S13 EP11: 5 Wellness Trends That Are Holding You Back
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
There’s a lot of advice out there. Much of it is well-intentioned but doesn’t actually help you feel better.
In this episode, we break down five wellness trends we are officially leaving behind as we move into 2026. These are the habits, mindsets, and messages that sound productive on the surface but often lead to stress, confusion, burnout, and paralysis.
We unpack how tracking everything can disconnect you from your body, how cortisol panic has gone completely off the rails, how to recognize marketing traps, why hunger is not a badge of honor, and how over-researching keeps you stuck instead of moving.
This conversation is about trusting your body, using awareness without obsession, choosing consistency over extremes, and remembering that action, not perfection, is what actually creates change.
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by wellness culture, this episode will feel like a deep exhale.
(00:00:48) Welcome back to the podcast
(00:04:50) Today’s topic: 5 Wellness Trends We’re Dropping
(00:07:30) Trend #5: Tracking Everything
(00:19:50) Trend #4 Cortisol Panic
(00:28:13) Trend #3 “Her” Programs
(00:34:31) Trend #2 Hunger as Proof of Success
(00:41:08) Trend #1 Researching Forever Acting Never
(00:48:21) What we’re taking into 2026 instead
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| 0:00.0 | We are doing five wellness trends. We are not taking into 2026. So you're leaving these behind. Not coming. You are not allowed in 2026. Nope, we're not doing that. Do you use your watch to literally track everything in your entire life? Are you obsessed with cortisol? I'm panicking about my panic right now. Are you buying |
| 0:23.8 | things because they're in a pink pocket? I have looked at so many other people. If I could simply |
| 0:32.4 | do it like her, I would just be way more successful. Stop doing that. Your analysis is leading to paralysis. |
| 0:39.4 | Listen to today's episode to figure out why and what you can do instead. |
| 0:47.6 | Hey guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. I'm Kelsey. Happy Tuesday, guys. |
| 0:53.1 | I'm Rachel. We're so happy to have you back with us. |
| 0:56.3 | And, oh, you did that because it's, it's not Tuesday for us. What? I know. I just, a notification |
| 1:02.2 | came up and then I just like froze and realized I was being recorded. And then I fixed my face. |
| 1:08.0 | I thought you were, I was like, come on, it released us on Tuesday. |
| 1:12.0 | It's no okay that it's not Tuesday. |
| 1:14.4 | I can just, we can just, come on, just go with it. |
| 1:17.0 | No, I genuinely forget that I am being recorded sometimes. |
| 1:22.2 | And I think that's when you do the podcast for so long that you just like, just like and then you're like oh like I get |
| 1:28.3 | fixed my face. |
| 1:30.8 | Show face. |
| 1:32.0 | And fix your face. |
| 1:33.3 | Speaking of how long we've been doing the podcast, are you guys, are you subscribed? |
| 1:38.3 | Because what to hell? |
| 1:39.7 | What to hell? |
| 1:40.7 | Are you our friend or are you not our friend? |
| 1:42.9 | My goodness. |
| 1:45.8 | Like don't you want like more people to see to join our tribe to be in on it? Like if you are not subscribed to the podcast, |
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