Clean eating. Low carb. Low fat. Do this not that. Now what? Eating is getting too stuffy and complicated. Throw open your windows to allow a new stream of health, wellness, and peace. What if you could write a letter to food? Pen to paper, you hash out the love/hate relationship and food’s undeserving power. Details go back years, to your first childhood diet trying to fit in. How you relate to food chronicles many of your life’s ups and downs. In this letter, you examine your dusty food beliefs and wonder which go in the trash, are for others, and which remain in your heart. What if you wrote this all down and food wrote you back? This is Love, Food. Food behavior expert and host, Julie Duffy Dillon is rolling up her sleeves to get to the bottom of what is really healthy. This award-winning dietitian seen on TLC’s My Big Fat Fabulous Life has a secret: food is not your enemy and your body is tired of the constant attacks. Show topics include: emotional eating weight concerns binge eating orthorexia body image eating disorders dieting parenting and food healthy eating stress eating food addiction mindful eating non diet approaches Pull up a chair to your dusty kitchen table and set it for a meal. Ask food to sit alongside you and chat over coffee. Or a margarita. You have some reconnecting to do. In that connection is Love, Food. In that conversation is health and peace.
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This episode is for those of you who just feel exhausted with food. Whether that's having to navigate diet culture, endlessly prepare food for the family, or recover from an eating disorder, food is complicated. It can be messy. Join us as we sift through these feelings with a letter from a listener. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Julie's on the Boob Sweat podcast Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Find FREE food voice resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
Have you ever tried to access ways to help your complicated relationship with food, but found you just were kept out for whatever reason? This week, Lara Minges sits down with us to talk about her letter to her body, disability education, and community. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Lara's website / Adios Barbie / Roxane Gay Disability resources: Books about disability culture, history, and experience / Disability videos by disabled people / Robyn Lambird / #DisabilityTooWhite presentation Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Find FREE food voice resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
Julie and Yeli chat about Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation by Dalia Kinsey. Listen for thoughts on food as an entry point to body liberation, unconditional permission to eat, and more. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Decolonizing Wellness by Dalia Kinsey / Dalia Kinsey's website / Decolonization is Not a Metaphor article / Intuitive Eating / Anti-Diet / Belly of the Beast / The Body is Not an Apology / Fearing the Black Body Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Find FREE food voice resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
What do you do when you're living in a household with people who are knee-deep in diet culture? This week, Kimmie Singh joins Julie to chat about setting boundaries, honoring your inner child, and leaning into playfulness. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Kimmie's Instagram / Kimmie's website Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Find FREE food voice resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
This episode is for those of you who are feeling overwhelmed with moving away from diets or recovering from your eating disorder. The world hasn't recovered from its own eating disorder yet. So how are you supposed to recover from yours? Join me and Daralyse Lyons for our conversation about working towards freedom and acknowledging the whirlwind. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Daralyse's website / Daralyse's Twitter / Daralyse's Instagram / Demystifying Diversity Podcast / Demystifying Diversity Instagram / Demystifying Diversity episode about body diversity / Daralyse's other FYFV episode Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Find FREE food voice resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
This week, Coleen talks us through an experience where the world was inaccessible to her body, how she felt, and how it could have gone differently. Listen in for thoughts about how the world is inaccessible to larger bodies, and what can be done to make a shift. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Coleen's Instagram / Lindley Ashline / Laura Burns Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Find FREE food voice resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
This week, we are chatting with Jessie Spence, a counselor, supervisor, certified personal trainer, and parent with a love for body liberation and trans-affirming work. Listen to our conversation about parenting, the diet culture swirl, and pop tarts. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Jessie's website / How to Raise an Intuitive Eater Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Find FREE food voice resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
In this episode, Julie and Yeli discuss Weightless by Maggie McGill! Tune in to hear their thoughts and reflections on exercise trauma, neutral movement, the relationship to diet culture, and more. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Weightless by Maggie McGill / Maggie's website / Maggie's Instagram Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Find FREE food voice resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
In this episode, we are celebrating Coleen's birthday! Join us for this installation of Diet Culture IRL - we do a deep dive into aging, self-acceptance, and giving yourself permission to do what feels right for YOU as you get older. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Coleen's Instagram / Coleen's previous FYFV ep Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Find FREE food voice resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
In this episode, we receive a letter from someone who is pregnant and looking for some wisdom around gestational diabetes. We sit down with McKenzie Caldwell to chat about undoing the shame around pregnancies and diabetes. We also talk about giving yourself permission to trust your body and lean into your own intuition. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: McKenzie Caldwell's Instagram / McKenzie's Course & Community / McKenzie's Youtube Channel / McKenzie's Blog / McKenzie's TikTok Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
In this episode, Yeli and Julie talk about Belly of the Beast by Da'Shaun L. Harrison. They discuss dismantling the systems that oppress fat Black people, the downsides to health at every size, and the ways that anti-fatness and anti-Blackness manifest into fatphobia and police brutality. Content warning for police brutality. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Belly of the Beast / She's All Fat Episode: Revisiting HAES / She's All Fat Episode: Desirability & Insecurity / Da'Shaun's Instagram / Yeli's Bookstagram Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
Are you someone with PCOS who's been told that you have to diet to manage your symptoms? Have you been struggling with yo-yo dieting for years and years, feeling hopeless and worried that you're doing it all wrong? Do you feel like you're ALMOST ready to ditch diets, but you're not quite sure? In this episode, I talk through a letter from someone who's in your shoes. Listen for a super big dose of compassion and some steps to take moving forward. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
In this week's episode of Find Your Food Voice, Julie shares her thoughts about what we need to do to rid the world of eating disorders. Coleen also joins us for the first Diet Culture IRL, where she talks about being bigger than your partner and breaks down how diet culture tries to dictate what relationships should look like. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Coleen's FYFV Episode / Coleen's Instagram / Marilyn Wann / Aubrey Gordon / Maintenance Phase Podcast Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to info@juliedillonrd.com. Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice! *Content for the "O-word" Julie alluded to in today's episode: obesity, or the obesity epidemic, are words that have been used to harm and stigmatize folks that are in higher-weight bodies.
Meet Coleen! Coleen is our wonderful customer service coordinator and professional hype master. In this episode, we give you a little intro to Coleen's journey through body acceptance and fighting diet culture. Stay tuned for more of Coleen in future episodes for one of our newest segments, Diet Culture IRL. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Coleen's Instagram / Yeli's FYFV Episode / Call Your Girlfriend x She's All Fat / Intuitive Eating / Fearing the Black Body Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
Intuitive eating and anti-diet approaches to life are for EVERYONE, including folks who have chronic illnesses like PCOS and others. In this episode, Julie talks about the misconceptions around chronic illness and intuitive eating. Plus, Yeli joins us for a little book club chat where we talk about Get A Life, Chloe Brown! Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Yeli's Bookstagram / Yeli's Twitter / Get A Life, Chloe Brown / Yeli's Dear Food letter episode / Laura Burns / Anna Sweeney Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
A transcript of this episode is available at JulieDuffyDillon.com. We get to meet Yeli! Yeli is the Production Assistant for the podcast and will be featured in future episodes of Find Your Food Voice - in this episode, I asked her to write her own letter to food. Yeli and I sit down as we chat about body positivity vs. body liberation, finding comfort in food, and what it feels like when your connection to food shifts unexpectedly. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Yeli's Instagram / Yeli's Twitter Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
A transcript of this episode is available at JulieDuffyDillon.com. Welcome to the season six premiere of the Find Your Food Voice podcast! We are officially inviting you to the anti-diet conversation because YOU have a voice that is crucial to ending diet culture. Join Julie Duffy Dillon as she walks you through what "food voice" means and what changes you can expect in future episodes. Let's rally together and end diet culture one step at a time. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Should Eat Script blog post / Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting Find Your Food Voice!
