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Food, We Need To Talk

Doomed If You Diet, Doomed If You Don’t

Food, We Need To Talk

Juna Gjata

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Episode one! 24-year-old co-host Juna Gjata says restrictive eating has made her miserable her entire adult life, but she’s sure if she stops she’ll "literally gain 20 pounds on gingerbread lattes peppermint mochas."

Enter Dr. Eddie Phillips, founder of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine and a seasoned doctor, who aims to help Juna get to a happier, healthier place with food.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So there's a podcast I want to tell you guys about and it's called Wait for it.

0:03.6

Weight as in W-E-I-G-H-T.

0:07.0

Wait for it is a narrative show that tells the story of folks who can't stop thinking about their

0:11.9

weight.

0:13.2

I wonder who that sounds like.

0:14.8

Whether losing, gaining, or maintaining,

0:16.6

there are so many ways in which our interactions with our weight

0:19.5

fuel our interactions with society at large.

0:22.3

Hosted by Ronald Young Jr.

0:23.7

Wait for it tells not only his story but the stories of all types of folks

0:27.7

fat and straight-sized who can't seem to keep weight off their minds.

0:31.8

Subscribe to wait for it wherever you get your podcasts. seem to keep weight off their minds.

0:32.5

Subscribe to wait for it wherever you get your podcasts.

0:36.9

If you're listening to this podcast, chances are

0:39.6

you've probably had the goal before of trying

0:42.2

to lose weight or go on a diet.

0:44.0

Gosh.

0:46.0

Uh, yeah.

0:47.0

Multiple years, yes, multiple years.

0:49.0

Yeah, yes.

0:51.0

I did one. When I was growing up, everybody I knew was on a diet.

0:55.8

Girls smaller than me, girls bigger than me. They were all like, oh my God, I'm getting so fat.

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