Say goodbye to the food police and hello to peace. Welcome to the Love Food podcast, hosted by

dietitian and food behavior expert Julie Duffy Dylan. This authentically engineered series is in

the form of a love letter welcoming you to reconnect with food. Now pour a cup of coffee or a

margarita and let's begin.

Hi and welcome to episode 137 of the Love Food Podcast. I'm Julie Duffy Dillon, register dietician, and partner on your

food piece journey. I'm so glad you're here. Thank you for connecting today. Do you know one of

the first questions I ask clients is, what do you think your body wants to weigh?

A lot of people stumble with that one because really, how are we supposed to know?

But I ask it for a reason, because I think all of us, our own body individually, we all have a body weight

in that moment in time that our body just wants to weigh. And it's going to have a lot of different

reasons why genetics and how old we are and just what we need in order to be in a place of health and peace,

and it's going to look different for everybody. And I think if we all ate the same amount and

moved the same amount, we still would all look different like we look different now.

For many people, what they come to is, well, what if my body wants to be at a higher weight?

Am I always supposed to be at a higher weight then?

And we have a letter today to go through from someone who is discussing this.

In particular, they're talking about set point theory and just

wondering if they're supposed to always be at a higher weight. And that's confusing. This letter

writer also describes a trauma history and living at a higher weight was something that was

protective. So I wanted to let you know that is one

of the things that's discussed in this episode. We get to talk to Stephanie Reinhold. She is a really

incredible psychiatrist at a San Antonio, Texas that I got to connect with finally on this podcast. I'm

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