Should I set weight loss goals? With Michelle Theodosi
Learn about shifting your mindset around weight management to create sustainable health goals. In this episode, Mark speaks with Sports Dietitian Michelle Theodosi about the flawed – and potentially damaging – messages coming from the diet industry. Michelle shares her expertise around nutrition, health, lifestyle and wellbeing and encourages everyone to examine their ‘why’ to shift from a ‘diet mindset’ to a ‘health mindset’ for better, more achievable and more sustainable long-term health outcomes.
Our favourite quotable moments:
“Setting a goal around weight is really setting ourselves up for failure.” – Michelle Theodosi (3:21)
“When we’re in a diet mindset, it completely removes our ability to tune in intuitively to things like our hunger and fullness cues, so a diet mindset is very often associated with restrict and binge cycles.” – Michelle Theodosi (12:11)
“We have a lot of research around this - 95% of all diets will lead to weight regain, but the diet industry is a multi-billion-dollar industry, so we don’t hear this messaging often.” – Michelle Theodosi (13:49)
Resources:
The Lifestyle Dietitian Website
Instagram @thelifestyledietitian_au
Sister Instagram @thelifestyledietitian_kids
About [Guest]:
Michelle Theodosi is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and Sports Dietitian specialising in health behaviour change, eating disorders and nutritional psychiatry. Michelle works with clients one-on-one from her private practice in Sydney and online. Michelle is also the founder and face behind ‘The Lifestyle Dietitian’, a popular Instagram dedicated to promoting confidence and empowerment around forming healthy habits without restriction whilst maintaining a positive mindset around food and body. When she is not talking about food, she can be found cooking food, eating food or feeding food to her french bulldog, who frequently features on her Instagram.
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