How to Stop Self-Sabotaging Every Time You Make Progress

So you’re doing everything “right.” You’re eating better, moving your body, and feeling good — finally seeing some real progress. Then suddenly… you find yourself skipping workouts, eating junk food, and wondering what the hell happened. You want this so badly. If motivation alone could fix it, you’d be done by now. So why do you keep getting in your own way every time things start to click? It’s not because you’re lazy. It’s not because you lack discipline. It’s because something deeper is happening underneath the surface. In this episode of Fitness & Sushi, I’m breaking down the three real reasons you self-sabotage — and how to finally stop fighting yourself so you can make lasting progress that actually feels good. If you’ve ever wondered why you can’t seem to “stick with it,” this episode will help you make sense of it all — and show you how to start building habits that last. In this episode – “How to Stop Self-Sabotaging Every Time You Make Progress” – you’ll learn… 🔶 The 3 hidden reasons you keep derailing your progress (and how to spot them early) 🔶 Why your beliefs about yourself are secretly keeping you stuck 🔶 How unmet needs — physical, emotional, and spiritual — drive self-sabotage 🔶 The real reason focusing on results backfires every time 🔶 What to do instead to create consistency that feels peaceful, not punishing 🔶 How to stop fighting yourself and start building effortless momentum …and so 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 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🎟️ Join the Free 3-Day Diet Culture Rehab (October 13–15) Learn how to stop self-sabotaging, end your lifelong battle with food and your body, and finally experience peace and freedom. 👉 https://builtdaily.com/diet-culture-rehab/ __________________ When you’re ready, here are more ways we can help you… 1️⃣ 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 to read 100% free. 👉 https://idealbodyformula.com/book/ 2️⃣ Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group Get strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your food and body battles. 👉 https://www.facebook.com/groups/builtdaily/ 3️⃣ Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call We’ll help you identify what’s been keeping you stuck and create a personalized plan for healing your relationship with food and your body. 👉 https://builtdaily.com/call

So much of your food and body battle comes down to one thing: belief. The women who finally break free from diet culture aren’t the ones with more willpower — they’re the ones who learn to change the beliefs holding them back. In episode 260 of Fitness & Sushi, I’m going to show you why the beliefs you hold about yourself are the true drivers of your choices, and how to finally break free from the stories diet culture has planted in your mind. In this episode – “How to Break Free From Limiting Beliefs About Food, Your Body, and Exercise” – you’ll learn… 🔶 Why diet culture taught you to believe “I’m lazy, undisciplined, and broken” – and why those stories feel so true 🔶 How your brain’s Reticular Activating System (RAS) filters life through your beliefs and creates self-fulfilling prophecies 🔶 The hidden cost of never challenging these stories — and how they keep you stuck in the yo-yo cycle 🔶 How to suspend a limiting belief and reframe it into something empowering 🔶 The core shifts that heal your relationship with food, exercise, and your body through the Ideal Body Formula™ …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 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ To listen just click on Apple Podcasts or Spotify below. Or go to your favorite podcast player and search for “Fitness & Sushi.” You can also download the episode by clicking the 3rd button down… Enjoy! 👉 Ready to change the stories you tell yourself for good? Join me for the Diet Culture Rehab 3 Day Challenge – October 13–15th and take your first steps toward food and body freedom: https://builtdaily.com/diet-culture-rehab/ When you’re ready, here are more ways we can help you… Join the Diet Culture Rehab 3 Day Challenge – October 13–15th Take your first steps toward food and body freedom: https://builtdaily.com/diet-culture-rehab/ Read Tony’s Book for Free His book The Ideal Body Formula is available for you to read 100% free: https://idealbodyformula.com/book/ Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group Get strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles: https://www.facebook.com/groups/builtdaily/ Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call A free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your unique Ideal Body: https://builtdaily.com/call

