#78: Over-Exercising, Orthorexia, and the Mental Toll of Restriction

The Full Plate Podcast with Abbie Attwood, MS

We're back with another episode in our Untold Stories series. That's what these client interviews feel like -- stories from "normal" folks (AKA: not celebrities, influencers, or "experts") who have been there, and who are still in the thick of it. We're all navigating the messiness of our healing, and bringing folks on this podcast who I know will make you feel seen and heard is so important to me. My client, Amy, joins the pod today. Amy's awesome, so don't miss this! We go from Weight Watchers to Paleo in this episode, and cover all the ways dieting and over-exercising wreak havoc on our health.

Topics covered include...

• The Food Network and disordered eating
• How clothing shopping triggered Amy's first diet
• Going to Weight Watchers as a child with her mother
• ROTC in college and her entry-point into obsessive exercising
• Diving into Paleo and Keto for "health" and "athletic performance"
• The mental toll of dieting
• Realizing dieting doesn't "work"
• How the pandemic was the spark she needed to divest from diet culture
• Rediscovering joyful movement
• Receiving a Diabetes diagnosis while transitioning away from dieting
• Navigating medical weight stigma and speaking up at the doctor's office
• Body neutrality versus body positivity

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Podcast Editing by Brian Walters

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