The Problems with Diet Culture

After a little break, we’re happy to come back with a stellar podcast episode: the issues we have with Diet Culture. We cover a huge amount of topics within this umbrella term: diets, the culture of dieting and wacky diets being introduced to help with weight loss. We discuss a little bit about weight loss and about the nutritional considerations when it comes to eating more optimally for your goal weight. However, this isn’t a podcast that offers weight loss advice - we’d always encourage you to read up on nutrition and consult a specialist who can help you with your personal health needs and goals. On this episode, we cover:

• What we think about calories
• Diets based on body shape
• Weight, BMI and health
• Thinking about weight loss as the side effect, rather than the main goal
• Why many weight loss diets fail
• Our problem with diet culture
• The dangers of yo-yo dieting
• The illusion of quick fixes in weight loss
• Why giving up your control to an app isn’t helpful
• Why reading nutrition labels is key
• Making intentional choices with lifestyle changes
• The value of small changes

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