Ep. 30 - Diet Culture & Mindset with Tracy Desjardins

Jul 25

Written By Zakariya Frank

Breaking Free From Toxic Diet Culture: Exploring A Healthy Mindset Towards Weight

Welcome to Episode 30, with Tracy Desjardins

Tracy helps women find solutions for chronic dieting, emotional and stress eating, their sugar addictions and their body image challenges. She's a national board certified health and wellness coach, a mind and body eating coach, a fitness professional, and the international bestselling author of The Diet-Free Diva.

She specializes is in helping women find solutions for unwanted eating concerns such as restrictive dieting for weight loss, binge eating, sugar addictions, and emotional eating challenges. In her book, she shares her own powerful story growing up as an overweight child and offers her readers a five step plan for breaking free from the toxicity of diet culture. She outlines a trifecta of mind body spirit healing that helps women achieve peace and freedom with food, body and self on their own trusted and sustainable terms.

Topics Covered:

Her personal story of mindset and behaviors towards health and weight

Empowered vs disempowered language around diets and eating

How to frame weight loss and diet as a matter of value proposition

Is it the responsibility of corporations to sell healthy food? Or is it a matter of personal responsibility only?

Should we set numeric goals for weight?

Is "diet-culture" healthy or toxic?

Is sugar addiction a real thing? Is it an emotional addiction or a physical addiction?

Are health influencers a positive or negative thing for the world?

The role of God in maintaining and setting goals and building ourselves up when we feel down

How God can lead to all things good when we are at our lowest

How does Tracy navigate today’s glamorization of obesity?