay and I can have that piece of chocolate if I want it. But everytime I have a bite of something “unhealthy” it triggers a binge cycle and I find myself checking out at the grocery with sweedish fish, sour patch kids, and oreos. I kill myself at the gym six times a week. I’m constantly buying meal plans and fitness plans that promise amazing results. I stick with it a few weeks and then get frustrated when I don’t see immediate results. I go from having faith in myself to do it on my own to finding a new and shiner plan that will get me there. My binge episodes have become more frequent in a week and I’m sick of it. Now I have the same feeling I did my freshman year- I don’t recognize this body and I’m constantly torturing it.  Food, you’re taking over my life. When will this end? Aren’t you sick of this like I am? How can we get to a point where I feel safe with you no matter what? Sincerely, Exhasted Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li>Carolina Guízar's <a href="https://eathority.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a></li> <li>Carolina Guízar's Instagram: <a href="http://Instagram.com/la_eathority" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram.com/la_eathority</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.latinxhealthcollective.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Latinx Health Collective</a></li> <li>Find <a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a> near you.</li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(175) Food is taking over my life (with Carolina Guízar)

What happens when 6 anti-diet podcasters walk into a room to hash out all the ins and outs of developing and running a show that is counter-cultural? It moves mountains with its power! It was a honor to be on this panel hosted by Heather Caplan RD, host of RD Real Talk. Listen to the live recording now in your Love Food feed. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Grab all the details at PCOSandFoodPeace.com. Show Notes:  Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Food Psych podcast Anti-Diet book (aff) Food Heaven Podcast RD Real Talk Body Kindness book (aff) and podcast Intuitive Eating book (aff) and website Find an Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What happens when 6 anti-diet podcasters walk into a room to hash out all the ins and outs of developing and running a show that is counter-cultural? It moves mountains with its power! It was a honor to be on this panel hosted by Heather Caplan RD, host of RD Real Talk. Listen to the live recording now in your Love Food feed. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a> and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Grab all the details at <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOSandFoodPeace.com</a>. Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li><a href="https://christyharrison.com/foodpsych" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Food Psych podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/36yIMR6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anti-Diet book</a> (aff)</li> <li><a href="https://foodheavenmadeeasy.com/podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Food Heaven Podcast</a></li> <li><a href="http://heathercaplan.com/rd-real-talk-podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RD Real Talk</a></li> <li>Body Kindness <a href="https://amzn.to/36E777T" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">book</a> (aff) and <a href="https://www.bodykindnessbook.com/podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/34fmiCZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Intuitive Eating book</a> (aff) and <a href="http://intuitiveeating.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a></li> <li>Find an <a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a> near you.</li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(186) When 6 anti-diet podcaster walk into a room

Rachel Goodman

Let's count the number of diets you've tried to manage PCOS. Don't forget to include all the lifestyle changes, gym memberships, meal cards, diet supplements, and healthy eating plans. If you are like most people with PCOS, you've tried way more times than can be counted! That is YOUR evidence that diets aren't going to give you what you need to promote long term health and healing. What can you do instead? Listen to the latest Love Food podcast episode that is a re-broadcast of a chat I did with Rachel Goodman from the More Than What You Eat podcast. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Projecton Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Show Notes:  Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. After the Letters Project info Rachel Goodman More Than What You Eat Podcast Intuitive Eating book and website Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Let's count the number of diets you've tried to manage PCOS. Don't forget to include all the lifestyle changes, gym memberships, meal cards, diet supplements, and healthy eating plans. If you are like most people with PCOS, you've tried way more times than can be counted! That is YOUR evidence that diets aren't going to give you what you need to promote long term health and healing. What can you do instead? Listen to the latest Love Food podcast episode that is a re-broadcast of a chat I did with Rachel Goodman from the More Than What You Eat podcast. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Projecton Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at <a href="http://patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast</a> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a> and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/AfterTheLetters" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">After the Letters Project info</a></li> <li><a href="https://rachelgoodnutrition.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rachel Goodman</a></li> <li><a href="https://rachelgoodnutrition.com/podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More Than What You Eat Podcast</a></li> <li>Intuitive Eating book and <a href="http://intuitiveeating.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a></li> <li>Find <a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a> near you.</li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(184) All about managing PCOS without diets (with Rachel Goodman)

Does food have power over you? Do you find you can't stop eating certain foods? Do you connect with shame every time you soothe with food? Listen to the latest Love Food podcast where we dive deep into what's going. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.  This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I've just discovered the Body Love Box and it looks like a fantastic resource for people who live in large bodies or anyone who wants to improve their body image. It's a monthly subscription box that gets mailed to your home and it includes things like body-positive stickers and pins as well as deeper resources on body acceptance, health at every size and intuitive eating. Each box includes items from fat and marginalized creators, and pays them a living wage for their work.    The monthly subscription can be found at  www.thebodylovebox.com, and use the code LOVEFOOD for 15% off your first month.  This episode's Dear Food letter:   Dear Chocolate Covered Peppermint Oreos, Why do you have so much power over me? Why can't I just eat one or two of you? Why do I wake up in the middle of my sleep and eat you? I know an entire box isn't good for me, but yet I keep going. The same goes for chips or any snack. Why can't I eat an acceptable amount? When I'm tired, stressed, lonely you are always there to comfort me. But after I'm done, I hate myself.  Our relationship has reached a scary place. I'm ready to break up but scared I'm not strong enough. Sincerely, Powerless and Unacceptable   Show Notes:  The Should Eat Fantasy Compliance blog post When relying on hunger is too scary blog post Marci Evans discusses Food Addiction on the Love Food Podcast Marci Evans research behind Food Addiction blog post Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Eating Disorder Dietitians  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Does food have power over you? Do you find you can't stop eating certain foods? Do you connect with shame every time you soothe with food? Listen to the latest Love Food podcast where we dive deep into what's going. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> <blockquote> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a> and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I've just discovered the Body Love Box and it looks like a fantastic resource for people who live in large bodies or anyone who wants to improve their body image. It's a monthly subscription box that gets mailed to your home and it includes things like body-positive stickers and pins as well as deeper resources on body acceptance, health at every size and intuitive eating. Each box includes items from fat and marginalized creators, and pays them a living wage for their work.    The monthly subscription can be found at <a href="http://www.thebodylovebox.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> www.thebodylovebox.com</a>, and use the code LOVEFOOD for 15% off your first month. </blockquote> This episode's Dear Food letter: <blockquote> Dear Chocolate Covered Peppermint Oreos, Why do you have so much power over me? Why can't I just eat one or two of you? Why do I wake up in the middle of my sleep and eat you? I know an entire box isn't good for me, but yet I keep going. The same goes for chips or any snack. Why can't I eat an acceptable amount? When I'm tired, stressed, lonely you are always there to comfort me. But after I'm done, I hate myself.  Our relationship has reached a scary place. I'm ready to break up but scared I'm not strong enough. Sincerely, Powerless and Unacceptable </blockquote> Show Notes: <ul> <li>The Should Eat Fantasy Compliance <a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/theshouldeatfantasycompliance/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog post</a></li> <li>When relying on hunger is too scary <a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/scaryhunger/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog post</a></li> <li>Marci Evans discusses Food Addiction on the <a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/lovefood70/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Love Food Podcast</a></li> <li>Marci Evans research behind Food Addiction <a href="https://marcird.com/blog/sugar-addiction-summary-science/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog post</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li><a href="http://www.eddietitians.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a></li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(141) I feel powerless around food.

