Ep 182: When Healthy Eating Becomes Harmful with Annie Valentine
2/20/26 | 49:28 | Episode 182
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Most women don’t struggle with food because they lack discipline.
They struggle because diet culture taught them to outsource their power.
In this episode of The Life You Crave, Lia is joined by mental health educator and eating disorder recovery advocate Annie Valentine to explore the difference between healthy eating and disordered eating — and how easily wellness can become harmful.
This conversation is not anti-weight loss. It’s about awareness. Lia and Annie unpack how diet culture, thin privilege, and modern wellness messaging quietly shape our beliefs about food, body image, and self-worth, often creating stress, obsession, and disconnection even when we’re doing everything “right.”
You’ll learn how food and exercise can shift from care to control, why moralizing food fuels anxiety instead of health, and why weight loss doesn’t always deliver the confidence it promises. Together, they challenge the idea that health comes from external rules and invite you to define nourishment, movement, and well-being on your own terms.
This episode is especially for you if food or exercise feels mentally exhausting, if weight loss didn’t bring the freedom you expected, or if you want a healthier relationship with your body without extremes.
This is about reclaiming agency — not fixing yourself.
In this episode, we discuss:
Healthy eating vs disordered eating and how to recognize the difference
How diet culture disguises control as wellness
Thin privilege and its impact on body image and opportunity
Why weight loss doesn’t automatically equal health or confidence
Signs food or exercise may be driven by distress, not care
How to define health in a way that supports your life
You don’t need more rules.
You don’t need more willpower.
You need clarity — and permission to trust yourself.
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