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Find Your Food Voice

(217) The tug of war with diabetes and ED recovery with Lauren Newman

Find Your Food Voice

Julie Duffy Dillon RDN

Mental Health, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 750 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

How do you continue to move toward Food Peace while diagnosed with a medical condition??? Are you one of the many torn with making peace with food while hearing LOUD recommendations to restrict certain foods or pursue weight loss? We want help. Listen to latest Love Food Podcast episode featuring dietitian Lauren Newman.

This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peace and Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how.

 
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This episode's Dear Food letter:
 
Deer food,
It feels like we're stuck in a power struggle, and there's not much peace available in a power struggle.

I work really hard to pay attention to what I need, name it, and get it for my body. It took a long time to get here, with a restrictive eating disorder, PCOS and diabetes diagnosis and treatments (including Food Peace!), and an infinifat body (US32+). I'm proud of what I've learned to do for myself.
But you're always whispering about the sort of lessons I got when I was diagnosed with diabetes, and then when I was pregnant. You whisper threats of death from medical staff and family alike. You whisper about carb counting. You whisper threats of losing my kidneys because I probably need insulin instead of expensive non-insulin drugs that affect my appetite (and apparently not my blood sugar).
You whisper that there's no way to get enough calories for your body if you restrict carbs. You whisper that there's no way to eat that would make each of my physical health issues better. You whisper so much about carb counting as the only way to live with you. It gets echoed everywhere.
 I keep thinking if the power struggle could stop - for real - it would be such a relief. We could be together without one of us pulling on the other. We could have fun, we could forget what others might say about us.

I know I can't quit you. I need you. How can I get you to stop repeating the threats that people say? Is it really possible for us to work together? 

Right now, even with all the knowledge I have, it still feels like I have to choose between ways to be sick.
Love,
Torn

Show Notes:

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Transcript

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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 217 of a loved food podcast. I am Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and partner on your

0:41.7

food peace journey. I am so glad you're here. Thank you for connecting today. And what is it like for

0:48.3

you to get a recommendation to treat a medical condition and the recommendation is going to be focused on food.

0:56.4

You know, do this, not that, eat more of this, less of that.

1:00.1

What is it like for you to get that recommendation, but then have that recommendation go against other insight or advice or recommendations that you've gotten to treat another medical condition.

1:14.6

What do you do?

1:16.5

First of all, I have to say, that sounds exhausting.

1:20.5

And why can't people get their shit together and just all be on the same page?

1:24.4

That would make this actually more doable for you.

1:27.2

But for you, the listener,

1:28.8

if you have a complicated relationship with food and you've been trying to heal that and work

1:34.9

with maybe a treatment team, maybe a dietitian and a therapist or a doctor or all those or one

1:40.1

of those, and then you get diagnosed with diabetes, and it's oftentimes a completely different

1:45.6

recommendation. Maybe you see a different dietitian who tells you need to control this, limit this,

1:52.2

eat more of this, none of that. Oh, what do you do? It's really hard, and it may feel like

1:58.4

there's no choice. I hope that this episode gives you clarity.

2:03.8

There are many people living with diabetes and an eating disorder.

2:09.1

I have a letter today from someone who is doing just that, wondering how to do that,

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