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 144 of a love food podcast. I'm Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and partner on your

food piece journey. I'm so glad you're here. Thank you for connecting today. Do you have a

complicated relationship with food? If you do, you're in the right place. If this is the first time

you've listened to the Love Food podcast, welcome. I'm really excited that you have chosen to spend

some time here with me, and I hope the next 20 minutes provide some new insight as you are

trying to heal your relationship with food. It's a really complicated, messy culture that

we live in. And so it may seem really simple to just eat when you're hungry and stop when you're

full. But what Evelyn Triboli, one of the co-authors of intuitive eating, always says,

it sounds simple, but it's not easy. And one of the reasons why, one of the many

reasons why it's not easy is because it's scary. It's very scary to move away from diets,

even though diets suck and they hurt and they feel like torture, but there are a lot of things

that we get out of them. They're super

hopeful and everyone's doing them. Thankfully, National Dining Month is over if you're listening

to this podcast shortly after it's released. January of 2019 is now over. Thank you, God,

because those commercials were driving me crazy. You know, one thing that I'll

say is I feel pretty okay with my relationship with food because, you know, I talk to people

about this all the time and I've been studying it, working with it for 20 years. And, you know,

the thing I've noticed with these commercials this year for diets,

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