Ep. 296 - An Evidence-Based Look at Body Image and Self-Worth

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

There is a great deal of fitness content about strategically modifying your diet or changing your physique. Many of these strategies may appear to be simple on paper, but they are inseparable from the complexity of human perception and emotion. Whether we like it or not, diet or physique manipulation inherently interact with concepts relating to one’s confidence, body image, self-esteem, and relationship with food. Further, many fitness coaches and clients mistakenly believe that poor body image or self-esteem are improved by simply changing one’s body. A growing area of interest in the fitness space aims to directly address and improve these outcomes by focusing on beliefs and behaviors in the absence of physique manipulation. In this crossover episode with Sigma Nutrition Radio and the Sports Nutrition Association, Eric Trexler and Danny Lennon are joined by Dr. Gabrielle Fundaro to take an evidence-based and practical look at the ways diet or physique modifications interact with confidence, body image, and self-worth.

00:00 Welcome to another crossover episode (passively) dominated by Iron Culture

02:09 Defining body image and self-esteem

07:49 Relationship with food and weight stigma

21:22 Are your behaviours and beliefs really sustainable?

32:13 Different approaches to safe weight modification

39:19 Screening for risk factors and contraindications

47:20 Scope of practice and individuals who fall into the gaps

53:20 Interventions and approaches for improving body image

58:28 Closing out with some links

Sports Nutrition Association https://sportsnutritionassociation.com/

Sigma Nutrition https://sigmanutrition.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to everyone listening to this special episode of what will be a series of conversations
0:04.9	that we'll be having with various members of the scientific advisory board for the Sports
0:10.0	Nutrition Association of which both I and my fellow co-host today, Dr. Eric Trexler,
0:18.6	are members. So first, Eric, hello. Hello, pleasure to be here,
0:24.6	and I do want to get out in front of a controversy here. I know a lot of Iron Culture listeners
0:29.1	are going to be perhaps a little perturbed about the apparent handover of power for this episode,
0:37.3	with Danny kind of leading the show. And I just want to
0:40.0	reiterate that it takes a lot of power and strength to hand over the reins and let someone else
0:45.2	take the spotlight. So this is one of those situations where Iron Culture is dominating this episode
0:51.4	in a very passive way. So I just wanted to get out ahead of that.
0:54.9	Absolutely. I mean, it's the best way to show a sign of self-assurance, right?
0:59.2	Absolutely. Yeah, I'm comfortable handing it over. Yeah. Whereas I'm very not self-reassured and
1:05.9	have to use this display of power to try and feign some degree of expertise given that I'm the only one
1:14.2	here without a doctorate, so I'm already at a disadvantage.
1:18.3	Some would call it sad. I wouldn't. I'm not saying it sad or pathetic, but some would.
1:24.9	No, well, I think it's not, you don't even need to say it.
1:27.8	It's quite implied, I think, and I'm sure our listeners are going to be very aware of
1:31.8	the gap in the intellect between the three of us today, and I will show my stupidity at several
1:39.3	points.
1:40.2	But let me try and try to smooth over that for now, let it introduce our amazing guest today, Dr. Gabriel Fondaro, who is also a member of the advisory board at Sports Nutrition Association, has appeared on both our podcasts previously.
1:58.0	And so now we have this crossover episode where we have the pleasure
2:02.0	of talking to her again. So Gab, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for talking to us. Oh,
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