When people decide to get themselves out of Diet Culture, they're confused about how they're supposed to change their physical activity.

It's still important to them that they achieve their fitness goals, but they're worried they're making the wrong choices.

Is forcing yourself to work out considered Diet Culture? What about tracking your workouts? Is that the equivalent of calorie counting?

Are you supposed to change up your workouts? Not push yourself too hard? How is that going to impact your body?

We've gotten many questions from our clients over the years on the topic, and this episode is going to answer those unknowns.

In episode 256 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I are going to show you the difference in physical activity between Diet Culture and anti-Diet Culture, and how you can ensure that your fitness goals continue to be a priority.

In this episode - “How to Be Fit Without Following Diet Culture”, you'll learn...

🔶 The difference between true fitness and diet culture fitness

🔶 The main decision factor in choosing your physical activity

🔶 Why associating fitness with weight loss keeps you stuck in diet culture

🔶 How to balance fitness with other aspects of life

🔶 Whether you should be exercising or training

🔶 Why Deanna has no shame

…and much more!

So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe to the show and give it a 5 star rating and review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Enjoy!

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When you’re ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1) Read Tony’s Book for Free

His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it. Or, you can purchase it in paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon.

2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group

Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call

This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.

Vacations are meant to be enjoyable, but many times concerns about our body, food, exercise, and navigating personal relationships get in the way.

The standard Diet Culture advice tends to focus on getting in shape for your vacation and how to eat and exercise while you're there to keep it in great shape.

But what normally happens is you get thrown into a binge-restrict cycle, and you become more food and body focused than ever. Judgmental comments from family about your body and the food you're eating are just more fuel for the fire.

There is a process to follow for vacations, but we don't approach them in a way that you're used to hearing.

Instead, we do it in a way that puts the experience first - without physical or emotional discomfort, or having to worry or stress about your food and body.

In episode 255 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I are going to break down what a "good" vacation looks like from an anti-diet perspective. And we'll show you the most important concept you need to keep in mind that no one seems to talk about.

In this episode - “How to Enjoy Your Vacation Without Stressing About Food and Fitness”, you'll learn...

🔶 Simple mindset shifts that allow you to fully enjoy your vacation

🔶 Why it's OK to let go of strict food and fitness routines

🔶 How to balance indulgence and well-being

🔶 Ways to stay active without feeling like you're working out

🔶 How to navigate the body focus and obsession leading up to and during vacation

🔶 Why Deanna can’t help commenting on my hand signals

…and much more!

So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe to the show and give it a 5 star rating and review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Enjoy!

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When you’re ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1) Read Tony’s Book for Free

His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it. Or, you can purchase it in paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon.

2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group

Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call

This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.

When people join our Mentorship program, they typically struggle with how they perceive and interpret the situations they experience in their life.

These perceptions are keeping them stuck and preventing them from experiencing the life they want.

They lead to self-sabotage, feeling bad about yourself, unwanted eating behaviors, motivation struggles, and much more. So you can understand how important it is to find and root out these limiting perceptions.

Having the right perceptions of the situations you face is literally the difference between the kinds of experiences you will have, and the beliefs, behaviors, and outcomes that come from them.

In episode 254 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I are going to show you the connection between perception and outcomes, and we'll help you identify, challenge, and replace the limiting mindset that is holding you back from the life you want.

In this episode - “How Changing Your Perceptions Will Lead to Better Results”, you'll learn...

🔶 How to reframe your negative thoughts

🔶 Why challenging your inner critic is essential for progress

🔶 How to identify limiting beliefs that hold you back

🔶 The connection between mindset and behavior change

🔶 Why two different people can have different experiences from the same situation

🔶 Why Tony changed his name to hot

…and much more!

So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe to the show and give it a 5 star rating and review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Enjoy!

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When you’re ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1) Read Tony’s Book for Free

His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it. Or, you can purchase it in paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon.

2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group

Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call

This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.

In this episode - “How to Navigate Social Situations Without Dieting”, you'll learn...

🔶 Strategies for enjoying get-togethers without food anxiety

🔶 How to handle food pushers with confidence

🔶 How to enjoy celebrations without overeating

🔶 Why "pre-dieting" doesn't balance out social overeating

🔶 How to feel comfortable eating differently in public

🔶 What Deanna, Amsterdam, and Taylor Swift all have in common

…and much more!

