Race Weight, Body Image & Performance with Marni Sumbal, MS, RD, CSSD (Episode 177)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Be smaller. Be lighter. For our entire lives those messages have been drilled into us from every angle, including very often from those in our sports. We hear we need to be at “race weight.” We’re shown “idealized” images of what female athletes “should” look like. It’s all incredibly damaging, especially as we hit menopause and midlife and our bodies start to change. It’s also based on BS. Women with cellulite and extra body fat win races. Women who are well-fueled outperform those who are not. There is no one magic number on the scale or body fat percentage that makes us a success. All the destructive messages that make us hate our bodies feed the diet culture machine. This week we sat down with coach and sports dietitian Marni Sumbal to dismantle that machine and help us find body peace, so we don’t spend the next chapters of our lives in an endless war with ourselves.

Marni Sumbal MS, RD, CSSD, LD/N is the owner of Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition, a coaching and nutrition company based in Greenville, South Carolina, which she runs with her husband and RETUL bike fit expert, Karel Sumbal. Marni is a 3x author, board certified sports dietitian and holds a master of science in exercise physiology. She is a 19x Ironman finisher, 2x XTRI finisher, and 6x Ironman World Championship finisher. You can learn more about her and her services at trimarnicoach.com.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help
0:21.2	you feel and perform you best, no matter what your hormones are doing. This show is a production
0:26.2	of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.4	Hello, strong feisty women. So, for far too long, I was part of the problem. For years, I, like probably many of you,
0:42.9	really did believe that there was some magic number on the scale where I could feel, perform,
0:49.4	and frankly, if I'm honest, look my best. And I, like many health and fitness journalists, wrote my share of
0:56.6	weight loss stories with those promising headlines. But somewhere along the line, I began to see
1:03.2	that it was mostly bullshit. I personally won big races 10 pounds heavier than that magic race weight,
1:10.0	and I would tank just as often when I was at the weight I was quote unquote supposed to be.
1:15.7	I would routinely get my ass kicked by a couple of really strong, amazing women that I would
1:21.1	hear some people say, quote unquote, didn't look like pro mountain bike racers, meaning
1:25.5	they weren't sticks, but they were insanely strong,
1:28.9	well-fueled, and winners.
1:31.2	I saw the damage that my weight loss stories were having. I would go to my daughter's school
1:36.3	functions and meet some moms who recognized my name from bylines and magazines, and I could
1:42.1	tell they were ashamed that they weren't thin or lean or whatever and they
1:46.8	tell me how hard they were trying and I saw an endless parade of diet plans and books
1:53.6	and it was just like this big machine that we all just kept feeding and many of them were geared
2:00.4	towards already active folks.
2:02.1	It didn't matter where you were on the spectrum.
2:05.0	You just weren't good enough.
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