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

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

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

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 heal

Do you think you know everything you need to know about yourself? And that's keeping you weighted down with negative beliefs?? Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Think you are destined for a life of mediocrity?  Listen to my University of North Carolina at Greensboro Nutrition Department Commencement address. I wrote it and spoke it from my heart to you. I can't wait to hear what you experience as you take these next important steps. Warmly, Julie 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.Our Sponsors:* Check out Rejoyn: www.rejoyn.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Making peace with food and body is tough work yet what if you work in the food industry? Is there a way to have a career that is food related AND learn how to heal? Julie thinks the struggle with food begins with the struggle with weight. Dive in and listen now for solutions for you. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Julie and Jennifer McGurk will be speaking at FNCE 2016 on the Hidden Faces of Eating Disorders. Rebecca Scritchfield RD will be introducing us. Will you be there?? Stop by and say hi! Having a job in the food industry, Julie included, can be taxing on our relationship with food. Julie calls it an occupational hazard. Be sure to enjoy time outside of activities around food. A therapist and dietitian can also help. Struggle with accepting weight is fueling the obsession. Julie was not shocked by the Biggest Loser New York Times study. The research results indicate we need to stop pursuing weight loss. Does that mean we let ourselves go? No. It means we let ourselves b

Body positivity promotes body respect, acceptance, and love. If you don't always love your body, does that mean you can't model body positivity? Julie and a guest discuss the letter from someone who feels like a hypocrite for telling people to love their body when she doesn't always love her body back. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Julie shares a part of her personal struggle with her body image. She feels a bit awkward doing it and hopes it ok to share with you. Julie and guest Paige Smathers explore the definition of recovery. Recovery can be the food times enjoying food as well as the messy tough struggles when we may feel out of control. Recovery includes awareness of the moment, no matter what it looks like in the moment. If all or nothing thinking plagued food choices or body image it can also negatively affect your definition of eating disorder recovery. Paige says all we can do is try our best. Do you have to always love your body to be a model of body pos

Our world believes food kills us or cures us but information tends to conflict. Eating a "no" food can provoke anxiety in many people. Does this happen to you? Let's dig in to find ways to remove anxiety's wedge and power. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Thank you students from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Nutrition Department for the fun and energizing discussions on weight, eating disorders, and body image. Julie completed her dietetic internship there and thankful for the time there. Even though it may appear to be simple, nutrition science is not an easy science A. Our world believes food kills us or cures us. Stop the dichotomous insanity! Food anxiety exists because nutrition science is a fluid science that cannot be categorized into yes and no boxes. Anxiety can't hurt us yet the things we do to avoid the anxiety harm us. Anxiety from food avoidance keeps us from experiencing joy. It also promotes poor health by increasing stre

Eat this not that? Now what?? After a lifetime of fad diets andhealth pursuits can leave you confused and distrusting your body.If you are at diet rock bottom and want to relearn how to trustyour body and get off the crazy diet train, this episode is foryou!Subscribe and leave areview here in just seconds.Key Points:Mind and body connections promote health yet when our mind istoo active it can keep us from our own innate wisdom for health.Get better attuned by sitting with the curiosity.Society's body size standards for women make it tough to trustyour body.Big bodies ARE acceptable even though you may get anothermessage from your family, friends, society, and culture.Flexibility, nonjudgmental approaches, permission are the wayto further attune to the body, improve body image, and cultivatetrust.Mindful eating = compassionate curiosity without judgment. Ifone eats past fullness that doesn't mean you're doing itwrong.Internal vs. external dialogues are key.Imagine breathing through a drinking stra

Special bonus sans letter to keep you connected to your innate wisdom and quiet the noise that distracts you. Walking this path can promote health and peace. I hope you enjoy. Warmly, JulieOur Sponsors:* Check out Rejoyn: www.rejoyn.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Body acceptance and respect is all fine and good yet what if one gains weight due to medications? Does this trump non-diet approach research? Does this make the pursuit of weight loss health promoting? If so, how can one lose weight in a healthy way?? Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Our family of origin teaches us how to relate to food and our body. If you grew up in a family with disordered eating and/or body hate, it teaches us to fear fat and to prevent it all costs. Even if it hurts. The only thing we can tell about a person from their weight is our own weight bias (based on a quote from Marilyn Wann). Not health. Those at higher weights may very well be eating in a health promoting way so if you get at a higher doesn't mean you must now worry about your weight. The worry very well could lead to more disease. Should you diet if you've gained weight from a medication? No. What if you've gained 100 pounds or more...does that make a difference? It's a moot poin

