Find Your Food Voice

Are you or is someone you know affected by PCOS? I have some bonus episodes for you! Listen now for the first bonus episode all about which diets are the WORST for PCOS management. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period on January 25th, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. Episode's Key Points: The primary treatment for PCOS is dieting... but diets don't work long-term! So what do we do? We're going to look at three different diets and break down why they don't work for PCOS management... Low-calorie diets: if you have PCOS, reducing calories below a certain point promotes inflammation, which is ultimately super harmful for our health, contributes to extreme exhaustion, drives up insulin levels, and encourages weight gain in the long-term. The Keto diet: Keto diets promote a low-carb, low-fat, low-protein eating style, and if you have PCOS, you need more protein in your diet than the average person! Plus, there's ZERO published research looking at folks trying Keto plans who also are managing PCOS. The majority of the research also doesn't look any further than 4-6 weeks, which isn't long enough to claim long-term weight-loss success!! Long-term, Keto is going to promote weight gain and obsession over your food choices (which can ultimately lead to eating disorder behavior!!). Weight Watchers: WW is similar to the low-calorie meal plan, but it may actually be the WORST for PCOS! That's because it's super accessible, and it co-opts body-positive language to pretend it's not a diet. Plus, they encourage low-fat and low-protein consumption, and remember, if you struggle with PCOS, you need more protein!! Less protein contributes to fatigue! Plus, WW has done their very own diet research that shows that 80% of their participants regain the weight within two years (and it's probably higher than that!). You deserve a recommendation that's going to be health-promoting in the long term. So what do you do?? Any kind of style of eating that you're doing should promote energy and make room for connection with family and friends. You should also make sure to choose something that has been shown to work long-term through the research (including through your personal evidence!). The number one predictor of weight gain is dieting, and the more we diet, the more we gain! But this is NOT your fault!! You've been given the wrong tools. Letting go of dieting is NOT letting yourself go... it's letting yourself BE. Wondering how to promote health with PCOS without dieting? Tune into the next Love, Food bonus episode to find out! Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Traci Mann's research, including Secrets from the Eating Lab Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you still have days where you struggle to stay true to your anti-diet convictions? Is body image an issue that you're still grappling with, even if you've been on this journey for some time? Listen now to hear my conversation with Meredith Noble, and get our tips on how to navigate this part of theFood Peace™ journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period on January 25th, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. Episode's Key Points: The world needs to be fixed, and we need to eradicate diet culture!! Opting out of diet culture is a constant process. Meredith Noble comes on the show to talk about struggling with what we see in the mirror. It's so normal to understand anti-diet work on an intellectual level, but that doesn't mean we're integrating it into our lives. Shame plays a big role! We're all trying our best to survive in this fatphobic culture... remember, it's SO normal to feel the urge to go back to diets when we've been triggered because many of our struggles stem from this fatphobia. Any work we've done before, even if we go back to dieting, is never wasted! Many of us are fine with their bodies... until we see a photo of our bodies. When you feel triggered by a photo, try to change the focus from what your body looks like, to what you were feeling and experiencing in that moment. Part of body acceptance is also making it a goal to look at bodies of all shapes and sizes, especially larger bodies. Instagram is a great resource for this! We can start to dismantle our own internalized fatphobia when we continually expose ourselves to the beauty of larger bodies. It also may be helpful to look at photos of our OWN bodies more often. Take photos of yourself! Take selfies! Learn to appreciate them! And remember, don't limit yourself to your "best" angles... look at yourself from ALL perspectives!! You don't need to be fixed... the WORLD needs to be fixed! Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor GlitterandLazers and Nakitende_Esther on Instagram Vivienne McMaster's Be Your Own Beloved program ---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #1 Find Meredith on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and on her website Meredith's Instagram resource list ---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #2 Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Has diet culture kept you from making real Food Peace™? Did you think you were making progress, only to find yourself struggling again? Listen now to hear a letter from someone struggling with the same thing, and get my take on how to overcome this part of the Food Peace™ journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in later this month, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. Episode's Key Points: We live in a world suffering from it’s own eating disorder! Diet culture has infiltrated our society, and the majority of us suffer because of it. Intuitive eating is a super important step in the food peace journey! There’s lots of research out there now that illustrates how intuitive eating promotes health. Cultural fatphobia: you’re only acceptable if your body stays acceptable. If your body doesn’t get enough food (which is what happens when a family member restricts our access to it), we feel deprived, and we respond by bingeing and hoarding food. When we give ourselves permission to embrace food in whatever way we need to, we open the door for food peace and remove the threat of deprivation enough to be mindful about our