The Love, Food Podcast: Peace From Emotional Eating, Binge Eating, Eating Disorders, And Negative Body Image Through Intuitiv

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 exhaust

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

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

What are you waiting to do, see, experience until you have an acceptable body??? Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. I hope you enjoy this bonus episode exploring this common barrier to healing body image and the exciting new show This Is Us with Shiri Macri. Shiri is the lead therapist at the Women's Center for Binge and Emotional Center at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Key points: Shiri Macri at Green Mountain at Fox Run This Is Us on NBC and the character Kate "I can't stop binge eating" Love Food podcast ep 20 with Kari Anderson where she discusses the function of emotional eating and how important it is to honor this relationship to heal. This Is Us: It’s Not About the Weight…or is it? The Return of This Is Us: How Eating & Weight Struggles Start This is Us: Kate Goes to an “Immersive Weight Retreat” How cools does #BeHerNow sound? I just signed up and would love to hear your experiences. I think it will help your relationship with food. Sign up here or scroll below fo

Have you finally settled into intuitive eating and experiencing more food peace? Yet, do you have trouble talking to close family who are still engaged in dieting? Or, feel conflicted with friends in their pursuit of weight loss when you have finally embraced your innate wisdom?  Are you having trouble supporting friends and family who are still on the diet track without pushing them away?  Listen now for some ideas and solutions on how to tackle this difficult issue. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: It's still January, which means it's still National Dieting Month! Find some respite from diet talk with my hashtag, #foodpeace, or email me at LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com. Intuitive eating and healing our relationship to food and our body is a long, difficult process, but it's worth it! Intuitive eating: a way to relate to food that rejects diets and encourages people to connect to their internal body cues in order to know when to eat and what to eat. 3 Components: Unco

Do you have a history of addiction to substances, and also have a difficult relationship to food? Have you ever been involved in a 12-step program? Are you trying to experience connection and joy with your body and others, and attempting to reach out to support groups for help, but find them to be a hotbed of diet culture rather than a healing place that cultivates self-acceptance? Listen now as we break it all down, and help you find food peace. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: The pursuit of weight loss will only keep us from connecting with our body and others, and keep giving food power over our lives. Have you worked with a support group that you like? If you have, let me know by shooting me an email at LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com! Love, Food is one year old, and I'm not stopping anytime soon!! Leave a rating and review on iTunes to push us up in the rankings, help other people find the show who need support around food, and make my day! Overeaters Anonymous: Good? Bad?

Ring in the new year a NEW way: without body hate and painful diets. This bonus episode is a part of my #FoodPeace series supporting your way of life promoting health without diets.Our Sponsors:* Check out Rejoyn: www.rejoyn.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you struggle with perfectionism? Have you tried to ditch the diet, but still find yourself obsessing over eating "right?" Do you have a hard time letting go of the weight loss goal, even if you are far into your intuitive eating journey? Does food feel like an all or nothing experience for you, either eating for pleasure or restricting for weight loss? Listen now for some advice on how to work through these issues. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: It's National Dieting Month! Be sure to listen in on all the bonus episodes this month to help you avoid the excessive diet talk and fat-shaming gym membership chit chat! Sometimes we can go into certain food restrictions, such as vegetarianism and veganism, with the best of intentions, but they can quickly spiral out of control and feel obsessive. Weight loss is seductive! How do we relate to food in a neutral, balanced way, rather than one that feels like an all-or-nothing, binge restrict cycle? Perfectionism can stan

Ring in the new year a NEW way: without body hate and painful diets. This bonus episode is a part of my #FoodPeace series supporting your way of life promoting health without diets.Our Sponsors:* Check out Rejoyn: www.rejoyn.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ring in the new year a NEW way: without body hate and painful diets. This bonus episode is a part of my #FoodPeace series supporting your way of life promoting health without diets.Our Sponsors:* Check out Rejoyn: www.rejoyn.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you hit diet rock bottom? Do you feel ready for self-love and food peace, but still feel like food is your number one enemy? Are you just plain scared of food, and terrified to abandon the diet mentality and finally embrace health at every size? Listen now for some tips on how to move forward. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Reflections on National Dieting Month (January), my hashtag project, #foodpeace, and my weekly Food Peace Newsletter! Diet rock bottom: the understanding that diets don't work! ... but it can be a tough and lonely place. The New Year shenanigans: dieting and "self-improvement" can run rampant during this time of the year, and it can easily suck you back into the diet mentality. Dieting is seductive because it shows the world that you "have your shit together," especially if you "succeed" in losing the weight. It makes you feel in control of your life... but this is a sham! It's a fantasy. Dieting is not sustainable, and

Can you not remember the last time you ate without being on some kind of diet? Do you feel anxious and preoccupied about your food choices? Do you feel like you use food to escape your life, and avoid intense emotions? Are you consumed by feelings of loneliness, and find yourself trying to use food to fill that hole? Listen now to get some insight on these issues. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Dieting harms us and disconnects us from our own innate wisdom about our health. We associate the word "skinny" with positive attributes, and the word "fat" with negative attributes, but these are FALSE TRUTHS fed to us via toxic diet culture. Erica Leon joins to talk about our cultural ideas around "skinny" and "fat," and diet culture overall. We often diet to feel in control, but inevitably it does the opposite and makes us feel out of control instead! This pain is so VALID, and our pain surrounding food and our bodies is so, so common. Perfection is n

