Are you having success with healing your relationship with food, but are worried that going back into a toxic environment will jeopardize your newfound peace? Listen now to get my tips on how to approach this part of the Food PeaceTM journey.

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Episode's Key Points:

• Our relationship with food is a window into our unmet needs!
• Instead of trying to avoid vulnerability, try sticking with it. It will help you tap into your own innate wisdom, and help guide you towards what you need to do next.
• It's time to investigate our unmet need. Food can help distract us when we're going through challenging times, but figuring out the unmet need can provide some lasting relief. This strategy is called the Food Decoding Method!
• Chronic illness is a tough experience on everyone, not just the person struggling with the pain. Remember that, and give yourself some compassion.
• Hardship and health conditions are difficult, but they are NOT caused by being in a larger body. There's a relationship between body size and illness, but there's no research out there to prove that being in a larger body leads to ill health. In fact, there are lots of factors, like weight stigma, that aren't even considered in classic weight research.
• Ending a relationship with your therapist is hard, but even going to a few sessions is worth it.
• Explore the option of online therapy providers! Some of my colleagues doing virtual work include Christy Harrison, Erica Leon, and Paige Smathers.
• You don't have to have your shit together. Transitions are messy, and adjustments take time!

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.
• Dr. Barbara Birsinger's work
• Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food PeaceTM journey. Get access to one near you here.

Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to [email protected].

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Do you try to eat mindfully yet frustrated with the times you don't? You know eating with distractions bring relief, pleasure, and relaxation. Does every eating experience need to happen when we are hungry? Is emotional eating ever ok? Julie and her guest Michelle Kuster RD discuss. Listen now for insight.

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Key Points:

• Reunited and it feels so good 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶
• Is all mindless eating bad?
• Some within the mindful eating industry forget to incorporate compassion and unintentionally encourage all or nothing thinking.
• Eating for pleasure and emotional eating are normal parts of eating. They are universal human experiences. If emotional eating is the only way to cope then it can become something that is not health promoting.
• Notice your eating without judgement with compassionate curiosity.
• What would it be like to experiment with relaxation without eating?
• Could perfectionism be getting in the way of healing the letter writer's relationship with food?
• Examine expectations and shoulds.
• As noticing distracted eating ask self: "What are you feeling? What do you need?"

Show Notes:

• Mindful Eating Summit 2.0 with Dr. Susan Albers
• Michelle Kuster RD, LDN <--Today's outstanding guest!
• Calm App
• Stop, Breathe, Think App
• Hy-vee Grocery Store dietitians
• Geneen Roth
• Eating Disorder Dietitians
• Julie Dillon RD blog

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Do you ever make your food choices based on what other people might think? Have you ever eaten "for show," or eaten in ways that aren't sustainable because of your food reputation? Listen now for some things to try for your own path to food peace and to break out of this pattern.

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Episode's Key Points:

• Sometimes the way we eat, interact with food, and move our body can become our IDENTITY and sense of SELF-WORTH! But we CAN'T get a healthy sense of sense from our food choices.
• Becoming a dietitian takes a LOT of work, including a ton of science education. Often, people who go into nutrition are intelligent and want to help people! These characteristics are so much more interesting and make up a much bigger part of our identity than our food choices!!
• In order to heal, it's time to let go of food as a part of our identity.
• It's VERY likely that your friends and family don't actually think of you in the context of your food, and that this is an identity you've created and maintained all on your own!
• Think about how you actually want people to identify you! Write it down, and keep it on hand for whenever you experience normal eating and feel like your identity is being compromised.
• Bingeing is often a by-product of rigidity, restriction, or other forms of strict eating.
• Recovery requires a team approach and a ton of support... find a dietitian near you who specializes in eating disorders and seek out therapy!
• What is "normal" eating?? Normal eating is balanced, non-restrictive, and nourishing.
• Our biology, and the drive to eat when we're restricting, is here to save us!!
• Symbolic hunger vs. physiological hunger: Sometimes when we follow rigid eating plans, our bodies start screaming for our attention! Depression and anxiety can surface because our physical needs aren't being met.
• There's is science out there supporting why diets and restrictive eating don't work! Seek it out.

