Welcome to the Balanced Bites Podcast.

A lot of things didn't come to easy to me,

but the things that made me feel like I belonged

were my academic success and my career success.

And it was like, oh, okay, I'll lead with that, but the things that were hard

figuring out my health, figuring out my weight, figuring out how to thrive in my well-being,

it was like I wanted to give up the minute things

didn't come easy.

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I am thrilled today to bring you Ali Shapiro. I wanted to say I'm thrilled to again bring you Ali Shapiro,

but this is her first episode on the

balanced whites podcast but you wouldn't think it because I feel like we've talked

a million times across multiple lifetimes. I love Ali for so many reasons, not only because she's academically, practically, and

empathically aware of how the medical system and diet culture and body positivity movements

all have their own brand of crazy, but because she and body

and body positivity movements all have their own brand of crazy.

But because she's just good freaking people, looking at this food, mind, body thing

with such a unique lens that I think has the potential to help literally everyone, but especially

those who are stuck in wherever, emotional eating, diet culture, anywhere we get stuck these days.

And I respect Ali because of the work she's doing

in her signature program, which we talk about in the podcast,

Truce with Food, which she developed while in grad school

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