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Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation,

and taking down diet culture. I'm your host Christy Harrison and I'm an anti-diet

registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and author of the forthcoming book,

Anti-diet, reclaim your time, money, well-being, and happiness through intuitive eating,

which is now available for pre-order. Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people

from all walks of life about their relationships with food and their bodies.

Hey there, welcome to episode 202 of Food Psych. I'm your host Christy Harrison, and today I'm

talking with Christa Niles, a plus-sized dating coach, and couples therapist. We talked about how

to navigate dating and relationships when you're in a larger body or healing your relationship with

food, what to do if you're weight-stigmatized by a partner, what the research really says about

cis-headero men's preferences for body size, and why it's a lot more hopeful than you might think,

or then even Christa originally said in her work, some of the differences that Christa

experienced between being in straight relationships versus queer relationships, and so much more,

it's a great conversation and I can't wait to share it with you in just a moment. But first,

I'll answer this week's listener question, which is from a listener with initials NV, who writes,

I've gotten to the place in my life where I'm trying to be very intentional about body kindness.

After a lifetime of culturally inherited criticisms about my curvy and ever-changing body,

I finally realized the immense shame I was carrying and have been working through these challenges

with a counselor. When I'm with my husband, my friends, etc., I typically feel great. The issue is

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