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Good Bodies

The Toxic Lifestyle Of Being A Wellness Influencer Ft. @leefromamerica

Good Bodies

Betches

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.44K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, Aleen is joined by Lee Tilghman aka @leefromamerica. Lee tells us about her journey as an OG wellness influencer – she shares what her day-to-day was like and how her own health was suffering BTS, while she was publicly being considered a “wellness guru” on social media. Next, Lee shares how both social media and the wellness industries consumed her, and what ultimately brought her to go on a “healing hiatus” to seek professional help for Orthorexia. Aleen and Lee then talk about the power the diet industry has on us through marketing and education, why the “Health at Every Size” approach to wellness was never taught to us as kids and how *wellness burnout* is absolutely real. To end the episode, Lee shares why she came back to Instagram, what her new outlook on sharing on social media looks like now, and they also chat about some of her latest thought-provoking posts about things like not needing to make every one of your hobbies into a job and comparing counting likes on instagram to counting calories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Betches media presents, diet starts tomorrow, with host Aileen Drexler.

0:06.4

I'm having a relationship with my deep self.

0:08.5

In a world where wellness looks perfect on Instagram.

0:11.5

Just doing my workout, two days on and back.

0:14.0

But feels anything but in real life.

0:16.3

Is butter a carb?

0:17.4

Yes.

0:18.4

This is the podcast exploring the emotional side of Well-Be.

0:21.4

That would be proud to partake of your vegan pie.

0:23.8

From people who understand the struggle.

0:26.0

I am on the third day of my cleanse diet.

0:33.0

Hello and welcome to Diet starts tomorrow.

0:35.4

I'm your host Aileen.

0:36.5

And today I am joined by Lee Tellman, who many of you may know as at-lea for America.

0:43.8

We're going to be talking all about Lee's journey through wellness through the wellness

0:47.2

industry, through social media.

0:49.6

And I know her as one of the OG wellness influencers.

0:52.8

So I'm now reformed wellness influencer.

0:56.3

I guess you are now retired.

0:58.2

I am so excited to have you, Lee.

1:00.4

Welcome to DST.

1:01.8

Thank you so much for having me.

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