Fitness & Sushi

Menopause is finally front and center — and that's a good thing. But as Time recently highlighted, much of the conversation is still steeped in diet culture. Weight loss is being pushed as the solution, even when it comes at the expense of women's mental health and well-being. In this episode — "Menopause, Diet Culture, and the Weight Loss Trap: What No One's Talking About" — you'll learn: Why diet-focused menopause programs often backfire How disordered eating is resurging in midlife women Why weight loss itself isn't the problem — but the mindset behind it can be The steps to heal your food and body relationship before pursuing physical goals What real, supportive solutions look like during this stage of life If you've been feeling lost in the noise of menopause diet culture, you're not alone. This is your invitation to heal first, so the rest becomes possible. Time article: https://time.com/7297712/menopause-diet-culture-eating-disorders-essay/ ——— When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you… Read Tony's Book for Free His book The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it, or purchase in paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon. Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join. Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here: builtdaily.com/call/

In this episode of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna breaks down the why behind the Ideal Body Formula™—our proven approach to healing your relationship with food, your body, and your mind. Diet culture has taught you that willpower, restriction, and punishment are the only paths to success, but that's why you're stuck in the yo-yo cycle. We'll show you why the Ideal Body Formula works when nothing else has, and how it creates lasting change without diets, guilt, or obsession. You'll learn: 🔶 The core reason traditional dieting keeps you trapped (and how to finally break free) 🔶 How focusing on food, body, exercise, and mind in harmony changes everything 🔶 Why separating body care from body image is the key to consistency and confidence 🔶 How healing—not hustling—leads to your healthiest self 🔶 The one mistake you're making that keeps you from feeling in control around food …and much more! Ready to stop dieting and start healing? Press play now. When you're ready for the next step, book your free breakthrough call at builtdaily.com/call. __________________________________________________ When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you… Read Tony's Book for Free The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body is available 100% free. Click here to read it. Join Our Free Facebook Group Get strategies and support to heal your relationship with food and your body. Click here to join. Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call A powerful 1-on-1 call designed to help you end food and body obsession for good. Book your call here.

This episode is part of Body Relationship Month — our special July series revisiting some of our most-loved episodes to help you heal your relationship with your body. One of the most common questions we hear is: Can I want to lose weight and still heal my relationship with food and my body? It's a nuanced and deeply personal question — one that many women in midlife wrestle with after years (or decades) of dieting, body shame, and conflicting messages about health. If you're trying to balance weight loss goals with a genuine desire for body acceptance and food freedom, this episode is for you. In this episode — "Can Weight Loss and Healing Your Relationships with Food and Body Coexist?" — you'll learn: 🔶 Why the traditional diet mindset can undermine your efforts to heal 🔶 How to approach weight loss without falling back into harmful diet culture habits 🔶 How to identify when your weight loss goals are in conflict with your body acceptance journey 🔶 The psychological impact of trying to achieve both weight loss and healing 🔶 Why long-term health should be prioritized over quick fixes 🔶 Why Deanna said that Tony will never look like Superman …and much more! Ready to go deeper? Sign up for our free Body Relationship Month this July at builtdaily.com/body-relationship-month and get weekly trainings, tools, and support to start healing your relationship with your body for good. When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you… Read Tony's Book for Free The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body is available 100% free. Click here to read it. Join Our Free Facebook Group Get strategies and support to heal your relationship with food and your body. Click here to join. Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call A powerful 1-on-1 call designed to help you end food and body obsession for good. Book your call here.

This episode is part of Body Relationship Month — our special July series where we're revisiting some of our most-loved episodes to help you heal your relationship with your body. Many of us struggle to overcome society's message that you need to look a certain way to be valued. Adopting these messages (willingly or not) often creates debilitating battles with how we see our bodies. This negative body relationship can permeate nearly every aspect of life and diminish our entire experience. We end up living day after day with someone (ourselves) we don't accept, love, or appreciate unconditionally. And well… that sucks. But there are steps you can take to embrace your imperfections, accept yourself as-is, and still pursue your health and fitness goals. The result? Peace, freedom, and finally escaping a lifetime sentence in your food and body prison. In this episode — "Embracing Imperfection: How to Love Your Body at Every Stage" — you'll learn: 🔶 Why chasing perfection often leads us further from body acceptance 🔶 Strategies for resisting societal pressures and overcoming negative self-talk 🔶 What it really means to have a "good" body 🔶 How the media influences our body image 🔶 How embracing your imperfections can lead to a more empowering life experience 🔶 Why Tony was surprised to find out that Deanna has been trying to control him …and much more! Ready to go deeper? Sign up for our free Body Relationship Month this July at builtdaily.com/body-relationship-month/ and get weekly trainings, tools, and support to start healing your relationship with your body for good. When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you… Read Tony's Book for Free The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body is available 100% free. Click here to read it. Join Our Free Facebook Group Get strategies and support to heal your relationship with food and your body. Click here to join. Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call A powerful 1-on-1 call designed to help you end food and body obsession for good. Book your call here.

