Find Your Food Voice

What do we do when our foundation for Food Peace™ is rooted in negative self-talk and shame? How do we find make peace with our body when those around us are hyper-critical of our appearance? Listen now to get my tips on how to handle this part of the Food Peace™ journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in April, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Check out the whole Love Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have an option with sizes ranging from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. The transcribed episode can be found here. Episode's Key Points: Caregivers have a HUGE impact on our sense of self-worth and the development of positive self-talk. If our primary caregiver is a critical voice in our lives, we are unable to create our own internal compassionate voice. If we have a caregiver with a personality disorder, it can be doubly hard to assert your right to your body. Personality disorders can be super rigid, and it's important to set boundaries around what is and isn't allowed. Tell this person that you won't talk about food and body with them anymore, period! Specifically, having a primary caregiver with narcissistic personality disorder can really effect your ability to have a peaceful relationship with food and our body. Our relationship with food MIRRORS our relationship with other aspects of our lives! Experiencing a foundation of criticism related to our body will have a lasting impact on how we view our body. The "shoulding" inner voice aims to shame us! It's important to react like a rebellious teenager to these shoulding voices. When we deprive our bodies, they react by seeking out large amounts of highly palatable foods. This is the way our body tries to save us! It's important to reframe these experiences as something shameful, to something necessary for survival. Compassionate curiosity is the foundation to Food Peace™. Seek out safe spaces to further enhance this journey, including online groups, therapists, and more. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. The Shoulding Parent and Rebellious Teen Handout is found at JulieDillonRD.com/lovefood114 Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in April, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode is also brought to you by my new Fat-Positive Dietitian t-shirt and mug! All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Check out the whole Love Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have an option with sizes ranging from XS to 5X. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. The transcribed episode can be found here. Episode's Key Points: Black and white thinking is a cognitive distortion. Real like, and real health, isn't like that at all. Being a weight-inclusive, fat-positive, non-diet dietitian is NOT an approach that harms health. Gastric bypass does NOT rid the world of fatphobia! The answer to this problem is a combo solution: to help people heal their relationship with food AND with their bodies. Part of this means healing the cultural fatphobia our world is currently struggling with. Megrette Fletcher joins us to talk about medical nutrition therapy! Moving away from a job that doesn't support our passions and values is an amazing step. The culture surrounding diabetes is super saturated by diet culture, and so moving out of the diet-centric paradigm in diabetes work is hard! Before insulin was invented, restriction was the only way we knew how to manage the disease. We need to pause and think, why are we so afraid of nourishing the body? When we teach diabetes from a Health at Every Size perspective, we address every body as an individual. We're ALL marinating in diet culture, and people who struggle with diabetes exist in a diet-culture pressure cooker. We don't cause diabetes as it's a genetic disease, but so much of diet culture blames the individual and individual food and exercise choices. Compassion is KEY for diabetes care, as there really isn't a cure and it's not a disease anyone asks for. It's a genetic condition that's VERY complex. The goal needs to be to nourish the body, period. Where our weight ends up doesn't matter! No matter what your body size, you need to eat! We need more food than we think, and we're allowed to nourish our bodies. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Intuitive Eating, 3rd ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon The Rules of Normal Eating by Karen Koenig Megrette's personal and professional guide to embracing a weight neutral approach to diabetes ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat by Michelle May and Megrette Fletcher Find Megrette at her website! ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Julie's Love, Food letter Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Is Food Peace™ and intuitive eating your goal, but you're finding that being in a larger body is holding you back from that healing work? Listen now to get my tips on how to approach this part of the Food Peace™ journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in April, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode is also brought to you by my new Fat-Positive Dietitian t-shirt and mug! All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. The transcribed episode can be found here. Episode's Key Points: Food brings us health and connection, BUT it doesn't deserve the amount of power that we give it in diet culture. Food can't really cure us OR kill us! Thin privilege is very, very real! Our ability to heal our relationship around food IS impacted by our size and how the world treats us based on that