Raising children and all its food mess can bring up somepast,somewhat resolved, bad body thoughts. Throw in everyone'sopinionon the best way to feed your children, and you may feel likeyouare in an eating disorder relapse tailspin. How can youprovidevariety and teach healthy eating without sparking thateatingdisorder?? Can you prevent passing it on toyourchildren??Subscribe and leaveareview here in just seconds.Key Points:We don't cry over spilled milk in our house yet it can getundermy skin.When knee deep in the meal time chaos take a deep breath,stepback, and know many parents are feeling this same strugglefeedingtheir children. #TheStruggleIsRealJulie's daughter decided to go rouge with her sour creamandjust about freaked Julie out.With a few boundaries, our children will get the nutrientstheyneed without having to be constantly policed.Katie Holder RD rock and rolls in the meal time chaos.Sheprovides insight to get us through.Trust your instincts when something in feeding feels off.Peace at me

When trapped in binge eating cycles, we can focus so much on food or ways to avoid food that we miss out on relationships, experiences, and life's joy. How can you break the cycle and get to being you?  Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Thank you for your letters to Food. They blow me away! Food is one of the basic human needs to stay alive (with oxygen, water, sleep, and warmth) yet designed to be thought about only when not getting enough. Even when you feel like the only person experiencing food like this, those in binge eating cycles are NOT alone! Research has some solutions warranting experimentation. In order for these to be possible solutions, you must practice personal kindness, compassion, and patience. Without these, no one can recover from binge eating experiences. Practice using a calm and compassionate adult voice as navigating recovery. Mistakes will pave your way to recovery rather than keep you from it. Look for them and welcome them. They will help you unde

I've learned to respect my body yet nobody gets it. Help! What if you've worked for years to heal your relationship with food and your body yet some people in your life are just not there themselves? And may never be? To stay in recovery, do you have to defend abstaining from diets? Do you need to censure all bad body talk? Julie calls dietitian and eating disorder specialist Pam Kelle to discuss ways to navigate this complicated and common experience. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Growing up, Julie loved alternative and punk rock. (Secretly still does!) Those affected by eating disorders are the canaries in the coal mine: they let us know when the world has become too toxic with diets and self hate. Working toward and maintaining eating disorder recovery can be exhausting because of the impulse to defend non diet ways of experiencing food. Pam Kelle RD, CEDRD teaches us to recognize the struggle with toxic diet and body hate talk and lean into it. She says observe wi

Talking about a diet is just as normal as talking about the weather or the crazy that is Donald Trump. I can handle the weather yet diets, detoxes, and Donald need to go!  Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Thank you for your feedback! It feeds me like a bowl of fresh french fries. Win a Body Activism Kit by HAES Kits. Subscribe and leave a rating and review on iTunes. Take a screenshot of this and email it to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com. First person who does this after this show airs will win this awesome Body Activism kit. Someone with an eating disorder history going on a diet is just as deadly as someone with a peanut allergy eating a peanut butter sandwich. Diets, detoxes, cleanses, and exercise boot camps are indeed bullshit. Essential ingredients for an eating disorder: altered eating habits (diets!), negative body image, and genetics. Because cannot tell a person’s genetics by sight, we must use universal precautions: diets can potentially hurt anyone. Diets and disordered

Has healthy eating gone too far for you? A woman writes to food about the stress, exhaustion, confusion, and shame she experiences when she choses something not clean. Can you relate? Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Are you a clean eater? If you ask me, I say "Nope. I am dirty." Sanitary? Yes. Judge food choices or throw morals into what's consumed? No way. "The fondest memories are made gathered around the table." This is the mantra we at BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy see before we meet with every client because it's the basis of our work. Relationships connect us with joy and the meaning of life and when food gets too much power it will negatively impact this. Healthy eating advice is everywhere we look so not surprising this letter writer is experiencing this struggle with how much power to give food. Orthorexia nervosa, coined by Steven Bratman, is not classified as an official eating disorder yet it will feel just as paralyzing and crappy as a diagnos

