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Find Your Food Voice

I can't tolerate my changing body. {Ep 082 with Ellie Herman}

Find Your Food Voice

Julie Duffy Dillon RDN

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.9 • 750 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Have you embraced body trust, but are suddenly up against a trigger such as body changes? Are you concerned about relapse, and are trying to maintain recovery through a stressful time? Listen now for some advice on navigating this part of the food peace journey.

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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:

  • Our bodies are ALWAYS changing, especially as women. We go through pregnancies, menopause... so how do we engage in body trust when our bodies keep changing??
  • Sometimes pregnancy can help grant a reprieve from an eating disorder.
  • Weight gain fears with pregnancy are so common!
  • Stressful transitions can trigger a relapse... Ellie Herman from Eating Recovery Center in Denver, Colorado joins to talk about how to keep us safe in these difficult times.
  • Anxiety about body changes is normal! Take a breath, and remind yourself that it's going to be okay.
  • Eating disorders feel so isolating, but the truth is that you are not alone.
  • Sometimes people with a history of food and body struggles will place the stress and blame of new life changes on the body. We fixate there because that's familiar! But the truth is that this body anxiety might be about something else entirely.
  • Find an eating disorder therapist or dietitian to help you on this journey.
  • Investigate what body discomfort means to you! Does it tend to come up with strong emotions, or with the stressors of life? Sit with that discomfort and fear and be curious about it.
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): If we try to push discomfort and fear away, it only brings on more discomfort and fear! Try connecting with your values, and continue living towards those values while still making space for that discomfort.
  • Post-pregnancy can be a big trigger for relapse... for new moms, remember that nourishment for yourself is also nourishment for your child! Focus on taking care of yourself, along with taking care of your new baby.
  • Start a gratitude practice to help ground you in your recovery.

Show Notes:

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Transcript

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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

0:56.2

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

1:15.8

Hi and welcome to episode 82 of the Love Food Podcast.

1:21.3

I am Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and partner on your food piece journey.

1:22.7

I'm so glad you're here.

1:24.4

Thank you for connecting today. And you know, the one thing I am certain about in life is that

1:28.8

nothing is certain. I know that's a famous quote. I don't know who to say that said it, but I know

1:33.8

it's famous. And I always think about that as it relates to experiencing my own body and just all

1:40.9

of us bodies walking along this earth is that the one thing we do know about our body,

1:45.6

no matter how hard we try to make it look the same or to make it look like it did in high school

1:52.5

or something like that is that our bodies are always going to be changing. And I think that's even

1:57.4

more so for women than men. We go through these hormonal changes, we're able to get

2:01.8

pregnant, all these different things that make our body just always changing. And I have a letter

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