#83: The Truth About Elimination Diets and Orthorexia with Emily Fonnesbeck, Non-Diet 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

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🗓️ 19 December 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Body-positive dietitian Emily Fonnesbeck shares how her family helped her develop a healthy relationship with food in childhood, why that went awry and led her down the path to orthorexia, how she overcame her disordered eating and discovered Health at Every Size, why she thinks elimination diets and food-sensitivity testing are dangerous for most people, and lots more.

Emily Fonnesbeck is a Registered Dietitian and owns her own private practice in southern Utah. Her nutrition passion consists of helping individuals free themselves from diets, food anxiety, poor body image and obsessive exercise. She has a non-diet, weight-neutral, client-centered approach to help people make peace with food and their bodies. Find her online at EmilyFonnesbeck.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, body positivity, and health at every
0:06.2	size.
0:07.2	I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified
0:11.2	intuitive eating counselor, specializing in weight-inclusive wellness.
0:15.3	Join me as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships
0:19.3	with food.
0:21.3	Hey there, welcome to episode 83.
0:38.4	My guest today is Emily Fondsback, who is a fellow body positive and health at every
0:42.8	size dietitian.
0:44.7	And I really wanted to share this episode at this point in the holiday season because
0:48.7	I know it's getting tough out there, right?
0:51.9	I'm sure that you're probably getting pressure already on your social media feeds from people
0:57.0	who are trying to lose weight for the new year, talking about detoxes they're going to do,
1:02.5	right?
1:03.5	And like come January 1st, it's just going to sort of explode.
1:06.2	So I wanted to help you guys get out in front of it with an episode to help you sort of
1:11.5	recommit to body positivity and against orthorexia, which is unhealthy obsession with healthy
1:18.6	eating, right?
1:19.6	That our society is gripped with right now.
1:22.4	The healthism that is out there is to my mind sort of orthorexia on a massive scale.
1:28.2	And so in this episode, Emily and I get into what orthorexia is, her experience with it,
1:34.6	and why purveyors of elimination diets and food sensitivity testing can often worsen
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