You Are More than Your Body with Kaisa Keranen (Episode 69)

Hit Play Not Pause

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

For far too long, many of us have defined ourselves (or worse our self worth) by the size of our thighs and the circumference of our waistline, setting ourselves up for a lifelong battle with our bodies and an underlying discontent with who we are based upon a largely unattainable “ideal.” That can get worse during the menopause transition when our body shape starts to shift. This week’s guest, Kaisa Keranen, AKA KaisaFit, is on a mission to change that. As she says: “What I look like does not define who I am as a woman and what I’m doing in this world.” Amen to that and all the wisdom she dishes out this week.

Kaisa is a longtime athlete and has a Masters in Exercise Science, Sports Performance and Injury Prevention. She is the owner of KaisaFit, and has built a community of over 1 million people on Instagram. She has been featured in digital magazines including Vogue, Shape, SELF, Harper's Bazaar, Oxygen, and ESPNW. Kaisa was named by Greatist as one of the most influential people in health and fitness in 2015, the same year she was asked by Michelle Obama to be one of the go-to trainers for her “Let’s Move” digital campaign. You can find Kaisa on social media as KaisaFit where she educates, motivates, and empowers people to #JustMove.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.7	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.5	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:33.7	Okay.
0:34.7	We have a lot to talk about this week.
0:38.1	I feel like this week's show is really timely, because body image, body shape, and weight have come up a lot in our private hit play not pause group over the past week or so.
0:50.2	And believe me, I know what a loaded issue this is, both personally and professionally.
0:56.6	I have been very open about my own past eating disorders and body dysmorphia issues.
1:02.6	And I have spent more than 25 years writing for health and fitness magazines,
1:06.7	which for a long, long time would present everything related to health and fitness through the
1:13.0	lens of weight and weight loss. Like many of you, I grew up with the notion that thin is everything.
1:20.3	We're having a smaller, leaner body meant you were more disciplined and had it all together,
1:25.1	and of course, we're more attractive because, again, thin was everything.
1:30.8	Body ideals have changed over time. Now you have strong as the new skinny and muscles are beautiful.
1:37.0	What we really need to recognize is that strength and beauty and athleticism are not one size or shape.
1:47.7	We were also fed this idea that we are in complete control of our bodies and that we can dictate how big or small they are. And after 30 years
1:54.9	of working in the health and fitness industry and following the research and literature there,
2:00.0	I've seen that's really not true.
2:02.5	Bodies change, some more than others, but to some extent, everyone goes through changes.
2:09.5	And when it comes to who gains or loses more or less weight, even the top scientists in the world
2:16.4	still don't agree on why or how.
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