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Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Health, Food, Bodypositive, Antidiet, Recovery, Fat, Dietculture, Weight, Eating, Positivity, Intuitive, Diet, Nutrition, Psychology, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Body

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This episode is your guide to the podcast, explaining what Food Psych is all about and pointing you to the essential episodes to start with. Before you dive into our huge back catalog, start here!

Check out Christy’s three books, Anti-Diet, The Wellness Trap, and The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook for a deeper dive into the topics covered on the pod.

If you’re ready to break free from diet culture and make peace with food, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.

Resources and References

5 recent fan favorites:
#320: Healing from Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating, and Body Shame with therapists Judith Matz and Amy Pershing
#332: "All Instinct, No Rational Thought," and Other Myths About Intuitive Eating, with Dietitian and Intuitive Eating co-author Elyse Resch
#326: Body Image: What the Evidence Really Says, with Body-Image Researcher Charlotte Markey
#333: Blood-Sugar Myths and Intuitive Eating for Diabetes with Dietitian and Diabetes Educator Janice Dada
#327: Hormone-Health Myths and Facts with Endocrinologist Gregory Dodell
Our top 10 most-downloaded episodes of all time:
#175: The Truth About Digestion and Gut Health with Certified Eating-Disorders Dietitian Marci Evans
#233: How to Handle Weight Gain and Body Changes with Fat-Positive Psychologist Rachel Millner
#181: How to "Just Eat It" and Break Free from Diet Culture with PhD nutritionist and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor Laura Thomas
#222: Orthorexia Recovery, Joyful Movement, and Sports Nutrition with Non-Diet Dietitian Heather Caplan
#168: Gentle Nutrition vs. Diet-Culture Nutrition with Health At Every Size Nutrition Therapist Heidi Schauster
#149: The Truth About Binge Eating with Anti-Diet Therapist and Binge Eating Disorder Specialist Amy Pershing
#231: The Wellness Diet, Binge Eating Disorder, and Diet Culture vs. Intuitive Eating with Anti-Diet Dietitian Julia Levy-Ndejuru
#319: The Wellness Trap with guest host Katie Dalebout interviewing me about my second book
#197: Hormones, Disordered Eating, and How The Wellness Diet Jeopardizes Your Well-Being with Non-Diet Dietitian and Nurse Practitioner Robyn Nohling
#179: How to Avoid Falling for The Wellness Diet This New Year with Anti-Diet Psychologist Colleen Reichmann
Season 9, episodes 276 to 319, answering your questions about:
Emotional eating and eating when you’re not hungry
Whether you really need to avoid sugar/gluten/dairy and other much-maligned foods
Dealing with weight gain
Navigating medically necessary diets
Setting boundaries with loved ones on diet talk
Avoiding wellness traps
…and lots more!
Subscribe to the Food Psych Weekly newsletter
My other podcast and newsletter, Rethinking Wellness
My online course, Intuitive Eating Fundamentals
My first book, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
My second book, The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses and Find Your True Well-Being
My third book, The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook
The Making Peace with Food Card Deck
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Anti-dial revolution
0:12.0	Therefore help at every size
0:16.0	Eat the foods you are.
0:23.6	Food, Sy.
0:31.6	Hey there, and welcome to Food Psych.
0:34.4	I'm Christy, the creator and host of this podcast, and I wanted to take this opportunity
0:38.5	to introduce myself in the show and point you to some great episodes to start with.
0:42.8	This is a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture and helping you make
0:47.3	peace with food and your body. Here I talk with guests and answer listener questions about
0:51.8	healing from disordered eating and chronic dieting,
0:54.7	learning or relearning intuitive eating, cutting through the noise about health and wellness, and
0:59.7	lots more, all from a weight-inclusive anti-diet perspective.
1:04.1	This podcast challenges diet culture in all its forms, including the restrictive behaviors
1:08.7	that often masquerade as wellness and fitness. And I know
1:12.2	those well, having struggled with disordered eating myself many years ago. So along the way, I'll share
1:17.3	my own journey from disordered eater to health and nutrition journalist and anti-diet dietician.
1:22.6	I'm recording this in July 2025, even though the timestamp in your podcast player says 2015, I had to backdate it to have it play first in the feed.
1:31.3	So I launched this podcast a dozen years ago at this point, way back in 2013, and at the time, I was just
1:37.4	finishing up my clinical hours to become a registered dietitian and getting some specialized training and eating disorders.
1:43.9	I had started my career as a journalist 10 years prior, and because I was also deep in my own
1:48.6	eating disorder at that point, I gravitated toward reporting on food, nutrition, and health,
1:53.3	which were basically my obsessions at the time, because I wasn't eating enough and was
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