#163: How to Unlearn Diet Culture's Rules with April Quioh of She's All Fat

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Mental Health

4.7 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

TV writer and She’s All Fat podcast co-host April K. Quioh joins us to talk about how intersectional feminism and sociology helped her to finally let go of dieting and embrace her body size, why we need to challenge fatphobia and fight for it to be considered a valid form of discrimination, why it’s important to unlearn the diet-culture rules we’ve internalized around food and our bodies, the historical roots of diet culture, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how to know if you're ready to begin re-learning intuitive eating.

April K. Quioh is a comedy writer and podcast host from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She writes about fun stuff like popular culture, love, and blackness and has worked on television shows on Comedy Central, YouTubeRed, and Netflix. She has perfect skin and is a lawful good. She currently co-hosts and produces She's All Fat, a podcast about body positivity and intersectional feminism. Find her online at ShesAllFatPod.com.

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0:00.0	This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my Intuitive Eating Online course.
0:04.3	If you're ready to leave diet culture behind and reclaim the life it stole from you, learn
0:08.4	more and sign up at christieharrison.com slash course.
0:11.8	That's christieharrison.com slash course.
0:14.6	Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation,
0:20.2	and taking down diet culture.
0:22.3	I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian and certified
0:26.2	intuitive eating counselor, offering online courses and programs to help people all over
0:30.3	the world make peace with food.
0:32.0	Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their
0:35.8	relationships with food and their bodies.
0:37.8	I remember I was teething, little gums bleeding, cry their evening, it was all about eating.
0:46.8	When I became a teen it was all about beefing out, ready for the world, trying to sink my teeth
0:52.4	and stacking it.
0:53.4	Hey there, welcome to episode 163 of Food Psych.
0:56.8	I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and today I'm talking with TV writer and she's all fat,
1:01.1	podcast co-host April Kay Queo.
1:04.0	We talk about how intersectional feminism and sociology helped her to finally let go
1:07.8	of dieting and embrace her body size.
1:10.3	Why we need to challenge fat phobia and fight for it to be considered a valid form of discrimination.
1:15.6	Why it's important to unlearn the diet culture rules we've internalized around food in our bodies,
1:20.6	the historical roots of diet culture and so much more.
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