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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 Book Anti-Diet.

Join me here every week as I talk with fellow anti-diet advocates about their journeys toward peace with food and their bodies.

And by the way, on this show, we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised.

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This is Maggie Frank Choo, an email marketing strategist and copywriter who is also a former colleague of mine from Gourmet Magazine 10 to 12 years ago.

We discuss her eating disorder experience and recovery, how pregnancy and motherhood change for relationship with food and her body, how contradicting societal ideals, oppress women and femmes, giving yourself permission to live in your truth, and so much more.

Now I'd like to share our conversation with you in just a moment, but first I'll answer this week's listener question, which is from a listener named Kay, who writes,

Hi Christy, I love your podcast, and I especially appreciated your answer to the listener question in episode 179, in which you explained a bit about what thin privilege means.

The term thin privilege is a huge impediment to me, wholeheartedly stepping into anti-diaculture. Here's a bit about where I'm coming from.

I've spent decades recovering from life-threatening anorexia. I grew up being called terrible weight-stigmatizing names by my father, and criticized and derided a great deal by him about what I ate, and about other things as well.

When I look back on photos of myself as a child, I suspect you would say that I always had thin privilege.

But even when my weight was dangerously low and I was not far from being hospitalized, and family members expressed their concern to my father, he would snort in my hearing that that was nonsense and that I could stand to lose some more weight.

So while I've never had trouble fitting into an airplane seat or finding clothes, and I've never had a doctor tell me to lose weight, I've not been exempt from the suffering that comes with believing I'm unlevelable and despicable because of my body size and eating habits.

It seems to me that thin privilege is in the eyes of the beholder. It comes across to me as a blaming and shaming label and seems to whitewash the suffering of any woman who is not of a particular size.

What is that size anyway? What does your body have to look like or what does your experience have to be to put you into the category of thin privilege or not?

Furthermore, I think the term thin privilege puts people in a double bind, invisible at best and scorned at worst in the anti-diad world, and fat in the diet world.

I would love if you could devote a segment to thin privilege and what it means. Perhaps my reaction to the term has been shaped by my experience and there is a more nuanced or benign or positive way to understand what it means, with thanks K.

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