Find Your Food Voice

  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

Have you had a dysfunctional relationship with food since you were a kid?? Was food a protector from horrible life events yet you are still feel shameful years later? Listen now for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Thank you for the feedback on how you are experiencing the show. So glad you are experiencing more peace with food and at home in your own skin! Julie says thank you for sharing the kind words after she expressed her own body image struggles during times of infertility (Not episode 21 as I state in this podcast rather Episode 18) Have you read Dietland yet? Amazing and sure to help you heal your relationship with food and your body. Would love to hear your thoughts about the book. #JenniferExists. Shall we have a Dietland book club?? It is important to honor the functional relationship we have with food. Tell Food thank you and compassionately time to move on and grieve it when it changes. Unless it is not time. Trauma work can help you heal and be able find another way of relating with food. Unhealthy coping is still coping. Stop beating yourself up for how you’ve gotten this far. Should we blame weight for health problems? Weight probably has a relationship with health yet not causation. Just a relationship. Health behavior change associated with weight gain shouldn’t be considered the cause rather a symptom. Not everyone in larger bodies has health problems. Not everyone who has lost weight is healthy. Cause for health problems multifactorial probably from oppressions, traumas, behaviors, and stress. Food addiction: when one takes away the deprivation, they no longer using the word addiction to describe her relationship with food. Many people can relate to the trauma of sexual abuse and/or bullying. Next time you find yourself in a binge or bad body thoughts, take a deep breath, in this exact moment, someone else is sitting with the same shame and anger. Use that common bond to help you energize your healing. Show Notes: Episode 18 Julie shares her body image struggles Raindrop Memories Edward McKays Used Book Store Dietland by Sarai Walker and the trailer for the paperback Episode 20 with Kari Anderson where we discuss honoring the functional relationship with food. EMDR for Trauma work Advanced Integrative Therapy for Trauma work Episode 6 with Marci Evans on Food Addiction Sexual abuse is more common than you probably think. Check out info here. 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 spent your whole life being told your body is not acceptable?  Do you have times when eating seems enjoyable yet many other times when it feels exhausting and shameful?  It is time to recalibrate and reset your relationship with food. Listen now to make sense of the confusion and start to heal. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: "The only time we need to feel guilty about eating food is when we have stolen it." Evelyn Tribole  RD Just because we feel it doesn't mean it's true. If told your body is not acceptable, it is easy to cultivate a complicated relationship with food.  Letter writer loves food, and enjoys food yet may need to do grief work concerning relationship with food...what it used to be and what it never will be. Letting go of what she had hoped for with her relationship food will make room for what really is and can be. Living in our world as a fat woman, it is typical to experience messages that that's not ok, should change it, and her own fault...those are not truths. Yet probably felt sense of shame to be different so fighting up-stream to enjoy food, her body, and make peace. Eating for show puts physiology in a place where starving, rapid eating, then shame. Grief work would be tough work yet hopeful eventually. Intuitive eating with permission giving could be first steps to this grief work. Would be enhanced by working with a counselor and no longer dieting. Put down your "weapons" and reconnect with On the Battlefield. Women and men in larger bodies often have experienced trauma due to existing in a body that culture says is wrong. Doing trauma work may help heal your relationship with food. Show Notes: Intuitive Eating by Tribole and Reach Space For All <-- Greensboro NC's Eating Disorder professional alliance Mom Running on Empty (episode 2...not 3 like I mention) Here's Dr. Maria Paredes so you can meet with her as a client. Body Politics with Dr. Maria Paredes Dr. Paredes's Facebook page On the Battlefield meditation <-- you heard Dr. Paredes read this and 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

Have you been told you can't get fertility treatments, or any other medical treatments, until you lose weight? What if you know the pursuit of weight loss just leads to more poor health especially for you? Acknowledge the rock and hard place yet there is a way through. Listen on for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: I recorded this podcast on my 41st birthday and I am incredibly grateful to have the honor to be in your ears right now. Thank you dietitians for sharing this podcast with your clients. I appreciate your confidence in my work! All NC ED RDs, email me so you can meet up at the next IFEDD dinner. Intuitive Eating can help you heal your relationship with food and the intent does not include the pursuit of weight loss. New to intuitive eating will make you have lots of excitement and fear. This will be terrifying! This doesn’t last forever as long as you continue to move forward. When you experience it, call it out as just a part of the transition. The start of a diet is a seductive fantasy and has a calming effect. Intuitive eating may feel similar in the beginning yet a typical buzz kill. This doesn’t mean it isn’t working. Hold on! It has just begun. Trying to control food will promote a tug of war and counteract the pursuit of food peace. Notice when it happens and remind yourself this happens because of the long term diet experiences. IF you held your breath, you would take gasps for air. Same happens with foods and the types we restrict once given permission. Mutually conclusive idea that losing weight = more health. If you’ve been heavy your whole life then probably what supposed to weigh. Weight cycling hurts health and harms ovulation by increasing insulin levels. If told have to lose weight in order to get fertility treatments, ask health care providers to show you the data. Further, show me the data on which type of diet that will help me long term. Put up or shut up! Diets are the only medical intervention that places blame on the person rather than the intervention. Humph. Be sure more people are on your side while exploring food peace. This may mean working with a therapist, dietitian, and get a second opinion from a fat-positive medical provider. Your body has the wisdom and this outside noise will keep you from it. Show Notes: IFEDD: International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians Love Food podcast episode 18 where Julie shares her infertility experiences Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch and its research behind its long-term health promoting effects Fat Positive Medical Providers and more here 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

If you've always been on a diet or off a diet bingeing, then you can relate to this episode's letter writer. Do you yearn for a healthy relationship with food yet can't stop bingeing? Listen now for strategies to ease your mind and promote healing. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Overweight = Over What?? What if no one ever told you your weight was wrong? How would you relate to food and your body? Important questions to consider as working toward healing. Healing can happen by honoring the valid functions and roles food plays in life and coping with life's transitions, stressors, and traumas. Healing also happens when we jump off the diet train instead of focusing on being on or off the wagon. Disembark now! Grief work will find a place in this space and that's ok. What if focused more on a healing relationship with food instead of a healthy relationship with food? Will be less all or nothing and pefectionistic tendencies (which helps no one experience health). Show Notes: Kari Anderson DBH, LPC from Green Mountain at Fox Run helps Julie answer this letter. You can reach her at Kari@FitWoman.com. She is amazing and a source of healing for many. Green Mountain at Fox Run blog and information on their Pathway Program for Binge and Emotional Eating. Love What You Eat, Eat What You Love for Binge Eating by Dr. Kari Anderson and Dr. Michelle May 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

Making peace with food and body is tough work yet what if you work in the food industry? Is there a way to have a career that is food related AND learn how to heal? Julie thinks the struggle with food begins with the struggle with weight. Dive in and listen now for solutions for you. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Julie and Jennifer McGurk will be speaking at FNCE 2016 on the Hidden Faces of Eating Disorders. Rebecca Scritchfield RD will be introducing us. Will you be there?? Stop by and say hi! Having a job in the food industry, Julie included, can be taxing on our relationship with food. Julie calls it an occupational hazard. Be sure to enjoy time outside of activities around food. A therapist and dietitian can also help. Struggle with accepting weight is fueling the obsession. Julie was not shocked by the Biggest Loser New York Times study. The research results indicate we need to stop pursuing weight loss. Does that mean we let ourselves go? No. It means we let ourselves be. What if your weight is not a problem?? "Weight becomes a problem because it is viewed as one." ⇠Julie LOVES this quote from Jonah Soolman. What if you don't want to stay at your certain size? Unfortunately, we don't have a diet, plan, lifestyle change that promotes long-term safe weight loss for the majority. More exception than the rule. There isn't anything that will promote weight loss long-term. Continuing to "work on it" or dieting will only harm health. Those who work in the food industry, Julie is curious if your struggle with food and bad body thoughts brought you to this career choice. Body respect work may alter one's career choices?? How do you stop thinking about food? You can't since we need it as humans. First, make peace with the struggle and your current body size. Show Notes: Body Kindness podcast from Rebecca Scritchfield RD Jennifer McGurk RD and her book for dietitians pursuing private practice FNCE 2016 (that BIG RD conference where Julie and Jennifer will be speaking) Episode 10 of the Love Food Podcast on Orthorexia Nervosa that Julie taped with Jennifer. Episode 3 of the Love Food Podcast on relating to food before a wedding. The Biggest Loser study from the New York Times. Jonah Soolmon "Weight becomes a problem because it is viewed as one" and other powerful reactions to the Biggest Loser study. 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 you know everything you need to know about yourself? And that's keeping you weighted down with negative beliefs?? Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Think you are destined for a life of mediocrity?  Listen to my University of North Carolina at Greensboro Nutrition Department Commencement address. I wrote it and spoke it from my heart to you. I can't wait to hear what you experience as you take these next important steps. Warmly, Julie 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

Body positivity promotes body respect, acceptance, and love. If you don't always love your body, does that mean you can't model body positivity? Julie and a guest discuss the letter from someone who feels like a hypocrite for telling people to love their body when she doesn't always love her body back. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Julie shares a part of her personal struggle with her body image. She feels a bit awkward doing it and hopes it ok to share with you. Julie and guest Paige Smathers explore the definition of recovery. Recovery can be the food times enjoying food as well as the messy tough struggles when we may feel out of control. Recovery includes awareness of the moment, no matter what it looks like in the moment. If all or nothing thinking plagued food choices or body image it can also negatively affect your definition of eating disorder recovery. Paige says all we can do is try our best. Do you have to always love your body to be a model of body positivity? Julie and Paige say no! That just means you are an aware human. Model self-compassion and vulnerability. Show Notes: beautyREDEFINED (Paige's Food Peace Syllabus addition) Shapeville by Andy Mills & Becky Osborn Paige's Story and her Body Image podcasts. Listen. They are great! She also interviewed Julie on her podcast discussing the disordered eating in a thin-obsessed world. Paige Smathers nutrition therapy 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

Our world believes food kills us or cures us but information tends to conflict. Eating a "no" food can provoke anxiety in many people. Does this happen to you? Let's dig in to find ways to remove anxiety's wedge and power. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Thank you students from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Nutrition Department for the fun and energizing discussions on weight, eating disorders, and body image. Julie completed her dietetic internship there and thankful for the time there. Even though it may appear to be simple, nutrition science is not an easy science A. Our world believes food kills us or cures us. Stop the dichotomous insanity! Food anxiety exists because nutrition science is a fluid science that cannot be categorized into yes and no boxes. Anxiety can't hurt us yet the things we do to avoid the anxiety harm us. Anxiety from food avoidance keeps us from experiencing joy. It also promotes poor health by increasing stress hormones which can promote heart disease and strokes. Phobia 10 point scales combined with fear food examples can help one move past the anxiety from eating those fear foods. This is long term incredible work that requires a therapist and dietitian. So worth your time and energy!! Let's address that fear of fat. Fat phobia provokes Julie dropped an F bomb because that fear promotes disease, isolation, oppression, and ignorant stereotypes. Size diversity makes us beautiful. Size acceptance helps people of ALL sizes experience more health and better health care. Peel back anxiety layers and find fears based on something old living in our body. Challenge it and you can get back to being you. Which brings you closer to your joy. Show Notes: Life Without Ed and Goodbye Ed, Hello Me by Jenny Schaefer. Increased BMI lower risk of dementia via The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology BMI of 30 to 35 healthiest for those with type 2 diabetes via Circulation Larger people less likely to need blood transfusions and no increased risk for complications during joint replacement surgery via WebMD 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

Eat this not that? Now what?? After a lifetime of fad diets andhealth pursuits can leave you confused and distrusting your body.If you are at diet rock bottom and want to relearn how to trustyour body and get off the crazy diet train, this episode is foryou!Subscribe and leave areview here in just seconds.Key Points:Mind and body connections promote health yet when our mind istoo active it can keep us from our own innate wisdom for health.Get better attuned by sitting with the curiosity.Society's body size standards for women make it tough to trustyour body.Big bodies ARE acceptable even though you may get anothermessage from your family, friends, society, and culture.Flexibility, nonjudgmental approaches, permission are the wayto further attune to the body, improve body image, and cultivatetrust.Mindful eating = compassionate curiosity without judgment. Ifone eats past fullness that doesn't mean you're doing itwrong.Internal vs. external dialogues are key.Imagine breathing through a drinking straw for awhile...whenable to breath normally will need to gasp for air. Diets are likethe straw and your eating is like our breathing. It's not yourfault you're gasping for air and not your fault when we feelobsessed with food around diets. Blame the diets and straws instead;-)Show Notes:Blair Mize RD's rockingblog.MemphisNutrition Group webpage, Facebookpage, Instagramaccount, Pinterest pictures,and Twitterfeed.Eating in the Light of the Moon by Dr. Anita Johnson(Food Peace Syllabus addition)Metabolism101 by Emily Fonnesbeck RD (Food PeaceSyllabus addition)Eating DisorderDietitiansJulie Dillon RDblogDo you have a complicated relationship with food? I wantto help! Send your Dear Food letter toLoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com. Clickhere to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. Thistype of kindness helps the show continue!Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Give mefeedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy