Why metabolic health matters more than weight – with Ashley Koff
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Why should we stop focusing on weight loss and think about weight health instead?
We should no longer look at weight. We shouldn't use that term because it's really weights parts or weights components. So when we use the expression or the phrase body composition, that really helps us understand what are signals. So your bone is a signal, your muscle is a signal, your fat is a signal, and your water content are signals. And within each of those, the type, the location, and the amount of those are signals. You know, we can no longer separate weight out from health or pursue weight loss. We want to pursue weight health.
Well, that is registered dietitian Ashley Koff, and she wants you to think less about weight loss and more about weight health. Welcome to Age Better with me, Liz Earl. Now, this is the podcast on a mission to change the conversation around aging. And I am passionate about extending not just your lifespan, but your health span. You know, all those precious years when we want to live well and feel bolder and more confident in our skin than ever before. And I wonder how do you feel in your skin right now? Does your weight preoccupy? Pai Yu, I wonder. You know, so much of a woman's relationship with herself revolves around weight, doesn't it? And the number on the scale and all the rest of it. And I have to say, over my sixty or more years, it has taken me a while to get over that.
And I have tried all kinds of diets and done all sorts of things. And I'm looking forward to digging into what is really going to work. And her story is so fascinating. Ashley Koff is actually a pioneering voice behind the emerging weight health movement. She's the founder of the Better Nutrition Program and the best-selling author of Your Best Shot. Now I love her work because it is redefining how we approach weight and it's shifting the focus to health with a science-based framework centered on metabolic function, on hormonal regulation. So important for us and sustainable outcomes. So Ashley, welcome to the show. You know, your book is so fascinating and there is so much I want to cover with you today.
But can we start with you and your own relationship with weight? Because you were teased for being, quote, fat, weren't you, from the age of about eight. Can we talk about what you remember about that time and how it harnessed perhaps your life experience to drive your work now?
Yeah, thank you so much. I'm really looking forward to this. Um I love the whole age better concept. You know, it's a real really aligns. Um I wish my story was unique in that regard. You know, I think so many individuals deal with being teased when they were younger. I think what's a little bit unique to mine is that, well, first of all, I was the middle child, the only girl with two brothers. So even though like I was teased, I think I grew up just kind of being like, you gotta be out there for yourself and you know, and that kind of and be empowered. And I also grew up in a household in the 70s where I was not told that being a girl that there was any limit on opportunity. So I was very fortunate in that way.
I was super empowered. I would, my mom says I was an entrepreneur in Udoro. Like I was just, you know, I came out like selling, telling the world what we should do, how we could do things better. I like to say I was across between Shirley Temple and Spanky from the little rascals. Like just, you know, I think what was Really interesting to me was that when I started to be bullied and also told by trusted adults that my weight was a problem and it was my problem, it didn't align with how I saw myself. I think that's what's different. I think a lot of kids who maybe aren't so empowered early on might start to be in a direction where they feel like, oh, society is telling me something and this is me. So because it was almost
С incongruous for me to have a weakness. it became a mission for me to get rid of that belly because I was like, Oh, I I'm not weak. Like there's nothing about me that's wrong. But If you've now told me that this belly isn't okay, how do I get rid of it? So I went after dieting, you know, as you were saying, I went after dieting with the same sort of intensity that I went after getting straight A's or selling lemonade or, you know, whatever on the you know on the sidewalk to to others.
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