The Hidden Costs of Diet Culture (And How to Stop Paying Them)

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.

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. — 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, 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 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ——— When you’re ready, here are more ways we can help you… 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. Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group Get deeper coaching and support inside the community. Click here to join. 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.