251 | What Does Being Healthy Actually Mean?

What if everything you thought you knew about health was wrong? Join us as we unpack the myth that looking fit equates to being healthy, challenging the glossy images of health perpetuated by celebrities and influencers. This episode digs deep into the reality of wellness, revealing that true health is about feeling good in your body rather than achieving an idealized image. By exploring the diverse physiques of Olympic athletes and sharing stories like a football player's remarkable transformation, we highlight that health is not one-size-fits-all. We aim to inspire you to set health goals that are not only realistic but also sustainable, urging you to prioritize personal well-being over societal beauty standards.

Embark on a personal journey with us to define what health truly means to you. Discover the power of self-awareness in understanding when to push your limits and when to practice self-love. We discuss the importance of listening to your own body and identifying a health path that suits your individual needs. By offering fresh insights and perspectives, we hope to empower you to rethink your approach to health and fitness, helping you find relief in a path that feels authentic and fulfilling. This conversation invites a transformative reshaping of your health and fitness goals, paving the way for a more personal and rewarding journey.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Defining What Healthy Actually Means
• 9:05 Exploring Personal Definitions of Health

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the Tea with Tina podcast. For today's episode, I want to talk about what does healthy actually mean. What does healthy actually mean? I know that sounds a little weird, right, like, okay, what is healthy? I want you to take a second to think about what your definition of healthy is. Like, what do you think about when you think healthy? Maybe you don't even think about healthy. Like, maybe you label like I don't know, looking like Christina Aguilera. By the way, if you have not looked up Christina Aguilera in the year 2024, 2025, please look her up. I don't know what voodoo magic happened to her, but I do think she looks fabulous. Just know that she was on ozempic slash, got really good plastic surgery, but she still looks wonderful.

Speaker 1: 0:47

Um, like, there's a couple celebrities who've had transformations like that and maybe you think about someone and you want to be like them. That's not necessarily healthy because, let me tell you, I've had a lot of fitness friends and, in my years just being friends with people, knowing people, chatting with people, there's many people I looked up to in the fitness world who were shredded and they ate their chicken and broccoli rice and they put on a happy face and they were always like posing. I will tell you that those people, nine times out of ten, are the most miserable people I have ever met. Miserable people I have ever met the people who lost the weight. They might have been going through a divorce so they put all their time and energy into bodybuilding. They might be starving themselves, missing their periods, falling asleep, having cold hands and feet, having food binging issues. There's just I've seen so many different situations where the people are not happy.

Speaker 1: 1:45

But it's almost like you kind of get a little dopamine hit when people are like, wow, you look amazing and you're so tiny and you post on social media and and you get all these likes and people are like what do you want, what do you do? And and I could see why people do it and it's very hard work and I do commend them for their hard work. But you know, you just have to weigh your pros and cons as to whether that's worth it. And for me, I'm always speaking to the everyday people. I'm not speaking to somebody who wants to be an athlete, like, if you do come to me and you want to be an athlete, I might be able to help you, but I love helping just the everyday people who are looking to get healthier and, yes, they want to look better.

Speaker 1: 2:25

Um, but you have to think about it being realistic, right, like we wanted to be realistic. I don't want you to try to pursue being a bikini competitor because that's what you saw that girl who has the body you want do, and then you like are thousands of dollars deep into it and you're miserable and you have all these hormonal problems and you're like, oh my god, I wish I would have known. Like I don't want this. So that's just something to think about, because healthy. Healthy is not a look. Healthy is definitely a feeling. Healthy is 100% a feeling because there's many people that have different shapes and sizes and body types and they're healthy.

Speaker 1: 2:59

A great example would be to look at Olympic athletes. Look at all their body types, depending on the sport they do. They might be long and lean. They might be short and stumpy. They might have some weight on them. And lean, they might be short and stumpy, they might have some weight on them.

Speaker 1: 3:16

Um, for instance, like one thing that bothered me about what people think healthy is like there was a guy who was, I think, a linebacker. I think that's what it was. Whoever needs to be really heavy and defend their team. I'm terrible with that kind of stuff, um, but this guy was like close to 400 pounds, but he was fit, you know, because he played football, um, but they're usually like close to 400 pounds, but he was fit, you know, because he played football, um, but they're usually big boys, like they have guts on them, they have a little extra layer of fat, but underneath that's muscle, because they still train, they still work out, they're still eating, but they probably eat some more calories than you know, the average people, maybe some cheat meals, um, but but they are big boys. So this guy posted on like a Reddit weight loss post and it was an impressive transformation. It just showed a before and after and he had, like, a gut, some fat on him, and then he was like shredded six to eight pack.

Speaker 1: 4:08

And I, um wanted to read the comments, cause I want to know, like, what he did, what, what's his story. You know, I wanted to investigate the comments because I want to know, like, what he did, what's his story. You know, I wanted to investigate this a little bit more and you know he said that he was a linebacker and he did it in six months. And by the comments of everybody on the social media page, everybody just thought like, oh my God, you're like a wizard, you're crazy. How did you do this so fast? Did you take steroids? Like, how'd you do this so fast? Did you take steroids? Like, what did you do?

