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So you're ready to end your lifetime eating battle — but lately it feels like there's a new rule around every corner.
And the latest one? Protein.

If you're a woman in perimenopause or menopause, chances are your feed is full of people telling you that protein is the secret to everything: balanced hormones, a faster metabolism, more muscle, better energy — even aging "gracefully."

At first, it sounds like helpful advice. But before long, you're tracking grams again, second-guessing every meal, and feeling guilty if you don't hit your "goal." What started as a focus on nourishment turns right back into food noise and fear.

In this episode, "We Need to Talk About Protein," Deanna breaks down why the modern protein obsession might be diet culture's latest disguise — and how to find peace between caring about your health and controlling it.

🔶 Why the "protein for women in midlife" movement can quietly reignite old diet-culture patterns
🔶 How even healthy-sounding nutrition advice can become another form of control
🔶 The difference between caring for your body and micromanaging it
🔶 How protein obsession brings back black-and-white thinking — good foods vs. bad foods
🔶 Why fear of aging and hormonal change makes women extra vulnerable to wellness marketing
🔶 How to tune back into your body's cues instead of external rules
🔶 What true food freedom looks like when nourishment comes from trust, not tracking

…and much more!

If you love this episode, be sure to subscribe to the show and leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review — it helps more women find Fitness & Sushi and start healing their relationship with food, their body, exercise, and mind.

✨ P.S. If food starts feeling louder as the holidays get closer… I've got something special coming soon to help you quiet it again.

Join me for my free workshop, How to Break the Cycle of Holiday Indulgence & January Regret — happening soon at builtdaily.com/holiday/.

Lately, it feels like everyone is talking about food noise.

Thanks to GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy, "food noise" has become the latest buzzword — and the newest thing people believe needs to be fixed with medication.

But here's the truth: most people don't have a medical disorder that causes food noise.
They have a body and mind that feel unsafe.

Food noise isn't a disease — it's a signal.
It's your body saying, "I don't trust you to feed me."

In this week's episode, Deanna breaks down what's really behind constant thoughts about food, why medicating symptoms doesn't fix the cause, and what it actually takes to quiet food noise naturally — no prescription required.

🔹 What "food noise" really means (and why it's not a medical condition for most people)
🔹 The two root causes of food noise: psychological scarcity and physical dysregulation
🔹 Why dieting and restriction trigger your brain's famine alarm
🔹 The problem with medicating symptoms instead of addressing the cause
🔹 How to restore body trust so your hunger signals naturally quiet down
🔹 The 5 key steps to regulate your system and finally feel at peace with food

…and much more.

If you're tired of the constant food chatter and want to finally feel peaceful and in control again — without relying on medication — this is exactly what we help you do inside my coaching program.

👉 Book your free breakthrough call here: https://builtdaily.com/call

Menopause is finally front and center — and that's a good thing. But as Time recently highlighted, much of the conversation is still steeped in diet culture. Weight loss is being pushed as the solution, even when it comes at the expense of women's mental health and well-being.

In this episode — "Menopause, Diet Culture, and the Weight Loss Trap: What No One's Talking About" — you'll learn:

• Why diet-focused menopause programs often backfire

• How disordered eating is resurging in midlife women

• Why weight loss itself isn't the problem — but the mindset behind it can be

• The steps to heal your food and body relationship before pursuing physical goals

• What real, supportive solutions look like during this stage of life

If you've been feeling lost in the noise of menopause diet culture, you're not alone. This is your invitation to heal first, so the rest becomes possible.

Time article: https://time.com/7297712/menopause-diet-culture-eating-disorders-essay/

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When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1. Read Tony's Book for Free
   His book The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it, or purchase in paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon.

2. Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group
   Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3. Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call
   This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here: builtdaily.com/call/

🟡 In this episode - "How to Spot a Diet In Disguise", you'll learn...

• The truth behind "not-a-diet" marketing tactics and why most are still diets in disguise
• How to spot the red flags that scream 'diet' so you don't get sucked in
• Why you should take everything you see with a grain of salt
• How to put on your reality goggles and see the whole picture
• Why popularity of a diet isn't an indicator of your success with it
• Why Deanna sounded like Jeff Foxworthy

…and much more!

So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe to the show and give it a 5 star rating and review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1) Read Tony's Book for Free

His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it.

2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group

Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call

This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.

