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

Are you working toward eating disorder recovery yet wonder if you have the strength to see it through?? Does your battle toward 100% recovery feel like an impossible dream? Listen now for insight. 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 Get out paper and pencil for an exercise! Recovery is messy, unclear, bumpy, weathered not linear or a destination. Our world has not recovered yet. First, learn to live with your biology then how to rewire it. Eating disorder recovery is not a sprint rather a marathon. ED recovery takes usually ~7 to 14 years. Carolyn Costin quote:"Recovery can't be something you dip your toe in to. For it to be fully felt and completely comprehended, you have to immerse yourself." We can't pick and choose parts of recovery to get there. Part of recovery is facing the fear of fat and staying with it if indeed your body needs to be.

Are you at diet rock bottom and longing for food peace yet feel just as stuck in things like mindful eating and intuitive eating? Do you experience more shoulds and rigid rules within tools meant to release your complicated relationship with food? Can you escape rule prison? Yup. You can. Listen now for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Editor’s note: This episode 39 needed to be released a week behind episode 40 because it wasn’t quite ready. I’m trying to be ok with the break in numbering and hope you can be too. Mindful eating can be twisted to be harmful rather than health promoting and compassionate. Mindfulness's foundation: a compassionate nonjudgemental presence. Being in the moment and noticing brain messages, feelings, etc. Shoulding leads to dieting. Watch out for the hybrid: mindful dieting. Mindfulness connected to dieting, pursuit of weight loss, or "right" way then twisting mindfulness to make it no longer mindful. How to change? Compassionat

Are you exhausted from your current relationship with food? The guilt, shame, excitement, fear, and despair often wear down energy levels to disempower change. Recharge by listening now. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Editor's note: This episode 40 needed to be released because episode 39 wasn't quite ready. I'm trying to be ok with the break in numbering and hope you can be too. Trying to recover from an eating disorder is exhausting especially within a family and world that hasn't recovered yet. We feel your exhaustion!! Your awareness will bring more progress. This is the first step! And a big one. Your family of origin greatly shapes your relationship with food. Don't just brush it under the rug. Hear the noise yet try to navigate around it. Curiosity Finding a team can really help alleviate this exhaustion. Don't get stuck in the shame loop. So you know the diet industry is all a sham. Join us out of the fog. You have options and choices. You can

Have you had an emotional connection to food that has helped you cope with crappy life events yet now you want to experience food in the way intended? Do you long to be a normal eater? Listen now for insight to steady and stable. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Who is a normal eater? Especially these days, our culture's typical normal eating is disordered, rigid, and pathological. There is a way through! It is normal to emotionally eat sometimes. Unless you are a robot. Sometimes it hurts more than helps and it's a great first step when recognize this. Want normal eating = want peacefulness Tracy Brown RD uses her experiences on farm to the rewiring brain process: Dad never mowed shoulder-high pasture around pond. A faint path would go down when drove over it and it would be tough to go over. Becomes path of least resistance over time and easier. Food behaviors can become path of least resistance. What if made new path?? Will feel foreign or illegal at first yet over

Do you think if you lost weight you'd finally be free? Are you stuck in a loop of binge--> notice weight gain--> diet--> binge--> repeat? Feel like you would be free from its hellish grip if you could just lose the weight?? Like the binges would cease to exist once the weight was lost?? Do you wonder why you have been trapped in this for decades?? Julie sees what's blocking your path. Listen now for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Content warning: specific weight discussion Healthy vs unhealthy versions of food = food dichotomy = black and white thinking = perfectionism that doesn't even exist. This is a disordered eating pattern and will keep you stuck in this loop. Practice giving yourself permission to eat these "unhealthy foods" although not easy. Can typically take a year for this to stick. Freedom will only happen by not place your worth and value in your weight and weight loss pursuit. Pursuing weight loss keeps us in the disorde

Try Intuitive Eating and just experienced a crash and burn? Don't give up. Julie discusses ways that may help you experience peace with food with Dr. Dawn Clifford. Listen now for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: "That big hunk of metal gets way more power than it deserves." Reba Sloan IE is meant to help one heal their relationship with food not as a weight loss tool. Can you have a peaceful relationship with food with weight loss as a goal? Taking the scale out of your home can be an important step in your journey to making peace with food. Can make steps gradually to checking less or burn it! Think small steps to help get back on track with intuitive eating. Try to avoid "all or nothing" and appreciate you don't have to be all in. Intuitive eating can easily be interpreted in a black and white way just like diets. Motivational interviewing What drove you to step on the scale?  Where do you stand in your body image? Everyone's needs are di

Do you binge every time you go on vacation?? Do you find yourself avoiding travel because of the shame connected to vacation binge eating? Listen now for ways to getaway without hating yourself. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Thank you for your support and helping us reach 100,000 downloads! WooHooooo! Carrots and fish....bleck. Does every vacation include binge eating? You have two options to end the behavior: Either give up vacations work on permission Pendulum with and without permission rebellion dieting shame shoulds bingeing dieting Start permission with one food at a time. Work with a team. Normal eating vs normal disordered eating Eating when hungry, stopping when full is simple yet not easy. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. When relying on hunger is too scary <--Great place to start healing those vacation binges. Episode 000 of the Love Food podcast where Julie

