Find Your Food Voice

Were you raised with mixed messages around food? Told to not enjoy pleasurable food and yet got encouragement to bond over the same items? I bet you're exhausted! Listen now for a different way. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Have PCOS and looking for more tools to work toward Food Peace? If you live near Greensboro NC you are in luck! Give us a call for details 336.273.2808 x 0. Food is pleasurable as a means of survival. Healthy eating includes pleasure. Eating feels good and that keeps us alive and well. If food did not feel good then we wouldn't have survived. Eating food that is just fuel and never pleasurable denies a part of our physiological need. Honor the pleasure that comes from food. There's just one version of you...not a fat version vs skinny version. Have a son or daughter in a larger body or have a child that really enjoys eating?? Is it pecking at your own food experiences or negative body image? Take care of your own shit to not pass it on. Are you a competent eater? Yo-yo diets harm health. You're not broken our culture is. We need to rewrite our truths about our body and our food. Honor all the sizes you have experienced as the safe keeper for your soul. Shame never promotes health. You are acceptable just the way you are right now. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole + Elyse Resch Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter Women, Food and God by Geneen Roth 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  What's the foundation for food peace?? Listen now for Julie's thoughts. She hopes it illuminates your path to freedom. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Compassionate curiosity is where it's at. Stop shoulding on yourself. Notice without judgement. Simple not easy. Food anthropologist or golf voice. Take out the shame or should and it will clear out your path. Shame NEVER promotes health just makes people feel shitty about themselves. Moving away from the shoulds you will notice that your body has certain needs, within a rhythm, and can be trusted. Your body has been on your side the whole time. As moving away from the shoulds expect normal rebellion. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Intuitive Eating by Tribole + Resch Honoring your rebellion discussion found in the Love Food podcast Episode 30 with Aaron Flores 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you been told to cut out sugar or carbs to treat PCOS or pre diabetes and it is just leaving you bingeing and hopeless? Listen now for ideas to bring to your next doctor's appointment. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Have PCOS and looking for more tools to work toward Food Peace? If you live near Greensboro NC you are in luck! Give us a call for details 336.273.2808 x 0. Every diet leads to a binge and weight gain. Dieting is the greatest predictor of weight gain and eating disorders. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) affects 1 in 10 women and has genetic connections. Stop blaming yourself! PCOS affects ovulation, mood, hair, male pattern baldness, and central adiposity. This affects body image for many women. High circulating insulin = growth hormone Hard core restricting may help decrease weight in the beginning yet over time harms health, increases weight, promotes bingeing. Increased cravings, more symptoms, weight gain = time to look into how PCOS managed rather than blame the person. Doctors: How do you treat patients with PCOS in smaller bodies? What are their recommendations?? Which foods energize you? Which foods drain you?? Do you feel like you are carrying around a bag of rocks when you go to exercise? How are you sleeping?? Let's keep talking about PCOS! Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. 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 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you been working on making peace with food and yearn to lose weight? Can you practice mindful intuitive eating while pursuing weight loss? Julie and her guest, fellow dietitian Aaron Flores, sort this out. Listen here now! Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Eating disorder recovery has two steps: making peace with food then making peace with your body. Living in a fat body in our thin-obessessed world has many challenges especially if you are trying to live without diets and the desire to lose weight. As making peace with food, it is common to not trust the process. Aaron uses a cool metaphor about being in the shallow end of the pool and knowing work needs to be done in the deep end. But going to that deep end is terrifying without floaties. Remember to look how far you've come and be proud of the progress so far. Binge eating disorder recovery is messy and not linear. It can be even messier if living in a fat body because our society undermines making peace with food. This chips away the trust we build through the process. Do I need to learn to be a little bit hungry?? ABSOLUTELY not. Honor the function of your rebellion. Deprivation will further fuel the rebellion. We dietitians need to be comfortable with this rebellious time. Help clients hold the space. Seek out people and resources that help you maintain positive body image. See the Food Peace Syllabus addition below. Compassionate curiosity is the foundation for your food peace.  You cannot work on peace with food while pursuing weight loss. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Aaron Flores RD <-- Check out his work folks! His blogs and clinical work will help you heal your relationship with food. Here are his Twitter and Facebook pages. Dietitians Unplugged podcast <--Aaron's podcast he cohosts with fellow RD Glenys Oyston. Here's my favorite podcast by them. Be Your Own Beloved by Vivienne McMaster (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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you work in the entertainment industry and struggle with your body image? At times you may feel unacceptable yet what if it's them not you? Listen now for solutions. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: PCOS and Food Peace Course set to begin in Greensboro. Give me a call (336.273.2808 x 0) if you'd like to attend this in person only event. Are you looking for acceptance in your body's appearance? The way this letter writer defines an acceptable body does not fit her DNA. This is reinforced with the media's discrimination and pressure for all to lose weight. This is wrong on so many levels. Problem: didn't see other women who looked like you. Julie wonders if this letter writer's body size more like dad's side of the family rather than mom's side. Problem: if more like dad's body shape/size, he said he "struggled" with his weight which is code for didn't accept it. Do you feel unacceptable for taking up too much space?? Do you feel anger, frustration that feels endless? This mimics the body image struggles and symbolic of feminist issues. You have permission to take up your space...whatever that is. Redefine what an acceptable body is for you and everyone else. Describe feelings as ugly?? Julie struggles with that description of normal experiences. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Shrill by Lindy West <-- This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Body Respect: What conventional health books get wrong, leave out, and just plain fail to understand about weight by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphamor 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you ALWAYS had a complicated relationship with food? Did you learn at an early age how to cope with your emotions using food and cannot imagine living a life with food peace? This episode is for you! Julie and her guest Christy Harrison from the podcast Food Psych discuss possible solutions. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: You are NOT too damaged to heal your relationship with food. Remember and appreciate the functionality of food bringing a way to cope with chaos and trauma. Appreciate the subtle hungers. Humans are adaptive. Find professionals who are body positive, understand eating disorders, and a trauma specialist. Food may be like a security blanket. Before yanking it away, be curious about why the coping mechanism is there...that's where the healing begins. Self compassion is the foundation for food peace. Your cravings for disordered eating may be from an unmet need. What was just happening? What do I really need? Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Christy Harrison <-- Check out her FAB Intuitive Eating Online Course. It is made for you in mind. Food Psych podcast Intuitive Eating Counselors Body Positive providers Episode 27 a letter writer describes hiding under the kitchen table eating food. Others have been there too. 8 Keys to Trauma Recovery by Babette Rothschild Your Child's Weight by Ellyn Satter EMDR Anxiety and Depression Association of America Barbara Birsinger RD 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you think your chronic conditions make you a slave to rigid diets or chained to the scale? Do you have a long history of coping with your emotions via food and now want to find other ways to survive?? There is a way for you to heal your relationship with food AND find health. Listen now for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Hoarding, bingeing, and other related behaviors are the most common experiences from childhood dieting/restriction. I am sorry on behalf of all health and medical professionals for the oppression. You don't have to choose health OR healing. Working on healing your relationship with food will help you promote health long term. Healing is not passive or giving up or weakness. Healing is an active process never passive. Fat on the body didn't CAUSE the problems. Eating sugar didn't CAUSE the problems. Being shamed in your body and not teaching you how to tolerate feelings caused the problems.  Healing from Binge Eating Disorder (BED) takes on average 7 to 14 years. Restricting nutrients or calories may show favorable outcomes in short term yet worse in the long term especially if affected by BED. Keep the data! You need proof that you're bingeing less as time goes on. Diabetes is a chronic progressive disease. It is always changing and slowly getting worse even if you do everything you can. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Julie's Dear Food Letter Ep 5: Help My Daughter Who Is Fat Like Me Certified Diabetes Educator Your eating lessons from my time on season 2 of 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you have a roller coaster relationship with food or your body?? As your work on your relationship with food, you may notice bad body thoughts remain. Will it always be this tough?? Listen now for thoughts from Julie and her guest psychotherapist Nicole Christina. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Always have HOPE! The way to heal our relationship with our body is via repairing our culture.  Myth of solid wall of misery via Sharon Salzberg: These feelings eb and flow. They are more like storm clouds and you will get a break. The dark clouds are not the sky. The sky is still there. During days with lots of negative body image keep in mind that those feelings won't last. Buddhist techniques can help you make steps forward. Notice WHY bad body thoughts happen. You don't have to be hijacked by feelings. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Nicole Christina LCSW <-- Check out her YouTube videos and online course: Diets Don't Work! Embrace film by Tara Brumfitt Tara Brach: RAIN meditation Recognize Allow Investigate Non-identification The Slow Down Diet by Marc David Rick Hanson PhD 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  You know diets don't work. Do you gravitate toward the body positive message yet hung up on one thing... You don't love your body because you want to lose weight. You find your body unacceptable. There is a way through this. Listen now for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help. Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com. If you feel like a failure because you can't lose weight or keep it off, know you are not to blame. Diets have failed you. Dieting predicts weight gain. Dieting promotes the idea of body hate and conditional acceptance. Does a deeper understanding of diet culture, its toxicity, and manipulation make you angry? Stay with it! It's ok to not accept your body. You are acceptable the way you are today. The end. Your body is acceptable no matter what. Oprah Winfrey joined weight watchers and Julie's mind was blown to see diet culture and its reign make one of the most amazing women also feel not enough. First step: work on RESPECTING your body. Challenge the false truths. Claim your space and find those who agree with body positivity. Show Notes: The Bodcast Podcast Dietland by Sarai Walker Oprah: Science says it won't be different this time. Dear Oprah (Julie's initial reaction to the news that Oprah Winfrey bought WW stock)  Exercise is a way to celebrate what our body can do not to punish it for what it has eaten. <--Check out the meme above JCPenny's #HereIAm video 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  Do you try to eat mindfully yet frustrated with the times you don't? You know eating with distractions bring relief, pleasure, and relaxation. Does every eating experience need to happen when we are hungry? Is emotional eating ever ok? Julie and her guest Michelle Kuster RD discuss. Listen now for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Reunited and it feels so good 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 Is all mindless eating bad? Some within the mindful eating industry forget to incorporate compassion and unintentionally encourage all or nothing thinking. Eating for pleasure and emotional eating are normal parts of eating. They are universal human experiences. If emotional eating is the only way to cope then it can become something that is not health promoting. Notice your eating without judgement with compassionate curiosity. What would it be like to experiment with relaxation without eating? Could perfectionism be getting in the way of healing the letter writer's relationship with food? Examine expectations and shoulds. As noticing distracted eating ask self: "What are you feeling? What do you need?" Show Notes: Mindful Eating Summit 2.0 with Dr. Susan Albers Michelle Kuster RD, LDN <--Today's outstanding guest! Calm App Stop, Breathe, Think App Hy-vee Grocery Store dietitians Geneen Roth 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy