Bod Almighty

Do you worry about what you eat, your partner eats or your kids eat? Do you wish for a personal chef so you could “eat perfectly” and be radiantly healthy? Food is medicine…right? “You Are What You Eat” – is that true? Paleo or Vegan? Mediterranean or Keto? What about intermittent fasting? How to eat to live a long life in a perfect body? HELP!

Dr Lindo Bacon is the expertiest of experts, helping us mere mortals to understand the role and value of nutrition. With an MA in psychotherapy, an MA in Exercise Science and a Ph.D in Physiology from the University of California, Davis, Dr Bacon has held various academic and research positions and written three groundbreaking and bestselling books - Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight (co-authored with Dr Lucy Aphramor)and Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better. Dr Lindo Bacon is recognised by the body liberation movement as not just an expert but a pioneer and inspiration and we are so honoured to enjoy this jam-packed discussion with them!

In this episode you are going to get The Real Deal on nutrition and how it impacts health, backed up by solid research. You might be surprised! We certainly were. Buckle up!

In this mind-blowing, myth-busting episode on Bod Almighty we cover:

- What Dr Bacon believed to be true about nutrition - you might recognize yourself here! We did! (around 3:10)

- The biggest contributor to our health (around 4:00)

- Why you might want to be thinner (around 5:10)

- Truth bomb and mic drop moment (around 7:00)

- Why you might binge eat (around 7:30)

- What the contestants of The Biggest Loser can teach us (around 9:00)

- Shocking research about people who don’t focus on nutrition and how they eat (around 11:00)

- When you know exercise is good for you does that help you to exercise? (around 13:00)

- Hot tip: A first step for plugging in to what your body needs or wants (around 14:30)

- What on earth is a nutrition myth? (around 18:30)

- What bald men and heart attacks have to do with it! (around 22:30)

- An example of how researcher bias effects what you see in the news (around 27:00)

- “Weight loss improves health” or does it? (around 28:00)

- Stigma and trauma and how they are related (around 32:00)

- Very Important Point (VIP) about the word “fat” (around 32:30)

- Lindo’s view on why certain diseases may be more prevalent in people with fat bodies (around 34:30)

- What we need to be working on as a society! (around 36:30)

Resources:

Lindo’s website: https://lindobacon.com/

Lindo’s books: https://lindobacon.com/health-at-every-size-book/

https://lindobacon.com/body-respect-book/

https://lindobacon.com/radical-belonging-book/

Lindo’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindobacon/

Lindo Twitter: https://twitter.com/LindoBaconX

Lindo’s Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/LindoBaconX/

Bod Almighty is the practical, how-to podcast to help improve your body confidence. We have something for every age, stage and body with topics like:

How to shop for swimwear

How to care less about what others think of you,

How to feel confident about your body during sex,

How to look at photos of yourself,

How to dress when your body has changed,

How to deal with being weighed at the doctors,

How to deal with judgemental family members,

How to see your body as a minor player in your life,

How to deal with weight/body related comments,

How to feel body confident at the gym or playing sport,

How to cope with menopause,

How to stop your own body image issues being passed down to your children.

Bod Almighty matches body image frustrations and fears with subject matter experts to facilitate a positive shift in body image beliefs. Each Bod Almighty episode is a clear “How to” using re-framing, new concepts or information, useful steps, exercises and practices delivered in no more than thirty minutes. Short and sweet; less waffle and more action!

Your hosts Michelle Sokolich (Videographer / Photographer) and Hannah Tunnicliffe (Author) have been there. They met on the course – “Stop Fighting Food” led by body image and intuitive eating expert Isabel Foxen Duke. In February 2021 they surveyed over fifty close contacts to understand the body image related frustrations they were experiencing. The results led them to create Bod Almighty.

Bod Almighty gives you the tools, advice and encouragement to become more free and confident in your body. We understand that diet culture and anti-fat bias are systemic, societal problems and hope that this podcast can play a small role in chipping away at those oppressions while improving your personal day-to-day life.

Don’t let your body image limit you from a life of freedom, movement, joy and pleasure. Join the conversation at Bod Almighty to stand up to your fears and inner critic and practice the confidence you deserve!

We can’t wait to share this with you,

Michelle & Hannah