  Did you grow up living without consistent access to food caused by poverty and/or constant dieting?? Are you super successful in every area of life yet can't stop eating? It's not you, it's something else. Listen now for the details and hear from the fabulous Emily Fonnesbeck RD. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Get your Food Peace Syllabus signing up for my FREE Food peace Newsletter. Link below. Food insecurity causes many people to binge eat, hoard food, and feel obsessed with food. Not a cop out. Legitimate cause of urges to binge and feeling unable to stop eating. Childhood food patterns influence adult behaviors. Takes courage to peal back the darkness. First steps to work toward healing: Food is symbolic. Wonder what food represents missed during childhood? Be that for herself. Validate have wants and needs. Appreciate how much deprivation contributes to bingeing, feeling unable to stop eating. It's a physiologically programed response. Want to heal

Does food connect you to the best and worst of times? The ups and downs can feel confusing, prideful, distracting yet detrimental. You may be surprised to know what dieting is keeping you from in your life. Listen now to hear what I am talking about. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Content warning: this letter writer describes a trauma involving a fatal car accident. Food can be a great protector that keep you feeling safe with all the chaos and unpredictable life events. Diets can be a great distraction to all the shitty things in the world. Women are put in a place to value dieting, the perfect body which keeps women from being their true self. Check Julie out at FNCE with Jennifer McGurk and Rebecca Scritchfield presenting on the Hidden Faces of Eating Disorders. Church of the Fit Body: whenever something crappy happening we women are encouraged to distract ourselves by focusing on our appearance. The culture needs to change for us to ultimately heal our relationship with f

Were you raised with mixed messages around food? Told to not enjoy pleasurable food and yet got encouragement to bond over the same items? I bet you're exhausted! Listen now for a different way. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Have PCOS and looking for more tools to work toward Food Peace? If you live near Greensboro NC you are in luck! Give us a call for details 336.273.2808 x 0. Food is pleasurable as a means of survival. Healthy eating includes pleasure. Eating feels good and that keeps us alive and well. If food did not feel good then we wouldn't have survived. Eating food that is just fuel and never pleasurable denies a part of our physiological need. Honor the pleasure that comes from food. There's just one version of you...not a fat version vs skinny version. Have a son or daughter in a larger body or have a child that really enjoys eating?? Is it pecking at your own food experiences or negative body image? Take care of your own shit to not pass it on. Are y

  What's the foundation for food peace?? Listen now for Julie's thoughts. She hopes it illuminates your path to freedom. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Compassionate curiosity is where it's at. Stop shoulding on yourself. Notice without judgement. Simple not easy. Food anthropologist or golf voice. Take out the shame or should and it will clear out your path. Shame NEVER promotes health just makes people feel shitty about themselves. Moving away from the shoulds you will notice that your body has certain needs, within a rhythm, and can be trusted. Your body has been on your side the whole time. As moving away from the shoulds expect normal rebellion. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Intuitive Eating by Tribole + Resch Honoring your rebellion discussion found in the Love Food podcast Episode 30 with Aaron Flores Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog Do y

Have you been told to cut out sugar or carbs to treat PCOS or pre diabetes and it is just leaving you bingeing and hopeless? Listen now for ideas to bring to your next doctor's appointment. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Have PCOS and looking for more tools to work toward Food Peace? If you live near Greensboro NC you are in luck! Give us a call for details 336.273.2808 x 0. Every diet leads to a binge and weight gain. Dieting is the greatest predictor of weight gain and eating disorders. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) affects 1 in 10 women and has genetic connections. Stop blaming yourself! PCOS affects ovulation, mood, hair, male pattern baldness, and central adiposity. This affects body image for many women. High circulating insulin = growth hormone Hard core restricting may help decrease weight in the beginning yet over time harms health, increases weight, promotes bingeing. Increased cravings, more symptoms, weight gain = time to look into how PCOS managed rather

Have you been working on making peace with food and yearn to lose weight? Can you practice mindful intuitive eating while pursuing weight loss? Julie and her guest, fellow dietitian Aaron Flores, sort this out. Listen here now! Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Eating disorder recovery has two steps: making peace with food then making peace with your body. Living in a fat body in our thin-obessessed world has many challenges especially if you are trying to live without diets and the desire to lose weight. As making peace with food, it is common to not trust the process. Aaron uses a cool metaphor about being in the shallow end of the pool and knowing work needs to be done in the deep end. But going to that deep end is terrifying without floaties. Remember to look how far you've come and be proud of the progress so far. Binge eating disorder recovery is messy and not linear. It can be even messier if living in a fat body because our society undermines making peace with food.

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

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 week

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) take

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

  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 mo

  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

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