What Your Kids Learn From Watching You Eat featuring Abbey Sharp

Abbey Sharp has built an audience of over 2.5 million people calling out nutrition misinformation as a registered dietitian, and in this conversation she and Larry cut through some of the biggest confusion facing dads right now: the seed oil panic, the rise of "looks maxing" and muscularity-focused disordered eating in men, and how to feed a house full of picky kids without turning dinner into a nightly battle. Larry gets unusually candid about his own relationship with fitness and body image, and Abbey offers a grounded, non-restrictive framework for approaching food that she built out of her own recovery from an eating disorder.

The conversation also covers modeling healthy body image for kids, a practical division-of-responsibility approach to family meals, and Abbey's honest take on GLP-1 medications. If you've ever felt confused by conflicting nutrition advice online, or wondered whether your own relationship with fitness has quietly become more about fear than health, this episode offers real, evidence-based clarity.

Timeline Summary

[1:02] The seed oil debate: what the actual research says versus the online panic

[6:15] Ranking cooking oils by nutrient profile, and why canola oil gets undeserved hate

[16:09] Introducing Abbey Sharp: registered dietitian, author, and "the internet's no BS dietitian"

[17:45] Diet culture's impact on men, reframed as "optimization" and "looks maxing"

[19:02] How male-focused disordered eating often centers on muscularity rather than thinness

[21:42] Explaining "looks maxing" and its darker corners online

[23:23] Larry shares his own history: childhood bullying, a significant weight loss at 17, and fear of regaining it

[27:23] Finding balance: caring for your body without making it a referendum on your worth

[29:31] Why kids absorb body image messaging from watching their parents, long before anyone tells them directly