Are you trying to reconnect to your own innate wisdom with your body and food? Do you feel obsessed with food, especially during the holiday season? Has "clean-eating" become the focal point of your life, and does the idea of eating non "clean" foods make you anxious? Listen now for some ways to combat the holiday diet stress, and to free yourself from the guilt around food. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Food is something that connects us to our family and our culture, but diet culture makes food WAY too important and obsessive, and that preoccupation removes the connecting and pleasurable components of food. Use the hashtag #foodpeace to join in my discussion about alternatives to diets throughout the next few weeks, which are bound to be full of diet talk (January is national dieting month!). Finding pleasure in food contributes to your overall quality of life and health!! Food provides a connection to people around us, and when we get in the way of that, E

Do you feel like your preoccupation and shame around food and your body end up making you miss out on parts of your life? Do you feel embarrassed and judged by your size, and often find other peoples' comments about your weight triggering? Are you a person of size trying to navigate the professional world of health and nutrition while still feeling comfortable in your own skin? Listen now for some solutions on overcoming the shame and judgment around your body size. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: The importance of size diversity in the nutrition and dietetics profession. Diets and kids: So often, kids are put on diets at a young age because they are considered "overweight." This often does more harm than good, and ends up creating a breeding ground for a disordered relationships with food to grow. Lauren Anton joins to answer the writer's letter! The unfair expectations placed on people in the health and wellness professions to look and act a certain way. Surr

Have you worked really hard to stop hating your body but feel like your family keeps holding you back? Do you find yourself dealing with the food police within your own family, even after you've begun to make peace with food yourself? Do you have family that encourages fat shaming and diet culture, even when you feel like you're doing your best to rid yourself of the mindset?? Listen now as Julie tackles this family-oriented topic and introduces some solutions. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: What is the experience of finding peace with food while family members surrounding us stay stuck in the diet mentality? Fat shaming can come from people we care about! Setting our own boundaries is SUPER important in trying to protect your own recovery. The world that we live in isn't one of body-positivity, HAES, and size acceptance. This means that when we pursue recovery, we are going against the vast majority of society, and sometimes that means our families. This makes th

Are you someone who identifies with the emotional eating experience? Have you tried everything to work through emotional eating and bingeing, but still lean on food when things feel intolerable? Do the tools that everyone suggests to you to overcome these problems always seem to fall short? Listen now to get a new perspective and begin to find some relief from emotional eating. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Sometimes we get convinced that nothing will work as good as food in allowing us to cope with our emotional issues. How do we incorporate tools that just don't work with our lifestyle? Eating for emotional comfort just doesn't make us happy in the long run! Ellen Shuman, a therapist who does work specifically with people who struggle with emotional eating, joins us to help answer today's letter! She tells us about her journey to becoming involved in the eating disorder and emotional eating worlds. "The Oprah Effect" Ellen's "Emotional Handrails

Do you have a health situation that makes intuitive eating difficult? Do you have doctors telling you that weight loss and cutting out certain food groups is required for your wellbeing? Do you just feel lost and want to help guide yourself toward food peace?? Listen now for some first steps on how to tackle it all. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Reflections on the 2016 Election, the President-elect Donald Trump, and the fat phobia that has come along with his campaign. The difficulty in choosing not to diet, and dealing with the pressures from outside sources to continue down that path. Using food as a coping mechanism and a numbing agent for uncomfortable feelings. The vulnerability and fear of being thin. Coping with health issues, such as PCOS, while also dealing with a disordered relationship with food and your body. PCOS: weight gain, hormone destabilization, fatigue... what do we do?? Does intuitive eating really work for PCOS?? Or does "healing" PCOS require w

Do you have a hard time eating without worrying about "good" and "bad" food labels? Do you feel like food is your enemy? Do you feel overwhelmed by all the nutrition info out there? Join Julie and fellow dietitian Fiona Southerland to start unpacking this issue! Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds! Key Points: Our bodies have lots of different methods, including our brains and our intuition, to help them figure out what they needs in terms of food in order to feel satisfied and full. Healthy eating includes PLEASURE! Fiona Southerland joins to help answer this week’s letter! Self-compassion and kindness is super important when we confront our beliefs related to food rules. We are not alone… so many of us feel this way. It’s impossible to follow every single food rule! The more we try to follow rules and live in our heads (intellectualizing!), the less we listen to our body and intuition (innate wisdom!). There are so many crazy things going on in the world… why are we focused o

Are you ready to heal your relationship with food yet stuck?? How do you make amends with food and your body when disordered eating is all you've known? Are you ready to make a change yet unsure of the steps? Listen now for a new set of directions. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Julie needs your letters! Send your letter detailing your complicated relationship with Food to LoveFoodPodcast@Gmail.com. You've been fighting for many years and I appreciate that is exhausting! The doctor's comment did not cause this struggle yet totally F-ed it up! Doctors pointing out fat bodies as wrong happens too often and leads to distrusting the body and feeling unacceptable. I wish health providers knew their power to prevent eating disorders especially when a mom brings her child in concerned about disordered eating. To health providers: don't say they should lose weight or exercise more!! Shame in the food choices: food dichotomy doesn't promote health. Food isn't s

Does exercise control your life? Are you trying to recover your relationship with food, your body, and exercise? Wonder what a healthy relationship with exercise looks like for you?? Join Julie as she chats with sports dietitian Nancy Clark on this important topic. Listen now for places to start. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Julie needs your letters! Send your letter detailing your complicated relationship with Food to LoveFoodPodcast@Gmail.com Many people struggle with balancing exercise and food in a healthy way. All too often it is tied together with weight. This is NOT healthy. Athlete vs compulsive exercise E in Exercise should be for Enjoyment NOT Excruciating Movement for pleasure is health promoting First steps to move toward a healthier direction: Role exercise plays in life: Athlete vs Distraction from life? What would you be doing if not exercising so much or so exhausted from exercising so much? Exercise can be a stress reliever yet enough is enough. Exercise i