#280: Is Your “Wellness Plan” Really Just a Diet?
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Food Psych Programs, Inc.
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
With the rise of the anti-diet movement, diets are rebranding in order to try to stay relevant. In this episode we discuss how to recognize diet culture in all its sneaky forms, including diets that call themselves “wellness plans,” “resets,” “templates,” and all kinds of other things. Christy shares the three key tenets of diet culture you can use to spot a diet, no matter how much it tries to disguise itself.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by the Making Piece with Food Card Dec, |
| 0:04.3 | which I co-authored with therapist Judith Mats to help you end chronic dieting and find joy in eating. |
| 0:10.4 | Just go to ChristyHarrison.com slash Card Dec to order it now. |
| 0:14.5 | That's ChristyHarrison.com slash Card Dec. |
| 0:17.8 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture |
| 0:22.6 | and answering your questions about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm your host Christy Harrison and I'm a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, |
| 0:32.4 | journalist and author of the book's anti-diet, which is available now, |
| 0:36.3 | and the wellness trap, which will be out in early 2023. |
| 0:40.2 | And by the way, on this show, I avoid saying diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, |
| 0:45.8 | but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:16.2 | Hey there, welcome to this episode of Food Psych. I'm your host Christy Harrison, |
| 1:20.8 | and today I'm going to be answering a question I get a lot, which is essentially |
| 1:25.2 | is X-program just another diet. I think this is such a common question because |
| 1:30.9 | with the rise of the anti-diet movement and all the evidence that diets just don't work, |
| 1:36.2 | diets are rebranding as not diets in order to try to stay relevant. |
| 1:40.9 | So in this episode, we discuss how to recognize diet culture in all its sneaky forms, |
| 1:46.8 | including diets that call themselves wellness plans, resets, templates, reboots, |
| 1:52.9 | and all kinds of other things. I'll share the three key tenets of diet culture you can use to |
| 1:58.6 | spot a diet, no matter how much it tries to disguise itself. Before I get into all that, though, |
| 2:04.3 | just a couple of quick announcements, this episode of Food Psych is brought to you by the making |
| 2:09.0 | piece with Food Card Dec, which I co-authored with therapist Judith Mats to help you end chronic |
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