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Fitness & Sushi

Fitness & Sushi is the podcast for women ready to stop dieting and start healing. Hosted by Deanna Schober, creator of the Ideal Body Formula™, this show helps women over 40 recover from decades of emotional eating, binge eating, body image issues, and yo-yo dieting. This isn’t about willpower, calorie counting, or chasing the next diet trend. It’s about healing your relationship with food, your body, and your mind — so you can finally feel in control around food, stop obsessing over your weight, and live your life without guilt or shame. Each episode covers the topics most searched by women struggling with food and body: How to stop emotional eating Healing binge eating Body image after 40 Intuitive eating for women in midlife Exercise motivation without punishment Perimenopause weight gain How to stop yo-yo dieting Food freedom and self-trust Breaking generational body shame Rebuilding confidence and self-worth These are the real conversations behind lasting change — the kind that lead to mental freedom, peaceful eating, and finally feeling at home in your own body. New episodes weekly. Follow Deanna on Instagram @deannaschober
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T2. The 4-step process for creating more body acceptance

A lot of us reject the idea of body acceptance. We just aren’t happy with who we are or how we look. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But this lack of acceptance is affecting your fitness and life more than you realize. And getting to a place of more body acceptance can dramatically improve your eating, exercise, and every other part of your life. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In today’s solo episode, Tony breaks down the 4-step process for creating body acceptance so you can start liking who you see in the mirror and living your full li...

Mar 11, 202114 min

94. How to Create Healthy Boundaries Around Food Using Permission-Based Eating

🟡 There’s a lot of fear surrounding permission-based eating and allowing yourself to eat anything you want, at any time, in any quantity. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ People think that with that kind of unrestricted permission that they’ll go completely off the rails and eat junk food 24/7. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But fear isn’t reality, and permission isn’t the same thing as action. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Permission is the mindset that creates the mental space for you to determine what it is you actually need to feel your best. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ...

Mar 07, 202141 min

T1. Overcoming perfectionism with your eating, exercise, and body

We all struggle with perfectionism, and it keeps us stuck and frustrated on our ideal body journey. In today’s solo episode, Tony breaks down the ways it manifests in your eating, exercise, and body image, and shows you how to overcome it so that you start taking more effective action in your life. If the episode was helpful, consider leaving a 5 star rating and review. You can connect with Tony on Instagram - @tony.schober

Mar 04, 202114 min

93. How to Balance the Extremes of Diet Culture and Body Positivity

🟡 Both Diet Culture and Body Positivity have their extremes. Don’t get me wrong… a lot of good has come out of both communities, such as nutritional awareness and fitness communities from Diet Culture, and body acceptance and self-care from the Body Positivity movement. But unfortunately, both can take their philosophies too far - pushing open-minded people away, and keeping them from finding a health and fitness “home” they can relate to. Here’s the good news… there is a happy medium that take...

Feb 28, 202146 min

92. How to Stop Numbing Out and Start Addressing Your Real Problems

In this episode you'll learn... 🔶 Why food and dieting tend to be distractions from other issues in your life 🔶 How to know if you’re meeting a need or creating a distraction from it 🔶 The common needs we attempt to meet with food but shouldn’t 🔶 How to know if your coping strategy is creating a secondary problem 🔶 What to do once you’ve discovered the need you’ve meeting ineffectively 🔶 Why Tony refuses to have a cry sesh

Feb 21, 202149 min

91. How to Attach New Meaning to Exercise So You’ll Want to Do It

🟡 The key to being consistent with exercise for life is to understand that it isn’t the exercise itself you enjoy - it’s just the vehicle for creating an atmosphere or state that brings you joy. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you don’t enjoy the means you won’t experience the ends. In other words, if you can’t find the satisfaction in the activity itself, you will never stay engaged with it long enough to see the side effects of consistency - results. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It doesn’t matter if it’s walking or strength train...

Feb 07, 202137 min

90. How to Get Through the Panic of Seeing People When You’re Uncomfortable With Your Body

🟡 How many times have you avoided life experiences, or they have been made worse, because you’ve been afraid of having your body judged? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It happens to all of us. Unexpected weight gain and body insecurities create a general feeling of unease when it comes to seeing people - especially people we haven’t seen in a while. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Sometimes it goes as far as panic and avoiding life. Other times you have no choice but see people or go places, so you have to get through high levels of fea...

Jan 31, 202150 min

89. How to Break the Limiting Beliefs Keeping You From Your Ideal Body

🟡 Your behaviors are a side effect of your beliefs. So if you aren’t acting in a way that is creating positive change in your life, there’s a limiting belief you need to overcome. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Your beliefs are like your life’s operating system. This operating system can either operate the commands you give it, or it can be full of bugs, aka limiting beliefs, that create self-sabotage and negative outcomes. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you replace these limiting beliefs with more empowering ones, your life experie...

Jan 24, 202150 min

88. How to Use Calorie Counting the Right Way When or If You Need To

Click here to Join Built Daily Elite ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🟡 Despite the fact we encourage people to learn how to eat without counting calories, we are NOT anti calorie tracking. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The problem is calorie tracking and food logging keep people anchored to a past dieting mindset. And it makes it very difficult to uncover the underlying struggles with your relationship with food when these tools are masking them. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But even though we coach people how to eat without counting, there may be a time...

Jan 10, 202150 min

87. How to Improve Your Health Without Slipping Back Into Diet Culture

🟡 Choose your behaviors based on what will make you feel your best instead of what you think will make you look your best. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Your goal is to work towards improving your mental, emotional, and physical health without falling back into common dieting traps. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ That doesn’t mean you’re giving up on your physical appearance. Just the opposite, actually. By choosing to approach your behaviors from a place of health instead of body control, you drastically improve your consistency and ...

Jan 03, 202142 min

86. How to Approach Weight Loss Using the Ideal Body Formula™

🟡 Weight loss doesn’t have to be a taboo topic for those of us who reject diet culture and support body positivity. When approached the right way, weight loss becomes a natural side effect of improved relationships with food, body, exercise, and mind. The problem is many people see weight loss as their savior - believing it will solve their negative body image, emotional eating, motivation struggles, and more. But when you layer weight loss on top of these struggles, they just get worse, and yo...

Dec 27, 202044 min

85. How to Handle Overshooting Food Freedom

🟡 It’s not unusual to overshoot food freedom. In fact, it’s usually a required part of the process for getting there. I’ve watched so many people try to get out of the food prison they’re in and get to a place of food freedom. And it’s been interesting to watch a pattern take place. Think of your food freedom journey like a pendulum. On one side you have food prison, and on the other side you have food free-for-all. And right in the middle you have food freedom. You start in food prison where y...

Dec 20, 202046 min

84. How to Stop Hating Your Body

🟡 Hating your body never changes it in the long term. In fact, body hate is one of the single greatest obstacles to transformation. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I hated my body for more than a decade. The only thing that accomplished was sporadic periods of leanness shrouded in body insecurity and a small life experience. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It wasn’t until I made the conscious choice to start accepting my body and moving away from hating it that my life truly changed. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ As a result of appreciating and respecting m...

Dec 06, 202044 min

83. How to Stay Motivated When You Feel Like Giving Up

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ The common causes behind wanting to give up ✅ Why you’ve likely been approaching motivation the wrong way ✅ The essential mindset shifts you need for a lifetime of motivation ✅ How to redefine what motivation really is and what it feels like ✅ The big problem with most goal setting ✅ Why Tony thought Deanna was being passive aggressive To work with Tony or Deanna go to - https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tony.schober/ Fo...

Nov 29, 202041 min

82. How to Keep “Junk” Food In the House Without Eating it All

🟡 There’s more to permission-based eating than just saying yes to all the foods you want to eat. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I see it all the time. People give themselves permission to eat foods they’ve placed off limits, so they go to the store and buy the food, but then they end up eating way more of it than they wanted. So they quickly write off the idea of practicing moderation and go back to placing these foods on their “trigger foods” list. Here’s the thing - permission is a feeling, not an action. You can...

Nov 22, 202044 min

81. How to Stop Being Triggered By Your So-Called Flaws

🟡 What you see in the mirror is way less important than who you see looking back. Focusing on what you see in the mirror keeps you stuck defining your self-worth externally as the sum of your body parts. Focusing on who you see in the mirror shifts your self-worth internally and allows you to see yourself as a whole human being. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Obsessing over our “flaws” keeps us living a small life - constantly hiding who we are, and feeling like we have less value to offer the world simply because ...

Nov 15, 202042 min

80. How to Get to the Heart of the Problem You’re Trying to Solve With Fitness

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ Why you’re unknowingly using fitness to solve bigger issues in your life ✅ How the Ideal Body Formula™ allows you to live your full life experience ✅ A new perspective that will give purpose and motivation to your journey ✅ How to know if you’re in a toxic relationship with your body ✅ Why overcoming your body and self-image struggles makes it easier to solve your food issues ✅ Why Tony is going to start his diet on Monday To work with Tony or Deanna go to - htt...

Nov 08, 202044 min

79. How to Push Yourself Without Falling Into the No Excuses Trap

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ What the no excuses trap is and isn’t ✅ The difference between making excuses and knowing when to rest ✅ How to stop letting other people’s no excuse mentality influence what’s best for you ✅ The difference between a reason and an excuse ✅ How the all-or-nothing mindset fits into the no excuses mentality ✅ Why Tony told Deanna to stop making excuses To work with Tony or Deanna go to - https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/to...

Nov 01, 202041 min

78. How to Stop White-Knuckling Through Your Exercise Program

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ The reason why exercise feels so forced ✅ How to start looking forward to physical activity ✅ The process to follow when you’re unmotivated to work out ✅ About the exercise selection pyramid ✅ How to start thinking outside the stereotypical exercise box ✅ How Deanna stopped Tony from should-ing all over himself To work with Tony or Deanna go to - https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tony.schober/ Follow Deanna on Instagram ...

Oct 25, 202041 min

77. How to Recognize Sneaky All-or-Nothing Behaviors That Hold You Back

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ What happens when you think in black and white ✅ Common ways that all-or-nothing thinking shows up in your journey ✅ Strategies for overcoming this limiting mindset ✅ About the antidote to perfectionism ✅ Why perfectionism kills your momentum ✅ Why Deanna kept making eyebrows at Tony To work with Tony or Deanna go to - https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tony.schober/ Follow Deanna on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/...

Oct 18, 202042 min

76. How to Handle Unexpected Weight Gain On Your Food Freedom Journey

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ What you can expect as you heal your relationship with food ✅ Why weight gain might be a necessary part of the process ✅ How to navigate the emotional ups and downs ✅ How to address your weight gain fears ✅ Why you can’t have food freedom without also addressing your body image ✅ Why Tony and Deanna are apologetic over "exacerbate" To work with Tony or Deanna go to - https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tony.schober/ Follow...

Oct 11, 202045 min

75. How to Deal With Unwanted Overeating

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ Why you might be overeating in the first place ✅ Why the common way of handling it makes things worse ✅ How to navigate the times when you overeat ✅ How to be proactive about overeating instead of reactive ✅ Why not all overeating is bad ✅ Why Deanna and Tony are CEOs of wordsmithing To work with Tony or Deanna go to - https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tony.schober/ Follow Deanna on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/...

Oct 04, 202038 min

74. How to Address Your Emotional Eating Struggle

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ How to determine if emotional eating is the real issue ✅ Why we turn to food when we’re not hungry ✅ The process for navigating through an emotional eating episode ✅ Why telling someone to just do something else is ineffective ✅ If it’s ever OK to eat for emotional reasons ✅ Why Tony pushed Deanna off the stool To work with Tony or Deanna go to - https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tony.schober/ Follow Deanna on Instagram ...

Sep 27, 202050 min

73. How to Give Up the Scale Without Feeling Out of Control

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ Why you should consider giving up the scale ✅ Why we have such a hard time giving it up ✅ The more effective progress markers to focus on ✅ What you’ll likely experience as you go through the process of giving it up ✅ Why weighing yourself typically leads you engage in unwanted behaviors ✅ Why Tony advises to smash the scale over the head of someone you love* To work with Tony or Deanna go to - https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony on Instagram - https://www.instag...

Sep 20, 202047 min

72. How to Feel in Control of Food Using Permission-Based Eating

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ How to get to a place of “I don’t want” instead of “I can’t have” ✅ What permission-based eating is ✅ Why having permission to eat anything doesn’t mean you’ll eat everything ✅ Why you can’t force mindful eating ✅ What happens when you eat fun foods without unconditional permission ✅ Why Tony is so proud of his discovery that you can put cauliflower in a smoothie To work with Tony or Deanna go to - https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony on Instagram - https://www.in...

Sep 13, 202055 min

71. How to Accept Your Body Without Feeling Like You’re Giving Up

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ The difference between acceptance and giving up ✅ Why acceptance is a requirement for transformation ✅ The process for achieving body acceptance ✅ What happens when you don’t accept yourself unconditionally ✅ Why acceptance isn’t about your future self ✅ Why Tony has an ultimate goal of naked jumping jacks in public To work with Tony or Deanna go to - https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tony.schober/ Follow Deanna on Insta...

Sep 06, 202050 min

70. How to Stop Worrying About People Judging Your Body

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ About the mirror of judgement ✅ How to create a more empowering perspective of other people’s opinions ✅ Why we fear judgement from others ✅ What really determines your life experience ✅ The difference between other people’s opinions and your own limiting beliefs ✅ Why Tony called Deanna a mailbox To work with Tony or Deanna go to - https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tony.schober/ Follow Deanna on Instagram - https://www....

Aug 30, 202042 min

69. How to Know if You’re Ready to Pursue Weight Loss

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ Why pursuing weight loss before you’re ready can set you back ✅ The signs to look for to determine if you’re ready ✅ How to know if your efforts are becoming detrimental ✅ Why most people will rationalize when they’re ready when they’re really not ✅ The 3 key traits you need to make this process effective To work with Tony or Deanna go to - https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tony.schober/ Follow Deanna on Instagram - http...

Aug 23, 202047 min

68. How to Choose an Effective Coach for Your Transformation

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ The 5 traits to look for in a good coach ✅ Why coaching is so effective ✅ The mistakes people make when choosing a coach ✅ Why just because a coach has what you want it doesn’t mean they know how to help you get it ✅ Why you need a coach that’s more than just a cheerleader ✅ Why Tony likes Deanna’s assets To work with Tony or Deanna go to - https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tony.schober/ Follow Deanna on Instagram - http...

Aug 16, 202050 min

67. How to Transform Your Life Using the Ideal Body Formula™️

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ What the Ideal Body Formula™️ is ✅ Why it’s so effective for transformation ✅ How to utilize it in your fitness journey ✅ Why eating less and moving more does not result in transformation ✅ Why you don’t need more willpower and discipline ✅ Why Deanna has a beef with Jillian Michaels To work with Tony or Deanna go to - https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tony.schober/ Follow Deanna on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/...

Aug 09, 202058 min
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