The Diet Riot

The Body

Together, let’s look at the profound connection between our bodies and our lived experiences.
Discover why society’s harsh standards disconnect us from our bodies—and how to reclaim love, acceptance, and care for the vessel that carries us through life.
Learn why lasting change starts with your relationship to yourself, not external ideals, and how small, intentional choices can transform your health and happiness from the inside out.
Key Takeaways:
1. Our Body is Your Home. Disconnection from your body leads to dissatisfaction and poor health. True well-being begins with reconnecting and listening to its needs.
2. The Myth of Control. Trying to change your body from a place of shame or external pressure sets you up for failure. Lasting change comes from love, not loathing.
3. The Hangry Truth. Physical discomfort (like hunger or exhaustion) directly impacts your mood, thoughts, and resilience—proof that body care is foundational to mental health.
4. Habits Rooted in Love. Simple, consistent practices (hydration, movement, rest) matter more than extreme diets or workouts—but only if done with self-compassion.
5. Personality Shapes Reality. Negative body image fuels negative thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. To change your life, you must first change how you relate to your body.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
02:00 - Why society disconnects us from our bodies
05:10 - The cost of treating your body as a project
08:30 - How physical states (like hunger) affect mental health
12:15 - The foundational habits of body care (and why they’re hard to maintain)
15:45 - The self-loathing trap: Why you can’t hate yourself into change
18:30 - The diet cycle: How starting in the wrong place leads to failure
22:00 - The inside-out approach: Healing your relationship with your body
25:15 - Small steps, big shifts: Practical ways to show up for yourself daily
28:00 - How body acceptance rewires your brain (and life)
32:00 - Closing: The power of being “home” in yourself
 
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The Diet Trauma

In this episode, we uncover the hidden "Diet Trauma" that keeps women trapped in cycles of restriction, shame, and self-loathing.
Learn how years of dieting and body criticism create nervous system dysregulation, disconnection from your body, and a mental prison of fear and avoidance.
Discover why traditional diets trigger trauma responses (fight, flight, freeze) and how to heal the root cause—not just the symptoms—for lasting freedom.
 
Key Takeaways:
Diet Trauma is real. Chronic dieting, body shaming, and cycles of "failure" create trauma responses in your nervous system, locking you into fear-based patterns.
Disconnection = Self-Sabotage. Separating "head from body" (ignoring hunger cues, punishing workouts) destroys body trust and fuels emotional eating.
The Trauma Loop: Dieting → Loss of control → Shame → Nervous system panic → Avoidance/Fight (e.g., "I’ll start Monday") → Repeat.
Life happens NOW. Diet trauma steals your present moment, keeping you stuck in past regrets or future "when I’m thin" fantasies.
Healing is possible. Combining psychology, nervous system regulation, and self-compassion bridges the gap between health goals and true freedom.
 
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
02:00 - What is Diet Trauma? (The hidden epidemic)
05:10 - How dieting disconnects you from your body
08:30 - Nervous system 101: Why your brain resets diets as "danger"
12:15 - The mental load: How diet thoughts consume your capacity
15:45 - Fight, Flight, Freeze: Trauma responses in diet cycles
18:30 - Voices of Diet Trauma (real client stories)
22:00 - The cost: How body shame steals your life
25:15 - Why you can’t hate yourself thin
28:00 - The bridge: Healing trauma while honoring your goals
32:00 - How releasing shame unlocks weight loss (yes, really!)
35:00 - Choosing yourself
 
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Our Brain & The Vicious ‘Diet Cycle’

In this episode, we dissect the vicious "Diet Cycle" that keeps women trapped in restriction, binge eating, and self-blame.
Learn why willpower fails, how your survival brain sabotages weight loss efforts, and why the diet industry profits from your "failures."
Discover the neuroscience behind cravings and how to rewire your brain for lasting food freedom.
Key Takeaways:
Diets are designed to fail. The diet industry earns billions by keeping you in a loop of hope, restriction, "failure," and self-blame.
Your survival brain sees diets as threats. Rigid rules trigger primal panic, making cravings and binges inevitable—not a lack of willpower.
The "Tightening the Rope" effect: Extreme control (e.g., calorie counting) amplifies fear of failure, leading to self-sabotage.
Perfectionism fuels the cycle. All-or-nothing thinking ("good day" vs. "bad day") justifies binges and erodes self-trust.
Healing requires rewiring. Emotional regulation (not more rules) breaks the cycle by addressing the root cause: your brain’s survival response.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
02:00 - The Diet Culture Scam: Why diets aren’t the solution
04:30 - The Binge Eating Model: How emotions drive overeating
07:15 - Neural Pathways 101: Why habits feel automatic
10:00 - Survival Brain vs. Conscious Brain: Why logic fails
12:45 - The "Tightening the Rope" analogy (plank between skyscrapers)
15:30 - How diets create perfectionism and loss of self-trust
18:00 - The Diet Cycle: Rigidity → Fear → "F*ck it" → Guilt → Repeat
22:00 - Why willpower backfires (and what to do instead)
25:00 - The hidden cost: How dieting destroys body trust
28:00 - Breaking free: Rewiring your brain’s relationship with food
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The Body Betrayal: How Society Steals Our Self-Worth

