Hey there, welcome to episode 378 of the Find Your Food Voice podcast.

I am Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and your host.

I hope I'm finding you at the right time.

This episode is created for you.

If you are wanting to go to the doctor or navigate any part of health care

and want to maybe, maybe, for the first time, try to ask to not be weighed. Why would you do this?

Well, there's many different reasons. Maybe you are recovering from an eating disorder and knowing your weight really fucks with your recovery.

Probably could even be deadly. So, you know, you want to access health care because you're wanting to like promote health, not fuck with it.

Or maybe you are trying to repair your complicated history with food, and that includes

diets and pursuing weight loss. And, you know, it's going pretty well, not knowing your weight,

and you want to continue that. Or maybe you are someone who's like, holy shit, this world has so much anti-fat bias, I want to

not contribute to that. And maybe this is a place that you want to experiment in advocating

for yourself and for others. This is a really challenging thing for many people, especially the first

few times. Is it ever easy? Probably not

depending on what life you're living. You know, if you have a body that is experiencing

lots of different ways that make it not safe in the world, I would imagine this is something

that's probably going to always have its challenge to it. And I hope this episode where I am speaking with Colleen Bremner and Rachel Poppec, two people

that work with me behind the scenes on this podcast, I hope it helps you to feel, one, more support.

And two, gives you more ideas on just like how to do it.

And three, affirm why you deserve to have weight inclusive, accessible health care, no matter what.

So we are going to get to this conversation in a little bit.

We're going to have a very brief sponsor break,

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