Heather Caplan

Have you done the Food Peace™ journey for some time yet still find yourself emotionally eating? Are you frustrated that food still soothes you like nothing else?? Does it feel as though you are doing Intuitive Eating incorrectly because you can't just eat when hungry? Well, we have a podcast episode made just for you. Listen here now with special guest Heather Caplan RD from Lane 9 Project. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.  This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peaceand Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.  I want to share the work going on within Decolonizing Fitness. The person behind it, Ilya Parker, is a trans person of color Physical Therapist Assistant and  Medical Exercise Coachwith over 13 years of rehabilitative and functional training experience. He is a social justice advocate and educator whose work centers gender, racial and healing justice. He decided to merge his love for restorative based movement practices and community advocacy to create Decolonizing Fitness, LLC; which is a social justice platform that provides affirming fitness services, community education and apparel in support of body diversity. Check out www.decolonizingfitness.com.  This episode's Dear Food letter:  Dear Food,  I feel like I am at a crossroads with you. For years I restricted you and then binged on you, part of me struggling to give myself enough of you and part of me demanding that I get my needs met. I know so much more now than I did when I first started struggling with you; I know about trauma, dissociation, how bingeing can't be "fixed" with restriction, that my weight and my body and even what or when or how much I eat are not the problem. I know that, nowadays, when I use you to numb my feelings or try to escape them, you don't provide me the true comfort and relief that I long for. I also know that, nowadays, I can enjoy you so much more than I did in the past. I can be flexible about when and what I eat, I can sometimes articulate what of you I'd like to eat, and I can sometimes say when I've had enough of you.    I no longer binge as often as I used to, and I don't binge on the quantities of food I used to. But there are still lots of evenings when I turn to you and eat more of you than I'm hungry for, or I eat something that I don't even truly want to eat. I don't think this is the same as bingeing, but it still feels like I'm trying to use you in ways that you can't help me, and this behavior is keeping me stuck in a place I want to grow out of. I feel like I turn to you when I simply WANT—want more of a good feeling, or want less boredom, or exhaustion, or frustration from the workday. Why do I keep turning to you when I know you can't give me what I need? How can I connect this knowledge that you can't fix my feelings or take them away with the part of myself that still depends on you for . . . everything? I'm ready to take the next step, yet at the same time I feel like I am holding myself back.   From, Caught in Between  Show Notes:  6 Keys To Food Peace™️ blog post Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Lane 9 Project Lane9Project.org Lane Nine Project Podcast Heather Caplan Heather Caplan on Instagram: @RDRealTalk The PCOS and Food Peace Podcast Eating Disorder Dietitians  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you done the Food Peace™ journey for some time yet still find yourself emotionally eating? Are you frustrated that food still soothes you like nothing else?? Does it feel as though you are doing Intuitive Eating incorrectly because you can't just eat when hungry? Well, we have a podcast episode made just for you. Listen here now with special guest Heather Caplan RD from Lane 9 Project. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> <blockquote> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a>and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I want to share the work going on within Decolonizing Fitness. The person behind it, Ilya Parker, is a trans person of color Physical Therapist Assistant and <a href="https://decolonizingfitness.com/products/medical-exercise-program" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Medical Exercise Coach</a>with over 13 years of rehabilitative and functional training experience. He is a social justice advocate and educator whose work centers gender, racial and healing justice. He decided to merge his love for restorative based movement practices and community advocacy to create Decolonizing Fitness, LLC; which is a social justice platform that provides affirming fitness services, community education and apparel in support of body diversity. Check out <a href="http://www.decolonizingfitness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.decolonizingfitness.com</a>. </blockquote> This episode's Dear Food letter: <blockquote> Dear Food,  I feel like I am at a crossroads with you. For years I restricted you and then binged on you, part of me struggling to give myself enough of you and part of me demanding that I get my needs met. I know so much more now than I did when I first started struggling with you; I know about trauma, dissociation, how bingeing can't be "fixed" with restriction, that my weight and my body and even what or when or how much I eat are not the problem. I know that, nowadays, when I use you to numb my feelings or try to escape them, you don't provide me the true comfort and relief that I long for. I also know that, nowadays, I can enjoy you so much more than I did in the past. I can be flexible about when and what I eat, I can sometimes articulate what of you I'd like to eat, and I can sometimes say when I've had enough of you.  I no longer binge as often as I used to, and I don't binge on the quantities of food I used to. But there are still lots of evenings when I turn to you and eat more of you than I'm hungry for, or I eat something that I don't even truly want to eat. I don't think this is the same as bingeing, but it still feels like I'm trying to use you in ways that you can't help me, and this behavior is keeping me stuck in a place I want to grow out of. I feel like I turn to you when I simply WANT—want more of a good feeling, or want less boredom, or exhaustion, or frustration from the workday. Why do I keep turning to you when I know you can't give me what I need? How can I connect this knowledge that you can't fix my feelings or take them away with the part of myself that still depends on you for . . . everything? I'm ready to take the next step, yet at the same time I feel like I am holding myself back. From, Caught in Between </blockquote> Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a>™️ blog post</li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li><a href="https://lane9project.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lane 9 Project Lane9Project.org</a></li> <li><a href="http://lane9podcast.libsyn.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lane Nine Project Podcast</a></li> <li><a href="http://heathercaplan.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heather Caplan</a></li> <li>Heather Caplan on Instagram: @RDRealTalk</li> <li><a href="https://pcosandfoodpeace.com/podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The PCOS and Food Peace Podcast</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a></li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(153) I have made peace with food yet still emotionally eat. Why?? (with Heather Caplan)

