Find Your Food Voice

Do you struggle with body image? Are you trying to find body peace, and to let go of body expectations? Listen now for some experiments to get through this part of the food peace journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass. Ready to start doing things your way and kiss the corporate world goodbye? Details here and remember the super secret discount code BOSS for 10% off. Episode's Key Points: Making peace with food comes down to accepting ourselves! This includes accepting our needs and accepting the space we take up in the world. Our bodies are NOT meant to be controlled!! They will change constantly as we get older. Rosie Molinary joins to talk about body image! We ALL have something unique to offer the world. So much of our pain is related to our lack of awareness around our own self-worth. We are all fighting for our worth! Remember, our worth isn't rooted in our appearance. So how do we find our worthiness outside of our earth suit? We must remind ourselves that we are worthy simply by EXISTING! We pour energy and money into how we physically look in order to feel accepted... but this removes resources from experiences in our lives that might have the potential to EMPOWER us instead of disempower us. Diet culture and the beauty ideal PROFIT off of our insecurities. Self-acceptance is a journey!! All experiences are moments of information, rather than moments for judgment. Get curious! Unpack the internalized messages we have been taught about appearance and self-worth. We have to accept that our bodies ALWAYS change... so we can't attach our worth to one stagnant version of our bodies, because that will always be in flux. Imperfect cannot exist if there's no "perfect" in the first place... resist messaging around "effortless" perfection! The images we see of our world in the media are NOT REAL! We have to anchor our faith and belief in ourselves to how we FEEL, rather than how we look. Shaming ourselves NEVER works! It's actually very damaging, and it's not health promoting... we have to operate from a place of self-acceptance instead. Remember, self-acceptance doesn't mean that you don't want to grow in some way. But it does assert your worthiness RIGHT NOW, no matter what growth you achieve down the line. We're the experts of our own bodies! Self-acceptance is a super ACTIVE process. How do we give ourselves what we need every single day? Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Start your private practice! Click here and use code BOSS to get 10% off Jennifer McGurk's Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass. Anna Guest-Jelley's Curvy Yoga Program and book, Curvy Yoga ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Body Kindness by Rebecca Scritchfield ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3 Body of Truth by Harriet Brown ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #4 Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance by Rosie Molinary ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #5 Rosie Molinary's website 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 dieted for you whole life? Are you looking for a way to help manage your health or a health condition, are being told that dieting and weight loss are the answer, but don't feel that's the right path for you? Listen now for some new options for better health. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Episode's Key Points: Dieting leads to bingeing! Diets don't work... but doctors still prescribe dieting to "help" with all kinds of health conditions. What gives? Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS): A super common endocrine disorder that often is "treated" with dieting. But there are other ways! Dieting is the GREATEST predictor of weight gain and developing an eating disorder. There seems to be some connection between eating disorders and PCOS... but there isn't enough research out there to figure out why! PCOS symptoms: Hormonal disregulation that affects ovulation, hunger/cravings, hair growth changes, central adiposity, high insulin levels, weight gain. Many of these symptoms impact body image in a negative way! People in fat bodies can suffer from anorexia!! Symptom changes/increases means intervention is needed... but it's not the time to blame the individual! It's time to manage the PCOS differently. Be aware of the more uncommon side effects of PCOS (eating disorders, ADD, constipation etc). PCOS is HIGHLY genetically influenced, and there are individuals with PCOS in smaller bodies... so what do doctors tell clients with PCOS to do when they are in a smaller body?? (This question applies to ALL medical intervention suggestions.) Healthcare providers can be extremely fatphobic... advocate for yourself!! If you have PCOS and your cravings are increasing, look into changing up your medication or increasing that amount of protein in your diet. Keep an eye on which foods energize you and which foods drain you! Try incorporating movement into your life, and make sure you have enough food fueling your body to support that movement. Get enough sleep!! Sleep is SO important for an all-around health-promoting routine. Turn off your screens! Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Love, Food Podcast Episode #31 Check out the PCOS Series! Dieting predicts weight gain and eating disorders. Evelyn Tribole’s helpful video on the research behind dieting. PCOS is not a pamphlet disease. Women with PCOS: Don’t touch diets with a 10 foot pole Dieting and PCOS can promote eating disorders Stop the Yo-Yo! Diets behind weight cycling negatively impacts PCOS How to eat with PCOS without dieting Monika Woolsey RD and her InCyst Network 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 feel shame around your relationship with food and your body? Are you worried about disclosing your eating behavior to a current partner or loved one? Do you find yourself thinking about food all the time? Listen now for some concrete solutions to overcome these barriers to food peace. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass. Ready to start doing things your way and kiss the corporate world goodbye? Details here and remember the super secret discount code BOSS for 10% off. Episode's Key Points: Shame is so common in the eating disorder experience!! Antonia Hartley joins to help tackle this letter writer's struggles... Eating disorders make us feel so alone and isolated, but there are many people dealing with the same issues. Insight and awareness are vital to finding recovery and healing, but it can only take you so far. It's important to work with a dietitian or other eating disorder professional to find lasting recovery and make changes! Finding a Health at Every Size dietitian to work with is SUPER important to make sure you're in a safe environment to find help. If you're thinking about food all day long, definitely inquire if you're eating enough! Sometimes restriction is physical or mental, and adequacy with food is very important!! If you're bingeing, it's likely that you're NOT getting enough, no matter what size you are. It's NOT as simple as calories in, calories out. Our metabolism is MUCH more complicated than that! Sometimes there is fear in letting go of our eating disorder because there is a small part of us that feels these diet rules are serving us in some way... but they're not! "Honesty is the antithesis of eating disorder behavior." - Antonia Relationships are SO important in eating disorder recovery! Be honest with those you love, and set the boundaries around triggers. Eating behaviors can be a messenger for our emotions or our needs... listen to them! If you're in a situation where someone in your life is consistently triggering you, don't be afraid to bring them into a therapy session with you to parse out exactly what you need from them as a loved one. Remember, we live in diet-culture world, so give your loved ones some time to adjust to this new way of life! Be aware of your own internalized fat stigma when exploring recovery. You weren't born with food rules!! These are LEARNED behaviors and "truths." Checking back in with your treatment team post-recovery is SO important! Remember, we live in a world that hasn't recovered from its own eating disorder, so having a supportive community around you is essential for maintaining recovery. On feminism: Feminism is for everyone, not just women! Ending sexism is good for everyone. Ending weight stigma helps everyone! Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Start your private practice! Click here and use code BOSS to get 10% off Jennifer McGurk's Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass. Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor mentioned in this episode Jessica Setnick Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Find Antonia on Instagram and Twitter! 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 deal with binge eating? Did you experience bullying, specifically within your own family, that relates to your body shape or size? Have you experienced sexual abuse, and feel that it has impacted your relationship with food and your body? Are you trying to set a healthy example for your own children after having a difficult relationship with food in your past? Listen now for some expert advice on how to cope with these body trust struggles. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.   Check out this summer's special blog post series: Empowering Your PCOS Journey. It aims to help you understand PCOS, improve your relationship with food, and advocate for better care. You will be hearing from nutrition grad student Kimberly Singh and her experiences with PCOS as well as evidenced based info to help arm yourself with the most up-to-date research. Find it here now: JulieDillonRD.com/PCOSseries Episode's Key Points: Sometimes our family environments can be just as toxic as this culture that we live in... remember, we ALL live in diet culture!! But that doesn't make our family's actions okay. Abuse, physical or mental, can have a profound impact on our relationship with food and our body. Lindsay Stenovec of The Nurtured Mama joins to talk about the complex interactions of motherhood and our relationship with food! Processing this kind of trauma is essential... find a therapist to work through these difficult emotions and to help you cope with your past! Sometimes we use food to cope with our emotions... this is totally understandable, but we can take steps to help heal this part of our relationship with food if we find it interfering with us living our lives. We are all doing the very best that we can under our own circumstances! This doesn't make us a failure or a fraud. How do we feed others when we've had such a fraught relationship with food and body ourselves? As parents, we do our best to shield our children from pain, especially