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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 meal timing and why we need both

consistency and flexibility with it, especially in recovery from disorder eating.

This is a really important topic because these days I see many people getting really caught up in

quote unquote optimizing their meal times, but that often has some pretty major unintended

consequences for our relationship with food. Before I answer just a few quick announcements,

this episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my second book, The Wellness Trap,

Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being,

which is available for pre-order now. The book explores the connections between

diet culture and wellness culture, how the wellness space became overrun with scams,

misinformation, and conspiracy theories, why many popular alternative medicine diagnoses

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