Calorie Deficit University

Obesity Cannot Be "Cured" & The History of "Weight As A Spiritual Issue"

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1788332/open_sms] Included in this episode:  * A calorie deficit is not a cure for obesity.  * How "you're not broken" can be invalidating and dismissive of real chronic conditions if we aren't careful.  * Epidemiology and epigenetics.  * Facts about obesity and morbid obesity.  * All of the factors that go into personalized solutions for managing chronic illnesses like obesity.  * The morality complex of body weight on the rise.  * The history of bodily righteousness in America.  * The nuances of justification of racial hierarchies in the stigmatization of  fatness.  * Structural racism and how historic inequities affect communities today.  * Medical bias and discrimination towards women.  * Fasting as "spiritual discipline" and "Holy Anorexia" in the Renaissance period.  * How faith based solutions for weight are based in shame and obedience.  * The reality that there is a higher risk of obesity if a person connects religion to their weight.  Sources:  PMCID: PMC3358928 PMCID: PMC7758617 PMCID: PMC3969538

"Fitness Is Political"

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1788332/open_sms] Included in this week's episode:  * Personal story with the politicization of fitness and it's affects on my community today.  * Brief history of fitness and politics.  * Modern politics and fitness in the military and presidents.  * The socioeconomic and class division of fitness and politics.  * Pilates.  * Fitness in America today is highly individualized.  * Fitness in liberalism and conservatism inappropriately integrates morality, religion and political beliefs into fitness and food.  * The nuances of extremist political conclusions of food and fitness.  * Food as a human right around the world and in America.  * Political impacts on your fitness in government like the EPA, FDA, healthcare, federal standards and more.  * Final message: whatever your government is willing to do to the least of the society or those abroad, they will do to you. Full stop. The government will no hesitate to withhold food from it's civilians just like it does on the global setting.  * The beliefs and standards you hold for individualized fitness and food is where the government will stop. If you believe it's a personal issues, then your government will not help you. Ask more of the system you pay for. You are most similar to someone on SNAP than you are to a representative. We are all one moment away from needing a subsidy to help us live.  * Remember, most importantly, the government officials and law makers and the wealthiest of those in our country exist because of subsidy that YOU pay for. Demand more from your government. They are already used to providing it.

"Food Controls My Life"

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1788332/open_sms] In this episode:  * Coaching call coming at you!  * How to get a hold of the food noise.  * I've fallen off and can't get back on.  * You're not a pilgrim, fix your wagon babe.  * What do I do?!? I've got you.  * Alcohol - the real talk and coaching talk you need to hear.  * Vacation and food.  * Change your mind and take your autonomy.  * YOU'VE GOT THIS.

Underrated or Overrated: Current Fitness Trends

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1788332/open_sms] Included in this episode:  * Underrated or overrated on topics that include but are not limited to beauty, health, wellness, supplements and overall fitness trends.

How To Crush Being AVERAGE

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1788332/open_sms] Included in this episode:  * Most people are just average.  * What is average when it comes to health?  * What is the top 1% of fitness?  * Perspective shift * Stop trying to jump from being in the 75% of people to the top 1% overnight. It won't happen.  * Just go for it, you have nothing to lose.