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434 — Dr. Sheila Carroll on the Myths About Weight That Are Hurting Our Kids

·1 hr 18 min·5 clips

Carroll says “it’s the thought that you’re having about that thing” that creates the feeling, not the event itself.

The episode opens with the show's usual loose banter before it settles into a conversation about weight myths. Dr. Sheila Carroll joins as a pediatrician and obesity medicine physician. She talks about moving from clinical medicine into coaching. She also shares her own struggles with weight and the strategies that helped her lose it. The hosts keep pressing on what coaching is actually for. Carroll draws a hard line between coaching and therapy. Coaching is future-looking. Therapy is for trauma, abuse, addictions, and other heavy baggage that needs a different kind of help. That distinction becomes central as the conversation turns to kids and eating. The hosts ask what parents should do when a child seems stuck on less healthy foods or hard to move toward healthier habits. Carroll comes back to modeling and consistency. Parents can show the behavior they want, keep offering better choices, and stay patient while change builds slowly. She does not pretend that every food issue is a coaching issue. If a parent suspects a true eating disorder, the answer is professional help, not coaching. The discussion stays practical instead of abstract. The hosts translate the topic into ordinary family life, where meals, stress, and identity all collide. Carroll argues that coaching can help people move from where they are to where they want to be. The episode treats that idea as useful precisely because it is limited. It is not a cure-all. It is a tool. And when used in the right place, it can help people stop treating every body problem like a moral failure. The show also keeps its trademark irreverent tone. That gives the conversation momentum without sanding off the medical edge. The result is a talk that is blunt about obesity, careful about mental health, and focused on what families can actually do next. It never loses sight of the child, the parent, or the doctor trying to make sense of both.

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A practical weight conversation that keeps coaching, therapy, and healthy habits in the right lanes.

BS Free MD brings in Dr. Sheila Carroll, a pediatrician and obesity medicine physician, for a plainspoken look at false beliefs about health and weight.

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Need a raw, real take on false beliefs about health and weight?

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