AP 678: Why You Don’t Need to Diet This Spring || Wise Women Series with Dr. Supatra Tovar

About Progress

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode from the Wise Women Series, I interview Dr. Supatra Tovar, a licensed clinical psychologist, registered dietician, and fitness expert. Together, we dive deep into the harmful effects of diet culture and explore how dieting can negatively impact both physical and mental health. Dr. Tovar offers practical advice on shifting focus from dieting to nurturing a healthy relationship with food and body, emphasizing the importance of mindful and intuitive eating. We discuss societal pressures, the psychological impact of dieting, and strategies to cultivate a more empowering approach to nutrition. Tune in to learn how to deprogram diet culture and embrace a healthier, more balanced lifestyle. Episode for companion listening: https://www.aboutprogress.com/blog/how-to-live-boldly-in-the-body-you-have Sign up as a Supporter to get access to our private, premium, ad-free podcast, More Personal. Episodes air each Friday! Leave a rating and review Follow About Progress on YOUTUBE! Book Launch Committee Free DSL Training Full Show Notes This episode is brought to you by goPure Beauty, get 25% off @goPure with code PROGRESS at https://www.goPurebeauty.com/PROGRESS #goPurepod; and by AirDoctor, use code MONICA at http://airdoctorpro.com/ for up to $300 off air purifiers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Monica Packer and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about
0:09.7	progress made practical. With spring approaching, my to-do list rises. Clean out the mudroom,
0:18.8	figure out who need summer shoes and new swimsuits, put away the winter coats, prune the plants, clean out the mud room, figure out who needs summer shoes and new swimsuits, put away the winter coats,
0:22.8	prune the plants, clean out the garage, prep the garden, deep clean my home. The list gets real
0:28.9	overwhelming real quick. And alongside it all comes this sneaky sort of pressure. The pressure to look,
0:36.7	quote unquote, better for the upcoming swimsuit season.
0:41.0	It's almost biological how the pressure rises within me each spring, but also it doesn't
0:46.5	take long to look at my environment to see it's a pressure shared amongst us as women, even a
0:52.8	pressure that is sold to us. If you two are getting more
0:56.4	ads about weight loss, about dieting, about fitting into your cute swimsuit, I wanted to share
1:01.7	this interview I did with Dr. Supatra Tovar for my Wise Women series, where I interview women
1:07.5	who have specialized passions to share with you.
1:15.3	Today, Dr. Tovar wants you to know that not only do you not need to diet this spring,
1:20.5	but in the long run, how dieting actually harms your help far more than it helps.
1:26.1	This episode does offer an alternative because we do want to be healthy.
1:29.5	We do want to live long lives. For some of us,
1:35.3	that does entail acknowledging that we need to shift things from our habits to our relationships with our body and with our food. A few weeks ago, I aired an episode with Meg Hadley on making
1:41.2	peace with our bodies. Today, as a companion piece of sorts,
1:45.5	Dr. Supatra Tovar is going to help you make more peace with food. Not so you can lean into your
1:51.0	hedonistic desires of neglecting your body and your health like so many assume you will if you
1:55.4	don't diet, but so that you can do the opposite of that. Honor your body, take care of it, and in ways that
2:02.8	will help you live a long, healthy life, no dieting required. Dr. Supatra Tovar is one of the few
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