Find Your Food Voice

Are you stuck at diet rock bottom? Do you feel shame about your food behaviors and your body? Are you struggling with the diet/binge cycle, looking for support on this food and body peace journey, and trying to break free from the diet mentality? Listen now for some solutions to these challenges. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Episode's Key Points: The common experience with food and body struggles is SHAME. That shame can prevent people from getting the help they need! Diet rock bottom: the realization that diets just aren't going to work anymore. Judith Matz joins to give us a therapist's perspective! The diet story is always the same, but everyone has their own unique journey. You are not alone!! One comment can lead to a lifelong feeling of shame about the body. People are often stuck in the diet/binge cycle for so long!! By sharing our stories and experiences, we can break out of the shame. Before we start bringing in and stocking up on our forbidden foods, we have to connect with our hunger and fullness cues and rebuild those muscles. When we say we can't have a food, we are more prone to eating it all!! On the flip side, when we make forbidden foods "normal" and give ourselves permission, they become less special. Those forbidden foods become just like any other! Sometimes we need some help on this journey, whether that's a group, a therapist, or a dietitian trained in intuitive eating. Food peace is so hard because we live in a world that moralizes food, adheres to the thin ideal, and equates size to health. This work can feel impossible if you don't have a great support system behind you! Understanding weight stigma is a huge part of this process!! We internalize beliefs about weight and worthiness... letting go of these beliefs about the body can be the hardest part of this process. Weight discrimination hurts everyone, and affects all of us negatively!! It's a social justice issue that we all have to work hard to change in our culture so that we can find body peace. We pass messages down about food and body to our kids all the time that lead them into the diet/binge cycle, but there are ways to stop this pattern! Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Dr. Dan Siegel's work Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch The Diet Survivor's Handbook by Judith Matz ---> This week's Food Syllabus Edition #1 52 Ways to Love Your Body by Kimber Simpkins ---> This week's Food Syllabus Edition #2 "9 Common Mistakes Parents Make About Their Kid's Weight" by Judith Matz ---> This week's Food Syllabus Edition #3 Judith's work 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 ever been someone who sneak eats, or eats other people's food as a way to disguise your own food patterns? Do you identify as a binge eater who has battled the restrict-binge cycle your whole life? Does food feel like a vice, rather than a wonderful tool of connection and nourishment? Listen now for some solutions to these challenges. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. From our sponsor: Green Mountain at Fox Run Specialized Track for College-Aged Women Dieting trends. Endless images of ‘perfect bodies’. Find a permanent solution to struggles with food, weight and body at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Green Mountain is hosting weekly programs between May 14 and August 26 tailored to the needs of women between ages 18 and 25. Your whole life is ahead of you, and you deserve to live it happily and in good health. Visit https://goo.gl/2r8B2W for more information. Episode's Key Points: Around age five or six, all children go through "Adiposity Rebound." This usually means that developmentally, children will gain weight to prepare for growth in the next few years. Our bodies as kids change so drastically all the time! We live in a fat phobic society!! It's a disgusting reality, but we live in a culture that is not accepting of larger bodies. If an adolescent in your life comes to you and says they want to lose weight, go on a diet, or start an exercise regimen, DO NOT offer to go on it with them! This sends the message that their body needs fixing. Instead, let them know that you will love them no matter what, unconditionally. Every BINGE starts with RESTRICTION!! There are so many people who understand this struggle, feel shame around their eating behaviors, and experience the tug of war of bingeing and restricting. Stop the food fight and take a rest! Dieting and restriction are the SAME THINGS!! The more we restrict and the more we sit in shame, the more we binge. There is a function of binge eating disorder! Bingeing can help us to disconnect from discomfort. Recovery from binge eating disorder takes, on average, six to seven years. Do so with the help of an eating disorder dietitian and a whole team of experts! Eating disorders are complicated because they include elements of mental health along with cultural issues of size acceptance. We live in a world that hasn't recovered from its own eating disorder yet!! Counseling and therapy are KEY elements to recovery! Work with a counselor and a dietitian together to help you along your journey and speed up your recovery process. You're worth recovery!! Shame is a HUGE weight on our shoulders... remove it with the help of professionals! You CAN find balance and food peace!! Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Intuitive Eating Audiobook ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #1 Evelyn Tribole's episode of the Love, Food Podcast Life. Unrestricted ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #2 Food Psych Podcast ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #3 Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance by Rosie Molinary ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #4 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. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Binge & Emotional Eating Weekend Intensive The Women’s Center for Binge & Emotional Eating is offering its foundational one-week Pathway™ program in an intensive weekend format. Participants will explore personal barriers and how to counter them with evidence-based strategies to prevent eating in response to stress and emotions. Dates are scheduled monthly throughout 2017 although capacity is limited, so visit https://goo.gl/xFh2up  for more information. There’s only ONE premier retreat for women who struggle with eating and weight. It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://goo.gl/si9wZi for more information. Green Mountain at Fox Run’s Binge Eating White Paper - Myths, Truths and Treatments Download Green Mountain’s free whitepaper to understand Binge Eating Disorder, the most common eating disorder. Explore the symptoms of and treatment for BED, assess where weight loss fits in, and gain clarity on common myths. Visit https://goo.gl/UGpF78 for more information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you tried embracing intuitive eating, only to feel as if giving yourself permission around food makes you lose control? Does making peace with food continually result in a tug-of-war with yourself? Do you struggle with healing your relationship with food, only to find yourself returning to diets when it feels too difficult? Listen now for some thoughts on how to move forward. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. From our sponsor: Green Mountain at Fox Run Specialized Track for College-Aged Women Dieting trends. Endless images of ‘perfect bodies’. Find a permanent solution to struggles with food, weight and body at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Green Mountain is hosting weekly programs between May 14 and August 26 tailored to the needs of women between ages 18 and 25. Your whole life is ahead of you, and you deserve to live it happily and in good health. Visit https://goo.gl/2r8B2W for more information. Episode's Key Points: Body positivity doesn't need to be associated with "letting yourself go" or being overfull! This overfull feeling has to do with DIETING, not body positivity. Evelyn Tribole joins to help us tackle these intuitive eating struggles!! Dealing with overeating when you first start exploring intuitive eating is a common struggle, and it can definitely be worked through! There's lots of solutions here. The diet industry makes us feel like we're one bite away from poor health. Remember that the process of intuitive eating and making peace with food is one of discovery and curiosity... there is no way to do it right or wrong! We must connect with the body and become the expert of what own bodies need when we delve into intuitive eating. Clue into what you're experiencing in your body, rather than in your mind. You can't make a mistake in intuitive eating! All bumps in the road are a part of the learning process. If you feel overfull, you haven't done anything wrong! Just explore the experience and discover what is within it. Trust the body, rather than pushing prescriptive rules and decisions. Our bodies have been silenced, and intuitive eating gives them a voice! Interceptive awareness: the ability to perceive the feelings that arise in the body, both physical and emotional (all emotional feelings have a physical response!). Tapping into these feelings can help you get your needs met. How do we move from shame or guilt to curiosity? Pause, and figure out what belief system we believe we've violated. Write down the thoughts and rules that we believe we are breaking. Belief systems take a while to break down! Treat your body as an experiment! Allow intuitive eating to guide you to become an expert of your body again. Surround yourself with resources that promote self-kindness!! Intuitive eating research is strong. There is a body of evidence that shows intuitive eating is health promoting! Intuitive eating is getting more popular in the media... but most main news sites that cover intuitive eating focus on permission to eat, and forget about the rest of the 10 principles. We have to make sure that when people learn about intuitive eating, they learn about what it truly is in its totality! When we take away the guilt and judgment around eating, we make room for satisfaction. You are NOT alone! The steps out of this tug-of-war will be challenging, but they will be worth it. Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Brene Brown's work, including her books and her TED talk on shame ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Body Kindness by Rebecca Scritchfield ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3 Evelyn Tribole's website Intuitive Eating's website 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. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Binge & Emotional Eating Weekend Intensive The Women’s Center for Binge & Emotional Eating is offering its foundational one-week Pathway™ program in an intensive weekend format. Participants will explore personal barriers and how to counter them with evidence-based strategies to prevent eating in response to stress and emotions. Dates are scheduled monthly throughout 2017 although capacity is limited, so visit https://goo.gl/xFh2up  for more information. There’s only ONE premier retreat for women who struggle with eating and weight. It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://goo.gl/si9wZi for more information. Green Mountain at Fox Run’s Binge Eating White Paper - Myths, Truths and Treatments Download Green Mountain’s free whitepaper to understand Binge Eating Disorder, the most common eating disorder. Explore the symptoms of and treatment for BED, assess where weight loss fits in, and gain clarity on common myths. Visit https://goo.gl/UGpF78 for more information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you live in a fat body and struggle to make peace with food due to the overwhelming fat phobia in our culture? Are your healthcare providers, friends, and family urging you to lose weight, even though your body size is right for you? Listen now for some answers on how to overcome this difficult hurdle to making peace with food and your body. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. From our sponsor: Green Mountain at Fox Run Specialized Track for College-Aged Women Dieting trends. Endless images of ‘perfect bodies’. Find a permanent solution to struggles with food, weight and body at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Green Mountain is hosting weekly programs between May 14 and August 26 tailored to the needs of women between ages 18 and 25. Your whole life is ahead of you, and you deserve to live it happily and in good health. Visit https://goo.gl/2r8B2W for more information. Episode's Key Points: Part of recovery and healing our relationship with food and our bodies is making peace with our body shape and size, no matter where it may fall. This can be a super difficult part of the process, especially for people who end up in fat bodies because we live in an extremely fat-phobic society!! Prescribing diets for long-term weight loss just DOESN'T work! How do we learn to accept and respect our body in a world that doesn't treat all bodies with kindness? Food peace means learning to be flexible, compassionate, and accepting. We have to learn to trust our hunger and fullness cues, along with our satisfaction levels. But when we learn to let go and trust out internal regulation to tell us how much food we need to eat, we also have to let go of our hopes to control our body size. Sometimes intuitive eating results in a body size that is larger than the culturally "accepted" standard. This whole idea of "too large" and subscribing to the thin ideal is a huge no-no, as we can all achieve health at any size, but this judgment from others can be a huge barrier to food and body peace! Pursuing weight loss and a smaller body is part of what leads to eating disorders. Eating disorders kill someone every 23 hours. You don't have to experience an eating disorder in order to be given permission to trust your body's hunger and fullness cues! Unfortunately, trusting our bodies and having a peaceful relationship with food is NOT a normal occurrence these days. Dieting is disordered eating!! PCOS and disordered eating go hand in hand... some people with PCOS end up in a larger body due to insulin levels, and part of the common "treatment" involves weight loss. BUT not everyone with PCOS is in a fat body, so why do we use weight loss as a primary treatment?? If you're trying to deal with doctors while in a fat body, a great question to ask is, "What would you tell a thin person suffering with the condition I've come in here to talk about?" This way you won't just get the standard "lose weight" directive, and you may actually get some quality healthcare that doesn't focus on weight! Pursuing weight loss is one of the most unhealthy mindsets we can have. The more we pursue weight loss, the more we will weigh, and the more at risk we are for an eating disorder. It's time we challenge our weight bias!! It's easier for us to change the culture than to ask fat people to lose weight. Focusing on recovery, rather than weight loss, will help with people dealing with PCOS. I will be launching a special PCOS, food peace course in September!!! Did you know that on average it takes meeting with five different counselors before you meet your perfect therapeutic match?? Keep looking for your best therapist! Online courses can also be a great supplementary support resource, and there are a ton popping up! Can we pursue body and food respect for our children?? So often we pass body hate onto our kids. Over 70 studies show that intuitive eaters have healthier bodies and remain at more stable weights than dieters. Intuitive eating helps people come back to health! If we work towards respecting our bodies, our size will level out at a place that is most comfortable for the individual. Our next episode of the Love, Food Podcast will feature Evelyn Tribole, co-author of Intuitive Eating! Surround yourself with more people who will support your body peace journey!! All bodies are good bodies, and all bodies deserve to feel at home in their skin. Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Shapesville by Andy Mills and Becky Osborn ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health  by Glenn A. Gaesser ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 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. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Binge & Emotional Eating Weekend Intensive The Women’s Center for Binge & Emotional Eating is offering its foundational one-week Pathway™ program in an intensive weekend format. Participants will explore personal barriers and how to counter them with evidence-based strategies to prevent eating in response to stress and emotions. Dates are scheduled monthly throughout 2017 although capacity is limited, so visit https://goo.gl/xFh2up  for more information. There’s only ONE premier retreat for women who struggle with eating and weight. It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://goo.gl/si9wZi for more information. Green Mountain at Fox Run’s Binge Eating White Paper - Myths, Truths and Treatments Download Green Mountain’s free whitepaper to understand Binge Eating Disorder, the most common eating disorder. Explore the symptoms of and treatment for BED, assess where weight loss fits in, and gain clarity on common myths. Visit https://goo.gl/UGpF78 for more information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you worried you're doing intuitive eating wrong? Does listening to your intuition around food choices make you concerned for your health? Do you just feel a little bit lost and confused with this whole intuitive eating thing? Listen now for some solutions for these struggles. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. From our sponsor: Green Mountain at Fox Run Specialized Track for College-Aged Women Dieting trends. Endless images of ‘perfect bodies’. Find a permanent solution to struggles with food, weight and body at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Green Mountain is hosting weekly programs between May 14 and August 26 tailored to the needs of women between ages 18 and 25. Your whole life is ahead of you, and you deserve to live it happily and in good health. Visit https://goo.gl/2r8B2W for more information. Episode's Key Points: Perfectionistic tendencies can make embracing a more flexible way of eating, such as intuitive eating, a difficult adjustment. Part of the intuitive eating process is craving foods that have previously been off-limits... these foods tend to be fun foods, such as french fries or cookies! Eventually food will feel calm, fun, and not as exciting. There is a light at the end of the tunnel!! Adrien Paczosa of iLiveWell Nutrition Therapy to talk about perfectionism and intuitive eating. Mom's don't get enough credit!! There's no good/bad or right/wrong way to do intuitive eating or recovery. Social media can trap us into the idea of needing to be perfect. It takes time to understand intuitive eating, and to really understand the process including our own hunger and fullness cues. There is always so much extra noise getting in the way from diet culture... so the first step really is to shut all that stuff out! We need to gives ourselves PERMISSION not to be perfect, and understand that sometimes intuitive eating can feel really great, or not so great. That's just a part of the experience! Cravings come in all shapes and sizes, fun foods and "healthy" foods. We can't judge either kind of craving, and we must grant ourselves permission for both. Sometimes permission can make you feel out of control, especially when we're first starting out. This is when an eating disorder or intuitive eating dietitian can come in handy, as they can help guide you through all the twists and turns. Everything is an EXPERIMENT!! Adrien and I talk about the importance of learning about private practice as dietitians exploring a non-diet approach. YOU'RE NOT DOING IT WRONG! Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Rebecca Scritchfield's Body Kindness Podcast Episode 18 featuring me! Adrien Paczosa's iLiveWell Nutrition Therapy, Twitter, Facebook Love, Food Podcast Episode 56 with Joanne and Jonah Soolman Emotional vs Physical Hunger Handout by Adrien ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Adrien's iLiveWell Business Academy and upcoming webinar 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. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run.   Binge & Emotional Eating Weekend Intensive The Women’s Center for Binge & Emotional Eating is offering its foundational one-week Pathway™ program in an intensive weekend format. Participants will explore personal barriers and how to counter them with evidence-based strategies to prevent eating in response to stress and emotions. Dates are scheduled monthly throughout 2017 although capacity is limited, so visit https://goo.gl/xFh2up  for more information. There’s only ONE premier retreat for women who struggle with eating and weight. It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://goo.gl/si9wZi for more information. Green Mountain at Fox Run’s Binge Eating White Paper - Myths, Truths and Treatments Download Green Mountain’s free whitepaper to understand Binge Eating Disorder, the most common eating disorder. Explore the symptoms of and treatment for BED, assess where weight loss fits in, and gain clarity on common myths. Visit https://goo.gl/UGpF78 for more information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Did healing your relationship with food result in weight gain? Are you angry that healing your relationship with food has made you gain this weight? Do you feel judged based on the weight gain? Listen now for some ways to deal with this part of the food and body peace journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: It's Eating Disorder Awareness Week! It's time we tackle our cultural eating disorder recovery and speak out about the seriousness of eating disorders. Dieting is a part of the eating disorder experience... if diets weren't normalized, we would have fewer eating disorders! On March 1st start looking for #ChangeTheGame!! Let's change the conversation around dieting. Dieting is NOT healthy eating. YOU ARE NOT ALONE!! Eating disorders kill more people than any other mental illness. One person dies every 23 hours from an eating disorder. The Canary in the Coal Mine metaphor: Coal miners used to bring canaries down into the coal mines with them. If the canaries were singing, the coal miners knew they were safe. Once the singing stopped though, that was the coal miners' cue to get out quickly before the toxic gas killed them too. We live in a toxic environment focused on the thin ideal... some people are impacted much more quickly or intensely than others, and they develop eating disorders (the canaries). They are our warning to fix our toxic environment before it gets us too (the coal miners). Many people who go through classic eating disorder treatment receive a meal plan from their dietitians to guide their eating in recovery. This system may be flawed though, and potentially damaging, and we are actually discovering that we may be able to use intuitive eating much earlier in eating disorder recovery than we initially thought! What exactly is a "set healthy weight?" We really have no clue what any single person is supposed to weigh. At certain points in eating disorder recovery this "set-point" can be an important number, and is determined by past weight experiences... but it's very difficult to actually pin this number down. Our "healthy weight" CHANGES based on our age and other life factors! Some research indicates that being in larger body as we get older can be protective. It's time we change our thought