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Find Your Food Voice

Ep 004: I'm too ashamed of my body to go to the gym

Find Your Food Voice

Julie Duffy Dillon RDN

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Mental Health

4.9 • 750 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Changing culture to make room for all bodies including yours.

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A woman wants to exercise yet feels so uncomfortable in her larger body. She's too embarrassed for the gym, pools, and classes but she wants to exercise and move her body. She hopes Food can help her find the confidence to go to gym classes and a way to eat with enjoyment again. Can you relate??

I phone a friend, Debra Benfield, to help out Uncomfortable Wanna-Be Gym Rat and she speaks about magic carpets and ways to stay connected to promote health and peace.

Key Points

  • During season 2 of My Big Fat Fabulous Life, Julie was Whitney Thore's dietitian. Whitney experienced similar experiences to the letter writer and found her way back to movement in her larger body.
  • The letter writer is connected to her body in a health promoting way even though feeling negatively about it...keep connected to that!
  • The fear of judgement is powerful and in yoga, in it's most basic sense, is about leaving judgement at the door. Separating what others think about her and what she thinks will be key on and off the mat.
  • Weight oppression
  • Yoga modifications: start with not add later. Goal is challenge and ease not pain. Downward facing puppy to downward facing dog.
  • Our bodies let us know when it is time to move and trust it that is so much better than rules and regulations
  • Debra and Julie will be the last people on earth without FitBits...why??

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:32.8

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0:40.0

Say goodbye to the food police

0:41.6

and hello to peace.

0:43.5

Welcome to the Love Food podcast

0:45.3

hosted by award-winning dietitian

0:47.2

and food behavior expert, Julie Duffy Dillon.

0:50.3

This authentically engineered series

0:52.2

is in the form of a love letter

0:53.6

welcoming you to

0:55.1

reconnect with food.

0:56.6

Now pour a cup of coffee or a margarita and let's begin.

1:09.6

Hi there.

1:17.3

Welcome to episode four on the love Food podcast. I am so glad you're here. I am Julie Duffy Dylan, registered dietitian, and food piece promoter. Today we're going to be talking about movement,

1:23.8

exercise, sweating, and what is everybody else thinking about your body when you're at the gym?

1:30.4

We have a very, very important letter from someone who is experiencing a craving to move her body,

1:37.9

yet just feels so uncomfortable because she experiences her body is a lot larger

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