Find Your Food Voice

Are you struggling with your relationship with food and your body, but are finding it difficult to find the right resources to help you heal? Do you identify as a man and feel lost or like an outsider in the food and body peace world? Have you made peace with food, but are still struggling to make peace with your body? Listen now for some advice on how to begin tackling these issues. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: You are not alone, but we can appreciate that you still FEEL alone! SHAME is a big part of eating disorders, and there is an extra layer of shame for men. Andrew Walen joins for more insight into the male experience with eating disorders, body image struggles, and food peace concerns. Resources for men who struggle with body image is severely lacking! The male ideal: 50% of men wish they were bigger and 50% of men wish they were smaller... there is also a lot of focus on musculature, especially in the chest region (very different than the female ideal!). The physical ideal is also influenced by our ideas of "manliness." Men must be tough, strong, and nothing like women (stereotypically feminine traits such as soft or weak). Eating disorders within the male population are stigmatized because they imply that the person suffering from the eating disorder is weak... which is feminine and therefore "bad." Right now, the biggest thing is NORMALIZING the male eating disorder. According to some research, about 85% of people who struggle with body image issues and eating disorders are heterosexual males. We live in a society that drives us to self-hate because we are told we don't measure up, and people of all ages and of all genders are constantly comparing themselves to those around them. We all struggle with wanting to be appreciated and accepted by those around us! It's important that men dealing with body image issues have the inner courage to speak out and begin to share their stories of struggle and success so that the experience is normalized and more research money can come in to help people suffering!! Residential treatment facilities for men suffering from eating disorders is sorely lacking... only one current center in the country offers in-patient residential treatment for males! How do eating disorders look different in men? How do men talk about their bodies? Focus on muscularity, strength, and dominance Co-morbidity of substance abuse, specifically alcohol Language around the body is less specific and less emotionally intense than a woman's language around the body Coping skills are super important! This can include learning how to sit with discomfort and learning how to communicate emotions. Men are less likely to seek out treatment, more likely to wait longer before undergoing treatment, and more likely to rush through treatment and, as a result, relapse. This inevitably makes the fatality rates for males with eating disorders, specifically anorexia, higher than that of women with eating disorders. Resources can help normalize the experience of men with eating disorders and body image concerns!! 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. The National Association for Males with Eating Disorders (NAMED) ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #1 Bruce Sturgell, founder of Chubstr Man Up to Eating Disorders by Andrew Walen  ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #2 Shattered Image by Brian Cuban ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #3 The Good Eater by Ron Saxen ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #4 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. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. A Taste of Green Mountain – Weekend Program Green Mountain at Fox Run is excited to announce a one-time opportunity to newcomers – an all-new A Taste of Green Mountain weekend program! Key strategies for mindful eating, mindful movement, self-care, and stress management will be introduced to help participants to eat, move, feel, and LIVE in the moment...to #BeHerNow! This opportunity is only open to new guests of Green Mountain. https://goo.gl/tCVQWl Binge & Emotional Eating Weekend IntensiveThe Women’s Center for Binge & Emotional Eating is offering its foundational one-week Pathway™ program in an intensive weekend format. Participants will explore personal barriers and how to counter them with evidence-based strategies to prevent eating in response to stress and emotions. Dates are scheduled monthly throughout 2017 although capacity is limited, so visit https://goo.gl/xFh2up  for more information. TAKE TIME TO INVEST IN YOU.It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://goo.gl/si9wZi for more information. Green Mountain at Fox Run’s Foundational Guide to Reaching & Maintaining Your Healthy Weight Download Green Mountain’s free healthy weight foundational guide to learn how to embrace healthy (and pleasurable) eating strategies, cultivate a fitness practice you enjoy, and use mindfulness to overcome stress & emotional eating https://goo.gl/WwUDOrAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you live with so much body shame that you've contemplated stomach surgeries such as gastric bypass? Are you someone who has already undergone this surgery? Has this surgery only made things with your body more confusing? Do you also deal with PCOS or other complicated health conditions that push weight loss for health? Are you a professional within the dietetics field who also deals with food and body issues? Listen now for some solutions on how to navigate with these various challenges. