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Hello and welcome to the Well-Fed Women podcast.

I'm your host, Noel Tar of coconutsandcutipals.com.

I'm a nutritional therapy practitioner and a certified personal trainer.

This is episode number 371.

If you've been here for any amount of time, maybe you've been here for the past seven years,

maybe you're relatively new. You know that we talk a lot about body image and body acceptance

and having a positive relationship with food and exercise and understanding the traps of

diet culture and how being on a diet can negatively impact your physical and mental health long-term.

But it's been a minute since we dedicated an entire episode to really unpacking how to pursue

health and making decisions that are right for your body without falling into a dieting mindset.

The reality is, every day all day, you are being influenced by a culture that is all about you

being on a diet to gain or maintain your worth, health, and acceptance. And it is led to many of us

sacrificing our health, whether that's your period, your mental health, or your hormones,

in order to properly manage the anxiety that comes when you believe you need to be restricting

and dieting or eating at a certain time to be healthy or lose weight. Pulling back the curtain

and unraveling those core beliefs, many of us once had about dieting can be really liberating,

but it also leaves you in this space where you feel like you're in between two worlds.

You want to be healthy and feel well and pursue health in a way that works best for you,

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