Have you been working on making peace with food and yearn to lose weight? Can you practice mindful intuitive eating while pursuing weight loss? Julie and her guest, fellow dietitian Aaron Flores, sort this out. Listen here now! Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Eating disorder recovery has two steps: making peace with food then making peace with your body. Living in a fat body in our thin-obessessed world has many challenges especially if you are trying to live without diets and the desire to lose weight. As making peace with food, it is common to not trust the process. Aaron uses a cool metaphor about being in the shallow end of the pool and knowing work needs to be done in the deep end. But going to that deep end is terrifying without floaties. Remember to look how far you've come and be proud of the progress so far. Binge eating disorder recovery is messy and not linear. It can be even messier if living in a fat body because our society undermines making peace with food. This chips away the trust we build through the process. Do I need to learn to be a little bit hungry?? ABSOLUTELY not. Honor the function of your rebellion. Deprivation will further fuel the rebellion. We dietitians need to be comfortable with this rebellious time. Help clients hold the space. Seek out people and resources that help you maintain positive body image. See the Food Peace Syllabus addition below. Compassionate curiosity is the foundation for your food peace.  You cannot work on peace with food while pursuing weight loss. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. Aaron Flores RD Twitter and Facebook pages. Dietitians Unplugged podcast Glenys Oyston. Here's my favorite podcast by them. Be Your Own Beloved by Vivienne McMaster (this week's Food Peace Syllabus addition) Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD.