In episode 294 of Fitness & Sushi, we pull back the curtain on one of diet culture’s most damaging exports: The Biggest Loser.

What looked like “just TV” was actually cultural programming that rewired a generation of women to believe their worth was tied to shrinking their bodies. Contestants were pushed past the point of safety, trainers used shame and abuse as “motivation,” and viewers absorbed it all as truth. The fallout? Broken metabolisms, broken trust in our bodies, and decades of food and body obsession.

In this episode — Fit for TV: How The Biggest Loser Broke Us — and How We Heal — you’ll learn…

🔶 How reality TV exploited fatphobia and turned weight loss into spectacle 🔶 The hidden trauma-bonding tactics behind Jillian Michaels’ “coaching” style 🔶 Why contestants were set up for failure long-term (and what science says about their metabolisms today) 🔶 The systemic harm when entertainment puts profit over people 🔶 How to reframe food, body, exercise, and mind with the Ideal Body Formula so you can finally heal from the same conditioning

This wasn’t just bad television — it was abuse disguised as entertainment. But you are not broken, and you never needed saving. Healing is possible, and it starts with reclaiming your dignity, trust, and truth.

👉 When you’re ready, book your free breakthrough call at builtdaily.com/call/

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

1. Read Tony’s Book for Free His 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 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna breaks down the why behind the Ideal Body Formula™—our proven approach to healing your relationship with food, your body, and your mind. Diet culture has taught you that willpower, restriction, and punishment are the only paths to success, but that’s why you’re stuck in the yo-yo cycle.

We’ll show you why the Ideal Body Formula works when nothing else has, and how it creates lasting change without diets, guilt, or obsession. You’ll learn:

🔶 The core reason traditional dieting keeps you trapped (and how to finally break free) 🔶 How focusing on food, body, exercise, and mind in harmony changes everything 🔶 Why separating body care from body image is the key to consistency and confidence 🔶 How healing—not hustling—leads to your healthiest self 🔶 The one mistake you’re making that keeps you from feeling in control around food

…and much more!

Ready to stop dieting and start healing? Press play now.

When you’re ready for the next step, book your free breakthrough call at builtdaily.com/call.

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

Read Tony’s Book for Free The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body is available 100% free. Click here to read it.

Join Our Free Facebook Group Get strategies and support to heal your relationship with food and your body. Click here to join.

Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call A powerful 1-on-1 call designed to help you end food and body obsession for good. Book your call here.

This episode is part of Body Relationship Month — our special July series revisiting some of our most-loved episodes to help you heal your relationship with your body and yourself.

What most of us don’t realize is that all we’re really trying to do in life is get back to a state of wholeness — where our true, full life experience can actually begin.

The real solution isn’t endlessly pursuing external goals or chasing perfection. It’s learning to let go of the baggage that keeps us from living as our whole selves, where our unlimited potential exists.

In this solo episode, Tony shows you what’s really standing between you and who you want to be, so you can stop wasting time on trivial pursuits and finally start living more fully and authentically.

Ready to go deeper? Sign up for our free Body Relationship Month this July at builtdaily.com/body-relationship-month and get weekly trainings, tools, and support to start healing your relationship with your body for good.

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

Read Tony’s Book for Free The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body is available 100% free. Click here to read it.

Join Our Free Facebook Group Get strategies and support to heal your relationship with food and your body. Click here to join.

Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call A powerful 1-on-1 call designed to help you end food and body obsession for good. Book your call here.

This episode is part of Body Relationship Month — our special July series revisiting some of our most-loved episodes to help you heal your relationship with your body.

One of the most common questions we hear is: Can I want to lose weight and still heal my relationship with food and my body?

It’s a nuanced and deeply personal question — one that many women in midlife wrestle with after years (or decades) of dieting, body shame, and conflicting messages about health.

If you're trying to balance weight loss goals with a genuine desire for body acceptance and food freedom, this episode is for you.

In this episode — “Can Weight Loss and Healing Your Relationships with Food and Body Coexist?” — you’ll learn:

🔶 Why the traditional diet mindset can undermine your efforts to heal

🔶 How to approach weight loss without falling back into harmful diet culture habits

🔶 How to identify when your weight loss goals are in conflict with your body acceptance journey

🔶 The psychological impact of trying to achieve both weight loss and healing

🔶 Why long-term health should be prioritized over quick fixes

🔶 Why Deanna said that Tony will never look like Superman

…and much more!

