All Fired Up

We all know that diet culture is full of shit, but in this week’s episode of All Fired Up the shit gets REAL. My guest is Jessica Campbell, nutritionist and medical intern, and she could not believe her eyes when she saw a documentary in which larger bodied teenage girls were being given pills full of thin people’s shit, in an effort to ‘cure them’ of their fatness. This documentary is part of a larger research trial currently running in New Zealand into faecal transplants. There is no doubt that research on the gut microbiome is fascinating stuff, but it’s also very much in its infancy. To put teens under such scrutiny and to take such a massive risk is just gobsmacking. We have no idea what the impact of eating other people’s shit will be. And does anyone care about weight stigma?? Don’t miss an incredible discussion about the ethics, impacts and implicit bias of making fat people eat shit.

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We’re headed across the ditch to find out what on earth is going on with New Zealand’s OBSESSION with fitness trackers! Anti diet dietitian and All Blacks Fan Sarah Peck is LIVID because every time she turns around, someone is slipping her kids a fitness tracker! Not to mention the horrendous “Healthiest Schools Challenge,” in which kids as young as 5 are being forced to count their steps in a competition bound to send some kids down the rabbit hole of obsessive exercise. Hear how Sarah has fought back and even taken on New Zealand’s “king of the humans” on national tv!

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This week on All Fired Up!, I share 3 incredible stories of women pushing back against diet culture bullsh*t! First up is the incredible Nicole McDermid from @theembodiedjourney on her ballsy call for action to the eating disorders community. Then, Drs Carolynne White @carolynneot and Natalie Jovanovski tell all about how they brought the weight-inclusive health approach to the attention of politicians! And finally, the story of Jessica Sanders from @re_shape_ and how she used her anger at the stats on young girls getting labiaplasty to develop a body acceptance book for pre teens!

This episode will have you punching the air and put a fire in your belly! We can all do something to push back against toxic diet culture! No matter who we are, we CAN ALL untrap from the crap!

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This week on All Fired Up! my guest is the incredible dietitian, diabetes expert & mindful eating pioneer Megrette Fletcher. She has had a GUTFUL of how diet culture is dumbing down diabetes, especially this idea that weight loss is the answer to everything! Don’t miss a fabulous deep dive into all things insulin resistant. Learn what diabetes really is, how gloriously complex it is, and how you can take a completely non-diet approach to looking after it! It really is possible to eat what you love and love what you eat with diabetes!

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This week on All Fired Up!, my incredible guest is Dr Lilia Graue, physician and anti-diet coach. Lilia is also an expert in mindfulness, and she is NOT HAPPY about the way diet culture has hijacked mindful eating and made out like it’s a nifty new diet. Join us for a truly incredible deep dive into the essence of mindfulness and mindfulness philosophy, and hear exactly why, because of its very definition, mindfulness is WEIGHT INCLUSIVE and NOT about changing your body! This is a not-to-be-missed episode, share it with literally everyone you know!

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This week I chat with the fabulous Jodie Arnot, anti-diet fitness professional and co-founder of the Moderation Movement. She is RAGING about the toxic, obsessive, exclusionary and downright cult-like culture of gyms. It seems like there’s no safe place for us to go and simply enjoy moving our bodies anymore: instead, we’re very likely to feel like we’ve stumbled into a weight loss centre. It’s bad for everyone, but particularly for anyone in a larger body, finding a safe space to exercise is like finding the proverbial hen’s tooth. Just what has happened to make the culture like this, and what can we do to make it better?

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Straight from the pits of hell is diet culture’s latest trend, water fasting! People are actually PAYING MONEY to go to ‘treatment centres’ to be professionally starved for weeks on end. My guest this week is Sarah Barnitt, a listener from Chicago who is OUTRAGED that this ridiculous trend is taking hold all over the USA - water fasting! The worst part is this practice is being promoted by Instagram Influencers like the “Balanced Blonde,” who is apparently ‘recovered’ from orthorexia but needs to be cured of her many illnesses by starving herself. Join us down the rabbit hole of extreme self delusion, as we investigate these disturbing trends.

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This week I’m All Fired Up about weight loss & women’s health with Terrill Bruere, anti-diet dietitian and ladyparts expert. Terrill has HAD IT with the constant ‘lose weight & you’ll cure your PCOS/get pregnant/fix your hormones’ messages that women are barraged with in the world of women’s health. Terrill brilliantly and kindly unpacks just how complex conditions like polycystic ovarian syndrome are, and BLOWS UP some serious myths at the same time! If you are a woman, or if you know one, you NEED to hear this!!!

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This week we are SEETHING about the weight loss industry targeting millennials! My guest is anti-diet dietitian and 100% genuine millennial, Megan Bray from Food Mind & Body. She is being literally STALKED by a weight loss app called Noom, who are making all sorts of outlandish claims about their shitty product. Megan is also utterly FED UP with the rise of the ‘influencer’ and how her insta feed is now full of so-called health professionals spruiking everything from charcoal toothpaste to laxative tea. In my day (good old GenX), we used to KNOW when we were being advertised to. Now, the advertising is lurking EVERYWHERE and posing as our friend! Is this progress, or are we worse off now? Don’t miss this great rant!

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For decades, author Geneen Roth has been widely regarded as an anti-diet heroine. She’s written some kick arse books encouraging women to stop dieting, embrace their bodies, and look more deeply at their relationship with food. So just WHAT THE HELL is going on, as lately she’s riding the diet wagon. Not only is she terrified of sugar, she’s even openly trash talking weight?? My guest this week is Katie Thompson, psychotherapist and eating disorders specialist. She is MAD AS HELL at Geneen Roth and has officially BROKEN UP with her. Join me for an excellent discussion about who Geneen Roth is, why we think she’s betraying us, and how we can push back against guru gaslighting!

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