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10% Happier with Dan Harris

How to Embrace the Anti-Diet | Christy Harrison

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.612.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This episode is the second in our two-part Anti-Diet Series, and features guest Christy Harrison. Christy is an anti-diet registered dietitian and nutritionist, a certified intuitive eating counselor, and a certified eating disorders specialist who has struggled with disordered eating herself. She has come out the other side and written a book called Anti-Diet, and in this episode, she discusses how to transform your relationship with food and your body.


This conversation explores Christy's personal experience with disordered eating, the problems with and deep historical roots of diet culture, the scientific evidence against dieting, and the principles of intuitive eating.


Content warning: This conversation touches on sensitive topics such as eating disorders and body image, some of which might carry an emotional charge for some listeners.   


Christy is also the instructor in our brand-new Anti-Diet Challenge over in the Ten Percent Happier app. This seven-day challenge helps you build a better relationship with food and your body and is backed by science and supercharged with meditation.

The Anti-Diet Challenge kicks off on Monday, December 6 in the Ten Percent Happier app. If you're not already a Ten Percent Happier subscriber, you can join us by starting a free trial that'll give you access to the challenge, along with our entire app. Click here to get started.



Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/christy-harrison-401

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0:00.0

This is the 10% Happier Podcast.

0:06.3

I'm Dan Harris.

0:10.7

Hey gang, one of the things that happens to a lot of people when they start meditating

0:13.9

and it definitely happened to me is that you might become more aware of your thoughts.

0:18.8

And as you become more aware of your thoughts, you may notice that many of them are venomously

0:23.4

self-critical.

0:24.9

You might notice this background swirl of judgments and worries and regrets that can

0:30.2

make your life a lot more miserable than it has to be.

0:33.2

Again, I'm speaking from genuine personal experience here.

0:36.7

Oftentimes some of the most pernicious and most harmful thoughts revolve around our

0:41.3

relationship to food and our bodies.

0:45.0

Long time listeners may have heard me say this before and I think this is something more

0:48.2

men should say out loud.

0:50.4

But I often find myself in spirals of self-laceration when I walk past a reflective surface, especially

0:56.7

if I'm wearing a bathing suit, for example.

0:59.4

The visible abs I prided myself on back in my 30s are not here anymore and the thoughts

1:04.4

that follow this observation can be pretty nasty.

1:07.7

And my inner weather can have outer consequences.

1:10.3

Maybe I start fanatically counting my calories or maybe I'm so caught up in obsessing over

1:14.0

food that I'm barely present at meal time or maybe I get so into the habit of beating

1:18.8

myself up that I extend that aggression to other people in my orbit.

1:22.8

So all that is the bad news.

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