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 215: Bowel incontinence, reflux wind & parasites - all with a healthy whole-food diet!??? (Case Study 2)
Ep 214: How to Deal with Chronic pain, anxiety, awful periods...when everything is ’normal’ (Case Study 1)
Ep 213: Session 5 with Jess: How to support her thyroid, digestion & hormones
Ep 212: My gut microbiombe test results - the good, the bad, the ugly
BONUS: Did you see this? Important announcement for anyone who is feeling stuck & fed up!
Ep 211: A Truly Holistic Approach - Case Study
Ep 210: Why your health can feel hard…the system is rigged against you
Ep 209: What your hormonal symptoms mean
Ep 208: Session 4 with Jess - Weight gain, inflammation, blood sugar and the nervous system
Ep 207: Every client is scared about these 3 things...
Ep 206: 5 Reasons I have more energy despite 3 kids in 2 years & less sleep
Ep 205: Your body = smartest investment (& why are we not told this?!)
Ep 204: Jess - Session 3 - Update, weight loss frustration, CGM and why she is so darn tired!
Ep 203: Why your periods & hormones are painful/heavy/awful/non-existent
Ep 202: 3 reasons your EXHAUSTED that you’ve never realised
Ep 201: Doing this one thing is RADICAL & REVOLUTIONARY
Ep 200: Why you haven’t figured out your root cause yet…
Ep 199: Is this stopping you from seeing results? (Hint it does with most of my clients!)
Ep 198: The two step process I am using to shift my body fat
Ep 197: Is a whole food organic diet enough to see results?
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