The road to Food Peace is not all rainbows and butterflies. Most will experience rejection, body hate, and complicated ways of eating. If you come from that place and journeying toward intuitive eating, you may crave more control in the process. I made this week's Love Food Podcast episode just for you. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode's Dear Food letter: Dear Food, Our relationship has been complicated since before I can remember. I’ve been overweight my entire life and you have always been the one i put the blame on. I was very young when i was told you were bad for me. I knew to stay away from carbs and sweets before i went to grade school. My mother lived for diet culture. Every month it was a new diet and I was always forced to participate. The diets never worked. I couldn’t stay away from you. Although i knew i was overweight i never wanted to admit it. I was ashamed of the word fat. After my dad passed away our bond grew closer. We were now best friends. You were there for the tears and you were there for the laughs. I used you as my crutch to get me out of a dark place. After a year i realized that we needed a break. My clothes were tighter, i went up pant sizes, and the pictures from spring fling made me want to vomit. I didnt want to be the fat girl any more. At 16 years old i just wanted to fit in. So I lost Xlbs, i joined the dance team, and the cheer squad. I was still overweight but i felt good about myself and all of the new friends i made. I managed to keep the Xlbs off for 2 years until I graduated. That’s when i started working and could start to feed myself. I ate fast food every night after work. I loved it. I had never been able to experience this. As a child i rarely got fast food because our family was always on a diet. I couldn’t control myself. Sometimes I’d get fast food multiple times a day. Before i knew it the Xlbs were back.  I managed to not gain anymore weight for about 4 years. Then i married my husband and my relationship with food went sour. I gained Xlbs over the first year i was married. I remember hearing the doctor say my weight and i almost fell to the floor. How could this happen? Ive been overeating for years and i never gained anything. I knew a change needed to happen. But how? I started dieting. I would spend hours planning meals and snacks for the week but that grew tiresome fast. I figured I’d try keto everyone raves about how easy it is. It didnt matter what diet i did i always managed to overeat to the point of being sick. I heard about intuitive eating from a friend at the gym and she suggested i Look into it. Once again i find myself binging on unhealthy snacks. I’ve been desperately trying to rebuild a healthy relationship with food but some how i always find myself in the fridge eating until my stomach cant handle anymore. I’m lost and confused.  I am frustrated and desperate to get control of my life again.   Sincerely, Desperate For Help Show Notes:  Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Fiona Willer's Weight Science podcast Anti-Diet book (aff) Intuitive Eating book (aff) and website Find an Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The road to Food Peace is not all rainbows and butterflies. Most will experience rejection, body hate, and complicated ways of eating. If you come from that place and journeying toward intuitive eating, you may crave more control in the process. I made this week's Love Food Podcast episode just for you. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a> and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode's Dear Food letter: Dear Food, Our relationship has been complicated since before I can remember. I’ve been overweight my entire life and you have always been the one i put the blame on. I was very young when i was told you were bad for me. I knew to stay away from carbs and sweets before i went to grade school. My mother lived for diet culture. Every month it was a new diet and I was always forced to participate. The diets never worked. I couldn’t stay away from you. Although i knew i was overweight i never wanted to admit it. I was ashamed of the word fat. After my dad passed away our bond grew closer. We were now best friends. You were there for the tears and you were there for the laughs. I used you as my crutch to get me out of a dark place. After a year i realized that we needed a break. My clothes were tighter, i went up pant sizes, and the pictures from spring fling made me want to vomit. I didnt want to be the fat girl any more. At 16 years old i just wanted to fit in. So I lost Xlbs, i joined the dance team, and the cheer squad. I was still overweight but i felt good about myself and all of the new friends i made. I managed to keep the Xlbs off for 2 years until I graduated. That’s when i started working and could start to feed myself. I ate fast food every night after work. I loved it. I had never been able to experience this. As a child i rarely got fast food because our family was always on a diet. I couldn’t control myself. Sometimes I’d get fast food multiple times a day. Before i knew it the Xlbs were back.  I managed to not gain anymore weight for about 4 years. Then i married my husband and my relationship with food went sour. I gained Xlbs over the first year i was married. I remember hearing the doctor say my weight and i almost fell to the floor. How could this happen? Ive been overeating for years and i never gained anything. I knew a change needed to happen. But how? I started dieting. I would spend hours planning meals and snacks for the week but that grew tiresome fast. I figured I’d try keto everyone raves about how easy it is. It didnt matter what diet i did i always managed to overeat to the point of being sick. I heard about intuitive eating from a friend at the gym and she suggested i Look into it. Once again i find myself binging on unhealthy snacks. I’ve been desperately trying to rebuild a healthy relationship with food but some how i always find myself in the fridge eating until my stomach cant handle anymore. I’m lost and confused.  I am frustrated and desperate to get control of my life again.  Sincerely, Desperate For Help Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li>Fiona Willer's Weight Science <a href="https://www.unpackingweightscience.com/shop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/36yIMR6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anti-Diet book</a> (aff)</li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/34fmiCZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Intuitive Eating book</a> (aff) and <a href="http://intuitiveeating.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a></li> <li>Find an <a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a> near you.</li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(192) I want more control while intuitively eating.

Shira Rosenbleuth

While prepping for Season 4 of the Love Food Podcast, I am rebroadcasting conversations on PCOS and Food Peace. Listen as Kimmie Singh and I chat with Shira Rose, found on Instagram @IAmShiraRose, on her PCOS journey including beauty, body positivity, and changing your language. Since Shira recorded this episode she has disclosed to her audience how her life has been controlled by a decades long eating disorder and made worse by fat phobia. Be sure to note the updated handles and web home. Get caught up her experiences hereand  here. I have learned a lot from Shira and think you will too. This Chapter of the PCOS and Food Peace Podcast is brought to you by Julie's PCOS and Food Peace course. Get 25% off using the coupon code 'podcast' at check out. Get all the details here:  PCOS and Food Peace Course Dietitian PCOS and Food Peace Course  Did you enjoy the podcast? Leave us a rating, review, subscribe or share the podcast! Doing these small acts of kindness help the show grow and connect more with the concept of Food Peace. Notes:  Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace with PCOS download PCOS and Nutrition blog posts Read our blog post about what Inositols can do to help your PCOS. Shira's Web: TheShiraRose.com Shira's Instagram: @theshirarose Beauty Redefined Podcast HAES Community Association of Size Diversity and Health  Intuitive Eating principles Julie Dillon RD blog  Thank you to Theralogix, the makers of Ovasitol, for sponsoring the podcast.  Ovasitol is an inositol supplement with a blend of myo-inositol and D-chiro-inositol, in the body's optimal ratio of 40 to 1. Inositols are nutrients that help to decrease insulin resistance, promote menstrual regularity, restore ovulation, and balance hormone levels. In convenient powder form, Ovasitol can be enjoyed in your favorite beverage or smoothie. Available in both a canister and convenient single-serving packets, Ovasitol contains 100% pure inositols, with no additives. Read our blog post about what Inositols can do to help your PCOS. Order online today at theralogix.com. During checkout, use "PRC" code 127410for an exclusive PCOS and Food Peace Podcast discount. Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

