251 | What Does Being Healthy Actually Mean?

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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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode
of the Tea with Tina podcast.
For today's episode, I want totalk about what does healthy
actually mean.
What does healthy actually mean?
I know that sounds a littleweird, right, like, okay, what
is healthy?
I want you to take a second tothink about what your definition

(00:21):
of healthy is.
Like, what do you think aboutwhen you think healthy?
Maybe you don't even thinkabout healthy.
Like, maybe you label like Idon't know, looking like
Christina Aguilera.
By the way, if you have notlooked up Christina Aguilera in
the year 2024, 2025, please lookher up.
I don't know what voodoo magichappened to her, but I do think
she looks fabulous.
Just know that she was onozempic slash, got really good

(00:44):
plastic surgery, but she stilllooks wonderful.
Um, like, there's a couplecelebrities who've had
transformations like that andmaybe you think about someone
and you want to be like them.
That's not necessarily healthybecause, 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

(01:05):
many people I looked up to inthe fitness world who were
shredded and they ate theirchicken and broccoli rice and
they put on a happy face andthey were always like posing.
I will tell you that thosepeople, nine times out of ten,
are the most miserable people Ihave ever met.
Miserable people I have evermet the people who lost the

(01:28):
weight.
They might have been goingthrough a divorce so they put
all their time and energy intobodybuilding.
They might be starvingthemselves, missing their
periods, falling asleep, havingcold hands and feet, having food
binging issues.
There's just I've seen so manydifferent situations where the
people are not happy.
But it's almost like you kind ofget a little dopamine hit when

(01:49):
people are like, wow, you lookamazing and you're so tiny and
you post on social media and andyou get all these likes and
people are like what do you want, what do you do?
And and I could see why peopledo it and it's very hard work
and I do commend them for theirhard work.
But you know, you just have toweigh your pros and cons as to
whether that's worth it.
And for me, I'm always speakingto the everyday people.

(02:11):
I'm not speaking to somebodywho wants to be an athlete, like
, if you do come to me and youwant to be an athlete, I might
be able to help you, but I lovehelping just the everyday people
who are looking to gethealthier and, yes, they want to
look better.
Um, but you have to think aboutit being realistic, right, like
we wanted to be realistic.
I don't want you to try topursue being a bikini competitor
because that's what you sawthat girl who has the body you

(02:33):
want do, and then you like arethousands of dollars deep into
it and you're miserable and youhave all these hormonal problems
and you're like, oh my god, Iwish I would have known.
Like I don't want this.
So that's just something tothink about, because healthy.
Healthy is not a look.
Healthy is definitely a feeling.
Healthy is 100% a feelingbecause there's many people that

(02:54):
have different shapes and sizesand body types and they're
healthy.
A great example would be to lookat 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 onthem.
And lean, they might be shortand stumpy, they might have some

(03:16):
weight on them.
Um, for instance, like one thingthat bothered me about what
people think healthy is likethere was a guy who was, I think
, a linebacker.
I think that's what it was.
Whoever needs to be reallyheavy and defend their team.
I'm terrible with that kind ofstuff, um, but this guy was like
close to 400 pounds, but he wasfit, you know, because he
played football, um, but they'reusually 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,

(03:37):
they have a little extra layerof fat, but underneath that's
muscle, because they still train, they still work out, they're
still eating, but they probablyeat some more calories than you
know, the average people, maybesome cheat meals, um, but but
they are big boys.
So this guy posted on like aReddit weight loss post and it

(04:01):
was an impressive transformation.
It just showed a before andafter and he had, like, a gut,
some fat on him, and then he waslike shredded six to eight pack
.
And I, um wanted to read thecomments, cause I want to know,
like, what he did, what, what'shis story.
You know, I wanted toinvestigate the comments because
I want to know, like, what hedid, what's his story.
You know, I wanted toinvestigate this a little bit
more and you know he said thathe was a linebacker and he did
it in six months.

(04:22):
And by the comments ofeverybody on the social media
page, everybody just thoughtlike, 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?
And here's the thing, guys, hehad that base layer under there.
He had the training of being afootball player, um, he lifted
the heavy weights.
He had the nutritionalcomponent.

(04:43):
He was like I said he wasprobably just eating a calorie
surplus, like crazy, um, to keepthe 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.
Now, I'm not saying that's noteasy, it's not.
It can be challenging.
You're going to be hungry andyou're not used to eating what
you will and you're probablygoing to do more cardio.

