Giving Up Dieting and Becoming a Bright Light with Marie-Pier

Episode 21. This week I talk to Marie-Pier Pitre-D'Iorio, RD, B.SC. Marie-Pier is an anti-diet Registered Dietitian with a B.Sc. in Psychology and the founder of The Balanced Dietitian. She is passionate about helping folx discover how to nourish their bodies without guilt, shame or restrictions. She strives to provide evidence-based nutrition interventions to all her clients and support them in their recovery journeys. She is the host of The Balanced Dietitian Podcast where she provides listeners a different approach to nutrition. She also has an amazing group program that can be found here! Marie's Journey Marie-Pier talks about her experience with developing an eating disorder and process of her recovery. She talks about her experience with more standard eating disorder treatment, and how there was little connection or discussion around how her thoughts and beliefs about food and her body impacted her emotions, self-worth and overall feelings about herself. This prompted her to pursue a career in dietetics where she eventually learned about anti-diet approaches, diet culture and started to apply that to the work she did with clients as well as her own personal journey and experience of herself. She's got some great takeaways so make sure you stay to the end to hear those! Wanna Take a Walk with Me? Have you taken a walk with me yet? Maybe you listen to this podcast on a walk but how about listening to a guided audio all about shifting your motivation from external diet mentality to internal empowered changes and respecting your body. Download my free 10 minute audio, pop your ear buds in, and take a walk with yours truly today! Nutrition Training Within Diet Culture Marie talks about her experience going through nutrition education within diet culture and our more standard weight centric model. She talks about how she had the thoughts "I can't be a fat dietitian" and the fact that restoring her weight to a "healthy weight" was good, but how feelings of control creeped in in thinkin