Find Your Food Voice

There's no such thing as a perfect eater so making mistakes is a part of normal eating. What if you were raised to believe larger bodies are disgusting or eating is to be controlled? Then what? When the mind and society expect eating perfection, how can someone become a normal eater? This week's letter writer asks food to help direct her to the path toward healing. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: The longest relationship we will have on earth is the relationship with ourselves. How we feed ourselves is important to our health and quality of life. Therefore our relationship with food is important to heal. Nutrition science is a fluid science. Another shout out to Ellyn Satter and her awesomeness. This time, we hear her definition of Normal Eating. Hear how Julie defines Eating Disorder recovery and why she believes you can 100% recover! Our family of origin's belief on size and food behavior can get in the way of normal eating. Normal eating includes mistakes and trusting our body. Teaching size discrimination will keep us from trusting our hunger and fullness cues. It teaches us to rely on dieting and disordered eating. Disordered eating is society's normal eating *Julie pouts*. Picking out 1 or 2 new foods to try each week will help your brain and taste buds get more comfortable with normal eating. The only FDA approved medications for eating disorders are foods. Looking to become a normal eater? Find other normal eaters! And, it may impact your family and friends to also become normal eaters. Patience and acceptance will help you move forward to healthy normal eating. Show Notes: Normal Eating by Ellyn Satter RD, LCSW Find your eating disorder team in Central North Carolina or nationwide. Meeting with an eating disorder dietitian for the first time 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

Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Do you feel addicted to carbs, sugar, or any foods? Hear the latest research on food addiction and what dietitians in the trenches have to say about the experience. Can food addiction explain your problematic eating? Or is it something else? Key Points: Eating is just like peeing. Yup, it is although don't mix the two. Stop judging your food choices unless you also judge your urination habits. Food can have too much power and if it does in your life you are not alone! Don't believe the hype! The food addiction theory model has many limitations including: Food addiction is poorly and vaguely defined. Too catch all. Most research done on animals and can't translate directly to humans. Fails to consider alternative explanations for neurobiological pathways seen in food addiction research. When food restricted, pleasure centers of brain light up stronger than when not restricted. This means diets will make you feel addicted to food rather than food causing the addiction. Marci says, "Food is meant to be rewarding" {My new favorite quote!} We can be addicted to food just like we can be addicted to music and laughter. Tug and pull with food can promote the food addiction experience when other underlying experiences promoting the experience. Do you know of any food addiction research that is controlling for dieting, restriction, avoidance? Let us know!! Dieting gets us in the way of primal evolutionary systems. When food feels addicting and a person is not a failure! The body is being a successful human. What are the steps to recover from what feels like food addiction? You are not alone! Let's redefine the word healthy eating. Is your eating satisfying and pleasurable. Be sure eating includes these! Ponder this: what's happening in my body rather than what's happening in my brain? Move the judgement and moralistic thinking away from food and the body will find balance to find health. Show Notes: My colleague and friend Marci Evans RD, CEDRD and ways to connect with her wisdom via twitter: @MarciRD. If you're training to become a dietitian or want to work with those affected by eating disorders, be SURE to check out her online training launching very soon. Check her blog regularly for food addiction information. Marci's food addiction blog posts: here and here. Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog Food Peace Syllabus Additions: Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole RD and Elyse Resch RD Eat what you love and love what you eat by Michelle May MD Starting Monday 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

Do you parent a fat child? This letter comes from a large woman raising a child who is now teased at school because of her size. Should she put her child on a diet? Take her to the gym? Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: 12 in 100,000 children have Type 2 Diabetes* yet 2900 in 100,000 children experience an eating disorder**. Statistically, worry more about eating disorders than increased adiposity. Teach kids how to have a healthy body image and a healthy relationship with food. Is fat a bad word? Let's neutralize it. Just may be the key to positive body image and respecting others. The Division of Food Responsibility by Ellyn Satter What to do about junk foods? Stop calling them junk and refer to them as fun foods because they are fun! Offer them a few times a week at a snack or as part of a meal. Do you make your child go to the gym? No pain no gain = more body hate. Encourage movement that feels pleasurable. As a parent, our job is to help children to connect to the movement their body prefers. Show Notes: *Writings Group et al., "Incidence of Diabetes" **K.R. Merikangas et al. "Lifetime Prevalence of Mental Disorders in US Adolescents: Results from the National Co-morbitity Survey Replication-Adolescent Supplement." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 49, no. 10 (2010): 980-9. Helping Your Large Child in a Fat Phobic World Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog Food Peace Syllabus Additions: Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming by Ellyn Satter Your Dieting Daughter: Antidotes Parents can Provide for Body Dissatisfaction, Excessive Dieting, and Disordered Eating by Carolyn Costin 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

Changing culture to make room for all bodies including yours. Subscribe or Leave a Review Here A woman wants to exercise yet feels so uncomfortable in her larger body. She's too embarrassed for the gym, pools, and classes but she wants to exercise and move her body. She hopes Food can help her find the confidence to go to gym classes and a way to eat with enjoyment again. Can you relate?? I phone a friend, Debra Benfield, to help out Uncomfortable Wanna-Be Gym Rat and she speaks about magic carpets and ways to stay connected to promote health and peace. Key Points During season 2 of My Big Fat Fabulous Life, Julie was Whitney Thore's dietitian. Whitney experienced similar experiences to the letter writer and found her way back to movement in her larger body. The letter writer is connected to her body in a health promoting way even though feeling negatively about it...keep connected to that! The fear of judgement is powerful and in yoga, in it's most basic sense, is about leaving judgement at the door. Separating what others think about her and what she thinks will be key on and off the mat. Weight oppression Yoga modifications: start with not add later. Goal is challenge and ease not pain. Downward facing puppy to downward facing dog. Our bodies let us know when it is time to move and trust it that is so much better than rules and regulations Debra and Julie will be the last people on earth without FitBits...why?? Shownotes: My Big Fat Fabulous Life with Whitney Thore. Check it out on TLC! The fabulous Debra Benfield RD, RYT and her upcoming retreats Curvy Yoga and Anna Guest-Jelly RYT My Name is Jessamyn This Girl Can (←emphasis Debra's) video: giggling, sweating and diverse bodies. It will make you empowered too! Diane Bondy Yoga Food Peace Syllabus Additions Yoga For All by Diane Bondy Curvy Loving Kindness meditation 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 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

