Can You Be Overweight And Healthy?
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
According to Jillian Michaels, no. You can't be overweight and healthy. But that's BS. You cannot perceive someone's level of health by looking at them.
Technically, I'm overweight. And I'm ridiculously healthy.
I need to talk to you about how this collective idea that you can't be bigger and healthy (or really, bigger and accepted, beautiful, and worthy of anyone including your own love) is killing us and making us sick.
Because it's all BS.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, buckle up big episode. Hi everybody. Welcome to the run a selfie repeat |
| 0:06.2 | podcast where we normally talk about life with the side of running today. We're |
| 0:10.8 | not talking about running. We're talking about something that has me so heated. |
| 0:15.0 | It's been like two weeks now and I'm still just so frustrated about this. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm frustrated that we all buy into this. I'm frustrated that so many |
| 0:26.2 | lives are consumed because of how our bodies and what we think of our bodies and that we need to be smaller. |
| 0:35.0 | I want to talk about this question, can you be healthy and overweight? |
| 0:40.0 | There's a chance you read about my reaction to this, |
| 0:42.0 | Jillian Michael's YouTube video on |
| 0:43.9 | Instagram or on my blog badass ladygame.com but I just I cannot not speak up and |
| 0:49.9 | elaborate and use this platform to just like draw such a huge circle around it because I |
| 0:58.3 | what she said is poison punch she is serving poison punch and I bet even though her intentions may be well meaning |
| 1:05.1 | she's hurting people it is misinformation it's wrong and what she's saying is |
| 1:09.7 | making people sick lots and lots and lots of people. |
| 1:14.1 | And I want to say this first, I'm breaking a little rule of mine. |
| 1:16.9 | I have a rule that I don't talk about pieces of my story in my life that I've kept |
| 1:20.6 | to myself and not opened up with people that I love and |
| 1:23.2 | care about you know I just have this rule that if I haven't told the people I |
| 1:27.4 | love first I should I do not illuminate it here but there's just a story in here that breaks that rule but I don't |
| 1:37.0 | think the people of my life listen to this podcast which I'm very okay with it makes |
| 1:40.8 | me almost uncomfortable to know that my mom would listen to this you know |
| 1:43.3 | luckily she can't find the podcasts I know she wants to my mom's the best but I really |
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