Go to JulieDillonRD.com for transcripts! Six years ago, Love Food was being born. I was sweating bullets the first time I published an episode mostly because I was so scared to use my voice. But I really wanted to help you feel less alone on your Food Peace Journey so I did it anyway! Thank you for helping me to grow. In this season finale, I share the hits and misses I have made over the years recording this show. I announce changes to expect in 2022. Thank you for joining me so far and looking forward to continue to grow together in Season 6! Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Dapy Levy's Love Food Podcast Episode Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
Are you ready to ditch diet culture and embrace recovery, but unsure of where to start? In this week's episode, we sit down with Hannah Howard to chat about finding community, picturing recovery, and nourishing your relationship to food. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Hannah Howard's website / Feast / Plenty / Hannah's Instagram / Hannah's Twitter Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
Content warning: this episode discusses sexual assault and specific eating disorder behaviours. Please take care of yourself! Are you someone who wants to know the "why"? Why did I turn to this certain coping mechanism? Why do I feel this way? Why is food peace so hard? In this episode, Liz Brinkman and I discuss the connections between trauma, eating disorder recovery, and diet culture - we also explore aloneness, connection, and how to put recovery into practice. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: A Place to Land / Liz Brinkman's Instagram / Liz's website Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
We are rebroadcasting some of our older episodes of Love Food for a few weeks while we prepare and perfect the NEW PCOS + Food Peace Course. Please enjoy! How do you navigate a fatphobic world without support? This episode's letter writer just started college and recovering from an eating disorder. And it is hard! College campuses can be a hub for overexercise, bad body talk, and diets. Listen as I chat with Ayana Habtemariam from Truly Real Nutrition about ways to navigate this part of your Food Peace journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Ayana Habtemariam's website / Ayana's Instagram Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
We are rebroadcasting some of our older episodes of Love Food for a few weeks while we prepare and perfect the NEW PCOS + Food Peace Course. Please enjoy! I encourage you to have unconditional permission to eat what you want when you want. And it is time to acknowledge the big huge unacknowledged boulder of a barrier: financial privilege. We explore a letter from someone with limited access to food, and guest expert Lori Short-Zamudio from the Nourished Circle podcast helps us understand why food is elitist. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: The Nourished Circle Podcast / Lori Short Zambudio / Lori's Instagram / Lori's Twitter Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
We are rebroadcasting some of our older episodes of Love Food for a few weeks while we prepare and perfect the NEW PCOS + Food Peace Course. Please enjoy! Let's dive into this old Love Food podcast episode and the complex experience of raising children while trying to walk the Food Peace journey. Does the question "What's for dinner?" feel like nails on the chalkboard? Pull up a chair and let's talk through this again with special guest Rachel Goodman from the More Than What You Eat Podcast. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Rachel Goodman / More Than What You Eat Podcast / Rachel's free course / Rachel's Instagram Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
We are rebroadcasting some of our older episodes of Love Food for a few weeks while we prepare and perfect the NEW PCOS + Food Peace Course. Hope you enjoy! Are you ready to ditch diets…yet not ready? Does the thought of another diet seem intolerable, yet so does losing control? Does it feel like you will be just letting yourself go? Listen to the latest Love Food Podcast that dishes on just that with special guest Barbara Birsinger. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Barbara Birsinger / Intuitive Eating (aff) / Eating disorder dietitians Food peace resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! Visit our PCOS Roadmap for FREE resources here. Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
This week, we read a letter from a listener who has been through so much trauma and pain in their food journey. How can someone model a positive relationship with food for their family when it's so hard to feel at peace with eating? In this episode, Julie talks about prioritizing healing, choosing a different fight, and how centering yourself also helps those around you. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto / Sonya Renee Taylor's The Body Is Not An Apology / Enter to win a 6-month supply of Ovofolic! If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by the PCOS + Food Peace Course! Find out more at PCOSandFoodPeace.com. Use coupon code TRUTH at check out for 30% off during the month of September (2021)! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is also brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. We are GIVING AWAY a 6 month supply of Ovofolic to two lucky winners! Go to juliedillonrd.com/ovofolic for more info! Also, use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
This episode is for all of us who were once theatre kids, or anybody who's ever felt like they had to change their bodies to fit in. Join Julie and Lindley Ashline as they read a letter from a listener and chat about grief, anger, and how to channel those feelings into something positive and change-making. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto / Lindley's weekly Body Liberation Guide / Lindley's Instagram / Lindley's Facebook Page / Lindley's Twitter / Lindley's website / Enter to win a 6-month supply of Ovofolic! If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by the PCOS + Food Peace Course! Find out more at PCOSandFoodPeace.com. Use coupon code TRUTH at check out for 30% off during the month of September (2021)! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is also brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. We are GIVING AWAY a 6 month supply of Ovofolic to two lucky winners! Go to juliedillonrd.com/ovofolic for more info! Also, use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
Join us this week for a deep dive into the things I want to see changing in PCOS care. That's right - we're busting down the walls that diet culture and the health care industry have put up. Listen to learn more about the issues in health care, what needs to change, and some ways we can improve PCOS care for all. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / My PCOS Manifesto / Enter to win a 6-month supply of Ovofolic! If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by the PCOS + Food Peace Course! Find out more at PCOSandFoodPeace.com. Use coupon code TRUTH at check out for 30% off during the month of September (2021)! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is also brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. We are GIVING AWAY a 6 month supply of Ovofolic to two lucky winners! Go to juliedillonrd.com/ovofolic for more info! Also, use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
This episode is for anyone wondering when the food peace journey will FINALLY feel organized and tidy. Do you feel like eating is a constant tug of war? If you can relate to that, grab a cup of coffee, tea, or your margarita, and join us for thirty minutes as we explore food peace. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / Landwhale by Jes Baker / Enter to win a 6-month supply of Ovofolic! If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by the PCOS + Food Peace Course! Find out more at PCOSandFoodPeace.com. Use coupon code TRUTH at check out for 30% off during the month of September (2021)! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is also brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. We are GIVING AWAY a 6 month supply of Ovofolic to two lucky winners! Go to juliedillonrd.com/ovofolic for more info! Also, use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
Welcome to this week's episode of the Love Food podcast! We're exploring the top three reasons why your diet is failing. Whether you're someone who's just started dieting or has been trying to diet your whole life, we're talking about the harm diets cause and why they're not working for you. Hint: it's not your fault! Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / Sonya Renee Taylor's The Body Is Not An Apology If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by the PCOS + Food Peace Course! Find out more at PCOSandFoodPeace.com. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is also brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. Use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
This week, we read a letter from a listener who is feeling incredibly frustrated and tired with the food peace and intuitive eating journey. What do you do when you have hit a wall with IE, nothing is working, and you don't know where else to go? Alyssa and Julie chat about slowing down, stepping away from all the IE pressure, and small things you can do to reconnect with your body. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Mentioned in this episode: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap / PCOS + Food Peace Course / Food Peace Syllabus / 6 Keys To Food Peace / Beth Rosen / Alyssa's Instagram / Alyssa's Website / Alyssa's Podcast / Alyssa's FB page / Colleen Christensen / Tianna Smith / Visit our blog to learn about the Golden Shield method! If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! 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! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by the PCOS + Food Peace Course! Find out more at PCOSandFoodPeace.com. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is also brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. Use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
We received a letter from a listener who is struggling with their past trauma and is scared of the idea of diet-free PCOS management. Listen now to explore the idea of forgiving and holding space for our past selves - also, trust in your past experience telling you that diets don't work! Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Show Notes: - Julie Dillon RD blog - The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap - The PCOS + Food Peace Course - Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus - 6 Keys To Food Peace 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! If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by the PCOS + Food Peace Course! Find out more at PCOSandFoodPeace.com. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is also brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. Love Food listeners get 15% off using the code 'FoodPeace' at checkout. Some things I want you to know about Ovofolic: It has the recommended 40:1 ratio of myo-inositol and d-chiro-inositol in Ovofolic. It is important to take an inositol supplement with quality ingredients in supplements; not all inositol ingredients are the same. Ovofolic has no taste or smell, no preservatives or additives. The individual pouches guarantee equivalent dosing and optimum freshness. They are also easy to carry! Woman-owned and led. Local small business, not a big corporation. Personal touch every time! Dr. Pari responds to all customer emails herself and oversees every aspect of manufacturing. Use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
In this episode of the Love Food podcast, we sat down with Jenna Doak from Body Positive Fitness! We answer a letter from a listener who is struggling through body changes during the pandemic and prescribe one big dose of compassion and care. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Show Notes: - Julie Dillon RD blog - The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap - The PCOS + Food Peace Course - Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus - 6 Keys To Food Peace - Body Positive Fitness Website - BoPo Fitness Instagram - BoPo Fitness TikTok - BoPo Fitness Facebook - BoPo Fitness Facebook Group - BoPo Fitness Twitter - Intuitive Eating book - Evelyn Tribole 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! If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by the PCOS + Food Peace Course! Find out more at PCOSandFoodPeace.com. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is also brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. Love Food listeners get 15% off using the code 'FoodPeace' at checkout. Some things I want you to know about Ovofolic: It has the recommended 40:1 ratio of myo-inositol and d-chiro-inositol in Ovofolic. It is important to take an inositol supplement with quality ingredients in supplements; not all inositol ingredients are the same. Ovofolic has no taste or smell, no preservatives or additives. The individual pouches guarantee equivalent dosing and optimum freshness. They are also easy to carry! Woman-owned and led. Local small business, not a big corporation. Personal touch every time! Dr. Pari responds to all customer emails herself and oversees every aspect of manufacturing. Use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
This episode of the Love Food podcast is a little different! We received a letter from a listener who has been working on food peace for fifteen years(!) and is sending you (and Food) their gratitude and encouragement. Listen as Julie responds to this listener's letter and walks us through some lessons to be learned from food peace. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Show Notes: - Julie Dillon RD blog - The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap - The PCOS + Food Peace Course - Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus - 6 Keys To Food Peace 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! If you're curious about what it looks like to stop pursuing weight loss, click here for some fabulous freebies that will help guide you in your journey! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by the PCOS + Food Peace Course! Find out more at PCOSandFoodPeace.com. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is also brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. Love Food listeners get 15% off using the code 'FoodPeace' at checkout. Some things I want you to know about Ovofolic: It has the recommended 40:1 ratio of myo-inositol and d-chiro-inositol in Ovofolic. It is important to take an inositol supplement with quality ingredients in supplements; not all inositol ingredients are the same. Ovofolic has no taste or smell, no preservatives or additives. The individual pouches guarantee equivalent dosing and optimum freshness. They are also easy to carry! Woman-owned and led. Local small business, not a big corporation. Personal touch every time! Dr. Pari responds to all customer emails herself and oversees every aspect of manufacturing. Use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
In this episode of the Love Food podcast, we are joined by Brittany Modell from the Food Therapy podcast! We answer a letter from a listener who is unsure about how to navigate their relationship with alcohol while also practicing intuitive eating. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Show Notes: - Julie Dillon RD blog - The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap - The PCOS + Food Peace Course - Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus - 6 Keys To Food Peace - Brittany's Instagram - Brittany's podcast, Food Therapy - Brittany's website 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! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. Love Food listeners get 15% off using the code 'FoodPeace' at checkout. Some things I want you to know about Ovofolic: It has the recommended 40:1 ratio of myo-inositol and d-chiro-inositol in Ovofolic. It is important to take an inositol supplement with quality ingredients in supplements; not all inositol ingredients are the same. Ovofolic has no taste or smell, no preservatives or additives. The individual pouches guarantee equivalent dosing and optimum freshness. They are also easy to carry! Woman-owned and led. Local small business, not a big corporation. Personal touch every time! Dr. Pari responds to all customer emails herself and oversees every aspect of manufacturing. Use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is ALSO brought to you by the PCOS + Food Peace Course! Find out more at PCOSandFoodPeace.com. Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
In this episode of the Love Food podcast, we sit down with Marie-Pier Pitre-D'Iorio from the Balanced Dietitian podcast! We chat about a letter from a listener who is a self-described food "addict" and talk about letting go of control, giving yourself unconditional permission to pursue food freedom, and why food "addiction" may not be what you think it is. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Show Notes: - Julie Dillon RD blog - The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap - The PCOS + Food Peace Course - Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus - 6 Keys To Food Peace - Marie-Pier's Instagram - Marie-Pier's website + group program 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! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. Love Food listeners get 15% off using the code 'FoodPeace' at checkout. Some things I want you to know about Ovofolic: It has the recommended 40:1 ratio of myo-inositol and d-chiro-inositol in Ovofolic. It is important to take an inositol supplement with quality ingredients in supplements; not all inositol ingredients are the same. Ovofolic has no taste or smell, no preservatives or additives. The individual pouches guarantee equivalent dosing and optimum freshness. They are also easy to carry! Woman-owned and led. Local small business, not a big corporation. Personal touch every time! Dr. Pari responds to all customer emails herself and oversees every aspect of manufacturing. Use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is ALSO brought to you by the PCOS + Food Peace Course! Find out more at PCOSandFoodPeace.com. We are doing a summer sale until July 22nd. Use code LIBERATE to get 30% off the current course, which closes on May 22nd next year. PCOS + Food Peace course members will also get 50% off my NEW food peace course, coming Spring 2022. Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
In this BONUS episode of Love Food, we are switching it up (again)! Instead of answering one of your letters, Julie is sharing three ways that rejecting diets through intuitive eating goes hand-in-hand with PCOS. Grab your cup of coffee or a margarita - you can listen here now. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Show Notes: - Julie Dillon RD blog - The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap - The PCOS + Food Peace Course - Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus - 6 Keys To Food Peace - Intuitive Eating book 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! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by PCOS + Food Peace Course! Find out more at PCOSandFoodPeace.com. We are doing a summer sale until July 22nd. Use code LIBERATE to get 30% off the current course, which closes on May 22nd next year. PCOS + Food Peace course members will also get 50% off my NEW food peace course, coming Spring 2022. Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
In this special episode of Love Food, we are switching it up! Instead of answering one of your letters, Julie is sharing her knowledge and thoughts about intuitive eating. If you're someone who has tried and struggled to adopt intuitive eating as a practice, or if you're curious about what it means, this ep is perfect for you! Grab your cup of coffee or a margarita - you can listen here now. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Show Notes: - Julie Dillon RD blog - The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap - The PCOS + Food Peace Course - Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus - 6 Keys To Food Peace - Sonya Renee Taylor's The Body Is Not An Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor's The Body Is Not An Apology Workbook 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! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. Love Food listeners get 15% off using the code 'FoodPeace' at checkout. Some things I want you to know about Ovofolic: It has the recommended 40:1 ratio of myo-inositol and d-chiro-inositol in Ovofolic. It is important to take an inositol supplement with quality ingredients in supplements; not all inositol ingredients are the same. Ovofolic has no taste or smell, no preservatives or additives. The individual pouches guarantee equivalent dosing and optimum freshness. They are also easy to carry! Woman-owned and led. Local small business, not a big corporation. Personal touch every time! Dr. Pari responds to all customer emails herself and oversees every aspect of manufacturing. Use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
Are you getting tired and impatient as you are mending your relationship with food? Dylan Murphy from the Food Freedom podcast joins us today to give us some steps towards rewriting the narratives that we have learned about our bodies. We also explore how to reshape our food peace journey into something sustainable. Grab your cup of coffee, or a margarita - you can listen here now. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Show Notes: - Julie Dillon RD blog - The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap - The PCOS + Food Peace Course - Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus - 6 Keys To Food Peace - Food Freedom Podcast - Dylan Murphy - The Next Right Thing (Podcast) - The Next Right Thing (Book) - Free Method Nutrition - Free Method Academy Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com. This week's letter: Dear Food, Just when I think that you and I have moved towards a healing relationship, I end up repeating old patterns. Sometimes I feel like an exhausted warrior who's been on the battlefield for WAY too long. When I look at where I started as a younger woman burdened with diets and negative self-talk to where I am now, the progress is undeniable. I've been working on recovery and trying to practice intuitive eating for about 6 years now. My ability to be kind and compassionate with myself, especially in moments of imperfection, is something that I am very proud of. And yet some days I feel like I've beat it and other days I feel like I've only just begun. It doesn't help that I am still in a larger body. I feel so resentful of that sometimes. The internal progress just doesn't seem to match the packaging. I love the idea of being body positive and loving myself “just as I am”, but I can't seem to let go of the idea that one day I will be eating intuitively MORE than eating emotionally and that's when my weight issues will even out. Yes, this is the classic “life will be so much better when I'm thin” thinking and I realize that focusing on my body size is not the point of having a healing relationship with myself or food. But then again, resigning to a future of being fat doesn't really feel like the point either. From what I gather, this IS what recovery looks like. Good days, bad days, breakthroughs, setbacks, feeling beautiful and “enough” one moment, feeling ashamed and broken the next. Sometimes it's just hard to believe that I will ever be truly free. I understand that this is a process and not a task to complete. But when I hear other people share stories like “…once I started listening to my hunger the pounds just fell off”, I just get mad, I can't help it. I get it, we all have our own individual journey with food and mine is not going to look like the next guys but I often feel so defeated. Fortunately, I've experienced enough freedom and self-discovery that I am committed to this work but sometimes being a fat little soldier just sucks. - Impatient With Recovery Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. Love Food listeners get 15% off using the code 'FoodPeace' at checkout. Some things I want you to know about Ovofolic: It has the recommended 40:1 ratio of myo-inositol and d-chiro-inositol in Ovofolic. It is important to take an inositol supplement with quality ingredients in supplements; not all inositol ingredients are the same. Ovofolic has no taste or smell, no preservatives or additives. The individual pouches guarantee equivalent dosing and optimum freshness. They are also easy to carry! Woman-owned and led. Local small business, not a big corporation. Personal touch every time! Dr. Pari responds to all customer emails herself and oversees every aspect of manufacturing. Use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for supporting the Love Food Podcast!
