#74: The Truth about Emotional Eating with Isabel Foxen Duke, Anti-Diet Health Coach

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

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🗓️ 18 October 2016

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Isabel Foxen Duke returns! We discuss the #1 reason why people engage in emotional eating and bingeing, why reclaiming your right to eat emotionally might be a key to healing your relationship with food, why recommendations for weight loss are scientifically unsound, how the effort to control our food can transfer to other areas of life after eating disorder recovery, why meditation and spiritual practice is lifelong work, and lots more!

Isabel Foxen Duke helps women "stop feeling crazy around food." After struggling with binge eating for most of her life, and trying to overcome emotional eating and binge eating through various approaches to food—Isabel finally discovered that these attempts to control her food and her body were at the root of the problem itself. She now teaches women struggling with binge eating how to do the very thing they're most afraid of, and the very thing they need to do to recover: let go. Grab her free video training series, Stop Fighting Food, to learn more about her approach.

Listen to Isabel's previous episode of Food Psych (Episode #36: Food Sanity) to hear more about her story of recovery from eating disorders and drug addiction, and how she discovered body positivity, intuitive eating, and Health at Every Size.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Food Psych, a podcast about nutrition, eating disorders and body image.
0:04.5	I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified
0:08.7	intuitive eating counselor, specializing in health at every size.
0:12.8	Join me as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships
0:16.9	to food.
0:30.0	Hey guys, welcome to episode 74.
0:36.0	I am super stoked about this episode because it's a repeat visit with one of my favorite
0:41.9	guests of all time, Isabel Fox and Duke.
0:44.9	So she was on the podcast back in January of 2015.
0:48.9	It's episode 36 called Food Sanity if you guys want to check it out.
0:53.3	But I know many of you have because it's one of our most downloaded episodes of all time.
0:57.2	In fact, I think it's the most downloaded episode of all time.
1:00.6	So Isabel is such a fantastic guest.
1:03.0	She just has a great way of speaking about all of this stuff, the anti-diet and intuitive
1:08.4	eating and body positivity stuff that you have come to love from this podcast.
1:13.8	I think Isabel really for being one of the first guests to really get into it.
1:18.6	And it sort of showed me that talking about this stuff on the podcast won't alienate listeners
1:24.5	and actually will bring listeners in because when she was first on the podcast, it was in
1:29.5	season two, which was focused specifically on eating disorder recovery.
1:34.1	And my fear at that time was if I was talking to people who had active eating disorders,
1:39.3	they might not really resonate with these health and every size and body positive messages.
1:44.4	And that episode just totally blew that theory out of the water.
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