Do you feel like your preoccupation and shame around food and your body end up making you miss out on parts of your life? Do you feel embarrassed and judged by your size, and often find other peoples' comments about your weight triggering? Are you a person of size trying to navigate the professional world of health and nutrition while still feeling comfortable in your own skin? Listen now for some solutions on overcoming the shame and judgment around your body size. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: The importance of size diversity in the nutrition and dietetics profession. Diets and kids: So often, kids are put on diets at a young age because they are considered "overweight." This often does more harm than good, and ends up creating a breeding ground for a disordered relationships with food to grow. Lauren Anton joins to answer the writer's letter! The unfair expectations placed on people in the health and wellness professions to look and act a certain way. Surround yourself with like-minded folks who subscribe to an all-foods-fit, HAES mentality rather than people who are obsessed with food, calories, over-exercising, and dieting in order to avoid being around people who might be entrenched in weight stigma. Some schools are adding advocacy and size diversity to their nutrition curriculum! Weight loss is not the goal!!! Let's be advocates of size diversity, rather than forcing everyone into one specific body type. Would you say an English bulldog should look like a pit bull???? AKA, our bodies are the size and shape they are meant to be, and we should never try to force them to be something different. "The body's gonna do what it will." - Lauren How we relate to food mirrors how we relate to others and ourselves. If we let judgment control our food choices, it only leads to weight cycling and a tumultuous relationship with food. We must learn to love, respect, and accept ourselves! Being in a larger body is not the bad thing. The way we treat and perceive the larger body is the bad thing. Mindful eating and hunger/fullness techniques are not another diet! Part of engaging with food is allowing joy. You are worthy of nourishment no matter your size!!! 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's Food Peace Syllabus. I am a Fat Nutrition Student...Can I still be a dietitian? HELL YES! Link here to Ep 6 where discussed with Glenys Oyston RD Poodle Science HAES video Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon Lindabacon.org Mindful Eating by Jan Chozen Bays Our fab guest Lauren Anton RD's contact info: Arrive Nutrition, @laurenantonrd, @lganutrition 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. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. A special promotion for Love Food listeners: Immerse yourself in a practice of mindfulness. Join Green Mountain at Fox Run for "Mindfulness for Women Who Struggle With Food and Body - A Meditative Retreat", designed to help you reduce stress, eat well, move joyfully, and guide the way toward ending eating and food struggles. For dates and registration information, please visit www.fitwoman.com/weight-loss-program-reinvented/2017-mindfulness-weekend/. The Women’s Center for Binge and Emotional Eating at Green Mountain at Fox Run is the only clinical program in the nation solely for women suffering with binge & emotional eating. Their insurance-eligible program is backed by over 40 years of experience and is staffed by licensed clinicians. Their program has created life-altering change