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The Brad Jensen Show

EP719 - The Hidden Disordered Eating in Fitness Influencer Culture

The Brad Jensen Show

Brad Jensen

Nutrition, Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9792 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Today Craig and I are talking about the dark side of the fitness influencer world.

Orthorexia. The obsession with eating perfectly clean. The belief that discipline equals restriction and punishment. The extreme routines that get praised online while people silently struggle with guilt fear and anxiety around food.

We pull back the curtain on what really goes on behind the "grind" and "no excuses" mentality

  • When discipline becomes obsession
  • Exercise bulimia and feeling like you have to earn or burn your food
  • The influencer pressure to stay shredded year round
  • How the algorithm rewards extreme behavior

We give real red flags to watch for in yourself or in the people you follow

  • Panic when you cannot track a meal
  • Cardio as punishment
  • No rest days ever
  • Constant body updates and weigh ins

We also talk about how to heal.

How to shift from self punishment to self respect.

How to build an identity that is not dependent on your macros or your physique.

 

Fitness should support your life

Not take it over

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Brad Jensen show, the first Brad Jensen show with Craig Smith, with Craig Smith.

0:28.0

Yeah, that should be the whole title.

0:29.7

The Brad Jensen show with Craig Smith.

0:32.0

With Craig Smith.

0:32.9

With Craig Smith.

0:34.3

Is he in the virtual house today?

0:42.0

Yeah. It's a good sound to it the brad jensen show with craig smith i think we uh it's like we need a live studio audience or something right like

0:49.0

and then people look under their chair and see if they're the winner of today's giveaway prize or

0:54.0

something like you got a car you got like, you got a card. You got it. Just kidding. You got a $5 gift card to Chick-fil-A. You can get a diet lemonade. Yeah. Make it the frozen one because that stuff is good. The frosted one. The frosted. Yeah. One of my clients was getting the frosted diet lemonade. She thought that shit had no calories. I'm like, no. They just are using diet lemonade instead of regular lemonade, but it's still ice cream. Yeah. Just kind of found that one. Yeah, they're mixing it with ice cream. Yeah, they're mixing it with ice cream. I mean, luckily she didn't have one like every day, but she was like, oh, I had that frost lemonade, but I think they're only like 40 calories. I'm like incorrect. That's for just the diet lemonade. That is not what you had. So we just, I now, to be fair, I think it was like 180 calories. It wasn't like, I actually, I don't know. It doesn't even matter at this point because we got something hot for you today. We're bringing in some fire. Craig, the whole point of this show is to be a little more spicy. So I want you saying some shit that might get your license revoked, all right? You think I'm playing? I listened to the last episode, the Friday's episode, and I was like, oh, he's a, it feels like we're supposed to push some boundaries. So, okay. I know. Everyone's like, oh, I'm like, all right, listen, I'm not saying, by any means, like, I'm not going to do anything that's going to get me canceled. But I just, yeah, I mean, listen, some episodes you may be like, that shit was the exact same. There was nothing different. And others, you might be like, whoof, he was on one. And Craig was trying to rain him in today. I don't know, man. I'm just trying to, I'm going to let you go. I'm going to let it run. Okay. I'm not going to stop you. Well, good. Hey, last call before we get in. And actually something that we might, maybe it's a

2:37.6

business move that shot us in the foot, but for the sanctity of the group felt right. The time of

2:44.2

recording this, we have two spots remaining, but it's looking like it's going to be one. We have

2:49.3

till the end of the week. We start next Monday, which I don't know when you're listening to this.

2:54.4

Listen, this is when we start May 7th, or May, November 17th, Monday, November 17th.

3:01.0

I don't want to say like this coming Monday and people are listening to this two weeks

3:03.5

late.

3:04.5

I'm not going to speak much on this other than the fact that we with this

3:08.4

ground of next level experience, we ended up with just coincidentally only women in the group

3:14.1

to this point. So to make it a nice even round number of 10, we're just keeping, we're just

3:21.8

actually making this for women.

3:30.0

So the two extra spots that we're going to fill, you do need to be a woman.

3:35.3

And if the reason being is I wanted to test a theory of doing, because I have my men's group,

3:38.9

my dad group that your brother's in, he's much better than you.

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