Ready to go deeper? Sign up for our free Body Relationship Month this July at builtdaily.com/body-relationship-month and get weekly trainings, tools, and support to start healing your relationship with your body for good.

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

Read Tony’s Book for Free The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body is available 100% free. Click here to read it.

Join Our Free Facebook Group Get strategies and support to heal your relationship with food and your body. Click here to join.

Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call A powerful 1-on-1 call designed to help you end food and body obsession for good. Book your call here.

This episode is part of Body Relationship Month — our special July series revisiting some of the most-loved episodes to help you heal your relationship with your body.

If you want more self-worth or confidence, you have to give it to yourself. Stop making it contingent on a smaller body.

The more we tie our self-worth to our body, the more uncomfortable we feel in our own skin. Instead of using food and exercise to meet our needs and help us feel our best, we end up using them as tools to control our body and our value. Any unwanted number on the scale can trigger a collapse in self-worth.

To solve this, you have to separate your body from your body image — and start working on the latter.

In this episode — “How to Handle Being Uncomfortable in Your Own Skin” — you’ll learn:

🔶 The real reason it’s difficult to like the way you look

🔶 Why most people’s approach to this problem tends to aggravate it

🔶 What you need to do to start feeling confident again

🔶 How to start curating your environment to make it easier to improve your body image

🔶 Why a negative body image and dieting is a lethal combination

🔶 Why Tony is so afraid to call Deanna by the wrong name

…and much more!

Ready to go deeper? Sign up for our free Body Relationship Month this July at builtdaily.com/body-relationship-month/ and get weekly trainings, tools, and support to start healing your relationship with your body for good.

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

Read Tony’s Book for Free The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body is available 100% free. Click here to read it.

Join Our Free Facebook Group Get strategies and support to heal your relationship with food and your body. Click here to join.

Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call A powerful 1-on-1 call designed to help you end food and body obsession for good. Book your call here.

This episode is part of Body Relationship Month — our special July series where we're revisiting some of our most-loved episodes to help you heal your relationship with your body.

Many of us struggle to overcome society's message that you need to look a certain way to be valued. Adopting these messages (willingly or not) often creates debilitating battles with how we see our bodies. This negative body relationship can permeate nearly every aspect of life and diminish our entire experience.

We end up living day after day with someone (ourselves) we don't accept, love, or appreciate unconditionally. And well… that sucks.

But there are steps you can take to embrace your imperfections, accept yourself as-is, and still pursue your health and fitness goals. The result? Peace, freedom, and finally escaping a lifetime sentence in your food and body prison.

In this episode — “Embracing Imperfection: How to Love Your Body at Every Stage” — you’ll learn:

🔶 Why chasing perfection often leads us further from body acceptance

🔶 Strategies for resisting societal pressures and overcoming negative self-talk

🔶 What it really means to have a "good" body

🔶 How the media influences our body image

🔶 How embracing your imperfections can lead to a more empowering life experience

🔶 Why Tony was surprised to find out that Deanna has been trying to control him

…and much more!

Ready to go deeper? Sign up for our free Body Relationship Month this July at builtdaily.com/body-relationship-month/ and get weekly trainings, tools, and support to start healing your relationship with your body for good.

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

Read Tony’s Book for Free The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body is available 100% free. Click here to read it.

Join Our Free Facebook Group Get strategies and support to heal your relationship with food and your body. Click here to join.

Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call A powerful 1-on-1 call designed to help you end food and body obsession for good. Book your call here.

In this episode of Fitness & Sushi, we’re pulling back the curtain on how diet culture broke your relationship with your body — and what you can do to finally heal it.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in the cycle of obsession, self-doubt, and body shame, it’s not because you failed. It’s because you were trained to see your body this way.

