Welcome to the first day of the Diet Culture Rehab Challenge. This is a recording of the first day of the challenge, which was presented LIVE to people who joined the challenge. The challenge is 3 days, with each day working on a key strategy for breaking free of Diet Culture. Day 1 – Reclaim Exercise: Release the need to use exercise for body control, so you can enjoy it and build lasting consistency Day 2 – Reclaim Food: Learn how diet culture created the willpower problems you think you have ...
Oct 22, 2024•52 min
In episode 266 - “The Formula for Breaking Free From Diet Culture” , you'll learn... 🔶 How Diet Culture has been setting you up for failure with food 🔶 Why the scale is doing more harm than good 🔶 How freeing yourself from Diet Culture opens up more space for what really matters in your life 🔶 The key for unlocking the joy of movement so that you'll have lasting consistency 🔶 Why trying to control your body keeps the diet cycle going strong …and much more! So check the episode out. If you l...
Oct 21, 2024•42 min
In episode 265 - “How to Approach Nutrition and Exercise During Periods of Emotional Distress” , you'll learn... 🔶 Why emotional distress can drastically change your eating and exercise habits 🔶 The importance of gentle movement when intense exercise feels like too much 🔶 Why restrictive diets can worsen emotional distress and what to do instead 🔶 How to give yourself grace and avoid guilt around your eating and exercise routines during stressful periods 🔶 How to use nutrition and movement ...
Oct 13, 2024•44 min
In episode 264 - “How to Handle Sudden Unexpected Weight Gain” , you'll learn... 🔶 How to reframe the situation to keep you from diving back into restrictive diet habits 🔶 Why weight gain doesn't mean failure 🔶 The adjustment process if changes need to be made 🔶 Why weight fluctuations are actually a normal occurrence 🔶 How to ensure the weight gain doesn't impact your self-worth …and much more! So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe to the show and give it a 5 star r...
Oct 06, 2024•43 min
Most people would prefer to not have to count calories, but they're afraid to give it up. They think they will lose control around food. They think they won't be able to lose weight. They think it works for them. None of these things are true if you're struggling with your food and body. Instead, the peace and freedom around food that you want won't be found until you break from the calorie obsession. Let me be clear, though. There's nothing inherently wrong with calorie counting - UNLESS you st...
Sep 15, 2024•48 min
There's a tendency for people to always be seeking out more motivation so that they don't have to keep relying on willpower to push them. This might actually work - IF we weren't approaching motivation wrong in the first place. If you make the necessary shifts, you won't need motivation to sustain you. Instead, the healthy behaviors you want in your life will become the easier and more effortless choices to make (and do). In episode 262 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I are going to debunk so...
Sep 08, 2024•43 min
What if I told you that I could guarantee a 50/50 chance you'd end up gaining weight if you tried following a Diet Culture approach to lose weight? Would you take those odds for a chance of success? But wait... the other 50% chance isn't all a success. Instead, nearly all of that percentage will lead to some weight loss followed by you regaining the same weight you lost. The "real" success, measured only in long-term pounds lost (ie not necessarily ending body image struggles, food obsession, et...
Sep 01, 2024•49 min
In episode 260 - “Can Weight Loss and Healing Your Relationships with Food and Body Coexist?” , you'll learn... 🔶 Why the traditional diet mindset can undermine your efforts to heal 🔶 How to approach weight loss without falling back into harmful diet culture habits 🔶 How to identify when your weight loss goals are in conflict with your body acceptance journey 🔶 The psychological impact of trying to achieve both weight loss and healing 🔶 Why long-term health should be prioritized over quick ...
Aug 25, 2024•51 min
So you're ready to end your lifetime eating struggle but you have no idea where to even start. It seems like there are a lot of things you need to do and you're starting to feel confused and overwhelmed. Before you even start trying to change your behaviors and create new habits, there are a few other things you absolutely must do in order to succeed. Most people either forget to do them, or they don't even realize they are supposed to. As a result, they try to change their habits, only to end u...
Aug 18, 2024•45 min
We don't think about exercise the right way. We think of it as this compartmentalized aspect of our day that stereotypically includes either strength training, or cardio, or both. It's just another obligation for most people, whether you're the person who struggles to consistently work out, or you're the person who is afraid to miss a workout. There are of course those who live an active lifestyle without even thinking about it. Movement feels easy and effortless to get done consistently, even i...
Aug 11, 2024•45 min
I believe that everybody emotionally eats to some degree. It's normal and can be very regulating. As we usually say - it's not a problem until it's a problem. But for many people, emotional eating has become a problem. Overcoming emotional eating is a multi-part process that includes addressing restriction and deprivation, directly meeting your needs, learning how to productively cope, and some smaller steps in between. We've laid that process out in detail in many episodes already. This time we...
Aug 04, 2024•47 min
On July 24th Deanna did a live Food and Body Workshop where she taught a group of women how to overcome their preoccupation with food and their body. She showed them why this lifetime obsession with looking a certain way happens, and why it's not your fault. And she laid out a better path to take to achieving your Ideal Body - one that doesn't keep you trapped in a prison of food rules and conditional self-worth. The LIVE workshop is over, but she's sharing the replay of it here on the podcast. ...
Jul 28, 2024•1 hr 12 min
When people decide to get themselves out of Diet Culture, they're confused about how they're supposed to change their physical activity. It's still important to them that they achieve their fitness goals, but they're worried they're making the wrong choices. Is forcing yourself to work out considered Diet Culture? What about tracking your workouts? Is that the equivalent of calorie counting? Are you supposed to change up your workouts? Not push yourself too hard? How is that going to impact your...
Jul 14, 2024•49 min
Vacations are meant to be enjoyable, but many times concerns about our body, food, exercise, and navigating personal relationships get in the way. The standard Diet Culture advice tends to focus on getting in shape for your vacation and how to eat and exercise while you're there to keep it in great shape. But what normally happens is you get thrown into a binge-restrict cycle, and you become more food and body focused than ever. Judgmental comments from family about your body and the food you're...
Jul 07, 2024•48 min
When people join our Mentorship program, they typically struggle with how they perceive and interpret the situations they experience in their life. These perceptions are keeping them stuck and preventing them from experiencing the life they want. They lead to self-sabotage, feeling bad about yourself, unwanted eating behaviors, motivation struggles, and much more. So you can understand how important it is to find and root out these limiting perceptions. Having the right perceptions of the situat...
Jun 30, 2024•42 min
In this episode - “How to Navigate Social Situations Without Dieting” , you'll learn... 🔶 Strategies for enjoying get-togethers without food anxiety 🔶 How to handle food pushers with confidence 🔶 How to enjoy celebrations without overeating 🔶 Why "pre-dieting" doesn't balance out social overeating 🔶 How to feel comfortable eating differently in public 🔶 What Deanna, Amsterdam, and Taylor Swift all have in common …and much more! So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe ...
Jun 23, 2024•45 min
It's normal to have thoughts and urges about wanting to diet. And it's normal to romanticize the good parts of Diet Culture while ignoring the bad parts. We selectively remember and focus on the parts of dieting we did like - body change, "confidence", etc. But we block out the parts we hated - constant food and body obsession, feeling restricted and deprived, never getting long-term results, etc. What isn't normal, or rather - helpful, is letting those thoughts overtake you to the point that yo...
Jun 16, 2024•44 min
Pretend for a moment that you're ready to give up dieting. One big problem is that you just don't know what eating without dieting is supposed to look like. You've lived so long following diet rules, that without them you feel a little lost in space. The good news is that there's no reason to feel that way. There actually is a framework and process for you to follow that guides you to YOUR unique eating style. In episode 251 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I are going to show you how to go ab...
Jun 09, 2024•42 min
Your hormones are powerful. They affect your behaviors, and even the outcomes in your life, more than you might think. Your eating and your body are prime examples of your hormones at work. We think we have absolute control over what, when, and how much we eat, and the way our bodies look, but our experiences have shown us that is not the case. Understanding the influences at play can be really helpful on your Ideal Body journey. Instead of trying to fight your own biology, you can work with you...
May 19, 2024•45 min
This is the FINAL day of the Ideal Body Challenge. It's being held LIVE April 29 - May 3 on Zoom, and discussions are being held in our private Facebook group. The recordings are being shared here on the podcast for your convenience. If you'd still like to be a part of this challenge, get the workbook, and the details for the live calls, you can sign up for free at https://builtdaily.com/challenge
May 03, 2024•1 hr 5 min
This is the fourth of five days of the Ideal Body Challenge. It's being held LIVE April 29 - May 3 on Zoom, and discussions are being held in our private Facebook group. The recordings are being shared here on the podcast for your convenience. If you'd still like to be a part of this challenge, get the workbook, and the details for the live calls, you can sign up for free at https://builtdaily.com/challenge
May 02, 2024•59 min
This is the third of five days of the Ideal Body Challenge. It's being held LIVE April 29 - May 3 on Zoom, and discussions are being held in our private Facebook group. The recordings are being shared here on the podcast for your convenience. If you'd still like to be a part of this challenge, get the workbook, and the details for the live calls, you can sign up for free at https://builtdaily.com/challenge
May 01, 2024•1 hr 13 min
This is the second of five days of the Ideal Body Challenge. It's being held LIVE April 29 - May 3 on Zoom, and discussions are being held in our private Facebook group. The recordings are being shared here on the podcast for your convenience. If you'd still like to be a part of this challenge, get the workbook, and the details for the live calls, you can sign up for free at https://builtdaily.com/challenge
Apr 30, 2024•1 hr 8 min
This is the first of five days of the Ideal Body Challenge. It's being held LIVE April 29 - May 3 on Zoom, and discussions are being held in our private Facebook group. The recordings are being shared here on the podcast for your convenience. If you'd still like to be a part of this challenge, get the workbook, and the details for the live calls, you can sign up for free at https://builtdaily.com/challenge
Apr 29, 2024•1 hr 8 min
In episode 249 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I are going to show you how to recognize and get out of Diet Culture so that you can achieve your Ideal Body. In this episode - “The 5 Key Steps to Getting Out of Diet Culture", you'll learn... 🔶 How Diet Culture has influenced your eating habits 🔶 Why an anti-diet support system is necessary for lasting change 🔶 How to redefine your health and fitness journey to make it more empowering 🔶 Why rigid rules around your eating tend to backfire 🔶...
Apr 28, 2024•43 min
Have you ever wondered why you self-sabotage? Why you struggle to do the things you know are good for you? Our intentions are usually good. We want to be healthier. We want to be more fit. We want to be happier. But for some reason we keep coming back to our old way of living - getting our old "results". Why does that happen? For the last 4 days we've been breaking down the Ideal Body Formula. The idea is simple... Your Ideal Body is the natural side effect of healthy relationships with food, bo...
Apr 18, 2024•26 min
The standard exercise prescription is strength training and cardio. But like most things with your health and fitness, knowing what might be good for you doesn't always translate into you actually doing it. When it comes to exercise, there are many issues people struggle with... doing exercise they don't enjoy seeing exercise as a way to burn calories using exercise to make up for (or preempt) poor eating pushing workouts too hard (or not resting enough) not having the motivation to do them skip...
Apr 17, 2024•25 min
Is there anything more demoralizing than looking in the mirror and being disappointed with what you see? You feel unattractive, less valuable in society, and it affects everything from your personal relationships to your career. This is the disempowering messaging Diet Culture pushes on us - that you need to look a certain way to be happy and worthy. In day 3 of The Ideal Body Formula series Deanna and I are diving deep into your relationship with your body. This is a big one. Your relationship ...
Apr 16, 2024•22 min
For Day 2 of The Ideal Body Formula Series we're breaking down your relationship with food. You probably already know something is wrong with your approach to eating, but it can be hard to understand what needs to be fixed. The symptoms of a dysfunctional relationship with food are apparent... Excessive food thoughts. Out of control eating. Not trusting yourself around food. Never knowing how much to eat. And the list goes on. But the problem is Diet Culture takes an ineffective backwards approa...
Apr 15, 2024•26 min
We're doing something different this week. For the next 5 days, we're running a special podcast event called "The Ideal Body Formula Series". Each day we'll be breaking down a different part of the Ideal Body Formula. This is all in anticipation for our yearly Ideal Body CHALLENGE later this month. You can sign up for the free challenge right here . Today, on the first day of the podcast series, we're breaking down the Ideal Body Formula in detail and showing you why it's the answer to your life...
Apr 14, 2024•29 min
