#181: How to "Just Eat It" and Break Free from Diet Culture with Laura Thomas, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
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🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Intuitive eating counselor and author Laura Thomas joins us to discuss her new book, Just Eat It; the problems with The Wellness Diet; why subtle levels of weight stigma are so hard to pinpoint and eradicate; why "emotional eating" and turning to food for comfort are falsely demonized in diet culture; why people in the nutrition field often struggle in their own relationships with food; and so much more. Plus, Christy answers a listener question about whether the 12-step model works for food issues.
Laura Thomas, PhD is an AfN Registered Nutritionist and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor specialising in Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, weight inclusive and non-diet nutrition. She has a BSc in Health Sciences from the University of Aberdeen, a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from Texas A&M University, and completed her Post-Doctoral research at Cornell University in behaviour change. She is the host of Don’t Salt My Game podcast and was the Nutritionist for the 2017 BBC1 documentary Mind Over Marathon. She established the London Centre for Intuitive Eating in 2017 to help clients and train clinicians in Intuitive Eating. Her first book, Just Eat It, was published this month by Bluebird Books. Find her online at LauraThomasPhD.co.uk.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my intuitive eating online course. |
| 0:03.9 | If you're ready to break free from diet culture and reclaim the life it stole from you, |
| 0:07.9 | learn more and sign up at christiharrison.com slash course. That's christiharrison.com slash course. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, |
| 0:17.6 | health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm your host, Christi 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 the |
| 0:30.6 | world make peace with food. Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all |
| 0:35.2 | walks of life about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:39.2 | Hey there, welcome to episode 181 of Food Psych. I'm your host, Christi Harrison, and today I'm |
| 0:59.2 | talking with Laura Thomas, a registered nutritionist and fellow certified intuitive eating counselor, |
| 1:04.3 | and the author of the new book, Just Eat It, How to Get Your Shit Together Around Food. |
| 1:09.0 | We talked about the problems with the wellness diet, why subtle levels of weight stigma are so |
| 1:13.9 | hard to pinpoint and eradicate, why quote unquote emotional eating and turning to food for comfort |
| 1:19.5 | are falsely demonized in diet culture, why people in the nutrition field often struggle in their |
| 1:24.7 | own relationships with food, and so much more. It's a great conversation. I can't wait to share it with |
| 1:29.6 | you in just a moment. But first I'll answer this week's listener question, which is from a listener |
| 1:33.6 | named Rita who writes, Hi Christi, I stumbled across your podcasts and feel like I've come home. |
| 1:39.0 | After years of yo-yo dieting and eating disorder and so so much shame and grief around my body, |
| 1:44.9 | I know in my core that intuitive eating and health at every size is the right slash only approach. |
| 1:49.9 | My question is around some of what I've heard you say about 12 step programs. I'm a recovering |
| 1:54.5 | alcoholic and have been in a 12 step program in sober for 18 years. I believe deeply that it's |
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