So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe to the show and give it a 5 star rating and review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Enjoy!

——

When you’re ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1) Read Tony’s Book for Free

His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it. Or, you can purchase it in paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon.

2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group

Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call

This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.

It's normal to have thoughts and urges about wanting to diet.

And it's normal to romanticize the good parts of Diet Culture while ignoring the bad parts.

We selectively remember and focus on the parts of dieting we did like - body change, "confidence", etc.

But we block out the parts we hated - constant food and body obsession, feeling restricted and deprived, never getting long-term results, etc.

What isn't normal, or rather - helpful, is letting those thoughts overtake you to the point that you start engaging in old ineffective behaviors.

In episode 252 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I walk you through this very common situation and show you how to navigate it effectively so you can get back to making true progress in your health and fitness.

In this episode - “What To Do If You Start Slipping Back Into Diet Culture”, you'll learn...

🔶 How to recognize the warning signs of Diet Culture thinking

🔶 Strategies to combat the urge to return to restrictive eating

🔶 How to deal with external pressures to conform to Diet Culture

🔶 Practical steps to recommit to your anti-diet journey

🔶 How to reframe negative thoughts about food and body

🔶 Why Tony is always shocked by Deanna’s dramatic reactions to insignificant things

…and much more!

So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe to the show and give it a 5 star rating and review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

To listen just click on Apple Podcasts or Spotify below. Or go to your favorite podcast player and search for “Fitness & Sushi”. You can also download the episode by clicking the 3rd button down…

Enjoy!

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When you’re ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1) Read Tony’s Book for Free

His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it. Or, you can purchase it in paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon.

2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group

Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call

This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.

Pretend for a moment that you're ready to give up dieting.

One big problem is that you just don't know what eating without dieting is supposed to look like.

You've lived so long following diet rules, that without them you feel a little lost in space.

The good news is that there's no reason to feel that way. There actually is a framework and process for you to follow that guides you to YOUR unique eating style.

In episode 251 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I are going to show you how to go about the transition from dieting to this new anti-diet lifestyle. And we're going to break down the process that eventually makes eating for your Ideal Body feel easy.

In this episode - “How to Eat When You Aren't Dieting Anymore”, you'll learn...

🔶 How to navigate the challenges of eating without diet rules

🔶 Why ditching diets doesn't mean abandoning your health

🔶 Strategies for overcoming the fear of weight gain when you stop dieting

🔶 How to break free of the all-or-nothing mindset around food

🔶 How to enjoy your favorite foods without guilt or overeating

🔶 Why Tony stranded Deanna without a car

…and much more!

So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe to the show and give it a 5 star rating and review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Enjoy!

——

When you’re ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1) Read Tony’s Book for Free

His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it. Or, you can purchase it in paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon.

2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group

Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call

This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.

Your hormones are powerful.

They affect your behaviors, and even the outcomes in your life, more than you might think.

Your eating and your body are prime examples of your hormones at work. We think we have absolute control over what, when, and how much we eat, and the way our bodies look, but our experiences have shown us that is not the case.

Understanding the influences at play can be really helpful on your Ideal Body journey.

Instead of trying to fight your own biology, you can work with your body to achieve your goals.

In episode 250 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I are going to explain how your hormones affect your hunger, cravings, and eating patterns. Then we're going to show you how to approach your Ideal Body journey so that you don't end up in a battle with your body.

In this episode - “How Your Hormones Affect Your Eating (and what to do about it)", you'll learn...

🔶 Why sheer willpower can't override your own biology

🔶 How common medications can influence your weight and appetite

🔶 The particular hormones that affect your hunger and cravings

🔶 How menopause and other life events change eating patterns

🔶 The ideal eating strategy to take instead of trying to fight your hormones

🔶 Why Tony didn’t feel comfortable manspaining about menopause

…and much more!

So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe to the show and give it a 5 star rating and review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Enjoy!

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When you’re ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1) Read Tony’s Book for Free

His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it. Or, you can purchase it in paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon.

2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group

Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call

This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.

This is the FINAL day of the Ideal Body Challenge.

It's being held LIVE April 29 - May 3 on Zoom, and discussions are being held in our private Facebook group.

The recordings are being shared here on the podcast for your convenience.

If you'd still like to be a part of this challenge, get the workbook, and the details for the live calls, you can sign up for free at https://builtdaily.com/challenge