from pain that we have experienced ourselves. Many mamas are trying to shield their children from the pain that they themselves experienced in relation to food and body... but sometimes this backfires when parents do so by trying to get their children to lose weight or to eat in a "perfect" way. Feeling acceptable is SO important to finding body peace and body trust! Instead of repeating the same cycle of trying to control your own child's food intake or body shape, focus on the unconditional acceptance you have for your child and help them to foster this body acceptance in themselves, no matter the outside influences. We should ALWAYS feel safe at home, even if we live in diet-culture world! We're all just doing the best that we can!! What does it mean to eat in a "healthy" way? How do we make peace with food and our bodies? Ellyn Satter's definition of normal eating is a helpful resource!! Healthy eating is more about being connected to life, not about what we put in our bodies. Our relationship with food and our bodies is about very complicated, difficult, and personal truths. It has to do with the food, but it also doesn't! Our past has a HUGE impact on all of this, and it's SO important to find support around figuring all of this stuff out. Find a trauma, Health at Every Size, and eating-disorder-trained therapist or dietitian to help you along this journey!! Raising children brings up the difficult parts in ourselves that still need more work. Going to therapy is a BRAVE choice! It is hard, but it gives us the tools to move forward in our lives and find healing. Stress, discomfort, and feeling like a fraud are messages from our body! These emotions mean there is something that needs to be addressed within. Secretive eating, shame, and hiding of food is an understandable reaction to growing up in an environment that body and food shamed you! The important question is not, "How do I stop," but, "What do these actions tell me about my needs?" Sometimes we don't learn sustainable coping skills as a child... therapy can help us bolster our toolbox of coping mechanisms as adults! Normal eating is FLEXIBLE!!! Normal eating is trusting our body to make up for our "mistakes" in our eating, and being compassionate about our choices. In the end, it is JUST food. When you trust your body to take care of yourself, it'll do the best that it can. Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Check out the Empowering Your PCOS Journey Series. Lindsay Stenovec's first episode on the Love, Food Podcast Ellyn Satter's definition of "normal eating" Secrets to Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #1 The Nurtured Mama Program & Community with Lindsay Stenovec ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #2 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 tend to eat on the couch and with distractions, rather than at the dining room table? Are you someone that avoids the dining room table because of past trauma related to mealtime? Are you just trying to navigate this whole food peace journey, and are looking for some direction? Listen now for some steps you can take today. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Check out this summer's special blog post series: Empowering Your PCOS Journey. It aims to help you understand PCOS, improve your relationship with food, and advocate for better care. You will be hearing from nutrition grad student Kimberly Singh and her experiences with PCOS as well as evidenced based info to help arm yourself with the most up-to-date research.  We are so excited to release our first blog post on Wednesday June 14th. Episode's Key Points: Vulnerability is a part of healing our relationship with food, but there is also a time and place for NOT being vulnerable! It's all about balance. Rachel Cole joins to talk more about vulnerability and food peace! Having a nourishing and safe place during mealtime as a child is super important! If we don't have that, it can really impact our relationship with food and eating in adulthood. Expand your choices!! Your food behavior shouldn't be dictated but "should's," but instead by what you honestly want to do. There's a time and a place for non-distracted eating, but don't force it! Eat where you feel SAFE. There's no timeline, should's, or black and white thinking... it's all about being "choiceful!" Pleasure is an important part of the eating experience, and we should embrace that. Make sure that the food you're eating is something that you WANT to experience. How do we re-parent our traumatized childhood selves without giving them all the power? Reach out to a therapist to work through this struggle, and have an active dialogue with that child! Put in the effort to make the dining area welcoming and safe... create a warm environment, and make the area available to you with zero pressure to eat there. Make small steps... what would it be like to have one meal at the table? Or just a cup of tea? Start with the lowest hanging fruit! Immerse yourself in the experience with non-judgmental awareness. We should strive to make ALL areas of our literal and metaphorical houses welcoming and comfortable for us. Have compassion for the ways that we take care of ourselves, even if our coping mechanisms aren't the most sustainable!! If your experience doesn't feel good, start getting curious about what would make it feel better. EXPERIMENT!! Explore, get feedback from your body and your emotions, and continue to check in. We are the expert of our own bodies... connect to your body, embrace embodiment, and explore body trust! Listen to a podcast or invite or call a friend while eating if you're feeling lonely and want company, and don't feel like watching the television. Don't be afraid to reach out for support in any capacity to help you through this food peace journey! Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. "Dieting is a Violent Act" by Rachel Cole Finding Yourself in the Kitchen by Dana Velden Rachel Cole's FEAST program <--This program looks AMAZING and EMPOWERING!! 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 worried about your bikini body? Does vacation food make your anxiety spike and start the inner dialogue of self-loathing? Is preoccupation with your body getting in the way of you enjoying time spent adventuring? Listen now to hear my tips from a previous Love, Food Podcast episode on how to start living in the moment. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass. Ready to start doing things your way and kiss the corporate world goodbye? Details here and remember the super secret discount code BOSS for 10% off. Episode's Key Points: Food should help us enjoy life MORE, not detract from the experience. The best way to keep yourself bingeing while on vacation is to restrict before, and plan to restrict after. A lack of permission throughout the year leads to "indulging" while away! When you're on vacation, you're there to enjoy the food and experience life the way another culture does... not to obsess over what you're eating and how it may or may not be impacting your body size. How do we work on permission to help prevent this kind of preoccupation about food and body during vacation? Think about a pendulum (courtesy of Maria Paredes)... if we don't interrupt the calm sway, the highs and lows stay pretty even-keeled. This is what an intuitive, normal relationship with food looks like! If we eat past fullness for any reason, the pendulum adjusts and we eat less at some point in relation to our intuitive hunger signals to make up for it. This is how our body takes care of us! BUT if we look at the pendulum another way, with a disordered relationship with food, we can see violent swings back and forth between restriction and bingeing. SO the only way to stop it from moving violently in the bingeing direction is to STOP pulling in the direction of restriction! Take a hands-off approach!! Check out my blog post to learn how to slow down that pendulum! It's ABNORMAL to have a competent relationship with food in our culture!! Being human is about following rhythms... the seasons, hunger... we can't contain these rhythms, but we should trust them! When we step away from diets, it's NATURAL to experience a feeling of rebellion. The best way to bypass this rebellion is to immerse yourself in this "vacation brain" while you're at home. Eating when you're hungry and stopping when you're full is simple, but it's NOT easy! Unconditional permission is FUNDAMENTAL to food peace and intuitive eating. Restricting food will only lead to bingeing, and if you want to have a vacation experience free from food preoccupation and filled with cultural immersion, it's time to take away the food rules and diet talk during your regular, everyday life. Always remember to reach out to an eating disorder dietitian to help you on your food peace journey! Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Start your private practice! Click here and use code BOSS to get 10% off Jennifer McGurk's Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass! Maria Paredes' Love, Food Podcast episode Aaron Flores' Love, Food Podcast episode "When relying on hunger is too scary" by Julie Duffy Dillon 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 been struggling with bingeing? Do you feel alone, and find yourself eating in secret, feeling ashamed? Listen now for some insight into this difficult food peace challenge. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass. Ready to start doing things your way and kiss the corporate world goodbye? Details here and remember the super secret discount code BOSS for 10% off. Episode's Key Points: Binge eating disorder is the MOST common eating disorder experience! One third of people who seek out weight loss treatment are actually struggling with binge eating disorder. Pursuing weight loss actually makes bingeing WORSE! Healing your relationship with food is messy, but it's a beautiful mess, and it's worth it. What exactly does "overweight" even mean?? I say over what! Weight gain around puberty is COMPLETELY normal! But unfortunately we often shame girls for this. When the world tells us small bodies are valued and larger bodies are unacceptable, it lays the groundwork for the binge eating experience. Getting help can be the first step to peeling away the shame associated with bingeing. What's the difference between a "healing" relationship with food vs a "healthy" one? A healing relationship with food helps us walk away from the perfectionism and the black and white thinking around food. Kari Anderson from Green Mountain at Fox Run joins to talk more about binge eating! Sometimes we use food to try to calm our anxiety... and that's okay! You don't need to feel ashamed about it. Be compassionate to yourself instead! Trusting yourself around food again is a huge step towards healing your relationship with food. Food can have a sense of freedom, rather than fear. It is SO important to validate the role and the function of food in our lives... look at it as a coping mechanism that DID serve you, until it didn't anymore. We may even have to grieve our previous relationship with food in order to move onto the next version. We live in a world where we demonize our food choices constantly!! Our culture doesn't help when someone is trying to heal their relationship with food. We have to jump off the diet train!! The restrictive mindset CREATES the weight "problem." We should never limit the choices in our lives because of our weight! You have a choice in your eating behaviors. If funds are preventing you from getting the help you need to find recovery, there are scholarships you can apply for! Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Start your private practice! Click here and use code BOSS to get 10% off Jennifer McGurk's Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass! Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Binge Eating by Kari Anderson and Michelle May ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Am I Hungry? Green Mountain at Fox Run and the Women's Center for Binge & Emotional Eating Contact Kari, this week's Love Food expert guest 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 love/hate relationship with food? Are your food issues related to your fear of gaining weight? Have you been struggling for some time, going back and forth between recovery and eating disorder behaviors due to the fear around what food peace truly means? Does food insecurity impact your relationship with food? Listen now for some tips on how to overcome these challenges. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass. Ready to start doing things your way and kiss the corporate world goodbye? Details here and remember the super secret discount code BOSS for 10% off. Episode's Key Points: Meret Boxler, host of the Life. Unrestricted podcast, shares her letter about her food peace journey and struggles! None of this is your fault!! Sometimes our family dynamics produce a situation in which the children have to become their own parents to survive. This can impact our relationship with food very deeply. Ellyn Satter's food hierarchy of needs versus the Maslow hierarchy of needs: our foundational needs must be met in order to build towards needs higher up the pyramid. If we're struggling with our foundational needs, we won't be motivated to reach for our more nuanced needs. For example, food security is the foundation of the food hierarchy of needs. If someone wants to work towards wellness, food security must be established first! Some examples of food insecurity: poverty, growing up with caregivers who were always on diets or policing food etc. These environments prevent a foundational sense of food security from forming. Wellness is NOT the most important thing in our relationship with food... it's food security. Permission around foods (especially fun foods!) can be part of the big picture of healing from a past of food insecurity.  Feeling our feelings is very important in this food peace process!! If we work at it, our needs around permission and food security will eventually be met. Be patient! You are worth this work!! Food peace is your birthright. Weight stigma is at the core of a lot of our food peace struggles. It is OPPRESSIVE! We need to stop the discrimination based on weight, rather than push people to change their bodies. We need to end weight-based bullying!! The media tells us which body sizes are acceptable. Representation of ALL kinds of bodies is so important. Weight-based stigma in the eating disorder community is a big problem! You can't tell by a person's appearance if they're struggling with an eating disorder. Weight is NOT indicative of health! All bodies of all sizes and abilities can strive for health-promoting behaviors, including body acceptance and intuitive eating. Self-compassion is key!! Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Start your private practice! Click here and use code BOSS to get 10% off Jennifer McGurk's Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass! Ellyn Satter's work Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Ellyn Satter's Food Hierarchy of Needs When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies by Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 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

Would you consider yourself a food addict? Do you find yourself trying to abstain from certain foods so you don't "lose control?" Are you unsure if food addiction is the right way to describe what you're experiencing? Listen now for some expertise on the latest research and find out more about the truth behind the food addiction model. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass.  Ready to start doing things your way and kiss the corporate world goodbye?  