039 ⎮ Anti-Diet, OCD, and Body Positive Fitness with Emily Decker

Do you have a disordered relationship with exercise?

Is it difficult to enjoy moving your body without constantly thinking about how your body's aesthetics may change?

Is it hard for you to separate nutrition and food from moving your body and fitness?

Do you wonder if you'll EVER enjoy fitness again?

Well, this week, I talk with personal trainer and anti-diet-culture CrossFit coach, Emily Decker. Emily is also a mental health advocate working to increase the body-friendliness of the fitness industry. She is creator of her 6-week private training program called BFF (Body-Friendly Fitness) that empowers people who have struggled with “yo-yo exercising” to find enjoyable and sustainable workout habits by working WITH their bodies, not FOR different ones.

In this interview, we discuss:

• How her mental health journey has influenced her journey with food and fitness
• How to separate restrictive mindset around food and exercise
• Diet mentality thoughts that arise within the fitness industry
• How mirrors affect different workouts and exercise routines
• The difference between "earning your calories" vs. "embodied exercise"
• What "yo yo exercising" is
• and so much more!

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CONNECT WITH EMILY:

Instagram: @emilydeckerfitness

Extended Interview of Emily: Meet Emily Decker

CONNECT WITH DR. REINOLD:

Show Notes: www.stefanireinoldmd.com/039

Instagram: @stefanireinoldmd

Resources:

The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

Powerful Quotes:

• "Movement of any kind is great. We don't need to burn off and earn our calories." - Emily Decker
• "The biggest harm of the fitness industry is that the kind of movement that you do is the direct cause of what you look like, because we know that's not true." - Dr. Reinold
• "The whole basis that there is an ideal body type is damaging." - Emily Decker

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