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

I am so glad you're here. Thank you for connecting today. And if you are new to intuitive eating,

you may be wondering, how do you have more control in the process?

How do you move away from binging or emotionally eating or eating past a certain level?

And it's just so hard when you're moving away from dieting into intuitive eating to get to that.

So I hope that today's episode helps you to connect with some

tools because even having that way of phrasing it, I want more control with food. Well,

that tells me that we need to do some work. If you're new to the Love Food podcast, welcome.

I am so glad you're here. This is a podcast where

you, the listener, writes down all your complicated relationship issues with food. And the way we do

that is by writing a leather, writing a leather, that's funny, writing a letter to food. Yes, writing a letter to food and outlying

all of the issues. And it may go back really far. This letter that we have today to read in just a

second is from someone who has been dieting since really elementary school, maybe even earlier,

because their parents decided that they

needed to diet. It was a dieting household. I know for many people, they can relate to always just

knowing diets. That's just what their household did. So I look forward to exploring this letter

and maybe finding some options for you to better

connect to intuitive eating. Before we get to this episode's letter, a word from our sponsor.

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