Find Your Food Voice

Are the people around you supportive of your food peace journey? Have you found a better way with intuitive eating, but are coming up against a roadblock with family and friends? Listen now for some 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 January 2018, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Episode's Key Points: Making peace with food is RADICAL! It's truly a political act, and this can cause issues within our family relationships. Health is about FLEXIBILITY!! Dr. Carolyn Ross joins us to talk about the family, and how to manage family members who try to be our food police. Food rules contribute to the development of eating disorders, especially if there's a perceived "weight problem." Make sure not to go too long without eating throughout the day, and add some movement into your life to enhance how your body feels! Intercept questions about your food choices and your body size by making some healthy boundaries. Let them know you're working on things with a doctor or dietitian, and leave it at that. You're allowed to be angry! Feel your feelings, and don't feel like you have to push them down to appease family members. Remember, many of us struggle with internalized fatphobia. Be sure to address this with a treatment provider so that you can work through it! Our weight research is super biased!! You can be healthy at any size... it depends on our BEHAVIORS, not our weight. Research shows that the healthiest weight you can be is "slightly overweight!!" The medical profession changes slowly and shifts in the medical community take time. The status quo will change eventually! Permission promotes health, and shame only brings us down. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace Syllabus. The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner The Food Addiction Recovery Workbook by Dr. Carolyn Ross ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Find Dr. Carolyn Ross' online coaching program ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Eating Disorder Dietitian 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 your relationship with exercise while pursuing food peace? Do you attach your self-worth to how much physical activity your body is capable of doing? Listen now for some tips on how to tackle this challenge in the food and body 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 January 2018, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Episode's Key Points: Jessi Haggerty joins us to tackle this listener's letter! Fat acceptance and feminism can be KEY to finding recovery... and it can help us to keep going along the recovery path if we start to feel stuck!! It's important to inspect our beliefs about ability, and see how our relationship with exercise is influenced by ableism. Social justice can help us break free from other ways that diet culture holds us back! It's important to think about the INTENTIONS behind our physical activity... if the intention is about body manipulation, weight suppression, or to "prove" something, then it's probably time to take a step back and rethink that choice. Comparisons steal our joy! Remember, compassion is key. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace Syllabus. Anna Sweeney's Love, Food Podcast episode Big Magic by Liz Gilbert ---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #1 Jessi podcast, The BodyLove Project ---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #2 Jessi's website and Instagram Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog 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 make peace with food while simultaneously grappling with food scarcity? Is poverty and food insecurity contributing to feelings of deprivation? Listen now for ideas on how to navigate this food peace challenge. 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 January 2018, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Episode's Key Points: I just got back from BEDA! I had the honor of presenting at the conference, as well as meeting previous Love, Food guests and listeners!! Lack of food access is a real food peace problem! When our body doesn't have consistent access to food, food gains a lot of power in our lives. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Only once our basic needs are met (food, shelter, oxygen, etc.) can we can reach higher levels. The Hierarchy of Food Needs by Ellyn Satter: If someone doesn't have access to food, you can't work on changing eating patterns to support health. Living in poverty causes oppression, and oppression physically harms our health. PCOS is connected to many health markers that we KNOW are connected to oppression and poverty (high blood pressure, insulin issues, high triglycerides etc). Struggling with both simultaneously exacerbates the problem! Poverty, living in an oppressed body, and experiencing chronic microaggressions sets us up for living in a fight or flight response. This can make conditions like PCOS MUCH worse! Being pushed to diet long-term ALSO causes these negative health outcomes due to increased inflammation. Most people who diet and lose weight with regain that weight in the long run, and most people who regain weight will actually regain more weight than they lost initially. This means that weight loss efforts are actually weight cycling... and weight cycling ALSO contributes to inflammation, high blood pressure, high insulin levels, high triglycerides, etc. PCOS, poverty and discrimination, dieting, and weight cycling ALL contribute to inflammation, high blood pressure, high insulin levels, high triglycerides, etc. in the long term!! You probably aren't addicted to food... your body is just telling you after years of chronic dieting that you need food!! Make sure you're eating enough, especially if you're in a larger body and people are shaming you for your food intake, and that feeling of addiction will likely decrease. Access to healthcare is also a problem here... we need equal access to health for ALL bodies!! 25% of health is determined by behaviors, and 75% of health can be attributed to genetics and the social determinants of health... this means that poor access to healthcare, food, and resources will impact your health negatively. So we need to promote health EQUITY if we want a healthy population! Practice permission and cast aside shame. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace Syllabus. Christy Harrison's Love, Food episode Judith Matz's Love, Food episode Aaron Flores's Love, Food episode Rebecca Scritchfield's Love, Food episode Deb Burgard Jes Baker's Instagram and book, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog 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 finally found food freedom with intuitive eating, but are now struggling with the difficult emotions that used to be managed with food? Listen now for some relief from this food peace conundrum. 