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Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

#153: Healing Body Dysmorphia & Dating While Plus-Size with Sophia Carter-Kahn of She's All Fat

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2018

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Writer and “She’s All Fat” podcast co-host Sophia Carter-Kahn joins us to talk about her path from extreme dieting to intuitive eating, how dating interacts with fatphobia and weight bias, overcoming body shame and body dysmorphia, how parents are influenced by diet culture and healthism, why we need to think about weight stigma as an important variable in terms of health, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about using meal plans in eating disorder recovery.

Sophia Carter-Kahn is a writer and podcaster based in Los Angeles, California. Along with April K. Quioh, Sophia is the co-host, -producer, and -creator of She's All Fat, the podcast for body positivity, radical self love, and chill vibes only. Sophia and April created She's All Fat to tell the stories of fat women and femmes. They discuss everything from pop culture to strategies to approaching tough conversations with family and friends, all through the lens of fat positivity. She's All Fat has listeners all over the world, and will have its first live show at the end of April at Flyover Fest in Iowa. As a freelance writer and editor, Sophia is interested in obscure history, weird literature, queer culture, and media. You can find more of her writing and sign up for her newsletter on her website, SophiaCK.com.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my intuitive eating online course in community.

0:04.0

If you're ready to leave diet culture behind and reclaim the life it stole from you,

0:07.8

learn more and sign up at christieharrison.com slash course.

0:11.0

That's christieharrison.com slash course.

0:13.9

Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating,

0:16.7

health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture.

0:20.9

I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian and certified

0:24.9

intuitive eating counselor offering online courses and programs to help people all over the world

0:29.5

make peace with food. Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks

0:34.0

of life about their relationships with food and their bodies.

0:52.8

Hey there, welcome to episode 153 of Food Psych. I'm your host, Christy Harrison,

0:57.2

and today I'm talking with Sophia Carter-Con, a writer and body positive

1:00.8

podcaster who co-hosts the podcast, she's all fat.

1:04.1

We talked about her path from extreme dieting to intuitive eating,

1:07.6

how dating interacts with fat phobia and weight bias,

1:10.9

overcoming body shame and body dysmorphia, and so much more.

1:14.4

It's a really great conversation and I can't wait to share it with you in just a moment.

1:17.8

But first, I have some really exciting news that I've been dying to tell you and that I alluded to

1:23.0

or kind of said in last week's episode, which is that I got a book deal.

1:26.7

I'm so excited. This is something that I've been working toward for my whole 15-plus-year

1:32.2

journalism career and really I've wanted to write books since before I could even literally write.

1:37.3

I was dictating books to my mom at three years old and when people ask me what I wanted to be when

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