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

dietician 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 148 of the Love Food Podcast.

I am Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and partner on your food piece journey.

I am so glad you're here.

Thank you for connecting today.

So where are you on your food piece journey today?

Is it bumpy, constantly going uphill?

Is it going in loops over and over again? Do you ever look over at a fellow food piece traveler and wonder how they make their recovery work for them.

Something that I regret is my lived experience is probably not like yours.

I've never been marginalized because of my body, and I'm not in recovery from an eating disorder.

I certainly am surviving this really crappy, fatphobic, thin-obsessed and young-obsessed culture. Yet, again, I've never been marginalized because of my body. So I chose a letter today

from someone that, for those of you who are just wondering, like, how do other people do this?

Maybe people who are a few steps ahead of me, how do other people do this? Maybe people who are a few

steps ahead of me, how are they making this work? I think those are really important words to

hear. If you have the chance to ever join something like a support group or just some kind

of group that centers this conversation, I think it can be really powerful.

But I appreciate that that's just not something that everyone has access to or time to do

or lives in an area where this happens. And so I chose this letter today because it's someone

who wrote a letter back in episode number 64. It's an episode that I

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