Episode 26. The 10,000 Steps a Day Recommendation: Truth or Myth?

01/30/24 • 27 min

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It seems like common knowledge that we're supposed to get 10,000 steps per day to maintain good health—but where did this recommendation come from? You might be surprised!
Let's chat about if 10,000 steps per day is actually beneficial to our health, how to include more movement in your day if you struggle, and how to adjust our mindset and expectations about exercise and movement.

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Episode 27. Breaking Up With Dieting Part I

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Let's chat more about Intuitive Eating! Intuitive Eating has ten main principles and we've broken them up into 3 phases:

Breaking Up With Dieting
Getting to Know Your Body
Making Up With Your Body

In Breaking Up With Dieting Part I we're talking about the first principle of IE—Rejecting the Diet Mentality. We'll discuss the difference between diet mindset thoughts and non-diet mindset thoughts, the many costs of dieting, and tools for breaking free from the diet mentality.
Other episodes mentioned:
Episode 3. Did You Know? Dieting Causes Weight Gain
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Self-Care Cafe - Episode 26. The 10,000 Steps a Day Recommendation: Truth or Myth?

Transcript

hey it's Carrie and Ashley we welcome
you to the self-care Cafe we are both
health professionals and moms and nature
lovers and food lovers and love helping
women get over dieting and just start
living we think that talking about
bodies and perfect bodies and dieting is
just
boring did we put you to sleep there
Carrie yes so if you are ready to ditch
dieting and get to living and talk about
more important things then you are in
the right place we don't put s