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Goal Weight. Let's talk about it. Pretty much everyone has one. That number in the back of your mind that you strive for every day. That number that you pray is on the scale every time you step on. Hoping each time to be closer. Maybe you are at your goal weight! Wow! Congratulations, you are one of the few! What would happen though, if you stepped on the scale and you weren't anymore?
In today's episode of Love Your Bodd, Heather explains why having a goal weight is actually depleting your happiness instead of giving you something motivational to work on. By the end of the episode, you will learn different ways to frame your health goals so that you aren't focused on the number on the scale.
Setpoint/Appestat:
- The weight you maintain when you listen and respond to your body's signals of hunger and fullness.
- The weight you maintain when you don't fixate on your weight or food habits.
- The weight you keep returning to between diets.
(from Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon)
4 Ways Your Goal Weight is "Weighing You Down":
- Your weight is not an accurate measure of your physical health OR progress.
- You cannot physically measure blood pressure, cholesterol, heart disease, any of the internal factors that are said to be caused by being "overweight" by stepping on a scale.
- Muscle weighs more than fat!
Image 1 -
Image 2 - real fat vs real muscle
- Gives You A Negative Relationship with your body.
- Leads to regulation, guilt, binging
- eat less, exercise more - no longer enjoy food or exercise
- calorie restriction/meticulous calculation
- Negatively Affects on your Mental Health
- Negatively Affects your Happiness & Lifestyle Choices
What can we do to Change this?!
Make Motivationally Framed Goals that are NOT related to a number.
Productive, Positive, & Present!
"I am, I have, I will..."
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Thank you again to Chalene Johnson and her lessons in the 131 Method, which give me confidence daily when it comes to food freedom, confidence, and motivating self talk surrounding food. I am learning SO MUCH!
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"Change your thoughts and you can change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
"We are not disturbed by things, but rather the view we take of them." - Epiuctetus
"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - Shakespeare
What is the voice inside your head saying to you? Is it negative? If so, that's totally normal. Is it positive? That's normal, too! On today's Love Your Bodd episode, Heather sits down with you solo to teach you about self-talk and the labels we place on the events that happen in our lives.
Self Talk Lesson this Episode:
Self-talk: The action or practice of talking to oneself, either externally (aloud) or internally (mentally).
Self-Talk is how people evaluate and respond to events in their lives. It is typical for most people to feel some things are good (staying on a meal plan, adhering to an exercise program, winning a league championship), while others things are viewed as bad (going off a meal plan, stopping an exercise regimen, losing a league championship game). But in reality, events are simply events. It is the evaluation of events that make them positive or negative, and this in turn determines one’s emotional, mental, and physical responses to the events. In fact, sometimes things that were initially evaluated as bad eventually turned out to be good.
Types of Self Talk:
- Motivational self-talk: The act of practicing self-talk in a positive manner, focusing on increasing energy, effort, and positive attitude.
- Instructional self-talk: The act of practicing self-talk in which an individual focuses on the technical or taskrelated aspects of performance in order to improve execution.
- Negative self-talk: The act of practicing self-talk in a negative manner focusing on critical and self-demeaning statements that negatively affects goal attainment.
Ways to Focus on Motivational Self-Talk
- Take away the labels. There is no "good" or "bad" or "positive" or "negative."
- Practice Gratitude.
- Create Confidence / Gain knowledge.
- Practice Mantras! "Keep your phrases short and specific, use the first person and present tense, construct positive phrases, say your phrases with meaning and attention, speak kindly to yourself, repeat phrases often." (- From AFAA Mental Toughness textbook, Ch. 1)
- Create Routines & Systems to create control & help with decision making.
(P.S. Here's the Obama article about his routine - https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2012/sep/17/barack-obama-secret-weapon-routine)
I'd like to give credit in this episode to AFAA & the Mental Toughness course I am currently completing, which inspired me to share the self-talk info.
I would also like to credit Chalene Johnson and her lessons in the 131 Method, which give me confidence daily when it comes to food freedom, confidence, and motivating self talk surrounding food.
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Welcome to Part 2 of the Girls in Capes interview! Please, if you haven't already, go listen to Part 1 first, where you will learn all about Girls in Capes and the ladies involved in the panel!
In Part II of this 2 part interview, we discuss PROBLEMATIC MEDIA! Problematic favorites as in problematic creators, problematic FANDOMS, and problematic content. What makes something problematic? Why do we, as consumers of media, continue to support works that are problematic? What can we do to change the problematic media that is popular today?!
Listen to us discuss OUR problematic favorites as well as flip everything in the opposite direction to works that are more inclusive! Like last week, the moral we want you to take away from this episode is that money talks. Throw your money at the types of stories you want to hear whether it be movies, books, television, what have you! Spend your dollars where they are going to count. Media outlets will recognize this and start creating more diverse works!
