Weightless with Michelle Carroll – Details, episodes & analysis

Your body is your business card is one of the most contentious topics in the fitness industry, and thinking that your body is your business card is enough for fitness coaches to start working with me on their body image.

In today's episode, we touch on all the research, and discuss:

• Why coaches think their body is their business card
• Why that can be harmful
• What to do instead

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Research papers mentioned:

Hutson (2013) - your body is your business card

Boerner et al (2021) - PT physique & perceived competence and knowledge

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Work with me:

Online coaching

Disordered Eating Informed

Body Image & Nutrition Review

Instagram: @michellecarroll1

Performance ≠ health - but half the fitness industry isn't ready for that conversation.

While performance goals can have positive effects on body image and self-worth, they’re not always a guarantee of a healthy relationship with exercise or food.

Michelle explores how the fitness industry often conflates performance with health, masking disordered habits like overtraining, obsessive goal-chasing, and underfuelling.

Whether you're a coach, client or somewhere in between... you need this episode!

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WORK WITH ME:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠1:1 body image support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Learn how to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠transform your client's relationship with food⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Learn more about ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠body image research⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

CONNECT WITH ME:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@michellecarroll1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Join my ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠free email list.

If you want to change your body, you're going to need to change how you FEEL about it - and you can do that without tracking a single calorie.

Body image is one of the most misunderstood and underutilised ways in which you can transform your life and your relationship with food.

You might be a sceptic (I was once in your position, I get it) - but give me 15 minutes and I bet I can change your mind!

Join me on this audio series as I show you how to change your body image and relationship with food to help you ditch dieting and finally find peace in your body.

WORK WITH ME:

⁠⁠⁠1:1 body image support⁠⁠⁠

Learn how to ⁠⁠⁠transform your client's relationship with food⁠⁠⁠.

Learn more about ⁠⁠⁠body image research⁠⁠⁠.

CONNECT WITH ME:

⁠⁠⁠@michellecarroll1⁠⁠⁠

Join my ⁠⁠⁠free email list.

Nothing will have a more profound impact on your eating behaviour like your relationship with food - and yet not many of us have a bloody clue what that even means (fitness coaches included).

Join me in Part 2 of the Beyond Body Composition as we chat all things relationship with food...

What's a relationship with food?

What is a healthy way of eating?

What's an unhealthy way of eating?

And how can I develop my relationship with food?

Let's discuss.

Let's talk all things nutrition (except relationship with food, that monologue is coming next week) for health.

Join me on this audio series as I show you how to change your body image and relationship with food to help you ditch dieting and finally find peace in your body.

WORK WITH ME:

⁠⁠1:1 body image support⁠⁠

Learn how to ⁠⁠transform your client's relationship with food⁠⁠.

Learn more about ⁠⁠body image research⁠⁠.

CONNECT WITH ME:

⁠⁠@michellecarroll1⁠⁠

Join my ⁠⁠free email list.

Nutrition is a key pillar of my 1:1 coaching - but what does healthy nutrition look like?

Is it calories?

Is it macros?

Is it six eggs per bloke per day?

Let's talk all things nutrition (except relationship with food, that monologue is coming next week) for health.

Join me on this audio series as I show you how to change your body image and relationship with food to help you ditch dieting and finally find peace in your body.

WORK WITH ME:

⁠1:1 body image support⁠

Learn how to ⁠transform your client's relationship with food⁠.

Learn more about ⁠body image research⁠.

CONNECT WITH ME:

⁠@michellecarroll1⁠

Join my ⁠free email list.

Is it an intro or a trauma dump? You decide!

Hi, I'm Michelle, and I help people just like you.

I spent most of my life being no fun at parties because I was so consumed with tracking calories and macros. I thought I'd spend the rest of my life obsessing about my body and letting it hold me back. 

I tried everything the fitness industry told me - flexible dieting, eating more protein, doing a bodybuilding photoshoot (leave me alone, I was young), and nothing changed - in fact, it got worse.

It's only when I stopped trying to control food and control my body that things changed.

Working on my body image changed my life and helped me break the overeating cycle. 

It gave me the confidence to pursue what I am most passionate about - educating and helping you to do the same!

Join me on this audio series as I show you how to change your body image and relationship with food to help you ditch dieting and finally find peace in your body.

WORK WITH ME:

1:1 body image support

Learn how to transform your client's relationship with food.

Learn more about body image research.

CONNECT WITH ME:

@michellecarroll1

Join my free email list.

Every so often, I'll get met with a quote that sucker punches me right in the gut. And today we are chatting through some of the advice that gave me the kick up the you-know-where to stop obsessing about food and my body.

Let me know what yours are!

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"Body positivity is a scam", says coach who doesn't know what body positivity is.

Why are coaches "body positivity" adverse?

What actually IS body positivity?

All this and more in today's episode.

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Do a photoshoot and plaster the images which look like you cupping the rope attachment for the cable machine in a very suggestive manner, that's what will bring you clients right?

Quite the opposite... in fact, the only thing it brought me was years of slagging. And yet, so many coaches start off feeling that they "need" to do a photoshoot... so let's discuss.

• Why do we feel pressure to do photoshoots?
• Can they really help with business? Or relationships with food?
• What should I know before signing up
• Is exercising for appearance really that bad?

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Less than 50% of coaches can recognise the signs of disordered eating in sport. This means that clients often struggle alone, and we have no idea how to help.

But, I say that's not good enough - for us as business owners or for our clients. Every single coach, no matter whether you're coaching bodybuilders or relationship with food, should be asking your clients about relationship with food and body image.

And that's what we're discussing in today's episode.

You'll learn:

• What disordered eating is
• Why screening matters
• How to screen your clients (+ what to do!)

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Work with me:

⁠⁠Online coaching⁠⁠

⁠⁠Disordered Eating Informed⁠⁠

⁠⁠Body Image & Nutrition Review⁠⁠

Instagram: ⁠⁠@michellecarroll1