97: Leaving Diet Culture 7 Times
Nutrition Matters Podcast
Paige Smathers
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever walked away from dieting only to find yourself right back in there a few months or weeks later? Dieting is intoxicating and alluring—we can find ourselves in situations where we're more vulnerable to go back to dieting, even when we intellectually understand why it's not working. And, going back to dieting when you know it doesn't bring you what you really want, can bring up all kind of shame and guilt. So, why does this happen?
I sat down and talked about this question with Dr. Maria Paredes. We discuss how diet culture is like an abusive relationship and we talk about what the science says about the process of walking away from it for good.
Links mentioned:
- Maria's practice website: https://www.threebirdscounseling.com/
- Maria on FB: https://www.facebook.com/BodyPoliticsWithDrParedes/
- All Fired Up podcast about dieting as an abusive relationship: http://untrapped.libsyn.com/diet-culture-is-an-abusive-relationship
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nutrition Matters podcast with Paige Smathers, registered dietitian nutritionist. |
| 0:08.7 | Hey everyone, it's Paige, your favorite nutrition podcaster and dietitian. Nutrition Matters podcast |
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| 1:02.7 | Hi everyone. Welcome back to Nutrition Matters podcast. My name is Paige Smathers and I'm your host |
| 1:08.5 | and I'm grateful you're here. I had the best time chatting with |
| 1:13.0 | Maria Paredes about the similarities between walking away from diet culture and walking away |
| 1:21.4 | from an abusive relationship. And before you turn off the podcast thinking, oh well, that doesn't |
| 1:26.8 | have anything to do with me. |
| 1:28.1 | I've never been in an abusive relationship. |
| 1:30.1 | Or, gosh, that seems really heavy. |
| 1:32.9 | Maybe that'll hit too close to home to me. |
| 1:34.7 | Maybe if you're having some of these thoughts, I just want you to know that this conversation, I think, is going to be extremely helpful just to be able to normalize the process of what this really |
| 1:47.9 | looks like and just kind of unpacking the complexities of making this shift in your life and how |
| 1:55.4 | similar it is to some of the other really difficult things that we may go through or someone we love might go through in life. |
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