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 194 of a Love Food podcast.

I am Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and partner on your food peace journey.

I am so glad you're here.

Thank you for connecting today.

Those of you who are new to the Love Food podcast, welcome.

I am glad you're here too. And this is a show where listeners

just like you write a letter to food. And they outline their complicated relationship with it.

And they may go back really far into their childhood or to some really shitty thing that may have

happened last year and made it all tangled up.

And many feel stuck, just like the letter writer, that we're going to hear from today.

Many people who write letters to food feel really stuck. And in this show, what we do is we kind of

sift through the letter. And sometimes I have a guest on. Today I don't.

But we sift through the letter.

And then at the end, food actually writes back.

This episode's letter writer describes a relationship with food that feels really chaotic.

There's a binge purge kind of relationship.

There's a way of relating to food that feels good or bad

and a fixation on eating clean foods. And I really challenge those descriptors as maybe part of why

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