#65: Ditching Diets & Finding Health at Every Size with Aaron Flores, Intuitive Eating and HAES Dietitian

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

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

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Fellow Health at Every Size dietitian Aaron Flores, RDN, shares his experience of adolescent body image woes, an early career focused on weight loss, breaking free from diet culture and making the shift to intuitive eating, and lots more. Plus, Christy shares an exciting announcement about the podcast!

Aaron Flores is a registered dietitian nutritionist and the owner of Balance Variety and Moderation RDN in Calabasas, California. With nearly 10 years of experience, Aaron has worked with eating disorders in a variety of settings. A large part of his career was spent working at the Veterans Administration, where he started one of the first Binge Eating Disorder groups for Veterans. His main areas of focus are Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size® and in his work, Aaron helps individuals learn how to make peace with food and develop body-positive behaviors. Along with the work in his private practice, he also blogs and hosts a podcast, Dietitians Unplugged.

To learn more about Food Psych and our guest, visit christyharrison.com/foodpsych

Ready to make peace with food? Join Christy's intuitive eating online course!

How healthy is your relationship with food? Take the quiz and get free resources at christyharrison.com/quiz!

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to Food Psych, a podcast about nutrition, eating disorders and body image.
0:04.6	I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified
0:08.8	intuitive eating counselor, specializing in health at every size. Join me as I talk with interesting
0:14.2	people from all walks of life about their relationships to food.
0:30.3	Hey guys, welcome to episode 65 of Food Psych. Today I have an awesome guest for you.
0:38.8	It's Aaron Flores, a registered dietitian who is the co-host of the Dietitian's Unplugged
0:44.9	Podcast with Glenis Oistin, who's also a former Food Psych guest.
0:48.8	And Aaron also has his own private practice in California where he helps people with
0:53.9	health at every size and intuitive eating. So really, really excited to talk with him on the podcast
0:59.2	today. We had a great conversation and I will share that with you in just a moment.
1:04.0	But first, I want to point you to a couple of great resources for helping improve your relationship
1:08.7	with food. The first is my free quiz to assess your relationship with food and see how healthy it is.
1:15.2	I'll send you your results via email along with more than a dozen personalized, individualized
1:20.4	tips to help you make peace with food wherever you might fall in the spectrum right now.
1:25.0	Take the quiz and get your results today at chrisdharrison.com slash quiz.
1:30.0	That's chrisdharrison.com slash quiz. The second resource I want to share is my intuitive eating
1:36.1	online course. It's a 13 week program that I created to help you work through all the principles
1:41.5	of intuitive eating and depth and really demystify and troubleshoot the common areas where people
1:47.3	tend to get stuck. I'll show you how to recognize the diet mentality even in its subtle forms
1:53.1	and how to start substituting healthy thoughts instead. I'll share my secrets to making food and
1:58.3	exercise choices from a place of self-care rather than self-control and I'll teach you how to navigate
2:04.4	emotional eating and how to stop alternating between restricting and overeating and so, so, so much more.
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