The Gut Goddess Show with Kezia Hall
Health & Fitness:Nutrition
The pressure to be thin, this is finding a healthy body size for you - That's what we're looking at in this episode.
We need to do a lot of untangling around this. For most of you listening to this, you'll have grown up heavily brainwashed by dieting culture, and the idea that thin is best, most beautiful, most worthy, it's the goal.
But this is actually about being well, finding a healthy body size, being healthy and well in our bodies, and that might look different for all of us. - You can be thin and incredibly unhealthy, you can be thin and incredibly healthy, you can have a larger body and be incredibly healthy, you can have a larger body and not be healthy for you.
So, how do we untangle? How do you know, if actually you do need to shift some body fat and are thinking ‘Maybe that would help my hormones and my joints to my back and my autoimmune issue’ versus ‘I've just been brainwashed into thinking thin is best’.
It can feel really murky and messy. This is quite a bit of a vulnerable episode for me because I still feel this now. I still feel this pressure to be thin especially as a Holistic Nutritionist - being in the nutrition and wellness space, if I'm not careful I can feel these different comparisons and little threads and whispers in my brain that I should be thinner. Which is total BS.
So, we can live in this murky place. Do I need to lose weight? Do I want to lose weight? Is that just dieting mentality? Is that actually true? Will this actually help me? It can all just all feel very overwhelming and a bit messy.
So, in this episode, we're addressing decades of dieting indoctrination and how you can find a healthy body size for you.
Also, if you want to know more about this, I'm doing 3 workshops starting at the end of April to help you kick-start feeling well. To kick-start your hormone balance and your healthy belly and get help you get rid of IBS and help you sort out your body composition.
One of the workshops is going to be diving into body composition a little bit more because I actually have a lot, I have a very unique approach to body composition.
I have a lot of tools, a lot of strategies, and a lot of practical actions that can help, but I do think this is an important area that doesn't get talked about and I want to start talking about it. I want you to be free and well in your body and that might mean for some of you shifting your body fat and for some of you that might mean accepting where you are at and I want to help you with both.
You can find out all about the workshops here.
ResourcesEp 230: Things we should all have been told about our health & bodies
MINI #4: This is why it feels HARD
*Black Friday Interruption* (Special offer coming for the SHIFT Retreat!)
Ep 229: You need to do this if you want to seeing lasting weight loss
MINI #3: We all need to be reminded of this
Ep 228: Three things I do to make my health & eating SO much easier!
MINI#2: Only you can do this
Ep 227: Why stool tests are game changer if you are struggling
Mini #1: The pressure of ’body love’ & what I do
Ep 226: Body is a Temple: History has set your brain up to fail at having a healthy body!(This is why it can feel HARD to make changes)
Ep 225: Your Body is a Temple: Your secret weapon for everything you want (And how I have hacked my sleep with tiny kids!)
Ep 224: Your Body is a Temple: Feeling your Feelings ...the missing piece of your health journey??
Ep 223: This is NOT your job....despite what you’ve been told!
Ep 222: Your Body is a Temple: How trauma derails your physical health & what to do about it
Ep 221: Your Body is a Temple: The secret to big results - Regulating your nervous system
Ep 220: Your Body is a Temple...but what does that mean?
Ep 219: Why other stuff hasn’t worked…and what will
Ep 218: If you are tired & busy…how do you transform your health?
Ep 217: A MAN! Low motivation, body fat, low testosterone, hormones
Ep 216: Super healthy diet…but struggling with eczema, fatigue & gut issues !!?? (Case Study 3)
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