In this episode of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna redefines the "Ideal Body" — not as a goal weight or appearance, but as a reflection of your values, self-care, and life season. After navigating perimenopause, mental health changes, and body shifts, she shares why the Ideal Body is not something you chase — it's something you allow. In this episode, you'll learn: 🔶 Why the Ideal Body isn't about a weight or size — and never was 🔶 The question you're asking that keeps you trapped in diet culture 🔶 How your Ideal Body evolves through life, and why that's not a problem 🔶 What your body is trying to tell you (if you'd just listen) 🔶 The better question to ask when you're tempted to "get back on track" …and more truths diet culture never wanted you to know. If you've ever looked in the mirror and wondered what happened to the "old you," this episode will bring clarity and compassion. 🎧 Listen now. If it resonates, subscribe and leave a 5-star review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ——— When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you… Read Tony's Book for Free His book The Ideal Body Formula is available 100% free. Click here to read it, or get the paperback/Kindle version on Amazon. Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group Get deeper coaching and support inside the community. Click here to join. Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call If you're ready to feel at peace in your body, book a free call at https://builtdaily.com/call/. We'll figure out what your Ideal Body really looks like.

In this powerful episode of Fitness & Sushi, Deanna walks you through a vivid journey — your past, your present, and the two futures ahead of you. One where nothing changes… and one where you finally break free. This is for the woman who keeps telling herself she'll "figure it out later." Because the truth is — waiting has a cost. If you've been stuck in a cycle of dieting, shame, and starting over every Monday, this episode is your wake-up call — and your invitation to choose differently. In this episode, you'll learn: 🔶 How chronic dieting shapes your past, steals your present, and sabotages your future 🔶 What's really at risk when you keep putting off healing your relationship with food and your body 🔶 The quiet damage you're doing to your metabolism, hormones, and mental health — without realizing it 🔶 A glimpse at who you could become if you finally chose peace, nourishment, and self-trust 🔶 Why "starting later" might be the most dangerous decision of all …and a haunting (but hopeful) message from your future self. If this resonates, don't wait. Sign up now for Deanna's free training — 5 Simple Shifts to End the Food and Body Battle 👉 builtdaily.com/shifts — When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you… Read Tony's Book for Free The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body is available 100% free. Click here to read it. Join Our Free Facebook Group Get strategies and support to heal your relationship with food and your body. Click here to join. Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call A powerful 1-on-1 call designed to help you end food and body obsession for good. Book your call here.

In this fiery and emotional episode, Deanna exposes the real midlife crisis — the moment you realize your life has been shaped by lies about food, weight, and worth. If you were raised on diet culture slogans like "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels," this is your wake-up call to heal. In this episode — "The Real Midlife Crisis: Healing After Decades in Diet Culture" — you'll learn: 🔶 The grief no one warns you about when your body ages and you realize everything you were taught was a lie 🔶 How diet culture shaped an entire generation of women to believe their worth was in their weight 🔶 Why your body is not the problem — and never was 🔶 The identity crisis of midlife (and why it's actually the beginning of your liberation) 🔶 The woman who wore a swimsuit after 20 years — and what that says about freedom 🔶 Deanna goes full mama bear and calls BS on the culture that taught you to hate yourself This is the permission slip you've been waiting for. 👉 Book your free breakthrough call at builtdaily.com/call — let's start your healing together. When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you… 1) Read Tony's Book for Free His book The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body is available for you to read 100% free. Or, grab it in paperback or Kindle on Amazon. 2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join. 3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest life. Schedule your call here

In this raw and powerful episode, I open up about the hardest lesson I've learned as a mother — and how it changed the way I think about investing in support. When I tried to navigate my son's special education needs by myself, I lost six years of his growth and development. Not because I didn't care — but because I thought I had to do it all alone. I didn't even know advocates existed. By the time I realized how much help was available, I'd paid for it in time, stress, and missed opportunities. Just like so many women who come into my program, I had to grieve what could have been — and then make a bold decision to stop the cycle and invest in a better future. In this episode, you'll hear: 🔶 The emotional cost of "doing it yourself" — and what finally broke me 🔶 Why I spent money I didn't technically have to save my son's future 🔶 The grief that hits when you realize how much sooner things could have changed 🔶 How this same pattern plays out in women stuck in diet culture and body shame 🔶 A powerful mindset shift that could save the next 6 years of your life This one's for the woman who thinks she should be able to fix it all on her own — and needs to hear that it's safe and smart to ask for help. And when you're ready to change your life, book your free breakthrough call at builtdaily.com/call.