Fitness & Sushi

🟡 There's a lot of fear surrounding permission-based eating and allowing yourself to eat anything you want, at any time, in any quantity. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ People think that with that kind of unrestricted permission that they'll go completely off the rails and eat junk food 24/7. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But fear isn't reality, and permission isn't the same thing as action. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Permission is the mindset that crea...

We all struggle with perfectionism, and it keeps us stuck and frustrated on our ideal body journey. In today's solo episode, Tony breaks down the ways it manifests in your eating, exercise, and body image, and shows you how to overcome it so that you start taking more effective action in your life. If the episode was helpful, consider leaving a 5 star rating and review. You can connect with Tony o...

🟡 Both Diet Culture and Body Positivity have their extremes. Don't get me wrong… a lot of good has come out of both communities, such as nutritional awareness and fitness communities from Diet Culture, and body acceptance and self-care from the Body Positivity movement. But unfortunately, both can take their philosophies too far - pushing open-minded people away, and keeping them from finding a h...

In this episode you'll learn... 🔶 Why food and dieting tend to be distractions from other issues in your life 🔶 How to know if you're meeting a need or creating a distraction from it 🔶 The common needs we attempt to meet with food but shouldn't 🔶 How to know if your coping strategy is creating a secondary problem 🔶 What to do once you've discovered the need you've meeting ineffectively 🔶 Why...

🟡 The key to being consistent with exercise for life is to understand that it isn't the exercise itself you enjoy - it's just the vehicle for creating an atmosphere or state that brings you joy. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you don't enjoy the means you won't experience the ends. In other words, if you can't find the satisfaction in the activity itself, you will never stay engaged with it long enough to see the...

🟡 How many times have you avoided life experiences, or they have been made worse, because you've been afraid of having your body judged? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It happens to all of us. Unexpected weight gain and body insecurities create a general feeling of unease when it comes to seeing people - especially people we haven't seen in a while. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Sometimes it goes as far as panic and avoiding life. Other...

🟡 Your behaviors are a side effect of your beliefs. So if you aren't acting in a way that is creating positive change in your life, there's a limiting belief you need to overcome. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Your beliefs are like your life's operating system. This operating system can either operate the commands you give it, or it can be full of bugs, aka limiting beliefs, that create self-sabotage and negative ou...

Click here to Join Built Daily Elite ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🟡 Despite the fact we encourage people to learn how to eat without counting calories, we are NOT anti calorie tracking. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The problem is calorie tracking and food logging keep people anchored to a past dieting mindset. And it makes it very difficult to uncover the underlying struggles with your relationship with food when these tools are mask...

🟡 Choose your behaviors based on what will make you feel your best instead of what you think will make you look your best. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Your goal is to work towards improving your mental, emotional, and physical health without falling back into common dieting traps. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ That doesn't mean you're giving up on your physical appearance. Just the opposite, actually. By choosing to approach your beh...

🟡 Weight loss doesn't have to be a taboo topic for those of us who reject diet culture and support body positivity. When approached the right way, weight loss becomes a natural side effect of improved relationships with food, body, exercise, and mind. The problem is many people see weight loss as their savior - believing it will solve their negative body image, emotional eating, motivation strugg...

🟡 It's not unusual to overshoot food freedom. In fact, it's usually a required part of the process for getting there. I've watched so many people try to get out of the food prison they're in and get to a place of food freedom. And it's been interesting to watch a pattern take place. Think of your food freedom journey like a pendulum. On one side you have food prison, and on the other side you hav...

🟡 Hating your body never changes it in the long term. In fact, body hate is one of the single greatest obstacles to transformation. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I hated my body for more than a decade. The only thing that accomplished was sporadic periods of leanness shrouded in body insecurity and a small life experience. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It wasn't until I made the conscious choice to start accepting my body and moving aw...

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ The common causes behind wanting to give up ✅ Why you've likely been approaching motivation the wrong way ✅ The essential mindset shifts you need for a lifetime of motivation ✅ How to redefine what motivation really is and what it feels like ✅ The big problem with most goal setting ✅ Why Tony thought Deanna was being passive aggressive   To work with Tony or...

🟡 There's more to permission-based eating than just saying yes to all the foods you want to eat. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I see it all the time. People give themselves permission to eat foods they've placed off limits, so they go to the store and buy the food, but then they end up eating way more of it than they wanted. So they quickly write off the idea of practicing moderation and go back to placing these foo...

🟡 What you see in the mirror is way less important than who you see looking back. Focusing on what you see in the mirror keeps you stuck defining your self-worth externally as the sum of your body parts. Focusing on who you see in the mirror shifts your self-worth internally and allows you to see yourself as a whole human being. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Obsessing over our "flaws" keeps us living a small life -...

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ Why you're unknowingly using fitness to solve bigger issues in your life ✅ How the Ideal Body Formula™ allows you to live your full life experience ✅ A new perspective that will give purpose and motivation to your journey ✅ How to know if you're in a toxic relationship with your body ✅ Why overcoming your body and self-image struggles makes it easier to solve...

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ What the no excuses trap is and isn't ✅ The difference between making excuses and knowing when to rest ✅ How to stop letting other people's no excuse mentality influence what's best for you ✅ The difference between a reason and an excuse ✅ How the all-or-nothing mindset fits into the no excuses mentality ✅ Why Tony told Deanna to stop making excuses   To wor...

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ The reason why exercise feels so forced ✅ How to start looking forward to physical activity ✅ The process to follow when you're unmotivated to work out ✅ About the exercise selection pyramid ✅ How to start thinking outside the stereotypical exercise box ✅ How Deanna stopped Tony from should-ing all over himself   To work with Tony or Deanna go to -  https://...

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ What happens when you think in black and white ✅ Common ways that all-or-nothing thinking shows up in your journey ✅ Strategies for overcoming this limiting mindset ✅ About the antidote to perfectionism ✅ Why perfectionism kills your momentum ✅ Why Deanna kept making eyebrows at Tony   To work with Tony or Deanna go to -  https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony o...

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ What you can expect as you heal your relationship with food ✅ Why weight gain might be a necessary part of the process ✅ How to navigate the emotional ups and downs ✅ How to address your weight gain fears ✅ Why you can't have food freedom without also addressing your body image ✅ Why Tony and Deanna are apologetic over "exacerbate"   To work with Tony or Dea...

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ Why you might be overeating in the first place ✅ Why the common way of handling it makes things worse ✅ How to navigate the times when you overeat ✅ How to be proactive about overeating instead of reactive ✅ Why not all overeating is bad ✅ Why Deanna and Tony are CEOs of wordsmithing   To work with Tony or Deanna go to -  https://builtdaily.com Follow Tony o...

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ How to determine if emotional eating is the real issue ✅ Why we turn to food when we're not hungry ✅ The process for navigating through an emotional eating episode ✅ Why telling someone to just do something else is ineffective ✅ If it's ever OK to eat for emotional reasons ✅ Why Tony pushed Deanna off the stool   To work with Tony or Deanna go to -  https://...

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ Why you should consider giving up the scale ✅ Why we have such a hard time giving it up ✅ The more effective progress markers to focus on ✅ What you'll likely experience as you go through the process of giving it up ✅ Why weighing yourself typically leads you engage in unwanted behaviors ✅ Why Tony advises to smash the scale over the head of someone you love...

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ How to get to a place of "I don't want" instead of "I can't have" ✅ What permission-based eating is ✅ Why having permission to eat anything doesn't mean you'll eat everything ✅ Why you can't force mindful eating ✅ What happens when you eat fun foods without unconditional permission ✅ Why Tony is so proud of his discovery that you can put cauliflower in a smo...

In this episode you'll learn... ✅ The difference between acceptance and giving up ✅ Why acceptance is a requirement for transformation ✅ The process for achieving body acceptance ✅ What happens when you don't accept yourself unconditionally ✅ Why acceptance isn't about your future self ✅ Why Tony has an ultimate goal of naked jumping jacks in public   To work with Tony or Deanna go to -  htt...