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Have you experienced a chaotic relationship with food full of diets and shame? Do you struggle with an addiction to alcohol and wonder if abstinence looks the same with food and alcohol? Are you exploring intuitive eating concepts yet feel out of control? Listen to the latest Love Food podcast with special guest Victoria Welsby.
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Episode's Key Points:
- Special guest Victoria Welsby from BamPowLife.
- Dieting and making strides to lose weight and change your body in an effort to get the things you want in life (or to just simply be accepted) is the rule in our society rather than the exception
- Research shows that those who embark on a dieting journey regain a significant amount of the weight lost within the first year and all or most of the weight back at year five. So what does this mean? Diets don't work.
- Additionally, dieting frequently induces shame. Shame that isn't yours to carry as you don't fail at diets. Rather, the diets fail you and this shame burden belongs to our oppressive society.
- Sometimes alcohol dependence coincides with one's eating concerns. However, it is important to separate these as while you can be addicted to alcohol, you cannot be addicted to food. You need food to live whereas your survival isn't dependent on alcohol. In addition, while you can have a "normal" physical and emotional relationship with food as you recover from disordered eating, you may not be able to have the same relationship with alcohol moving forward.
- As you begin to heal, it is important to make space to honor how you've been coping and keeping yourself alive.
- As you explore Intuitive Eating, it is common to feel like you are constantly battling your brain in the beginning. This is because your body has to learn to trust you again and know food is unconditionally accessible.
- Be kind to yourself, be patient with yourself, and remove the shame as you begin your Intuitive Eating journey. It is challenging work and takes time.
- Healing from internalized fat phobia is a huge part of this journey as well and means learning to feel at home in your body as it is now as there are no body size guarantees.
- Fat bodies are "normal" bodies too. Connecting with those who live in fat bodies is an important step in healing your relationship with food and your body.
Show Notes:
- Julie Dillon RD blog
- Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus.
- Victoria Welsby's Free E-course: Extreme Confidence Makeover ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1
- Victoria Welsby's Tedx Talk---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2
- Victoria Welsby's Free Webinar: How to Unleash Your Inner Confidence Warrior ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3
- Victoria Welsby's Website, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest
- Remember: "You can't be addicted to something you need to live"~Amy Pershing, LCSW
- Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here.
Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.
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Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.
How many times have you read about someone curing their diabetes or PCOS with food? Feel frustrated you can't too?? Listen to latest Love Food Podcast episode for ways to move forward while healing your relationship with food and your body.
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This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Enrollment is now open! You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.
Check out the whole Love, Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you.
Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you.
The transcribed episode can be found here.
Episode's Key Points:
- Do you have a long history of dieting in your efforts to control or cure a medical condition or to just feel like you fit in within our society?
- Many of the medical conditions we experience are blamed on ourselves. You are not to blame! Food is not to blame! These conditions are often genetically-based and incurable.
- The "Shoulds" imposed on us by society lead to guilt, shame, and distrusting our innate wisdom that we all have for identifying our body's needs
- Diet seduction/"Should Eat Fantasy Compliance" is commonly experienced upon embarking on a new diet as we feel like we are moving towards meeting societal body standards. However, this distracts us from the destructive nature of dieting.
- Research shows that diets do not work long-term and they predict weight gain and exacerbate many of the markers of medical conditions. So, why do diets continue to be sought out? Fat Phobia, White Supremacy, and Misogyny. We want to feel accepted, safe, and at home in our own skin. This is completely understandable. However, we don't need to be fixed and our bodies don't need to be fixed. Rather, society needs to be fixed.
- Connecting with fat activists is an important step in dismantling the "Should Eat Fantasy Compliance" and fat phobia.
Show Notes:
- Julie Dillon RD blog
- Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus.
- Meredith Noble Instagram ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1
- Julie Dillon and Kimberly Singh blog posts---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2
- Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here.
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.
Have diabetes, high cholesterol, a food intolerance or PCOS and been told to cut something out of your regular eating? Have you finally rejected diet culture and found food peace, but are struggling with gentle nutrition? Are you concerned that changing your food choices due to health concerns might lead you back to restriction and deprivation? Listen now as special guest, Vincci Tsui, and I break down this part of the Food Peace™ journey.
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This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Enrollment is open! Receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.
Check out the whole Love, Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you.
Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you.
The transcribed episode can be found here.
Episode's Key Points:
- Nutrition is NOT an exact science!! It's a fluid concept, and very individual.
- Vincci Tsui joins us to chat about gentle nutrition and intuitive eating!
- Finding the balance between gentle nutrition and diet mentality can be so hard. Too much of the nutrition information out there is so tainted with diet culture!
- What even is gentle nutrition? It's less about food rules, and more about what makes our bodies feel good. It's all about our INTENTION!
- Nutrition is super individual! Your own experience with certain foods is way more important than what the current research says.
- There are way too many books out there that claim to be non-diet, but still perpetuate diet culture and the thin ideal. It's so hard to escape it! So be careful with the anti-diet media that you consume, and decide for yourself which parts of these books and films are helpful, and which parts are harmful. Rely on your intuition to tell you which is which!
- It's about what works for YOU! The research may give us some parameters, but we need to rely on our own body cues to figure out what actually works for us. It's literally about experimenting on ourselves.
- You can incorporate foods that are typically considered "diet foods" without them being about dieting and weight loss. It's about making choices out of self-care! When the intention is different, it makes ALL the difference.
Show Notes:
- Julie Dillon RD blog
- Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus.
- Vincci's guest episode of the Nutrition Matters Podcast with Paige Smathers
- "Can Meal Planning and Meal Prep Work with Intuitive Eating?" by Vincci Tsui ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1
- Vincci's Free E-Book, Stop the Food Fight ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2
- Get in touch with Vincci on her website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
- Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here.
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.
Do you feel like food has way too much power in your life and don't see a way out?
Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.
This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Enrollment is open! Receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.
Check out the whole Love, Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you.
Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you.
The transcribed episode can be found here.
Episode's Key Points:
- How do we know when food has too much power? It's when we're thinking about it ALL DAY LONG. At night, while you're eating a meal... all day.
- We as humans are wired to survive, and if we're not getting access to enough food, our bodies are going to send food preoccupation into overdrive. But there are ways to think about food in a calmer way! And it isn't more restriction.
- Remember, food preoccupation is you being a successful human. We don't want to demonize that!
- Diet culture and body hatred perpetuate all of these food rules and body rules, but these rules are manmade... they don't actually help us, and they disconnect us from our internal wisdom.
- Using food to soothe is a SKILL! It's not something to feel shameful about. But maybe this coping skill doesn't suit you anymore, and that's okay.
- Unconditional permission to eat is KEY to reducing food preoccupation, and as long as you're giving yourself permission, you can explore what I call symbolic hunger.
- Food also has too little power in our life... but what does this mean? It means that we aren't giving ourselves room within our relationship with food for anything but food as fuel. We also need food for pleasure, and we need to give ourselves true unconditional permission to eat.
- You don't need to be fixed... the world does!
- Food is the GREATEST connector. It unites us, and it connects us to ourselves.
- Our relationship with food is a great window into our relationship with ourselves. When we make peace with food, we make peace with ourselves.
Show Notes:
- Julie Dillon RD blog
- Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus.
- My guest spot on Don't Salt My Game Podcast
- The She's All Fat Podcast
- My blog post, "When Relying on Hunger is Too Scary" ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1
- My blog post, "What is Symbolic Hunger?" ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2
- Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here.
Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.