Today, we will expose how societal beauty ideals disconnect women from their bodies—and why this disconnection is the root of emotional eating, diet culture struggles, and self-loathing.
Discover how we’re conditioned from childhood to view our bodies as projects to fix, and learn how to reclaim your innate "at-homeness" in your skin.
Key Takeaways:
We’re born fully connected to our bodies, but societal conditioning teaches girls to prioritize how they’re perceived (nice, pretty, small) over how they feel. Compliments based on appearance—not authenticity—seed lifelong body shame.
Unattainable beauty standards (fit by only 1% of people!) are weaponized to sell diets. Women blame themselves for "failing," but the system is designed to keep them trapped in cycles of self-loathing and spending.
Girls learn to shrink themselves—literally and figuratively. Hugging strangers when uncomfortable, staying quiet, and avoiding "taking up space" teach them their boundaries matter less than others’ comfort.
Your body isn’t the problem—the system is. Healing begins by rejecting the myth that thinness = health or worth, and by rebuilding trust in your body’s wisdom.
 
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
02:10 - How beauty ideals disconnect women from their bodies
02:25 - The childhood shift from embodied (crying when hungry) to self-critical
03:30 - Forced hugs and silenced voices. How girls learn to betray their boundaries
04:00 - Why appearance-based compliments ("you're so pretty!") fuel lifelong body shame
05:00 - The diet industry's perfect victim
06:00 - The 1% beauty standard: Why 99% of women feel "flawed" by design
07:00 - Teenage turning point. How puberty accelerates body disconnection
08:00 - The billion-dollar scam, why diets fail (and why that's profitable)
09:00 - The "prison with locks inside"
10:00 - Thin ≠ healthy: Debunking the calorie equation myth
11:00 - The fear of being "too much": Space, noise, and unapologetic needs
 
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The Good Girl Syndrome and The Patriarchy’s Trap

In this powerful episode of The Diet Riot, Camilla dives into the first of the three pillars keeping women stuck in diet culture and emotional eating.
Learn about The Good Girl Syndrome and the Patriarchy’s trap.
Discover how societal conditioning from a young age shapes women into people-pleasers, disconnected from their own needs, desires, and bodies. It’s time to break free from the patriarchy’s expectations and reclaim your authentic self.
Key Takeaways:
The Good Girl Syndrome: From a young age, women are conditioned to be "good girls"—nice, obedient, and high-achieving. This conditioning is rooted in the desire for acceptance, love, and safety within the patriarchal system.
Many women are so disconnected from their bodies that they can’t even recognize hunger or fullness cues. This disconnection stems from years of self-objectification and constant self-monitoring.
The patriarchy conditions women to view themselves through the lens of others’ expectations, leading to a loss of personal perspective and authenticity. This robs women of their happiness, presence, and quality of life.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
02:10 - Today’s topic: The Good Girl Syndrome and how it keeps women stuck in diet culture.
02:25 - What it means to be a "good girl" and how it manifests in different ways for every woman.
03:00 - The conditioning of the good girl: Rewards for being nice, obedient, and high-achieving.
03:35 - The good girl as a protective mechanism: A way to feel safe and worthy of love in the patriarchy.z
04:00 - The cost of being a good girl: Sacrificing authenticity, creativity, and self-care.
05:00 - How the good girl syndrome leads to people-pleasing, self-sacrifice, and burnout.
06:00 - The impact of chronic stress and disconnection from the body.
07:00 - The constant fear of not being "enough" and how it robs women of happiness.
08:00 - Self-objectification: Viewing ourselves through the eyes of others and losing touch with our bodies.
09:00 - The importance of reconnecting with your body, intuition, and authentic self.
 
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Breaking Free from Diet Culture

Welcome to the very first episode of The Diet Riot! In this episode, we discuss the toxic world of diet culture, exposing the systems that keep women trapped in cycles of guilt, shame, and self-doubt. 
If you’ve ever felt like a failure for not sticking to a diet or struggled with emotional eating, this episode is for you.
It’s time to break free and reclaim your life on your own terms.
Key Takeaways:
Struggling with yo-yo dieting, binge eating, or emotional eating doesn’t mean you’re the problem. The real villains are the systems designed to keep you feeling inadequate—patriarchy, societal beauty standards, and diet culture.
Diet culture sells us unsustainable, rigid plans that set us up for failure. When we "fail," we blame ourselves instead of questioning the flawed approach.
Society’s obsession with productivity, achievement, and aesthetic beauty has led many women to tie their self-worth to their appearance and accomplishments. This creates chronic stress, burnout, and a constant feeling of not being "good enough."
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction: The problem isn’t you—it’s the diet culture.
01:40 - Camilla’s mission to help women enjoy their bodies and lives on their own terms.
02:00 - Why it’s not your fault if you’re struggling with yo-yo dieting, binge eating, or emotional eating.
02:25 - Camilla shares her experience working with women who suffer from self-torture due to diet culture.
03:01 - The unsustainable nature of diet culture and how it sets us up for failure.
04:00 - Society’s unspoken expectations and how they lead to chronic stress and burnout.
05:25 - How food becomes an escape in a productivity-obsessed world.
06:00 - The three villains: patriarchy, societal ideals, and diet culture.
07:00 - Why another diet won’t solve your problems—it’s time to address the deeper issues.
08:20 - The global impact of diet culture and the need for change.
09:10 - What’s coming in future episodes: a deep dive into the three pillars of the scam.
 
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