3193: Improving My Relationship with My Body by Renata Leo of Buffalo Sauce Everywhere on Body Acceptance

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🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3193: Renata Leo candidly explores her ongoing journey toward body acceptance after years of disordered eating, revealing how small, intentional changes, like removing her mirror and working with a supportive dietitian, help shift her mindset. Her story is a powerful reminder that healing doesn't require perfection, just self-compassion and a willingness to let go of toxic narratives. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://buffalosauceeverywhere.com/2019/11/06/improving-my-relationship-with-my-body/ Quotes to ponder: "Be kind to yourself and to your body, because that’s more important than any arbitrary number you could assign to yourself." "Sometimes, all it takes is a break from that self-degrading voice to make you see yourself a bit more clearly." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Health Daily, Improving my relationship with my body by Renata Leo of buffalo sauce everywhere.com, and I'm Dr. Neal.
0:10.4	Welcome back to Optimal Health Daily or welcome for the first time if you're new here.
0:14.9	This is the podcast where I act as your very own personal narrator and read to you from some of the most popular health and fitness blogs
0:21.5	online and always with a bit of my commentary at the end. Let's get right to it and start optimizing
0:27.7	your life. Improving my relationship with my body by Renata Leo of buffalo sauce everywhere.com.
0:40.2	As I'm sure anyone with a history of disordered eating can attest, pretty much every moment
0:45.2	where food or my body is on my mind at all is a struggle. There's a constant stream of worry and
0:50.9	self-hatred. On the rare occasions that I look in the mirror and don't absolutely
0:55.4	loathe myself, I start searching for imperfections. Hating my body is my comfort zone, and anything
1:01.8	short of that is so far outside of my comfort zone that I can't really comprehend it. Obviously,
1:08.3	I would love to have a better relationship with my body, but that's not going to
1:12.1	happen overnight. I'm working on finding the best ways to gently get myself to the point where I feel
1:18.1	comfortable in my own skin. There was a time back when I was really in the throes of my eating disorder
1:24.1	that I kept telling myself to postpone my happiness until I reached a certain
1:28.6	weight. Once I was my goal weight or goal BMI or goal body fat percentage, then I would truly be
1:36.5	happy. I would be able to wear what I wanted and feel fulfilled. As it turns out, I will never make it
1:43.0	to that goal weight because it doesn't take into account
1:46.2	that I have bones. Getting down to my correct BMI would mean starving myself and looking emaciated.
1:53.4	Knocking off percentages of body fat takes time, and there's no sense in spending that time
1:57.9	being unhappy. When I actually lost a bunch of weight, I found myself
2:02.3	more miserable than when I started. Not only was I still unhappy, but my self-hatred had spiked,
2:08.4	because I knew the awful things I had done to my body to get to that point. It had become apparent
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