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Find Your Food Voice

(196) How do I reject diet culture in college? (with Ayana Habtemariam)

Find Your Food Voice

Julie Duffy Dillon RDN

Mental Health, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9750 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

How do you navigate a fat phobic world without support? This episode's letter writer just started college and recovering from an eating disorder. And it is hard! College campus can be a hub for overexercise, bad body talk, and diets. Listen as I chat with Ayana Habtemariam from Truly Real Nutrition about ways to navigate this part of your Food Peace journey. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Say goodbye to the food police and hello to peace. Welcome to the Love Food podcast, hosted by

0:06.9

dietitian and food behavior expert Julie Duffy Dillon. This authentically engineered series is in

0:13.5

the form of a love letter welcoming you to reconnect with food. Now pour a cup of coffee or a

0:19.9

margarita and let's begin.

0:31.0

Hi and welcome to episode 196 of a love food podcast. I'm Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and partner on your

0:42.6

food piece journey. I am so glad you're here. Thank you for connecting today. I'm wondering how

0:49.8

things have been going for you as you are navigating intuitive eating or moving away from diets,

0:57.2

rejecting diet culture during the month of January. It is really tough work. And I have a letter

1:04.0

from someone who is a college student, actually new to college, and also new to eating disorder

1:09.9

recovery, and really battling with like how to

1:14.3

not diet on a college campus, how not to overexercise, how to make peace with food when the whole

1:22.5

campus seems to be doing the opposite. It's a really tough work to do this. I cannot wait to explore this

1:29.6

letter with you. And we get to hear from expert Ayanna haptomerium. She's a dietitian that I found

1:36.3

over on Instagram. I have been following her work for a while now. And when I was booking guests for

1:42.5

the show in 2020, she was first on my list.

1:45.3

So I'm excited for you to hear from her as well.

1:48.4

So before we get to this episode's letter, though, a word from our sponsor.

1:53.1

This episode of a Love Food Podcast is brought to you by my PCOS and food piece course.

1:59.3

If you have PCOS, also known as polycystic ovarian syndrome,

2:03.3

you probably have been told you have to diet in order to manage this condition.

2:08.9

Well, I'm here to tell you, we know diets don't work for most people. So why would they work for

2:14.0

PCOS? It's just not the case. They don't. There is another way.

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