#215: The Life Thief, Part 1: How Diet Culture Steals Your Time and Messes Up Your Intuitive-Eating Skills with Kirsten Ackerman, Anti-Diet & Fat-Positive Dietitian
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
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🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Fellow anti-diet dietitian and podcaster Kirsten Ackerman joins us to discuss how diet culture steals our time and energy, why intuitive eating is the default mode (and how diet culture robs us of that innate skill set), how to recognize true self-care versus diet culture’s version, why there’s so much unchecked privilege in weight-loss marketing, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how to avoid falling into restrictive eating and diet-culture thinking when you have a genuine medical condition like celiac disease.
Kirsten Ackerman is a Fat-Positive Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. She practices from a Health at Every Size® approach and works with clients to help them heal their relationship to food and body in order to support them in living full and meaningful lives. Find her online at TheIntuitive-RD.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my forthcoming book, Anti-Diet, Reclaim |
| 0:05.2 | Your Time, Money, Wellbeing, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, which is available |
| 0:10.1 | for pre-order now at chrstiharrison.com slash book. |
| 0:14.3 | That's chrstiharrison.com slash book. |
| 0:17.5 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, |
| 0:23.8 | and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm your host chrstiharrison and I'm an Anti-Diet Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive |
| 0:31.6 | Eating Counselor, and author of the forthcoming book Anti-Diet. |
| 0:35.9 | Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships |
| 0:41.2 | with food and their bodies. |
| 0:43.4 | And by the way, on this show we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, |
| 0:49.1 | but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:56.2 | Hey there, welcome to episode 215 of Food Psych. |
| 1:22.9 | I'm your host chrstiharrison and today I'm talking with fellow Anti-Diet Dietitian |
| 1:27.4 | and podcaster Kirsten Ackerman. |
| 1:30.5 | This episode is the first and a special four part series I'm doing on why diet culture |
| 1:35.4 | is a life thief, how it steals our time, our money, our well-being, and our happiness. |
| 1:41.9 | I go into depth about all of these topics in four of the chapters of my book, which |
| 1:46.4 | will be out in a little less than a month now, which is just wild to think about. |
| 1:51.2 | So I wanted to start the conversation about these ideas ahead of the book launch with some |
| 1:56.0 | great guests who have really helpful perspectives on these ideas and who are not in the book, |
| 2:00.7 | because I did not even know them when I was writing the book. |
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