#179: How to Avoid Falling for The Wellness Diet This New Year with Colleen Reichmann, Anti-Diet Psychologist
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
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🗓️ 31 December 2018
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Anti-diet therapist Colleen Reichmann joins us to discuss how to keep from falling prey to diet culture, the problem with Whole30 and other forms of The Wellness Diet, why true well-being is about so much more than food and movement, a quick way to tell if your “lifestyle change” is really a diet, why eating-disorder diagnoses are often problematic, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how to handle envy for people who seem to be “successfully managing” their weight.
Dr. Colleen Reichmann is a licensed clinical psychologist, practicing in Williamsburg, VA. She works in her private practice, Wildflower Therapy, and is a staff psychologist at the College of William and Mary. She is recovered from an eating disorder, and this experience sparked her passion for spreading knowledge and awareness that recovery is possible. She is now an eating disorders specialist, and has worked at various treatment facilities including University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro Center for Eating Disorder Care, and The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt. She is an advocate for intersectional feminism, body liberation, fat acceptance, and Health At Every Size. She speaks at national and regional eating disorder conferences, and writes about body image and eating disorders for MORELove Project, Project HEAL, The Mighty, Recovery Warriors, Adios Barbie, and more. Find her online at ColleenReichmann.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my online course Intuitive Eating Fundamentals. |
| 0:04.7 | If you're ready to leave diet culture behind and reclaim the life it stole from you, |
| 0:08.9 | learn more and sign up at christieharrison.com slash course. That's christieharrison.com slash course. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, |
| 0:20.9 | and taking down diet culture. I'm your host Christy Harrison and I'm an anti-diet |
| 0:25.4 | register dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor, offering online courses and programs |
| 0:30.4 | to help people all over the world make peace with food. Join me here every week as I talk with |
| 0:35.2 | interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:40.4 | I remember I was teething little gums bleeding. Cry day evening it was all about eating. |
| 0:48.4 | When I became a teen it was all about beefing now ready for the world. |
| 0:52.8 | Try and sink my teeth in. Stacking it. |
| 0:55.2 | Hey there, welcome to episode 179 of Food Psych and Happy New Year. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm your host Christy Harrison and I have a touch of the holiday bronchitis right now so please |
| 1:04.3 | excuse my scratchy voice. I've been running around a lot doing lots of holiday stuff, parties and |
| 1:10.7 | you know seeing people and traveling and stuff like that and spending time with kids who let's be |
| 1:15.1 | real are germ factories right. I mean very cute obviously very fun to spend time with but total |
| 1:20.5 | germ factories but I hope you've had a good holiday season yourself although I know the holidays |
| 1:25.2 | can be fraught when you're recovering from diet culture and that's why today I'm bringing you |
| 1:29.2 | this episode with Colleen Reichman who is a clinical psychologist eating disorder specialist |
| 1:34.2 | an advocate for body liberation fat acceptance and health at every size. I thought this would be a |
| 1:39.1 | great episode to kick off the new year because we talked about how to avoid falling prey to |
| 1:43.7 | diet culture the problem with whole 30 and other quote unquote wellness diets. Why true well-being |
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