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Find Your Food Voice

I don't know how to stop dieting. {Ep 81}

Find Your Food Voice

Julie Duffy Dillon RDN

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.9 • 750 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary


Are you ready to leave dieting behind, but are too afraid to make that final leap and embrace intuitive eating? Are you looking for a way out, but aren't sure where to turn? Listen now to hear some great tips to transition into 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:

  • Diets don't work, and losing weight doesn't actually fix any of our problems!
  • Dieting = MISERY!
  • Healthy eating includes pleasure! If a certain eating pattern HURTS, then it's definitely a diet, and it's definitely not health promoting.
  • We give food way too much power and brain space... we should only really have to think about food when it's meal time! Food preoccupation can lead to unhealthy eating behaviors.
  • Compassion is key! It's super common to avoid "healthy" or "diet" foods like fruits and veggies, or to overeat when you first abandon dieting and restriction, all in an effort to overcompensate and make sure you don't fall back into disordered behaviors. So if you catch yourself engaging in these behaviors, just be kind and understanding to yourself. This is all a part of the mess of figuring out your own internal hunger, fullness, and satiety cues. And it won't last forever!
  • This is a PROCESS! Food peace isn't a fast journey.
  • Be curious about your eating behavior rather than judgmental. This will allow you to uncover the root of your food preoccupation!
  • You may have to think about food a lot when you first start the intuitive eating journey, but this won't last. Think about learning how to drive or riding a bike... you have to think about it at first, but once you get it, it's intuitive.
  • If jumping into intuitive eating still feels too scary, try experimenting with check-in times instead! Set an alarm so that you can check in with your hunger every three-ish hours throughout the day, every day. Make sure your check-in times go all the way until you're asleep, and do an intentional body scan to check in with your hunger, fatigue, and other bodily needs. Eventually, this will get you into the habit of checking in with yourself consistently, but not obsessively.
  • Making peace with food is HARD, especially because we live in a world that hasn't recovered yet. Find a dietitian and/or therapist, group therapy, or an online course to help you on this journey!

Show Notes:

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:13.4

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0:20.1

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0:22.8

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0:27.0

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0:32.1

visiting meetrejoin.com. That's meet r-e-j-j-o-N.com.

0:40.0

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

0:46.4

hosted by dietitian and food behavior expert Julie Duffy Dillon. This authentically

0:52.1

engineered series is in 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.

1:10.8

Hi and welcome to episode 81 of the Love Food Podcast.

1:16.9

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

1:22.3

I'm so glad you're here.

1:23.8

Thank you for connecting today.

1:25.1

And are you someone who has decided to say goodbye to dieting forever?

1:31.7

Have you decided that you are done with torturing your body with a system of eating that just doesn't work?

1:40.5

But then you look down and that is just so far to drop without that safety net.

1:47.0

If you think about making that leap to something like intuitive eating or just living without dieting,

1:54.4

this episode's letter features someone who is in that place.

2:00.6

She's kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place because she knows that dieting doesn't

2:04.9

work and she's experimenting with something like intuitive eating and it's just so scary and

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