{"podcast":{"title":"Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison","slug":"food-psych-podcast-with-christy-harrison-1060888","podcast_index_feed_id":1060888,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/dbc4991c-d957-4d84-81e4-25899121a95b","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/food-psych-podcast-with-christy-harrison","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/7/11/18/8c9ba538-5d88-4da3-936f-0ff363965e62_2021_Food_Psych_Album_Art.png","author":"Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS","episode_count":408,"summary":"Helping people make peace with food since 2013. Registered dietitian nutritionist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and journalist Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS talks with guests and answers listener questions about making peace with food, healing from disordered eating, learning body acceptance, practicing intuitive eating, escaping harmful wellness culture, and more--all from a body-positive, anti-diet perspective. Along the way, Christy shares her own journey from disordered eater and dieter to food writer and anti-diet dietitian. This podcast challenges diet culture in all its forms--including the restrictive behaviors that often masquerade as wellness and fitness. Food Psych® is designed to offer safe and non-triggering support for listeners in recovery from eating disorders, weight stigma, and body shame. Subscribe for new anti-diet inspiration every week! Learn more and get full show notes and transcripts at christyharrison.com/foodpsych (Disclaimer: All content in this podcast, including medical opinion and any other health-related information, is for informational purposes only and should not be considered to be a specific diagnosis or treatment plan for any indivi…","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T04:21:42.583846+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/food-psych-podcast-with-christy-harrison-1060888"},"episode":{"title":"#335: GLP-1 Hype, Handling Haters, and Dating in a Larger Body with Virginia Sole-Smith","slug":"335-glp-1-hype-handling-haters-and-dating-in-a-larger-body-with-virginia-sole-smith","published_at":"2025-05-22T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/food-psych-podcast-with-christy-harrison-1060888/335-glp-1-hype-handling-haters-and-dating-in-a-larger-body-with-virginia-sole-smith","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/food-psych-podcast-with-christy-harrison-1060888","url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/47071/335-glp-1-hype-handling-haters-and-dating-in-a-larger-body-with-virginia-sole-smith","audio_url":"https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/c0c47b76-1702-4f74-9037-445738ff8467/stream.mp3","summary":"Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith joins us to discuss how GLP-1 hype has changed the conversation about diet culture, the importance of body autonomy, how “bro” diet culture became public policy, how she handles haters, the “fed is best” approach to parenting, and lots more. Behind the paywall, she shares her experience of weighing herself for the first time in years, what it’s been like to date for the first time in a larger body, how she’s changed her relationship to cardio, and more. This episode is cross-posted from our other podcast, Rethinking Wellness. As a journalist, Virginia Sole-Smith has reported from kitchen tables, graduated from beauty school, and gone swimming in a mermaid’s tail. Virginia's latest book, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture , is a New York Times bestseller that investigates how the \"war on childhood obesity\" has caused kids to absorb a daily onslaught of body shame from peers, school, diet culture, and families—and offers research-based strategies to help parents name and navigate the anti-fat bias that infiltrates our schools, doctor’s offices and dinner tables. Virginia began her career in women’s magazines, alternatively challenging beauty standards and gender norms, and upholding diet culture through her health, nutrition and fitness reporting. This work led to her first book, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America , in which Virginia explored how we can reconnect to our bodies in a culture that’s constantly giving us so many mixed messages about both those things. Virginia’s work appears in the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and many other publications. She writes the newsletter Burnt Toast , where she explores anti-fat bias, diet culture, parenting and health, and also hosts the Bu…","meta_description":"Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith joins us to discuss how GLP-1 hype has changed the conversation about diet culture, the importance of body autonomy, how “b…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2344,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/food-psych-podcast-with-christy-harrison-1060888/episodes/335-glp-1-hype-handling-haters-and-dating-in-a-larger-body-with-virginia-sole-smith/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/food-psych-podcast-with-christy-harrison-1060888/335-glp-1-hype-handling-haters-and-dating-in-a-larger-body-with-virginia-sole-smith.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}