Podcasts about birdhouse nutrition therapy

Welcome to the tenth episode of the Trust Your Body Project Podcast! Trust Your Body Project is a podcast and social media movement started on Instagram designed to help you heal, eat, and create space for the things that truly matter.  Meet your host, Whitney Catalano, an anti-diet, health at every size registered dietitian who offers online coaching to help you stop dieting, make peace with your body, and take the power back from your inner bully. In this week’s episode Whitney speaks with Julie Duffy Dillon, a registered dietitian, eating disorder specialist, and PCOS specialist who partners with people on their journey to food peace.  Julie shares her story of going from a weight management dietitian to finding health at every size and embracing body respect and body positivity. Whitney and Julie discuss: How did Julie become involved with PCOS? What exactly is PCOS? The fluidity of loving your body, and how body respect is a great first step towards it Why is there so little research done about PCOS? That you shouldn’t have to torture your body to get the health care you need What Julie recommends you can do to help yourself if you have PCOS How misleading the long term research is around PCOS What are Julie’s experiences with dieting and how has come to understand and tune into her intuition   When you’re ready to start your journey towards intuitive eating and body acceptance, there is a way for you to find peace with food, have less chaos and promote health at the same time.   Learn more from the resources below:  Julie Duffy Dillon is a Registered Dietitian, Eating Disorder Specialist, and Food Behavior Expert partnering with people on their Food Peace journey. She is trained as a mental health counselor and supervises dietitians and other health professionals to use weight inclusive and attuned eating strategies. She owns central North Carolina's group nutrition private practice and premier source of eating disorder treatment and prevention, BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy. Julie also produces and hosts the weekly podcast, Love Food and has an online course to help those affected by PCOS. Learn more at JulieDillonRD.com.  Instagram @FoodPeaceDietitian JulieDillonRD.com PCOSandFoodPeace.com This podcast is brought to you by my Patreon. To join the Patreon-only Facebook group and get exclusive content from me, visit whitneycatalano.com/podcast to learn more. Heal your relationship with food and start showing up authentically in your life with my Jumpstart to Food Freedom coaching program at: www.whitneycatalano.com/book  For a chance to have your listener question answered on the pod, or if I said something that needs correcting, you can email me at podcast@whitneycatalano.com Follow me! ! Instagram / Twitter / Facebook / Youtube

Examining the effects of body image and how do give more self-love to yourself and your children. It’s not about letting yourself go, it is letting yourself BE! BIO: Julie Duffy Dillon MS, RD, NCC, LDN, CEDRD http://www.juliedillonrd.com Diets don’t work and I learned the hard way. Early on as a dietitian, I put people on diets hoping it would help them improve health and keep weight lower. Do you know what I found? Most folks felt chained to the scale rather than focusing on healthy behaviors. And, they felt so ashamed. Do you?   They thought they were a constant failure since after every diet, they just regained the weight (or more). Can you relate?   I didn’t like seeing my clients feel so awful so I thought maybe I was supporting them incorrectly.   I dug into the research and you know what I found? Diets don’t work for most people. Long term diet success was the exception not the rule. You’re not the only one.   They also don’t improve health long term and only worsen things like mood, insulin levels, and self esteem. The diets failed. Not you. Once I discovered this, I couldn’t un-see it. I found ways to promote health without the pursuit of weight loss: I found Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size approaches, mindful eating, and joyful movement. I sought training from experts in these approaches.   Fun fact about me: I have never been on a diet. At times this made me feel like a rebel in disguise and out of place. When I was training to become a dietitian and learning about diets it didn’t make sense to me. It felt unhealthy in my gut and heart. I remember sitting in class overhearing my cohort discuss foods they never eat. They named foods like french fries…which I just had eaten for lunch. I felt shame and anger. I was pretty sure I was healthy but they were telling me I was doing it wrong.   I tried to fit in and practice dietetics the traditional way until I realized diets hurt all of us. And, I thankfully connected with those wise experts who trained me to help the world to stop its obsession with diets and weight. Interested in my training?   For the last 15 years I have been helping people just like you heal their relationship with food. As an eating disorder expert, I have worked with all types of eating disorders and partnered with my clients as they walked their path to Food Peace.   Individual Counseling Julie has been helping people just like you heal their relationship with food for over 15 years. You will find the work to be different from other dietitians. Julie aims to be challenging and therapeutic to partner with you on your Food Peace journey. She sees clients in person and virtually in her group private practice located in Greensboro NC called BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy.

What if you could write a letter to Food? Pen to paper, you hash out the love/hate relationship and Food’s undeserving power. That is the focus of Julie Duffy Dillon’s podcast, Love, Food! Julie and Dr. Steph talk about reconnecting with the innate wisdom our bodies have around food and health. BIO:  Julie Duffy Dillon MS, RD, NCC, LDN, CEDRD http://www.juliedillonrd.com Diets don’t work and I learned the hard way. Early on as a dietitian, I put people on diets hoping it would help them improve health and keep weight lower. Do you know what I found? Most folks felt chained to the scale rather than focusing on healthy behaviors. And, they felt so ashamed. Do you?   They thought they were a constant failure since after every diet, they just regained the weight (or more). Can you relate?   I didn’t like seeing my clients feel so awful so I thought maybe I was supporting them incorrectly.   I dug into the research and you know what I found? Diets don’t work for most people. Long term diet success was the exception not the rule. You’re not the only one.   They also don’t improve health long term and only worsen things like mood, insulin levels, and self esteem. The diets failed. Not you. Once I discovered this, I couldn’t un-see it. I found ways to promote health without the pursuit of weight loss: I found Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size approaches, mindful eating, and joyful movement. I sought training from experts in these approaches.   Fun fact about me: I have never been on a diet. At times this made me feel like a rebel in disguise and out of place. When I was training to become a dietitian and learning about diets it didn’t make sense to me. It felt unhealthy in my gut and heart. I remember sitting in class overhearing my cohort discuss foods they never eat. They named foods like french fries…which I just had eaten for lunch. I felt shame and anger. I was pretty sure I was healthy but they were telling me I was doing it wrong.   I tried to fit in and practice dietetics the traditional way until I realized diets hurt all of us. And, I thankfully connected with those wise experts who trained me to help the world to stop its obsession with diets and weight. Interested in my training?   For the last 15 years I have been helping people just like you heal their relationship with food. As an eating disorder expert, I have worked with all types of eating disorders and partnered with my clients as they walked their path to Food Peace.   Individual Counseling Julie has been helping people just like you heal their relationship with food for over 15 years. You will find the work to be different from other dietitians. Julie aims to be challenging and therapeutic to partner with you on your Food Peace journey. She sees clients in person and virtually in her group private practice located in Greensboro NC called BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy.

Food Peace  http://learntruehealth.com/food-peace/ Food peace is all about how to love food again. Most of us fear food because we are afraid of gaining weight. But my guest today is registered dietician Julie Duffy Dillon who will break down some steps on how we can achieve food peace. On A Mission Julie Duffy Dillon is an eating disorder specialist who helps people with weight issues and helps them attain food peace.  She was a conventionally-trained dietician and generally, it takes people six years of study to do the job. Getting out of school, Julie Duffy Dillon thought she was more than prepared to help people achieve food peace. After a few years, she realized that most people were not able to lose weight and the tools she had for food peace was missing the point. “I felt there was another dynamics, so I quit and got a degree in mental health counseling. Then I started researching diets,” said Julie Duffy Dillon. “No diet will help you go long-term. Diets lead to weight regain. It led to me getting into knowing how eating disorders happen.” Busting Myths According to Julie Duffy Dillon, when we pursue weight loss, we miss health. She says health is also how much power we have in our world. The journey towards food peace comes from finding what works for you and fixing the world’s view of our bodies. “Many people think they can control all aspects of health. It’s not just about the food we eat or the way we move our body. Stress, poverty, and depression also play a big factor. Outside things determine 75% percent of health,” Julie Dillion said. Julie Duffy Dillon essentially helps her clients realize that the body has wisdom.  To be able to have food peace, one must learn how to listen to their body and figure out what energizes or depletes them. PCOS I have dealt with polycystic ovary syndrome.  It is a condition wherein my hormone levels were affected, but I was able to reverse it through a change of diet and lifestyle. Julie Duffy Dillon says medical doctors tend to tell their patients they’re not trying hard enough. They usually advise patients to cut food groups and exercise more.  But Julie Duffy Dillon says she has found a way to veer away from diets by practicing self-care. “I help people find their place of passions. We shouldn’t feel like being tortured by food. Eat enough to be a human to have energy,” said Julie Duffy Dillon. “I help clients pick something sustainable and educate them on how to listen to their body.” Body Shaming Shame is a big part of eating disorders, and it deters attaining food peace. According to Julie, eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses, so they’re a big deal. “I want to do every I can to help prevent it. Shame doesn’t promote health, although it’s something we often lean on. But it’s certainly not something that works to change behavior in the long-term,” said Julie Duffy Dillon. I had experienced shame when I was younger. My mother would subject me to shame whenever I ate rice or anything unhealthy.  It was my mom’s way of showing she loved me enough to care about my health but emotionally and mentally, it did affect me. “Unfortunately, when our motivation is fear-based, we don’t tend to make the best decisions. We need to come from genuine love because we live in a world that is not too kind to people of size,” Julie Duffy Dillon said. Trust Your Body Julie also stresses the need to teach children to love their bodies and to trust the messages of their body. Society puts too much emphasis on body size, and that leads to more severe problems like eating disorders. And when that happens, food peace fails. I was concerned about my weight mainly when I was pregnant.  But I learned from my Naturopath that apparently, weight has nothing to do with a healthy pregnancy.  In fact, the primary thing to look out for was blood work, and mine was great! “I think there’s a manipulation in the diet industry that makes us all freak out when we are 10 or 20 pounds heavier when it’s not as concerning,” said Julie Duffy Dillon  She also adds, “Speaking for my clients in recovery, positive body weight is important to maintain recovery. It is essential for them not to diet again or else there will be a relapse.”  Dangers Of Eating Disorders Julie Duffy Dillon says suicide is a component for some people. She says some people die, but there’s a medical risk associated with it, too. In fact, there used to be a medical category called, “Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified Condition,” which according to Julie Duffy Dillon, the mortality rate was highest in that group.  “People with the condition usually die in their sleep. There are many facilities now that specialize in nutritional rehabilitation. They are usually on an out-patient level like my program. My rehab program is once a week and ideally, for three to six months,” said Julie Duffy Dillon. Model Healthy Behavior Julie Duffy Dillon thinks that sometimes, people want kids to know what’s healthy and not healthy. How kids learn nutrition is interesting. “When we are younger, we are concrete thinkers. Nutrition and teaching healthy eating is a very abstract, formal and operational type of way of thinking,” explains Julie Duffy Dillon. So when a person is trying to teach moderation or healthy eating to a kid through words, their brain is not going to get it on the same level compared to a grown up.” So what then is the best way to teach kids? Julie Duffy Dillon says exposure is the best teacher. Exposing kids to gardens allow them to learn agriculture and enable them to see how plants grow and what they taste like. “It must be a hands-on way of teaching nutrition. Practice model healthy behavior by not talking about bodies unless it is something neutral or positive” said Julie Duffy Dillon. Tips For Adults First of all, Julie Duffy Dillon suggests having sufficient knowledge of your history with food. Because sometimes, eating is not just about hunger or being full. She says it’s also a connection to our lineage and culture. “Know that you can trust your body and know that there’s a pleasure coming from food like cooking or eating,” suggests Julie Duffy Dillon. “Find out what serves you and what helps you feel energized. Your body was born with this innate wisdom to promote health so you can rely on it even if it has been a while.” Julie Duffy Dillon listed down this very doable 3-step procedure that will ultimately help you achieve food peace: Permit yourself to eat. You’ve tried diets and know they don’t help long term. What if you experimented with permitting yourself instead? Instead of playing the message “I am a failure for failing my diet,” reframe it to be, “Another diet failed me because none of them work for most people.” You didn’t fail. The diet did. Throw out the scale or smash it with a hammer. Pursuing weight loss predicts more weight gain, isn’t supported by science to promote health and just keeps you from being you.  Love Food Podcast To know more about how to get over your eating disorder, tune in to Julie Duffy Dillon’s Love Food Podcast.  Her episodes are packed with information on how you can achieve food peace. Julie Duffy Dillon is a Registered Dietitian, Eating Disorder Specialist, and Food Behavior Expert partnering with people on their Food Peace journey. She is trained as a mental health counselor and supervises dietitians and other health professionals to use weight inclusive and attuned eating strategies.  Julie Duffy Dillon owns central North Carolina’s group nutrition private practice and premier source of eating disorder treatment and prevention, BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy. She also produces and hosts the weekly podcast, Love Food. 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Julie is a Registered Dietician, Food behavior expert, nutrition therapist, eating disorder specialist, Mental Health Counselor, author, and podcaster. Her mission is to help you reconnect to enjoy eating again. Using body positive practices, Julie works with people in all walks of life to reconnect to their own innate wisdom to experience health through food and movement. She owns BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy a central North Carolina based group nutrition private practice devoted to eating disorder recovery and teaching other dietitians how to become eating disorder specialists.