I had to tape a bonus episode after some brand spanking new content became available for Episode 10's Guilty Clean Eater. If you identified with Episode 10's letter writer, know that we clinicians now have more to go on to help you feel more at peace with food. Key Points: Julie and Jennifer met up at the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals Symposium. They felt privileged to hear Dr. Steven Bratman speak on Orthorexia Nervosa with dietitians Amanda Mellowspring and Jessica Setnick. Dr. Bratman was the first person to describe the eating disorder obsessed with healthy eating. Yet, until now, it wasn't officially considered an eating disorder. The presentation included the first official unveiling of the diagnostic criteria for Orthorexia Nervosa. Why does this matter? Julie and Jennifer discuss how this helps clinicians better treat this experience, promotes insurance coverage, and increases research funding. Julie and Jennifer had a tough time getting technology to cooperat

Long term food fights and body dissatisfaction cause friction, anger, and longing. The letter writer describes her start with body hate and dieting as a child only leading to disordered eating and weight gain. Is her experience rare? Nope. Millions experience the same. This episode debunks calories in calories out especially as it relates to certain health conditions. Knowing this, pursuing health without focusing on weight loss is just about the coolest thing since sliced bread. *Rejoicing with the food pun!* Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Anger and rage is uncomfortable yet can project us toward change. Stay with it! Your f*ed up relationship with food is not your fault. Not. Your. Fault. No matter your size and no matter how your body got to be the size is today--you deserve respect and equality. Many years of self hate, diets, and cultural weight/size oppression may have promoted your body to be larger than what your DNA was originally programed to be. Polycystic Ovarian S

Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. A nutrition student writes to food because she feels ashamed of her fat body. Although she knows diets are harmful she is tempted because of the fear of rejection: from her peers, potential employers, future clients, and herself. Julie calls Glenys Oyston RD to discuss possible solutions for this student. Key Points: This student is not experiencing a nutrition problem yet a lack of exposure to size diversity messages. Could nutrition students be given more opportunities for personal health and well-being by exposure to more unconventional nutrition education such as attuned eating, pleasurable movement, and health at every size approaches? Not everyone wants to work with a slim dietitian. Glenys Oyston describes her transition from a body disparaging to weight neutral nutrition student which began after listening to Linda Bacon speak in a class. This helped her improve her body image while promoting healthy eating experiences. It also helped her appreciate

There's no such thing as a perfect eater so making mistakes is a part of normal eating. What if you were raised to believe larger bodies are disgusting or eating is to be controlled? Then what? When the mind and society expect eating perfection, how can someone become a normal eater? This week's letter writer asks food to help direct her to the path toward healing. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: The longest relationship we will have on earth is the relationship with ourselves. How we feed ourselves is important to our health and quality of life. Therefore our relationship with food is important to heal. Nutrition science is a fluid science. Another shout out to Ellyn Satter and her awesomeness. This time, we hear her definition of Normal Eating. Hear how Julie defines Eating Disorder recovery and why she believes you can 100% recover! Our family of origin's belief on size and food behavior can get in the way of normal eating. Normal eating includes mistakes and tru

Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Do you feel addicted to carbs, sugar, or any foods? Hear the latest research on food addiction and what dietitians in the trenches have to say about the experience. Can food addiction explain your problematic eating? Or is it something else? Key Points: Eating is just like peeing. Yup, it is although don't mix the two. Stop judging your food choices unless you also judge your urination habits. Food can have too much power and if it does in your life you are not alone! Don't believe the hype! The food addiction theory model has many limitations including: Food addiction is poorly and vaguely defined. Too catch all. Most research done on animals and can't translate directly to humans. Fails to consider alternative explanations for neurobiological pathways seen in food addiction research. When food restricted, pleasure centers of brain light up stronger than when not restricted. This means diets will make you feel addicted to food rather than food