5 Ways to Improve Your Relationship With Food (Evidence-Based)
Fitness Stuff (for normal people)
Tony and Marianna
4.9 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode of Fitness Stuff for Normal People, Marianna and Tony get real about something a lot of people struggle with but don’t always say out loud… having a bad relationship with food. When you start taking your fitness seriously, tracking, and trying to make progress, it can quietly shift the way you think about eating in ways that aren’t always healthy. This episode breaks down how that slippery slope happens and gives you five evidence-based ways to rebuild a healthier, more sustainable relationship with food. If you’ve ever felt stuck between “doing it right” and actually enjoying your life, this one’s for you.
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Timestamps
(2:27) Current relationship with food
(11:57) How to improve your relationship to food
(12:03) Pay attention to hunger cues
(22:37) Stop labeling as good or bad
(33:03) Eat mindfully
(40:53) Ditch the trendy diets and food rules
(45:15) Stop letting other people’s opinions influence your food choices
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Bad relationships, they suck, especially when that relationship is with food. |
| 0:05.4 | When you start going to the gym and tracking your food to make some real progress, it can be a |
| 0:09.6 | slippery slope with how you view food. And if you're not careful, you can end up with a pretty |
| 0:15.1 | shitty relationship with it. So today we're going to go over five ways that are evidence |
| 0:19.8 | based to improve that relationship |
| 0:22.2 | if you've found yourself there. I know I have. But before we get into that, if you've been |
| 0:28.4 | needing a little bit more structure, especially around this time of year, we're getting into |
| 0:32.3 | summer when it comes to workouts. Remember, you get access to every single one of our complete 12-week |
| 0:38.7 | training programs that are programmed out in Google Sheets to track and guarantee you are making |
| 0:42.3 | progress. When you join FS Premium, which is just $5 a month, we also do little Ask Me Anything |
| 0:49.1 | episodes every single Friday where we answer your own questions. So if you want to sign up for |
| 0:53.5 | that, you can do so through the link in the show notes below. This is a more needed episode than I think people |
| 1:00.0 | realize because when people think, at least when I used to hear, wait, Tony. Tony is your mic. |
| 1:07.1 | Tony was not cued in cute into his mic. But now we're back. The one's on voter now? |
| 1:11.5 | Yes. |
| 1:12.6 | That fixed the problem. I'm the worst. |
| 1:13.7 | Like you usually pick up on it right away if I'm not connected to my mic. |
| 1:16.8 | Like the way I literally just noticed now is like, what do you think? |
| 1:20.3 | Wow. |
| 1:20.8 | Sounds off. |
| 1:22.3 | Okay. |
| 1:22.9 | So what I was showing before you realize I probably sounded like I was talking through like a staticy little mess is when I used to hear the term or someone say bad relationship with food or bring it up, my brain just went, oh, eating disorder. |
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