Wednesday May 15, 2024

Un-diet yourself: break free of guilt & restrictions w/ Amanda Thebe | TTOM S2E09

On this episode 9 of TTOM Season 2, I sit down once again with Amanda Thebe. This time we talk about repairing our relationship with food. Amanda goes deeper on what to eat and how to eat, especially focusing on behaviour change and how to enjoy food.

Amanda is Amazon Best-Selling Author and Canada's First Menopause Workplace Educator. She is also a fitness and women’s health expert with nearly thirty years of experience in the fitness industry, she is the author of the Amazon best-selling book, Menopocalypse: How I Learned to Thrive During Menopause and How You Can Too!

She is the co-founder and Chief Wellness and Branding Officer at Nyah Health, a complete healthcare solution for menopausal women in Canada. She provides on-site or virtual educational presentations in the workplace to improve productivity, retention and attendance for female employees through menopause.

Amanda is a popular guest on podcasts, radio, tv and online summits, and her health and fitness tips have been featured in media outlets like Oprah, Shape, Prevention, Health Line, CBC Radio, Global News Canada, The Doctors, and many more. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro: Eating food in front of tele?

2:20 Diet culture: They make money by instilling fear

3:33 You should get rid of restrictive ideas around food

5:25 Misleading celeb culture: Being thin & perfect

6:03 Myths: All carbs are bad?

11:51 Role of protein need in midlife

16:16 I'll ask my daughter to watch this segment

16:38 What types of supplement can help?

18:29 Two supplements I take...

22:06 Three big takeaways when it comes to eating

24:55 Sh!t I like: minute rice review