Find Your Food Voice

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 Laura Burns, aka @RadicalBodyLove on Instagram, about infertility and literal and figurative hurricanes. 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 Laura’s Web: RadicalBodyLove.com Laura’s Instagram: @RadicalBodyLove Fat Friendly Docs Dances with Fat blog Lean in/Lean out concentric circles…actually called The Ring Theory. Read a discussion here in the LA Times. Intuitive Eating principles Happy and Hairy Instagram @HappyAndHairy PCOS and Food Peace Support Club on Facebook Health at Every Size (HAES) Julie Dillon RD blog Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & 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 Caroline Dooner, author of my favorite 2019 book The F*ck It Diet, on PCOS diet recommendations starting her eating disorder. 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 Caroline’s Web: TheFuckItDiet.com Caroline’s Instagram: @TheFuckItDiet Caroline’s Book: The Fuck It Diet(aff) PCOS and Food Peace Support Club on Facebook Laura Thomas’s Don’t Salt My Game Podcast (linked to an episode on PCOS) Intuitive Eating 10 principles Health at Every Size (HAES) 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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & 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 Ivy Felicia, from Weightless Wellness, on feeling broken and finding comprehensive health care. 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 Ivy’s Web:MeMyBodyandLove.com Ivy’s Instagram: @IvyFelicia PCOS and Food Peace Support Club on Facebook Health at Every Size (HAES) Intuitive Eating 10 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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & 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 Sophie Carter-Kahn, co-host of the She's All Fat Podcast, on googling the diagnosis, hidradenitis suppurativa, and finding your path. 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 Sophie’s Podcast: She’s All Fat Sophie’s Web: sophiack.com Sophie’s Instagram: @_sophick_ PCOS and Food Peace Support Club on Facebook Health at Every Size (HAES) 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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 Movement and PCOS PCOS and Nutrition blog posts Jes Baker's post on facial hair Jes's Web: TheMilitantBaker.com Jes's Books:Landwhale(aff) or Things No One Tells Fat Girls(aff) Instagram: @TheMilitantBaker PCOS and Food Peace Support Club on Facebook Green Mountain at Fox Run Health at Every Size (HAES) 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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tired of diets that don't work to treat your PCOS? Feel chaotic around food yet think you HAVE to diet? Feel shame for your food cravings, bingeing, and body size while living with PCOS? We have a podcast for you. Kimmie Singh and I have put together 10 special episodes to form the PCOS and Food Peace Podcast. Each chapter features an interesting person affected by PCOS and their lived experiences. We also sort through a listener question within each episode on topics like exercise, cravings, mental health, infertility, finding good doctors, diabetes, and so much more! We are currently waiting for the podcast to be approved *eyeroll* by Apple Podcasts and they are taking their sweet ass time. Thankfully, you can listen to all the episodes NOW via my website or on Spotify. This particular episode on this page is a great place to start. It gives you all the meaty details about the show and a glimpse into each episode. Let us know what you think! 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 PCOS and Food Peace Support Club on Facebook Health at Every Size (HAES) 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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you on your path toward Food Peace™ yet struggling with a part of your body acceptance? Do you live in a body that gets misgendered including in recovery spaces? You can have access to Food Peace too. Listen to expert guest Vaughn Darst as he explores this part of the journey on the latest episode and season 3 finale of the Love Food Podcast. 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, We've had a rough ride. The past 5 years have been a constant flux of hating you, loving you, wanting you, needing you, abandoning you, and re-discovering you, all the while changing the body in which relates to you. Though it really didn't change a lot at all; in fact it's stayed relatively the same, but this un-changing body can just looks so different. On different days, in different mirrors, in different rooms, at different times, with different people, after different meals, it looks so different and I'm not sure which to believe anymore. I've come to accept this changing perception and try my best to give way to the kinder ones and not give much room to the less friendly ones. This has helped me come to a much better stage in my recovery and my relation to you (Food).   But there's something I feel pulling me back into unhealthy thought patterns and coping strategies.I'm a non-binary trans people who has not been through any physical transition processes yet and, although I've managed to accept many parts of my body that I have felt hatred towards previously, I find it impossible too accept it as a whole. Because there are parts that I unequivocally don't want, for example breasts, and so I don't feel I can experience my body as a whole. At least not as long as I still experience this kind of dysphoria.   The thing is, Food, I don't feel like I can resolve my relationship with you and move forward in my recovery while I can't resolve my relationship with my body and my gender dysphoria. The part that I struggle with the most is that there is a distinct lack of resources and inclusion of trans people and bodies in rhetoric about eating disorders. Often, when I'm seeking help, I find myself confronted with invalidation of my gender identity and a sense of loneliness in my struggles. In fact, I tried to access counseling and they required everyone to take a nutritional information course first, in which they proceeded to mis-gender me and almost exclusively talked about anorexia and female body ideals as though that were the only issue in the room.   Now I know I'm not the only non-binary trans person to experience an eating disorder and/or gender dysphoria but I feel quite lost at sea in this struggle and don't know where I'm suppose to swim to next.   Yours sincerely, Drowning in Gender-norms 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 Vaughn Darst's Instagram: @AllGenderNutrition Vaughn Darst's website: AllGenderNutrition.com My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-step guide to achieving world peace through gender anarchy and sex positivity by Katie Bornstein Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Gender Binary by Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, and Riki Wilchins 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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & 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. 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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Does food control your life? Is every waking moment thinking about food, your body, calories, carbs, sugar, bad body thoughts, exercise, and shame? Listen up to the latest Love Food Podcast episode exploring how to move onward and what your body needs to carry on with your Food Peace™ 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, Food controls my daily life. I think about my next meal every second of every day. Stress makes me restrict or binge. There’s no in between. I lost XX pounds in the month of April and May - almost hospitalizing me. Then I gained XX+ pounds in one month - August. I binged - cookies, ice cream, anything sugary. Every day sometimes twice a day. Food controls me. But I am more powerful. I can control this. Disordered eating is an issue for me. I want to look like myself again. Not me during restriction. Not me during binging. Normal me. Physically and mentally me. Love, Me   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 Summer Innanen 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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & 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. 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!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy