#389 - From Anaphylaxis to Antihistamine-Free: How Bethany Healed Her Body, Built a Lean Athletic Physique, and is now deadlifting double her body weight with Bethany Arbuckle

About this episode

Bethany Arbuckle shares her transformative journey from severe food allergies and reliance on antihistamines to achieving a lean athletic physique and overcoming her fear of food.

Bethany was a nurse doing a PhD, competing in triathlons every fortnight, surviving on 4–6 antihistamines a day, and terrified to eat a sweet potato. She thought she was doing everything right. She wasn't. And honestly? It's not her fault. No one teaches women this stuff. Bethany is 36, lives on an acreage in Australia, and has been in our programme for just over 13 months. In this episode she shares EVERYTHING and I mean everything. Here's what her life looked like before: 👉Three episodes of anaphylaxis in a single week at age 30 👉Eliminated nuts, eggs, dairy, gluten, soy basically anything she could think of 👉Low-carb dieting + excessive exercise (triathlon racing every fortnight — insane) 👉Weighing herself daily and letting a 0.2kg increase wreck her entire mood 👉Deep, genuine fear of food even normal things like sweet potato 👉4–6 antihistamines every single day just to avoid a reaction And here's where she is now: ✅ZERO antihistamines for the last 3 months ✅Eating 2,000+ calories a day with 260g of carbs ✅Deadlifting 115kg for 7 reps (double her body weight, she started at 60kg 👀) ✅Going for 120kg by end of the month ✅Reintroduced foods she hadn't eaten in over 5 years…

People in this episode

Host: Kitty Blomfield

Guest: Bethany Arbuckle

Topics covered

• anaphylaxis
• nutrition
• fitness
• weight loss
• mindset
• athletic performance

Keywords

• anaphylaxis
• antihistamines
• weight loss
• fitness
• nutrition
• mindset
• deadlifting

Mentioned in this episode

Products: antihistamines, dairy ice cream

Books & works: triathlons

Places: Australia

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