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

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The transcribed episode can be found here.

Episode's Key Points:

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

Show Notes:

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

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