6 Reasons BMI is Bullshit
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
I've dabbled with this topic before in other podcast episodes about the scale and diet culture, but I haven't taken on BMI as a separate topic until now. A recent routine doctor's appointment had me reeling from an offhand BMI comment. It brought up a lot for me, and had I not been mentally stronger, it could have pushed me back into disordered eating and exercise behaviors.
In this episode, I'm relaying my story and tearing into six reasons why BMI is bullshit. There's a lot of nuance here, and my experiences as a person in a smaller body are nothing like what someone else in a larger body may experience. It's my hope that you'll walk away from this episode with some things to think about and start conversations of your own with the people you care about.
In this episode I covered:
- My recent BMI story
- What I said when told my BMI was too high
- 6 reasons BMI is total bullshit
- Why intuitive eating is important to move past diet mentality and diet culture
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- The Scale – Ep 120
- Diet Culture – Ep 142
- Intuitive Eating
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome to Harder to Kill Radio. This is episode 214 and I'm your host |
| 0:06.2 | Steph Godro. It is Fierce Love Friday. If you're new to the show every Friday I sit down on the mic, solo, rant, rave, talk about things that are on my mind and on top of mind in my communities. It's often imperfect, usually pretty messy, but I try to give you some |
| 0:27.2 | thinking points to chew on throughout the |
| 0:35.0 | be hemeath of Bemeth of bullshit BMI and why BIMI and why BMI is why B BMI is stupid frankly I'm going to give you six reasons why |
| 0:47.6 | BMI sucks and I hope that these will give you some points to think about as I said and I'm also going to relay a personal story |
| 0:57.6 | So we're going to get into that but before we do I want to remind you to pre-order the Core 4. That's my new book coming out July 30th if you've already pre-ordered. Thank you so much, but I just released a new pre-order bonus this past weekend, which is a complete |
| 1:19.2 | sample chapter for the book. It's actually the introduction and unlike other introductions which are frankly a snooze fest. |
| 1:35.0 | This one is really the rally cry, the why, the purpose behind the book and it's called Take Your Power Back. So I want to give you the entire sample chapter before anyone else sees it |
| 1:40.9 | before the book comes out and then all the rest of the bonuses as well |
| 1:46.2 | and you can do that at core for the book.com that's the number four core for the book.com |
| 1:54.1 | Gonna be honest with you. I am always honest with you but extra extra transparent I've recorded this show now this is the third time |
| 2:02.1 | I recorded it twice yesterday before I had my second |
| 2:05.9 | dental implant placed. This one's way in the back. So you all know I have no |
| 2:10.9 | front tooth right now and I've not had one for almost 13 months. |
| 2:14.4 | Hopefully by the end of June I'm supposed to have it but I had the second one done |
| 2:20.1 | yesterday and it's night and day I'm feeling pretty good but my jaw is really sore |
| 2:27.0 | so I recorded it twice before the surgery and I've done some thinking and |
| 2:32.4 | reflecting and letting it soak in and I'm like nope you know what I didn't quite |
| 2:37.0 | I know you love when I rant but I did too much ranting and not enough |
| 2:41.9 | Takeaways for you. |
| 2:43.2 | So I felt that ratio was a bit off, |
| 2:45.5 | and that's why I'm re-recording it now, |
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