Death, Sex & Money | The Internet Taught Me to Diet, Then Saved Me With Weightlifting

Casey Johnston grew up in a family where being thin mattered. In
college, the internet told her to eat 1,200 calories and do endless
cardio if she wanted to lose weight. That habit followed her into
her late twenties, until she came upon a Reddit post about
weightlifting that changed her relationship to her body and just
about everything else. Casey Johnston is the author of Physical
Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of
Lifting, and she writes the substack, She’s a Beast. Podcast
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