When Healthy is TOXIC: FitTok, GLP-1's & Your Starving Bank Account
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Behind every “body tea” and “skinny legend” is an industry selling illusions, profiting off of our insecurities. So Jen and Jill share how to recognize the spending traps around body trends and guide us toward healthier, lasting ways to feel confident. Because loving yourself should always be free!
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| 0:29.7 | When healthy is toxic. FitTalk, GLP ones, and your starving bank account. |
| 0:39.3 | Welcome to the frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a rich of your life. |
| 0:49.0 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 0:54.8 | Welcome, Frugal Friends. I'm Jen. I'm Jill. And this one is a personal one for me. This is a topic that I'm super passionate about because I have struggled with my body image my entire life. And it's because my parents also struggled with their |
| 1:15.0 | body image. And they had really low self-esteem about their own weights and exercise. And honestly, |
| 1:23.8 | I can't blame them because they got that idea from their parents, too. |
| 1:29.9 | There have been ads for weight loss since marketing was invented literally in the early |
| 1:36.0 | 1900s. If you're watching the YouTube video, you'll see all these ads I found from literally |
| 1:43.1 | like the early 1900s for weight loss thinning |
| 1:48.0 | all this stuff. Even one about tapeworms using, I think it was safe tapeworms. |
| 1:55.8 | Yeah, sterilized tapeworms. In order to lose weight. So this issue isn't new. And we had a few good years of body positivity. It was really good. It got turned into a marketing scheme like all good things do. But with the introduction of second generation weight loss drugs, GLP-1s. It's gotten, I think we have reversed all of the |
| 2:24.5 | process that we've made in loving our bodies and wanting to be truly healthy and not trying to |
| 2:33.2 | buy this perfect physique or somebody else's idea of a perfect |
| 2:41.5 | physique. Yeah, they're prying on all of our insecurities and we are seeing it more and more |
| 2:47.5 | in front of us because of social media and maybe even what our friends are |
| 2:53.6 | choosing as far as health and wellness goes. And so today that's what we're talking about is |
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