S7 EP20: Why Diets Don't Work
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Today we have special guest Camille Martin on the podcast. Camille is a registered dietician and public health writer. Her own history with dieting was an important factor in how she landed in her current career, where she tells women how they can lose weight without dieting. Because of her difficult past with the diet industry she has strong feelings about the problems that can result from diet culture. Listen to her conversation with Rachael and Kelsea to learn what she thinks about why diets don’t work, why weight is just a side effect, and why she thinks gaining 20 pounds was the best thing that ever happened to her.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- How Camille’s diet history led to her current career
- Missed opportunities when focusing on looks
- Why diets don’t work
- Weight as a side effect
- Where the desire to use food as a coping mechanism comes from
- Why gaining 20 lbs. was a good thing
- Why constantly wanting to lose weight is bad for health
- Feeling undereducated about what you’re supposed to be eating
- Different bodies need to eat differently
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| 0:00.0 | No matter how much weight you could lose on a diet and be physically healthier, you're going to be |
| 0:06.9 | mentally and psychologically and emotionally unhealthier, which is going to take years off your life, |
| 0:14.3 | in my opinion. I would rather be 10 pounds, 15, 20 pounds, 30 pounds, what is overweight anyway? |
| 0:21.7 | We've got BMI, it's arbitrary. |
| 0:24.7 | We have to have these systems and these classification systems because it helps the medical |
| 0:30.1 | field, and I'm not bashing that, but we can't live our lives based on is my BMI 20. |
| 0:41.3 | It's just this obsession with our physical health at the expense of our mental and emotional well-being and that is not healthy |
| 0:46.5 | the big question is this in a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 1:03.0 | We are an army of hardworking women changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 1:10.0 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have |
| 1:13.3 | the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. Join us in changing |
| 1:20.6 | the dialogue for women everywhere. Welcome to the Thigh Thighs Save Lives podcast. Today on the podcast, we have Camille Martin. I think you guys are really going to enjoy the conversation we had with Camille. She's a registered dietitian, a public health writer, and a former chronic dieter herself. She has really dedicated her life to helping women quit dieting. |
| 1:47.1 | And our conversation centered around tons of important aspects. And I really especially loved |
| 1:54.7 | that she's going to hit our southern audience. She is from Georgia originally. and I think you guys are really going to love |
| 2:03.2 | the conversation that we had. She's the owner of Love to Lose, and I hope you guys enjoy it. |
| 2:08.4 | Hi, guys, and welcome back to the Thick That I Save Lives podcast. I'm Kelsey. I'm Rachel. |
| 2:13.0 | And we have a special guest on with us today that we're super excited for you guys to hear her story |
| 2:19.4 | and how she has started working with tons of women, ton of people to kind of dismantle some |
| 2:24.7 | dieting industry and we just love that. So Camille, welcome. Thank you all so much. I'm so excited |
| 2:31.0 | to be here. Oh God, we're so excited to have you and for our ladies to hear from you. |
| 2:35.1 | So I want to jump right into it and just ask you kind of, we know that you've had a tumultuous diet history. |
| 2:43.6 | And can you tell us a little bit about that and how it led to your current career helping women? |
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