While prepping for Season 4 of the Love Food Podcast, I am rebroadcasting conversations on PCOS and Food Peace. Listen as Kimmie Singh and I chat with Shira Rose, found on Instagram @IAmShiraRose, on her PCOS journey including beauty, body positivity, and changing your language. Since Shira recorded this episode she has disclosed to her audience how her life has been controlled by a decades long eating disorder and made worse by fat phobia. Be sure to note the updated handles and web home. Get caught up her experiences <a href="https://theshirarose.com/2019/03/my-20-year-eating-disorder/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>and <a href="https://elemental.medium.com/whos-considered-thin-enough-for-eating-disorder-treatment-4be7f98e4d98" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> here</a>. I have learned a lot from Shira and think you will too. This Chapter of the PCOS and Food Peace Podcast is brought to you by Julie's PCOS and Food Peace course. Get 25% off using the coupon code 'podcast' at check out. Get all the details here: <ul> <li><a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace Course</a></li> <li><a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitian PCOS and Food Peace Course</a></li> </ul> Did you enjoy the podcast? Leave us a rating, review, subscribe or share the podcast! Doing these small acts of kindness help the show grow and connect more with the concept of Food Peace. Notes: <ul> <li><a href="https://pcosandfoodpeace.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace with PCOS download</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/pcosseries/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Nutrition blog posts</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/inositols" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read our blog post about what Inositols can do to help your PCOS.</a></li> <li>Shira's Web: <a href="http://theshirarose.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TheShiraRose.com</a></li> <li>Shira's Instagram: @theshirarose</li> <li><a href="https://beautyredefined.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beauty Redefined Podcast</a></li> <li><a href="http://haescommunity.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HAES Community</a></li> <li><a href="http://sizediversityandhealth.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Association of Size Diversity and Health</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.intuitiveeating.org/10-principles-of-intuitive-eating/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Intuitive Eating principles</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> </ul> <h2>Thank you to Theralogix, the makers of Ovasitol, for sponsoring the podcast.</h2> <ul> <li>Ovasitol is an inositol supplement with a blend of myo-inositol and D-chiro-inositol, in the body's optimal ratio of 40 to 1.</li> <li>Inositols are nutrients that help to decrease insulin resistance, promote menstrual regularity, restore ovulation, and balance hormone levels.</li> <li>In convenient powder form, Ovasitol can be enjoyed in your favorite beverage or smoothie.</li> <li>Available in both a canister and convenient single-serving packets, Ovasitol contains 100% pure inositols, with no additives.</li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/inositols" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read our blog post about what Inositols can do to help your PCOS.</a></li> <li><a href="https://theralogix.com/products/ovasitol-inositol-powder" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Order online today at theralogix.com</a>. During checkout, use "PRC" code 127410for an exclusive PCOS and Food Peace Podcast discount.</li> </ul>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(167) [Rebroadcast] Shira Rosenbleuth on PCOS and Food Peace

Tonya Beauchaine

Tracy Vazquez

Are your thoughts always on food: what you will eat, why did you eat it, and how to not eat it? Do you want more control yet can't seem to get behind the wheel? Listen to the latest Love Food podcast where we explore the tough parts of eating disorder recovery, the nuance of making it work for you, and how to step into your power. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.  This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I've just discovered the Body Love Box and it looks like a fantastic resource for people who live in large bodies or anyone who wants to improve their body image. It's a monthly subscription box that gets mailed to your home and it includes things like body-positive stickers and pins as well as deeper resources on body acceptance, health at every size and intuitive eating. Each box includes items from fat and marginalized creators, and pays them a living wage for their work. The monthly subscription can be found at  www.thebodylovebox.com, and use the code LOVEFOOD for 15% off your first month.  This episode's Dear Food letter:  Dear food,  I hate you; and I love you. You are all I think about. You dominate my sense of self worth. Sometimes I restrict you, sometimes I overeat you, a few times I have gotten rid of you. I worry that I will never be able to free myself from you. I recently began eating disorder recovery and it is harder than I had ever thought. How are you supposed to recover, when there is still a part of you that enjoys your eating disorder? How are you supposed to change, when disordered eating has been your way of life since middle school? How are you supposed to make peace with yourself, when you look in the mirror and hate what you see? I tell myself that I am faking it; that I only do these things for attention. I eat in secrecy, lie about what I have eaten, and want people to look at me as “the girl with the eating disorder”. I find it hard to eat around other people, for fear or judgment and embarrassment. I tell myself there is no way I can actually have an eating disorder, because people with eating disorders aren’t able to feel normal any time food is involved. But sometimes, for me, I don’t have a problem eating. I’ll give myself “free days” or “free meals”, in which I can eat what I want and not feel guilty about it. Usually these days consist of me eating unhealthy, feeling bad about it afterwards, and then just continuing to do it, saying I will “make up for it tomorrow”. And then there are days where I will eat once, or twice, and that is all I get for the day. I’m allowed one meal, or X in the morning and Y and Z later, often with a workout in between. Sometimes food is around me and I eat it just because it is there, even if I am already full. Sometimes I am so hungry that I can’t focus on anything else. (Omitted sentences followed.) I wonder what it would be like to have a good relationship with you, food; to not spend all of my time thinking about you. I wonder what it would be like to eat three meals a day and not feel guilty afterwards. I wonder what it would be like to wear the types of clothes that everyone else wears, but I am too ashamed to put on my body. I wonder what it would be like to go on a shopping trip alone without having it end with me staring at myself in the dressing room mirror, wondering why I even left the house that day, and vowing never to eat again. I wonder what it would be like for my friends to see me as someone other than a weak, hopeless, mess whom they have to worry about daily. I wonder what it would be like to EAT when I am hungry and STOP when I am full I wonder what it would be like to not have food control my life. I wonder what it would be like to eat well, have desert if I want to, exercise because it’s fun, love my body, and be happy. I wonder what it would be like to be free. Love, Your greatest enemy and your best friend  Show Notes:  The We're Not Weighting Podcast @WereNotWeighting Instagram page Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Eating Disorder Dietitians  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are your thoughts always on food: what you will eat, why did you eat it, and how to not eat it? Do you want more control yet can't seem to get behind the wheel? Listen to the latest Love Food podcast where we explore the tough parts of eating disorder recovery, the nuance of making it work for you, and how to step into your power. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> <blockquote> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a> and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I've just discovered the Body Love Box and it looks like a fantastic resource for people who live in large bodies or anyone who wants to improve their body image. It's a monthly subscription box that gets mailed to your home and it includes things like body-positive stickers and pins as well as deeper resources on body acceptance, health at every size and intuitive eating. Each box includes items from fat and marginalized creators, and pays them a living wage for their work. The monthly subscription can be found at <a href="http://www.thebodylovebox.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> www.thebodylovebox.com</a>, and use the code LOVEFOOD for 15% off your first month. </blockquote> This episode's Dear Food letter: <blockquote> Dear food,  I hate you; and I love you. You are all I think about. You dominate my sense of self worth. Sometimes I restrict you, sometimes I overeat you, a few times I have gotten rid of you. I worry that I will never be able to free myself from you. I recently began eating disorder recovery and it is harder than I had ever thought. How are you supposed to recover, when there is still a part of you that enjoys your eating disorder? How are you supposed to change, when disordered eating has been your way of life since middle school? How are you supposed to make peace with yourself, when you look in the mirror and hate what you see? I tell myself that I am faking it; that I only do these things for attention. I eat in secrecy, lie about what I have eaten, and want people to look at me as “the girl with the eating disorder”. I find it hard to eat around other people, for fear or judgment and embarrassment. I tell myself there is no way I can actually have an eating disorder, because people with eating disorders aren’t able to feel normal any time food is involved. But sometimes, for me, I don’t have a problem eating. I’ll give myself “free days” or “free meals”, in which I can eat what I want and not feel guilty about it. Usually these days consist of me eating unhealthy, feeling bad about it afterwards, and then just continuing to do it, saying I will “make up for it tomorrow”. And then there are days where I will eat once, or twice, and that is all I get for the day. I’m allowed one meal, or X in the morning and Y and Z later, often with a workout in between. Sometimes food is around me and I eat it just because it is there, even if I am already full. Sometimes I am so hungry that I can’t focus on anything else. (Omitted sentences followed.) I wonder what it would be like to have a good relationship with you, food; to not spend all of my time thinking about you. I wonder what it would be like to eat three meals a day and not feel guilty afterwards. I wonder what it would be like to wear the types of clothes that everyone else wears, but I am too ashamed to put on my body. I wonder what it would be like to go on a shopping trip alone without having it end with me staring at myself in the dressing room mirror, wondering why I even left the house that day, and vowing never to eat again. I wonder what it would be like for my friends to see me as someone other than a weak, hopeless, mess whom they have to worry about daily. I wonder what it would be like to EAT when I am hungry and STOP when I am full I wonder what it would be like to not have food control my life. I wonder what it would be like to eat well, have desert if I want to, exercise because it’s fun, love my body, and be happy. I wonder what it would be like to be free. Love, Your greatest enemy and your best friend </blockquote> Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://werenotweighting.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The We're Not Weighting Podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/werenotweighting/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@WereNotWeighting</a> Instagram page</li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li><a href="http://www.eddietitians.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a></li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(142) Food is all I think about (with Tonya Beauchaine and Tracy Vazquez)