Julie Duffy Dillion RD Birdhouse Nutrition Therapy   Food, Peace- Not all dietitians are diet pushers You are the expert of your body! What does better mean? Weight change is just a symptom Sometimes to perform our best we have to have boundaries  Where you can find Julie: juliedillonrd.com https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/julie-dillon/the-love-food-podcast A Step-By-Step Guide to Food Peace with PCOS So you know she is legit: Julie Duffy Dillon is a Registered Dietitian, Eating Disorder and PCOS Specialist, and Food Behavior Expert partnering with people on their Food Peace journey. She is trained as a mental health counselor and supervises dietitians and other health professionals to use weight inclusive and attuned eating strategies. She owns central North Carolina's group nutrition private practice and premier source of eating disorder treatment and prevention, BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy. Julie also produces and hosts the weekly podcast, Love Food. She is launching a brand new e-course for those of you with PCOS called: A Step-By-Step Guide to Food Peace with PCOS. Learn more at and PCOSandFoodPeace.com  

Julie shares her story of becoming a mother, growing her family and fielding comments about her body throughout the journey. As an expert in PCOS, food behavior and body image, Julie also shares how she came to specialize in PCOS, why dieting is harmful to women with PCOS and how they can manage their symptoms WITHOUT dieting. Julie has just launched the first online non-diet program for PCOS! Link below. Bio: Julie Duffy Dillon is a Registered Dietitian, Eating Disorder Specialist, and Food Behavior Expert partnering with people on their Food Peace journey. She is trained as a mental health counselor and supervises dietitians and other health professionals to use weight inclusive and attuned eating strategies. She owns central North Carolina's group nutrition private practice and premier source of eating disorder treatment and prevention, BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy. Julie also produces and hosts the weekly podcast, Love Food. Learn more at JulieDillonRD.com. Find Julie online: JulieDillonRD.com PCOSandFoodPeace.com/FreePCOSRoapMap Do you have PCOS? Check Julie's new program that just launched! https://pcosandfoodpeace.com/coursedetails/ Want to continue the conversation? Join us over at the Nurtured Mama Community on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/groups/nurturedmamacommunity/ Learn more about The Nurtured Mama at www.thenurturedmama.club

“13% of women over 50 engage in eating disorder behaviors.” - National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders Weight gain at midlife can be as distressing as it is common, leaving many women searching for ways to shed the unwanted weight. But are a few extra pounds really worth the pain and suffering, or worse, risking a dangerous eating disorder? Wouldn’t it be better to make peace with our bodies and our food? Jill talked with Julie Duffy Dillon, Registered Dietitian, Eating Disorder and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Specialist, and Food Behavior Expert, on how she’s partnering with people on their Food Peace journey. Julie is trained as a mental health counselor and supervises dietitians and other health professionals to use weight-inclusive and attuned-eating strategies. Here’s what she told us: 1:37 What is the “food peace journey,” and how did we get so far off track? What is the “food peace journey”? Julie says we’re “born knowing how to eat,” but somehow our natural set points for hunger and fullness have gotten confused as our culture’s definition of beauty have narrowed. How did that happen, and how do we get our original “default settings” back? 3:59 Why is it so hard for us to have a healthy relationship with food? Why is it difficult for adults, including women over 40, to have a healthy relationship with food? Sixty percent of adult women engage in “pathological weight control,” Julie says, and feel guilty about eating or getting pleasure from food. Hear from Julie how our fat-phobic, youth-obsessed culture damages how we think about food and our bodies and how rejecting that cultural attitude becomes a radical act. 6:34 Intuitive eating and letting body cues dictate what and how we eat Julie talks about coaching women up from “diet rock bottom.” Acknowledging damaging cultural expectations, admitting our old ways of thinking and acting don’t work, deciding our own path to food peace – these help us realize we are the experts on our bodies, Julie says. And that allows us to reclaim our body’s natural cues. Learn how. 9:29 What “food rules” do we follow and why should we ditch them? Don’t eat after sunset; stay under 1200 calories a day; don’t eat carbs, but clean your plate. We set a lot of rules for our eating that may or may not support good health. Julie goes into some of our many food rules and why so many of our “shoulds” … shouldn’t. 12:01 Distinguishing real hunger from “symbolic” hunger Many of us have gotten so far into disordered eating, we don’t recognize our own body cues anymore. Julie helps us reconnect with our needs, whether it’s a need for fuel or whether we’re actually trying to feed a “symbolic” hunger instead. 14:01 Why do we experience symbolic hunger?   Why do we eat when we’re not hungry? Julie says there are lots of reasons to eat outside of physical hunger, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. But if there’s more to the hunger, if there’s an underlying cause that needs to be addressed, then it might be time to find a Julie. Eating outside of hunger shouldn’t be shameful or an opportunity to judge someone, Julie says. She details questions to ask yourself when you think your hunger might be symbolic and unhealthy. But wait, there’s more food peace ahead! In Part 2, Jill and Julie talk about how we can be more conscious of our own eating, and how eating issues seem to disproportionally affect women in midlife. How do we know when our eating has become problematic, and what can we do about our approach to food? Stay tuned to genneve for the second half of this podcast, and be sure to follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, and SoundCloud, so you never miss an episode. Julie owns Birdhouse Nutrition Therapy, central North Carolina's premier source of eating disorder treatment and prevention. She also produces and hosts the weekly podcast, Love Food. Learn more at JulieDillonRD.com.

Tabitha talks to registered dietician Julie Duffy Dillon about: Why a fat positive approach is needed Eating disorder prevention Food is not on a dichotomy of good and bad Education and research on fat positive approaches The problem with people with eating disorders becoming nutritional advisors The canary in the coal mine The problem with nutritional science Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and eating disorder JulieDillonRD.com Facebook.com/JulieDuffyDillon Instagram @FoodPeaceDietitian My podcast Love Food: on iTunes or via my blog: http://www.juliedillonrd.com/blog/ Bio: Julie Duffy Dillon is a Registered Dietitian, Eating Disorder Specialist, and Food Behavior Expert partnering with people on their Food Peace journey. She is trained as a mental health counselor and supervises dietitians and other health professionals to help using weight inclusive and attuned eating strategies. She owns central North Carolina's group nutrition private practice and premier source of eating disorder treatment and prevention, BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy. Julie also produces and hosts the weekly podcast, Love Food. Learn more at JulieDillonRD.com. Support this podcast via Patreon! You can support this podcast and ensure the continuation of it by pledging a patreon donation here: https://www.patreon.com/Eating_Disorder_Recovery_Podcast We want your feedback on these podcasts! Please take a second to fill out this survey with feedback so we can make these podcasts even better: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BSQ7BBM Subscribe to these podcasts in iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/eating-disorder-recovery-podcast/id1138563928?mt=2 Community Links: Adults in recovery community Slack Group: http://tabithafarrar.com/slack-forum/ Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/EDMealSupport/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ED_MealSupport

Fellow body-positive RDs Rebecca Scritchfield and Julie Duffy Dillon return for a special episode in honor of NEDA Week and National Nutrition Month! We discuss our new joint campaign #ChangeTheGame, why the nutrition field often plays right into diet culture, why we need to stop prescribing one thing to people with diagnosed eating disorders and another thing to the rest of the population, how dieting messes with your mind, and lots more! Julie Duffy Dillon is a food behavior expert who helps people enjoy eating again. Award winning with her progressive approach, Julie was featured in TLC’s documentary My Big Fat Fabulous Life. Julie has an active blog on JulieDillonRD.com and a weekly Food Peace Newsletter. Listen to her weekly body positive, diet free, and health promoting podcast Love, Food where she answers listener letters about their complicated relationship with food. Julie received her BS in Nutrition from Ohio University and MS in Mental Health Counseling from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. As a registered and licensed dietitian in North Carolina, she founded BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy a group practice passionate about helping individuals and families recover from eating disorders and PCOS. As a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDRD), she also supervises dietitians to be eating disorder specialists. Don't miss Julie's previous appearance on Food Psych!   Rebecca Scritchfield is a well-being coach, registered dietitian nutritionist, certified health and fitness specialist and author of the book, Body Kindness, which Publisher’s Weekly calls “a rousing guide to better health.” Through her weight-neutral mindfulness-based counseling practice, she helps people create a better life with workable goals that fit individual interests. She is the co-founder of Dietitians for Body Confidence, a website and free bi-monthly e-mail dedicated to shared learning among dietitians and future RDNs to improve body image in people they serve. Rebecca has influenced millions through her writing, Body Kindness podcast, and appearances in over 100 media outlets including NBC Nightly News, CNN, the Today show, the Washington Post, O Magazine, Health, Shape, and many others. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she was recently recognized as one of ten “Supermom” entrepreneurs in the Nation’s Capital. Find her online at RebeccaScritchfield.com, get her book at BodyKindnessBook.com, and don't miss her previous episode of Food Psych! Join the new Food Psych Facebook group to connect with fellow listeners around the world! To learn more about Food Psych and our guest, visit christyharrison.com/foodpsych Join Christy's intuitive eating online course at christyharrison.com/course How healthy is your relationship with food? Take the quiz and get free resources at christyharrison.com/quiz!

Download Episode! Lovely radicals, it's podcast time! In today's episode of the "Life. Unrestricted." podcast, I get to talk to Julie Duffy Dillon from Greensboro, North Carolina. Julie is a food behavior expert who helps people enjoy eating again. Award winning with her progressive approach, Julie was featured in TLC’s documentary "My Big Fat Fabulous Life". She also has an active blog, writes the weekly "Food Peace Newsletter", but she also hosts a podcast, called "Love Food", where she addresses people's struggles by way of a love letter from food. Julie has a Bachelor in Nutrition from Ohio University, and a Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling from the University of North Carolina. As a Registered and Licensed Dietitian, she founded BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy, a group practice passionate about helping individuals and families recover from eating disorders. As a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist, she also supervises other dietitians who are on the path to become eating disorder specialists as well. Listen to Julie talk about: – What kind of messages she got about weight and body – Why she got into nutrition and counseling – What she learned about the treatment of people who are considered "overweight" – How she realized that, as a nutritionists, they didn’t give those people the right treatment – What's wrong with the education of future nutritionists – Why it is often those who are themselves disordered choose to study nutrition or personal training – What she found out when she dug into weight-science and research studies – What she found out about diets, restriction, weight-obsession and the harm of it all and the risk of developing an eating disorder – What the Minnesota Starvation Study was about and what happens when we diet/restrict/overexercise – Why binge-eating and overeating are rooted in restriction, be it physical and/or mental – How our mental health is closely related to how well-fed we are – How, after periods of restriction, binge-eating is completely normal and our body's way to save us – How she discovered Health at Every Size and started to question her approach and her beliefs – How feminism and the knowledge about social justice issues helped her in developing a deeper understanding of people's body issues – Why body image must be addressed on the way of diet- or eating disorder recovery, in order to make sure that people don't get stuck in disordered eating and a full recovery is possible – What she means by "hidden faces" of eating disorders, and why they are the vast majority of eating disorders – Why anorexics often don't look like the clichéd "skeletal-looking" person – How she found out how hurtful our society’s fear of fat really is – What we must be cautious about when choosing a dietitian or nutritionist – How she found out how exaggerated the connection between weight and health really is – Why it can be very helpful to feel healthy anger when we find out how we have been deceived – Why those evasive 3 percent of people for whom dieting "supposedly works" are those who are sacrificing everything just to keep that weight off, and why even those people come to sanity (and their natural weight) eventually – How weight-suppression keeps us from living our lives fully and freely – How we can learn to consume media’s messages with a more critical, schooled eye – Why developing a healthy anger towards the diet- and beauty industries will help us grow strong enough to channel it into advocacy... ... And so much more! Check out Julie’s websites: www.juliedillonrd.com and www.birdhousenutrition.com Please consider supporting the podcast with a donation by becoming a "Patreon"; so that I can keep producing it. Thank you! Here's the link: www.patreon.com/lifeunrestricted Like the podcast? Great! Do subscribe on iTunes (Apple): https://itunes.apple.com/ch/podcast/life.-unrestricted.-podcast/id1130713233?mt=2 or on Stitcher (Android): http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=93987&refid ********* Don't forget!********* Make sure to join my tribe and meet some of the most supportive, loving and kind people of all shapes and sizes, including great coaches and leaders! We’re right over here at: http://www.lifeunrestricted.org/join/

Has healthy eating gone too far for you? A woman writes to food about the stress, exhaustion, confusion, and shame she experiences when she choses something not clean. Can you relate? Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Are you a clean eater? If you ask me, I say "Nope. I am dirty." Sanitary? Yes. Judge food choices or throw morals into what's consumed? No way. "The fondest memories are made gathered around the table." This is the mantra we at BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy see before we meet with every client because it's the basis of our work. Relationships connect us with joy and the meaning of life and when food gets too much power it will negatively impact this. Healthy eating advice is everywhere we look so not surprising this letter writer is experiencing this struggle with how much power to give food. Orthorexia nervosa, coined by Steven Bratman, is not classified as an official eating disorder yet it will feel just as paralyzing and crappy as a diagnosed eating disorder. It affects their mental health. First steps to heal from orthorexia nervosa: Make a pro and con list of this eating style You decide if the feelings of control outweigh the impact on relationships, life, career Appreciate recovery will take time Get proper nutrition education from a reputable dietitian Appreciate that healthy eating includes pleasure Carbs, although demonized right now, are a necessary part of each culture around the world. You can't name a single culture around the world without a carb staple. People are healthy; food is nutritious. Label food their actual names rather than categorize to be mindful and in the present rather than running on anxiety. Clean eating is washing food and cooking it to the right temperature. Healthy eating is not being black and white about food choices no matter how you categorize them. The journey to food peace is always worth the stress and anxiety. Take those first few steps, they will be worth it! Show Notes: No food is healthy. Not even kale. Washington Post article by Michael Ruhlman How to take back your power from food this holiday. Recovery Warriors blog post by Julie Duffy Dillon Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog My colleague and friend Jennifer McGurk RD, CDE, CEDRD. If you are a dietitian or therapist with the entrepreneur bug, check out her book to help you make the next steps to start building your business. Her book is Pursuing Private Practice: 10 Steps to Start Your Own Business Food Peace Syllabus Additions: Health Food Junkies: Orthorexia Nervosa-The Health Food Eating Disorder by Steven Bratman MD ← The physician who coined the term orthorexia and wrote first about it. Normal Eating by Karen Koenig LCSW Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD.

Julie Duffy Dillon is a Registered Dietitian, Eating Disorder Specialist, and Food Behavior Expert and has been helping people heal their relationship with food for over 15 years. She is trained as a mental health counselor and supervises dietitians and other health professionals to use weight inclusive and attuned eating strategies. Based in North Carolina, Julie owns BirdHouse Nutrition Therapy, a premier source of eating disorder treatment and prevention. She also produces and hosts the Love Food podcast.In This Episode, You Will Learn:Why Julie isn’t a fan of dieting even though she’s a Registered Dietitian.All about an approach to eating (and life) called Food Peace.How intuitive eating provides freedom.Julie’s online course focused on Polycycstic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and Food Peace.Connect with Julie:JulieDillonRD.comLove Food PodcastBirdHouse Nutrition TherapyPCOS and Food Peace (online course)FacebookInstagramPinterestTwitterYouTubeLinkedInDon’t Miss A Single Episode:Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.Leave a quick review on any of the podcast apps to tell people what you think about the show.Take a screenshot of the podcast and post it on Instagram or Instagram Stories. Tag us @insporising. We’ll repost and give you a shoutout!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspiration-rising/donations