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Why Diets Don't Work: A Deep Dive Into Restrictive Eating, Diet-Culture, & Health At Every Size with Anti-Diet Author Christy Harrison

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Health & Fitness, So Much To Say, Athlete, Taylor Swift, Perfectionist, Eating Disorder, Friendship, Self Help, Self-improvement, Self Care, Athletes, Mental Health, Overcoming Eating Disorders, Body Neutrality, Sports, Education, Body Image, Recovery, Perfectionism, Real Talk

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Christy Harrison is an anti-diet registered dietitian, nutritionist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and author of the bestselling book Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating. With more than 17 years of nutrition experience, Harrison’s work has been recognized in The New York Times, SELF, BuzzFeed, WIRED, Refinery29, and The Food Network. In today’s episode Christy is going to explain the history of diets and diet culture, after all, how did these mainstream fads come to be?! She’ll also explain what the health at every size movement truly means, as well as diving into the weight stigma, fat-phobia, thin privilege, and so much more! If you’re searching to break free from the hands of diet culture, definitely give this episode a listen!

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Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison

Food Psych - Christy Harrison Podcast

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

New episodes of WithWit are available every Tuesday on all platforms.

0:38.2

Most researches, you know, between 95 and 98% failure rate of intentional weight loss efforts.

0:44.6

And if any other product had that kind of failure rate, do you think,

0:48.2

oh my gosh, do you think that it would still be on the market?

0:51.3

Like, you know, it's, it, the diet industry has so succeeded in brainwashing us to think

0:56.8

it's our fault when we fail when the failure is baked in.

1:00.7

The failure is part of the design and it's what keeps lining their pockets.

1:10.3

Hey everybody and welcome to RealPod.

1:12.7

I'm Victoria Garrick, former D.O. and athlete and mental health and body image advocate.

1:17.5

Every Wednesday, I'll be bringing you awesome guests, weekly inspiration and the

1:22.0

realest conversations around everything and anything. Now let's get real.

1:32.8

Welcome back to RealPod, everybody.

1:34.9

We've got a really, really great episode here for you today.

1:39.1

One of my favorite intuitive eating leaders and anti-diet activists is here and she's

1:45.5

about to truly rock your world with a deep dive into the history of diet culture and a

1:51.3

detailed, we love the detail analysis on why diets don't work.

1:56.6

Sitting down with me today is Christy Harrison.

1:59.6

Christy is an anti-diet registered dietitian nutritionist, certified intuitive eating

2:04.7

counselor and author of the best selling book, anti-diet, reclaim your time, money,

2:11.0

well-being and happiness through intuitive eating.

2:14.0

With more than 17 years of nutrition experience, Christy's work has been recognized in the

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