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Exciting announcement! In September I will be launching my very first online course, dedicated to people who are trying to find food peace while living with PCOS. Sign up for my newsletter to get updates!! And if you deal with PCOS and struggle with food and your body, I want to hear from you! Send me an email at LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com, and let me know what you'd love to see in the course. Dealing with all of these issues related to food is exhausting! Struggling with shame, acceptance, an eating disorder, and much more takes so much energy. You are not a sham, but bariatric surgery as a solution to food peace is a sham. Bariatric surgery is a stomach amputation. It does not have any documented long-term health outcomes, and we do NOT have enough data at this time to suggest that this surgery is a choice that will enhance personal wellness. In any health profession it's important to have size diversity! Fat dietitians, fat gym teachers, and fat healthcare providers are important. If you want to hear more about this topic, check out Love, Food Episode 8 with Glenys Oyston. Many people who choose to study nutrition that have an eating disorder background pursue it because they hope it will help them learn more about food for the sake of their eating disorder, not because they actually want to be dietitians. Recovery from an eating disorder requires a great recovery team! It is so, so common for dietitians and dietitians in training to seek out their own dietitian. If privacy is an issue, many practitioners work online now as well! Question whether or not being a dietitian is for you! It's possible that when you find recovery, it may not be something that speaks to you anymore. This can be a hard decision, but you will get through it! Research and data on how to help people who have had bariatric surgery recover from an eating disorder is sparse because it's a new experience, but it is becoming more common, and there are definitely practitioners out there who can help. REJECTING weight loss is going to be an essential part of the healing process! One cannot heal from an eating disorder while they pursue weight loss!!! When you seek out treatment, make sure your support team is weight neutral. You may even be able to find a Health at Every Size practitioner! People are more likely to experience an eating disorder if they have PCOS. It really isn't about food... it's about stigma, shame, and food lies. Don't give body hate more power!! 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 8 with Glenys Oyston Glenys Oyston, past podcast guest and proud fat dietitian! The First 3 Steps to Food Peace with PCOS ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 PCOS Is Not a Pamphlet Disease! ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Dieting + PCOS Can Promote Eating Disorders ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3 Women with PCOS: Don't Touch Diets with a 10 Foot Pole ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #4 How Weight Stigma Hurts Your PCOS ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #5 How to eat with PCOS without Dieting ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #6 Stop the Yo-Yo! Diets Behind Weight Cycling Negatively Impacts PCOS ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #7 Your Eating Lessons From My Big Fat Fabulous Life and Whitney Thore ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #8 My Big Fat Fabulous Life - Season 2 Wrap Up: Reaction from Whitney's Dietitian ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #9 Your Eating Lessons from My Big Fat Fabulous Life: The Trap of All or Nothing Thinking ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #10 Your Eating Lessons from My Big Fat Fabulous Life: Food as Punishment ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #11 TLC's My Big Fat Fabulous Life 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. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. A Taste of Green Mountain – Weekend Program Green Mountain at Fox Run is excited to announce a one-time opportunity to newcomers – an all-new A Taste of Green Mountain weekend program! Key strategies for mindful eating, mindful movement, self-care, and stress management will be introduced to help participants to eat, move, feel, and LIVE in the moment...to #BeHerNow! This opportunity is only open to new guests of Green Mountain. https://goo.gl/tCVQWl Binge & Emotional Eating Weekend Intensive The Women’s Center for Binge & Emotional Eating is offering its foundational one-week Pathway™ program in an intensive weekend format. Participants will explore personal barriers and how to counter them with evidence-based strategies to prevent eating in response to stress and emotions. Dates are scheduled monthly throughout 2017 although capacity is limited, so visit https://goo.gl/xFh2up  for more information. TAKE TIME TO INVEST IN YOU. It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://goo.gl/si9wZi for more information. Green Mountain at Fox Run’s Foundational Guide to Reaching & Maintaining Your Healthy Weight Download Green Mountain’s free healthy weight foundational guide to learn how to embrace healthy (and pleasurable) eating strategies, cultivate a fitness practice you enjoy, and use mindfulness to overcome stress & emotional eating https://goo.gl/WwUDOr  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you been told that following diets and maintaining a certain weight is necessary to be healthy? Do you find that rejecting diets feels difficult because of the culture we live in? Are you thinking about cutting out certain foods to help manage a health issue? Listen now for some help with these varied obstacles to food peace. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Intuitive eating: a way to relate to food without dieting, relying on your own hunger and fullness cues to decide when to eat and how much to eat, unconditional permission to eat what you need and want, and finding ways to deal with our emotions without food. Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT): when someone use food to help manage their disease and prevent disease progression. Joanne and Jonah Soolman of Soolman Nutrition and Wellness join to discuss disease management using nutrition and intuitive eating! Coming out of dieting and entering intuitive eating can be really difficult! It's a huge mindset shift, and some people may feel ambivalent about the transition. Intuitive eating is complete 180 degree shift from diet culture, which is something we have been taught from a super young age. Diet culture includes "truths" such as fat is unhealthy etc. It makes sense that we might have strong feelings in opposing directions (ambivalence)... the research doesn't support diets, but dies are what we've been taught to believe in. So what now? By recognizing ambivalence, we can help individuals empower themselves to make their own decision! People who are considered "overweight" or "obese" have healthier outcomes when they engage in healthy behaviors, regardless of weight. Dieting is an all or nothing approach! Sometimes this leads people to feel like they're going to go out of control with food when they give up dieting for good and shift to intuitive eating. When we leave dieting behind, it may actually feel like a void has been created. This attachment and anxiety is normal! Intuitive eating takes time!!! Generally speaking, if someone is completely recovered from an eating disorder, it takes about a year to move through all of the intuitive eating principles. Fear of weight gain can be a huge deterrent for people to commit to intuitive eating. Intuitive eating is a process, so be patient and let it work itself out! How do we deal with feeling like our weight is causing us physical pain? We have to consider that weight may not be the issue. Bodies get older, and this makes them hurt. It may not be the weight at all, and it might be more beneficial to try and strengthen certain muscles or change up exercise routines to alleviate stress on the body. We also have to not make weight the focal point. 95% of diets fail, and most people regain more weight than was lost... so if you try to lose weight to help alleviate chronic pain, you may actually make it worse in the long run! Thin people have joint and knee pain at a certain age... it isn't necessarily the weight! There are other ways to relieve pain! Doctors, physical therapists, Advil... Can you name one disease that fat people have that thin people don't? NO! How do we explore managing a disease with our food? First we have to meet our essential food needs (Ellyn Satter's Hierarchy of Food Needs)... intuitive eating is part of these essential, baseline needs! Medical Nutrition Therapy: managing a medical condition through food. It is a part of our food needs as well, but it is at the very top of pyramid, and one of the last things to worry about. If you have chronic, rather than acute health conditions, allow yourself to build a solid foundation in intuitive eating. Once you are secure in that, then you can add MNT in! Otherwise MNT could spiral into just another diet. Be careful when trying to cut out foods in the name of health! There's a lot of dietary guidelines out there that are extremely restrictive, and extreme restriction leads to bingeing. Disease is gradual. One cookie or one milkshake is not going to cause the onset of diabetes, for example. We must work through our fear of deprivation before we make food choices in the name of health. TRUST THE PROCESS! THINGS ARE NEVER LINEAR!! 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. Ellyn Satter's Hierarchy of Food Needs Beyond a Shadow of a Diet by Ellen Frankel and Judith Matz ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 The Diet Survivor's Handbook by Judith Matz and Ellen Frankel---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Joanne and Jonah's website and Facebook page 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. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD.   This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. A Taste of Green Mountain – Weekend ProgramGreen Mountain at Fox Run is excited to announce a one-time opportunity to newcomers – an all-new A Taste of Green Mountain weekend program! Key strategies for mindful eating, mindful movement, self-care, and stress management will be introduced to help participants to eat, move, feel, and LIVE in the moment...to #BeHerNow! This opportunity is only open to new guests of Green Mountain. https://goo.gl/tCVQWl Binge & Emotional Eating Weekend IntensiveThe Women’s Center for Binge & Emotional Eating is offering its foundational one-week Pathway™ program in an intensive weekend format. Participants will explore personal barriers and how to counter them with evidence-based strategies to prevent eating in response to stress and emotions. Dates are scheduled monthly throughout 2017 although capacity is limited, so visit https://goo.gl/xFh2up  for more information. TAKE TIME TO INVEST IN YOU.It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://goo.gl/si9wZi for more information. Green Mountain at Fox Run’s Foundational Guide to Reaching & Maintaining Your Healthy Weight Download Green Mountain’s free healthy weight foundational guide to learn how to embrace healthy (and pleasurable) eating strategies, cultivate a fitness practice you enjoy, and use mindfulness to overcome stress & emotional eating https://goo.gl/WwUDOr  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you feel that you've made peace with food, but are still struggling to make peace with your body? Have you gained weight on your anti-diet, intuitive eating journey, and are now trying to work through your emotions related to this weight gain? Are you feeling a loss from letting go of dieting? Listen now for some ways to get started on body peace and diet mourning. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: National Dieting Month has reached its end! CHEERS! Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review!! It really helps people who need to break free from dieting find the podcast and begin their journey to find food peace. Thank you to everyone who has left a review so far! For those of you early on in your intuitive eating journey, this letter writer lets us know that part of intuitive eating is learning that eating past fullness is uncomfortable, and therefore it just isn't something we usually do when we have a healthy relationship with food. Sometimes we eat past fullness to be sure, it happens! But that isn't the norm, and it doesn't fill us with guilt anymore when we do eat past fullness. Recovery takes time... it's a marathon, not a sprint! Connecting to your body can feel unsafe or uncomfortable in early recovery, so be patient when trying to tap into your intuition. Healthy eating includes flexibility!! The only way to learn how to rely on your own hunger, fullness, and satiety cues is trial and error. Intuitive eating = mindful eating = attuned eating. You are allowed to eat things JUST BECAUSE. Unconditional permission to eat is a super important part of intuitive eating, but it can be the scariest! Sometimes through intuitive eating we find that foods we were obsessed with during our disordered days are foods that we actually don't even like. There is often a mourning process when we let go of dieting because dieting sells us the lie of a perfect, happy life. But don't avoid that grief! Feel what you're experiencing, and remember that this feeling won't last forever. Seek out leaders in the body acceptance community to help you work through this grief. The next step is embracing the social justice aspect of diets, and fighting for marginalized groups in the body peace movement. 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. Intuitive Eating, 3rd ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch Body Respect by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor Dietland by Sarai Walker Dr. Deah's Calmanac by Deah Anne Schwartz <--- This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition 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. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Free 4-Week Email Course: #BeHerNow It’s time to STOP putting your life on hold until you lose weight and START living the life you desire and deserve today! Register for our free 4-week #BeHerNow online course to learn how to transform your thoughts and behaviors so that the real you shines through...paving the way to a fuller, richer life. Explore how to shift your focus from weight to well-being, how to make lasting change from the inside out, and how to identify and realize what you really want and need. Registration for this series closes on Wednesday, February 1, so sign up today to receive the first email in the series on Thursday, February 2. TAKE TIME TO INVEST IN YOU. It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://www.fitwoman.com/for more information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What are you waiting to do, see, experience until you have an acceptable body??? Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. I hope you enjoy this bonus episode exploring this common barrier to healing body image and the exciting new show This Is Us with Shiri Macri. Shiri is the lead therapist at the Women's Center for Binge and Emotional Center at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Key points: Shiri Macri at Green Mountain at Fox Run This Is Us on NBC and the character Kate "I can't stop binge eating" Love Food podcast ep 20 with Kari Anderson where she discusses the function of emotional eating and how important it is to honor this relationship to heal. This Is Us: It’s Not About the Weight…or is it? The Return of This Is Us: How Eating & Weight Struggles Start This is Us: Kate Goes to an “Immersive Weight Retreat” How cools does #BeHerNow sound? I just signed up and would love to hear your experiences. I think it will help your relationship with food. Sign up here or scroll below for more details. Free 4-Week Email Course: #BeHerNow It’s time to STOP putting your life on hold until you lose weight and START living the life you desire and deserve today! Register for our free 4-week #BeHerNow online course to learn how to transform your thoughts and behaviors so that the real you shines through...paving the way to a fuller, richer life. Explore how to shift your focus from weight to well-being, how to make lasting change from the inside out, and how to identify and realize what you really want and need. Registration for this series closes on Wednesday, February 1, so sign up today to receive the first email in the series on Thursday, February 2. https://goo.gl/nGcLxM Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you finally settled into intuitive eating and experiencing more food peace? Yet, do you have trouble talking to close family who are still engaged in dieting? Or, feel conflicted with friends in their pursuit of weight loss when you have finally embraced your innate wisdom?  Are you having trouble supporting friends and family who are still on the diet track without pushing them away?  Listen now for some ideas and solutions on how to tackle this difficult issue. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: It's still January, which means it's still National Dieting Month! Find some respite from diet talk with my hashtag, #foodpeace, or email me at LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com. Intuitive eating and healing our relationship to food and our body is a long, difficult process, but it's worth it! Intuitive eating: a way to relate to food that rejects diets and encourages people to connect to their internal body cues in order to know when to eat and what to eat. 3 Components: Unconditional permission to eat, to rely on your own hunger and fullness cues, and eating for physical rather than emotional reasons. It may sound simple, but it's not easy! NPR's #SoAnyway Project: helped to guide people through political discourse with friends and family over the holidays after the 2016 Presidential election by giving alternative conversation starters and topics to focus on. Take a page out of their book! Have a bunch of topics ready as conversation changers for when diet talk comes up and you just want to avoid and redirect. Barbara Spanjers, Marriage and Family Therapist, joins for more insight and therapeutic guidance to help navigate this further. When you start to heal your own relationship to food it is really hard to ignore the diet talk all around you! Diet talk is everywhere in our society, it often is a bonding mechanism for women, and it frequently comes from the people we love... so how do we set those difficult boundaries? How do we find the balance between maintaining our relationships, not alienating those that think differently then we do, and not compromising our own recovery? When people are discussing their diet plans, IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU! This is something super key to remember when these conversations are happening around you. It's not about you, it's about them, and approaching them with compassion rather than thinking they are making snide suggestions about you and your anti-diet decisions can be extremely helpful! Barbara's Stranger Things analogy: When you heal your relationship with food, you enter a place that others can't even comprehend! You may feel like they're trying to drag you back down, but really it's that they can't see what you can see. You are living in a completely different universe. Changing the subject and shifting it is totally an option! Approach conversation topics with self-compassion and radical self-love, and see what happens! For example, if someone says, "Wow, I'm just so fat," you can respond with, "Oh, well I love you just the way you are!" You stop the diet talk in its tracks, meet your friend or family member with love and compassion, and maybe even begin to challenge their negative self-talk. People with different ways of living can still have loving relationships. Cognitive dissonance: when two opposing thoughts occupy one person's mind, causing tension. The more you try to teach someone an alternative perspective, the more people dig in their heels and cling to their beliefs. If we can understand this reaction more, we can approach friends and family with our alternative point of view in a more effective way. 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. Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Elliot Aronson and Carol Tavris --> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Mindsight by Daniel Siegal --> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Barbara's website 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. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Free 4-Week Email Course: #BeHerNow It’s time to STOP putting your life on hold until you lose weight and START living the life you desire and deserve today! Register for our free 4-week #BeHerNow online course to learn how to transform your thoughts and behaviors so that the real you shines through...paving the way to a fuller, richer life. Explore how to shift your focus from weight to well-being, how to make lasting change from the inside out, and how to identify and realize what you really want and need. Registration for this series closes on Wednesday, February 1, so sign up today to receive the first email in the series on Thursday, February 2. TAKE TIME TO INVEST IN YOU. It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://www.fitwoman.com/for more information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you have a history of addiction to substances, and also have a difficult relationship to food? Have you ever been involved in a 12-step program? Are you trying to experience connection and joy with your body and others, and attempting to reach out to support groups for help, but find them to be a hotbed of diet culture rather than a healing place that cultivates self-acceptance? Listen now as we break it all down, and help you find food peace. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: The pursuit of weight loss will only keep us from connecting with our body and others, and keep giving food power over our lives. Have you worked with a support group that you like? If you have, let me know by shooting me an email at LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com! Love, Food is one year old, and I'm not stopping anytime soon!! Leave a rating and review on iTunes to push us up in the rankings, help other people find the show who need support around food, and make my day! Overeaters Anonymous: Good? Bad? Useful? Does abstinence from "trigger foods" work? Is using food to cope with emotions the same as using drugs or alcohol? Are OA's original intentions reflected in the current programs? No matter what our personal opinion, anyone who has improved their relationship to food through the program is valid and their stories are their own! You are not alone! Many people who deal with addiction to substances also deal with difficult relationships to food. OA and abstinence: Many people who went to OA wanted to find abstinence from dieting, but instead were told to be abstinent from certain food groups (e.g. sugar, flours). "The pursuit of weight loss is part of that powerlessness that we feel over food." - Julie When we pursue weight loss, we inevitably focus heavily on food choice and become obsessional. But this isn't a failure, and this doesn't mean you are addicted to food! Instead, it is our body's way of making sure we don't starve it. Once we have unconditional permission to eat, the addictive feeling of food tends to dissipate, and the feeling of being powerless around food becomes less of an issue. The spiritual component and group support of OA can be super beneficial and healing for some people. Eating Disorder Anonymous (EDA): no abstinence required, but also incorporates the group support and spiritual components that many people find fulfilling in OA! There are also other dietitians out there who provide group support through online intuitive eating and eating disorder communities. Tapping into our wisdom and allowing it to guide you is so key to figuring out if certain things are right for you in your path to recovery! Trust your instincts!! 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 episode with Marci Evans Marci's work on food addiction Eating Disorder Anonymous Erica Leon's virtual Intuitive Eating Support Group Christy Harrison's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals course (with Facebook group support) Glenys Oyston's online course and group coaching Paige Smathers' online course Ginella Testa's blog post (this week's letter writer)! 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. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. A special promotion for Love Food listeners: Join Green Mountain at Fox Run for their Binge & Emotional Eating Weekend Intensive (January 20-22, 2017). Participants will explore personal barriers and how to counter them with evidence-based strategies to prevent eating in response to stress and emotions. For more information or to register, please visit https://www.fitwoman.com/therapy-services-eating-disorder/offerings/binge-eating-intensive-weekend/. TAKE TIME TO INVEST IN YOU. It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://www.fitwoman.com/ for more information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ring in the new year a NEW way: without body hate and painful diets. This bonus episode is a part of my #FoodPeace series supporting your way of life promoting health without diets.