Rachel Tuchman: Ozempic, Weight Loss, and Our Community's Obsession
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🗓️ 27 September 2025
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In this eye-opening conversation, therapist Rachel Tuchman dives deep into the way we talk about food, body image, and health in the frum community — and why it matters more than we think. From Yom Tov tables filled with diet talk to the surge of GLP-1 weight-loss injections, Rachel explores how these messages shape our children's self-image, strain our relationships, and fuel anxiety. She challenges the obsession with quick fixes and encourages a shift toward true health — meaningful connection, joy around food, and emotional well-being. A must-listen for anyone who wants to build a healthier, happier family culture.
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| 0:00.0 | I've even seen JLP once in Siddaka campaigns, like it's a raffle you can win. No way. Yeah, like a year of OZempic. And I'm just like, yeah. That is so passive aggressive. That is so toxic. Yeah, they know what people want. Somewhere along the way we started becoming very afraid of food, so much so that there's like a real anxiety people have before Yontzif. The way that we talk about food is definitely impacting our kids. |
| 0:22.0 | Meet Rachel Tuckman, a therapist who's calling out the way our community talks about food, |
| 0:26.6 | weight, and health. Yantif meals that spark fear instead of joy, kids growing up hearing diet talk |
| 0:32.0 | at every table. She's exposing how these messages are planting the seeds for anxiety and eating |
| 0:36.8 | disorders. In this conversation, Rachel breaks down why the quick fixes like OZempic and other GLP ones don't heal what's underneath, and why the way we speak about food and bodies matters more than we realize, because our kids are listening and it's shaping the next generation. If we saw someone with an eating disorder, let's say, anorexia, we would be scared for them. |
| 0:54.3 | Stop, you have to eat, you have to eat. |
| 0:55.9 | But for someone who, let's say, is at a weight that we think that they need to lose weight, we're like praising those same behaviors, that they're restricting, they're barely eating, they're dropping tons of weight. We're like, yes, you're like incredible, amazing. We find that there's actually higher suicide rates for people that undergo weight loss surgery. |
| 1:13.0 | We're addressing the weight loss, but we're not addressing what started this to begin with. And so our kids are hearing that when you're complimenting, oh, how much did you drop under 50 pounds? That's crazy, wow. And our kids like, oh, okay, so that's a good thing to lose weight. That can trigger the eating disorder. We'll be at this episode in just a second, but put a finger down if you've had a cold for the last four weeks and you had to come on here, record ads in an intro for this episode, but your voice sounds like this. I'm putting a finger down, But don't worry because I gave to Siddaka, |
| 1:44.2 | kohabah through the push cap, pushka.c.c.combe, slash meaningful. And I'm hoping my cold me sounding like a zombie will go away by the time Yom Kipper comes. Thank God. Please, God. We'll go ahead and down the push cap right now. Pushka.cad.cac forward slash meaningful. Wait, Put your finger back up. |
| 2:00.7 | Are you also worried about Fastium Kippur? |
| 2:02.6 | Because I am a little bit worried, especially... down on the push gap right now pushcut.c.c.com. Wait, put your finger back up. Are you also worried |
| 2:01.6 | about Fastium Kippert? Because I am a little bit worried, especially with my current voice and cold |
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| 2:24.8 | It's in most of your stores and supermarkets and kosher groceries. |
| 2:27.6 | Can you believe it? |
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| 2:33.8 | It supports the call of Toronto. How cool is that they own that domain? Colell.com. So you can't find anywhere else. Go to colo.com right now. No more nausea, no more fatigue. No more of that. Oh my God. I can't even go to school because I'm so tired. I don't feel well. Make sure that you have fast aid in your back pocket. Take it before the fast, the fast and have a meaningful, meaningful fast. Now here is this episode. I want to start out by, |
| 2:58.0 | you know, talking about the relationship with food that we in our community have. Obviously, |
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