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 179 of a love food podcast. I am Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and partner on your

food peace journey. I'm so glad you're here. Thank you for connecting today. And if you're new to

the Love Food podcast, well, let me fill you in on what we're going to do today. This is what we do every time we meet.

I have a letter from someone who has a complicated relationship with food, and as I go through the

letter, we kind of sift through it and dissect it and try to find different ways to approach it.

At the end of the show, what happens is really cool. Food writes back and gives the solutions and what I hope to be a therapeutic kind of

present wrapped up with a big shiny bow that allows people to have more tools and more access to

food peace.

And food piece is a way of reconnecting and rekindling your relationship with food

so you can feel more at home in your own skin.

It's a lot. I know it's a lot. But it's really important.

Part of the journey is individual and part of it is countercultural.

We live in a world that hasn't recovered from its own eating disorder yet, and yet we're

supposed to heal our own relationship with food.

We don't get to live in a bubble.

So a lot of this work is also joining together, rallying together to help change how we think about bodies. And some of the work does begin

within. So I have a letter today from someone who is trying so hard to recover from their

eating disorder. And their eating disorder started from being teased by someone while they're in middle school.

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