In today's solo episode, Deanna coaches client Shannon through the mindset of approaching weight loss to improve her quality of life. You will learn:

• Why the more you focus on weight loss, the more difficult it is to actually lose weight permanently
• How to stay in permission with food while making the necessary changes for losing weight
• How to experiment with changes without feeling triggered over dieting
• How to get through the ebbs and flows of life without sabotaging yourself

…and much more!

So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe to the show and give it a 5 star rating and review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1) Read Tony's Book for Free

His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it.

2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group

Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call

This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.

🟡 In this episode - "How to Stop Viewing Yourself With a Critical Lens", you'll learn...

• Why relying solely on external motivation is often ineffective in the long term
• Why fear-based motivation keeps you stuck in the yo-yo diet cycle
• Why being kinder to yourself will lead to long-lasting positive changes in your life
• How to break free from the toxic habit of comparing yourself to others or past versions of yourself
• Why Tony wondered what happened to Deanna's saber-tooth tigers

…and much more!

So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe to the show and give it a 5 star rating and review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1) Read Tony's Book for Free

His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it.

2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group

Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call

This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How Allan had a health wake-up call in his 30's that changed his life
• How yo-yo diets failed Allan in his fitness journey
• The most common mindset blocks Allan identifies when it comes to health and fitness
• Why knowing what pace you need to take is critical to your success

Coach Allan is a National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Certified Personal Trainer, a Precision Nutrition Level II Master Coach, and a Functional Aging Institute (FAI) Certified Functional Aging Specialist. He went on to earn specialties in Fitness Nutrition, Corrective Exercise, Behavior Change, Performance Enhancement, and Online Personal Training.

Coach Allan is the creator of the thriving 40+ Fitness Community, and the host of the 40+ Fitness Podcast, the longest-running health and fitness podcast for people over 40.

He is also the author of the award-winning book, The Wellness Roadmap: a Straightforward Guide to Health and Fitness After 40.

When he's not working with clients (online and in-person), he helps his wife run Lula's Bed and Breakfast in Bocas del Toro, Panama.

Take the health blocker quiz: https://40plusfitness.com/quiz

Website: https://40plusfitness.com/

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When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1) Read Tony's Book for Free

His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it.

2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group

Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call

This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.

🟡 In this episode - "How to Give Up Dieting Without Giving Up On Yourself", you'll learn...

• How to build resilience to body comments and redefine your value systems
• How to handle compliments without internalizing external validation
• How to set boundaries with people who tease or criticize your body size 
• How to reframe comments to set you up for internal gratification
• Why Deanna has been talking to squirrels

…and much more!

So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe to the show and give it a 5 star rating and review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1) Read Tony's Book for Free

His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it.

2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group

Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call

This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.

🟡 In this episode - "How to Stop Fearing Carbs", you'll learn...

• The most common misconceptions about carbs coming from diet culture
• How fear of carbohydrates manifests in your behaviors and the binge restrict cycle
• The power of carbohydrates and how to incorporate them without fear
• How to handle circumstances when you truly need to limit carbs 
• Why Tony and Deanna can't agree on what's good or bad

…and much more!

So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe to the show and give it a 5 star rating and review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1) Read Tony's Book for Free

His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it.

2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group

Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call

This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.

🟡 In this episode - "How to Stop Thinking Like a Dieter", you'll learn...

• How to recognize and challenge the harmful cycle of all-or-nothing thinking that often accompanies dieting mentality
• The negative impact of rigid dietary rules and restrictions on your overall well-being and consistency
• The connection between guilt, shame, and dieting, and how they can hinder your journey towards a healthier lifestyle
• Why you've got to stop reacting to everything
• How being stranded in the middle of a cotton field was a bright spot of our vacation

…and much more!

So check the episode out. If you like it be sure to subscribe to the show and give it a 5 star rating and review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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When you're ready, here are more ways we can help you…

1) Read Tony's Book for Free

His new book - The Ideal Body Formula: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Achieve the NEW Ideal Body, is available for you to read 100% free. Click here to read it.

2) Join Our Free Built Daily Facebook Group

Get further strategies and inspiration to help you overcome your health and fitness struggles. Click here to join.

3) Schedule Your Free Breakthrough Call

This is a free call designed to help you overcome your struggles and get you on track to achieving your healthiest weight. Schedule your call here.