You dove into your food peace journey, and you've learned how to deal with the diet culture chatter. Now what? What do we do when the people we love are not there with us? In this episode of the Love Food podcast, our host Julie Duffy Dillon walks us through how to reshape our perspective towards our families and friends who have not found their food peace. Grab your cup of coffee, or a margarita - you can listen here now. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Click here if you'd like to read today's letter to food. Show Notes: - Julie Dillon RD blog - The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap - The PCOS + Food Peace Course - Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus - 6 Keys To Food Peace 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! This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. Love Food listeners get 15% off using the code 'FoodPeace' at checkout. Some things I want you to know about Ovofolic: It has the recommended 40:1 ratio of myo-inositol and d-chiro-inositol in Ovofolic. It is important to take an inositol supplement with quality ingredients in supplements; not all inositol ingredients are the same. Ovofolic has no taste or smell, no preservatives or additives. The individual pouches guarantee equivalent dosing and optimum freshness. They are also easy to carry! Woman-owned and led. Local small business, not a big corporation. Personal touch every time! Dr. Pari responds to all customer emails herself and oversees every aspect of manufacturing. Use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for you supporting the Love Food Podcast!
Did you use to have a comforting relationship with food until diet culture told you that it was all wrong? What happens when we feel betrayed by the comfort of food? In this episode of the Love, Food podcast, our host Julie Duffy Dillon walks us through how shifting our mindset towards community and radical change can help us with our individual food practices. You can listen here now. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. Love Food listeners get 15% off using the code 'FoodPeace' at checkout. Some things I want you to know about Ovofolic: It has the recommended 40:1 ratio of myo-inositol and d-chiro-inositol in Ovofolic. It is important to take an inositol supplement with quality ingredients in supplements; not all inositol ingredients are the same. Ovofolic has no taste or smell, no preservatives or additives. The individual pouches guarantee equivalent dosing and optimum freshness. They are also easy to carry! Woman-owned and led. Local small business, not a big corporation. Personal touch every time! Dr. Pari responds to all customer emails herself and oversees every aspect of manufacturing. Use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for you supporting the Love Food Podcast! Dear Food, I have had a complicated relationship with you for most of my adult life. Growing up you were part of celebrations and parties or could serve as comfort during the loss of a loved one. When I got out on my own, you definitely shifted to comfort as I was in a complicated situation and food seemed to soothe me/make me feel better. What I did not like was the weight gain that came with all that "comfort". I got married, joined a commercial weight loss program and lost a significant amount of weight-felt good about myself, others validated me and my efforts. But it was freaking hard to keep up this new found body that I was in-so many unhealthy habits crept up in an effort to show up on the scale and see what I deemed to be the prized number at the time. I yo-yo'd over the years, and if we fast forward to now, I have put on weight and weigh more now than I have ever weighed in the past. I saw a counselor for a few sessions and they introduced me to the book Intuitive Eating, but it never really took off for me. I love one of the authors, I watched and listened to so many interviews with her, she is fabulous and that laugh is contagious. I don't know if it was because the counselor was not well versed in Intuitive Eating or if I wasn't ready for it at the time? I don't know. But I can tell you that I'm super unhappy in my current state-I've had to repurchase my wardrobe to accommodate my bigger self. I get frustrated during some workouts as I have to modify some of the moves, but I'm also humbled because I used to do this in the past with no problem. I love to scrapbook, but do not have many pictures of myself for the past year OR if I do, they are creatively cropped to not show how much I have gained. How do I balance you? I've tried restriction in the past or putting limits on myself and that did not go well! How do I get back to a place where I am comfortable around you and ultimately with myself? Sincerely, Struggling with food peace Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap The PCOS + Food Peace Course Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus 6 Keys To Food Peace Sonya Renee Taylor's The Body Is Not An Apology Sabrina Strings' Fearing The Black Body 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!
What were you told about living with your aging changing body? Did you get the message that change is wrong? Or a failure? What would it be like to learn more often that an aging body is supposed to be changing? Kimberly Dark is a sociologist and author of Fat, Pretty and Soon to be Old as well as the upcoming Damaged Like Me. She has so much insight into this part of the Food Peace Journey. You can listen here now. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. Love Food listeners get 15% off using the code 'FoodPeace' at checkout. Some things I want you to know about Ovofolic: It has the recommended 40:1 ratio of myo-inositol and d-chiro-inositol in Ovofolic. It is important to take an inositol supplement with quality ingredients in supplements; not all inositol ingredients are the same. Ovofolic has no taste or smell, no preservatives or additives. The individual pouches guarantee equivalent dosing and optimum freshness. They are also easy to carry! Woman owned and led. Local small business not a big corporation. Personal touch every time! Dr. Pari responds to all customer emails herself and oversees every aspect of manufacturing. Use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for you supporting the Love Food Podcast! Dear Food, Over the years, I have grown to love you: cooking and baking you, experimenting with ways to put you together in a meal or dessert, and, of course, eating you. The problem is that I've also struggled with body image and guilt about you, especially now that I've reached mid-life. I was one of those kids and teens who was naturally thin. It was probably a mix of my genetics, my pickiness, and my anxiety, which often shut down my appetite. People commented on my small appetite and my thinness a lot, from a fairly young age. The comments ranged from admiration to mild concern, but the general message I got was that being thin was a big part of my identity. At the same time, I grew up in a strict food household in which there were definite “good” and “bad” foods. And I was told that although I didn't have to worry about my weight as a growing child, someday I would have to be more careful about food to stay thin. When I reached my twenties, I gained weight naturally as my body became more womanly. I was still at a “healthy” weight, but for the first time I stopped getting comments about how thin I was. I will admit that I had a hard time with this—with this loss of that part of my identity—and I began to question at times whether I was eating too much, or too much of the wrong things. I began to scrutinize my body, and dislike parts of it intensely, comparing it to bodies that were thinner. I also got married, and my in-laws had even more intense and overt judgements about weight and fatness. My fear of their judgment only added to my body image concerns. After I had my two children, I secretly went on a diet for the first time—learning to track what I ate and maintain a certain calorie limit each day. This “worked” but I noticed that food, and tracking food, became close to an obsession, and that scared me. My sister has struggled with an eating disorder, and I knew I didn't want to go down that path, so I pulled myself out of the diet. Even so, I found myself every year or two secretly dieting again to get my weight down to an “acceptable” level, and then pulling back out of it for fear of developing an eating disorder. I also railed against society's obsession with thinness and beat myself up for giving into that superficial, even cruel, mentality. This push and pull was confusing, and still is. Now that I've entered mid-life my body has felt out of control at times. I weigh more than I ever have, and when I've tried to diet, it's much harder to lose the weight. In fact, I've noticed that when I do try to rein in my weight by restricting calories, my body rebels by gaining weight at first and then losing very slowly and sporadically. I've also noticed that I need to diet more often to keep my weight down, and that the weight fluctuations are greater. All of this terrifies me, so I am trying to make a commitment to stop dieting altogether, accept my higher weight, and trust my body to know what it needs—even if sometimes it needs to satisfy my strong sweet tooth. But it's not easy and I often find myself feeling confused, wondering if I'm doing things right—balancing what I crave with what my body actually needs. I also fret about the future. What happens when I hit menopause and my body changes again? I'm scared about how that will feel and how I will handle it. How do I move beyond what I now realize has been disordered eating and distorted body image? How do I move beyond my fear of fat and learn to love my body rather than poke and prod at all the bits I hate? How do I know the difference, food, between what is a healthy embrace of my enjoyment of you and what may be an unhealthy reaction against past restriction or guilt about you? How do I do this intuitive eating thing right and make it stick, through whatever changes are in store for my body? Sincerely, Trying to age gracefully Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap The PCOS + Food Peace Course Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus. 6 Keys To Food Peace kimberlydark.com Newest book Damaged Like Me is available for pre-order now at 25% off. Release: June 30. https://www.akpress.org/damaged-like-me.html. Fat, Pretty and Soon to be Old available on same link. Folks are invited to the free monthly event, The Hope Desk. Info and zoom link at the bottom of the home page at www.kimberlydark.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.dark.9 Twitter: @kimberlydark Instagram: @kimberly.dark TikTok: @therealkimberlydark Body Wise Intensives in Hawaii athttps://www.kimberlydark.com/retreats.html Submit your Dear Food letter here or https://forms.gle/pepKRGPC8JbHLHHn8 Julie on Instagram: Instagram.com/FoodPeaceDietitian Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you. 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!
