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.

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

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Let's Rally!!! I so appreciate the support you have given me over the last 4 years! And, I encourage you support along side me the voices that have helped me understand the nuance of diet culture. This bonus Love Food podcast episode shares 4 resources from important fat positive voices. Support them financially to help them be compensated for their labor and bring more people to the table.

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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.

Show Notes:

• Julie Dillon RD blog
• Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.
• Ashley Serya
• Ilya Parker from Decolonizing Fitness
• The Body Love Box and Representation Matters by Lindley Ashline
• Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.

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

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Food Peace™ is political, radical, and important. I've made mistakes and I am ready to plow ahead. Are you ready to stand up against diet culture with me? Listen now to my Dear Diets letter, and get fired up with me!

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Episode's Key Points:

• To close out 2019, I'm going to be reading a letter written by me, straight to diets.
• It's time to dismantle diet culture, and I need your help. Send me your Dear, Food letter for next season to [email protected]. I'm looking forward to hearing them!
• Don't forget to subscribe to the show, and leave a rating and review. It's so important to leave a rating and review, as it helps people who are struggling with their relationship with food and body to find the podcast.
• “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” - Namoi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
• We should all be raising our children as feminists.
• Food IS political, and dieting IS political. We HAVE to talk about politics and feminism if we hope to dismantle diet culture and the patriarchy for good.
• Diets have condemned certain body sizes, and they have distracted all of us from experiencing true joy in our lives and with food. Diets keep us from experiencing connection and joy with others! Diets tell us we aren't worthy of love until we're the "right" size. But none of the things diets tell us are true.
• Diet culture pretends to be about health, and even has begun to feel like a religion. Diets have gone way too far.
• Diets predict weight gain and eating disorders!
• People who oppose diets, and the damage that they do, are coming together. The next generation of psychologists, dietitians, and health professionals will take diet culture down!!
• We need to teach health professionals about weight bias and weight stigma. It's harmful to our health, even more-so than eating that french fry.
• Diets are sneaky manipulators, so smart that sometimes we don't even know we're being manipulated.
• It's time to engage in our politics, understand our privilege, and stand up to diet and body oppression. It's time for us all to feel more at home in our own skin, and to end the normalization of diets and fatphobia. See you in 2020!

Show Notes:

• Julie Dillon RD blog
• 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 Food Peace Syllabus.
• Love, Food Podcast Episode 1
• The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
• Fiona Sutherland of the Mindful Dietitian
• Deb Burgard
• Love, Food Podcast Episode 84 with Isabel Foxen Duke
• Kelly Diels
• Rupi Kaur
• Eating Disorder Dietitian

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

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I am tired of hearing shaming language about movement (aka exercise) that promotes torture, displaces rest, and punishes prioritizing life connections. Wondering how to frame your relationship with exercise over the holidays? I have a bonus Love Food episode today just for you.

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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.

Show Notes:

• Julie Dillon RD blog
• Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.
• Intuitive Eating book and website
• Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.

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

Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

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What happens when 6 anti-diet podcasters walk into a room to hash out all the ins and outs of developing and running a show that is counter-cultural? It moves mountains with its power! It was a honor to be on this panel hosted by Heather Caplan RD, host of RD Real Talk. Listen to the live recording now in your Love Food feed.

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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. Grab all the details at PCOSandFoodPeace.com.

Show Notes:

• Julie Dillon RD blog
• Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.
• Food Psych podcast
• Anti-Diet book (aff)
• Food Heaven Podcast
• RD Real Talk
• Body Kindness book (aff) and podcast
• Intuitive Eating book (aff) and website
• Find an Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.

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

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Turn on every morning talk show or favorite online magazine, and diet culture is trying to rob us of our holiday connections with holiday recipe swaps or tricks to "stay on track." I don't want to be on that track and I know you don't either! How do you get through the holidays without getting distracted by sneaky twisted diets? How do you continue your Food Peace journey as everyone is gearing up for National Dieting Month (aka January)? Listen to this bonus Love Food Podcast and I hope it fuels you to stay true to you.

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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.

Show Notes:

• Julie Dillon RD blog
• Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.
• Intuitive Eating book and website
• Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.

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

Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

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Let's count the number of diets you've tried to manage PCOS. Don't forget to include all the lifestyle changes, gym memberships, meal cards, diet supplements, and healthy eating plans. If you are like most people with PCOS, you've tried way more times than can be counted! That is YOUR evidence that diets aren't going to give you what you need to promote long term health and healing. What can you do instead? Listen to the latest Love Food podcast episode that is a re-broadcast of a chat I did with Rachel Goodman from the More Than What You Eat podcast.

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Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Projecton Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast

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.

Show Notes:

• Julie Dillon RD blog
• Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.
• After the Letters Project info
• Rachel Goodman
• More Than What You Eat Podcast
• Intuitive Eating book and website
• Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.

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

Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

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Let's fill your Food Peace toolbox for the holidays. This episode sifts through grounding and disconnecting tools to have on standby. Remember, disconnection is your superpower, not something to be ashamed of. Listen here now for more.

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Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Projecton Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast

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.

Show Notes:

• Julie Dillon RD blog
• Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.
• After the Letters Project info
• Meredith Noble's Instagram list
• Debra Benfield
• Intuitive Eating book and website
• Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.

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

Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

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A listener question that is so important that I take 5 episodes to answer it! When you feel that jab that leads to bad body thoughts, remember you don't need to be fixed. Practice this one thing when you feel that jab! Get a peak behind what you get by being a part of the After The Letters Project by listening now for free in your Love Food feed.

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Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Projecton Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast

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.

Show Notes:

• Julie Dillon RD blog
• Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.
• After the Letters Project info
• Respect within the Food Peace framework
• Intuitive Eating book and website
• Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.

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

Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

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I have a BONUS episode just for you! How do you make sense of your Food Peace journey when desiring a weight change? How do you put them together. One word: don't. Get a peak behind what you get by being a part of the After The Letters Project by listening now for free in your Love Food feed.

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Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Projecton Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast

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.

Show Notes:

• Julie Dillon RD blog
• Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus.
• After the Letters Project info
• Intuitive Eating book and website
• Find Eating Disorder Dietitians near you.

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

Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!

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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy