Every time we go to the store or see commercials, we end up seeing diet advertisements and unrealistic changes like "Lose 10 lbs in 2 days". These ads create unnecessary stress for us to look a certain way, and impacts how we think of ourselves when we don't succeed.
In this episode with Camille Martin, we tackle the diet industry and how it impacts self esteem, and what you can do differently to create goals that stimulate success.
What To Expect From This Episode
How diet culture is impacting self esteem and mental health
Why many people fall into the trap of unrealistic goals
How to determine overarching goals and break it down into actionable steps
Best ways to avoid "diets" while still making healthy changes
Shownotes
[0:00] Welcome to the Summit For Wellness Podcast
[0:40] We have been focused on our Youtube Channel, go ahead and subscribe
[2:00] I am now an investor in the electrolyte company LMNT
[4:20] Who is Camille Martin and what got her interested in nutrition
[5:30] If you continue trying to diet to lose the same x lbs, at what point is your body telling you that it wants those lbs vs you wanting to lose it for aesthetic reasons
[6:30] Why do so many people try to reach a weight goal from when we were young and active and had the best metabolisms in the world
[8:45] Why is it so hard for people to stay with a diet plan
[11:10] If creating small, increment habit changes makes long lasting impact, how do we break down our ultimate goals into actionable steps
[12:40] When someone wants to lose 10lbs, how do you change the conversation to focus on other goals they want to achieve
[15:15] Knowing your triggers can completely change how you approach different situations
[16:15] Now that we are coming through the other side of Covid, now is a great time to re-assess your habits and make healthy changes
[17:45] Some examples of how to break down habits into actionable goals
[21:30] If you are trying to change your diet but your family isn't invested, how do you change your environment to help you be successful
[24:00] Are there family members who try to sabotage others from reaching their goals
[25:00] How can you make your kitchen environment better to help you be successful
[27:00] Final thoughts from Camille Martin on how to create goals to be successful
Resources From This Episode
Some of these resources may contain affiliate links, which provides a small commission to me (at no extra expense to you).
Read Camille's book Love to Lose Here
Check out Camille's Kitchen Guide to a successful kitchen setup
Transcript For Episode (Transcripts aren't even close to 100% Accurate)
[00:00:15] Bryan Carroll: Hello, hello and welcome back to the summit for a wellness podcast. It's been a little. Hasn't it? My last episode I published was about seven months ago. If I look back at it, and as you may have noticed, if you've been following me for a while, I took a much needed break.
I did 183 episodes of the podcast since 2017 with very minimal breaks, and it got to a point where, you know, I wanted to play around and do some other things. So if you are not following my YouTube channel, I have been going all in on YouTube over there. It's been a lot of fun. I've been making a lot of different videos, adventure videos, movement videos, et cetera.
So I highly recommend jumping over there and subscribing to the. And of course all of these podcast episodes are also on the YouTube channel as well. But I do love podcasting. I love the platform. I love being able to connect with you through your ears, and it's something I don't really want to give up.
It just is very time consuming. So from here on out, I am trying to focus on finding guests that have something unique to say, because I want to keep things fresh and interesting. Stay ahead of the health and wellness trends and. I don't know about you, but when I keep hearing the same thing over and over and over, for me at least, it kind of gets old.
So I love it when people come on and bring new perspectives to the information that we currently have available. Now, if you've been listening to anyone in the health and wellness space that you find absolutely fascinating and they have something unique to share, feel free to reach out to me on any platform and let me know, and I will do my best to get them over here on the podcast so we can have some stimulating conversations.
So another exciting thing that has happened since my last podcast episode is I became an investor in Element, which is an electrolyte company. You've probably heard me talk about them before on the podcast, and I'm really excited about their product. It's the first. Electrolyte product that I have found that tastes good.
And I notice a huge difference with. So every single morning I wake up and my first drink in the morning is water with a raspberry element in it. And then later on in the day, because it's cold and it's wintertime right now, I make my version of a healthy hot chocolate, which is hot water mixed with two different protein powders and a c.
