August 11, 2025

From Diet Rock Bottom to Intuitive Eating & Fat-Positive Care: A Eating Disorder Recovery Story With Chelsea Levy, RDN @chelsealevynutrition

30 minutes

Dr. Marianne Miller is joined by Chelsea Levy, RDN (@chelsealevynutrition), a certified intuitive eating counselor, registered dietitian nutritionist, and fat-positive healthcare provider based in New York City. Chelsea shares her powerful journey from "diet rock bottom" to embracing intuitive eating and becoming a leading advocate for weight-inclusive and fat-positive care in eating disorder treatment and chronic illness support.

Chelsea opens up about her career shift from the art and production world to dietetics, how she discovered intuitive eating, and why she now rejects the weight-centric medical model. Together, Marianne and Chelsea discuss the harms of weight stigma in healthcare, why fat-positive spaces are essential for healing, and how weight-inclusive care improves outcomes for eating disorder recovery, diabetes management, PCOS, and more.

Content Caution: This episode discusses eating disorders, chronic dieting, medical weight stigma, and anti-fat bias.

Listeners will learn:

Why intuitive eating is transformative for eating disorder recovery

How weight stigma in healthcare creates harm and barriers to treatment

The difference between weight-inclusive care and fat-positive care

How Chelsea integrates gender-affirming, fat-affirming, and evidence-based approaches in her practice

What it means to dismantle anti-fat bias in medical and therapeutic spaces

Chelsea also shares how validating clients’ grief around body image and holding space for autonomy are essential parts of her approach. This conversation is a must-listen for anyone seeking liberation from diet culture, professionals wanting to integrate fat-positive care into their work, and anyone navigating recovery in a world steeped in anti-fat bias.

Check Out Other Episodes About Intuitive Eating & Fat Positivity:

Anorexia, Accessibility to Care, & Intuitive Eating with @the.michigan.dietitian Lauren Klein, RD on Apple & Spotify.

Intuitive vs. Mechanical Eating: Can They Coexist? on Apple & Spotify.

Fat Positivity, Accessibility, Body Grief, & Emotions with @bodyimagewithbri Brianna Campos, LPC on Apple & Spotify.

Diabetes in a Fat Body: Navigating Stigma, Care, & Self-Trust with Amanda Martinez Beck @thefatdispatch on Apple & Spotify.

🌟 Connect with Chelsea Levy, RDN:

Website: @chelsealevynutrition

🎧 Tune in now to hear Chelsea’s story and learn how intuitive eating and fat-positive care can reshape recovery and health!

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Look into my self-paced, virtual, anti-diet, subscription-based curriculum. It is called Dr. Marianne-Land's Binge Eating Recovery Membership.

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