#51: How to Stop Dieting & Gain Body Acceptance with Anti-Diet Project Founder Kelsey Miller
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Writer Kelsey Miller (Big Girl; The Anti-Diet Project) discusses her long history of dieting and body shame, what made her finally give up the fight to lose weight, how discovering intuitive eating changed her life, what it was like to write a book about that process, and lots more!
Kelsey Miller is the author of BIG GIRL: How I Gave Up Dieting & Got A Life, and the Senior Features Writer at Refinery29, the leading digital lifestyle brand for women. She began her career in the film production industry before transitioning to full-time writing, joining Refinery29 in 2012. Soon after, she created The Anti-Diet Project, one of the website's most popular franchises. Kelsey specializes in first-person essays, cultural commentary, humor writing, fitness, food, body image, advice, and feminist issues.
In the last three years, she was named one of The Huffington Post’s Body Image Heroes and took top honors at both the Fashion Monitor Journalism Awards and the Digiday Publishing Awards. Her work has been featured in Time, xoJane, Women's Health, and more. She has been featured on Good Morning America, HuffPost Live, and MSNBC.
Kelsey graduated from Boston University with a BS in Film & Television and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Find her online at KelseyMiller.com, and buy her book on Amazon.
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| 0:00.0 | I remember I was teeing it, little gums bleeding, cry day evening, it was all about eating. |
| 0:08.8 | When I became a teen, it was all about beefing now, ready for the world. |
| 0:13.5 | Try and seek my teeth, man. |
| 0:15.4 | Hey guys, welcome to episode 51 of Food Psych. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and today we have an amazing guest for you. |
| 0:22.9 | I bumped up the release date of today's episode, so we still are on a bi-weekly schedule, |
| 0:27.9 | but I released this one just a week after our last episode because it coincides with |
| 0:32.1 | the publication date of our guest's new book, and I think it's just amazing. |
| 0:36.0 | So the guest is Kelsey Miller, and the book is Big Girl, how I gave up dieting and got |
| 0:41.3 | a life. |
| 0:42.3 | It's such a cool concept, and she is fantastic. |
| 0:45.1 | She's the writer behind Refinery29's Anti-Diet Project column, so she's been chronicling |
| 0:50.3 | her transition from being obsessed with weight loss and going on a million diets over |
| 0:54.8 | the years to intuitive eating and health at every size practices and learning to incorporate |
| 1:01.2 | fitness again in a non-disordered way. |
| 1:03.5 | So it's a really, really cool column, and the book builds on that and tells more of her |
| 1:08.6 | story and gets even deeper. |
| 1:10.4 | She's just a great, delightful person, so I can't wait to share our interview with you |
| 1:14.3 | in just a moment. |
| 1:15.5 | But first, I want to point you to a couple of great resources for helping improve your |
| 1:19.4 | relationship with food. |
| 1:21.1 | The first is my free quiz to assess your relationship with food and see how healthy |
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