Does exercise control your life? Are you trying to recover your relationship with food, your body, and exercise? Wonder what a healthy relationship with exercise looks like for you?? Join Julie as she chats with sports dietitian Nancy Clark on this important topic. Listen now for places to start. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Julie needs your letters! Send your letter detailing your complicated relationship with Food to LoveFoodPodcast@Gmail.com Many people struggle with balancing exercise and food in a healthy way. All too often it is tied together with weight. This is NOT healthy. Athlete vs compulsive exercise E in Exercise should be for Enjoyment NOT Excruciating Movement for pleasure is health promoting First steps to move toward a healthier direction: Role exercise plays in life: Athlete vs Distraction from life? What would you be doing if not exercising so much or so exhausted from exercising so much? Exercise can be a stress reliever yet enough is enough. Exercise is serving a distracting purpose Consider Yoga: doing for your body not to your body Consider weight lifting as long as keep within limits Convert from compulsive exerciser to athlete. An athlete fuels her body and takes rest day. "Your training today is to do nothing." 30 minutes five days a week or 150 minutes of exercise recommended to be fit. Can be easy to get too much. "Anyone who exercises for more than an hour a day does it for reasons other than health and fitness." Ken Cooper What are you running away from?? Listen to your body: intuitive eating AND intuitive exercise. Be sure to include pleasure and socialization with exercise. This will nourish the body on many many levels. Healthy exercise includes pleasure. The many reasons to exercise: health, fitness, bone health, heart health, diabetes prevention, etc. Notice to burn off calories is not on this list!!! I got a chance to hang out with Nancy Clark RD at this year's FNCE. She is a dietitian celebrity and honored she agreed to be on Love Food! Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1 Food Peace Syllabus. Nancy Clark RD the fabulous sports nutrition expert! Connect to Nancy's workshops or order her Sports Nutrition Guidebook here. 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.