size. You aren't "bad" based on your food choices! Food deprivation in our past can translate into our present in the form of dieting. Boys and men are often given permission to take up more space in the world and consume more food without negative associations. But growing girls need nourishment too! Intuitive eating is essential for Food Peace™, but it's important not to turn it into yet another diet rule. It isn't the eat-when-you're-hungry-stop-when-you're-full diet! It's about listening to your body and being curious about how certain foods make you feel. Intuitive eating is NOT a weight loss plan!! The desire to be in a smaller body is often about the need to be accepted, rather than the need to actually be physically smaller. Remember, you can still want to lose weight but not pursue it! The pursuit of weight loss is harmful for our health, but it can be hard to let go of that desire completely because we live in a fatphobic society. So put weight loss on the back-burner, otherwise Food Peace™ will continue to be out of reach. We can't listen to our fullness and hunger cues and honor them if we're worried about weight gain! Historical deprivation gets in the way of our intuition around food, so it's important to unpack that with an intuitive-eating professional. Intuitive eating work takes time, it's not linear, and it's messy. And the work is never really over because we live in diet culture! You're not doing it wrong. You're just in the process like everyone else. Too much of morality is wrapped up in our food choices, and it's time to reject that! If we don't eat enough during the day, our body pushes us to eat more at the end of the day. This is the restrict-binge cycle, and to stop it, you need to eat more! Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Evelyn Tribole Intuitive Eating, 3rd ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch Taste the Sweet Rebellion: Rebel Against Dieting Workbook by Dana Magee, Kaitlynn Fortunato Greenberg, and Rebecca Bitzer ---> This week's Food Peace™ Syllabus addition Reach out to Dana via email Summer Innanen and her Love, Food Episode Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you having success with healing your relationship with food, but are worried that going back into a toxic environment will jeopardize your newfound peace? Listen now to get my tips on how to approach this part of the Food Peace™ journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in April, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode is also brought to you by my new Fat-Positive Dietitian t-shirt and mug! All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. Episode's Key Points: Our relationship with food is a window into our unmet needs! Instead of trying to avoid vulnerability, try sticking with it. It will help you tap into your own innate wisdom, and help guide you towards what you need to do next. It's time to investigate our unmet need. Food can help distract us when we're going through challenging times, but figuring out the unmet need can provide some lasting relief. This strategy is called the Food Decoding Method! Chronic illness is a tough experience on everyone, not just the person struggling with the pain. Remember that, and give yourself some compassion. Hardship and health conditions are difficult, but they are NOT caused by being in a larger body. There's a relationship between body size and illness, but there's no research out there to prove that being in a larger body leads to ill health. In fact, there are lots of factors, like weight stigma, that aren't even considered in classic weight research. Ending a relationship with your therapist is hard, but even going to a few sessions is worth it. Explore the option of online therapy providers! Some of my colleagues doing virtual work include Christy Harrison, Erica Leon, and Paige Smathers. You don't have to have your shit together. Transitions are messy, and adjustments take time! Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Dr. Barbara Birsinger's work Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you struggling to accept your body size, even though you've made peace with food? Is past trauma still affecting our ability to find true and lasting recovery? Julie Church and Kara Bozzi join me to break down this part of the Food Peace™ journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in April, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. Episode's Key Points: Working with a dietitian and therapist TEAM is so important for full recovery! Julie Church, RD, and Kara Bozzi, therapist, from Opal: Food + Body Wisdom Center join us to talk about this week's letter. Our eating behaviors are coping mechanisms, and sometimes we have to engage in some disordered behaviors to protect ourselves. Shifting our relationship with our body is SO hard, especially when body hatred has plagued us for so long. Seeking healing means there's HOPE to find further growth and peace! Our world is so, SO fatphobic, and it wrongly connects our weight to our health and our self-worth. Part of the work is disconnecting weight from these other factors. Making peace with food and acting in self-care through nourishing ourselves does NOT mean you will lose weight, and it does NOT mean you'll be in a smaller body! Food peace doesn't equate to thinness. Support yourself through this weight bias we experience by finding community. Advocate for yourself, and demand respect for your body! You deserve safe relationships. Interrogate what's behind the body hatred! Trauma, weight bias... these things can contribute to us not feeling safe in our bodies and disrupt our body image. Part of the process is striving for a more relational relationship with our bodies. Investigate some somatic work, and dig deep. 