Ep 125 - Separating Weight and Wellness

<p>Today we are talking about wellness without the obsession.</p> <p>You can grab your free 33 page workbook to go with this episode at <a href='http://bit.ly/wwworkbook'>bit.ly/wwworkbook</a> </p> <p>This is the end goal of our work for the people that we work with. NOTE: This doesn’t mean we think that everyone needs this goal or should want this. This simply means this is our outlook and for anyone looking for a life that still has some attention to wellness but in an entirely new way with a new way of thinking - we can help!</p> <p>One vital part of attaining wellness without the obsession is separating weight and wellness.</p> <p>Why? Because if we still link health and weight in our minds it will be almost impossible to practice wellness while not focusing on weight which is a central pillar of wellness without the obsession.</p> <p> </p> <p>There are 3 key ways you can unlink weight and wellness:</p> <ol><li style="font-weight:400;">Learn the science and research behind weight and health.</li> </ol><p>Much of what we were taught is not based in science. For instance, BMI, which I’m sure we all know by now is not a reliable tool to determine health, is actually completely random. The numbers that tell us we are underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese were chosen at random. There is no scientific reason for a person to be called overweight when they hit “25” on the BMI, body mass index.  Not to mention the many other issues such as :</p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">BMI was not created by a medical professional and the mathematician who did create it said that it was not meant to calculate the health of individuals</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">The BMI was only created with white men as the subjects</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">BMI does not consider fat, muscle, bone density etc</li> </ul> <p>There are a lot of other studies that show that the assumptions we have societally that those in larger bodies don’t live as long as those in smaller bodies is not true! The