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 January 2018, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Episode's Key Points: Intuitive eating can feel SO freeing and exciting, but it also can be tough and SUPER scary! Can you sit with the uncomfortable emotions that come up during the intuitive eating process? Emotional eating is a part of normal eating!! The problem is when food is the ONLY method we have to soothe hard feelings. Part of the food peace journey is moving away from diet culture. Give yourself unconditional permission to eat, and unconditional permission to eat food emotionally! Our world hasn't recovered from it's own eating disorder yet, and that means that food peace can feel really, really hard. We need more fat positivity in our world. Exploring more body image resources can help mitigate the hard feelings that come up in the food peace journey. Intuitive eating takes TIME. Give yourself some patience and compassion, and know that you're going to get there eventually. Immerse yourself in recovery... jump all in!! Give yourself unconditional permission to eat, and unconditional permission to let your body be where it needs to be. ALL of our bodies will change throughout our lives, so we need to make peace with our body no matter what it looks like at any one time. You can't experience recovery until you're ALL IN! Surround yourself with other food peace and body acceptance warriors to support your journey. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace Syllabus. FNCE BEDA/NEDA Conference Intuitive Eating, 3rd ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch and IntuitiveEating.com Evelyn Tribole's Love, Food Podcast episode Elyse Resch's Love, Food Podcast episode She's All Fat Podcast ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Carolyn Costin Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog 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

Do you struggle with making peace with physical movement, or are you using it to compensate for eating behaviors? Are you struggling with how to get started, and feeling paralyzed? Listen now for some expert tips on these food peace struggles. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, PCOS and Food Peace. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in January 2018, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Episode's Key Points: Are you headed to BEDA the first weekend in November? I'm presenting! Come find me so I can give you a FREE gift :) You are NOT alone!! Jessica Setnick joins us to offer her eating disorder recovery and food peace expertise. If we were more open about our food peace struggles, we'd probably find that many people around us are ALSO struggling with diet culture and disordered eating... we need to promote sharing our experiences as a safe option to find support. Sometimes being a smart, self-aware person puts us in a situation of paralysis by analysis! Reach out for support with the appropriate professionals, either in-person or virtually, as the first step to getting out of our own head. Even if we think we know what to eat already, seeing a dietitian is KEY! They can help us break down our own unhelpful thought processes or behaviors. Work on the perfectionism, and work with a dietitian to brainstorm solutions to your individual struggles or roadblocks. What even is an eating disorder dietitian?? They're often more in tune with the connection between food and anxiety or food and emotions. Find the expert who's going to really help you with recovery!! You might go through withdrawal if you struggle with exercise addition or compulsion, so seek out a psychiatrist if there's a need for an evaluation for medication. Being unable to change a pattern doesn't mean you're not trying!! It means that the pattern is so, so strong, and may actually be related to your brain chemistry. This is why getting help from a team of EXPERTS is so crucial, so that they can help you figure out what's really going on. New eyes can help you move forward! Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace Syllabus. IFEDD treatment finder Jessica's Eating Disorder Book of Hope and Healing ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Connect with Jessica! My blog post on what it's like to see an eating disorder dietitian Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog 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

Do you have a health condition that's complicated your food peace journey? Listen now for some expert perspective on how to navigate this food peace challenge. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, PCOS and Food Peace. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in January 2018, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Episode's Key Points: Come find me at FNCE! Trying to heal our relationship with food while struggling with a health condition can be SO hard! Too many health conditions tangle up weight with health, and this can make food peace EVEN HARDER to achieve. Anna Sweeney joins us to talk about finding food peace with a chronic health condition! We're allowed to love food!! Food is AWESOME, and we're supposed to love it! Watch kids eat to see a purely intuitive, blissful experience with food. Having a positive experience with food is often met with concern, and THAT is the problem, NOT your love of food! We're told that we shouldn't trust our body from a young age... but that isn't true! Our body WANTS us to be successful humans, and it's NOT trying to sabotage us. We need to move away from this fear mongering space around food and body. It's time to unlearn diet culture in order to recover from disordered eating! ANY body that's not being appropriately nourished (including satisfaction!) is super likely to have difficult gastric experiences. So it isn't about changing our diet... it's about making peace with food! The only way to heal our gut is with appropriate nutrition. Following any sort of diet DISCONNECTS us from our internal wisdom. The body lets us know what feels good and what doesn't! Choose your un-teachers wisely. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace Syllabus. FNCE The Intuitive Eating Workbook by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Body Respect by Linda Bacon Body Kindness by Rebecca Scritchfield Connect with Anna at her website and on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog 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 journey to food peace just feel too long? Have you been struggling to the point that it feels like it's time to give up? Does thinking about food just make you tired? Are you struggling to make sure you eat enough every day? Listen now for some insight into 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, 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.  Episode's Key Points: Food can be boring. Sometimes eating can be a chore, and eating decisions can be exhausting, especially in recovery. Permission, self-care, and just "being" are things that the recovery journey forces us to get familiar with. But they can be challenging, and this boredom and exhaustion around food can be a sign that you are struggling with those parts of food peace. Recovery is like an upward spiral... it can sometimes feel like you're going backwards, but that just means you're about to make a breakthrough. Continue to work on grounding yourself in ALL aspects our your life, not just with food! Use a barometer check to check in with your body throughout the day. Do you feel tired, anxious, or unhappy? Remember, eating disorders are NOT about the food! It's an indicator to us that a need isn't being met. What is our body trying to tell us??? Our brains have neuroplasticity!! This means we can change our brains to alter our habits. Remember self-compassion in this process! Eventually, your mind and body will reconnect on its own. Sometimes the exhaustion is related to decision fatigue. Try to conserve your energy for the important, life altering questions! How are our experiences with food replicating our experience in other areas of our lives? Try CBT in conjunction with this embodiment practice! Remember, you may not always have the answer... and that's okay!! Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace Syllabus. Elyse Resch's Love, Food Podcast Episode Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog 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

