Say goodbye to the food police and hello to peace. Welcome to the Love Food podcast, hosted by

dietitian and food behavior expert Julie Duffy Dillon. This authentically engineered series is in

the form of a love letter welcoming you to reconnect with food. Now pour a cup of coffee or a

margarita and let's begin.

Hi and welcome to episode 268 of a love food podcast. I'm Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and partner on your

food peace journey. I am so glad you're here. Thank you for connecting today. I was taking a stroll

through my neighborhood recently, and I ran into a neighbor, a neighbor who was carrying two huge

bags of laundry into her house. She was someone who had just left her college a few months ago

and was home, of course, to do laundry. And so I had a chance to catch up with her and hear all

about going to college.

I get a little, you know, misty-eyed, nostalgic, and honestly envious of people every fall as they go to college for the first time.

For me, it was a really great experience. I still remember the joy and freedom and excitement the very first few days of living on a college

campus for me. When I talked to my neighbor, though, she was not as excited. She was actually a bit

down. She was someone who I had talked to over the last few years about diet culture, and she was

someone who naturally gravitated toward that. She had a lot of social justice values and was just

so disheartened to hear all the diet talk on her college campus. The freshman 15 shit, it's still

going on. It's outrageous. Well, when I got a chance to talk with

Ayanna Habdomeriam a few months ago, actually I think it was a few years ago now, we talked about

just that. So when I talked to my neighbor about our experiences, I was like, I need to do every

broadcast of this

episode because there may be some people listening who are new to college or new to a

different work environment where diet culture talk is just all around and so pervasive.

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