Salt element and it is absolutely delicious. It's zero sugar and it tastes just like a regular hot chocolate. So if you are wondering different ways to use element, those are two different ways right there. And if you wanna try it out, go to summit for wellness.com/lm n t and you can try out element through there.
Also, if you jump over to the YouTube version of this podcast and you type down in the comments that you want to try Element, I do have some sample packs available and I will pick two people at random to send those out to. So again, go to the YouTube channel, find this video. And then comment that you wanna try out element.
Alright, coming on for today's podcast episode is Camille Martin, and we are going to be diving into dieting and how that impacts women's self-esteem. So Camille is a registered dietician, public health writer and a former chronic diet dedicated to helping women quit dieting, set bigger and better goals, and reclaim their excitement for life.
And after 25 years of dieting and failing, she quit dieting and began changing her habits little by little. Now she helps people focus on the way they eat as opposed to what they eat. So let's dive into my conversation with Camille. Thank you, Camille, for coming onto the.
[00:03:51] Camille Martin: Thanks for having me, Bryan. I'm excited to be here
[00:03:54] Bryan Carroll: and I'm very excited to chat with you because as we all know, the majority of people have tried dieting at some point in their life.
The typical person has tried multiple diets and for some reason they're just not working, are they? So we're gonna dive into why that is and how that can impact self-esteem and other things with us. But before we do that, let's learn a little bit more about your background and what got you into all.
[00:04:19] Camille Martin: Okay, sure. I'm a registered dietician and I have been for about, gosh, 15 years. And I'm also a technical writer and editor for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So this, what I'm doing with you here is sort of my side thing that I'm hoping to convert into a full-time thing. But how I got into this is that I dieted for almost 25 years of my.
Trying to diet off the same 10 pounds. And ultimately I just said, this is pointless. And it was demoralizing and depressing. And when I finally decided to quit, that's when everything turned around for me. And so I'm using what I've learned on that journey to help mostly women learn how to lose weight without dieting, and just by changing their habits and their thoughts.
[00:05:08] Bryan Carroll: Now you mentioned you tried multiple times to lose the exact same 10 pounds. Yeah. At some point, do you ever wonder if your body just naturally wants to have those extra 10 pounds, or is it more something that you just wanna get rid of?
[00:05:25] Camille Martin: Well for me it wasn't necessarily a set point kind of thing.
It was more a psychological you know, the pressure. I usually talk about women, so I'm not trying to exclude men in this conversation, but. It's mostly women who feel such pressure to look perfect, and so like an extra 10 pounds is really not it. It's not a big deal at all health-wise, but I felt compelled to get rid of it and the negative psychological component of dieting it, it kept me stuck.
In this negative feedback loop where I would try to use willpower, cut out everything, stop eating, take diet pills, all this crazy stuff. And then when I finally, you know, gave up and I had no more willpower, I ate everything and gained all the weight back. So I'm an emotional eater also. I've learned how to manage it.
But for me, that's what it was. It wasn't that my body wanted to stay at a certain weight, I was just trying to get rid of it, and it kept coming back because of my psychology.
[00:06:27] Bryan Carroll: So it seems like a lot of people have a goal weight in mind and that sometimes maybe your physician will give you a goal weight to get you in certain like BMI type categories for other people.
Mm-hmm. , it might be a weight that they were at when they were in high school or something similar. Right. Why is it that we always seem to try to reach a weight or a goal that we had when we were. You know, young and active and had the best metabolisms in the world and all sorts of.
[00:06:57] Camille Martin: Well, in my opinion, it's because we have such an extreme focus on appearance and on beauty and youth.
And so we're associating that version of ourselves way back when as the ideal. And that's not realistic because not only does your, it's, it's not that your body changes over time and you get less and less healthy as the years go by, but you do change and your life changes and. Circumstances change and no one's factoring any of that in.
And again, it's just, to me, the extreme just unrelenting focus on, you know,
