S10 EP6: We Said F*ck the Scale and Eileen Hittle Listened. Hear Her Story.
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Our special guest, Eileen Hittle joined our Fitness Programming by CVG Facebook group in 2018. She thinks she found CVG by chance but Kelsea calls it fate. At the time, Eileen had a two month old baby and she was struggling with the changes in her body and her self-esteem was low. Six years later she is in a very different place, thanks to her resolve but also to the many other women in the group who lifted her up and gave her the support she needed. It’s been quite an incredible journey! Eileen talks candidly on harmful messaging in her teens and the relationship between eating and control. CVG’s performance based goals and non-scale victories also play a big part in this story.
Want to hear how she went from focusing on being skinny to throwing away her scale and back squatting 190? She’s a night-shift labor and delivery nurse, a mom, a strong woman and an inspiration to us all. Rachael calls her "an embodiment of why we started." How did she do it? Listen to her story. You may hear your own story in hers.
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:01:25) Welcoming Eileen Hittle to the podcast
(00:04:43) Eileen’s body confidence issues when she joined the CVG group in 2018
(00:09:17) Harmful messaging Eileen received when she was young and impressionable
(00:13:50) How performance based goals and NSVs helped Eileen reframe her mindset
(00:16:19) The concept of going to the gym with self-love rather than self-hate
(00:19:37) How Eileen got to a place where she squats 190
(00:26:11) What Eileen is most proud of in her current stage of fitness
(00:29:40) Eileen’s current thoughts on weight gain caused by muscle mass
(00:30:40) Not keeping a scale in the house
(00:35:19) How fitness-focused friends can help quiet harmful messages
(00:37:13) The reactions Eileen has received to her transformation
(00:40:44) Goals that Eileen is working toward for 2024 and beyond
(00:42:33) Eileen’s enjoyment of backpacking
CVG Related Links:
Our Fitness FB Group.
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Transcript
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| 0:21.0 | I feel like this podcast was a while ago, but I remember listening to it. One of your guys is it was about the scale and you had this analogy where like the number on the scale doesn't even mean anything because like your muscle mass, whether or not you've gone in the bathroom, like all your hormones, like all of these things affect it. And I remember your analogy was like, it's like you have a basket of, I don't know, like apples and oranges or something. But you want to know how much the oranges weigh, so you're weighing it all together. |
| 0:24.4 | And it doesn't make any sense. |
| 0:25.3 | And I'm like, yeah, that really does it. |
| 0:26.7 | Like, obviously someone with more muscle mass is going to weigh more than someone like who looks the same but has less muscle mass. |
| 0:33.3 | One of those, that like podcast really stuck out to me, like, and got me thinking about it. |
| 0:41.9 | The big question is this. |
| 0:45.5 | In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:58.0 | We are an army of hardworking women, changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 1:01.0 | Wherever you are at on your journey, |
| 1:04.0 | we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well |
| 1:08.0 | a part of your life. |
| 1:10.0 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. working out and eating well a part of your life. |
| 1:14.0 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:18.0 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:22.7 | Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:23.5 | I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:24.4 | And I'm Rachel. |
| 1:32.0 | Guys, we have a super special guest today that you might even know from our Facebook group. |
| 1:33.6 | We have Eileen Hiddle. |
| 1:42.5 | Eileen, we are so excited to have you on the podcast today because your story has been one that we've been following since 2018 when we first met you. |
| 1:46.7 | And your story is just so inspirational. |
| 1:50.5 | It's so incredible in so many ways. |
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