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. Opal: Food + Body Wisdom Lynn Hurdle-Price's TEDx Talk ---> This week'sFood Peace™ Syllabus addition #1 "Intro to Body Image Work" by Isabel Foxen Duke ---> This week'sFood Peace™ Syllabus addition #2 Isabel Foxen Duke's Love, Food Podcast episode The Appetite Podcast Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you struggled with yo-yo dieting, weight cycling, and weight gain? Are you trying to embrace your body, but finding it difficult in this moment? Listen now to hear Haley Goodrich and I tackle this part of the Food Peace™ journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in April, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. Episode's Key Points: Sometimes we may struggle with a disconnection from our body. Instead of listening to our internal cues, we focus on external measures like calories and other numbers. But we have to move away from this to find authentic health! The world is still really stuck in diet culture, and so we have to guard ourselves against the messaging around us! Support is ESSENTIAL to this process, especially from clinicians that understand Health at Every Size. We have to be sure that we're getting ENOUGH food every day, and that we're finding satisfaction from our food experiences in order to feel truly satiated. In this diet culture world, we actually might be UNDER eating! This can make our bodies think we're starving, which leads to bingeing. Make sure you're eating enough and eating a VARIETY of foods! It's also important to make sure that we've fully made peace with ALL foods! This is a part of intuitive eating, and will help you to balance your eating behaviors. Having true permission to eat can transform your relationship with food and can even help you to honor your body overall, which can help support body acceptance and body respect. Common aches and pains happen to people in ALL body sizes! If someone blames your knee pain on your size, they're being fatphobic, PERIOD!! By allowing your body to be where it wants to be, you're actually giving yourself the best opportunity to heal. All of diet culture is about MONEY! 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. Vaishya, Raju, et al. “Is total knee replacement justified in the morbidly obese? A systematic review.” Cureus 8.9 (2016) and the accompanying Instagram meme "What to Say at the Doctor's Office" by Ragen Chastain ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Providing Sensitive Care for People of All Sizes by Linda Bacon ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Find Haley's work on her website, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook Page Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you ready to let go of the food rules and embrace body acceptance, no matter your size? Is it time to cast aside the myths we've learned through diet culture about what we eat and what we look like? Listen now as I respond to a letter from someone ready to take those next steps. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in April, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. Episode's Key Points: You CAN have a normal relationship with food! How do you do that? By placing the blame where it belongs: with society. We live in a world where people judge body size, and where people make assumptions about what we eat based on our size... but this isn't a true representation of the various experiences that people in ALL bodies have! Most people of size are actually some of the MOST disciplined people out there due to years and years of trying to diet. Weight Watchers just announced a special, free summer program for teens. This is a problem!! Dieting is the number one precursor for eating disorders, and the summer is a particularly vulnerable time. The food we eat doesn't dictate our moral value! Losing weight and maintaining a smaller body size is about trying to find acceptance from the culture around us... but in reality, diets don't provide long-term, true acceptance! Diets give us the hope that we'll be finally treated with respect and be able to participate in our lives to the fullest extent, in ways that we couldn't before the weight loss. But this is a fantasy! First, losing weight doesn't grant us these things automatically. And second, diets fail. Long-term intentional weight loss is virtually IMPOSSIBLE! And the diet industry knows it. They COUNT on repeat customers. The blame is not on you. It's on our world's fatphobia. But there's no simple cure for eradicating weight bias! So what have we got to do? We as individuals have to join together and take a stand, and that starts with acknowledging our own internalized fatphobia and rejecting it. Practice respect and compassion with yourself, continue to place the blame on our society, continue to deconstruct your own bias, and eventually you'll come to a place where you can call out the fatphobia around us. This is how we change the world for generations to come! Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. My recent blog post, "Wake Up Weight Watchers"---> This week's Food Peace™ Syllabus addition Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you struggling with binge eating? Listen now for my tips to overcome shame and break out of this part of the Food Peace™ journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in April, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. Episode's Key Points: People who binge are often overcome with shame, but shame doesn't promote real and effective change! But there are ways to find Food Peace™ if you're struggling with binge eating. YOU don't need to be fixed. The WORLD needs to be fixed! Our eating choices aren't largely about personal responsibility... it's bigger than that. Shame contributes to the compulsive feelings we may have around food. If we can cast aside that shame, we can move closer to health. But how do we take away our shame? It starts with embracing ourselves for exactly who we are, and giving ourselves permission. What would happen if you gave yourself permission to binge eat or compulsively eat? Permission and respect will help strip away the shame associated with the behavior. We don't have to love where we are right now in our body size or our behavior, but we can make room to accept these things and embrace body respect. Your weight doesn't matter! You can't tell anything about someone's health by looking at their body weight. Internalized fatphobia is likely contributing to this shame you're experiencing with binge eating. That means you need to break down this fatphobia, rather than pursue weight loss for health. Weight loss is not a behavior. We have no long-term control over our weight. The more we try to lose weight, the more disconnected we become from our internal wisdom, the more shame we feel, and the farther from health we get. Our body is WAY more complex than calories-in-calories-out! Food is so much more complex than good food and bad food. Until you feel like you have unconditional permission to eat, ANY nutritional adjustments to our diet won't stick! Plus, unconditional permission to eat will likely result is a more varied diet, which is more highly correlated with good health. As parents, there are some things we can do to promote healthy eating: Provide a variety of foods. Have consistent meal and snack times to help with predictability. Teach kids the pleasurable side of food. 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. Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you wondering how you can balance pursuing joyful movement with finding Food Peace™? Listen now as my guest for this week, Charlotte Caperton-Kilburn, and give our suggestions. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. Episode's Key Points: Bodies change, and we have to let the body be where it needs to be! Following through with certain health behaviors might result in weight loss, but it might not... you never know, and so the goal can't be weight loss. Let's talk about metabolism: when you normalize your eating habits, your metabolism is in a better place, and your body can get to exactly where it wants to be. We have to honor our hunger and our fullness! This allows our body to regulate itself. If you want to incorporate movement into your life, that's great! Just make sure it's something you actually enjoy, and make sure you're doing it as a form of self-care rather than as a form of compensation or punishment. And make sure you're eating enough to fuel these forms of movement! Chronic dieting really messes up our metabolism and equilibrium! But when we establish a sense of consistency with our food and movement, we help our bodies find a nice balance. Don't worry, moving away from the weight-loss paradigm won't mess up your business in the long term! Clients can see that their health improves over time without the weight loss, and you can help keep them on track with a Health at Every Size approach. Get off the fence! Make your anti-diet approach clear to your clients from the get-go. 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. FNCE Winning the War Within by Charlotte Kilburn and Eileen Myers ---> This week's Food Peace™ Syllabus addition Reach Charlotte at (901) 409-4411 Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What happens when the "simple" diet you were on starts to feel super complicated? Have you started struggling with a food plan that you were told would be easy? Listen now as my guest for this week, Robyn Goldberg, and I talk about how to manage this part of the Food Peace™ journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. Episode's Key Points: At the end of the day, diets are MESSY! Robyn Goldberg joins us to break down this week's letter. Pregnancy can make our food rules escalate... our fitness regime might increase, and we might start getting super restrictive with our food choices. Eating disorders are the silent dilemma in sports injuries! Carbohydrates are our #1 fuel! Cutting them out takes a HUGE toll on our bodies. We need to re-educate ourselves on nutritional needs in way that aren't influenced by diet culture, and learn how to nourish ourselves both through food and by other means. Find a nutritionist trained in eating disorders to guide you through this relearning process. You need the support! Our brains are inundated with diet culture and disordered ideas, and we need resources and support to help you on this journey. No one should have to recover on their own! Healthy eating includes pleasure, connection, and feeling at home in your own skin no matter your size. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. The Tao of Eating by Linda Harper ---> This week's Food Peace™ Syllabus addition #1 Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat? by Claire Mysko and Magali Amadeï ---> This week's Food Peace™ Syllabus addition #2 The Ultimate Sports Nutrition by Ellen Coleman ---> This week's Food Peace™ Syllabus addition #3 Jessica Setnick's Love, Food Podcast episode National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Find Robyn's work on her website and her Instagram Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy