Find Your Food Voice

Special bonus sans letter to keep you connected to your innate wisdom and quiet the noise that distracts you. Walking this path can promote health and peace. I hope you enjoy. Warmly, JulieAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Body acceptance and respect is all fine and good yet what if one gains weight due to medications? Does this trump non-diet approach research? Does this make the pursuit of weight loss health promoting? If so, how can one lose weight in a healthy way?? Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Our family of origin teaches us how to relate to food and our body. If you grew up in a family with disordered eating and/or body hate, it teaches us to fear fat and to prevent it all costs. Even if it hurts. The only thing we can tell about a person from their weight is our own weight bias (based on a quote from Marilyn Wann). Not health. Those at higher weights may very well be eating in a health promoting way so if you get at a higher doesn't mean you must now worry about your weight. The worry very well could lead to more disease. Should you diet if you've gained weight from a medication? No. What if you've gained 100 pounds or more...does that make a difference? It's a moot point for Julie. The weight gain amount does not matter. We have no diet that promotes effective and health promoting outcomes long-term for more than 3 to 5%. Julie demands better data before I can recommend a weight loss diet. Otherwise, Julie would be promoting something without sound scientific backing. Twin studies suggest the more one diets, the more they weigh. Friend: "I am going on a diet." Julie: "Oh, are you trying to gain weight??" Friend: "Uhhh, no. Huh?" All change brings melancholy so respecting your current higher size due to medication may warrant a time of grief. If you don't agree with this podcast episode, I welcome the conversation. Please send me the data. Show Notes: Dieting predicting weight gain research (including twin study mentioned in this podcast) summary via Evelyn Tribole RD. Body respect: What conventional health books get wrong, leave out, or just plain fail to understand about weight by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor 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

Raising children and all its food mess can bring up somepast,somewhat resolved, bad body thoughts. Throw in everyone'sopinionon the best way to feed your children, and you may feel likeyouare in an eating disorder relapse tailspin. How can youprovidevariety and teach healthy eating without sparking thateatingdisorder?? Can you prevent passing it on toyourchildren??Subscribe and leaveareview here in just seconds.Key Points:We don't cry over spilled milk in our house yet it can getundermy skin.When knee deep in the meal time chaos take a deep breath,stepback, and know many parents are feeling this same strugglefeedingtheir children. #TheStruggleIsRealJulie's daughter decided to go rouge with her sour creamandjust about freaked Julie out.With a few boundaries, our children will get the nutrientstheyneed without having to be constantly policed.Katie Holder RD rock and rolls in the meal time chaos.Sheprovides insight to get us through.Trust your instincts when something in feeding feels off.Peace at meal time happens when our kids feel safe andcompetentwith the food choices yet meal time may still feelbonkers.Family style dining can promote a healthy relationshipwithfood. Include a couple of starches, fruit, vegetable, aprotein,and couple sources of fat. Plop them on thetable. Kids decidehow much if any they will eat of these. Nopressure to eat certainfoods. No bribes. No foods beforeothers.Expect food jags due to preference and appetite. At two yearsofage, pickiness peaks and willingness to try things changes.Katie's son didn't eat a vegetable for a whole year...and noonetook her nutrition license away ;-)Serve dessert at dinner not afterwards sometimes. Teachesallfoods are normal and enjoyable.Never force a child to eat something. Child needs to be abletohave permission to not eat and learn how to say it politely.Meal time boundaries help everyone. Including givingcaregiversa chance to take a break. At some time we need to be ableto say,"THE KITCHEN IS CLOSED!" Healthy boundaries can preventpassing onthat eating disorder.All those caregivers out there: you are doing a great job!Show Notes:The Division of Food Responsibility: The parent is in chargeofthe food choices and eating times, the child is in charge ofeatingas much or as little as they want. Morehere.The EllynSatterInstitute (thisweek's FoodPeaceSyllabus addition)EatingDisorderDietitiansJulie DillonRDblogDo you have a complicated relationship with food? Iwantto help! Send your Dear Food lettertoLoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com. Clickhere toleave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. Thistype of kindnesshelps the show continue!Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Givemefeedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

When trapped in binge eating cycles, we can focus so much on food or ways to avoid food that we miss out on relationships, experiences, and life's joy. How can you break the cycle and get to being you?  Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Thank you for your letters to Food. They blow me away! Food is one of the basic human needs to stay alive (with oxygen, water, sleep, and warmth) yet designed to be thought about only when not getting enough. Even when you feel like the only person experiencing food like this, those in binge eating cycles are NOT alone! Research has some solutions warranting experimentation. In order for these to be possible solutions, you must practice personal kindness, compassion, and patience. Without these, no one can recover from binge eating experiences. Practice using a calm and compassionate adult voice as navigating recovery. Mistakes will pave your way to recovery rather than keep you from it. Look for them and welcome them. They will help you understand HOW to move forward. We have circadian rhythms with eating just like with sleep. It will take time for your body to get used to not bingeing because of these. When a person experiences diet-restrict to binge cycles, the brain feels the threat of deprivation and acts accordingly. It sends more obsessions. They way out? Stop pursuing weight loss. You CAN rewire our brain to not obsess about food except for when we need it. Julie describes using check in times to begin this process. The proof is in the pudding: keep track of your rewiring process to show the ED that you are making important baby steps away from ED's grip. Make an investment in you: do one year in personal psychotherapy. It's a gift that keeps on giving! Show Notes: When eating when hungry is too scary blog post where Julie outlines these check in times more and how to make them work for you. Overcoming Binge Eating by Christopher Fairborn (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

I've learned to respect my body yet nobody gets it. Help! What if you've worked for years to heal your relationship with food and your body yet some people in your life are just not there themselves? And may never be? To stay in recovery, do you have to defend abstaining from diets? Do you need to censure all bad body talk? Julie calls dietitian and eating disorder specialist Pam Kelle to discuss ways to navigate this complicated and common experience. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Growing up, Julie loved alternative and punk rock. (Secretly still does!) Those affected by eating disorders are the canaries in the coal mine: they let us know when the world has become too toxic with diets and self hate. Working toward and maintaining eating disorder recovery can be exhausting because of the impulse to defend non diet ways of experiencing food. Pam Kelle RD, CEDRD teaches us to recognize the struggle with toxic diet and body hate talk and lean into it. She says observe with compassion rather than putting your dukes up. While leaning in, meditate on the gratitude that you're not currently in the throes of the diet trap like family or friends. Remember how we connect with family and friends (safety, security, love, friendship, etc) and let it well up inside us. Next time we see those who diet, connect with this meditation rather than worry or be defensive. Meditate, focus on the positive connections, and react with compassion rather than defensiveness. When we have the urge to be defensive, its a mirror to what we want to be away from in our own life. Stay grounded in your own journey. We all have a right to stand up and speak our truth yet try and predict the outcomes. If you want to speak up about diet conversations, decide what you would like to happen and consider if worth it. Diet talk may be the gum on the bottom of your shoe: always there and sticky and triggering. No one can rock your world if you don't want them to! Show Notes: Pam Kelle RD, CEDRD She does virtual sessions y'all so connect with her to navigate your path to recovery. Food Peace Syllabus additions: Daring Greatly and Rising Strong by Brene Brown PhD and The Mindful Path to Self Compassion by Chris Germer BirdHouse in Your Soul by the *amazing* They Might Be Giants. Listen now! Julie Dillon RD blog Eating Disorder Dietitians 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

Talking about a diet is just as normal as talking about the weather or the crazy that is Donald Trump. I can handle the weather yet diets, detoxes, and Donald need to go!  Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Thank you for your feedback! It feeds me like a bowl of fresh french fries. Win a Body Activism Kit by HAES Kits. Subscribe and leave a rating and review on iTunes. Take a screenshot of this and email it to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com. First person who does this after this show airs will win this awesome Body Activism kit. Someone with an eating disorder history going on a diet is just as deadly as someone with a peanut allergy eating a peanut butter sandwich. Diets, detoxes, cleanses, and exercise boot camps are indeed bullshit. Essential ingredients for an eating disorder: altered eating habits (diets!), negative body image, and genetics. Because cannot tell a person’s genetics by sight, we must use universal precautions: diets can potentially hurt anyone. Diets and disordered eating is considered normal eating—Boo! We are helping people recover from an eating disorder in a world that has yet to recover from its own eating disorder. Going against diet culture will feel like going against one’s biology. It’s hard work! 4 ideas to help stay on the path of recovery: Keep quarterly meetings with your eating disorder team even when in recovery; Find those normal eaters. Check out Episode 7 for more on Normal Eating. Take a social media detox especially during stressful times. Stay attuned. Your body has the wisdom so work to stay connected. Meditation practice gives your body a chance to flex its attunement muscle. When feeling vulnerable, our body can show its white surrender flag and that it needs something via the craving to diet. When crave a diet/eating disorder behavior try this instead: What was going on right before the temptation? What were you experiencing/feeling/hearing via brain messages? Examine what you find and give yourself what you NEED during those times. Craving diet and over exercise may be your body’s way of letting you know you have an unmet needs. Show Notes: Julie's favorite meditation app (oh, the irony!): Insight Timer. Be sure to check out their inspiring Instagram page @insight...it is Julie's favorite for pictorial words of wisdom. Win a Body Activism Kit by HAES Kits. Subscribe and leave a rating and review on iTunes. Take a screenshot of this and email it to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com. First person who does this after this show airs will win this awesome Body Activism kit 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

Has healthy eating gone too far for you? A woman writes to food about the stress, exhaustion, confusion, and shame she experiences when she choses something not clean. Can you relate? Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Are you a clean eater? If you ask me, I say "Nope. I am dirty." Sanitary? Yes. Judge food choices or throw morals into what's consumed? No way. "The fondest memories are made gathered around the table." This is the mantra we at BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy see before we meet with every client because it's the basis of our work. Relationships connect us with joy and the meaning of life and when food gets too much power it will negatively impact this. Healthy eating advice is everywhere we look so not surprising this letter writer is experiencing this struggle with how much power to give food. Orthorexia nervosa, coined by Steven Bratman, is not classified as an official eating disorder yet it will feel just as paralyzing and crappy as a diagnosed eating disorder. It affects their mental health. First steps to heal from orthorexia nervosa: Make a pro and con list of this eating style You decide if the feelings of control outweigh the impact on relationships, life, career Appreciate recovery will take time Get proper nutrition education from a reputable dietitian Appreciate that healthy eating includes pleasure Carbs, although demonized right now, are a necessary part of each culture around the world. You can't name a single culture around the world without a carb staple. People are healthy; food is nutritious. Label food their actual names rather than categorize to be mindful and in the present rather than running on anxiety. Clean eating is washing food and cooking it to the right temperature. Healthy eating is not being black and white about food choices no matter how you categorize them. The journey to food peace is always worth the stress and anxiety. Take those first few steps, they will be worth it! Show Notes: No food is healthy. Not even kale. Washington Post article by Michael Ruhlman How to take back your power from food this holiday. Recovery Warriors blog post by Julie Duffy Dillon Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog My colleague and friend Jennifer McGurk RD, CDE, CEDRD. If you are a dietitian or therapist with the entrepreneur bug, check out her book to help you make the next steps to start building your business. Her book is Pursuing Private Practice: 10 Steps to Start Your Own Business Food Peace Syllabus Additions: Health Food Junkies: Orthorexia Nervosa-The Health Food Eating Disorder by Steven Bratman MD ← The physician who coined the term orthorexia and wrote first about it. Normal Eating by Karen Koenig LCSW 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

I had to tape a bonus episode after some brand spanking new content became available for Episode 10's Guilty Clean Eater. If you identified with Episode 10's letter writer, know that we clinicians now have more to go on to help you feel more at peace with food. Key Points: Julie and Jennifer met up at the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals Symposium. They felt privileged to hear Dr. Steven Bratman speak on Orthorexia Nervosa with dietitians Amanda Mellowspring and Jessica Setnick. Dr. Bratman was the first person to describe the eating disorder obsessed with healthy eating. Yet, until now, it wasn't officially considered an eating disorder. The presentation included the first official unveiling of the diagnostic criteria for Orthorexia Nervosa. Why does this matter? Julie and Jennifer discuss how this helps clinicians better treat this experience, promotes insurance coverage, and increases research funding. Julie and Jennifer had a tough time getting technology to cooperate to make this bonus episode happen PLUS Julie knocked over a bottle of water on her chair just as taping started...so she had to sit in it the whole time. Gotta listen after all that! Show Notes: Update on Orthorexia via Jennifer McGurk RD, CDE, CEDRD On orthorexia nervosa: A review of the literature and proposed diagnostic criteria by Dr. Steven Bratman and Dr. Thomas Dunn in April 2016 Eating Behaviors (pages 11-17)...but you heard it here first! The very first article Dr. Bratman wrote on Orthorexia Nervosa in Yoga Journal in 1997 Julie Dillon RD blog My colleague and friend Jennifer McGurk RD, CDE, CEDRD. If you are a dietitian or therapist with the entrepreneur bug, check out her book to help you make the next steps to start building your business. Her book is Pursuing Private Practice: 10 Steps to Start Your Own Business Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO THE LOVE, FOOD SERIES. GIVE ME FEEDBACK VIA TWITTER @EATINGPERMITRD OR LEAVE ME A REVIEW IN ITUNES AND SUBSCRIBE.THIS TYPE OF KINDNESS HELPS THE SHOW CONTINUE!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Long term food fights and body dissatisfaction cause friction, anger, and longing. The letter writer describes her start with body hate and dieting as a child only leading to disordered eating and weight gain. Is her experience rare? Nope. Millions experience the same. This episode debunks calories in calories out especially as it relates to certain health conditions. Knowing this, pursuing health without focusing on weight loss is just about the coolest thing since sliced bread. *Rejoicing with the food pun!* Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Anger and rage is uncomfortable yet can project us toward change. Stay with it! Your f*ed up relationship with food is not your fault. Not. Your. Fault. No matter your size and no matter how your body got to be the size is today--you deserve respect and equality. Many years of self hate, diets, and cultural weight/size oppression may have promoted your body to be larger than what your DNA was originally programed to be. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a genetic/environmental hormonal dysregulation leading to infertility, high insulin levels, mood disorders, eating disorders and negative body image. Most PCOS research uses weight focused therapies which sucks; women told to "just lose weight" when diagnosed. High insulin levels make this impossible long term. Julie recommends healing the hormones with medical interventions then work on healthy behaviors to promote health and avoid eating disorders. Cutting calories too low causes more problematic inflammation and cravings to binge when affected by PCOS. Health at every size (HAES®) is not: encouraging bingeing yet does not demonize food choices glorifying obesity yet does honor every body and think every body deserves equal rights healthy at every size *the extra Y is huge!* Experience health today not once at a certain weight. All sizes deserve equal health care and respect. HAES® includes attuned eating, pleasurable movement (check out Episode 4 on the Love, Food podcast for more on this), social justice for all sizes. Everyone deserves to experience health in their body today. You too! Let's rage against the machine together. Show Notes: My Big Fat Fabulous Life with Whitney Thore (Julie was Whitney's dietitian in Season 2) Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Overview Women with PCOS: Don't touch diets with a 10 foot pole ←why don't work with PCOS PCOS and Eating Disorders Weight cycling hurts PCOS How to eating with PCOS without dieting Food Peace with PCOS Weight stigma and PCOS HAES® approach overview Healthcare providing like a fat babe does ← reading this will turn your anger into a slingshot and project your self respect and body image onto a bed of the softest pillows welcoming you home. 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.  Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD or leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. A nutrition student writes to food because she feels ashamed of her fat body. Although she knows diets are harmful she is tempted because of the fear of rejection: from her peers, potential employers, future clients, and herself. Julie calls Glenys Oyston RD to discuss possible solutions for this student. Key Points: This student is not experiencing a nutrition problem yet a lack of exposure to size diversity messages. Could nutrition students be given more opportunities for personal health and well-being by exposure to more unconventional nutrition education such as attuned eating, pleasurable movement, and health at every size approaches? Not everyone wants to work with a slim dietitian. Glenys Oyston describes her transition from a body disparaging to weight neutral nutrition student which began after listening to Linda Bacon speak in a class. This helped her improve her body image while promoting healthy eating experiences. It also helped her appreciate she is much more than her body: she has thoughts, feelings, ideas, etc that mean much more to her. Is there size discrimination in the dietetics profession? We say yes. Advocating for size acceptance can improve job satisfaction yet it is up to the individual on whether to speak up or not. Find allies on-line and unite! Consider personal psychotherapy to proactively help your relationship with food and body image. Hang in there Fat Nutrition Student! Things get better as you get more exposure to the profession and the diversity of body types. Show Notes: Dietitian's and Their Weight Struggles from Today's Dietitian May 2014. (How Julie found Glenys!) Glenys Oyston: Dare To Not Diet blog and Dietitians Unplugged podcast. Linda Bacon: The professor and researcher that positively altered Glenys's nutrition education and affirmed her ability for health at her natural size. She also significantly affected Julie's shift to a weight neutral and non diet approach. Food Peace Syllabus Additions: Ragen Chastain's blog Dances with Fat. Warning: will change your life. Glenys's list of inspiring fat fashion bloggers: Gabi Fresh Curvy Canadian Garner Style Le Blog De Big Beauty Flaws Couture The Curvy Fashionista The Curvy Girl Chic Life and Style of Jessica Nicolette Mason Clothes And Shit Big Hips Red Lips Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD or leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy