Find Your Food Voice
Julie Duffy Dillon RDN
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Find Your Food Voice--formerly The Love Food Podcast--is a podcast—and a movement—to fix diet culture. Because you don’t need fixing. I’m your host, registered dietitian and food behavior expert Julie Duffy Dillon. Join in as we ditch cookie cutter approaches, expose the lies that society feeds us, and rewrite the rules around food, eating and our bodies. We call this “Finding Your Food Voice,” and it’s vital we do it together. Find YOUR food voice each week here on my website, or listen on your favorite podcast app.
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[Minisode]: Listen after emotionally eating
Find Your Food Voice
07/10/24 • 5 min
In this episode, Julie discusses the topic of emotional eating and the importance of giving oneself permission to eat emotionally without judgment. She emphasizes that emotional eating is normal, healthy, and an effective coping mechanism. Julie also explores the connection between the cultural fear of weight gain and racism. Julie highlights the need to practice non-judgmental curiosity and compassion towards oneself when engaging in emotional eating. She concludes by stating that understanding the unmet needs behind emotional eating can help individuals find their food voice.
Keywords: emotional eating, permission, judgment, normal, coping mechanism, cultural fear, weight gain, racism, non-judgmental curiosity, compassion, unmet needs, find your food voice
Takeaways
- Emotional eating is normal, healthy, and an effective coping mechanism.
- Shame and judgment around emotional eating come from cultural fear of weight gain tied to racism.
- Practice non-judgmental curiosity and compassion towards oneself when engaging in emotional eating.
- Understanding the unmet needs behind emotional eating can help individuals find their food voice.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:51 Exploring Emotional Hunger
03:23 Practicing Non-Judgmental Curiosity and Compassion
04:44 Understanding Unmet Needs and Finding Your Food Voice
05:20 Conclusion
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Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to [email protected].
Mentioned in this episode: FYFV Listen after part 1 / Belly of the Beast by Da'Shaun Harrison / Fearing the Black Body by Sabring Strings / Legalize Emotional Eating sweatshirt
Food Voice resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS Power Free Roadmap / PCOS Power Course / 6 Keys To Food Peace
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[Book Review] Belly of the Beast
Find Your Food Voice
03/08/22 • 39 min
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.
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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 BookstagramFood 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 ManifestoIf 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!
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Season 9 Premiere: Ride This Roller Coaster With Me
Find Your Food Voice
08/15/23 • 30 min
It’s our season NINE premiere! Buckle in for some amazing (and bittersweet!) updates on our team, Julie life updates, and a super duper exciting announcement about something coming your way soon. Big things are on the way for the FYFV corner of the world - you don’t want to miss it!
Please follow us on TikTok and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.
Please send your letters to [email protected].
Mentioned in this episode: Internal Family Systems / Follow Julie for co-working sessions on TikTok / Circle Community
Food Voice 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
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How does Food Activism fit into Food Peace? (with Christy Harrison)
Find Your Food Voice
01/01/20 • 33 min
Do you value sustainability? Vegan? Concerned about the agricultural impact on the environment? What if you want to improve the environment and have your food choices reflect that? Pull up a chair and let's chat. This episode of Love Food features guest expert Christy Harrison, author of the newly released Anti-Diet.
This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.
This episode's Dear Food letter:
Dear Food,
I've been in recovery from anorexia and orthorexia for over 6 months now and have been feeling so much better! Digestive issues I've expereinced for years have finally cleared up, and I love the way my body feels when I am nourishing it and giving it what it wants. Nevertheless, I struggle with the ways my food choices impact the environment. For a long time, while fully enmeshed in my eating disorder, I set out to live without electricity and try to grow all my own food--anything I did buy had to be something that I could concivibly produce in my area. This was a lot of rules and Ed loved it. During times when I fell short of vision and ate imported foods, I was ashamed, and during times when I succeeded I felt superior to others who lacked the discipline to care for the Earth the way I did. All and all I was unhealthy and isolated.
Now in my recovery, I no longer have such high standards. I try to live simply but give myself the joy of buying foods and now use electricity to do some of the things I love and carea about. I've also become involved in environmental activism. In the climate justice sphere, veganism is often touted as a major step one can take for the Earth. Inspite of this, I know deep down that eating animal products can be done in a way that it in balance with Earth and my body. I also know that the more time I spend obsessing on food, the less energy I have for this activism I care so much about!
But it is hard food, hard to be among people who claim that there is a moral imperative to eat in a certain way. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever be able to find food peace while also believing certain foods are better for the environment and others aren't. How can I have food peace when I feel my dietary choices are something I need to defend? How can I have food peace when a part of me knows that entire way we live now, including how we get our food, isn't in balance with the Earth?
Sincerely,
Letter writer
Show Notes:
- Julie Dillon RD blog
- Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.
- Christy Harrison's website
- Food Psych podcast
- Anti-Diet book (aff)
- Intuitive Eating book (aff) and website
- Find an Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.
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[Meditation] Before you change your eating again
Find Your Food Voice
01/02/24 • 28 min
As we enter January, what we at Find Your Food Voice call, International Dieting Month, join Julie for a guided meditation and reflection exercise to help you get through this month and all the diet BS that comes along with it.
Please follow us on TikTok and LinkedIn @FoodVoiceRD to keep up-to-date with our socials.
Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Submit your Dear Food letter here or send it to [email protected].
Mentioned in this episode: Belly of the Beast by Da'Shaun L Harrison / Your Body is Not an Apology by Sonia Renee Taylor / Fearing the Black Body by Dr. Sabrina Strings / Decolonizing Wellness by Dalia Kinsey
Food Voice resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS Power Free Roadmap / PCOS Power Course / 6 Keys To Food Peace
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Ep 047: My family hates my body.
Find Your Food Voice
12/05/16 • 22 min
Have you worked really hard to stop hating your body but feel like your family keeps holding you back? Do you find yourself dealing with the food police within your own family, even after you've begun to make peace with food yourself? Do you have family that encourages fat shaming and diet culture, even when you feel like you're doing your best to rid yourself of the mindset?? Listen now as Julie tackles this family-oriented topic and introduces some solutions.
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Key Points:
- What is the experience of finding peace with food while family members surrounding us stay stuck in the diet mentality?
- Fat shaming can come from people we care about!
- Setting our own boundaries is SUPER important in trying to protect your own recovery.
- The world that we live in isn't one of body-positivity, HAES, and size acceptance. This means that when we pursue recovery, we are going against the vast majority of society, and sometimes that means our families. This makes the work harder to do, but it is that much more important!
- Going against family dynamics is super hard, and when we actively follow our own path, it is common to feel pressure to go with the flow and back off of our own personal work in order to appease the family.
- When we RECOGNIZE any emotion we are having, it automatically diffuses it and breaks its power.
- How to beat body comparison: recognize the emotion, remove its power, and counteract with readily available responses of self-compassion.
- How do we connect with our self-compassion?? We must actively find ways to support self-compassion for the moments in which we feel vulnerable.
- Remember, our feelings and experiences are not going to last forever!!
- Have some ready-made comebacks to assert your recovery, either by facing it head on or by changing the subject.
- Surviving the Holidays and National Diet Month : #SoAnyway
- How do we empower ourselves to connect to peace and health and feeling comfortable in our own skin?
- When we provide new visuals for ourselves that are more size-diverse, it provides another option for our brains to think that OTHER kinds of bodies are beautiful too!
- IT'S NOT OUR JOB TO FIX OUR FAMILY!
- We should spend our energy on keeping ourselves safe, setting our own boundaries, and focusing on ensuring that we are providing the best modeling for our own family in terms of having a healthy relationship with food.
- Embrace self-compassion, boundaries, and self-care.
Show Notes:
- Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus.
- Dear Virgie: How Do I Deal With My Mom's Fatphobia and Concern Trolling?, Wear Your Voice
- Embrace, the documentary
- Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter
- Eating Disorder Dietitians
- Julie Dillon RD blog
Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to [email protected].
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[Interview] PCOS + Diabetes with Wendy Lopez (from Diabetes Digital)
Find Your Food Voice
04/22/25 • 30 min
Julie Duffy Dillon talks with Wendy Lopez about the intricate relationship between PCOS and diabetes. They explore the implications of insulin resistance, the role of nutrition, and the impact of GLP-1 medications on managing these conditions. The conversation emphasizes the importance of understanding personal health without the stigma of blame, advocating for a balanced approach to diet and lifestyle changes. Wendy shares insights on continuous glucose monitoring and the necessity of supportive healthcare conversations, ultimately encouraging listeners to focus on manageable steps towards better health.
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Mentioned in this episode: Wendy Lopez / Buy the FYFV Book! / Keep Learning on Substack! / FYFV Podcast Tip Jar
Food Voice resources: Julie Dillon RD blog / PCOS Power Free Roadmap / PCOS Power Course / 6 Keys To Food Peace
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Keywords: PCOS, diabetes, insulin resistance, nutrition, GLP-1, continuous glucose monitoring, weight management, health care, dietitian, health at every size
Outline:
00:00 Introduction and Connection Between PCOS and Diabetes
00:48 Understanding Insulin Resistance in PCOS
02:15 Navigating Healthcare and Testing for PCOS
04:48 The Impact of Fear on Health Choices
06:50 The Role of Carbohydrates in Managing PCOS
09:41 Exploring GLP-1 Medications and Their Effects
12:45 Navigating the Complexities of PCOS Management
19:00 Conclusion
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Ep 046: I'm convinced nothing will help me stop emotionally eating (with Ellen Shuman).
Find Your Food Voice
11/28/16 • 31 min
Are you someone who identifies with the emotional eating experience? Have you tried everything to work through emotional eating and bingeing, but still lean on food when things feel intolerable? Do the tools that everyone suggests to you to overcome these problems always seem to fall short? Listen now to get a new perspective and begin to find some relief from emotional eating.
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Key Points:
- Sometimes we get convinced that nothing will work as good as food in allowing us to cope with our emotional issues.
- How do we incorporate tools that just don't work with our lifestyle?
- Eating for emotional comfort just doesn't make us happy in the long run!
- Ellen Shuman, a therapist who does work specifically with people who struggle with emotional eating, joins us to help answer today's letter! She tells us about her journey to becoming involved in the eating disorder and emotional eating worlds.
- "The Oprah Effect"
- Ellen's "Emotional Handrails:" something to attach our mind to in order to tolerate the emotions long enough to figure out what is driving us to emotional eating.
- It's not about food behavior, it's about being able to internally emotionally regulate!
- "I've learned how to neutralize the things I'm saying to myself that really are distortions, and not really the truth." - Ellen
- The whole point of eating emotionally is to be mindLESS, which is why mindFULL eating is such a hard goal for people who deal with emotional eating.
- "First we learn how to tolerate our thoughts and feelings and to feel more empowered to manage those so [that] we're not so scared they're gonna overwhelm us." - Ellen
- There are so many tools out there that work better!! It's about intervening BEFORE the food thought hits.
- Conscious positive behavior replaces conscious negative behavior.
- Ellen's "To Hell With it Switch:" that moment in which we abandon our promises to "do better" and instead engage in emotional eating to numb out.
- What's the brain chemistry going on here?? What are the patterns of thinking that trigger our emotional eating?
- Top brain (pre-frontal cortex) vs. bottom brain (primitive brain).
- Use self-compassion and self-care to quiet your negative thoughts (middle-brain self-critical statements) that lead to emotional overeating!
- "I am not my thoughts! Just 'cause I have a food thought doesn't mean I have to act on it." - Ellen
- "Don't believe everything you think." - Dr. Wayne W Dyer
- Ellen chats about her program, A Weigh Out which focuses on an end to emotional eating and weight obsession, her free phone seminar session, and the Weigh Out free 3-week membership.
- If we work on the underlying issues and learn new tools to support our emotional management, then the food issues begin to resolve themselves.
- Happiness and freedom from food obsession comes from being who we truly are, and working on our emotional coping tools.
- You are WORTH putting in the effort and figuring this out. Stop blaming yourself... you haven't found the tools yet that work for you!
- RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE!!
Show Notes:
- Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus.
- Marsha Lineham and DBT
- Excuses Begone! by Dr. Wayne W Dyer
- Free Phone Coach Seminar with Ellen
- A Weigh Out
- Ellen's free 3-week membership
- Ellen's contact information: [email protected], (513) 321-4242
- Eating Disorder Dietitians
- Julie Dillon RD blog
Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to [email protected].
(244) Letting go of diets and food control with Daph Levy
Find Your Food Voice
05/18/21 • 39 min
A transcript of this episode is available at JulieDillonRD.com.
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!
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Mentioned in this episode: Daph's Instagram / Daph's Youtube channel / Double Vision Media / 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 ManifestoThis episode of The Love Food Podcast is brought to you by my PCOS + Food Peace Course. Grab the details at PCOSandFoodPeace.com.
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Cultivating support for your PCOS and advocating for better care
Find Your Food Voice
01/24/18 • 30 min
Are you or is someone you know affected by PCOS? I have some bonus episodes for you! Listen now for the third bonus episode all about how to self-advocate for your health and find support while struggling with PCOS.
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Episode's Key Points:
- Be sure to check out the first and second PCOS bonus Love, Food episodes!
- You shouldn't have to advocate for yourself, but unfortunately you'll probably have to... so I have some tips to share!
- PCOS is a women's disease, and so there's not a lot of research about it out there, and people don't really want to talk about it. Plus, weight gain is a part of PCOS, which makes it even harder to find support because we live in a fatphobia world.
- BUT, increased support actually helps improve our health! It can lower your blood pressure, help with insulin sensitivity, and so much more. So support is a big deal!
- Weight bias in the healthcare community is a moral issue!! We have to combat it, and it starts with us.
- First off, what's weight stigma? It's negative attitudes towards a person due to their body size. This leads to prejudice and discrimination, and results in lower quality of care. Stigma also activates a hormone response that ultimately leads to increased insulin resistance, and so much more. AND PCOS is tied closely to weight gain, which means that weight stigma is a BIG deal for those struggling with PCOS!
- But doesn't shame help us lose weight and watch what we eat? NO! Shame does NOT promote weight loss, and can in fact lead to more weight gain and avoidance of medical care.
- The research also shows us that bias within the healthcare community is rampant. That means that as someone with PCOS, you need to walk into the doctor's office armed with information, and ready to advocate for yourself and protect yourself from weight stigma. Here's some ways how:
- Decline to be weighed. You DON'T have to be weighed! It's NOT a medical necessity, and it can be super triggering.
- Assert that you don't need to talk about dieting. Protect your recovery by letting them know that you aren't interested in talking about weight loss, and that talking about dieting could actually put you at risk for weight gain.
- Let the doctor know that diets just don't work. Let them know that diets have never benefitted your health, and demand a different intervention strategy.
- Ask your doctor what they recommend to patients that are in smaller bodies. There are ZERO conditions that only affect people in larger bodies, and so there are weight-neutral ways to improve your health.
- Ask for the research! Ask for the data that shows long-term success (sustained weight loss with improved health for five years or more)... it doesn't exist!
- It sucks that you even have to do this extra work, but there ARE people out there in the fat activist community who are ready to help you.
- The last thing we need to talk about is how to find support. Be open with your friends and family about your struggle, join our PCOS and Food Peace Support Group on Facebook, find support on social media, try to meet up with folks in person, and head to the PCOS Awareness Symposium!
Show Notes:
- Julie Dillon RD blog
- Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food PeaceTM Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food PeaceTM Syllabus.
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- Ragen Chastain's Dances...
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How many episodes does Find Your Food Voice have?
Find Your Food Voice currently has 428 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Mental Health and Podcasts.
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The episode title '[Book Review] Belly of the Beast' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Find Your Food Voice is 27 minutes.
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Episodes of Find Your Food Voice are typically released every 7 days.
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The first episode of Find Your Food Voice was released on Jan 19, 2016.
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