Hey there, welcome to episode 362 of the Find Your Food Voice podcast.

I am your host, Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and I am so glad you are here.

Have you ever experienced so much food noise?

You're like, what the fuck is happening? You literally

want to scream or you want to crawl out of your skin. Paul is someone I write about in my book,

Find Your Food Voice, and he told me whenever he had cookies and chips in the house, he described

constant, loud food thoughts. He referred to him as food noise, and it was in his head

so loud that he had to eat them. He could never keep the food in the house, and that felt like

a good enough solution for a long time. But when he moved in with his partner, his partner

would bring these foods around, and so Paul would beg his partner to just not bring them home

anymore because they were distracting him from getting work done, from sleeping, from feeling

like a normal human being. The food noise, he said, was intolerable. So diets helped Paul

sometimes. Food rules gave him a calm feeling and quieted the food noise

for a while and the bandwidth to do his job. He could take care of himself. But eventually he couldn't

keep dieting, something he blamed on himself, but I believed otherwise. And the food noise dial

got turned up. Like when I listened to Beastie Boys

in high school. The mere thought of bringing certain pastries, cookies and chips home brought

fearful tears to his eyes. We started to work together because he was interested in intuitive eating.

I remember him saying, how can I learn how to trust my food

voice when I'm terrified? It feels impossible to just eat whatever I want when I want. I know I will

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