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Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture

and answering your questions about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach.

I'm your host Christy Harrison and I'm a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor,

journalist, and author of the book's Anti-Diet, which is available now,

and the wellness trap, which will be out in early 2023.

And by the way, on this show, I avoid saying diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers,

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

Hey there, welcome to this episode of Food Psych.

I'm your host Christy Harrison, and today I'm going to be answering an audience question

about how much time you should or quote unquote should spend thinking about food.

This is a really interesting question because on the one hand, I think it speaks to the fact that

when you're deep in disordered eating, you spend an excessive amount of time thinking about food, right?

Planning, counting, calculating, looking at recipes, looking at social media, devoted to food,

scouring restaurant menus for things you can eat, etc., etc., right?

And I know this from experience because I did that myself in my disordered eating days.

And yet there's also a way in which worrying about whether you're spending a quote-unquote normal amount of time thinking about food

also might be a sign of some diet culture thinking, which I'll explain in a minute.

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