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Listen "#82: Why it's time to ditch the diet culture holding us back from health and happiness"
Episode Synopsis
Has dieting ever made you get the happy life you want? What about sustaining the results long term?
The average woman is said to spend between 17 to 31 years of her life dieting. Diet culture is designed to keep us dieting because it’s creating a $1billion global business.
Kimberley Stacey joins the podcast today to talk about a topic that is so important in the world we live in. It's something that’s very aligned to my personal and business values following 30+ years stuck believing my self-worth and value were linked to the way I looked and how much I weighed on the scales.
Kim is the founder and head coach of Body Image Fitness in Newcastle and advocates non-diet fitness driving much needed change around diet culture and exercise, helping people to realise that anybody can workout and be fit, regardless of how their body looks.
In our conversation we talk about:
What diet culture is and the impact it has on women to feel they need to look a certain way.
Striving for happiness and self-worth with diets and exercise.
The relationship you have with food and diets on your overall health and happiness.
Re-focusing what we eat to be about the nourishment and overall health benefits it provides.
How important exercise is beyond the perception of it being just a tool to lose weight.
How the fitness industry likes diversity and representation.
The value of functional fitness to live strong with full mobility.
3 tips to help you begin your journey to ditching the diet and exercising to feel strong.
About Kim:
Kim has a Level 3 Personal Trainer qualification which includes core training, Advanced Resistance Training, group exercise and exercise referral. This means she is able to help with health conditions such (but not limited to) Arthritis, Lower Back Pain, Hypertension, Join replacement and Osteoporosis. Kim is also a lower back pain exercise specialist, a Yoga instructor (specialising in yoga for bigger bodies and diverse communities) as well as a Burlesque Cardio, and Twerk After Work group exercise instructor!
Kim works hard building Body Image Fitness after a lifetime of feeling like her body was not good enough to teach fitness as a career – how wrong was she?!
Connect with Kim:
Website
Facebook
Instagram
3 day free trial to Kim's Body Image Fitness App
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
Start our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
Get your FREE Daily Routine guide
Visit our website
Follow on Instagram
Follow on LinkedIn
Watch the episodes on YouTube
Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
The average woman is said to spend between 17 to 31 years of her life dieting. Diet culture is designed to keep us dieting because it’s creating a $1billion global business.
Kimberley Stacey joins the podcast today to talk about a topic that is so important in the world we live in. It's something that’s very aligned to my personal and business values following 30+ years stuck believing my self-worth and value were linked to the way I looked and how much I weighed on the scales.
Kim is the founder and head coach of Body Image Fitness in Newcastle and advocates non-diet fitness driving much needed change around diet culture and exercise, helping people to realise that anybody can workout and be fit, regardless of how their body looks.
In our conversation we talk about:
What diet culture is and the impact it has on women to feel they need to look a certain way.
Striving for happiness and self-worth with diets and exercise.
The relationship you have with food and diets on your overall health and happiness.
Re-focusing what we eat to be about the nourishment and overall health benefits it provides.
How important exercise is beyond the perception of it being just a tool to lose weight.
How the fitness industry likes diversity and representation.
The value of functional fitness to live strong with full mobility.
3 tips to help you begin your journey to ditching the diet and exercising to feel strong.
About Kim:
Kim has a Level 3 Personal Trainer qualification which includes core training, Advanced Resistance Training, group exercise and exercise referral. This means she is able to help with health conditions such (but not limited to) Arthritis, Lower Back Pain, Hypertension, Join replacement and Osteoporosis. Kim is also a lower back pain exercise specialist, a Yoga instructor (specialising in yoga for bigger bodies and diverse communities) as well as a Burlesque Cardio, and Twerk After Work group exercise instructor!
Kim works hard building Body Image Fitness after a lifetime of feeling like her body was not good enough to teach fitness as a career – how wrong was she?!
Connect with Kim:
Website
3 day free trial to Kim's Body Image Fitness App
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
Start our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
Get your FREE Daily Routine guide
Visit our website
Follow on Instagram
Follow on LinkedIn
Watch the episodes on YouTube
Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
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