Kimmie Singh

Do you feel the pressure to eat "good" all the time? Are you in a role where you are expected to be healthy and eat in a way to prove it? Those who study or are in dietetics, medicine, nursing, and other health related fields will easily relate yet just about everyone will relate to the pressure. Listen as we sift through ways to get through with guest expert Kimmie Singh. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Project on Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode's Dear Food letter: Dear Food,  I am writing this email as I am on my own personal journey with food peace and body acceptance. I am a dietetics student well into my studies academically and have had some observations as well as personal growth along the way. About a year ago, I began going to therapy and there it was revealed that I undoubtable struggle with orthorexic and disordered eating behaviors. This was, in a sense, such a relief to hear. It put a label to what I was going through and allowed me to set the path of self-improvement within my life.  Although, actually putting in the work and committing to recovery was something that I could not have prepared myself for. This is something that I am still working towards today. At any rate, this brings me to what I want to talk about, which is how isolating this struggle can be in my major. I am surrounded by people, mostly women, who are expected to have a perfect relationship with food. However, I have a sinking suspicion that this is far from the case. I am living in a world surrounded by well-meaning individuals who are smart, inspiring, and dedicated. And obsessed with food.  At the time, I felt extremely alone in my struggle. I felt as though no one else knew what I was going through because dietetics students are held to the highest of all standards. We are expected to have everything together, including our relationship with food. Now, a year into my recovery journey, I am becoming more and more concerned that the discussion of eating disorders is missing from our education. I think as people who are so enveloped in the study of food, we need to be allowed room to heal our relationship with the societal expectation that we should be “perfect.” Furthermore, we need room as individuals to heal our relationships with our own bodies, as well as our knowledge of fat stigma and shaming. We need to be allowed to un-learn commonly held beliefs surrounding weight and health.  Unfortunately, everything mentioned above is missing from the dietetic curriculum, at least at my school. As I continue on in my own food peace journey, I am left confused and frustrated that we, as future professionals within the field, are left out of the discussion on eating disorders. As a result, we are entering the field with an oversimplified and possibly harmful outlook on people’s relationship with food.  Sincerely,  Captivated &amp; Concerned  Show Notes:  Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Kimmie Singh's website: BodyPositiveDietitian.com Kimmie Singh's IG: Instagram.com/BodyPositive_Dietitian The Body Love Project with Kimmie Singh The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Dietetic Internship with a HAES Rotation Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you feel the pressure to eat "good" all the time? Are you in a role where you are expected to be healthy and eat in a way to prove it? Those who study or are in dietetics, medicine, nursing, and other health related fields will easily relate yet just about everyone will relate to the pressure. Listen as we sift through ways to get through with guest expert Kimmie Singh. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Project on Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at <a href="http://patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast</a> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a> and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode's Dear Food letter: Dear Food,  I am writing this email as I am on my own personal journey with food peace and body acceptance. I am a dietetics student well into my studies academically and have had some observations as well as personal growth along the way. About a year ago, I began going to therapy and there it was revealed that I undoubtable struggle with orthorexic and disordered eating behaviors. This was, in a sense, such a relief to hear. It put a label to what I was going through and allowed me to set the path of self-improvement within my life.  Although, actually putting in the work and committing to recovery was something that I could not have prepared myself for. This is something that I am still working towards today. At any rate, this brings me to what I want to talk about, which is how isolating this struggle can be in my major. I am surrounded by people, mostly women, who are expected to have a perfect relationship with food. However, I have a sinking suspicion that this is far from the case. I am living in a world surrounded by well-meaning individuals who are smart, inspiring, and dedicated. And obsessed with food.  At the time, I felt extremely alone in my struggle. I felt as though no one else knew what I was going through because dietetics students are held to the highest of all standards. We are expected to have everything together, including our relationship with food. Now, a year into my recovery journey, I am becoming more and more concerned that the discussion of eating disorders is missing from our education. I think as people who are so enveloped in the study of food, we need to be allowed room to heal our relationship with the societal expectation that we should be “perfect.” Furthermore, we need room as individuals to heal our relationships with our own bodies, as well as our knowledge of fat stigma and shaming. We need to be allowed to un-learn commonly held beliefs surrounding weight and health.  Unfortunately, everything mentioned above is missing from the dietetic curriculum, at least at my school. As I continue on in my own food peace journey, I am left confused and frustrated that we, as future professionals within the field, are left out of the discussion on eating disorders. As a result, we are entering the field with an oversimplified and possibly harmful outlook on people’s relationship with food.  Sincerely,  Captivated &amp; Concerned  Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li>Kimmie Singh's website: <a href="http://bodypositivedietitian.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BodyPositiveDietitian.com</a></li> <li>Kimmie Singh's IG: <a href="http://instagram.com/BodyPositive_Dietitian" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram.com/BodyPositive_Dietitian</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.jessihaggerty.com/blog/blp66" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Body Love Project with Kimmie Singh</a></li> <li><a href="https://hhs.uncg.edu/ntr/dietetic-internship/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Dietetic Internship with a HAES Rotation</a></li> <li>Find <a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a> near you.</li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(176) I'm supposed to be a perfect eater (with Kimmie Singh)

