Connor Spratt is a 22 year old, living in Edinburgh, working in mental health. I came across his account via the wonder of iWeigh and his ability and strength to talk about what it's like as a young male with an eating disorder, really struck a chord. I've been looking forward to chatting to him about his own experiences, and all that he's learned during his recovering. We talk about his feelings of invalidation and emasculation in relation to his eating disorder, the challenge that men have talking about their feelings, and navigating the tricky waters of activism when in an ongoing journey of recovery. 

If you are a young man, if you know a young man, and even if neither of those things are true, it really is a conversation worth hearing and I'm grateful to @recoveryconnor for taking time to chat to me. 

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‘At a certain age, a woman must choose between her face and her body!’ Allie's Mum.

This week’s guest is Allie Carr. An artist, living in Sheffield, working at the University of Huddersfield.

Her PHD is called Viewing Pleasure and Being A Showgirl - How Do I Look? Her work explores the slippery multi-faceted performance of femininity, the contradictions in physical bodily display and the divergent techniques of hiding in playing sight - being the dazzling spectacle in the spotlight.

We talk about the role her mum played in validating her; dressing in a way that reflects how she thinks and feels, whilst making the most of the bits she likes best about her body; who has the right to decide if her body is okay, and we shared mutual pain at the progression of our ageing faces

You can find out more about Allie's work via her website:  alisonjcarr.net or follow her on twitter or instagram @alliejcarr and @modernshowgirl

Todays guest is Beth King, a 28 yr old nurse trainee also known as @Allthings_water on instagram. We talked about teenage diets, the lack of body confidence that impacted on her marriage, and fat shaming in the NHS.  

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In this week's episode, we talk with Val Reardon, a New Yorker living in Cornwall for 40 years. We talk about the weekly weigh ins from her father, problematic language around weight gain, and taking her 11 year old daughter to Weight Watchers. It's sweaty, searingly honest, and listening back, I really wish I'd asked more about that Kennedy story...!   

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I'm so chuffed to be able to bring you Season 2 of How To Breathe So You Don't Look Fat! Today's episode we talk with Lizzie Skinner from Beanology, all about the persecution of imperfection, whether we believe in our enoughness, and that time she put pebbles on her nipples. It's funny and sweary, and really lifted my mood when I was having a particularly bad body image day. 

Give her a follow on social media @beanology1 or visit her website for more details on the work she does. https://beanology.co.uk

If you want to get in touch with us, you can email us or visit us on instagram, or twitter.

We had not anticipated making a Christmas special when we interviewed a mermaid, back in October. But look! Here we are! A Christmas special. It features lovely people who've written lovely letters to their bodies, all of which made me cry. it features me, sharing with you, the opening chapter of a new book I'm working on. And it features sleigh bells on our music, WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT?!? 

Happy Christmas from Team How To Breathe So You Don't Look Fat. Which is basically me and my brother and some willing friends who've been incredibly supportive. Here's hoping 2021 can bring us some joy. xxx

Jeanette Bär is our lovely guest for this week, the final episode in Season 1 of How To Breathe So You Don't Look Fat. Where has this last 8 weeks gone, and who has listened to every single episode? In today's chat, we talked about how we talk to ourselves, to hair free or not hair free, and her soft, lovely mum. TW: There is also some chat about Jeanette's experience of IVF and miscarriage, if this subject is challenging for you, please take care of yourself. 

She is funny, warm, an all round delight. If you want to find her on social media she is @missjsoundtrack on twitter and @jbsoundtrack on Instagram.  She is also the co host of Sudden Double Deep, a podcast with her husband Daryl and their friend (and all round dude) Matt Brothers. A triple bill title podcast talking about three films, linked by a word in the title. You can find that, here and here.

If you have any thoughts following today's episode, you can email us here. And feel free to tag us in photos of you eating in the bath, here on instagram or here on twitter! 

Nicola Montfort is The Soprano to the St Ives Mermaid (and her slave photographer.) She is an opera singer and photographer commuting between St Ives and Vienna. She loves the outdoors, all year round open water swimming, along with art history, literature, old school horror and films. We talked about her experience with Anorexia, the things people say and the impact it can have on young minds, and social beauty standards being a fictional work of art. Yeah, we went there, well... Nicola did. She is VERY clever! 

To follow her on instagram, you can find her here. She's on twitter, here. And her website, which is coming soon, is here

If you want to get in touch following this chat, please do email us. You can follow us on Twitter or Instagram.

Clare Meardon is a former professional dancer, current pilates teacher and studio owner, and all round decent woman. We talked about her lock down body, how being a dancer shaped her relationship to body and food, and perhaps most crucially, what Lionel Ritchie smells like. 

Apologies for swears, we've both got gutter mouths! 

Since talking, she has also launched the instagram page @savvy4lifeonline for her online health and well-being community, www.savvy4life.co.uk where you can take advantage of a 7 day free trial of all their barre, yoga, pilates and HIIT classes, plus read up on nutrition and recipes for delicious, nutritious food. We've done a few of the online classes and they're great! 

If you want to get in touch you can email [email protected] or find us on twitter or instagram. 

Sarah Kennedy Norquoy is an author, and all round great woman being the first to agree to let this rookie host, chat to her over the airwaves, for a podcast nobody had ever heard of. She was generous and wise and ever so patient, despite my being nervous of saying the wrong thing, or terrified of us getting stuck on a part of conversation that I couldn't get us out of. Thankfully, that didn't happen and what came out of it was a chat between two women who understood so many of the same experiences. We talked about how she has dieted her way up to her current dress size, how pregnancy brought about new challenges for her body, and how Ella Chloe, a writer, swimmer and speaker, inspired her to starfish in the sea. 

If you want to get in touch, you can email [email protected] or find us on twitter or instagram For more of Sarah's power poses, sea swimming and observations on life, you can follow her @seasaltandsarah