CW: This episode contains open discussion about disordered
eating, body image, and diet culture. Please take care if these
are sensitive topics for you.
In this episode, Jess sits down with Renee Diment, New Zealand
nutritionist, REPs-registered personal trainer, NZ Personal
Trainer of the Year 2024, and founder of Beyond the Body,
for one of the most grounding, refreshing, and genuinely
practical conversations The Cyclist has had about food, movement,
and what it actually means to look after yourself as a woman.
Renee opens up about her own story, a 10-year-old on a beach in
Perth, looking down at her body and comparing it to the girls in
Total Girl magazine. The friend with anorexia at dance class. The
restricting that started at 11 or 12. The gym before school at
14. And how 13 years of working with women eventually taught her
that fat loss was always just the surface-level goal, and what
women actually needed was far deeper than that.
Her business is called Beyond the Body for a reason. She shares
how her coaching evolved from helping women lose weight to
helping women discover who they actually are. Their values, their
why, their relationship with themselves. And how the biggest wins
her clients have had weren't about the scales at all.
From there, this episode becomes one of the most practical
nutrition conversations The Cyclist has had. Jess asks all the
questions she's been holding for years, from someone who knows a
lot about nutrition but has spent years lost in the noise of it
all. Renee walks through the four phases of the menstrual cycle
and how understanding them gives women better body autonomy, not
as a reason to stop doing things but as a guide for listening in.
She explains the 10-minute rule for those days when you genuinely
don't know whether your body needs rest or a push.
On nutrition, Renee introduces the add-in approach: forget
elimination diets, forget what you're cutting out, just start
adding. Protein, fats, fibre, carbohydrates on every plate. She
makes a case for carbohydrates that will make a lot of women
exhale, pushes back on the protein obsession dominating social
media right now, and makes the case that fibre is actually the
thing most women are deficient in and nobody is talking about it
enough.
She talks about the fuck-it mode that follows restriction, why
sharing a pizza with friends is genuinely better for your health
than ordering the salad, and why your body is not broken, it just
needs the right support and understanding.
And then there's strength training. Renee is passionate about
this in a way that is completely unrelated to aesthetics.
Building muscle protects your bones. It helps your body
metabolise food. It combats stress and supports your nervous
system. A 70-year-old client who broke her pelvis in a car
accident recovered in months because of her training. That's the
real reason to lift weights. Not Greece, not a bikini, but your
90-year-old self.
She wraps by saying that you do not need to shrink yourself to
fit into a box someone else created. You are enough as you are.
And when you truly allow yourself to believe that, everything
else becomes possible.
Renee is coming back for a gut health and nervous system episode,
because they ran out of time and there was still so much to
cover. If you want that episode, let them know in the comments.
Find Renee at reneediment.com
Follow and connect
Instagram: @wearethecyclist
Website: wearethecyclist.com
Hit play. And maybe eat something while you listen.
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