Whitney Catalano

Do you find yourself reliving certain polarizing food memories over and over again in an exhausting loop? Curious why they have so much power? Do you feel like your chaotic eating has all the control and you just want to be the one driving the bus for once? Listen to the latest Love Food Podcast with special guest Whitney Catalano where we explore some possible next steps. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.  This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peaceand Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Get 30% off using the coupon code 'lovefood' at check out through the month of February 2019. thirdwheelEDis a social media advocacy platform that raises awareness of eating disorders in LGBTQ+ communities. Started by a queer couple whose writing addresses the intersectionality of eating disorders and body image, including gender dysphoria; a queer identity; trauma; and gender identity and expression, CJ and OJ provide a dual perspective of eating disorder recovery through the lens of a nonbinary person in recovery and of a nontraditional family carer, who just happens to also be a registered dietitian! CJ and OJ would love to work with eating disorder professionals on cultivating inclusive treatment for eating disorders in LGBTQ+ communities and are available to discuss training, webinars, and speaking engagements. You can follow them on instagram, facebook, and twitter @thirdwheeled or email them at info@thirdwheeled.com.  This episode's Dear Food letter:  Dear Food,    I hate you.    I think about you every second of every day, and I think of all the things I’ve lost and can’t get back because of the power I’ve given you.    Growing up, I was always bigger. Actually, the biggest. The bigger sister, the bigger cousin, the big friend. I was a quiet, sensitive, and curious little girl, always the observer. I also had a difficult home life, which was the best kept secret in town. My dad was a volatile alcoholic, which led to a great deal of anxiety, fear, and chaos, and a mother who was in too much pain to really be there for us girls. I compensated for all of these things by attempting perfection in almost every other part of my life.    Straight A’s through high school, studied abroad for a year, president of the international club. I wasn’t much of an athlete, but it wasn’t because I didn’t like sports. It’s the classic big girl dilemma – they’ll judge me if I don’t, they’ll laugh at me if I do. Instead, I was a musician. Principal cellist of five different ensembles, and the only high school cellist in the college symphony. But it always came back to my size, and no matter what I achieved I felt like losing weight was the only thing that would make me belong or be truly loved.   The busy schedule I designed for myself meant that I didn’t “have time” for food most days. Really, what I had was a rock-solid alibi for my absence in the school cafeteria. I had tried everything under the sun before I had even reached junior year. Skipping meals, eating frozen grapes because they took longer to eat than regular grapes (logic where???), you name it. To my perpetual shock and devastation, nothing worked.    When I was a senior in high school, I was on a diet and my family knew about it. It was probably not a safe, healthy diet, but I was overweight so they encouraged the behavior. My dad, especially. He was big his whole life, and had just dropped a significant amount of weight.    This particular night, I had been at school since 7:30 AM, and didn’t get home from college orchestra practice until close to 9:30. I was exhausted, and, quite literally, starving. I grabbed a can of Lite Progresso Soup for dinner. My dad made a condescending remark, something to the effect of “You should be careful, that has a lot of sodium in it.”    I completely shut down. I put the soup back in the cupboard, and walked upstairs unable to speak or look anyone in the eye. Once I got to my room, I started to sob. I remember hearing my mom say something like, “What’s wrong with you?” to my dad.    As I write this, I’m in one of the deepest holes I’ve ever experienced with my binge eating. I feel like I'm on a runaway train, except I'm the driver and I can't get it together enough to take the wheel (don't think trains have steering wheels, but you get it). I haven’t been able to shake this memory for a few weeks, and I can’t exactly articulate why but I know this was an impactful moment in my life, and there were others like it. I know my dad came to talk to me after, but I don’t remember what he said because it didn’t matter. He couldn’t unring the bell, in my mind. I don’t remember if they were able to get me to eat that night, but I remember feeling the emotional pain overcome the hunger pains, and I couldn’t stomach the thought of eating.    I’m 25 now, and I can feel that I’m in a nosedive, and I feel absolutely powerless. I’ve gained 20 pounds in the last year, and my preoccupation with food and my eating disorder is negatively affecting my job, my social life, and my health. I eat to soothe my psychological pain, but my psychological pain stems from my inability to control my eating. My eating disorder is definitely at the wheel right now, and I don’t know how to take back control. I don’t even feel that I’m strong enough.    From, Runaway Train  Show Notes:  6 Keys To Food Peace™️ blog post The Body Image Workbook by Thomas Cash The Trust Your Body Project podcastand Instagram Diet Binge Cycle Pendulum video WhitneyCatalano.com Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Eating Disorder Dietitians  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you find yourself reliving certain polarizing food memories over and over again in an exhausting loop? Curious why they have so much power? Do you feel like your chaotic eating has all the control and you just want to be the one driving the bus for once? Listen to the latest Love Food Podcast with special guest Whitney Catalano where we explore some possible next steps. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> <blockquote> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a>and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Get 30% off using the coupon code 'lovefood' at check out through the month of February 2019. <a href="http://thirdwheeled.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thirdwheelED</a>is a social media advocacy platform that raises awareness of eating disorders in LGBTQ+ communities. Started by a queer couple whose writing addresses the intersectionality of eating disorders and body image, including gender dysphoria; a queer identity; trauma; and gender identity and expression, CJ and OJ provide a dual perspective of eating disorder recovery through the lens of a nonbinary person in recovery and of a nontraditional family carer, who just happens to also be a registered dietitian! CJ and OJ would love to work with eating disorder professionals on cultivating inclusive treatment for eating disorders in LGBTQ+ communities and are available to discuss training, webinars, and speaking engagements. You can follow them on instagram, facebook, and twitter @thirdwheeled or email them at info@thirdwheeled.com. </blockquote> This episode's Dear Food letter: <blockquote> Dear Food,  I hate you.  I think about you every second of every day, and I think of all the things I’ve lost and can’t get back because of the power I’ve given you.  Growing up, I was always bigger. Actually, the biggest. The bigger sister, the bigger cousin, the big friend. I was a quiet, sensitive, and curious little girl, always the observer. I also had a difficult home life, which was the best kept secret in town. My dad was a volatile alcoholic, which led to a great deal of anxiety, fear, and chaos, and a mother who was in too much pain to really be there for us girls. I compensated for all of these things by attempting perfection in almost every other part of my life.  Straight A’s through high school, studied abroad for a year, president of the international club. I wasn’t much of an athlete, but it wasn’t because I didn’t like sports. It’s the classic big girl dilemma – they’ll judge me if I don’t, they’ll laugh at me if I do. Instead, I was a musician. Principal cellist of five different ensembles, and the only high school cellist in the college symphony. But it always came back to my size, and no matter what I achieved I felt like losing weight was the only thing that would make me belong or be truly loved. The busy schedule I designed for myself meant that I didn’t “have time” for food most days. Really, what I had was a rock-solid alibi for my absence in the school cafeteria. I had tried everything under the sun before I had even reached junior year. Skipping meals, eating frozen grapes because they took longer to eat than regular grapes (logic where???), you name it. To my perpetual shock and devastation, nothing worked.  When I was a senior in high school, I was on a diet and my family knew about it. It was probably not a safe, healthy diet, but I was overweight so they encouraged the behavior. My dad, especially. He was big his whole life, and had just dropped a significant amount of weight.  This particular night, I had been at school since 7:30 AM, and didn’t get home from college orchestra practice until close to 9:30. I was exhausted, and, quite literally, starving. I grabbed a can of Lite Progresso Soup for dinner. My dad made a condescending remark, something to the effect of “You should be careful, that has a lot of sodium in it.”  I completely shut down. I put the soup back in the cupboard, and walked upstairs unable to speak or look anyone in the eye. Once I got to my room, I started to sob. I remember hearing my mom say something like, “What’s wrong with you?” to my dad.  As I write this, I’m in one of the deepest holes I’ve ever experienced with my binge eating. I feel like I'm on a runaway train, except I'm the driver and I can't get it together enough to take the wheel (don't think trains have steering wheels, but you get it). I haven’t been able to shake this memory for a few weeks, and I can’t exactly articulate why but I know this was an impactful moment in my life, and there were others like it. I know my dad came to talk to me after, but I don’t remember what he said because it didn’t matter. He couldn’t unring the bell, in my mind. I don’t remember if they were able to get me to eat that night, but I remember feeling the emotional pain overcome the hunger pains, and I couldn’t stomach the thought of eating.  I’m 25 now, and I can feel that I’m in a nosedive, and I feel absolutely powerless. I’ve gained 20 pounds in the last year, and my preoccupation with food and my eating disorder is negatively affecting my job, my social life, and my health. I eat to soothe my psychological pain, but my psychological pain stems from my inability to control my eating. My eating disorder is definitely at the wheel right now, and I don’t know how to take back control. I don’t even feel that I’m strong enough.  From, Runaway Train </blockquote> Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a>™️ blog post</li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2MVTxEh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Body Image Workbook by Thomas Cash</a></li> <li>The Trust Your Body Project <a href="https://whitneycatalano.com/podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a>and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/trustyourbodyproject/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a></li> <li><a href="https://whitneycatalano.com/how-to-stop-binge-eating/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Diet Binge Cycle Pendulum video</a></li> <li><a href="https://whitneycatalano.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WhitneyCatalano.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li><a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a></li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(146) My eating disorder is at the wheel and I don’t know how to take back control (with Whitney Catalano)

