#231: The Wellness Diet, Binge Eating Disorder, and Diet Culture vs. Intuitive Eating with Julia Levy-Ndejuru, Anti-Diet Dietitian
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Fellow anti-diet dietitian Julia Lévy-Ndejuru joins us to discuss her experience with the Wellness Diet and binge eating disorder, why there’s no such thing as “light restriction,” how pregnancy affected her relationship with her body, how even body-liberation activists can still be triggered by diet culture, and so much more. Plus, Christy answers a listener question about whether home-testing kits for food sensitivities are accurate or bogus.
Julia Lévy-Ndejuru is a registered dietitian, blogger and MSc. candidate currently living in Montreal, Canada. Her clinical work is rooted in intuitive eating and Health At Every Size. She holds bachelor's degrees in Dietetics and in Psychology, and her Masters research project focuses on the interplay between intuitive eating and the practice of relaxation activities. She firmly believes that everyone deserves to have a good relationship with food and their body, and recognizes the importance of social justice work to get there. Through her writing and occasional public speaking, she hopes to bring the intuitive eating and HAES messages to people who may not be familiar with them. More specifically, she does most of her writing in French, to make these philosophies accessible to francophone communities in Canada and worldwide. Find her online at NutritionPositive.ca.
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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 it stole from you, |
| 0:09.1 | learn more and sign up at christiharrison.com slash course. That's christiharrison.com slash course. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome to Food Psych, podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, |
| 0:21.0 | body liberation, and taking down diet culture. I'm your host, Christy Harrison, |
| 0:25.7 | and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, |
| 0:30.4 | an author of the book, Anti-Diet, reclaim your time, money, well-being, and happiness through |
| 0:35.5 | intuitive eating, which is available now wherever books are sold. Join me here every week as I talk |
| 0:40.9 | with fellow anti-diet advocates about their journeys toward peace with food and their bodies. |
| 0:46.1 | And by the way, on this show we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, |
| 0:51.0 | but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:21.2 | Hey there, welcome to episode 231 of Food Psych. I'm your host, Christy Harrison, |
| 1:26.7 | and today I'm talking with fellow anti-diet dietitian Julia Levy in Didgeru about her experience |
| 1:32.5 | with the wellness diet and binge eating disorder. Why there's no such thing as quote-unquote |
| 1:37.9 | light restriction? How pregnancy affected her relationship with her body? How even body |
| 1:43.9 | liberation activists can still be triggered by diet culture and so much more? It's a really, |
| 1:49.3 | really great conversation. I cannot wait to share it with you in just a moment. But first I just |
| 1:53.4 | want to say if you're having any sort of panic or fear about coronavirus, I hear you, I'm with you, |
| 1:59.8 | I feel so much compassion for you. I record these intros about two weeks ahead of the actual |
| 2:05.2 | podcast air date, so I'm not sure what's actually going to be going on by then. But right now we're in |
| 2:10.4 | in the thick of it. I just went to the drug store yesterday for some stuff and I saw that |
| 2:14.6 | the entire shelf where the sanitizing wipes are usually kept was empty, that there was no more |
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