In this episode — “How Diet Culture Destroyed Your Body Relationship (And the 3 Shifts That Heal It)” — you’ll learn:

• How the message “to feel better about your body, change it” created fear, anxiety, and fragile self-worth

• Why diet culture taught you to see your body as an object to control instead of a home to care for

• How constant fighting for control and discipline led to self-doubt, isolation, and burnout

• The Ideal Body Formula approach to rebuilding trust, respect, and connection with your body

• What it really takes to reach your healthiest weight and feel at home in your body again

…and much more!

Ready to go deeper? Sign up for our free Body Relationship Month this July at builtdaily.com/body-relationship-month, and get weekly trainings, tools, and support to start healing your relationship with your body for good.

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

1. Read Tony’s Book for Free The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body is available 100% free. Click here to read it.

2. Join Our Free Facebook Group Get strategies and support to heal your relationship with food and your body. Click here to join.

3. Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call A powerful 1-on-1 call designed to help you end food and body obsession for good. Book your call here.

In this episode of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna redefines the “Ideal Body” — not as a goal weight or appearance, but as a reflection of your values, self-care, and life season. After navigating perimenopause, mental health changes, and body shifts, she shares why the Ideal Body is not something you chase — it’s something you allow.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

🔶 Why the Ideal Body isn’t about a weight or size — and never was 🔶 The question you’re asking that keeps you trapped in diet culture 🔶 How your Ideal Body evolves through life, and why that’s not a problem 🔶 What your body is trying to tell you (if you’d just listen) 🔶 The better question to ask when you're tempted to “get back on track”

…and more truths diet culture never wanted you to know.

If you’ve ever looked in the mirror and wondered what happened to the “old you,” this episode will bring clarity and compassion.

🎧 Listen now. If it resonates, subscribe and leave a 5-star review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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

1. Read Tony’s Book for Free His book The Ideal Body Formula is available 100% free. Click here to read it, or get the paperback/Kindle version on Amazon.

2. Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group Get deeper coaching and support inside the community. Click here to join.

3. Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call If you’re ready to feel at peace in your body, book a free call at https://builtdaily.com/call/. We’ll figure out what your Ideal Body really looks like.

In this special episode of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna shares the powerful workshop that’s helped hundreds of women finally break free from food obsession, yo-yo dieting, and body shame. If you’ve been stuck in the same cycle for years, these 5 life-changing shifts will show you a new path—one rooted in food freedom, self-trust, and lasting peace.

In this replay of her live workshop, 5 Shifts to End the Food & Body Battle, you’ll discover:

• Why diets keep failing you (and what actually works instead)

• The #1 mindset shift that ends bingeing and emotional eating

• How to stop hating your body—even if you've spent decades doing it

• What “gentle nutrition” really looks like without falling back into restriction

• The biggest reason you still feel out of control around food (and how to fix it)

You’ll walk away with a completely different vision of what’s possible—one that doesn’t require guilt, shame, or another diet plan.

Listen now and find out how your future can look radically different—starting today.

👉 When you're ready to explore next steps, book your free call at: 

builtdaily.com/call/

In this powerful episode of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna walks you through a vivid journey — your past, your present, and the two futures ahead of you. One where nothing changes… and one where you finally break free.

This is for the woman who keeps telling herself she’ll “figure it out later.” Because the truth is — waiting has a cost.

If you’ve been stuck in a cycle of dieting, shame, and starting over every Monday, this episode is your wake-up call — and your invitation to choose differently.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

🔶 How chronic dieting shapes your past, steals your present, and sabotages your future 🔶 What’s really at risk when you keep putting off healing your relationship with food and your body 🔶 The quiet damage you’re doing to your metabolism, hormones, and mental health — without realizing it 🔶 A glimpse at who you could become if you finally chose peace, nourishment, and self-trust 🔶 Why “starting later” might be the most dangerous decision of all

…and a haunting (but hopeful) message from your future self.

If this resonates, don’t wait.

Sign up now for Deanna’s free training — 5 Simple Shifts to End the Food and Body Battle 👉 builtdaily.com/shifts

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

1. Read Tony’s Book for Free The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body is available 100% free. Click here to read it.

2. Join Our Free Facebook Group Get strategies and support to heal your relationship with food and your body. Click here to join.

3. Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call A powerful 1-on-1 call designed to help you end food and body obsession for good. Book your call here.