Barbara Birsinger

(157) I am terrified of my body changing (with Barbara Birsinger)Are you ready to ditch diets...yet not ready? Does the thought of another diet seem intolerable yet so does losing control? Does it feel like you will be just letting yourself go??? Listen to the latest Love Food Podcast that dishes on just that with special guest Barbara Birsinger. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.  This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peaceand Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.  I want to share the work going on within Decolonizing Fitness. The person behind it, Ilya Parker, is a trans person of color Physical Therapist Assistant and  Medical Exercise Coachwith over 13 years of rehabilitative and functional training experience. He is a social justice advocate and educator whose work centers gender, racial and healing justice. He decided to merge his love for restorative based movement practices and community advocacy to create Decolonizing Fitness, LLC; which is a social justice platform that provides affirming fitness services, community education and apparel in support of body diversity. Check out www.decolonizingfitness.com.  This episode's Dear Food letter:     Dear food, You are so complicated. We used to have a good relationship. It wasn’t that long ago. At first it wasn’t even about you. Then I went through that period of incredible stress. I felt so lost and physically couldn’t eat you. I think that’s when the problem started. I lost some weight. That wasn’t a plan. I don’t know if it became a way to cope, to feel (or not feel), a way to control something, a way to become invisible.Now it is definitely intentional. I like the smallness. I’m so afraid to let go of that. I want health. I’m sure this is not full health. My brain knows it is time to heal. So many days I go to bed and promise that I can heal, that I won’t think about you and will just take care of my needs. But it doesn’t last long. I get scared and can’t eat you again. I know where to find all kinds of resources. I seek them out, I fill my head with all the reasons to heal. I want to be better. But I’m terrified. I am terrified of admitting to anyone what’s going on. I am terrified of the body changes. I am terrified that some people will think I let myself go. I feel at the same time so ready for change and health but not ready to take the hard steps. How can I convince myself that it is time? Yours, Ready, Not Ready  Show Notes:  6 Keys To Food Peace™️ blog post Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. The 6 Keys to Food Peace Barbara Birsinger Real-Time Quick Decoding Process Yes I Want This/No I Don’t chart Intuitive Eating by Tribole and Resch (aff) Eating Disorder Dietitians  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

(157) I am terrified of my body changing (with Barbara Birsinger)Are you ready to ditch diets...yet not ready? Does the thought of another diet seem intolerable yet so does losing control? Does it feel like you will be just letting yourself go??? Listen to the latest Love Food Podcast that dishes on just that with special guest Barbara Birsinger. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> <blockquote> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a>and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. I want to share the work going on within Decolonizing Fitness. The person behind it, Ilya Parker, is a trans person of color Physical Therapist Assistant and <a href="https://decolonizingfitness.com/products/medical-exercise-program" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Medical Exercise Coach</a>with over 13 years of rehabilitative and functional training experience. He is a social justice advocate and educator whose work centers gender, racial and healing justice. He decided to merge his love for restorative based movement practices and community advocacy to create Decolonizing Fitness, LLC; which is a social justice platform that provides affirming fitness services, community education and apparel in support of body diversity. Check out <a href="http://www.decolonizingfitness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.decolonizingfitness.com</a>. </blockquote> This episode's Dear Food letter: <blockquote>   Dear food, You are so complicated. We used to have a good relationship. It wasn’t that long ago. At first it wasn’t even about you. Then I went through that period of incredible stress. I felt so lost and physically couldn’t eat you. I think that’s when the problem started. I lost some weight. That wasn’t a plan. I don’t know if it became a way to cope, to feel (or not feel), a way to control something, a way to become invisible.Now it is definitely intentional. I like the smallness. I’m so afraid to let go of that. I want health. I’m sure this is not full health. My brain knows it is time to heal. So many days I go to bed and promise that I can heal, that I won’t think about you and will just take care of my needs. But it doesn’t last long. I get scared and can’t eat you again. I know where to find all kinds of resources. I seek them out, I fill my head with all the reasons to heal. I want to be better. But I’m terrified. I am terrified of admitting to anyone what’s going on. I am terrified of the body changes. I am terrified that some people will think I let myself go. I feel at the same time so ready for change and health but not ready to take the hard steps. How can I convince myself that it is time? Yours, Ready, Not Ready </blockquote> Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6 Keys To Food Peace</a>™️ blog post</li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/6keystofoodpeace/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The 6 Keys to Food Peace</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.barbarabirsinger.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barbara Birsinger</a></li> <li>Real-Time Quick Decoding Process</li> <li>Yes I Want This/No I Don’t chart</li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2ZgTZmu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Intuitive Eating by Tribole and Resch</a> (aff)</li> <li><a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a></li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(157) I am terrified of my body changing (with Barbara Birsinger).

