The PUSH Podcast

In this episode we turn over our topic to you, our listeners. In this Q&A episode we answer questions about stalls in fitness progress, sugar addiction and more! Listen in as we navigate these topics while honoring yourself, your body and your pleasures in life.

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If you’ve been following us for awhile you probably know where we stand on diet culture and marketed weight loss programs. But, does this mean that we don’t think that you should lose weight? Is wanting to change your body bad? Listen in as we dive into this topic to learn more.

References made in this episode:

Lindo Bacon, PhD

JayCee Cooper

Fitness for All Bodies

What do we mean when we say that we have “body privilege?” In this episode we talk about what body privilege is, how we have experienced it personally and why it matters for us to examine our own body privilege in a continued effort to take down diet culture, the patriarchy, racism and more.

Bonus content: when will we get to eat the donuts that Cara’s husband brought by during the recording of this episode?

Resources Discussed in This Episode:

The Freckled Bee (The Trendy Bee Boutique is what was accidentally referenced - sorry, Bee!)

How to Support NICU Families: A Doula’s Guide to Effectively Supporting Clients with Babies in the NICU

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Justice Roe Williams: Fitness For All Bodies

We recently made a post on Instagram that ruffled some feathers. (We called it Trouble Maker Tuesday.) Pushing back against diet culture can feel very daunting, but we think it’s important. Calling these things out as we see them is one of the ways that we feel like we can inch toward changing the conversation about diets and bodies.

In this episode we discuss:

The post that sparked a conversation about diet culture;

The hierarchy of foods and how that can be problematic;

How we can unknowingly participate in systemic and institutionalized racism; and

How the phrase “Keep tugging your tug boats, people!” can simultaneously be a call to action for anti racism work and self pleasure.

Resources discussed in this episode:

Sabrina Strings, Ph.D.

Whether it’s from the diet industry, the gym, your trainer or from within yourself the pressure to eat and look a certain way can be really intense. We’re here to tell you that you don’t owe anyone your fitness. Not even to us.

In this episode we break down where this pressure comes from, the impact that COVID-19 has had on bodies and the history of where it all started.

References Made in This Podcast:

Rebel Eaters Club podcast

Christy Harrison

Food Psych podcast

Article: COVID-19 Does Not Discriminate by Body Weight

It’s been an entire year since the world was turned upside down by COVID-19. Among many changes that we’ve been through, a lot of us have also seen changes in our bodies with some added weight.

But…..what if that’s okay? Rebellious, we know.

Listen in as we start off season 2 of The PUSH Podcast by unpacking how our feelings about our bodies have shifted during the pandemic and how we can continue to fight back against diet culture.

References made in this episode:

Squats for Social Justice

Black Joy Oregon

Consequences of Chronic Dieting to Lose Weight: Effects on Physical and Mental Health

Role of Set-Point Theory in Regulation of Body Weight

Erin Brown

We were set to record on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. Hours before we were going to meet up news broke out that rioters stormed the Capitol in Washington, D.C. And we just couldn’t. We took a pause for a few days and then reconvened.

In this episode we talk about our reactions to the riot, how our hearts have been lately, our take on Cosmo’s most recent cover release and wether politics really do belong in fitness.

Resources discussed in this episode:

Three-year follow-up of participants in a commercial weight loss program. Can you keep it off?

“The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love” by Sonia Renee Taylor

References made in this episode:

Labor of Love: How Fitness Can Deliver an Empowered Birth

PUSH Fitness Community Facebook group

Our contact information: email: [email protected]/phone: (503) 383-1043

Study on the prevalence of diastsis recti

There are some commonly held beliefs about weight and fitness. Some of them, well, actually, most of them are pretty much diet culture propaganda B.S. In this episode we tell the real story of the hows and whys of our journey toward becoming personal trainers, what we’ve learned over the years and how we view our industry today.

The New Year is upon us, which means that we will soon be seeing a barrage of marketing from the diet industry selling their latest lose weight quick schemes.

Where did New Year’s resolutions come from? Are they a good thing? A bad thing? Should I make a New Year’s resolution this year?

In this episode we talk about:

Our own experiences with New Year’s resolution and diets

The history of New Year’s resolutions

The lies we’ve been told about diets and weight loss

Ways to move toward feeling better in your own skin

Pondering what would happen if Pepto Bismol had the reverse effect of its marketed intended purpose

Listen in and let us know what you think!

References made in this episode:

“The History of New Year’s Resolutions” by Sarah Pruitt via www.history.com

United States Weight & Loss Diet Control Market Report 2019

Ragen Chastain

International Journal of Eating Disorders

The Weight of the Evidence