S3 EP24: Are Cheat Meals A Good Idea?
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Are “cheat meals” a good idea or not? In today’s episode, we’ll discuss the idea of cheat meals, the language that we use when we talk about food, and the effects of surplus culture, diet culture, and terminology on the way we think about food, nutrition, our bodies, and our health.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- The effects of surplus culture on food attitudes
- How your mindset is affected by introducing restrictions into your diet
- The effects of diet culture
- The language around food
- Moving toward a more balanced mindset around food
- Things that are not foods
- Assumptions about the foods you eat based on what your body looks like
- The control factor surrounding food
- How you can develop a false sense of success
- Not defining ourselves by a single choice
- Limiting shame and embarrassment over binge-eating episodes
- Breaking patterns that you don’t like
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Another one is I don't need to earn the right to enjoy different kinds of foods. |
| 0:04.2 | Now, repeat that one back because I think it's a very important one to say, I don't need to |
| 0:08.5 | earn the right to enjoy different kinds of foods. |
| 0:12.1 | Now, people will impose this a different idea on you all the time and say things like, |
| 0:19.6 | oh, you're earning your blah, blah, blah, whatever |
| 0:22.3 | today. |
| 0:23.4 | And I've had that said to me, and I'm like, I can enjoy whatever the hell I want to. |
| 0:29.2 | I don't need to earn it. |
| 0:34.2 | The big question is this. |
| 0:38.3 | In a world of fake Instagram models and fad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:46.3 | We are an army of hardworking women changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:53.3 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the |
| 0:57.1 | answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. Join us in changing the |
| 1:04.4 | dialogue for women everywhere. Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:17.1 | Hi, everyone, and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:17.9 | I'm Rachel. |
| 1:18.9 | And I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:19.8 | Welcome back. |
| 1:24.3 | Remember when I called you today and you were listening to Smooth Jazz? And then it made me think, we should say. |
| 1:30.3 | Hello, everyone. Welcome back to 99.9 smooth jazz this is your host to lila we've referenced to lila like a couple |
| 1:38.6 | times in our podcast if you don't reference delilah on a weekly... I don't care. |
| 1:44.3 | I don't care. |
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