I have a BONUS episode just for you! How do you make sense of your Food Peace journey when desiring a weight change? How do you put them together. One word: don't. Get a peak behind what you get by being a part of the After The Letters Project by listening now for free in your Love Food feed. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Projecton Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Show Notes:  Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. After the Letters Project info Intuitive Eating book and website Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

I have a BONUS episode just for you! How do you make sense of your Food Peace journey when desiring a weight change? How do you put them together. One word: don't. Get a peak behind what you get by being a part of the After The Letters Project by listening now for free in your Love Food feed. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Projecton Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at <a href="http://patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast</a> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a> and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/AfterTheLetters" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">After the Letters Project info</a></li> <li>Intuitive Eating book and <a href="http://intuitiveeating.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a></li> <li>Find <a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a> near you.</li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(181) That question about Food Peace and weight loss

Cara Harbstreet

While on your Food Peace journey, are you feeling powerful fighting diet culture yet deflated every time someone else brings up diet talk? Wonder how to best handle verbalized fat phobia? Let's huddle to help you decide what your next steps look like in this latest Love Food Podcast episode with special guest Cara Harbstreet. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Project on Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode's Dear Food letter: Dear Food, We’ve had a complicated relationship for as long as I can remember. I have always felt guilty when eating you and blamed you for my oversized body (according to society's standards). My guilt and shame turned into a full fledged eating disorder, which I was entrenched in for years. I was diagnosed with anorexia in 2015 after years of restricting, over exercising, and hating myself. I finally agreed to get help from professionals, which meant having to eat a lot of you food. I was forced to eat what I considered my “bad” foods or “off limit” foods and refrain from exercise. It took years to restore my weight and countless appointments with my dietician, doctor, and therapist. It was and still is the hardest battle I have ever had to fight. Here I am now, in 2019, and still have a difficult time with you. I still overthink you and I worry that you will always have control over my life. But I have also come a long way in understanding our relationship and the distorted thoughts I have about you. I have recently felt a strong desire to fight against diet culture. You see food, I am about to enter the field of professional counseling and my hope is to help people understand you better and become less fearful of you. I want people to enjoy you and honor the body they live in, without being on a diet. I want that for myself and for others.  Though, as empowered as I feel, I am stuck. I have a hard time listening to people talk about you, diets, and weight. It makes me cringe and I don’t know how to address you in conversations in a respectful and knowledgeable manner. Unfortunately, the conversation of you and weight occur far too often. I usually just ignore what I am hearing and don’t get involved because I am scared of how others will react when I tell them I am on your side and that you are not the real problem. What do I say to them? How do I enter a conversation about you, body image, and scales when I am against the norm? How do we as Food Peace soldiers push back on diet culture on a daily basis? How do we respond to our family and friends when they sit and talk about you and restricting you? How do we help people understand that diets are so harmful to our bodies and that we deserve so much more? How do we help people see that Food Peace is possible and it does not include restriction or being on a diet?  I want so badly to tell the world that everything they have heard and learned about diets and you is a big lie. I want to help people find body acceptance and break free of the shame and guilt they feel around you, but I don’t know how. HELP!  Yours truly, Stuck and Fed Up. Show Notes:  Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Cara Harbstreet's website: StreetSmartNutrition.com Cara Harbstreet's IG: https://www.instagram.com/streetsmart.rd/ Cara Harbstreet's Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreetSmartRD Healthy Eating For Life: An Intuitive Eating Workbook to Stop Dieting Forever book (aff) Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.  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!Our Sponsors:* Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://www.gaiaprovides.com/* Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: https://airdoctorpro.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &amp; Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

While on your Food Peace journey, are you feeling powerful fighting diet culture yet deflated every time someone else brings up diet talk? Wonder how to best handle verbalized fat phobia? Let's huddle to help you decide what your next steps look like in this latest Love Food Podcast episode with special guest Cara Harbstreet. <a href="http://bit.ly/1PuyEID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.</a> Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Project on Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at <a href="http://patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast</a> This episode is brought to you by my courses: <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCOS and Food Peace</a> and <a href="http://pcosandfoodpeace.com/dietitians" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace</a>. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode's Dear Food letter: Dear Food, We’ve had a complicated relationship for as long as I can remember. I have always felt guilty when eating you and blamed you for my oversized body (according to society's standards). My guilt and shame turned into a full fledged eating disorder, which I was entrenched in for years. I was diagnosed with anorexia in 2015 after years of restricting, over exercising, and hating myself. I finally agreed to get help from professionals, which meant having to eat a lot of you food. I was forced to eat what I considered my “bad” foods or “off limit” foods and refrain from exercise. It took years to restore my weight and countless appointments with my dietician, doctor, and therapist. It was and still is the hardest battle I have ever had to fight. Here I am now, in 2019, and still have a difficult time with you. I still overthink you and I worry that you will always have control over my life. But I have also come a long way in understanding our relationship and the distorted thoughts I have about you. I have recently felt a strong desire to fight against diet culture. You see food, I am about to enter the field of professional counseling and my hope is to help people understand you better and become less fearful of you. I want people to enjoy you and honor the body they live in, without being on a diet. I want that for myself and for others.  Though, as empowered as I feel, I am stuck. I have a hard time listening to people talk about you, diets, and weight. It makes me cringe and I don’t know how to address you in conversations in a respectful and knowledgeable manner. Unfortunately, the conversation of you and weight occur far too often. I usually just ignore what I am hearing and don’t get involved because I am scared of how others will react when I tell them I am on your side and that you are not the real problem. What do I say to them? How do I enter a conversation about you, body image, and scales when I am against the norm? How do we as Food Peace soldiers push back on diet culture on a daily basis? How do we respond to our family and friends when they sit and talk about you and restricting you? How do we help people understand that diets are so harmful to our bodies and that we deserve so much more? How do we help people see that Food Peace is possible and it does not include restriction or being on a diet?  I want so badly to tell the world that everything they have heard and learned about diets and you is a big lie. I want to help people find body acceptance and break free of the shame and guilt they feel around you, but I don’t know how. HELP!  Yours truly, Stuck and Fed Up. Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Dillon RD blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://juliedillonrd.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to subscribe</a> to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.</li> <li>Cara Harbstreet's website: <a href="http://www.streetsmartnutrition.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">StreetSmartNutrition.com</a></li> <li>Cara Harbstreet's IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/streetsmart.rd/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/streetsmart.rd/</a></li> <li>Cara Harbstreet's Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/StreetSmartRD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/StreetSmartRD</a></li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/33piAqm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Healthy Eating For Life: An Intuitive Eating Workbook to Stop Dieting Forever</a> book (aff)</li> <li>Find <a href="http://www.eddietitians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating Disorder Dietitians</a> near you.</li> </ul> Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  <h1><a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1076673018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here</a> to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!</h1>Our Sponsors: * Check out Gaia Provides and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://www.gaiaprovides.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gaiaprovides.com/</a> * Check out Ideal Living and use my code FOODVOICE for a great deal: <a href="https://airdoctorpro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://airdoctorpro.com/</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href="https://redcircle.com/brands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy &amp; Opt-Out: <a href="https://redcircle.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

(174) How do I challenge diet talk? (with Cara Harbstreet)

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