Lean Beef Patty on Eating Disorder Recovery, Identity & the Reality of Social Media

In this episode, Leana sits down with Patty — known online as Lean Beef Patty — one of the most recognisable women in the fitness space. But this conversation goes far beyond fitness. Patty opens up about her journey through an eating disorder, losing her identity after quitting gymnastics, navigating social media without losing herself, and why she still drives the same Prius. She is funny, refreshingly self-aware, and genuinely one of a kind — and this episode captures all of it.

This one is for every woman who has ever felt like she lost herself and had to figure out who she was all over again.

Leana and Patty get into:

→ How Lean Beef Patty got her name — and why it was actually the runner-up option

→ Growing up doing gymnastics for 12 years and what that level of structure did to her identity

→ The period after quitting gymnastics where she felt completely lost and without purpose

→ Her experience with an eating disorder — what it felt like, how it started, and the long road to getting help

→ Why she tried to trick her therapists — and what finally made her decide she actually wanted to get better

→ How losing her gymnastics identity led to self-punishment and what eventually helped her let it go

→ Her psychology degree, why she did not need it — and why she is still glad she went to school

→ What it was like going to the gym for the first time and how her relationship with training has shifted now that it is her job

→ How she navigates mental health as a public figure — and why she rarely talks to friends about how she is feeling