#191: Stopping a Lifetime of Dieting with Savala Trepczynski, Anti-Diet Writer and Social-Justice Lawyer
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2019
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Writer and social-justice lawyer Savala Trepczynski joins us to discuss how she stopped a lifetime of dieting and started decolonizing her relationship with food, why pathologizing emotional eating is problematic, how fatphobia shows up even in social-justice-oriented communities, why there’s so little legal protection for discrimination based on body size, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about food planning for long hiking trips and how calorie counting can contribute to bingeing.
Savala Trepczynski is a writer, teacher, and social justice attorney. She is the Executive Director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law, convening scholars, activists, lawyers, and community members at the best public law school in the country to tackle social justice problems.
Savala and her writing about race, gender, bodies and culture have been featured in/on NPR, Forbes, Bust, The Nation, Detroit Free Press, San Francisco Chronicle, and more. She is a regular keynote speaker and panelist on social justice issues, including body-based bias, implicit bias, structural racism, and understanding Whiteness.
She has practiced law in San Francisco and Detroit, MI, and was a law clerk in the Obama Administration’s Office of White House Counsel, where she focused on constitutional law. Before becoming a lawyer, Trepczynski worked at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy.
She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner and child. Find her online at SavalaT.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my online course Intuitive Eating Fundamentals. |
| 0:04.6 | If you're ready to break free from diet culture and reclaim the life it stole from you, |
| 0:08.6 | learn more and sign up at christieherison.com slash course. That's christieherison.com slash course. |
| 0:15.1 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, |
| 0:18.1 | health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm your host Christy Harrison and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian and certified |
| 0:26.7 | intuitive eating counselor offering online courses and programs to help people all over the world |
| 0:31.6 | make peace with food. Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of |
| 0:36.5 | life about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:56.7 | Hey there, welcome to episode 191 of Food Psych. I'm your host Christy Harrison and today I'm |
| 1:09.5 | talking with the incredible writer and social justice lawyer Savala Trippchensky. We talk about how |
| 1:14.6 | she stopped a lifetime of dieting and started decolonizing her relationship with food. |
| 1:19.6 | Why pathologizing fatness and emotional eating is problematic. How different forms of oppression |
| 1:25.2 | are interconnected. Why there's so little legal protection for discrimination based on body |
| 1:30.1 | size and so much more. Can't wait to share a conversation with you in just a moment. I'm really |
| 1:34.4 | excited about this one, but first I'll answer this week's listener question, which is from a |
| 1:38.4 | listener named McKenzie who writes, my job involves backpacking in the backcountry for several days |
| 1:43.2 | at a time, hiking anywhere from x miles to y miles per day. Obviously food planning and bringing |
| 1:48.9 | enough food as well as consuming enough calories is very important. Even though I'm bringing enough |
| 1:53.7 | food calorie wise, I'm still having binge episodes where I feel like I need to eat everything in |
| 1:58.3 | sight when I return from being out in the backcountry. Do you have any tips on how I could reduce those |
| 2:02.6 | binge episodes given the unique context my job demands? So thanks McKenzie for that great question. |
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