November 24, 2020

091 - Breaking Free From Unrealistic Beauty Standards With @AlexLight_Ldn

44 minutes

In this episode:

In this episode I am joined by body confidence & self-acceptance influencer, Alex Light. She is truly helping women break down all the messages that society has pushed on us making us believe in an unrealistic beauty standard. Alex shares her struggle with food and body as well as her top tips to breaking free from diet culture. We dig into some tough questions like, “Is it okay to be anti diet culture and still want to lose weight?” This episode will open your eyes and your heart, I hope you find it encouraging!

Time stamps:

3:00- Alex shares how she got into the body confidence space

4:15- Alex shares how she was struggling with food and body behind the scenes

5:20- How isolating eating disorders and body image struggles can be, it can feel like a toxic secret best friend

9:00- The skewed perspective that social media creates

10:30- Top tips for breaking free from diet culture

13:00- Alex shares how part of her healing journey was gaining weight and how she was able to navigate this

16:30- Jessi and Alex both share how they felt like they would just endlessly gain weight but how that's not actually what happened

19:00- How food starts to lose its magic and allure after you give yourself permission to eat

20:00- Pop culture and unrealistic beauty standards

26:00- What other industry would we buy into that offers a 5% success rate?

29:30- What to do when others are commenting on you and your body?

34:00- Setting boundaries and what that looks like in Alex’s life

35:00- Is it ok to be anti diet culture and want to lose weight? Where is the line?

Links:

Alex’s Instagram

Alex’s Podcast

Books Alex Recommends:

Body Posi Power

Just Eat it By Laura Thomas

My body is not an apology by Sonya

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