#106: How to Stop Pursuing Weight Loss & Make Peace with Your Body with Ijeoma Oluo, Author of "So You Want To Talk About Race"
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Writer and activist Ijeoma Oluo shares why she gave up the pursuit of weight loss even though she had "succeeded" at dieting, how she stepped away from the scale and made peace with her size, why body acceptance is a journey and not a destination, how to help kids develop peaceful relationships with their bodies, why worrying about your weight robs you of your life, why we need to stop obsessing about our bodies, how food insecurity affects people's relationships with food, and lots more.
Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based Writer, Speaker and Internet Yeller. Her work on race, feminism, and other social issues has been featured in The Guardian, The Stranger, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, and more. She is the Editor at Large at The Establishment. Her book, So You Want To Talk About Race, will be published in early 2018 with Seal Press. You can find her yelling on Twitter at
@ijeomaoluo, and on her website at IjeomaOluo.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, body positivity, and health at every |
| 0:06.2 | size. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified |
| 0:11.2 | intuitive eating counselor, specializing in weight-inclusive wellness. |
| 0:15.3 | Join me as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships |
| 0:19.3 | with food. |
| 0:21.3 | Hey there, welcome to episode 106 of Food Psych. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and today I'm talking with Ijoma Aluou, an amazing writer |
| 0:43.9 | and activist who covers fat acceptance and lots of other social justice issues in her |
| 0:49.0 | work. |
| 0:50.0 | Today we talked about body politics and her history with dieting, why she decided to |
| 0:54.9 | finally accept her body and what that looked like, and also her history of growing up with |
| 0:59.4 | food insecurity and what that did to her relationship with food. |
| 1:02.8 | It's a really great conversation. |
| 1:04.6 | I really loved this one. |
| 1:06.2 | It's one of my recent favorites, so I can't wait to share it with you in just a moment. |
| 1:10.8 | Before I do, I just want to share a couple great resources for improving your relationship |
| 1:14.3 | with food and also helping some of you improve others' relationships with food, because I |
| 1:18.7 | know some of you listening are professionals who work in the field of eating disorders |
| 1:23.6 | and body image and maybe you're a dietitian or a therapist or another health professional |
| 1:28.8 | who wants to do this work. |
| 1:30.8 | I have a great resource for you that I want to recommend, which is the EDRD Pro Symposium. |
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