Find Your Food Voice

Do you work in the entertainment industry and struggle with your body image? At times you may feel unacceptable yet what if it's them not you? Listen now for solutions. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: PCOS and Food Peace Course set to begin in Greensboro. Give me a call (336.273.2808 x 0) if you'd like to attend this in person only event. Are you looking for acceptance in your body's appearance? The way this letter writer defines an acceptable body does not fit her DNA. This is reinforced with the media's discrimination and pressure for all to lose weight. This is wrong on so many levels. Problem: didn't see other women who looked like you. Julie wonders if this letter writer's body size more like dad's side of the family rather than mom's side. Problem: if more like dad's body shape/size, he said he "struggled" with his weight which is code for didn't accept it. Do you feel unacceptable for taking up too much space?? Do you feel anger, frustration that feels endless? This mimics the body image struggles and symbolic of feminist issues. You have permission to take up your space...whatever that is. Redefine what an acceptable body is for you and everyone else. Describe feelings as ugly?? Julie struggles with that description of normal experiences. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Shrill by Lindy West <-- This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Body Respect: What conventional health books get wrong, leave out, and just plain fail to understand about weight by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphamor 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 ALWAYS had a complicated relationship with food? Did you learn at an early age how to cope with your emotions using food and cannot imagine living a life with food peace? This episode is for you! Julie and her guest Christy Harrison from the podcast Food Psych discuss possible solutions. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: You are NOT too damaged to heal your relationship with food. Remember and appreciate the functionality of food bringing a way to cope with chaos and trauma. Appreciate the subtle hungers. Humans are adaptive. Find professionals who are body positive, understand eating disorders, and a trauma specialist. Food may be like a security blanket. Before yanking it away, be curious about why the coping mechanism is there...that's where the healing begins. Self compassion is the foundation for food peace. Your cravings for disordered eating may be from an unmet need. What was just happening? What do I really need? Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Christy Harrison <-- Check out her FAB Intuitive Eating Online Course. It is made for you in mind. Food Psych podcast Intuitive Eating Counselors Body Positive providers Episode 27 a letter writer describes hiding under the kitchen table eating food. Others have been there too. 8 Keys to Trauma Recovery by Babette Rothschild Your Child's Weight by Ellyn Satter EMDR Anxiety and Depression Association of America Barbara Birsinger RD Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you think your chronic conditions make you a slave to rigid diets or chained to the scale? Do you have a long history of coping with your emotions via food and now want to find other ways to survive?? There is a way for you to heal your relationship with food AND find health. Listen now for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Hoarding, bingeing, and other related behaviors are the most common experiences from childhood dieting/restriction. I am sorry on behalf of all health and medical professionals for the oppression. You don't have to choose health OR healing. Working on healing your relationship with food will help you promote health long term. Healing is not passive or giving up or weakness. Healing is an active process never passive. Fat on the body didn't CAUSE the problems. Eating sugar didn't CAUSE the problems. Being shamed in your body and not teaching you how to tolerate feelings caused the problems.  Healing from Binge Eating Disorder (BED) takes on average 7 to 14 years. Restricting nutrients or calories may show favorable outcomes in short term yet worse in the long term especially if affected by BED. Keep the data! You need proof that you're bingeing less as time goes on. Diabetes is a chronic progressive disease. It is always changing and slowly getting worse even if you do everything you can. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Julie's Dear Food Letter Ep 5: Help My Daughter Who Is Fat Like Me Certified Diabetes Educator Your eating lessons from my time on season 2 of 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.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you have a roller coaster relationship with food or your body?? As your work on your relationship with food, you may notice bad body thoughts remain. Will it always be this tough?? Listen now for thoughts from Julie and her guest psychotherapist Nicole Christina. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Always have HOPE! The way to heal our relationship with our body is via repairing our culture.  Myth of solid wall of misery via Sharon Salzberg: These feelings eb and flow. They are more like storm clouds and you will get a break. The dark clouds are not the sky. The sky is still there. During days with lots of negative body image keep in mind that those feelings won't last. Buddhist techniques can help you make steps forward. Notice WHY bad body thoughts happen. You don't have to be hijacked by feelings. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Nicole Christina LCSW <-- Check out her YouTube videos and online course: Diets Don't Work! Embrace film by Tara Brumfitt Tara Brach: RAIN meditation Recognize Allow Investigate Non-identification The Slow Down Diet by Marc David Rick Hanson PhD 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