So you’ve tried to diet your way to control, but instead, you end up feeling more out of control than ever. Why is that? It’s not just about willpower or “falling off track.” Dieting actually dysregulates your entire system — your hunger cues, your emotions, your hormones, even your nervous system. The very rules you’re following are what cause you to swing back and forth on the pendulum: restrict, rebel, repeat. In episode 257 of Fitness & Sushi, we’ll show you why dieting keeps you stuck in chaos, and how to finally break free by learning to stay regulated instead. In this episode — “How Dieting Dysregulates Your Body and Mind (And What to Do Instead)” — you’ll learn… 🔶 What “dysregulation” really means and how it shows up in your nervous system, emotions, and hunger signals 🔶 The hormonal chain reaction that dieting sets off (leptin, cortisol, and why your body craves sugar and carbs) 🔶 How pushing harder in workouts leads to burnout and keeps you stuck in the pendulum swing 🔶 Why a scarcity mindset around food guarantees rebellion, overeating, and loss of control 🔶 The exact pillars that keep you physically, emotionally, and psychologically regulated — Permission, Intention, and Enjoyment 🔶 Why my pendulum metaphor may make you want to clean your ceiling fan 🤦🏻‍♀️ …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… 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 to read 100% free. Click here to read it. Or grab the paperback or Kindle version on Amazon. Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness battles. Click here to join. 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 episode 297 of Fitness & Sushi, I sit down with my Gen Z daughters for an honest conversation about what it’s like to grow up surrounded by diet culture — and how they’re learning to navigate it in today’s world. From almond moms to social media pressures, you’ll hear their perspective on what diet culture looks like for their generation, their memories of watching me trapped in it (and then breaking free), and what moms and grandmas can do to protect the next generation. In this episode — “Gen Z, Almond Moms & Diet Culture: A Daughter-Mom Talk on Body, Food & Freedom” — you’ll learn… 🔶 How Gen Z is experiencing and navigating the pressures of diet culture today 🔶 What it was like growing up with a mom breaking free from dieting while raising daughters in a diet culture world 🔶 What moms and grandmas can do to protect the next generation from food and body struggles 🔶 Why the “almond mom” stereotype hits so hard for Gen Z — and what they really think about it 🔶 The story of my daughter getting sick at an all-inclusive resort when we gave her full food freedom…and the Turbo Jam memory that still makes us laugh …and so 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… 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. 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. 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, I’m exposing the hidden price you’ve been paying for decades of dieting — costs you may never have connected to diet culture until now. From the money wasted to the opportunities missed, the bill adds up in ways that will blow your mind.   In this episode – “The Hidden Costs of Diet Culture (And How to Stop Paying Them)” – you’ll learn…   🔶 The 5 biggest costs of diet culture that most women never think about 🔶 How much dieting has likely drained from your wallet, health, and career over a lifetime 🔶 Why it’s never “too late” to change, even if you feel you’ve already lost so much 🔶 What your future looks like if you don’t change vs. if you finally break free 🔶 How the Ideal Body Formula helps you mitigate future losses and reclaim your life   …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… 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. 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. 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.

Menopause is finally front and center — and that’s a good thing. But as Time recently highlighted, much of the conversation is still steeped in diet culture. Weight loss is being pushed as the solution, even when it comes at the expense of women’s mental health and well-being. In this episode — “Menopause, Diet Culture, and the Weight Loss Trap: What No One’s Talking About” — you’ll learn: Why diet-focused menopause programs often backfire How disordered eating is resurging in midlife women Why weight loss itself isn’t the problem — but the mindset behind it can be The steps to heal your food and body relationship before pursuing physical goals What real, supportive solutions look like during this stage of life If you’ve been feeling lost in the noise of menopause diet culture, you’re not alone. This is your invitation to heal first, so the rest becomes possible. Time article: https://time.com/7297712/menopause-diet-culture-eating-disorders-essay/ ——— When you’re ready, here are more ways we can help you… 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 purchase in paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon. 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. 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: builtdaily.com/call/

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/ —— When you’re ready, here are more ways we can help you… 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. 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. 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. __________________________________________________ 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.