#209: Giving Up the Weight-Loss Fantasy with Amee Severson, Anti-Diet Dietitian and Fat-Acceptance Advocate
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Fellow anti-diet dietitian Amee Severson joins us to discuss why intuitive eating is NOT a weight-loss plan, her experiences as a fat dietitian, how she moved from the weight-management paradigm to Health At Every Size®, the social-justice side of HAES and intuitive eating, how social media can be helpful and harmful in recovering from diet culture, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about what to do if your hunger cues are absent.
Amee Severson is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist in Bellingham WA whose work focuses on body positivity, fat acceptance, and intuitive eating through a social-justice lens. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Food and Nutrition from Montana State University, is completing her Master's in Professional Practice in Dietetics from Iowa State University, is a dietitian registered in the State of Washington, and is currently working toward becoming a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and a Certified Body Trust Provider. Find her online at ProsperNutritionAndWellness.com.
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| 0:15.7 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, |
| 0:18.8 | health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm your host, Christi Harrison, and I'm an anti-diet register dietitian |
| 0:27.4 | certified intuitive eating counselor and author of the forthcoming book, |
| 0:31.0 | Anti-Diet, reclaim your time, money, well-being, and happiness through intuitive eating, |
| 0:36.0 | which is available for pre-order now. |
| 0:38.0 | Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life |
| 0:42.4 | about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:44.9 | And by the way, on this show we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, |
| 0:49.8 | but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:57.4 | Hey there, welcome to episode 209 of Food Psych. |
| 1:23.1 | I'm your host, Christi Harrison, and today I'm talking with Amy Severison, |
| 1:26.6 | a fellow anti-diet dietitian and activist. |
| 1:29.8 | We talk about why intuitive eating is not a weight loss plan. |
| 1:33.4 | Her experiences as a self-described fat dietitian, |
| 1:36.8 | how she move from the weight management paradigm to the health at every size paradigm, |
| 1:41.3 | the social justice side of haze and intuitive eating, |
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