  You know diets don't work. Do you gravitate toward the body positive message yet hung up on one thing... You don't love your body because you want to lose weight. You find your body unacceptable. There is a way through this. Listen now for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help. Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com. If you feel like a failure because you can't lose weight or keep it off, know you are not to blame. Diets have failed you. Dieting predicts weight gain. Dieting promotes the idea of body hate and conditional acceptance. Does a deeper understanding of diet culture, its toxicity, and manipulation make you angry? Stay with it! It's ok to not accept your body. You are acceptable the way you are today. The end. Your body is acceptable no matter what. Oprah Winfrey joined weight watchers and Julie's mind was blown to see diet culture and its reign make one of the most amazing women also feel not enough. First step: work on RESPECTING your body. Challenge the false truths. Claim your space and find those who agree with body positivity. Show Notes: The Bodcast Podcast Dietland by Sarai Walker Oprah: Science says it won't be different this time. Dear Oprah (Julie's initial reaction to the news that Oprah Winfrey bought WW stock)  Exercise is a way to celebrate what our body can do not to punish it for what it has eaten. <--Check out the meme above JCPenny's #HereIAm video Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  Do you try to eat mindfully yet frustrated with the times you don't? You know eating with distractions bring relief, pleasure, and relaxation. Does every eating experience need to happen when we are hungry? Is emotional eating ever ok? Julie and her guest Michelle Kuster RD discuss. Listen now for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Reunited and it feels so good 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 Is all mindless eating bad? Some within the mindful eating industry forget to incorporate compassion and unintentionally encourage all or nothing thinking. Eating for pleasure and emotional eating are normal parts of eating. They are universal human experiences. If emotional eating is the only way to cope then it can become something that is not health promoting. Notice your eating without judgement with compassionate curiosity. What would it be like to experiment with relaxation without eating? Could perfectionism be getting in the way of healing the letter writer's relationship with food? Examine expectations and shoulds. As noticing distracted eating ask self: "What are you feeling? What do you need?" Show Notes: Mindful Eating Summit 2.0 with Dr. Susan Albers Michelle Kuster RD, LDN <--Today's outstanding guest! Calm App Stop, Breathe, Think App Hy-vee Grocery Store dietitians Geneen Roth Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you had a dysfunctional relationship with food since you were a kid?? Was food a protector from horrible life events yet you are still feel shameful years later? Listen now for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Thank you for the feedback on how you are experiencing the show. So glad you are experiencing more peace with food and at home in your own skin! Julie says thank you for sharing the kind words after she expressed her own body image struggles during times of infertility (Not episode 21 as I state in this podcast rather Episode 18) Have you read Dietland yet? Amazing and sure to help you heal your relationship with food and your body. Would love to hear your thoughts about the book. #JenniferExists. Shall we have a Dietland book club?? It is important to honor the functional relationship we have with food. Tell Food thank you and compassionately time to move on and grieve it when it changes. Unless it is not time. Trauma work can help you heal and be able find another way of relating with food. Unhealthy coping is still coping. Stop beating yourself up for how you’ve gotten this far. Should we blame weight for health problems? Weight probably has a relationship with health yet not causation. Just a relationship. Health behavior change associated with weight gain shouldn’t be considered the cause rather a symptom. Not everyone in larger bodies has health problems. Not everyone who has lost weight is healthy. Cause for health problems multifactorial probably from oppressions, traumas, behaviors, and stress. Food addiction: when one takes away the deprivation, they no longer using the word addiction to describe her relationship with food. Many people can relate to the trauma of sexual abuse and/or bullying. Next time you find yourself in a binge or bad body thoughts, take a deep breath, in this exact moment, someone else is sitting with the same shame and anger. Use that common bond to help you energize your healing. Show Notes: Episode 18 Julie shares her body image struggles Raindrop Memories Edward McKays Used Book Store Dietland by Sarai Walker and the trailer for the paperback Episode 20 with Kari Anderson where we discuss honoring the functional relationship with food. EMDR for Trauma work Advanced Integrative Therapy for Trauma work Episode 6 with Marci Evans on Food Addiction Sexual abuse is more common than you probably think. Check out info here. Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you spent your whole life being told your body is not acceptable?  Do you have times when eating seems enjoyable yet many other times when it feels exhausting and shameful?  It is time to recalibrate and reset your relationship with food. Listen now to make sense of the confusion and start to heal. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: "The only time we need to feel guilty about eating food is when we have stolen it." Evelyn Tribole  RD Just because we feel it doesn't mean it's true. If told your body is not acceptable, it is easy to cultivate a complicated relationship with food.  Letter writer loves food, and enjoys food yet may need to do grief work concerning relationship with food...what it used to be and what it never will be. Letting go of what she had hoped for with her relationship food will make room for what really is and can be. Living in our world as a fat woman, it is typical to experience messages that that's not ok, should change it, and her own fault...those are not truths. Yet probably felt sense of shame to be different so fighting up-stream to enjoy food, her body, and make peace. Eating for show puts physiology in a place where starving, rapid eating, then shame. Grief work would be tough work yet hopeful eventually. Intuitive eating with permission giving could be first steps to this grief work. Would be enhanced by working with a counselor and no longer dieting. Put down your "weapons" and reconnect with On the Battlefield. Women and men in larger bodies often have experienced trauma due to existing in a body that culture says is wrong. Doing trauma work may help heal your relationship with food. Show Notes: Intuitive Eating by Tribole and Reach Space For All <-- Greensboro NC's Eating Disorder professional alliance Mom Running on Empty (episode 2...not 3 like I mention) Here's Dr. Maria Paredes so you can meet with her as a client. Body Politics with Dr. Maria Paredes Dr. Paredes's Facebook page On the Battlefield meditation <-- you heard Dr. Paredes read this and this week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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

If you've always been on a diet or off a diet bingeing, then you can relate to this episode's letter writer. Do you yearn for a healthy relationship with food yet can't stop bingeing? Listen now for strategies to ease your mind and promote healing. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Overweight = Over What?? What if no one ever told you your weight was wrong? How would you relate to food and your body? Important questions to consider as working toward healing. Healing can happen by honoring the valid functions and roles food plays in life and coping with life's transitions, stressors, and traumas. Healing also happens when we jump off the diet train instead of focusing on being on or off the wagon. Disembark now! Grief work will find a place in this space and that's ok. What if focused more on a healing relationship with food instead of a healthy relationship with food? Will be less all or nothing and pefectionistic tendencies (which helps no one experience health). Show Notes: Kari Anderson DBH, LPC from Green Mountain at Fox Run helps Julie answer this letter. You can reach her at Kari@FitWoman.com. She is amazing and a source of healing for many. Green Mountain at Fox Run blog and information on their Pathway Program for Binge and Emotional Eating. Love What You Eat, Eat What You Love for Binge Eating by Dr. Kari Anderson and Dr. Michelle May Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy