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Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

#221: Riots Not Diets with Becky Young, Fat-Positive Activist and Founder of Anti-Diet Riot Club

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Anti Diet Riot Club founder Becky Young joins us to discuss how diet culture intersects with other forms of oppression, how to respond to people who push back against the anti-diet message, why anger is important in eating-disorder recovery, how unconditional permission to eat can free your mind to focus on things other than food, and so much more. Plus, Christy answers a listener question about the definition of the term "people in larger bodies."

After almost 12 years of dieting, Becky Young gave it up for good in 2016 and founded the Anti Diet Riot Club with the intention to host support groups and meet-ups in London for people wanting to do the same. Now the project has grown into a massive online community and hosts panel discussions, creative workshops, and fashion fairs to empower people struggling with low body image. They recently crowdfunded to build the Anti Diet Riot Bus to take their workshops on the road across the UK. Find her online at AntiDietRiotClub.co.uk.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my online course Intuitive Eating Fundamentals.

0:04.8

If you're ready to break free from diet culture and reclaim the life at Stole From You,

0:09.3

learn more and sign up at christiharrison.com slash course.

0:13.4

That's christiharrison.com slash course.

0:16.5

Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating,

0:20.0

health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture.

0:25.0

I'm your host christiharrison and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian,

0:29.2

certified intuitive eating counselor, an author of the book, Anti-Diet,

0:33.4

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

0:37.9

which is available now wherever books are sold.

0:40.8

Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life

0:44.8

about their relationships with food and their bodies.

0:47.6

And by the way, on this show we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers,

0:52.9

but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised.

0:59.8

And a kind evolution, if you help at every size,

1:10.4

take the food to life,

1:16.0

for your own sake.

1:20.5

Hey there, welcome to episode 221 of Food Psych.

1:27.1

I'm your host christiharrison and today I'm talking with Becky Young,

1:31.0

the founder of an organization in the UK called Anti-Diet Riot Club,

1:35.5

and a fellow anti-diet activist.

1:37.7

We discuss how diet culture intersects with other forms of oppression,

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