Have you been doing the steps to move away from your eating disorder, trying to beat Diet Culture off with a stick, yet wonder if you will ever make it? Committed to recovery yet wonder if you'll always be flailing? Pull up a chair and take a break. Katie Barbero, author of Fed Up: An Illustrated Guide to Food Freedom, has some insight. Listen here now. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by Ovofolic--a new way trusted way to get Inositol to help with PCOS. Love Food listeners get 15% off using the code FoodPeace at checkout. Some things I want you to know about Ovofolic: It has the recommended 40:1 ratio of myo-inositol and d-chiro-inositol in Ovofolic. It is important to take an inositol supplement with quality ingredients in supplements; not all inositol ingredients are the same. Ovofolic has no taste or smell, no preservatives or additives. The individual pouches guarantee equivalent dosing and optimum freshness. They are also easy to carry! Woman owned and led. Local small business not a big corporation. Personal touch every time! Dr. Pari responds to all customer emails herself and oversees every aspect of manufacturing. Use this link to check out Ovofolic to get 15% off (aff) ElanHealthcare.ca/discount/FOODPEACE or use coupon code FoodPeace at check out! Thank you for you supporting the Love Food Podcast! Dear Food, Our love and hate relationship has been ebbing and flowing. It all started really innocently wanting to opt for “healthier options' ' until it led me to an unhealthy place. A place where I feared you, a place where I felt guilty after eating you, and a place that took away all the pleasure and freedom around guilt. I've been recovering from an eating disorder for almost 2 years now and although our relationship is relatively better, we could say that we are not in peace yet. Diet culture has made me believe that there are “bad” and “good” foods. That I should fear some of you. That some of you are evil. I really want to change that, I want to make peace with you. I'm trying to unlearn all the lies and myth diet culture has taught me but it's hard, you know? I've been trying really hard to reject diets, the mentality of good and bad and surround myself with anti-diet, body positivity, and food freedom content. But I'm struggling to take action steps to have a better relationship with you. It's easy to consume and motivate me with a lot of inspiring content but it's overwhelming, you know? I mean… There are so many fear foods I need to face, unlearn diet myths, change my mentality around food, learn to brush off diet comments, relearn how to listen to my body and treat it with respect and so much more that I need to do… I don't even know where to start. Also, I'm afraid, I feel alone and I am afraid of what will happen if I let go of control and food restriction. I really want to have a better relationship but things like diet culture, fear of weight gain, or eating disorder thoughts get in the way? I won't give up food, I am positive I will get to a place where I no longer fear you but embrace you. I know I will get there one day, This girl needs a little guidance! Love, Not Giving Up Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap The PCOS + Food Peace Course Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus. 6 Keys To Food Peace KatieBarbaro.com Fed Up: An Illustrated Guide to Food Freedom--Preorder and get more info here Katie on IG @thefedupbook and @katiebarb Submit your Dear Food letter here or https://forms.gle/pepKRGPC8JbHLHHn8 Julie on Instagram: Instagram.com/FoodPeaceDietitian Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you. 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!
Are you trying to break the dieting cycle within your family yet don't have the foggiest idea on how to make that happen....so you just pretend it is all ok?! How do you teach your kids how to relate to food without passing on the disordered eating burden and body hate? The latest Love Food podcast episode explores just that with The Thriving Mum Podcast host Unyime Oguta. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by my PCOS + Food Peace Course. Grab the details at PCOSandFoodPeace.com. Thank you for you supporting the Love Food Podcast! Dear Food, The worst question my children can ask me is, ‘’Whats for dinner?’. It’s a daily assault on my desire to avoid thinking about you altogether. For me to answer my children’s question, I need to have thought about you- what would be tasty, what my children would like, what will nourish them. And then when I have thought about you, I then have to prepare you. I find this utterly overwhelming and exhausting down to my bones. Did you notice I don’t ask myself, what would I like to eat? I don’t know the answer to that question. I am so divorced from you that I don’t know what I want when I feel hungry. And Food, so you know, I have felt hungry for as long as I can remember. Here’s what I do know about you Food: I know that it’s not my fault I am fat and it’s not your fault either. I just feel like we got off on the wrong foot. My mum was scared of you Food, and did the things women do to keep you at bay. She did the best she could with what she had, but it’s left its mark. I watched, and I felt constrained and angry. So I very angrily and defiantly ate what I wanted, but eating because you're angry doesn’t lead to food peace either. I talk about you so positively with my kids, and I put on such a cheerful, food neutral voice at dinner and lunch and breakfast and snacks and all the times that we seem to talk about food. My children will never, ever know that you and I don’t really get on, that is a promise. But, truthfully I want to not think about you, you make me so anxious and demoralised. Do you think you and I might be able to make peace? Sincerely, Overwhelmed + Exhausted Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap The PCOS + Food Peace Course The latest Food Peace Syllabus is found here: JulieDillonRD.com/freebies 6 Keys To Food Peace A quick-start guide for listeners looking to find food freedom is here Connect with Unyime on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oliveandblisswellness/ Connect with Unyime on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oliveandblisswellness Connect with Unyime on her website: https://oliveandbliss.ca/ Submit your Dear Food letter here or https://forms.gle/pepKRGPC8JbHLHHn8 Julie on Instagram: Instagram.com/FoodPeaceDietitian Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you. 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!
How do you continue to fight diet culture when someone in your family lives with diabetes? Is rejecting diets hurting them? Does this diagnosis mean food must now be managed rather than met with curiosity? Listen to the latest Love Food Podcast with guest expert Rachael Hartley, author of Gentle Nutrition. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by my PCOS + Food Peace Course. Grab the details at PCOSandFoodPeace.com Thank you for you supporting the Love Food Podcast! Dearest Food, I love you. You are delicious and I enjoy you. I also sometimes feel angry towards you and blame you for my problems. I’ve also felt scared of you and felt you were going to hurt me. However, I’ve done a lot of work around this. These days, I often feel neutral towards you. I feel we are getting into a groove and have a much better relationship. I’m so grateful for this. I even ate a tuna on raisin bread sandwich to celebrate--one of my newly discovered weird food combination loves. I’m so glad we can be playful together sometimes. Nevertheless, I still have hiccups in this journey that make me doubt all of it. Recently, a family member of mine, someone I love and cook for often, was diagnosed “prediabetic.” Honestly, I’m not sure what this means. I do know he has been told to be careful about carbs and sugars or he will become full on diabetic and this will ruin the rest of his life. This is not what was actually said of course, but this is the message that seems to underlie what was said. I am scared. Did my cooking do this? By embracing food, stressing less, and ditching diets, have I caused a health problem for someone I love so dearly? What about when I get pregnant and have my first child? What will I do then? How do I know that what I’m doing is best for those that will be dependent on me? Don’t they deserve the best chance at a healthy life? And what does that actually mean? It feels as if I am able to work out my individual relationship with you a bit, but when others are involved, I begin to feel the creeping in of doubt. I even googled diets for diabetes today. I had a sinking feeling when I did that. As if maybe I would have to break up with you. Maybe all our playful, fun, neutral times were over. Maybe we would have to go back to how things used to be. Maybe I was wrong all along? It’s been hard to know what is right for me and I still struggle to stay on course. When I start to feel my decisions may be impacting others I love deeply, the doubt becomes fiercer and I actually become afraid. I become afraid of you, food. Will you hurt my family? Love, Sad and scared Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap The PCOS + Food Peace Course Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus. 6 Keys To Food Peace Gentle Nutrition book by Rachael Hartley RD www.rachaelhartleynutrition.com IG - @RachaelHartleyRD Twitter - @RHartleyRD Submit your Dear Food letter here or https://forms.gle/pepKRGPC8JbHLHHn8 Julie on Instagram: Instagram.com/FoodPeaceDietitian Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you. 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!
How many of you have moved from controlling food to letting it be? What if controlling food was a part of your life's work--literally AND figuratively? This latest Love Food Podcast is a bit different. We get to hear from Daph Levy (she/they) an anti-diet eating-disorder recovery mentor, fat activist, and video media producer based in Boston, MA. They submitted a Dear Food letter and Julie invited them on to explore next steps. Listen to hear Daph's words of support and wisdom! Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by my PCOS + Food Peace Course. Grab the details at PCOSandFoodPeace.com Get 30% off until May 24th using coupon code 'birthday' at check out! Thank you for you supporting the Love Food Podcast! Dear Food, I don't even know where to start. We have a such complicated relationship. Some words that come to mind that accurately describe our relationship are tumultuous, chaotic, and intense. I cannot think back to a time where you were just you. It feels like we have always had a toxic relationship, especially when others tried to manipulate the way we view each other. I remember when a relative would feed me a delicious homemade meal, only for a moment where I could sneak in a few bites before they snatched the plate away from me. There were points in my life when you were all I had; I turned to you for comfort and joy, especially when it felt like my life was crumbling all around me. Other times, I was so obsessed with exerting control over you. I would spend hours tracking you, following you, measuring out every individual portion I allowed myself to have each day. I was obsessed with you- but I am sure you already knew that. I thought, the more control I have over you, the more worthy, lovable, and happier I would become. I had it all wrong. These days, our relationship is distant- I am keeping you at arm's length as I navigate trusting you again. ****You no longer occupy my mind like you once did. You no longer dictate my worth, because I don't let you. I am in the process of reclaiming my power, which means letting go of the control I had over you. Even when I invested everything I had- my money, time, and energy- into controlling you, it didn't make me happy. I did everything everyone told me to do, and yet, I felt miserable. You disappointed me. I spent most of my life fearing you and neglecting you, because that is what I was taught was best for my "health." Little did I know, I was developing a severe eating disorder; although you wouldn't know it since everyone around me applauded my "discipline" and "willpower." I find it ironic that I studied the very thing that I now try desperately to avoid thinking about. I cannot believe that I once thought my life's purpose was to exert control over you to maintain some arbitrary number on a scale, to eat as few calories as I possibly could, and to become smaller- in more ways than one. It makes me deeply sad thinking that I wanted to help others do the same- develop an exhausting, chaotic, and toxic relationship with you, in hopes to shrink their body. Letting go of the control I had was one of the hardest and scariest decisions I have ever made. Who would have thought that letting my body be would be the healthiest thing I could have done for myself. Yet, I find myself grieving you, and the toxic relationship we once had. But I want you to know it's not your fault, it never was. The way diet culture tries to lure me into its grasp with its messaging is so enticing. Messages like "eat this, guilt free", "nobody likes a girl who can eat" or "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" or "you need to earn your food" are the ingredients for a disordered relationship with you. But I have to confess something to you. I don't want to be enemies, in fact, I want to be life-long companions, making new memories that someday I can reflect back on and think "oh, that was a good day." I may not have all of the answers to our problems, but I promise I am working on it. I am not ready to give up on this relationship, no matter how complicated it is, because the truth is, I need you. Love, Can we be friends? Best, Daph Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap The PCOS + Food Peace Course Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus. 6 Keys To Food Peace https://www.instagram.com/daphlevy/ Daph's Youtube Channel doublevision.media Submit your Dear Food letter here or https://forms.gle/pepKRGPC8JbHLHHn8 Julie on Instagram: Instagram.com/FoodPeaceDietitian Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you. 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!
How long have you been trying to recover from your eating disorder? This episode is for those of you have tried everything and wondering if recovering is possible. When a complicated relationship with food includes trauma, loneliness, and pain recovery may seem out of reach. Listen to this latest Love Food Podcast episode with guest expert Daralyse Lyons. She's an activist, actor, and advocate and host of the Demystifying Diversity Podcast. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by my PCOS + Food Peace Course. It is 30% May 16-24th using coupon code 'birthday' at check out. Grab the details at PCOSandFoodPeace.com Thank you for you supporting the Love Food Podcast! Dear Food, I don't really know exactly when my relationship became complicated with you, or quite how it came to control my life. I remember when I was in my early teens, being the one to say diets are bullshit, and not thinking about what I ate. Being anti-diet culture was practically a part of my identity, and such is where my values sit today, but I live in complete contradiction. At some point in my teens, I started restricted and using my vegetarianism to always choose the salad option at school. But it wasn't controlling, it wasn't overwhelming; it felt more like a natural reaction to being at an all girls school in the society that we live in - an image-based thing. Sometimes, it was reactionary, in spite of my (well-meaning) mother who would always tell me that 'soup is a starter not a meal', and check if I was eating enough despite her smaller portions. (I later learned she had a struggled with anorexia for years, and would still struggle to eat in times of stress.) I developed anxiety and depression by age 16, which ruled and ruined my sixth-form life. Perhaps it was the exam stress, the family troubles - growing up with a drug abusing brother who was in and out of school, in and out of home, in and out of hospital (not that I was always told straight away). We had a complex relationship with my father, who always vied for my brother's attention and allegiance against my mother. I tried to be always neutral, always loving of all parties - because I was, and couldn't not be. But with this came a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, and the earnest desire to always tread this precarious, and often punishing line. Of course, when I couldn't - and can't today - there is guilt. I was a straight A* student until the slump during my sixth form years, when my energy broke, and I scraped my way through the last 2 years. I used to be, and still feel like I should be, the person who was able to succeed at anything and everything without dropping the ball - but suddenly I could do nothing, and have struggled ever since. Around this time I realised there was probably something wrong - a cause. Through an explosive conversation with my mother, I was pushed to a consultation with a therapist and given the diagnosis - anxiety and depression - but didn't receive further help. In my first year of uni I tried to access help myself, but was turned away by the uni counselling services after a few sessions, saying they didn't know how to help me as I had already thought everything through so much myself. It was in this year I had a few episodes of bingeing and purging. This continued around occasional periods of stress, such as exams, but not as a regular method of coping. In second year, my mental health worsened. Restricting, binging and purging became a secret indulgence, but never something I saw as a problem as it was so sporadic. I had difficult relationships with my flatmates, though I had stronger friendships elsewhere, I felt alone. I became so ill I had to defer my exams. I worked towards the summer session, hoping I could somehow manage. But two weeks before I was due to take them, I was raped. Utterly broken, I moved back in with my parents for a few months, during which time I tried to use food to console myself while I tried to process what happened. But when a close family member was admitted to hospital with terminal cancer, I began majorly restricting. When they passed away and my family fell apart, I moved back to my uni town and started a new job, trying to get my life back on track. Pretty much all the friends I thought I had were no longer there for me. I managed to access CBT for 9 weeks, but developed bulimia in an dramatic way, binging and purging at least 3 times in a day, at one time losing X in a month. This continued through another exam deferral, and another. I fought for a year to access treatment, being passed from waiting list to waiting list, rejected for being too symptomatic, too complicated or not fitting criteria. Along the way, I met someone who truly loves me and cares for men and helps me through these struggles. When I am with him, I eat normally and don't purge, but will find myself in tears most evenings because of food. My weight is stable at a healthy BMI, but I am miserable in my skin, mentally exhausted, and absolutely terrified: of this relationship with food that dominates my life. I cannot have food around me and resist it, regardless of whether I am hungry - I am so anxious about when I might need to eat, that I am constantly aware of a hunger, and I cannot discern the emotional from the physical. I know I use bingeing and purging as both a means of occupying myself when I am alone, as an emotional control and as a form of self-harm. And what started as a tool has grown like a weed to something that I am constantly aware of, and bothers me even when I am happiest. I love to cook, and often cook with my boyfriend, but cannot enjoy a meal without resenting myself and being overwhelmed with frustration as a result. In a month, I will finally be starting treatment (psychotherapy with a trauma focus), but I am worried about managing my relationship with food during this time, as I know it will be a gradual process, and not the focus of my treatment. Additional private treatment isn't easily an option for me. I am also worried about the strain I place on my boyfriend, who is always there for me, but who cannot fight the battle for me, no matter how much he may want to try. I am trying to keep the willpower to fight for myself, to maintain the relationships I have left and succeed in my final chance to pass these exams in just a few months. I desperately need peace with you food, so that I can have more energy to make peace elsewhere in my life. Yours, Terrified & pleading for a truce Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap The PCOS + Food Peace Course Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus. 6 Keys To Food Peace Demystifying Diversity Podcast Daralyse Lyons website The book: Demystifying Diversity: Embracing Our Shared Humanity https://www.facebook.com/DemystifyingDiversityPodcast https://www.linkedin.com/company/75137514/admin/ https://www.instagram.com/demystifyingdiversitypodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/TheTransformationalStoryteller/ https://twitter.com/daralyselyons https://www.instagram.com/daralyselyons/ Submit your Dear Food letter here or https://forms.gle/pepKRGPC8JbHLHHn8 Julie on Instagram: Instagram.com/FoodPeaceDietitian Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you. 