140: My Amish Upbringing, My Addiction, and How I Found Freedom

What if every diet you have ever tried was never actually designed to teach you how to heal?

In this deeply personal solo episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie pulls back the curtain on the journey that built Undiet You from the ground up. She takes you all the way back to growing up in the Amish community in Ohio, navigating relentless body comparison as a twin, developing an eating disorder as a teenager, cycling through fad diets in her early twenties, and ultimately finding her calling as a board-certified functional practitioner helping women break free from the dieting cycle for good.

This is not a polished highlight reel. This is the raw, honest story of what it actually takes to go from chronic dieting and self-destruction to building a thriving life and business rooted in real healing, and why Lizzie believes that food freedom starts long before what is on your plate.

If you have ever felt like no matter how hard you try, diets just do not work for you, this episode is the explanation and the permission slip you have been waiting for.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why diets don't work for women and what they are actually teaching your body instead
• How unaddressed emotional and mental patterns keep the dieting cycle spinning no matter what you eat
• Why leaving diet culture behind requires healing from the inside out, not just changing what is on your plate
• How Lizzie went from personal trainer to board-certified functional practitioner and why nutrition was the missing piece
• Why your hardest seasons are often the exact preparation for your greatest purpose
• What Undiet You is built on and why it goes far deeper than food and exercise

We talk about:

• 00:00 Where Undiet You was really born
• 01:00 Growing up Amish and getting her period at 10
• 03:00 Being a twin and the comparison that started everything
• 06:00 The night that changed how she saw herself
• 08:00 How a disordered relationship with food developed without anyone naming it
• 10:00 The pursuit of smallness and what it cost her health
• 13:00 Leaving the Amish community and discovering processed food
• 14:00 The Hollywood lemonade diet and why it wrecked her long term
• 16:00 A history of fad diets and what none of them ever taught her
• 20:00 Starting an online business in 2020 with a nine-month-old baby
• 21:00 The drive to Sedona where Undiet You was born
• 23:00 Why purpose always goes through hell first
• 25:00 What it means to thrive instead of just survive
• 27:00 The internal work that has to happen alongside food and fitness
• 27:30 The Undiet You six-week program and how to join

Connect with Lizzie

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• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lizzieenswellness
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lizzieh_wellness
• Website: https://undietyou.com/

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