Details here and remember the super secret discount code BOSS for 10% off. Episode's Key Points: Holidays like Easter and Passover can bring foods out of the woodwork that we don't usually eat! (Think: chocolate bunnies, Peeps, jelly beans.) When these foods resurface, because we haven't learned to make them "neutral" yet, it can feel like we're addicted to them when they're finally around. Our bodies don't need to rely on dieting to find health. In fact, dieting HURTS us, and it can lead to bingeing and an OCD experience with food. Eating is just like peeing!!! When you gotta go, you gotta go, and how much or how little you pee doesn't matter. But with hunger, there is so much JUDGMENT attached to it. So what if we took that judgment away? What if we treated eating just like peeing? They're both bodily functions that do just fine on their own without outward policing. So stop judging when you're hungry, or how much or how little you need to eat to feel satisfied! Eating is like peeing. Marci Evans joins to talk about her expert knowledge on food addiction research! Food doesn't need to have so much power!! You are NOT alone... your pain is individual, but your experiences with food are so common. What are the first steps to making peace with food when dealing with these problems?? Compassion! Challenging food addiction in and of itself The food addiction model is problematic and has many limitations! The term "food addiction" is very poorly defined in the research community. Most 0f the research has been done on animals, not humans, and the research that has been done on humans has had a LOT of mixed results. It fails to consider alternatives to the biological response to food that mimics drug use, such as pavlovian conditioning, the fact that food is meant to be rewarding, or the impact of restraint, restriction, or previous dieting on our pleasure reactions. Food is meant to be rewarding!! The pattern of restriction and restraint that then swings to bingeing can lead someone to think they're addicted to food... but that might not be the case! Bingeing is often a reaction to deprivation!! Current food addiction research does NOT account for restraint, restriction, or dieting history. Our natural biology REBELS against restraint!! So how do we move beyond the food addiction model? Remember you are not alone! Consider what "healthy" means to you, and make sure it's BALANCED and SATISFYING. Use resources to support your journey. Notice what's happening in your body instead of what's happening in your brain. Once we take the judgment away, we can really listen to what our body actually needs. Our body craves balance!! Remember, healthy eating includes satiety and pleasure! If you deny these parts of eating, you won't find a peaceful relationship with food. Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Love, Food Podcast Episode 53 Love, Food Podcast Episode 6 with Marci Evans Start your private practice! Click here and use code BOSS to get 10% off Jennifer McGurk's Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass!! Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Eat What You Love and Love What You Eat by Michelle May ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Starting Monday by Karen Koenig ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3 Find Marci on Twitter! 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 numbed out using emotional eating or binge eating yet now finding ways to stop? Sounds great, right?!? Not so fast: How do you tolerate these tough emotions? Will they ever end? Have you found alternatives to emotional eating, but are now dealing with confronting these emotions for the first time without the ability to use food as a buffer? Listen now for some tips on handling this part of the food peace journey. This episode is brought to you by Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass. Ready to start doing things your way and kiss the corporate world goodbye? Details here and remember the super secret discount code BOSS for 10% off. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Episode's Key Points: Intuitive Eating: a way of experiencing food WITHOUT food rules... following your inner wisdom to determine what and how much to eat. Our relationship with food MIRRORS how we relate to the world! Intuitive eating will lead to experiencing a more intuitive life in ALL regards. Learning how to eat intuitively in response to hunger and fullness cues, learning to tolerate emotions without food, and learning how to type on the computer without looking at the keys are all similar experiences!! (Listen for the full metaphor... it makes sense, I promise!) It all may feel a bit obsessive at first, or carry a sense of hyper-awareness... but you're learning a new skill, and that's okay! It will calm down and feel more natural eventually. Do we always need to feel all of our feelings?? Yes and no. Manage your emotions like you're making holes in a volcano! Find ways to release before you explode. Work with a therapist or counselor to help you find ways to release your emotions that work for you. We must acknowledge and honor the trauma we've experienced! Work with a therapist to process this trauma. Sometimes being aware ALL of the time of our hard emotions can be exhausting! Sometimes we have to distract ourselves from our emotions so that we can get things done. Just don't let them build up or rely on these distraction techniques too heavily! Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Start your private practice! Click here and use code BOSS to get 10% off Jennifer McGurk's Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass!! Love, Food Podcast Episode 10 with Jennifer McGurk Intuitive Eating and the Intuitive Eating Workbook by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch Love, Food Podcast Episode 62 with Evelyn Tribole Eating Disorder Dietitians 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