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Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

2 Weird Food Rules I Don’t Follow Anymore (and 4 Other Principles I Try to Live By)

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Christy answers an audience question about disordered eating and food rules. She shares two food rules that she used to follow and four eating principles that she now tries to live by.


This episode is cross-posted from our other podcast, Rethinking Wellness.


More from Christy:


Check out Christy’s three books, Anti-Diet, The Wellness Trap, and The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook for a deeper dive into the topics covered on the pod. 


If you’re ready to break free from diet culture and make peace with food, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.


For more critical thinking and compassionate skepticism about wellness and diet culture, check out Christy’s Rethinking Wellness podcast! You can also sign up to get it in your inbox every week at rethinkingwellness.substack.com.


Ask a question about diet and wellness culture, disordered-eating recovery, and the anti-diet approach for a chance to have it answered on Rethinking Wellness. You can also subscribe to the Food Psych Weekly newsletter to check out previous answers!



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0:00.0

Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture and answering your

0:05.0

questions about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach. I'm your host, Christy Harrison,

0:09.7

and I'm a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, journalist and author of the book's

0:14.6

anti-diet, the wellness trap, and the new emotional eating, chronic dieting, binge eating, and body

0:20.0

image workbook,

0:25.4

which are all available wherever you get your books or at Christy Harrison.com slash books.

0:28.1

That's Christyharrison.com slash books.

0:32.8

And by the way, on this show, we avoid diet culture details like weight and calorie numbers, but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. to my food psych.

1:01.0

Hey there. Welcome back to Food Psych.

1:06.2

This episode is a Q&A I shared on my other podcast, Rethinking Wellness.

1:10.5

It went live there over 12 months ago,

1:12.9

and I'm excited to bring it to you here now. If you want to get my most up-to-date content,

1:17.3

please become a paid subscriber at rethinkingwellness.substack.com. Meanwhile, I can't wait to share

1:22.6

this Q&A with you in just a moment. Intuitive Eating Fundamentals, the online course I created to help you make

1:28.5

peace with food, is now available as an evergreen, self-paced course with lifetime access. It teaches

1:34.6

you how to recognize and reject diet culture, take pleasure in food and stop fighting your

1:39.3

desires, tune back into your body's signals of hunger and fullness, end the restrict binge or restrict

1:45.2

rebound cycle, navigate emotional eating and learn new coping skills, and most importantly, I think,

1:51.3

avoid turning intuitive eating into a sneaky diet. Sign up now for instant access to hundreds

1:56.6

of hours of supportive content, including 13 modules on the principles of intuitive eating,

2:01.8

deep dives into how to handle common issues that come up when you're trying to make peace with food,

2:06.2

special meditations, journal exercises, and more. Get all the details and sign up at

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