needs. We as human beings yearn for acceptance… and that’s one of the reasons we are so vulnerable to diets! They promise us that when we lose weight, we’ll finally fit in and be accepted. But this isn’t true! Not only will diets not give you lasting weight loss, but they also won’t give you lasting happiness. Trauma can have a huge impact on our food peace journey, so be sure to honor that. Know that making peace and “letting yourself go” with food DOESN’T mean you’re giving up… it means you’re letting yourself be. Our relationship with food isn’t health or unhealthy… things aren’t so black and white! The way we relate to food is COMPLEX!! What would happen if we accepted our bingeing behaviors? Food is meant to be pleasurable and comforting! Unfortunately we often demonize that part of our relationship with food, but that really isn’t fair. Can we honor the ways food comforts us? Bingeing is just a way our body lets us know that there’s an unmet need… and the bingeing helps us! It helps us stay alive, it helps comfort us, and it helps us survive. It’s important to challenge beauty ideals and call out diet culture and oppression. Seek out support on social media to help you on that journey! You deserve happiness in the skin you’re in today! Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, IntuitiveEating.org, and the 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating Summer Innanen Love, Food Podcast Episode 20 @bodyposipanda AKA Megan Jayne Crabbe ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What is food peace in the context of struggling with PCOS? Listen now to hear my PCOS and Food Peace Manifesto! Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in later this month, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. Episode's Key Points: What IS food peace and PCOS anyway? What if we've been told to eat this, not that, in order to manage our PCOS? How do we move away from that kind of thinking? Do some of us end up engaging in anorexia nervosa trying to manage our PCOS? Yes! Especially if we're in larger bodies. People in larger bodies are urged to practice eating behaviors that we diagnose as disordered in smaller bodies... this is a problem! It also points to how fatphobic our society is. Dieting increases inflammation, which is one of the biggest issues with PCOS! At least one in ten women suffer from PCOS, but there's minimal research funding for it. We need to get more information on this condition! So what's food peace? Food peace is coming to terms that diets don't work for you, and understanding that diets are the failure, not you. It's time to find a new way to eat, and listen to your bodies for the answers! Women with PCOS have a different kind of communication with their body, and it's my job to guide you through learning that mode of communication. If you're in a place where you're struggling to manage your PCOS, you may feel like you're ALWAYS hungry. The food peace process is about reconnecting with your intuitive self and learning what that feeling of being always hungry really means. Dieting predicts weight gain and eating disorders, and intuitive eating leads to positive health outcomes. So really, which one is better for our health? Here's my PCOS and Food Peace Manifesto: You didn't cause your PCOS! Diets failed, not you! Diets are a form of restriction, so it's no wonder you feel like you can't control yourself around food. Your weight doesn't define your health or your worth! Your PCOS has its own language! Notice what helps energize you, and what doesn't! Self-care matters, and so does advocacy! 25% of our health is due to behaviors, and 75% of our health are determined by social determinants of health and our genetics... this means that stigma and discrimination have a HUGE impact on our health! Specifically, weight stigma contributes to inflammation and poor health due to the fight or flight response. There are SO many of us out there ready to help you fight weight stigma in PCOS healthcare. Come join us! Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. POCS and Food Peace Support Group Monika Woolsey's work Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch Love, Food Podcast Episode with Evelyn Tribole Love, Food Podcast Episode with Elyse Resch Love, Food Podcast Season 2 Premiere (Episode 100) Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you feeling tempted by all of the New Years diet talk? Do you know diets don't work, and yet find yourself thinking that maybe this time it'll be different? Listen now for my reminders on why intuitive eating and food peace are the way to true empowerment and health. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in January 2018, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. Episode's Key Points: We know that diets don't work long-term... and yet, the New Year brings the tempting diet message to the forefront, especially for those of us in larger bodies that face weight stigma. What is intuitive eating? How can it help us to find Food Peace™? The more we try to restrict, the more we feel chaotic around food, and the more likely we are to experience weight gain and eating disorders. This process of Food Peace™ is SO much harder if we live in a larger body! Diets are this big, seductive fantasy designed to keep us stuck in ideas around what makes us worthy. Let's find a way to make our bodies acceptable right NOW. Diets also hold this idea of hope for connection and acceptance, which is part of what makes it so tempting. I believe in body liberation and body autonomy... you can do what you want with your body! But I still encourage you, when you feel the pull of dieting, to consider what triggered that thought process. Investigate it, and if the root of it is yearning to connect with others, consider that connection is what you really want, not weight loss. Working towards radical self-acceptance can feel isolating! Remember that part of the seduction of dieting is hope for connection and acceptance to and from others. People in larger bodies are often praised for seeking out weight loss. It can help you feel more accepted and create a mode of connection... but that doesn't mean it's the right way forward. It's possible that diets are trying to help you meet unmet needs of acceptance and connections. Diving deeper into the WHY is so important!! Shame is likely a part of this as well, so investigate that and unwrap the true motivations behind this urge. Ask yourself, what are you really yearning for? Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Intuitive Eating and The Intuitive Eating Workbook by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch Jes Baker's blog and book, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls The Body Positive and their book, Embody "Wanting to Lose Weight Isn't Shameful" by Hilary Kinavey at Be Nourished Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Is it time for your body peace to get political? Are you ready to stand up against diet culture for good? Listen now to hear my letter to diets, and get ready to get fired up with me! Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in January 2018, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, you'll support Love, Food at no extra cost to yourself. Episode's Key Points: We've come to the end of Season 1 of the Love, Food Podcast, and to close us out, I'm going to be reading a letter written by me, straight to diets. It's time to dismantle diet culture, and I need your help. Send me your Dear, Food letter for next season to lovefoodpodcast@gmail.com. I'm looking forward to hearing them! Don't forget to subscribe to the show, and leave a rating and review. It's so important to leave a rating and review, as it helps people who are struggling with their relationship with food and body to find the podcast. “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” - Namoi Wolf, The Beauty Myth We should all be raising our children as feminists. Food IS political, and dieting IS political. We HAVE to talk about politics and feminism if we hope to dismantle diet culture and the patriarchy for good. Diets have condemned certain body sizes, and they have distracted all of us from experiencing true joy in our lives and with food. Diets keep us from experiencing connection and joy with others! Diets tell us we aren't worthy of love until we're the "right" size. But none of the things diets tell us are true. Diet culture pretends to be about health, and even has begun to feel like a religion. Diets have gone way too far. Diets predict weight gain and eating disorders! People who oppose diets, and the damage that they do, are coming together. The next generation of psychologists, dietitians, and health professionals will take diet culture down!! We need to teach health professionals about weight bias and weight stigma. It's harmful to our health, even more-so than eating that french fry. Diets are sneaky manipulators, so smart that sometimes we don't even know we're being manipulated. It's time to engage in our politics, understand our privilege, and stand up to diet and body oppression. It's time for us all to feel more at home in our own skin, and to end the normalization of diets and fatphobia. See you in 2018! Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog 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 Food Peace Syllabus. Love, Food Podcast Episode 1 The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf Fiona Sutherland of the Mindful Dietitian Deb Burgard Love, Food Podcast Episode 84 with Isabel Foxen Duke Kelly Diels Rupi Kaur Eating Disorder Dietitian 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are the people around you supportive of your food peace journey? Have you found a better way with intuitive eating, but are coming up against a roadblock with family and friends? Listen now for some tips on how to approach this part of the food peace journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in January 2018, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Episode's Key Points: Making peace with food is RADICAL! It's truly a political act, and this can cause issues within our family relationships. Health is about FLEXIBILITY!! Dr. Carolyn Ross joins us to talk about the family, and how to manage family members who try to be our food police. Food rules contribute to the development of eating disorders, especially if there's a perceived "weight problem." Make sure not to go too long without eating throughout the day, and add some movement into your life to enhance how your body feels! Intercept questions about your food choices and your body size by making some healthy boundaries. Let them know you're working on things with a doctor or dietitian, and leave it at that. You're allowed to be angry! Feel your feelings, and don't feel like you have to push them down to appease family members. Remember, many of us struggle with internalized fatphobia. Be sure to address this with a treatment provider so that you can work through it! Our weight research is super biased!! You can be healthy at any size... it depends on our BEHAVIORS, not our weight. Research shows that the healthiest weight you can be is "slightly overweight!!" The medical profession changes slowly and shifts in the medical community take time. The status quo will change eventually! Permission promotes health, and shame only brings us down. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog 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 Food Peace Syllabus. The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner The Food Addiction Recovery Workbook by Dr. Carolyn Ross ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Find Dr. Carolyn Ross' online coaching program ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Eating Disorder Dietitian 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you struggling with your relationship with exercise while pursuing food peace? Do you attach your self-worth to how much physical activity your body is capable of doing? Listen now for some tips on how to tackle this challenge in the food and body peace journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in January 2018, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Episode's Key Points: Jessi Haggerty joins us to tackle this listener's letter! Fat acceptance and feminism can be KEY to finding recovery... and it can help us to keep going along the recovery path if we start to feel stuck!! It's important to inspect our beliefs about ability, and see how our relationship with exercise is influenced by ableism. Social justice can help us break free from other ways that diet culture holds us back! It's important to think about the INTENTIONS behind our physical activity... if the intention is about body manipulation, weight suppression, or to "prove" something, then it's probably time to take a step back and rethink that choice. Comparisons steal our joy! Remember, compassion is key. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog 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 Food Peace Syllabus. Anna Sweeney's Love, Food Podcast episode Big Magic by Liz Gilbert ---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #1 Jessi podcast, The BodyLove Project ---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #2 Jessi's website and Instagram Eating Disorder Dietitian 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you struggling to make peace with food while simultaneously grappling with food scarcity? Is poverty and food insecurity contributing to feelings of deprivation? Listen now for ideas on how to navigate this food peace challenge. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in January 2018, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Episode's Key Points: I just got back from BEDA! I had the honor of presenting at the conference, as well as meeting previous Love, Food guests and listeners!! Lack of food access is a real food peace problem! When our body doesn't have consistent access to food, food gains a lot of power in our lives. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Only once our basic needs are met (food, shelter, oxygen, etc.) can we can reach higher levels. The Hierarchy of Food Needs by Ellyn Satter: If someone doesn't have access to food, you can't work on changing eating patterns to support health. Living in poverty causes oppression, and oppression physically harms our health. PCOS is connected to many health markers that we KNOW are connected to oppression and poverty (high blood pressure, insulin issues, high triglycerides etc). Struggling with both simultaneously exacerbates the problem! Poverty, living in an oppressed body, and experiencing chronic microaggressions sets us up for living in a fight or flight response. This can make conditions like PCOS MUCH worse! Being pushed to diet long-term ALSO causes these negative health outcomes due to increased inflammation. Most people who diet and lose weight with regain that weight in the long run, and most people who regain weight will actually regain more weight than they lost initially. This means that weight loss efforts are actually weight cycling... and weight cycling ALSO contributes to inflammation, high blood pressure, high insulin levels, high triglycerides, etc. PCOS, poverty and discrimination, dieting, and weight cycling ALL contribute to inflammation, high blood pressure, high insulin levels, high triglycerides, etc. in the long term!! You probably aren't addicted to food... your body is just telling you after years of chronic dieting that you need food!! Make sure you're eating enough, especially if you're in a larger body and people are shaming you for your food intake, and that feeling of addiction will likely decrease. Access to healthcare is also a problem here... we need equal access to health for ALL bodies!! 25% of health is determined by behaviors, and 75% of health can be attributed to genetics and the social determinants of health... this means that poor access to healthcare, food, and resources will impact your health negatively. So we need to promote health EQUITY if we want a healthy population! Practice permission and cast aside shame. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog 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 Food Peace Syllabus. Christy Harrison's Love, Food episode Judith Matz's Love, Food episode Aaron Flores's Love, Food episode Rebecca Scritchfield's Love, Food episode Deb Burgard Jes Baker's Instagram and book, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Eating Disorder Dietitian 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you finally found food freedom with intuitive eating, but are now struggling with the difficult emotions that used to be managed with food? Listen now for some relief from this food peace conundrum. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in January 2018, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Episode's Key Points: Intuitive eating can feel SO freeing and exciting, but it also can be tough and SUPER scary! Can you sit with the uncomfortable emotions that come up during the intuitive eating process? Emotional eating is a part of normal eating!! The problem is when food is the ONLY method we have to soothe hard feelings. Part of the food peace journey is moving away from diet culture. Give yourself unconditional permission to eat, and unconditional permission to eat food emotionally! Our world hasn't recovered from it's own eating disorder yet, and that means that food peace can feel really, really hard. We need more fat positivity in our world. Exploring more body image resources can help mitigate the hard feelings that come up in the food peace journey. Intuitive eating takes TIME. Give yourself some patience and compassion, and know that you're going to get there eventually. Immerse yourself in recovery... jump all in!! Give yourself unconditional permission to eat, and unconditional permission to let your body be where it needs to be. ALL of our bodies will change throughout our lives, so we need to make peace with our body no matter what it looks like at any one time. You can't experience recovery until you're ALL IN! Surround yourself with other food peace and body acceptance warriors to support your journey. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog 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 Food Peace Syllabus. FNCE BEDA/NEDA Conference Intuitive Eating, 3rd ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch and IntuitiveEating.com Evelyn Tribole's Love, Food Podcast episode Elyse Resch's Love, Food Podcast episode She's All Fat Podcast ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Carolyn Costin Eating Disorder Dietitian 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy