Meet Julie

Once upon a time, I spent part of the day counseling clients with eating disorders, and the rest of it teaching higher-weight people how to diet.

Until the day I realized I couldn’t live with myself anymore. I got three minutes into a body image class for a big-name weight loss program when the words just wouldn’t come out of my mouth.

When someone was caught in the dieting trap with an eating disorder, I would compassionately help them recover. If someone was fat and struggling, I told them to try harder. Each person’s shame and disordered eating came from the same diet culture—yet no one was addressing it. I decided I couldn’t be a part of that anymore, and I’ve never looked back.

Now I work to fight diet culture, promote anti-dieting, and help people with PCOS stop struggling with guilt and shame. And I’m committed to promoting health without forcing people to pursue weight loss.

I strive to include everyone

I aim to be an ally to, and create a safe space for, LGBTQIA+ identifying individuals and to people of all faiths, ethnicities, documentation status, abilities, races, and genders. I continually seek to understand and reduce harm from my privileges as a white, straight, small-sized, able-bodied, cis-gender female who was raised as a Christian.

Finally, please understand that you have unconditional permission to eat what is pleasurable in your present body, no matter what your body’s size. And I encourage you to let your mood, lab values, and quality of life tell you what you need to know about food—not the scale—as you heal on your own terms.

I would be honored to help you

Whether you’re a course member, reader or listener, I want to support you wherever you are on your path. If you’d like to go further, please read my blog, listen to my podcast, explore my PCOS Power course, or contact me.

Julie Duffy Dillon, MS, RDN, NCC, LDN, CEDS-S, is a Registered Dietitian, Eating Disorder Specialist, and Food Behavior Expert. She is a speaker, writer, and podcaster.

For more than two decades she has helped people take back their power over their relationship with food. She fights against diet culture in her writing, on her podcast, and with courses like PCOS Power.

As an eating disorder expert, she has worked with all types of eating disorders, partnering with clients to remake their relationship with food and fight back against the food and health lies they’ve been told.

She regularly appears at industry conferences, like the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo and the EDRDPro Symposium. She was also the featured expert dietitian on TLC’s “My Big Fat Fabulous Life.”

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