Find Your Food Voice

  Do you try to eat mindfully yet frustrated with the times you don't? You know eating with distractions bring relief, pleasure, and relaxation. Does every eating experience need to happen when we are hungry? Is emotional eating ever ok? Julie and her guest  Michelle Kuster RD  discuss. Listen now for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Reunited and it feels...

Have you had a dysfunctional relationship with food since you were a kid?? Was food a protector from horrible life events yet you are still feel shameful years later? Listen now for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Thank you for the feedback on how you are experiencing the show. So glad you are experiencing more peace with food and at home in your own skin! J...

Have you spent your whole life being told your body is not acceptable?  Do you have times when eating seems enjoyable yet many other times when it feels exhausting and shameful?  It is time to recalibrate and reset your relationship with food. Listen now to make sense of the confusion and start to heal. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: "The only time we need to fe...

Have you been told you can't get fertility treatments, or any other medical treatments, until you lose weight? What if you know the pursuit of weight loss just leads to more poor health especially for you? Acknowledge the rock and hard place yet there is a way through. Listen on for insight. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: I recorded this podcast on my 41 st  bir...

If you've always been on a diet or off a diet bingeing, then you can relate to this episode's letter writer. Do you yearn for a healthy relationship with food yet can't stop bingeing? Listen now for strategies to ease your mind and promote healing. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Overweight = Over What?? What if no one ever told you your weight was wrong?...

Do you think you know everything you need to know about yourself? And that's keeping you weighted down with negative beliefs?? Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Think you are destined for a life of mediocrity?  Listen to my  University of North Carolina at Greensboro Nutrition Department  Commencement address. I wrote it and spoke it from my heart to  you . I can't wait to...

Making peace with food and body is tough work yet what if you work in the food industry? Is there a way to have a career that is food related AND learn how to heal? Julie thinks the struggle with food begins with the struggle with weight. Dive in and listen now for solutions for you. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Julie and Jennifer McGurk will be speaking at FNCE 2...

Body positivity promotes body respect, acceptance, and love. If you don't always love your body, does that mean you can't model body positivity? Julie and a guest discuss the letter from someone who feels like a hypocrite for telling people to love their body when she doesn't always love her body back. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Julie shares a part o...

Our world believes food kills us or cures us but information tends to conflict. Eating a "no" food can provoke anxiety in many people. Does this happen to you? Let's dig in to find ways to remove anxiety's wedge and power. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Thank you students from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Nutrition Department...

Eat this not that? Now what?? After a lifetime of fad diets andhealth pursuits can leave you confused and distrusting your body. If you are at diet rock bottom and want to relearn how to trustyour body and get off the crazy diet train, this episode is foryou! Subscribe and leave areview here in just seconds. Key Points: Mind and body connections promote health yet when our mind istoo active it can...

Special bonus sans letter to keep you connected to your innate wisdom and quiet the noise that distracts you. Walking this path can promote health and peace. I hope you enjoy. Warmly, Julie Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Body acceptance and respect is all fine and good yet what if one gains weight due to medications? Does this trump non-diet approach research? Does this make the pursuit of weight loss health promoting? If so, how can one lose weight in a healthy way?? Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Our family of origin teaches us how to relate to food and our body. If you grew up in...

Raising children and all its food mess can bring up somepast,somewhat resolved, bad body thoughts. Throw in everyone'sopinionon the best way to feed your children, and you may feel likeyouare in an eating disorder relapse tailspin. How can youprovidevariety and teach healthy eating without sparking thateatingdisorder?? Can you prevent passing it on toyourchildren?? Subscribe and leaveareview h...

When trapped in binge eating cycles, we can focus so much on food or ways to avoid food that we miss out on relationships, experiences, and life's joy. How can you break the cycle and get to being you?  Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Thank you for your letters to Food. They blow me away! Food is one of the basic human needs to stay alive (with oxygen, water, sle...

I've learned to respect my body yet nobody gets it. Help! What if you've worked for years to heal your relationship with food and your body yet some people in your life are just not there themselves? And may never be? To stay in recovery, do you have to defend abstaining from diets? Do you need to censure all bad body talk? Julie calls dietitian and eating disorder specialist Pam Kelle to...

Talking about a diet is just as normal as talking about the weather or the crazy that is Donald Trump. I can handle the weather yet diets, detoxes, and Donald need to go!  Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Thank you for your feedback! It feeds me like a bowl of fresh french fries. Win a Body Activism Kit by HAES Kits. Subscribe and leave a rating and review on iTunes....

Has healthy eating gone too far for you? A woman writes to food about the stress, exhaustion, confusion, and shame she experiences when she choses something not clean. Can you relate? Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Are you a clean eater? If you ask me, I say "Nope. I am dirty." Sanitary? Yes. Judge food choices or throw morals into what's consumed? No wa...

I had to tape a bonus episode after some brand spanking new content became available for Episode 10's Guilty Clean Eater. If you identified with Episode 10's letter writer, know that we clinicians now have more to go on to help you feel more at peace with food. Key Points: Julie and Jennifer met up at the  International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals  Symposium. They felt pri...

Long term food fights and body dissatisfaction cause friction, anger, and longing. The letter writer describes her start with body hate and dieting as a child only leading to disordered eating and weight gain. Is her experience rare? Nope. Millions experience the same. This episode debunks calories in calories out especially as it relates to certain health conditions. Knowing this, pursuing health...

Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. A nutrition student writes to food because she feels ashamed of her fat body. Although she knows diets are harmful she is tempted because of the fear of rejection: from her peers, potential employers, future clients, and herself. Julie calls Glenys Oyston RD to discuss possible solutions for this student. Key Points: This student is not experienci...

There's no such thing as a perfect eater so making mistakes is a part of normal eating. What if you were raised to believe larger bodies are disgusting or eating is to be controlled? Then what? When the mind and society expect eating perfection, how can someone become a normal eater? This week's letter writer asks food to help direct her to the path toward healing. Subscribe and leave a re...

Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Do you feel addicted to carbs, sugar, or any foods? Hear the latest research on food addiction and what dietitians in the trenches have to say about the experience. Can food addiction explain your problematic eating? Or is it something else? Key Points: Eating is just like peeing. Yup, it is although don't mix the two. Stop judging your food c...

Do you parent a fat child? This letter comes from a large woman raising a child who is now teased at school because of her size. Should she put her child on a diet? Take her to the gym? Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: 12 in 100,000 children have Type 2 Diabetes* yet 2900 in 100,000 children experience an eating disorder**. Statistically, worry more about eating disor...

Changing culture to make room for all bodies including yours. Subscribe or Leave a Review Here A woman wants to exercise yet feels so uncomfortable in her larger body. She's too embarrassed for the gym, pools, and classes but she wants to exercise and move her body. She hopes Food can help her find the confidence to go to gym classes and a way to eat with enjoyment again. Can you relate?? I ph...

Body Image During Life Transitions Subscribe or Leave a Review Here Going to the chapel, going to get married...only if I am skinny enough. Wha??? Today's letter writer struggles with body acceptance and can't seem to lose weight. She wants to have her soon-to-be husband to make a contract: he can divorce her if she gains too much weight. Do you think this will give her the willpower to st...