[Chat] Mel Robbins food and exercise recs: Should we all REALLY be doing 11 push ups?
Find Your Food Voice
Julie Duffy Dillon RDN
4.9 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Julie, Coleen Bremner, and Rachel Popik delve into Mel Robbins' Let Them Theory, discussing its implications, controversies, and the societal pressures surrounding self-help and fitness. They explore the seductive nature of marketing in the self-help industry, particularly how it mirrors diet culture. The conversation also touches on the importance of personal boundaries, the impact of societal expectations on aging and strength, and the need for a more compassionate approach to movement and self-care. Ultimately, they emphasize the importance of questioning the narratives we encounter and finding ways to protect our emotional well-being.
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Keywords: Mel Robbins, Let Them Theory, self-help, diet culture, emotional freedom, boundaries, movement, aging, self-care, marketing
Outline:
00:00 Introduction to Mel Robbins and the Let Them Theory
06:25 Controversies Surrounding Mel Robbins
09:32 The Impact of Self-Help Culture
12:19 The Hustle Culture and Its Implications
15:21 Physical Fitness and Societal Expectations
18:16 Aging, Ableism, and the Pressure to Perform
21:17 Conclusion: The Duality of Self-Help Theories
24:55 The Importance of Short and Pithy Content
25:25 Understanding the 'Why' Behind Fitness Movements
27:14 Questioning Diet Culture and Its Assumptions
28:28 Recycling Diet Trends and Their Impact
30:30 Flipping the Script on Diet Culture
32:37 Creating a New Narrative Around Food and Movement
34:59 Finding Personal Meaning in Movement
38:23 Protecting Ourselves from Diet Culture
40:59 Practicing Mindfulness and Self-Compassion
43:04 Introducing 'Chips and Dip' for Grounding Practices
48:51 Introduction to the Conversation
49:20 Exploring Non-Diet Approaches to Nutrition
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome to episode 415 of the Find Your Food Voice podcast where we are unpacking |
| 0:05.5 | Mel Robbins, the Let Them Theory, and do we all really need to do 11 pushups? Let's get to it. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome, VoiceFinder. I am so glad you're here today where we are talking about a new theory that has |
| 0:24.0 | really captivated many people and also led to some very complicated things. So in particular, |
| 0:32.1 | we are discussing the author, Mel Robbins. She has a very popular podcast and many different books, but also has a |
| 0:41.4 | super duper bestseller called The Let Them Theory. And we'll put links to many things in the show notes. |
| 0:48.2 | But as a team, we found ourselves captivated and probably a little seduced by some of the messaging that we were getting on the let them theory, which triggered some things that I think were hard, but also really, really important. |
| 1:05.9 | In the Find Your Food Voice book, I talk a lot about how the diet industry traps us using some really slick |
| 1:13.5 | kind of messaging and the beginning of a diet, as you can probably remember, the last time you |
| 1:20.0 | started a diet, you didn't start a diet because you were thinking, oh my gosh, I'm going to feel |
| 1:25.6 | horrible. |
| 1:26.6 | You started a diet because it's like, oh, I'm going to feel horrible, you started a diet because it's like, |
| 1:28.8 | oh, I'm going to feel better soon. This is going to be the way that I'm going to be able to get |
| 1:34.7 | XYZ and I'm going to be able to attain this by this diet. There's this hopefulness. And hope is a |
| 1:43.5 | great feeling. You know, it's one of my favorites. I like |
| 1:46.9 | being hopeful. And it can also be a very useful way to know if you're getting seduced by |
| 1:54.3 | diet culture again. And that's what's happening with this let them theory as well. |
| 2:01.8 | So I'm going to let us just begin the conversation. |
| 2:05.7 | So again, you're going to hear from Colleen Brebner, who is a part of the Finding Food |
| 2:10.6 | Voice team that helps me with a lot of the managing of things behind the scenes. |
| 2:16.0 | And she's also our hype woman extraordinaire. |
| 2:18.9 | And then also Rachel Poppick, who's an anti-diet chef that helps you run the PCOS power |
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