[Chat] Relationships and body change; a conversation about Love Chub
Find Your Food Voice
Julie Duffy Dillon RDN
4.9 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Julie, Coleen Bremner, and Rachel Popik explore the concept of 'Love Chub,' a term referring to weight gain in relationships, and challenge the societal norms surrounding body image and self-worth. They discuss personal experiences with body image, the importance of therapy, and the need to embrace change and self-love. The conversation emphasizes the significance of healthy relationships and the impact of societal expectations on personal well-being.
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Keywords: Love Chub, body image, relationships, self-love, societal norms, mental health, therapy, intuitive eating, weight gain, personal growth
Outline:
0:00 Welcome and Show Summary
03:00 Grounding Techniques and Personal Check-ins
07:20 Exploring the Concept of Love Chub
11:54 The Impact of Relationships on Body Image
16:08 Challenging Societal Norms and Expectations
20:22 Flipping the Script on Love Chub
24:07 Embracing Change and Self-Love
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30:05 Bye!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome to episode 418 of the Find Your Food Voice podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Today, we are talking about body changes in relationship. |
| 0:09.0 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey there, dear Voicefinder. |
| 0:13.8 | I am Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietician, and your host of the Find your Food |
| 0:18.5 | Voice podcast. |
| 0:19.8 | I am really excited for you to hear this episode today. |
| 0:24.9 | This is a team episode where Colleen Bremner and Rachel Poppick, |
| 0:29.8 | two people who have been working with me for the past three or four years behind the scenes |
| 0:33.7 | in the podcast and in the PCOS power membership, |
| 0:37.0 | we like to get together and talk |
| 0:39.1 | about something that we notice in real life that is basically presenting us diet culture on a |
| 0:45.8 | silver platter. |
| 0:47.3 | And today we are talking about specifically body changes in relationship. |
| 0:52.0 | So this topic appeared after Colleen overheard someone talking about |
| 0:55.9 | gaining weight while in relationship, and they referred to it as love chub. So this connected her to |
| 1:03.1 | a blog post, demonizing weight gain in relationship. She shared it with us. Rachel and I were |
| 1:08.9 | appalled. And we were like, okay, this is quite a pitch for a |
| 1:12.7 | podcast episode. Yes, we are going to talk about it. So this is an episode where we share |
| 1:18.2 | personal experiences in our body while in new and season relationships, as well as ways we are |
| 1:25.4 | flipping the script on this diet culture message. |
| 1:29.3 | I encourage you. |
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