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you struggle with perfectionism? Have you tried to ditch the diet, but still find yourself obsessing over eating "right?" Do you have a hard time letting go of the weight loss goal, even if you are far into your intuitive eating journey? Does food feel like an all or nothing experience for you, either eating for pleasure or restricting for weight loss? Listen now for some advice on how to work through these issues. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: It's National Dieting Month! Be sure to listen in on all the bonus episodes this month to help you avoid the excessive diet talk and fat-shaming gym membership chit chat! Sometimes we can go into certain food restrictions, such as vegetarianism and veganism, with the best of intentions, but they can quickly spiral out of control and feel obsessive. Weight loss is seductive! How do we relate to food in a neutral, balanced way, rather than one that feels like an all-or-nothing, binge restrict cycle? Perfectionism can stand in the way of feeling safe with food and trusting your body. Rebecca Scritchfield joins for some more insight on this topic, and a conversation on body kindness! Diet culture is toxic!! We all need some love and compassion when trying to tackle it. If we're trying to put ourselves first, embrace self-care, and embody self-acceptance but we have not yet fully accepted our bodies just as they are, this can lead to a common but difficult tug of war: to diet, or to drop the diet and plunge headfirst into body acceptance. "Fears and anxieties can lead to desperate decisions and actions." - Rebecca How do we strive for a healthier, happier life in a holistic sense, rather than one that focuses on our size or shape? Feeling stuck between dieting and self-acceptance is draining... how do we break out of that? Rebecca weighs in! Acceptance even in the face of anxiety and discomfort. Space to reflect and engage in compassionate and rational thinking. "Perfectionism means unachievable!" - Rebecca We must be able to question why we are holding ourselves accountable to something that we know no one else can achieve. Practice setting up boundaries around perfectionism and asserting that it does not work for you! STOP allowing it to control your choices. Can we accept ourselves and love ourselves, but still hold weight loss as a goal? If we sit with that desire, but choose not to pursue specific, unhelpful weight loss goals, and instead just bring those feelings along for the ride, eventually that desire will work itself out in favor of self-care and self-love. Take the action that you would take if you were ALREADY the person you "want" to be, and take steps to enjoy life! Eventually, the weight loss goal becomes less important just by doing the things that help you to love yourself more. Diet culture is everywhere, and NOT engaging in diet culture is a huge job! Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Rebecca's new book, Body Kindness!! Guidance and flexible tips to engage in self-care in all aspects of your life. Discussing the benefit of both good AND bad emotions!! How to we set up sustainable, good goals? The benefits of connection, compassion, and kindness... how do we engage in a meaningful life NOW? A special discount for Love Food listeners available for a limited time: order Body Kindness and get 25% off with the code KIND at this link https://www.workman.com/products/body-kindness 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. Body of Truth by Harriet Brown --> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach --> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 The Happiness Trap by Dr. Russ Harris --> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3 ACT Made Simple by Dr. Russ Harris --> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #4 Rebecca's new book, Body Kindness: She has a special limited time offer for Love Food listeners and subscribers of my newsletter (hooray!):  Order Body Kindness and get 25% off with the code KIND at this link https://www.workman.com/products/body-kindness. Body Kindness Get Started Training!! Rebecca's main website Brené Brown 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. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. A special promotion for Love Food listeners: Join Green Mountain at Fox Run for their Binge & Emotional Eating Weekend Intensive (January 20-22, 2017). Participants will explore personal barriers and how to counter them with evidence-based strategies to prevent eating in response to stress and emotions. For more information or to register, please visit https://www.fitwoman.com/therapy-services-eating-disorder/offerings/binge-eating-intensive-weekend/. TAKE TIME TO INVEST IN YOU. It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://www.fitwoman.com/ for more information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ring in the new year a NEW way: without body hate and painful diets. This bonus episode is a part of my #FoodPeace series supporting your way of life promoting health without diets.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy