489-Greatest Hit - How To Be Healthier Without Losing Weigh

Hello, my sisters.

I wanted to do this episode for a number of years, actually.

It's been on my list.

I was checking out the lists on my phone.

I have a notepad app and I write all the different topics I want to talk on the podcast.

And this one has been on there for years.

And it's always been pushed aside for other priorities.

But based on what happened in the last, I would say, three weeks, this episode needed to get done.

So over the last three weeks, I've had a lot of conversation on social media, Instagram, Facebook, over our community on email about...

the constant stress and shame we experience around our body and our weight, and how easy, simple it can be to no longer stress and feel shame and feel anxiety about our weight.

And when I say simple and easy, only when you know how to release this emotion.

Now, because of that, because of all the conversation I've had around this, many women have been sending me this feedback that this is amazing.

I think this is great.

I wish I could stop stressing about my weight and my body.

And then the conversation always end in this place.

Well, it's different for me.

It's about my health.

I need to lose weight because of my health.

So This episode is designed so that, not to convince you, because I don't believe in convincing people.

I want you to make your own mind.

I want you to use your brain, to use all the evidence that I'm going to give you, the various podcast episodes and studies and research that I'm going to share with you, for you to make up your own mind, because this information is not liberally shared on mass media, for example, because it doesn't support the narrative of diet culture, right? The narrative of diet culture must be supported with this argument that, well, it's not just about aesthetic that you need to lose weight, lady, about your health.

All of the things you're experiencing in your health can be solved by you losing weight, right? We are fed this every day, everywhere we look.

But the contrary evidence is not being liberally shared.

So that's why I wanted to create this episode, to give you the resource, but also to explain to you all the other things that you can do to impact your health that have nothing to do with your weight and your health.

Now, here's the thing.