Speaker 1: 4:34

And here's the thing, guys, he had that base layer under there. He had the training of being a football player, um, he lifted the heavy weights. He had the nutritional component. He was like I said he was probably just eating a calorie surplus, like crazy, um, to keep the weight on him, to help him in his position for the sport. But then when he decided to cut, he literally just had to lose the fat.

Speaker 1: 4:54

Now, I'm not saying that's not easy, it's not. It can be challenging. You're going to be hungry and you're not used to eating what you will and you're probably going to do more cardio. But compared to somebody who's like never worked out or has minimal workout experience, that would take so much longer, it's not like he's just some average Joe picked up off the street. You're not going to do the same thing he did and get the same results. So those kinds of transformations can get misleading and I always, I always cringe a little bit too when I see the bodybuilders, because I know, because they'll pose like they're on stage.

Speaker 1: 5:28

They have that certain pose, you know where their arms are out to the side side, or they have a hand on the hip with the twist. You know, you know what I'm talking about. And I hate when they show their before picture before they even started competing, to now like, yes, I'm impressed that you were, um, like the results that you got, but they leave out the part that they were bodybuilding, like that would be like that guy, leaving out the part that he was a football player. Like they didn't just do lifestyle training, they went through a rigorous regimen and 99% of people don't go through and they're like, yeah, I just did some workouts and changed my eating and now I look like this and I just I get so mad and I will say from these people, these people, um, even when they do go on to gain weight, it's kind of like if you were a gymnast, like you never lose your flexibility, right, you still have some sort of flexibility. They always still have like this nice base layer of muscle from when they competed. So, like, even when they gain weight or they lose, like it looks a lot nicer than just the average person because they have a lot more muscle on them and and there's so many factors.

Speaker 1: 6:34

But that also pisses me off because, like it's, it's kind of, in a way, misinformation. Like they might have shown that they did a show, but the general public doesn't realize the connection of the two. They just think I need to do a show and that's how I'm gonna look good. Like again, they don't know what comes into. Like that'd be like I just going to play for the NFL and I'm going to look like the quarterback. That sounds so unrealistic. That's crazy. Right, that's pretty much the same thing. But yeah, there's my little rant on that.

Speaker 1: 7:04

But getting back to what actually healthy is, I think it's going to look a little bit different for everybody, but healthy is definitely a feeling. I believe that you should have good blood work and maybe, if you're genetically exposed to something, get it taken care of. Like sometimes you can do everything right and your blood pressure is still going to be high. I'm sorry you might have to get on some medication. So I believe that's health, because I'm not like all like definitely rely on medication, right, I'm preventative medicine. I'm in the field of preventative medicine, but I do realize that modern medicine is wonderful and can be very useful. Use it to your advantage, but weigh the pros and cons. There's definitely side effects to everything. Sometimes it's not always worth taking something. Or maybe you can take something for a short period of time and get off of it later. Maybe we can get you off the cholesterol medication. There's different things like that.

Speaker 1: 7:57

Because, going back to the people who, if you're running yourself into the ground with your workout routine, you're spinning your wheels, you're not happy eating what you got to eat. You feel like you're punishing yourself. Like, is that really healthy? Like you might look like you're kind of walking the walk, talking the talk, but deep down you don't feel healthy and, like I said, you're not healthy. You might have lost your period. You might feel like garbage. Maybe you lost your libido.

Speaker 1: 8:29

There's just so many things. Maybe you have an eating disorder or disordered eating tendencies. You feel like you gave up your social life and you're obsessed with the gym. There's a lot to it. Just because someone looks fit and is doing everything, they could truly be unhappy. It's kind of the same as the people who are really rich, like a lot of them are miserable, right, um, or like kind of evil, and it's like it's not, it's all cracked up to be, or being a celebrity. We look at britney and everything she's been through behind the scenes, but at the front she looked like this beautiful pop star who has everything she's ever wanted.

Speaker 1: 9:05

And it's the same thing with the fitness world, same thing with health, um. So you gotta find what works for you and be okay with it. Um and again, listen to your body and see. And there you know, like I said, I'm not against pushing when you need to push. Sometimes, if you try and it's like listen, I know you're just making excuses. We need to kind of buckle down and push a little bit more, like, yeah, that's needed, that is needed, but sometimes we just need to love ourselves and figure out what health means to us. All right, so that is my thoughts. I know it is a little bit more of a interpretive episode, I guess just me chatting and thinking, but I hope it gets your brain and gears turning and maybe you thinking and viewing health and fitness a little bit differently, and maybe it'll give you some relief around your own health and fitness goals and routine. All right, so I hope you enjoyed and I'll chat with you in the next one. Bye.