Coach Em Up Podcast

How To Unf*ck Your Diet with FINLEY FUNSTEN | Ep. 113

Apr 28, 2026
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Finley Funston
Finley Funston, nutritionist and co-owner of Madabolic Charlotte who created Unfuck Your Diet, cuts through nutrition nonsense. She dismantles extremes, seed oil and aspartame scare stories, and orthorexia. Short, practical takes on maintenance phases, conservative deficits, eating through injury, and making peace with treats. Funny, blunt, and refreshingly evidence-based.
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INSIGHT

Diet Coke Fear Is Mostly Anecdote Not Human Risk

  • Diet soda and aspartame fears are overblown; human studies show diet soda can aid adherence by reducing calories.
  • Finley notes lab-rat cancer studies were extreme and volume needed for risk is impractical.
ANECDOTE

Gym Candy Started As A January Fuck You To Diet Culture

  • Finley keeps gummy bears at her gym front desks as an educational statement about glucose and to push back on diet culture.
  • Members rioted when gummies were removed so they stayed; candy fosters open nutrition conversations.
INSIGHT

Age Alone Rarely Slows Your Metabolism

  • Basal metabolic rate hardly declines between ages 20 and 60; weight changes are lifestyle-driven.
  • Finley stresses reduced activity, lost resistance training, and behavior shifts—not inevitable aging—cause most midlife fat gain.
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