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. 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Moving away from diets and its recovery often includes body changes. Unfortunately, Food Peace proof is often misinterpreted to mean weight loss. What if weight gain was/is how your body recovers from diet culture? What if anti-fat bias is blocking you from food freedom? Listen on ways through with guest experts Ali Eberhardt and Hannah Robinson from the Let's Eat Cake Podcast. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by my PCOS + Food Peace Course. Grab the details at PCOSandFoodPeace.com Thank you for you supporting the Love Food Podcast! Dear food, We've had quite the rocky relationship, haven't we? I used to loathe you and even hate myself for needing you in order to survive. I wished that I could just take a pill with all of the nutrients and vitamins I needed to keep me alive and never have to eat any food whatsoever. Many years of therapy, nutrition counseling, outpatient eating disorder programs, multiple residential treatment stays and most importantly, my own extremely hard work, have brought me to a completely different place. I no longer loathe you. I can now appreciate that you bring people together, that you help us celebrate different cultures and histories, and that you allow us to connect and make memories. But here's the thing: I'm still scared of you. Not in the same way I was before, though. I've conquered all of my old fear foods and I've learned the difference between foods I've feared and foods I genuinely don't enjoy. I don't avoid you and I eat intuitively. I'm able to give my body what it needs, knowing that sometimes that's a little more and sometimes it's a little less. I "eat kale AND cake", as a former dietitian of mine used to say (although I enjoy spinach much more than kale and ice cream more than cake, but that's beside the point). It's taken many years of agonizingly painful work to get to this place, and I'm finally able to recognize that and give myself the credit I deserve. So why am I still scared of you? To be honest, I'm not sure if I'm scared more of you or scared of what my body will do with you. I still don't trust my body to handle you "correctly". My last treatment program (2 years ago) allowed me to complete an ideal step-down program, going from residential to full independence slowly and surely. I wish everyone had this privilege and will forever be grateful for the opportunities it gave me. I left confident that I could return to my "real life" and continue to eat intuitively, even when things got stressful, and that's exactly what I did. My weight remained stable and in the range my team had estimated for me through my last two months of treatment and for some time after I discharged. I was doing well and was finally experiencing freedom regarding food. And then the unthinkable happened: I gained weight. My and my eating disorder's worst nightmare came true. It wasn't an alarming or unhealthy amount, but enough for my team to take notice and to necessitate buying new clothes. Shame enveloped every part of my being. I was and am still completely healthy and not in what others might perceive to be a large body, but it sure feels ginormous to me. It's the heaviest I've ever been, and it came right on the heels of finally feeling free to eat intuitively. My eating disorder screams at me, "See?!? Intuitive eating leads to weight gain! You'll always want to eat sweets and junk food and you'll never want to eat enough vegetables! You're fat and disgusting and should go back to going days without food". I'm proud to say that I held strong and have remained stable in recovery to this day, but my confidence has taken a huge blow. Rationally I know that it could have nothing to do with you - it could be due to new stressors from starting graduate school, medication changes, or a variety of other things. But I can't convince the rest of me of that. All I can see is the flashing neon sign in my head that says EATING INTUITIVELY = WEIGHT GAIN. Losing weight is constantly on my mind. I don't want to go back to the unhealthy, underweight body I had before, but I desperately long for the healthy yet smaller body I had immediately following treatment. Food, you have hurt me deeply. Both you and my body have betrayed me. I trusted you and you let me down. Will I ever be able to trust you again? Will I ever be able to eat without second guessing myself and my body again? Will I ever live without fear of weight gain and the desire to lose weight? I really don't know... Sincerely, Untrusting and betrayed Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap The PCOS + Food Peace Course Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus. 6 Keys To Food Peace Let Us Eat Cake podcast releasing episodes every Thursday wherever you get your podcasts. Instagram handle: @eatcakepod. Check out their "Snack Time & Chill", a virtual snack support Monday-Friday at 3 pm PST on their Instagram Live. Brianna Campos on the Let Us Eat Cake Podcast Website: https://eatcakepod.home.blog/ Submit your Dear Food letter here or https://forms.gle/pepKRGPC8JbHLHHn8 Julie on Instagram: Instagram.com/FoodPeaceDietitian Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you. 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!
Everyone is welcome on the Food Peace Journey and when I say everyone I include those of you with diabetes. Public opinion likes to eliminate intuitive eating with a diabetes diagnosis yet what if moving away from diets promotes health and better blood sugars? Listen up for this week's episode from someone just diagnosed with diabetes. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by my Pop Up PCOS Podcast---Live only through the month of April. It focuses on how to live with and manage PCOS cravings. Get access to this private podcast here. Thank you for you supporting the Love Food Podcast! Dear Food We've never been friends, you and I. You lurked in the center of a labyrinth of Rules, the monster but also the prize. The Rules were supposed to guarantee good health as evidenced by a good body, and for "good" read "thin." But I didn't have a thin body. I had a big body. A fat body. A wrong body. A must-be-unhealthy body. A body that required regulation according to external rules since I was obviously incapable of regulating myself. The only thing about my body that mattered was my weight and my weight was always too much. You were rarely flavor but always components: sugar, protein, fat, carbs. You came only at meals and meals happened only at assigned times. Hunger that happened outside those times wasn’t real. My body lies because I’m fat. I enjoyed swimming and bicycling and roller skating, but movement for fun was worthless. Movement meant losing weight. Movement was punishment for being fat, and punishment had to hurt. I quit all the activities I liked and convinced myself they were never fun to begin with. You were my enemy, food. You were the cause of everything that went wrong. Unless I got smaller I was going to die, and soon. If only I could get my food right then my body would become right, become thin, and then I could start my life. Instead of living, I spent a lifetime avoiding you. My list of acceptable foods grew shorter and shorter. The amounts I allowed grew smaller and smaller. Meanwhile, my body got bigger and bigger. Eventually, I discovered HAES and intuitive eating, and tried to repair my damaged relationship with you and my body. I ditched the constant analysis. It never made me feel good. I tried to think of you in terms of taste and flavor. If I ate enough of you overall, listened to and honored my body, everything would sort out. I felt better, physically and mentally. I am still fat and working on being ok with that. Because HAES, right? But. There's always a "but," isn't there? Barely a year after finding what felt like salvation, I developed diabetes. I'm devastated. I'm angry. I feel betrayed. No more HAES; I don't have health. Goodbye intuitive eating; my fat body lies. No more thinking about you in terms of flavors and taste and what sounds good. Back to The Rules. You are components, not flavors. Exercise and movement isn't for fun, it's to use up blood sugars. I was wrong about my body and everyone else was right. I must accept reality and impose Rules to discipline my body and make it good. And by good, they mean thin. They replaced numbers on the scale and clothes sizes with A1c and fasting blood glucose. If my numbers aren’t good enough I will die, for real this time. I’m afraid to buy a glucose meter. I would use it as a scourge, not as a tool. Hungry? No eating unless the meter says so. Blood sugar rises? Never eat that again. I know where this story ends. Surviving on black coffee and cabbage while still being the object lesson for eating too much cake. I've been there before. I don't want to live there again. I'm back to obsessing about you and trying to make our relationship Stepford Wives perfect and I'm miserable. Engaging the topics of diet and exercise at all feels like grabbing a live wire with both hands. Yet I'm told I must grab and hold tightly or I will die. I want to let go. But I want to take care of my body too. How do I balance the requirement to dissect everything I eat into its component parts and assemble them into perfect plates without ending up back where I started? I hear the siren call and it is hard to resist, especially with doctors rowing my boat that direction. Please help me find a better way. Signed, Frenemies (she/they) Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap The PCOS + Food Peace Course Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus. 6 Keys To Food Peace Submit your Dear Food letter here or https://forms.gle/pepKRGPC8JbHLHHn8 Julie on Instagram: Instagram.com/FoodPeaceDietitian Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you. 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!
Ever feel like you are doing this Food Peace Journey incorrectly? With every binge you may connect with despair and failure. What if your journey was proof of your bravery? What if you gently reconsidered your judgement with curiosity? What then? Guest expert Fiona Sutherland, author of the new book, Vitamin A to Z, dishes on ways to move through. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by my Pop Up PCOS Podcast---Live only through the month of April. It focuses on how to live with and manage PCOS cravings. Get access to this private podcast here. Thank you for you supporting the Love Food Podcast! Dear Food,The high school version of me would have been the last person on this Earth to ever believe that my relationship with you would end up causing me so much heartache and pain. I was fine until college. Backtracking to childhood, I always loved you. I was a foodie, never overthought and wasn't obsessed with the idea of what I would eat next. Food was wonderful, especially "treats" or "junk-food" type items that I didn't get to eat often. I know there were times when my eyes were bigger than my stomach, but maybe this is a thing that many young kids also experience? High school was normal. I was active playing a sport that I loved, busy with school, and spending time with family and friends. Senior year, I found myself with more freedom than ever. A lot of it was spent watching tv or cooking and eating with friends. Then came college. After a particularly sad and confusing breakup with a boy and betrayal by a friend, my college friend group disintegrated. In retrospect, I think I may have retreated into TV and snacks, and there was no one to tell me to do differently. Then, during Thanksgiving break, I realized that I had been too free with you, food, and my "cute little body" was quickly becoming something I was ashamed of and disgusted by. I'd never had anything but a small body and lived in a family of small people. I decided I would pay more attention to what and how much I was eating. I figured this would help get myself under control. And from the moment I became aware of your presence and your power in my life, things really have never been the same since. Fast forward through five months of increasingly difficult and dreadful exercise regimens and an increasingly restricted intake of food, I left school early to move home and enter outpatient treatment. My junior year, I finally transferred into XYZ college. I was ecstatic, but the restriction started almost right away. This time, though, my body was far more resistant to restriction, and it was increasingly difficult to not give in and binge. I returned home after only 3 months, and didn't return to school until the next summer. Now, my 4th year of college is almost over. That means I've been binging for a year now. It's hard to believe that I ever was able to restrict at all, because binging is such an everyday part of my life now. Over these past years, I have had consistent therapy, and have also met with dietitians, but it seems like nothing is able to help me. In fact, the binging seems like it's getting worse and worse – in the past two months alone, I have gained X pounds. I think I've lost hope in ever being normal with food or body image. I feel so abnormal and wrong. In recovery, binging was always my biggest fear, and now it's my constant reality. I have all the tools and resources I should need to help myself and change, but I'm still doing this. How did we get this far?! Love, Secretly Broken Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap The PCOS + Food Peace Course Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus. 6 Keys To Food Peace Vitamin A to Z; Your BS-free Guide to Wellbeing available via Debut Books or all e-book platforms https://www.debutbooks.com.au/bookstore/p/vitamin-a-to-z-fiona-sutherland Fiona on Instagram @themindfuldietitian Fiona on FB: The Mindful Dietitian Fiona on Twitter @FionaBodyPosAus Submit your Dear Food letter here or https://forms.gle/pepKRGPC8JbHLHHn8 Julie on Instagram: Instagram.com/FoodPeaceDietitian Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you. 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!
The journey can feel isolating at times so communicating with your partner, family, and friends will support your path toward Food Peace. But how does one do this? You're in for a treat: guest expert and therapist Ashlee Bennett, author of the upcoming book, The Art of Body Acceptance, shares her insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by my Pop Up PCOS Podcast---Live only through the month of April. It focuses on how to live with and manage PCOS cravings. Get access to this private podcast here. Thank you for you supporting the Love Food Podcast! Dear Food, Wow, where to begin. I guess would be first telling the story of how you’ve been such a huge part of my life. My first memory of you taking over my head was when I was 9, wanting desperately for my prepubescent body to be flat like my friends, restricting my food because I thought that would make me better, but then bingeing on sleeves of cookies before school and flushing down the evidence so my parents wouldn’t see. And thus, what feels like a lifetime of disordered eating began. Restricting, binging, purging, I’ve tried it all, from the age of 9-22. And food, I gotta tell ya, I love you just as much as I hate you. I mean, you taste damn good! But I am obsessed with thinking of you, and how you affect my body and my mind. Now, everyday I work so hard to eat a balanced three meals, let myself indulge here and again all while you’re constantly on my mind. Add in a diagnosis of PCOS and a constant weight gain even though i eat healthier than pretty much anyone i know? This is hard. Something else that is hard- communicating all of this to my partner. My incredibly loving and supportive partner. The smallest phrase of “wow you ate that fast!” Or “I need a salad tomorrow after the pizza we ate today” can throw me off the handle. The shame placement on you, food, means so little to others but so much to me. The diagnosis of PCOS makes me feel so out of control of my body that i have to work everyday to like (notice I didn’t say love.) his offering of help sometimes feel like an intrusion on my own efforts. How do I keep my ED recovery strong, my nutrition as a top priority without grieving my PCOS diagnosis and symptoms, my ability to eat a huge juicy burger, and communicate all of this funk to my partner without making him feel like he’s harming me. It feels like it’s all just too much. My eating disorder history is mine, not his... but how can he best support me through this? Oh and food - did I mention that I hate and love you? Sincerely, Craving Partner Support Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap The PCOS + Food Peace Course Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus. 6 Keys To Food Peace Pre-order Ashlee's book: The Art of Body Acceptance here. Ashlee's website: BodyImage-Therapist.com Ashlee's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bodyimage_therapist/ Submit your Dear Food letter here or https://forms.gle/pepKRGPC8JbHLHHn8 Julie on Instagram: Instagram.com/FoodPeaceDietitian Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you. 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!
This episode is for those of you who have been on your Food Peace Journey for awhile. You've shifted the morality of health and radically rejected diets. But, there's a but. Do you find yourself yearning for your smaller body and wonder how all of that desire fits? Let's examine how your brain is processing all this with guest expert Stephanie Dodier. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by my Pop Up PCOS Podcast---Live only through the month of April. It focuses on how to live with and manage PCOS cravings. Get access to this private podcast here. Thank you for you supporting the Love Food Podcast! Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog The PCOS + Food Peace Free Roadmap The PCOS + Food Peace Course Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus. 6 Keys To Food Peace Conquer and Thrive Program - The mindset approach Going Beyond The Food Podcast Roadmap Non-Diet Mentorship Professional Program Free Non-Diet Intake Form for Professionals Stephanie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StephanieDodiernutrition/ Stephanie on Instagram:https://instagram.com/stephdodier Stephanie on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniedodier/ Submit your Dear Food letter here or https://forms.gle/pepKRGPC8JbHLHHn8 Julie on Instagram: Instagram.com/FoodPeaceDietitian Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you. 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!
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