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.
• "What is Symbolic Hunger?" by Julie Duffy Dillon
• Secrets from the Eating Lab by Traci Mann
• Eating Disorder Dietitians
• Julie Dillon RD blog

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Body positivity promotes body respect, acceptance, and love. If you don't always love your body, does that mean you can't model body positivity? Julie and a guest discuss the letter from someone who feels like a hypocrite for telling people to love their body when she doesn't always love her body back.

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Key Points:

• Julie shares a part of her personal struggle with her body image. She feels a bit awkward doing it and hopes it ok to share with you.
• Julie and guest Paige Smathers explore the definition of recovery. Recovery can be the food times enjoying food as well as the messy tough struggles when we may feel out of control. Recovery includes awareness of the moment, no matter what it looks like in the moment.
• If all or nothing thinking plagued food choices or body image it can also negatively affect your definition of eating disorder recovery.
• Paige says all we can do is try our best.
• Do you have to always love your body to be a model of body positivity? Julie and Paige say no! That just means you are an aware human.
• Model self-compassion and vulnerability.

Show Notes:

• beautyREDEFINED (Paige's Food Peace Syllabus addition)
• Shapeville by Andy Mills & Becky Osborn
• Paige's Story and her Body Image podcasts. Listen. They are great! She also interviewed Julie on her podcast discussing the disordered eating in a thin-obsessed world.
• Paige Smathers nutrition therapy
• Eating Disorder Dietitians
• Julie Dillon RD blog

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So you weighed yourself and well, shit, all the rainbows and unicorns from your Intuitive Eating Honeymoon are in the crapper. What the hell happened? Just getting on the scale, seeing a scale, or thinking of stepping on a scale is enough for your brain to connect with your Dieting Trauma. Let's pull up a chair and sift through this on the latest Love Food Podcast episode.

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Dear Food:

After a lifetime of eating, bingeing, and restricting, I finally felt like I needed to shift the way we exist in the world together. I've loved you, feared you, needed you, and abused you. We were in need of couples therapy. Luckily, I found a great podcast that was all about you! After binge listening to the Love Food Podcast, I was inspired to explore intuitive eating. For the last month, I've immersed myself into the intuitive eating/body positive culture by reading and investigating different books, blogs, etc. What I learned felt right, and I started to implement the tenets of intuitive eating. We had a great two week honeymoon, where I wasn't anxious about dining out and I allowed myself to eat what I truly craved. I was also vigilant about stopping before I got too full. It was pretty amazing to learn how little I actually needed to feel satisfied. Things were going great until I did something stupid. I stepped on the scale. Yes, I know the experts said you can't diet and practice intuitive eating at the same time. But, my old compulsion got the best of me. So I weighed myself and it turns out I lost a few pounds. Almost effortlessly. And that's where I derailed. Since finding out I've lost some weight, I've been bingeing and restricting again! It's the same thing I would do when I used to diet. Lose a little, and then eat my way back up the scale. What am I doing??? I can't seem to find the intuitive path again. Every day I try, but end up bingeing by the end of the day. How did I get here again? I was feeling so empowered and free just a couple of weeks ago, and now I'm feeling defeated and fat all over again. I somehow turned intuitive eating into another diet gone wrong. Food, I want to get us on the right path again but I'm not sure how.
Love, Intuitive Saboteur

SHOW NOTES:

• Julie Dillon RD blog
• Link to get latest Food Peace Syllabus.
• Evelyn Tribole on Love Food
• Fearing the Black Body by Dr. Sabrina Strings
• 6 Keys To Food Peace
• Julie on Instagram: Instagram.com/FoodPeaceDietitian
• Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.

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