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

Have you ever been made to feel like you are to blame for a medical condition like diabetes, PCOS, high blood pressure or gestational diabetes? More specifically, have you been told that your body size has caused you to experience a particular condition? If so, you are not alone. Listen along as Julie Dillon helps unpack the unfair stereotypes often associated with being in a higher weight body. Episode's Key Points: The label of "obesity" as a disease is problematic. Being at a higher weight is unfairly associated with many stigmas and misconceptions. For example, anorexia nervosa at a higher weight is actually the most common way to experience it. Weight is just one anthropometric measurement like blood pressure, temperature, etc. It doesn't mean it causes any condition/disease but rather could indicate that we need to dig deeper for a root issue. No one is to blame for their body size nor is one's body size something to feel shame about. Simply being alive means we are valuable and wor