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Find Your Food Voice

Help me make peace with food while losing weight {Ep 083}

Find Your Food Voice

Julie Duffy Dillon RDN

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.9 • 750 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary


Are you trying to make peace with food, but still trying to lose weight? Do you want to know if there is a way to pursue weight loss AND heal your relationship with food? Are you struggling with what you see as an addiction to food? Listen now to hear my insights on this complicated food peace issue.

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This episode is brought to you by my PCOS summer series: Empowering Your PCOS Journey. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This series and our Facebook group will be with you every step of the way.

Episode's Key Points:

  • The pursuit of weight loss CANNOT be combined with making peace with food... so now what??
  • Thinking about food addiction leads to issues with food preoccupation. We NEED food to survive and thrive! We shouldn't pathologize the desire for food.
  • There isn't ONE diet that, for most people, can help maintain weight loss for more than two years. In fact, most dieters regain all their lost weight, plus more, within five years. Dieting predicts weight gain!!
  • Ancel Keys' Minnesota Starvation Experiment: strong and fit men were fed half of the amount of nutrition they needed. Eventually these men became depressed and food preoccupied, and experienced a decrease in libido and in interest in extracurricular activities.
  • Weight loss pursuits promote restriction, and restriction leads to food preoccupation... so we can't pursue weight loss without it resulting in food preoccupation.
  • Remember, even if you decide to leave dieting and intentional weight loss behind, it will still take TIME to end your struggles with food preoccupation. Make sure you have a team behind you to support your healing!
  • We live in such a fatphobic world! It's important that we break down our own internal biases related to fatness, and face our own fat discrimination.
  • What is really behind the fear of fat? Explore that to figure out what's really behind the obsession with weight loss, and to discover what's keeping you stuck in disordered eating patterns.

Show Notes:

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:39.9

Say goodbye to the food police and hello to peace. Welcome to the love food podcast, hosted by

0:46.9

dietitian and food behavior expert Julie Duffy Dillon. This authentically engineered series is in

0:53.4

the form of a love letter, welcoming you to

0:56.3

reconnect with food. Now pour a cup of coffee or a margarita, and let's begin.

1:10.8

Hi and welcome to episode 83 of a love food podcast. I am Julie Duffy Dillon, registered

1:18.9

dietitian, and partner on your food peace journey. I'm so glad you're here. Thank you for

1:24.5

connecting today. And I'm wondering something. As you are making peace with food,

1:30.1

are you also trying to lose weight? Certainly, I talk to many people who are doing both,

1:36.9

who are really trying to make peace with food because they are sick and tired of being sick and

1:41.8

tired, you know, always thinking about food and it always being a

1:45.8

distraction and feeling like they're addicted to it. And they also want the scale to go down.

1:52.0

So how do you combine the two? Well, I'm going to give you a little bit of a spoiler alert

1:58.0

because you can't combine the two. And it's not that I'm necessarily

2:02.9

against weight loss per se. It's just what I have found, and I know the research also supports,

2:08.5

is that the pursuit of weight loss, it's the keeping track or eating differently or making a lifestyle

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