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, the wellness trap, and the new emotional eating, chronic dieting, binge eating, and

body image workbook,

which are all available wherever you get your books or at Christy Harrison.com slash books.

That's Christyharrison.com slash books.

And by the way, on this show, we avoid diet culture details like weight and calorie numbers, but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. to my food site.

Hey there. Welcome to this episode of food psych. My guest today is author and

activist Amanda Martinez Beck, who joined me on my other podcast, Rethinking Wellness,

for a nuanced conversation about her experience of taking OZempic for diabetes,

while also working to accept her body and break down anti-fat bias in society.

Obviously, I thought this was also a perfect conversation for food psych, and I just haven't had a chance to post it until now,

so I think you're in

for a real treat. Amanda shares her history of dieting and disordered eating, how chronic

conditions including diabetes as well as fibromyalgia and post-COVID syndrome, have impacted

her relationship with food and her body, why she started taking Ozempic in the first place,

how diet culture is a new form of religion,

and how her actual religious faith has influenced her eating disorder recovery.

For paid subscribers, we also get into the tricky landscape of OZMPIC and eating disorders,

how for her, OZMPIC has fallen short of what the ads and influencers promise,

the side effects she's experienced, her take on all the

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