(05:04):
But compared to somebody who'slike never worked out or has
minimal workout experience, thatwould take so much longer, it's
not like he's just some averageJoe picked up off the street.
You're not going to do the samething he did and get the same
results.
So those kinds oftransformations can get
misleading and I always, Ialways cringe a little bit too
when I see the bodybuilders,because I know, because they'll

(05:27):
pose like they're on stage.
They have that certain pose, youknow where their arms are out
to the side side, or they have ahand on the hip with the twist.
You know, you know what I'mtalking about.
And I hate when they show theirbefore picture before they even
started competing, to now like,yes, I'm impressed that you
were, um, like the results thatyou got, but they leave out the

(05:47):
part that they were bodybuilding, like that would be like that
guy, leaving out the part thathe was a football player.
Like they didn't just dolifestyle training, they went
through a rigorous regimen and99% of people don't go through
and they're like, yeah, I justdid some workouts and changed my
eating and now I look like thisand I just I get so mad and I
will say from these people,these people, um, even when they

(06:12):
do go on to gain weight, it'skind of like if you were a
gymnast, like you never loseyour flexibility, right, you
still have some sort offlexibility.
They always still have likethis nice base layer of muscle
from when they competed.
So, like, even when they gainweight or they lose, like it
looks a lot nicer than just theaverage person because they have
a lot more muscle on them andand there's so many factors.

(06:34):
But that also pisses me offbecause, like it's, it's kind of
, in a way, misinformation.
Like they might have shown thatthey did a show, but the
general public doesn't realizethe connection of the two.
They just think I need to do ashow and that's how I'm gonna
look good.
Like again, they don't knowwhat comes into.
Like that'd be like I justgoing to play for the NFL and
I'm going to look like thequarterback.

(06:55):
That sounds so unrealistic.
That's crazy.
Right, that's pretty much thesame thing.
But yeah, there's my littlerant on that.
But getting back to whatactually healthy is, I think
it's going to look a little bitdifferent for everybody, but
healthy is definitely a feeling.
I believe that you should havegood blood work and maybe, if

(07:15):
you're genetically exposed tosomething, get it taken care of.
Like sometimes you can doeverything right and your blood
pressure is still going to behigh.
I'm sorry you might have to geton 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 ofpreventative medicine, but I do
realize that modern medicine iswonderful and can be very useful

(07:37):
.
Use it to your advantage, butweigh the pros and cons.
There's definitely side effectsto everything.
Sometimes it's not always worthtaking something.
Or maybe you can take somethingfor a short period of time and
get off of it later.
Maybe we can get you off thecholesterol medication.
There's different things likethat.

(07:57):
Because, going back to thepeople who, if you're running
yourself into the ground withyour workout routine, you're
spinning your wheels, you're nothappy eating what you got to
eat.
You feel like you're punishingyourself.
Like, is that really healthy?
Like you might look like you'rekind of walking the walk,
talking the talk, but deep downyou don't feel healthy and, like

(08:20):
I said, you're not healthy.
You might have lost your period.
You might feel like garbage.
Maybe you lost your libido.
There's just so many things.
Maybe you have an eatingdisorder or disordered eating
tendencies.
You feel like you gave up yoursocial life and you're obsessed
with the gym.
There's a lot to it.

(08:41):
Just because someone looks fitand is doing everything, they
could truly be unhappy.
It's kind of the same as thepeople 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'sall cracked up to be, or being a
celebrity.
We look at britney andeverything she's been through
behind the scenes, but at thefront she looked like this
beautiful pop star who haseverything she's ever wanted.

(09:05):
And it's the same thing with thefitness world, same thing with
health, um.
So you gotta find what worksfor you and be okay with it.
Um and again, listen to yourbody 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'slike listen, I know you're just

(09:26):
making excuses.
We need to kind of buckle downand push a little bit more, like
, yeah, that's needed, that isneeded, but sometimes we just
need to love ourselves andfigure out what health means to
us.
All right, so that is mythoughts.
I know it is a little bit moreof a interpretive episode, I
guess just me chatting andthinking, but I hope it gets

(09:48):
your brain and gears turning andmaybe you thinking and viewing
health and fitness a little bitdifferently, and maybe it'll
give you some relief around yourown health and fitness goals
and routine.
All right, so I hope youenjoyed and I'll chat with you
in the next one.
Bye.