process on what weight indicates! Trying to manipulate someone's weight is going to negatively impact their behaviors. What if the enemy is not food at all, and the enemies are really body hate, the need for control, the value attached to body perception, and the value we hold for the judgment others place on our bodies? We do an activity from When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies, a book that approaches recovery from a feminist perspective. How would we lead our lives if we lived in a world where all bodies were valued, no matter their size? What if we were all considered important and precious the way we are now? We DON'T know what anyone's weight is actually supposed to be, and we probably never will. We just need to accept where our body is at, no matter what. We don't have to fight against our bodies. We need you in this world, as you are now. Food is NOT the enemy! Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Overcoming Overeating: How to Break the Diet/Binge Cycle and Live a Healthier, More Satisfying Life by Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter  ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession by Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Love, Food Episode 22 with Dr. Maria Paredes 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. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Weekend Program for Women who Struggle with Eating and Weight Concerns Green Mountain at Fox Run is excited to announce a one-time opportunity to newcomers – an all-new A Taste of Green Mountain weekend program (March 3 – 5)! Key strategies for mindful eating, mindful movement, self-care, and stress management will be introduced to help participants to eat, move, feel, and LIVE in the moment...to #BeHerNow! This opportunity is only open to new guests of Green Mountain. https://goo.gl/tCVQWl Specialized Track for College-Aged Women Dieting trends. Endless images of ‘perfect bodies’. Find a permanent solution to struggles with food, weight and body at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Green Mountain is hosting weekly programs between May 14 and August 26 tailored to the needs of women between ages 18 and 25. Your whole life is ahead of you, and you deserve to live it happily and in good health. Visit https://goo.gl/2r8B2W for more information. There’s only ONE premier retreat for women who struggle with overeating and weight. It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://goo.gl/si9wZi for more information. Green Mountain at Fox Run’s Binge Eating White Paper - Myths, Truths and Treatments Download Green Mountain’s free whitepaper to understand Binge Eating Disorder, the most common eating disorder. Explore the symptoms of and treatment for BED, assess where weight loss fits in, and gain clarity on common myths. Visit https://goo.gl/UGpF78 for more information.  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you struggling with your relationship with food and your body, but are finding it difficult to find the right resources to help you heal? Do you identify as a man and feel lost or like an outsider in the food and body peace world? Have you made peace with food, but are still struggling to make peace with your body? Listen now for some advice on how to begin tackling these issues. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: You are not alone, but we can appreciate that you still FEEL alone! SHAME is a big part of eating disorders, and there is an extra layer of shame for men. Andrew Walen joins for more insight into the male experience with eating disorders, body image struggles, and food peace concerns. Resources for men who struggle with body image is severely lacking! The male ideal: 50% of men wish they were bigger and 50% of men wish they were smaller... there is also a lot of focus on musculature, especially in the chest region (very different than the female ideal!). The physical ideal is also influenced by our ideas of "manliness." Men must be tough, strong, and nothing like women (stereotypically feminine traits such as soft or weak). Eating disorders within the male population are stigmatized because they imply that the person suffering from the eating disorder is weak... which is feminine and therefore "bad." Right now, the biggest thing is NORMALIZING the male eating disorder. According to some research, about 85% of people who struggle with body image issues and eating disorders are heterosexual males. We live in a society that drives us to self-hate because we are told we don't measure up, and people of all ages and of all genders are constantly comparing themselves to those around them. We all struggle with wanting to be appreciated and accepted by those around us! It's important that men dealing with body image issues have the inner courage to speak out and begin to share their stories of struggle and success so that the experience is normalized and more research money can come in to help people suffering!! Residential treatment facilities for men suffering from eating disorders is sorely lacking... only one current center in the country offers in-patient residential treatment for males! How do eating disorders look different in men? How do men talk about their bodies? Focus on muscularity, strength, and dominance Co-morbidity of substance abuse, specifically alcohol Language around the body is less specific and less emotionally intense than a woman's language around the body Coping skills are super important! This can include learning how to sit with discomfort and learning how to communicate emotions. Men are less likely to seek out treatment, more likely to wait longer before undergoing treatment, and more likely to rush through treatment and, as a result, relapse. This inevitably makes the fatality rates for males with eating disorders, specifically anorexia, higher than that of women with eating disorders. Resources can help normalize the experience of men with eating disorders and body image concerns!! Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. The National Association for Males with Eating Disorders (NAMED) ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #1 Bruce Sturgell, founder of Chubstr Man Up to Eating Disorders by Andrew Walen  ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #2 Shattered Image by Brian Cuban ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #3 The Good Eater by Ron Saxen ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #4 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. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. A Taste of Green Mountain – Weekend Program Green Mountain at Fox Run is excited to announce a one-time opportunity to newcomers – an all-new A Taste of Green Mountain weekend program! Key strategies for mindful eating, mindful movement, self-care, and stress management will be introduced to help participants to eat, move, feel, and LIVE in the moment...to #BeHerNow! This opportunity is only open to new guests of Green Mountain. https://goo.gl/tCVQWl Binge & Emotional Eating Weekend IntensiveThe Women’s Center for Binge & Emotional Eating is offering its foundational one-week Pathway™ program in an intensive weekend format. Participants will explore personal barriers and how to counter them with evidence-based strategies to prevent eating in response to stress and emotions. Dates are scheduled monthly throughout 2017 although capacity is limited, so visit https://goo.gl/xFh2up  for more information. TAKE TIME TO INVEST IN YOU.It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://goo.gl/si9wZi for more information. Green Mountain at Fox Run’s Foundational Guide to Reaching & Maintaining Your Healthy Weight Download Green Mountain’s free healthy weight foundational guide to learn how to embrace healthy (and pleasurable) eating strategies, cultivate a fitness practice you enjoy, and use mindfulness to overcome stress & emotional eating https://goo.gl/WwUDOrAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you live with so much body shame that you've contemplated stomach surgeries such as gastric bypass? Are you someone who has already undergone this surgery? Has this surgery only made things with your body more confusing? Do you also deal with PCOS or other complicated health conditions that push weight loss for health? Are you a professional within the dietetics field who also deals with food and body issues? Listen now for some solutions on how to navigate with these various challenges. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Exciting announcement! In September I will be launching my very first online course, dedicated to people who are trying to find food peace while living with PCOS. Sign up for my newsletter to get updates!! And if you deal with PCOS and struggle with food and your body, I want to hear from you! Send me an email at LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com, and let me know what you'd love to see in the course. Dealing with all of these issues related to food is exhausting! Struggling with shame, acceptance, an eating disorder, and much more takes so much energy. You are not a sham, but bariatric surgery as a solution to food peace is a sham. Bariatric surgery is a stomach amputation. It does not have any documented long-term health outcomes, and we do NOT have enough data at this time to suggest that this surgery is a choice that will enhance personal wellness. In any health profession it's important to have size diversity! Fat dietitians, fat gym teachers, and fat healthcare providers are important. If you want to hear more about this topic, check out Love, Food Episode 8 with Glenys Oyston. Many people who choose to study nutrition that have an eating disorder background pursue it because they hope it will help them learn more about food for the sake of their eating disorder, not because they actually want to be dietitians. Recovery from an eating disorder requires a great recovery team! It is so, so common for dietitians and dietitians in training to seek out their own dietitian. If privacy is an issue, many practitioners work online now as well! Question whether or not being a dietitian is for you! It's possible that when you find recovery, it may not be something that speaks to you anymore. This can be a hard decision, but you will get through it! Research and data on how to help people who have had bariatric surgery recover from an eating disorder is sparse because it's a new experience, but it is becoming more common, and there are definitely practitioners out there who can help. REJECTING weight loss is going to be an essential part of the healing process! One cannot heal from an eating disorder while they pursue weight loss!!! When you seek out treatment, make sure your support team is weight neutral. You may even be able to find a Health at Every Size practitioner! People are more likely to experience an eating disorder if they have PCOS. It really isn't about food... it's about stigma, shame, and food lies. Don't give body hate more power!! Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Love, Food Podcast Episode 8 with Glenys Oyston Glenys Oyston, past podcast guest and proud fat dietitian! The First 3 Steps to Food Peace with PCOS ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 PCOS Is Not a Pamphlet Disease! ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Dieting + PCOS Can Promote Eating Disorders ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3 Women with PCOS: Don't Touch Diets with a 10 Foot Pole ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #4 How Weight Stigma Hurts Your PCOS ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #5 How to eat with PCOS without Dieting ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #6 Stop the Yo-Yo! Diets Behind Weight Cycling Negatively Impacts PCOS ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #7 Your Eating Lessons From My Big Fat Fabulous Life and Whitney Thore ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #8 My Big Fat Fabulous Life - Season 2 Wrap Up: Reaction from Whitney's Dietitian ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #9 Your Eating Lessons from My Big Fat Fabulous Life: The Trap of All or Nothing Thinking ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #10 Your Eating Lessons from My Big Fat Fabulous Life: Food as Punishment ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #11 TLC's My Big Fat Fabulous Life Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. A Taste of Green Mountain – Weekend Program Green Mountain at Fox Run is excited to announce a one-time opportunity to newcomers – an all-new A Taste of Green Mountain weekend program! Key strategies for mindful eating, mindful movement, self-care, and stress management will be introduced to help participants to eat, move, feel, and LIVE in the moment...to #BeHerNow! This opportunity is only open to new guests of Green Mountain. https://goo.gl/tCVQWl Binge & Emotional Eating Weekend Intensive The Women’s Center for Binge & Emotional Eating is offering its foundational one-week Pathway™ program in an intensive weekend format. Participants will explore personal barriers and how to counter them with evidence-based strategies to prevent eating in response to stress and emotions. Dates are scheduled monthly throughout 2017 although capacity is limited, so visit https://goo.gl/xFh2up  for more information. TAKE TIME TO INVEST IN YOU. It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://goo.gl/si9wZi for more information. Green Mountain at Fox Run’s Foundational Guide to Reaching & Maintaining Your Healthy Weight Download Green Mountain’s free healthy weight foundational guide to learn how to embrace healthy (and pleasurable) eating strategies, cultivate a fitness practice you enjoy, and use mindfulness to overcome stress & emotional eating https://goo.gl/WwUDOr  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you been told that following diets and maintaining a certain weight is necessary to be healthy? Do you find that rejecting diets feels difficult because of the culture we live in? Are you thinking about cutting out certain foods to help manage a health issue? Listen now for some help with these varied obstacles to food peace. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Intuitive eating: a way to relate to food without dieting, relying on your own hunger and fullness cues to decide when to eat and how much to eat, unconditional permission to eat what you need and want, and finding ways to deal with our emotions without food. Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT): when someone use food to help manage their disease and prevent disease progression. Joanne and Jonah Soolman of Soolman Nutrition and Wellness join to discuss disease management using nutrition and intuitive eating! Coming out of dieting and entering intuitive eating can be really difficult! It's a huge mindset shift, and some people may feel ambivalent about the transition. Intuitive eating is complete 180 degree shift from diet culture, which is something we have been taught from a super young age. Diet culture includes "truths" such as fat is unhealthy etc. It makes sense that we might have strong feelings in opposing directions (ambivalence)... the research doesn't support diets, but dies are what we've been taught to believe in. So what now? By recognizing ambivalence, we can help individuals empower themselves to make their own decision! People who are considered "overweight" or "obese" have healthier outcomes when they engage in healthy behaviors, regardless of weight. Dieting is an all or nothing approach! Sometimes this leads people to feel like they're going to go out of control with food when they give up dieting for good and shift to intuitive eating. When we leave dieting behind, it may actually feel like a void has been created. This attachment and anxiety is normal! Intuitive eating takes time!!! Generally speaking, if someone is completely recovered from an eating disorder, it takes about a year to move through all of the intuitive eating principles. Fear of weight gain can be a huge deterrent for people to commit to intuitive eating. Intuitive eating is a process, so be patient and let it work itself out! How do we deal with feeling like our weight is causing us physical pain? We have to consider that weight may not be the issue. Bodies get older, and this makes them hurt. It may not be the weight at all, and it might be more beneficial to try and strengthen certain muscles or change up exercise routines to alleviate stress on the body. We also have to not make weight the focal point. 95% of diets fail, and most people regain more weight than was lost... so if you try to lose weight to help alleviate chronic pain, you may actually make it worse in the long run! Thin people have joint and knee pain at a certain age... it isn't necessarily the weight! There are other ways to relieve pain! Doctors, physical therapists, Advil... Can you name one disease that fat people have that thin people don't? NO! How do we explore managing a disease with our food? First we have to meet our essential food needs (Ellyn Satter's Hierarchy of Food Needs)... intuitive eating is part of these essential, baseline needs! Medical Nutrition Therapy: managing a medical condition through food. It is a part of our food needs as well, but it is at the very top of pyramid, and one of the last things to worry about. If you have chronic, rather than acute health conditions, allow yourself to build a solid foundation in intuitive eating. Once you are secure in that, then you can add MNT in! Otherwise MNT could spiral into just another diet. Be careful when trying to cut out foods in the name of health! There's a lot of dietary guidelines out there that are extremely restrictive, and extreme restriction leads to bingeing. Disease is gradual. One cookie or one milkshake is not going to cause the onset of diabetes, for example. We must work through our fear of deprivation before we make food choices in the name of health. TRUST THE PROCESS! THINGS ARE NEVER LINEAR!! Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Ellyn Satter's Hierarchy of Food Needs Beyond a Shadow of a Diet by Ellen Frankel and Judith Matz ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 The Diet Survivor's Handbook by Judith Matz and Ellen Frankel---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Joanne and Jonah's website and Facebook page 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.   This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. A Taste of Green Mountain – Weekend ProgramGreen Mountain at Fox Run is excited to announce a one-time opportunity to newcomers – an all-new A Taste of Green Mountain weekend program! Key strategies for mindful eating, mindful movement, self-care, and stress management will be introduced to help participants to eat, move, feel, and LIVE in the moment...to #BeHerNow! This opportunity is only open to new guests of Green Mountain. https://goo.gl/tCVQWl Binge & Emotional Eating Weekend IntensiveThe Women’s Center for Binge & Emotional Eating is offering its foundational one-week Pathway™ program in an intensive weekend format. Participants will explore personal barriers and how to counter them with evidence-based strategies to prevent eating in response to stress and emotions. Dates are scheduled monthly throughout 2017 although capacity is limited, so visit https://goo.gl/xFh2up  for more information. TAKE TIME TO INVEST IN YOU.It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://goo.gl/si9wZi for more information. Green Mountain at Fox Run’s Foundational Guide to Reaching & Maintaining Your Healthy Weight Download Green Mountain’s free healthy weight foundational guide to learn how to embrace healthy (and pleasurable) eating strategies, cultivate a fitness practice you enjoy, and use mindfulness to overcome stress & emotional eating https://goo.gl/WwUDOr  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you feel that you've made peace with food, but are still struggling to make peace with your body? Have you gained weight on your anti-diet, intuitive eating journey, and are now trying to work through your emotions related to this weight gain? Are you feeling a loss from letting go of dieting? Listen now for some ways to get started on body peace and diet mourning. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: National Dieting Month has reached its end! CHEERS! Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review!! It really helps people who need to break free from dieting find the podcast and begin their journey to find food peace. Thank you to everyone who has left a review so far! For those of you early on in your intuitive eating journey, this letter writer lets us know that part of intuitive eating is learning that eating past fullness is uncomfortable, and therefore it just isn't something we usually do when we have a healthy relationship with food. Sometimes we eat past fullness to be sure, it happens! But that isn't the norm, and it doesn't fill us with guilt anymore when we do eat past fullness. Recovery takes time... it's a marathon, not a sprint! Connecting to your body can feel unsafe or uncomfortable in early recovery, so be patient when trying to tap into your intuition. Healthy eating includes flexibility!! The only way to learn how to rely on your own hunger, fullness, and satiety cues is trial and error. Intuitive eating = mindful eating = attuned eating. You are allowed to eat things JUST BECAUSE. Unconditional permission to eat is a super important part of intuitive eating, but it can be the scariest! Sometimes through intuitive eating we find that foods we were obsessed with during our disordered days are foods that we actually don't even like. There is often a mourning process when we let go of dieting because dieting sells us the lie of a perfect, happy life. But don't avoid that grief! Feel what you're experiencing, and remember that this feeling won't last forever. Seek out leaders in the body acceptance community to help you work through this grief. The next step is embracing the social justice aspect of diets, and fighting for marginalized groups in the body peace movement. Show Notes: 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 Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Intuitive Eating, 3rd ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch Body Respect by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor Dietland by Sarai Walker Dr. Deah's Calmanac by Deah Anne Schwartz <--- 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. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Free 4-Week Email Course: #BeHerNow It’s time to STOP putting your life on hold until you lose weight and START living the life you desire and deserve today! Register for our free 4-week #BeHerNow online course to learn how to transform your thoughts and behaviors so that the real you shines through...paving the way to a fuller, richer life. Explore how to shift your focus from weight to well-being, how to make lasting change from the inside out, and how to identify and realize what you really want and need. Registration for this series closes on Wednesday, February 1, so sign up today to receive the first email in the series on Thursday, February 2. TAKE TIME TO INVEST IN YOU. It’s time to shine the light on yourself and make YOURSELF the priority. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’re all about embracing and supporting yourself through self-care. Through powerful tools such as mindfulness techniques, stress management skills, and movement that is customized to your body and fitness level, you’ll learn to practice self-care in your daily life. Visit https://www.fitwoman.com/for more information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy