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Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

#176: Confessions of a Former Weight-Loss-Surgery Dietitian with Vincci Tsui, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Mental Health

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Anti-diet dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor Vincci Tsui joins us to discuss weight loss surgery and its consequences on physical and mental health, her journey from working in bariatrics to specializing in intuitive eating and Health At Every Size®, how dietitians get caught up in The Wellness Diet, what thin privilege really means, disordered eating and how it interplays with bariatric surgery, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how to deal with the fear of weight gain in recovery from an eating disorder.

Vincci Tsui is a former bariatric dietitian turned Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Health At Every Size advocate. She is passionate about helping people find freedom in their relationship with food and with their body, so that they can worry less and get the most out of life. Ultimately, she is on a mission to prove that it is possible to improve health without focusing on weight.

Vincci takes a collaborative and compassionate approach to nutrition counselling and coaching that is rooted in HAES® and Intuitive Eating philosophy. She believes in helping clients learn to listen to their body and their inner wisdom when it comes to making decisions around food, eating and health. Aside from her private practice, Vincci serves as the Community & Content Manager for Food Psych® Programs Inc, and is the author of The Mindful Eating Workbook: Simple Practices for Nurturing a Positive Relationship with Food, available December 2019. Find her online at VincciTsui.com.

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0:00.0

This episode of FoodSike is brought to you by my master year anti-diet message online workshop,

0:04.9

which is now open for early bird enrollment for a few more days if you're listening to this

0:08.8

episode on the day that it drops. If you're a fellow health and wellness pro who's ready to stop

0:13.3

taking part in diet culture's version of health and start advocating for non-diet approaches that

0:18.6

truly help people's well-being, learn more and sign up at christieharrison.com slash message.

0:24.4

That's christieharrison.com slash message. Welcome to FoodSike, a podcast about

0:29.6

intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation and taking down diet culture. I'm your

0:35.4

host christieharrison and I'm an anti-diet register dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor

0:40.6

offering online courses and programs to help people all over the world make peace with food.

0:45.1

Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their

0:49.6

relationships with food and their bodies.

0:59.7

Hey there, welcome to episode 176 of FoodSike. I'm your host christieharrison and today I'm

1:12.9

talking with Vinci Chwe, a former bariatric dietitian turned certified intuitive eating counselor

1:18.1

and health at every size advocate who's also my community and content associate here at FoodSike

1:23.1

programs. We talked about weight loss surgery and its consequences on physical and mental health.

1:28.4

Vinci's journey from working in the weight loss surgery field to specializing in intuitive

1:32.9

eating and health at every size. What thin privilege really means and so much more. I can't wait to

1:38.4

share our conversation with you in just a moment but first I'll answer this week's listener question

1:42.8

and I just want to give a trigger warning for the question itself because the person uses the

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O word not in quotation marks, you know, seriously uses the O word so if you're likely to be triggered

1:52.1

by that just skip ahead about 30 seconds to skip the question and hear my answer. So now I'll read

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the question which is from a listener named Jenny who writes, hi christie, I'm on a journey of

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