The Diet Riot
Camilla Sage is on a mission to dismantle the toxicity of the diet culture and help women break free from the hamster wheel, the Diet Cycle and binge and emotional eating. It’s time to stop fighting with ourselves, our bodies, our willpower and the endless yoyo-dieting. But you also deserve to get what you want - a body that feels good and looks good, feeling comfortable in your own body, simultaneously experiencing freedom from the never ending mental chatter about when to eat, what to eat, how to lose weight and so on. But how do we actually get what we want, the body, the health, the freedom and the inner harmony? That is by showing up in the process from love, not self-shaming, rigidity and fear driven motivation. It might be super hard to see this for you right now, and that is ok. All you have to do is to be willing to take the first step on the journey and that’s what this podcast is all about.
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22 hours ago
22 hours ago
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
FREE TRAINING
How to End Emotional Eating Once and For All: https://camillasage.mykajabi.com/free-training-how-to-end-emotional-eating-once-and-for-all
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Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
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
FREE TRAINING
How to End Emotional Eating Once and For All: https://camillasage.mykajabi.com/free-training-how-to-end-emotional-eating-once-and-for-all
Follow The Diet Riot:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CamillaSagen
Website: https://camillasage.com
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Linked In: https://linkedin.com/in/camilla-sage
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
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.
FREE TRAINING
How to End Emotional Eating Once and For All: https://camillasage.mykajabi.com/free-training-how-to-end-emotional-eating-once-and-for-all
Follow The Diet Riot:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CamillaSagen
Website: https://camillasage.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/thecamillasage
Facebook: https://facebook.com/camillasage
Linked In: https://linkedin.com/in/camilla-sage
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
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.
FREE TRAINING
How to End Emotional Eating Once and For All: https://camillasage.mykajabi.com/free-training-how-to-end-emotional-eating-once-and-for-all
Follow The Diet Riot:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CamillaSagen
Website: https://camillasage.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/thecamillasage
Facebook: https://facebook.com/camillasage
Linked In: https://linkedin.com/in/camilla-sage