Fitness & Sushi

Despite what you might hear in the media (or from that ignorant commenter on social media), your weight isn't 100% in your control.

People like to put others down and write off their weight loss struggles as simply being lazy or not having enough discipline

This is ridiculous. We are not carbon copies of each other, which means the way our body's work are all unique.

But I'm not just talking about our genetics. There are so many other factors beyond simple nutrition and exercise that are affecting our weight.

In episode 235 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I break down these influencing factors so you can see how they reconcile with your Ideal Body. Understanding these influences can lead to a more impactful health and fitness journey, improved self-confidence, and a better body image.

In this episode - "The Unspoken Reasons for Your Weight Loss Struggles", you'll learn...

🔶 Discover the hidden factors you never knew were influencing your weight

🔶 Why your weight is not just about food and exercise

🔶 Why your weight isn't 100% in your control

🔶 How your finances affect your weight

🔶 How your socioeconomic status influences your weight

🔶 Why our kitten wanted to join in on the show

…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.

We've been getting a lot of questions lately about the best way to make adjustments to your diet.

People want to improve their health, deal with food sensitivities, live in spiritual alignment, or eat differently for performance or weight change (increase or decrease) reasons.

But they're worried that if they start trying to manipulate their diet again, they'll slip back into Diet Culture and re-experience the food and body obsession all over again.

Or, that whatever changes they make won't stick. After all, that's been the usual outcome in the past.

These are genuine concerns. Because people are very susceptible to falling back into old habits when they are new to the anti-diet philosophy.

We're here to help.

In episode 234 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I show you how to approach this nuanced topic, and help you see and navigate the blind spots you're sure to encounter along the way.

In this episode - "How to Make Changes to Your Diet That Will Stick", you'll learn...

🔶 Why your previous diet attempts haven't worked and what to do differently

🔶 The common diet myths that sabotage progress

🔶 Whether you're even ready to make the adjustments you want

🔶 How to know when you've made the wrong changes

🔶 How to recognize the signs of diet fatigue and how to refresh your approach

🔶 Why Deanna thinks she has moral superiority

…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.

On the surface, it might seem like the standard prescription for exercise is good for you, but that actually might not be the case.

It really depends on what you're trying to accomplish in your life.

When you see someone who is in "great shape", what does that really mean? Is it about how they look? How strong they are? How much endurance they have?

Do these metrics automatically translate into improved physical and mental health, now and in the future?

Or is what they're doing now going to have consequences in wear and tear on their bodies in 20, 30, or more years?

These are some interesting questions to think about, because the general fitness narrative is that all exercise is good, and more is better.

In episode 233 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I want to invite you to a discussion we've been having lately. As our fitness has evolved over the years, we've begun to question the status quo and our motivations and goals for the future. And we're curious what you think.

In this episode - "Are We Trying To Do Too Much Exercise?", you'll learn...

🔶 When more exercise isn't necessarily better

🔶 How your current exercise regimen could affect your longevity

🔶 The hidden costs of too much exercise

🔶 The biggest exercise myths that keep being perpetuated

🔶 How to design a physical activity program that meets your needs

🔶 Why Deanna was getting defensive over Tony's "clarification"

…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.

Many of us struggle to overcome society's message that you need to look a certain way to be valued.

Adopting these messages/beliefs, willingly or not, tends to create debilitating body images struggles for people.

This negative body image then permeates into nearly every aspect of our life and diminishes our life experience.

We end up spending our days living with someone (ourselves) who we don't accept, love, or appreciate unconditionally. And well... that sucks.

But there are steps you can take towards embracing your imperfections, accepting yourself as-is - all while still pursuing your health and fitness goals.

The result is peace and freedom and finally getting out of a lifetime sentence in your food and body prison.

In episode 232 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I explain how we got to where we are today, and why it's so difficult for people to change the way they see themselves. Then we break down how to start healing your relationship with your body so that you can start living your full life experience.

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!

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.

We have a tendency to label our food as good or bad, healthy or unhealthy.

But what most people don't realize, is that there are consequences to these labels - and they usually aren't good ones.

For people who are trying to heal their relationship with food, these labels tend to keep you stuck in the diet cycle (and actually result in UNhealthy outcomes), even if your intentions are good.

So then how should you look at your food if your goal is to achieve your Ideal Body and be healthy?

In episode 231 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I explain why these labels aren't helpful, and how they usually result in unwanted outcomes. We then show you how to approach your eating so that you can still achieve the health goals that are important to you.

In this episode - "The Myth of 'Good' and 'Bad' Foods: How to Create a No-Guilt Diet", you'll learn...

🔶 How food labels affect your eating habits and mindset

🔶 Strategies for enjoying a variety of foods without guilt

🔶 Why truly "eating healthy" is not what you think

🔶 How to break free from the cycle of restriction and bingeing

🔶 Why fear-based eating usually doesn't result in the outcome you want

🔶 Why Deanna is concerned about the state of her marriage

…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.

Deanna and I have been getting a lot of requests to talk about all these shiny new weight loss medications hitting the market.

You can't watch TV now without seeing an ad about them or hearing about some celebrity who has lost weight using them.

So what's the deal?

Are these miracle drugs? Are we being pushed something that's harmful to us? Is there ever a time when it makes sense to use them?