Body Image During Life Transitions Subscribe or Leave a Review Here Going to the chapel, going to get married...only if I am skinny enough. Wha??? Today's letter writer struggles with body acceptance and can't seem to lose weight. She wants to have her soon-to-be husband to make a contract: he can divorce her if she gains too much weight. Do you think this will give her the willpower to stay skinny? Do you think this will increase her motivation? Key Points: Just say no to weight focused marriage contracts! Earth suits and pie in the sky views on unconditional love and marriage. "If it's not about your weight, what would it be about?" Elizabeth Scott, LCSW from The Body Postive 4 transitions that seem to be high risk times to experience eating disorders. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses. Focusing on disordered eating keeps us from experiencing the present. What are these behaviors distracting you from? Willpower is a noun that does not belong with eating behaviors. Show Notes: The Body Positive Find an eating disorder team My wedding was perfect...And I was fat as hell the whole time By Lindy West Julie Dillon RD blog Food Peace Syllabus additions: Embody: Learning to love your unique body (and quiet that critical voice!) by Connie Sobczak 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

Get Your Body Back or Respect What You Have? Subscribe or Leave a Review Here A new mom so deeply in love with her son is struggling with body image, weight, self-care and all the tough transitions to motherhood. She asks Food for ways to get her body back and eat right, yet will Food go down that rabbit hole of dieting, self-loathing? Naaaaw, Food gives insight into ways for this mom to stay connected to herself: the one she has known her whole life and the new person who is now a mom. Julie Duffy Dillon phones in a friend, Lindsay Stenovec RD, CEDRD, a dietitian specializing in helping women who are postpartum experience body positivity. Key Points: Motherhood is filled with ups and downs, massive transitions, and zero sleep. "Comparison is the thief of joy" Theodore Roosevelt Dieting followed by a period without dieting will feel chaotic yet exciting. It's not the food's fault rather the dieting. Postpartum can be filled with joy and love AND unfamiliar, disconnected, and full of grief. Commonly, we turn to the body and food to ground ourselves. Saying "I want my body back" = the quickest way to make Julie feel uncomfortable and turn into a raging feminist (that's a good thing by the way) Reaching out to past routines and people can help make the postpartum experience more familiar and less stressful. Hot coffee or a hot meal can keep us new and/or frantic moms stay grounded and promote self-care. Beginner's Mind: imagine how your child experiences your body; they haven't learned about weight stigma yet! New moms working toward body positivity will help her own self-care as well as prevent passing on cultural messages of body hate Show Notes: Lindsay Stenovec The new mom body positive guru and registered dietitian (be sure to check out her new program called Nurtured Mama) International postpartum support and help line Julie Duffy Dillon's blog Food Peace Syllabus additions: Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat: The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby by Claire Mysko and Magali Amadeï Intuitive Eating Audio CD by dietitians Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole 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

When Failing a Diet Really Is Your Success Subscribe or Leave a Review Here A woman has been dieting for over 30 years and feels like a failure starting yet another weight loss plan. Instead of being hopeful and excited, she is feeling shitty. Really shitty. Dive in as we discuss health without dieting, family dynamics, and learning to eat again. Key Points: Diet rock bottom can be exhausting yet an opportunity to regain footing to a healthy relationship with food. New diets can feel hopeful and be a seductive fantasy that life will be better with weight loss. Watch out for my F*bombs! Our bodies do not like bodies. Falling off the diet wagon means you are being a successful human rather than a failure. Binge Eating Disorder is serious and can take 4 to 7 years to recover. Perfectionism will keep you stuck in it longer! Mistakes help you know the best path to recovery. The pursuit of weight loss can keep you from healing their relationship with food whether it is binge eating, emotional eating, and other disordered eating. Lots on why diets don't work. Not dieting is not giving up. It's letting yourself be. Show Notes: Diet Rock Bottom Health At Every Size Community Eating Disorder Dietitians JulieDillonRD.com Food Peace Syllabus additions: Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch 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 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

Call an Uber, we need to get off this diet crazy train! Subscribe or Leave a Review Here Clean eating. Low carb. Low fat. Do this not that. Now what? Eating is getting too stuffy and complicated. Diets promote harm not health. Plus, they are boring. Key Points: This dietitian lists her concerns and pleas to food for help. People don't fail diets. Diets fail people. Let's start a revolution to respect our bodies and reject the diet mentality. We need a new path to peace. The Love, Food podcast will call an Uber so we can get off the diet crazy train. Each spunky opinionated episode will consider ways to experience food peace and move away from disordered eating, binge eating, emotional eating, and negative body image. Show Notes: Thank you for listening to my Dear Food letter. Do you have one? I would love to read about your struggles around food. Feel chaotic? Bring it. Feel crazy? Write it down. Crave normal eating? Get out your pen and paper and give me the details. I am Julie Duffy Dillon: Registered dietitian and food peace promoter. I want to help you enjoy eating again. Please send your email 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