How I Learned to Love My Body—Shifting the Focus From Weight Loss to Balance with Fitty Britttty

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Today we have a brand new episode of my How I Learned To Love My Body series featuring lovely Britney Vest, whom you might know as @fittybritttty. Britney is a fitness and wellness influencer and the founder of WVVY, a super cute line of size inclusive activewear. On this episode, we talk about: How to set boundaries around body and appearance conversations with family members How to overcome negative childhood body experiences Her weight loss experience and how that impacted her relationship with her body (in good and bad ways) How she switched from being focused on her weight to being focused on wellness as a whole How to love working out How to not compare your body to your friends’ How to balance plastic surgery and bodily changes with loving yourself I would love to hear what you learned listening to this episode, so definitely screenshot and tag me (@lizmoody) and Britney (@fittybritttty) on Instagram. PS: My Patreon is live! You can join Green Smoothie Society and get access to ALL of my green smoothie recipes and advice! Get all the deets at patreon.com/lizmoody. This episode is sponsored by Kyoto Botanicals, the first CBD brand I’ve recommended on this podcast! Right now, I’m loving their Warmth tincture, which has turmeric and cinnamon, and the Warmth balm, which is so helpful for headaches and sore muscles. You can get a whopping 25% off your order (AND they always have free shipping!) by using the code “HEALTHIERTOGETHER” at kyotobotanicals.com. This episode is sponsored by Nuzest, one of my favorite protein powders. It’s 98% digestible (a rarity in the protein powder space) and—get this—it actually tastes good. I recommend the Digestive Support Line—they have a Probiotic Vanilla and a Probiotic Cacao. You can use the code “LizHT” for 20% off your order on http://nuzest.us/LizHT. This episode is sponsored by Paleovalley, who make incredibly high quality supplements. If you’d like to check out their Turmeric Complex, Vitamin C, Neuroeffect, or any of Paleovalley’s other amazing products, head over to paleovalley.com and use the code LIZM for 15% off. Healthier Together cover art by Zack. Healthier Together music by Alex Ruimy.

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0:00.0	Hello friends and welcome back to the Healthier Together podcast.
0:05.2	I'm your host Liz Moody and I am a cookbook author and long time journalist.
0:08.6	Today we have a brand new episode of how I learn to love my body series featuring the
0:13.5	lovely Brittany Vest whom you might know as at FittyBritty.
0:17.5	Brittany is a fitness and wellness influencer and the founder of Wavy A super cute line
0:22.2	of size inclusive active wear.
0:24.8	On this episode we really go into her journey from being weight loss obsessed to finding
0:29.1	a more balanced happy relationship with her body.
0:32.6	While there are so many life lessons to take from Brittany's story I will say that we
0:37.0	definitely discuss diet culture over exercise and weight including specific numbers.
0:42.8	If any of that is triggering to you even in a story that ultimately ends in a more balanced
0:47.6	place I recommend maybe skipping this episode.
0:50.7	There are plenty of other episodes to listen to and we'll be back with a fresh new episode
0:55.1	next week.
0:56.8	What I love about Brittany's story though is how much it highlights the gray areas of
1:01.1	a lot of these topics.
1:03.0	She went through a period where she was over exercising spending so much time at the gym
1:07.2	that it was clearly unhealthy and it led to some pretty devastating effects in our life
1:11.0	which we get into in the episode.
1:13.6	But that same time period also taught her to love working out and how it made her feel
1:17.8	in her body.
1:19.3	We talk a lot about her childhood and how her family raised her to have fairly negative
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