In episode 230 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I break down the two big drugs currently being prescribed for weight loss - Ozempic and Wegovy. We approach the topic in a way that is meant to inform you of all the moving parts to consider so that YOU can make the choice that's right for you.

In this episode - "Are the New Weight Loss Medications On the Market (Ozempic, Wegovy, etc) Worth Taking?", you'll learn...

🔶 What these new pills are and how they work

🔶 The pros and cons of taking them

🔶 Whether they are just short-term solutions or they are beneficial to long-term health

🔶 How to decide whether or not you should take them

🔶 Some of the major concerns that showed up in their studies

🔶 Why Tony imagines Deanna screaming like a lobster in the shower

…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.

I'm going to get right to it - as a society, we approach New Year's resolutions wrong.

It's not hard to understand why I say that. All you have to do is look at the success rates of said resolutions.

Year after year we keep setting the same ones. We keep going through the same yearly cycle.

There is a reason we keep doing this over and over despite not getting the results we want.

If you understand why, you can approach 2024 differently, and you'll never have to set a weight loss resolution again.

In episode 229 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I show you how to harness the collective energy of New Year's resolutions the right way. And I'm willing to bet this new approach will finally lead to the results you've been after.

In this episode - "How to Set New Year's Resolutions That Will Make a Difference This Time", you'll learn...

🔶 Why traditional weight loss goals rarely work

🔶 How to take a whole person health approach to the new year

🔶 How to keep from falling into the same yearly resolution cycle

🔶 Some better examples of resolutions you can adopt for yourself

🔶 Why Tony thinks the English language is wrong about his pronunciation of words

…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.

Most of what you see in the weight loss space is simply a repackaged version of Diet Culture.

The strategies might be different on the surface, but they still all share ineffective common denominators that set you up for failure and keep you stuck in the diet cycle.

They may throw words out there like "lifestyle" or "psychology" or "mindset", but that doesn't change the fact they will continue to keep you stuck and frustrated for a lifetime.

The Anti-Diet lifestyle is the antidote to Diet Culture. It's what leads to food and body freedom.

But a lot of people don't know what it means to live an Anti-Diet lifestyle.

It's so much more than just not following the latest fad diet.

In episode 228 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I are going to compare and contrast the two different lifestyles so you can see why the Diet Culture approach taken by millions of people every year continues to lead to disappointment. And why our approach using the Ideal Body Formula is the way out of your lifetime struggle.

In this episode - "How to Live an Anti-Diet Lifestyle", you'll learn...

🔶 Discover the core principles of an anti-diet lifestyle

🔶 What it takes to break free from Diet Culture

🔶 Why "anti-diet" goes beyond just nutrition

🔶 Why you don't need a PhD in human biology to achieve your unique ideal body

🔶 How Deanna convinced Tony to get a kitten

…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.

Much of the messaging that comes out of Diet Culture is centered around pushing yourself to achieve a particular goal.

We're told to have discipline. We're told "no pain, no gain." We're told to suck it up and just do it if you want it bad enough.

Hungry? How bad do you want to lose weight?

Lacking motivation to work out today? "Just do it".

And as I'm sure you've experienced, rarely does this kind of thinking lead to anything substantial in the end.

It might get you going, but Diet Culture creates an over-reliance on willpower, which isn't an abundant resource.

Don't get me wrong - you need willpower. It is a very useful tool, and you WILL use it.

But there's a right and a wrong way to utilize it, and most people are approaching things ineffectively.

In episode 227 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I will show you how willpower works, and the best way to ensure you always have enough of it to help you power through new habit creation.

In this episode - "The Willpower Myth of Diet Culture", you'll learn...

🔶 Why willpower is portrayed as a magical force that can solve all problems related to health and weight

🔶 The unrealistic expectations of willpower that diet culture has given us

🔶 The emotional and psychological toll of relying on willpower to resist foods and stick to plans

🔶 How the depletion of willpower works and how to manage willpower effectively

🔶 How willpower is a muscle that can be built up over time

🔶 Why there was an awkward silence after Tony asked Deanna if he drains her willpower

…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.

Most health and fitness advice isn't all that helpful.

We're usually given a series of behaviors to aspire to.

Eat more vegetables. Eat less, move more. Eat xxxx amount of calories. Hit your macros. Don't eat this/that food.

The list goes on.

It's not that these things don't work or can't work. It's just that we struggle to actually do them.

That's because we're neglecting the real influence on our eating - our psychology.

Our psychology is what determines whether we stop eating when we're full, what we eat, how much we eat, when we eat, etc.

So if you want to achieve your Ideal Body, you have to stop focusing so much on what you do, and more on how you think.

Because once you get your psychology right, your desired behaviors happen with ease, and you get pulled towards the outcomes you want.

In episode 226 of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna and I make it clear why the standard Diet Culture behavioral approach doesn't work, and how you can start changing your psychology around eating. The result? Your Ideal Body.

In this episode - "The Psychology of Eating: What Really Drives Our Eating Behaviors", you'll learn...

🔶 Why most Diet Culture approaches don't address eating psychology

🔶 How the meaning we attach to food impacts our eating decision

🔶 What causes cravings and what to do about them

🔶 How cultural and social influences shape our eating

🔶 The parallels between money and fitness

🔶 Why Tony was so proud of how Deanna said umbrella

…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.

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.