#307: Is It Helpful or Harmful to Talk About "Fun Foods" in Intuitive Eating?

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Food Psych Programs, Inc.

Health, Food, Bodypositive, Antidiet, Recovery, Fat, Dietculture, Weight, Eating, Positivity, Intuitive, Diet, Nutrition, Psychology, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Body

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🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

We consider whether labeling some foods as “fun”—and limiting their consumption—is compatible with intuitive eating and diet-culture recovery.

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0:00.0	This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my upcoming book, The Wellness Trap.
0:04.4	Break free from diet culture, disinformation, and dubious diagnoses, and find your true well-being,
0:10.4	which is available for pre-order now. Just go to ChristyHarrison.com slash the wellness trap
0:16.0	to learn more and pre-order for its April 2023 release. That's ChristyHarrison.com slash the wellness trap.
0:24.0	Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture,
0:28.7	and answering your questions about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach.
0:33.6	I'm your host ChristyHarrison, and I'm a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor,
0:39.2	journalist, and author of the book's Anti-Diet, which is available now wherever books are sold,
0:44.4	and the wellness trap, which will be out in early 2023.
0:48.4	And by the way, on this show, I avoid saying diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers,
0:54.0	but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion
0:58.3	is advised.
0:59.0	Hey there, welcome to this episode of Food Psych. I'm your host ChristyHarrison,
1:28.8	and today I'm going to be answering an audience question about whether labeling some foods as,
1:33.5	quote unquote, fun and limiting their consumption is compatible with intuitive eating and
1:39.3	diet culture recovery. This is a time of year when you'll hear a lot about cleansing and resetting
1:46.0	and atoning for all the pleasurable foods you ate over the holidays. So I thought it would be
1:51.2	interesting to explore this concept of fun foods, and whether that term is even helpful.
1:56.1	Before I answer a few quick announcements, this episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my
2:01.8	intro to Intuitive Eating Mini Course, which I'm offering as a live workshop on January 17th.
2:07.5	If you want to learn more about intuitive eating, including how to navigate some of the trickier
2:12.9	nuances and avoid turning it into a diet, this workshop is for you. You'll learn what intuitive
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