#176 - Coached by Swifty: Eating More, Lifting Heavy & Ditching Diet Culture with Vicky Swift

Yeah.

And I think it's interesting, isn't it? Because there's so much talk about how detrimental social media is in relation to comparison and, you know, This ideal body type and body size that's being portrayed on social media.

Like that's like social media is just another version of what we've always had to live with.

Like and that's only in our lifetime as 240 year olds talking like this.

You know, I say we talk to our mothers and our grandmothers.

You know, this has been going on forever.

probably

yeah centuries like you know for the bush like when we when you actually really think about i actually saw a post on instagram i think it was i think it was tara dixon who posted yes yeah with the magazines yeah and like uh where to explain to anyone listening who doesn't know what i'm talking about um tara posted a kind of a carousel post on her instagram tara dixon and she she was like it was about the skinny culture that we grew up in and the magazine articles and how every magazine article like front page was about who looked horrible on the beach who looked super skinny who

or not was a big thing you know yeah

yeah Like I have forgotten all of that.

That's, you know, that we were, that's, that's exactly how we're supposed to.

When we

were young and I'd said this, so I say to my clients, like if you're following somebody who, when you look at that page, isn't what you want to see from a health perspective, then maybe making you feel like you should look a certain way in terms of body image.

And it's not healthy body image, you know, um, that that's that unfollow button is there for that reason you know you don't have to follow i've followed people follow people like like courtney black for instance years ago like lockdown when she was doing home workouts and promoting you to move your body because it's good for your head didn't have an issue but then when she's gone on to like oh i've got to do lymphatic drainage because that's got me this core and you know how she spoke about food is very very disordered eating unfollow you know like Joe Wicks unfollow like they've changed as people but not always for the better you don't have to follow that but the magazines every magazine you bought whether that was Heat Closer you know Top of the Pops they were ridiculing like one minute Britney Spears was looking like a car crash because she was in joggers and a hoodie so she's obviously put weight on the next minute she's like looking ripped and unreal and still getting criticised.

Like, the girl couldn't do right for doing wrong.

And that was in every single magazine.

So no matter what you picked up, you saw it.

You heard it on the radio.

They were our media platforms.

We didn't have social media.

But now you do have, I would say, a little bit more control over what you do see on your Like For You page.

Yeah, and that's it.

Like, yeah, we're probably bombarded with more, but we...

And we do have control, but I think we forget that we have control because of the whole idea of reels and TikTok.

And it's, you know, whether it's Instagram reels, Facebook reels or TikTok, it doesn't matter.

Yeah.

And I think it's interesting, isn't it? Because there's so much talk about how detrimental social media is in relation to comparison and, you know, This ideal body type and body size that's being portrayed on social media.

Like that's like social media is just another version of what we've always had to live with.

Like and that's only in our lifetime as 240 year olds talking like this.

You know, I say we talk to our mothers and our grandmothers.

You know, this has been going on forever.

probably

yeah centuries like you know for the bush like when we when you actually really think about i actually saw a post on instagram i think it was i think it was tara dixon who posted yes yeah with the magazines yeah and like uh where to explain to anyone listening who doesn't know what i'm talking about um tara posted a kind of a carousel post on her instagram tara dixon and she she was like it was about the skinny culture that we grew up in and the magazine articles and how every magazine article like front page was about who looked horrible on the beach who looked super skinny who

or not was a big thing you know yeah

yeah Like I have forgotten all of that.

That's, you know, that we were, that's, that's exactly how we're supposed to.

When we

were young and I'd said this, so I say to my clients, like if you're following somebody who, when you look at that page, isn't what you want to see from a health perspective, then maybe making you feel like you should look a certain way in terms of body image.

And it's not healthy body image, you know, um, that that's that unfollow button is there for that reason you know you don't have to follow i've followed people follow people like like courtney black for instance years ago like lockdown when she was doing home workouts and promoting you to move your body because it's good for your head didn't have an issue but then when she's gone on to like oh i've got to do lymphatic drainage because that's got me this core and you know how she spoke about food is very very disordered eating unfollow you know like Joe Wicks unfollow like they've changed as people but not always for the better you don't have to follow that but the magazines every magazine you bought whether that was Heat Closer you know Top of the Pops they were ridiculing like one minute Britney Spears was looking like a car crash because she was in joggers and a hoodie so she's obviously put weight on the next minute she's like looking ripped and unreal and still getting criticised.

Like, the girl couldn't do right for doing wrong.

And that was in every single magazine.

So no matter what you picked up, you saw it.

You heard it on the radio.

They were our media platforms.

We didn't have social media.

But now you do have, I would say, a little bit more control over what you do see on your Like For You page.

Yeah, and that's it.

Like, yeah, we're probably bombarded with more, but we...

And we do have control, but I think we forget that we have control because of the whole idea of reels and TikTok.

And it's, you know, whether it's Instagram reels, Facebook reels or TikTok, it doesn't matter.