The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast

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!

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In this podcast Tabitha gets to talk to one of her favorite eating disorder experts: Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh. We discuss FEAST, eating disorder peer support forums, and how to take the sting out of an eating disorder diagnosis for the family members involved.

Laura founded FEAST, and this website is a true gift for any parent navigating the world of eating disorders. Since FEAST Laura has stayed active in the eating disorder parent community and works with treatment centers on how they can better gear services towards families from start to end.

Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh wrote the book “Eating With Your Anorexic,” which provided a blueprint for all parents struggling with the elemental challenge of parenting a child with anorexia nervosa.

In 2008, Laura became the original Executive Director of FEAST — Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders.

Laura now operates Circum Mensam. She offers her knowledge and experience in the field of eating disorders from a parent perspective to educational and advocacy organizations. Starting in 2017 Laura is also providing services for parents as well: through private consultations and Starfish Packages.

Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh now offers “Starfish Packages,” a colorful Priority Mail package filled with information and courage for parents of newly diagnosed patients. She also hosts a new podcast called NEW PLATES about how parents and treatment teams can collaborate to support eating disorder patients toward recovery, and build resilient families.

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Tabitha Farrar talks to Hana Zickgraf about a recently published research paper titled: Adult picky eaters with symptoms of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder: comparable distress and comorbidity but different eating behaviors compared to those with disordered eating symptoms

Link to orginal study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5086050/

Study summary

Picky eaters are people who avoid many new and familiar foods because they dislike their taste, smell, texture, or appearance. When it is severe, picky eating can lead to weight loss or difficulty maintaining a healthy weight, nutritional deficiencies, dependence on supplements to get adequate nutrition or calories, or difficulty engaging in daily life because of shame, anxiety, or inconvenience. People who experience one or more of these consequences because of their picky eating can be diagnosed with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). People who restrict the amount of food they consume because they are afraid of gaining weight or being fat (and who usually engage in excessive exercise or purging behaviors to get rid of calories) are diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia when their eating leads to weight loss, nutritional problems, or interferes with life. ARFID is a new diagnosis, and in this paper, we show that 1) adults with ARFID symptoms are just as distressed, and just as likely to have symptoms of depression, anxiety, and obsessive compulsive disorder, as those with anorexia or bulimia, but that 2) adults with ARFID symptoms show very different types of eating behavior from adults with symptoms of anorexia or bulimia.

Rebecca Scritchfield is a registered dietitian nutritionist, certified exercise physiologist, author of the book Body Kindness, and host of the Body Kindness podcast. Through her weight-inclusive counseling practice, she helps people make peace with food, find the joy in exercise, and create a better life with workable goals that fit individual interests. Central to all her work, Rebecca aims to develop self-compassion in place of shame by rejecting the rules of diet culture and the pervasive myth that to achieve better health one must lose weight.

Using her Body Kindness philosophy, Rebecca mentors registered dietitians and supports women from around the world in collaborative, online learning spaces free from unhelpful diet chatter and negative body talk.

Rebecca has influenced millions through her writing, podcast, and appearances in over 100 media outlets including NBC Nightly News, CNN, the TODAY show, the Washington Post, O Magazine, Self, Real Simple, Health, Yoga Journal, 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.

LINKS:

Postpartum Body Image Research Study: Body Kindness Reader Survey with option for free Body Kindness e-book

https://www.bodykindnessbook.com/research/

Free Body Kindness E-Course, Book Chapter

https://www.bodykindnessbook.com/get-started/

Articles:

Whole 30

https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/2018-05-18/this-nutritionists-manifesto-against-the-whole30-will-shake-your-view-of-healthy-eating

Take Fat Shaming Out of Fitness Culture https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/why-we-need-to-take-fat-shaming-out-of-fitness-culture/2018/03/08/728365ac-1e31-11e8-9de1-147dd2df3829_story.html

Why Fear of Sugar May Be More Toxic Than Sugar Itself

https://www.self.com/story/why-fear-of-sugar-addiction-may-be-more-toxic-than-sugar-is

In this podcast you will hear my conversation with Eva Musby. We talk about her experience with family-based therapy (or family-based treatment) as a mother. We also go into the key points that Eva addresses in her book and give you Getting a Person with an Eating Disorder to Eat:

1. Understand the fear mechanism that is active when a person has an eating disorder. Logic and lectures will not work in this place, and Eva explains what you can use therefore.
2. Compassion. Understanding how the sufferer is feeling will help you not blame them for their actions and will help you push through with family-based treatment (FBT).
3. Creating an impression of utter confidence. This helps the sufferer trust that you as the parent know what you are doing and will reduce the panic and insecurity the sufferer feels. Watch: Stuck not Eating on You Tube
4. Meal supporters must be on the same page. This is a key predictor of recovery — down to all decisions, not just the broad strokes.
5. Become a great body language reader!
6. Have a thick skin! Understand with compassion that the abuse the sufferer is dishing out is not personal.
7. Self care and compassion for the caregiver. FBT is relentless! You have to be on your A game!

About Eva Musby

Eva Musby is a pen name. Eva’s otherwise healthy daughter spiralled into anorexia. Eleven months in hospital restored her health, but once she was home, Eva and her family learned a lot and made fast progress.

Eva now takes the principles that she learned in helping her daughter to recover and uses them to help other parents. She has a book on helping a child recover from an eating disorder which is a fantastic resource for any parent.

Where to find more information:

Links: www.evamusby.co.uk and https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVgyQbyKQSBHUbIDLlc7t3v7bN0lmLcve www.facebook.com/EvaMusby.Individual and www.facebook.com/EvaMusby and twitter is @evamusby Podcast on fear and fight or flight reaction in eating disorders