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

Welcome to Episode 30, with Tracy DesjardinsTracy 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.Things we chat about:Her personal story of mindset and behaviors towards health and weightEmpowered vs disempowered language around diets and eatingHow to frame weight loss and diet as a matter of value propositionIs 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 downHow God can lead to all things good when we are at our lowestHow does Tracy navigate today’s glamorization of obesity?“Toxic Diet culture” vs responsibility and healthy discipline Should we shame fat people into fitness? If so, when should we do it?All this and more on Episode 30 of The Zakariya Frank ShowConnect With Tracy:https://www.theholisticdivas.comCheck out her free giveaways!https://www.theholisticdivas.com/freebieshttps://www.facebook.com/tldesjardinsEnjoy the show.DISCLAIMER:For entertainment purposes only.Nothing said in this podcast is intended to be taken as medical advice. When necessary, consult with an appropriate health professional regarding important health matters.Your health is your responsibility.Any action taken based on the thoughts and opinions voiced in this show is done at your own risk.Are you a health expert or enthusiast interested in being on the show?Email [email protected]: Music: Tensions Run High by Soundridemusic Link to Video: • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvUW0Po9Fcc&t=0s#healthpodcast #mentalhealthpodcast #diet #dietrplan #dietculture #dietfood #dieting #dietcoach #eating #eatingdisorder #eatingdisordersupport #eatingdisorderrecovery #eatingdisorderwareness #sugaraddict #sweets #bodycare #selfcare #selflove #selflovejourney #selflovepractices