Find Girls In Capes
Website: girlsincapes.com
Facebook: facebook.com/GirlsInCapes
Twitter: @GirlsinCapes
Instagram: @girlsincapes
Links to Titles mentioned in the Episode:
Problematic Fandom Incidents -
Personal Problematic Favorites -
- Steven Moffat - read about DR WHO on GIC here
- Meghan talks about Penny Dreadful - read the article she wrote about it for GIC here
- Emi mentions Citrus, a Yuri title manga turned anime which is now available on Crunchyroll
- FF vs MM fiction article - Dahlia Adler
- Feliza's Problematic Fav: Food Wars!
- Christina is heartbroken about Joss Whedon because Buffy and Firefly were her favorites and shaped the way she views media today. Read more about Joss Whedon's hypocrisy here. And added quote from an article Christina sent later - "His work has plenty of male gaze and women in refrigerators and some narratively pointless rape scenes—it’s all right there, in hundreds of hours of television and film—but boy, it sure is a lot more comfortable to listen to a guy tell you he’s a feminist than listen to a lot of women telling you he’s not." - Laura M. Browning AV CLUB Article
- His brother Jed Whedon seems to treat women much better in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Examples that the panelists no longer support because of how problematic they are - Fantastic Beasts (because of Johnny Depp allegations), The 100 (because of the treatment of the character Lexa), Supernatural (because of the treatment of women and characters of color)
- Girls in Capes also no longer reviews work written by straight white men.
Answers to the Instagram Question: "Given the shift in the industry lately, and the push to support female filmmakers/writers/artists, who are some underrated female artists that you think we can support with our dollars? Bonus points if they are ladies (or female identifying) of color."
- Ava Duvernay & A Wrinkle In Time! <- Love Letter To Black Girls Article
- Ryan Coogler (Black Panther)
- Feliza's list of author's to follow:
- Audrey Coulthurst (Ink Mistress)
- Fonda Lee (Jade City)
- Marjorie M. Liu (Monstress) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29396738-monstress-vol-1?ac=1&from_search=true
- Emily Skrutskie (The Abyss Surrounds Us)
- Leanna Renee Hieber (The Eterna Files)
- Kelly Thompson (Marvel/Nancy Drew)
- Delilah S. Dawson (Ladycastle)
- Discussion of Ladycastle brought up Her Land by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Julie Murphy (Dumplin')
- Emily Andras (Wynonna Earp)
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This week on Love Your Bodd, Heather sits down with the Founder of the online publication "Girls in Capes," along with several ladies of the writing team, to talk about representation in geek culture!
In Part I of this 2 part interview, we discuss "Girls in Capes" and why is it so important today. We also talk about how media influences us from a young age and how that carries over into our adult life/personality. The goal of the discussion is to take a closer look at the way we consume media compared to ways we can support works that are more inclusive. Part 2 takes it much deeper with discussions on problematic favorites and what makes them so "problematic." But you'll have to wait until next week for that!
One moral we want you to take away from this episode is that money talks. Throw your money at the types of stories you want to hear whether it be movies, books, television, what have you! Spend your dollars where they are going to count. Media outlets will recognize this and start creating more diverse works!
Find Girls In Capes
Website: girlsincapes.com
Facebook: facebook.com/GirlsInCapes
Twitter: @GirlsinCapes
Instagram: @girlsincapes
Links to Titles mentioned in the Episode:
Childhood Favorites -
- Emi mentions Zoids & Tenchi Muyo!
- Christina mentions the "Protector of the Small" Series by Tamora Pierce
- Meghan mentions Beetlejuice & Sailor Moon
Current Favorites (in terms of Representation) -
- Christina mentions One Day At A Time
- Meghan mentions a "championing their own voices movement" which can be defined as when a marginalized individual writes their own perspective on marginalization
- She also mentions how she used her platform to help champion these voices by linking to their articles in her review of Black Panther, which can be found here!
- Emi mentions Yuri titles which is a Japanese jargon term for content and a genre involving love between women in manga, anime, and related Japanese media
- She also mentions Crunchyroll as a way to legally stream Anime!
Love Your Bodd Stuffz
Email LYB: loveyourboddcast@gmail.com
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Get Resources: Love Your Bodd is a proud supporter of the Born This Way Foundation - check out their resources page to get help for whatever issue you might be facing -
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Wanna become a Pop Pilates Instructor? Follow this link to find a training near you: https://www.poppilateslife.com/a/527/osBvwVQc
Outside of the US? Don’t worry you can get online international training here:
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Love Popflex Activewear? Buy here and save:
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The views expressed on this podcast are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer(s).