All Fired Up

Just what was the crappiest diet culture trend for 2017? Join us on the All Fired Up! podcast this week for our Inaugural Crappy Awards, as we hear from a sparkling array of past guests sharing their nominations for the Most Shitty Aspect of Diet Culture for #2017. BoPo hijacking, weight bias in health professionals, predatory weight loss programs, pretending a diet isn't actually a diet, even the mistreatment of parsnips - it's all here! Don't miss this excellent, rant-filled episode! And yes there's even a TOTALLY Crappy prize for the winner! Warning - this is a pretty sweary episode ! #sorry...notsorry

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Diet culture loves to target us when we're vulnerable, and we're utterly vulnerable when we're pregnant. This week I get utterly incandescent with rage chatting with the very awesome, very pregnant anti-diet dietitian Casey Conroy. The level of body policing hits a whole new level when we're bringing new life into the world. Join us for a fascinating chat about how diet culture targets us at our weakest points, and learn how to FIGHT BACK against all the crap!

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This week I get into the nitty gritty of how social media affects our body image and eating behaviour with social justice warrior and pole dancer Hilary Smith. Hilary wants to HURL THINGS when she sees Fitspo or other 'inspirational' crap on social media, because she KNOWS that it's doing harm. She even took her passionate disgust to the next level by doing the research! Don't miss this fascinating discussion as Hilary discusses how social media is having an impact on Australian women. Spoiler alert: it's not good. Hope alert: it CAN be good for us, if we know what to follow! HAES anyone?!

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This week I chat with Dr Kiera Buchanan, anti-diet clinical and health psychologist, who is calming ME down as I am TOTALLY not ok with diet culture stealing the incredibly gentle and lovely practice of self-compassion and using as a frigging weight loss product! The rage is real as we chat about the horrendous concept of 'the self-compassion diet.' We discuss what self-compassion is actually all about - befriending yourself in difficult times - and how this skill is incredibly foundational to the non-diet approach, and to recovery from eating and weight concerns. Something that's meant to help CURE you from diet culture SHOULD NOT BE USED TO SELL YOU A SMALLER BODY! 

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My guest this week is the incredible Lisa Du Breuil, a social worker who specialises in helping people who have developed addictions and eating disorders following weight loss surgery. Lisa is also very across the issue of weight bias and how this impacts everything: people's likelihood of getting surgery, the types of research questions we're asking, and even the conclusions we're drawing from research. Lisa is totally incensed about the research on weight loss surgery - because most of the research is piss poor quality. And a LOT of information is being left out. We know that many people get into trouble after their surgery, but their voices are missing from the scientific journals. Lisa's also pretty pissed about the level of information people tend to get before surgery (spoiler alert - most people are not informed about all of the risks before they have the operation). In this episode, Lisa & I dissect the long term research on weight loss surgery outcomes, and discuss what we do know...and what we don't yet know. We also talk through some of the often overlooked but serious issues people can develop after the weight loss honeymoon is over. If you or someone you love is considering this surgery, please listen to this episode first!

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My guest this week is the phenomenal Kerry Beake from HAES Health, anti-diet health coach, nutritionist and HAES warrior. After reading about the "signs of an abusive relationship" online, Kerry made the uncomfortable realisation that diet culture itself is an abusive relationship! In this incredible episode, Kerry & I discuss how the manipulative dynamics of an abusive relationship are utterly mirrored in diet culture. We give you the 9 signs to look out for, so that you can protect yourself not only from abusive people in your life, but from an abusive, oppressive culture that constantly tries to trick, deceive, bamboozle and love bomb you so that you're always plagued with self doubt and totally under its control. If you want to get your life back and stop being controlled, listen to this episode! Knowledge is power! 

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This week I speak to Janet Lowndes, anti-diet psychologist and yoga teacher. I completely ruined her Zen by sending her an article titled "the best yoga poses for weight loss." But here's the thing: YOGA IS NOTHING TO DO WITH WEIGHT LOSS! Janet is FURIOUS to witness the oppressive, appearance obsessed diet industry muscling into the beautiful, peaceful world of yoga. As we discuss, yoga is about learning to live in union with yourself, right now, WITHOUT trying to change anything. Cheapening yoga by making it a weight loss method or a way of getting 'bikini ready' is literally antithetical to the entire wisdom. Tune in for an INCREDIBLE discussion about what yoga truly is, and how it can be used as the most powerful way to truly transform yourself - not by changing your body, but by becoming more connected to exactly who you are :}

 

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The biggest weight loss company in the world are in a flurry of re-branding, busily trying to distract us from their nefarious origins as the purveyor of countless diet casualties with sparkly, on trend 'health' talk. But underneath all the glitter is EXACTLY the same shit: Weight Watchers is absolutely all about weight loss (and regain, of course, so you'll stay dependent on them). This week I spoke with fierce and fabulous Zoe Nicholson from The Moderation Movement, who beautifully illustrates in NO uncertain terms how Weight Watchers are spruiking messages of health whilst blithely continuing to focus on appearance -  and sneaking in subliminal weight loss messaging along the way. The fact is, it doesn't matter HOW Oprah is looking at the Emmys, dressing up diet prison and calling it 'a structure we can live in' is a stinky, underhanded thing to do. #buggeroffweightwatchers

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This week I speak with anti-diet dietitian Fumi Somehara, who is all fired up about the thin ideal and how it impacts on the world of ballet. Fumi is passionate about all things dance, and her perspective on how the thin ideal came to dominate the ballet world is fascinating. She talks about Ballanchine, a very famous choreographer from the mid 19th century, who had an obvious preference for very thin dancers. Ballanchine also happened to be brilliant, and wildly popular, so much so that his body preferences became the only acceptable body type in classical ballet. Join us for an absolutely fascinating chat about a whole range of ideas: about how ballet is traditionally not just sexist, but classist and racist, how a few brave females have pushed back against these systems of oppression within ballet world, and how Fumi thinks that maybe, just maybe, the world of dance might eventually force the outside world to embrace body diversity!  

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This week I get All Fired Up with Meg McClintock, dietitian from Choose Nutrition. Meg has had a gutful of her fellow dietitians uncritically promoting new food products which buy into problematic ideas about food. "Skinny Sugar" exemplifies everything that's wrong with how we're marketing food these days. Not only does "Skinny Sugar" exploit the fear we're being fed about sugar and its 'toxic' impact on our health, it also directly tells us that we should be feeling GUILTY about consuming sugar. Throw in a COMPLETELY sexist website, some utterly incorrect 'facts' about GI, and a dodgy corporate backstory, and we have the perfect recipe for diet culture!! 

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