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 Dillon. 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 140 of a love food podcast. I am Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and partner on your

food peace journey. I am so glad you're here. Thank you for connecting today. I wonder how far

long are you on your food piece journey? Are you someone that just started? Maybe this podcast

is the first time you're hearing about or learning about the need to unlearn diets and diet culture.

Or maybe you've been at it for years. or maybe you're someone that helps other people along

their food piece journey. Maybe you don't even know what the word food piece, or the phrase

food piece, rather, what that even means. And I think a food piece as our journey to coming back

to ourselves and feeling at home in our own skin and using our body

and messages that it gives us to know how to move and how to eat and how to live.

It's kind of this reconnection and embodiment.

It's something that because of diet culture,

we've kind of twisted to mean still losing weight or it has a timeline to it or if we can't make it happen fast enough, that means we're doing it wrong. And I actually have a letter from someone who

sounds like she's in that kind of

place. Three months ago, this week's letter writer found intuitive eating and is able now to call out

diet culture and make peace with food. And as they're moving through the steps of intuitive eating,

they're feeling really confused and scared and not knowing

if they're doing it wrong and if it's even maybe backfiring. I just realized too, if I said the

word intuitive eating and you're not really sure what it is, well, check out the book Intuitive

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