If you make peace with food correctly, will you lose weight? Have you gained weight with intuitive eating so think you are doing it wrong? Or, that it isn't working? Does going back on a diet feel tempting due to these body changes, even though you know it ultimately isn't the right path for you? Listen now to hear my tips on how to grapple with this food peace struggle. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my FREE roadmap, PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Join our Facebook group to get extra support! Episode's Key Points: Some diets are diets in disguise! They pretend to be non-diets, but they still focus on weight loss and tell us that certain foods are good or bad. Even intuitive eating has been co-opted by the diet industry! Intuitive eating can result in weight loss, weight gain, or sustaining our weight... intuitive eating is not about the weight!! It's about experiencing health, and letting the weight fall where it may. So if you see someone promoting intuitive eating as a weight loss solution, know that this is a diet in disguise, and not a part of true intuitive eating! Instead, this is a part of diet culture. Our weight will ALWAYS change!! We can't love ourselves thin. Emotional eating and binge eating does NOT mean that we hate our bodies! Emotional eating and binge eating are a COPING responses... if there was more permission for our bodies to be whatever size they needed to be, there would probably be less binge and emotional eating. If we eliminated dieting and a fatphobic society, binge eating and emotional eating wouldn't feel as out of control! Be careful who's advice you take in the intuitive eating world!! Not everyone who claims to be teaching intuitive eating has done the proper training. Only our body knows how much we're meant to weight, and the more we diet and experience weight cycling, the heavier we get. 95% of people regain weight after each diet, and a third to a half of those individuals will regain MORE weight than they lost... making us ultimately heavier. Weight cycling also results in a reduced metabolism. Intuitive eating and the healing process are NOT at fault for weight gain! Instead, it's the fault of the initial diet, as well as our natural set point. Work towards body neutrality by acknowledging the fatphobia in our society. Fatphobia moves us away from health!! Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace Syllabus. Link up with me at BEDA or FNCE! Beth Rosen's Set Point Theory Pic ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies by Hirschmann and Munter ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3 Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog 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 constant comparison getting in the way of your ability to make peace with food and your body? Listen now for some tips for navigating this difficult food peace struggle. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Join our Facebook group to get extra support! Episode's Key Points: Comparison is natural, but it can really get in the way of making peace with food! Beth Rosen joins for some insight. Body checking and comparison is super common for chronic dieters. How does our inner mean girl reinforce diet culture's rules?? The beauty industry, the diet industry, and the fitness industry ALL conspire to keep us stuck in our own heads, constantly comparing ourselves to others. We can talk back to our inner mean girl and build up our inner girl power so she can fight back! Come up with some body neutral responses to respond to the negative voices that give you unhelpful commentary about your body. Your practice will make progress!! The more often you speak up against internalized diet rules, the sooner your brain will believe it. This is called neuroplasticity. What do we GAIN when we LOSE dieting?? Diet's don't help us! It's time to leave dieting behind for good. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace Syllabus. The Inner Girl Power Online Course ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Find Beth on her website, her Facebook page, and in her Facebook group! Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog 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 cycling between restricting and bingeing? Have you left behind dieting, but are still struggling with the feeling of being out of control around food? Is your body image and fear of weight gain jeopardizing your food peace journey? Listen now for some solutions to these common struggles. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Join our Facebook group to get extra support! Episode's Key Points: What's the nitty gritty behind our food and body anxieties?? We learn at a young age that our bodies are to be CONTROLLED rather than enjoyed! This directly impacts our body image and how we feel about food. Our relationships with our parents can really influence how we feel about food and our body! The connections we make as children stick with us, and inform our relationships as we get older. Familiar patterns (like dieting!) can feel super familiar and reassuring, even if they aren't ultimately positive patterns for our mental health. Cooking can be an important act of self-care and nourishment!! It can really help us to move past our food rules. Sometimes, when we try to control food and our body, it's because something else feels out of control in our lives. How can we reconnect with our bodies and pleasure? Dieting and eating disorder behaviors can be coping mechanisms that we use to protect ourselves and distract ourselves! When you're ready, or when the coping mechanism isn't serving you anymore, investigate the WHY. Work with a therapist to figure this stuff out, including how to incorporate self-compassion into your life! Recovery isn't linear, and black and white thinking holds you back! Step away from all or nothing thinking to support yourself in your recovery. Connect with your values! This will help you stay on the recovery path. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace Syllabus. Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog 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