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 149 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. Thanks for connecting today. And as you move along

your food piece journey, which probably includes things like throwing away the scale, rejecting diets

and diet culture, and really trying to connect with your hunger and fullness and using that

to help you decide what to eat instead of just another diet plan that is destined to fail

because they do for most people. You know you're not alone.

You're not this exception to the rule. Rather, you are the rule. Most people aren't able to keep

weight off long term. Yet you may have, and I say may, but you probably have really come to this place where you connect with

your own desirability to be only at a smaller weight. Certainly one of the big kind of stumbling

blocks along a food piece journey for many people I talk to is really finding a way to connect with being at home in their own skin

outside of what their body looks like. And that can be quite a journey because culturally,

that's just not where our world is. And for many people, they have support in their life,

like their family, their partner or friends

who've communicated unconditional love.

Yet, I know for you or someone listening, that's not the case.

Maybe your partner has communicated that I just don't like the way you look when you're a larger, or it's harder

to be wanting to be intimate with you when you're in a larger body. Do you get that feedback?

I think that's so tough. And I have a letter to share with you today from someone who's going

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