Sharmila is a woman I've admired for quite some time: strong, powerful, authentic and inspiring. When I started this podcast, I knew she was someone I wanted to talk to in order to get an insight into how she carried herself with such confidence. The truth was more complicated than I anticipated and made me respect her even more. In this week's chat we discuss the importance of movement for her body and mind, the warning that made her realise she needed to take better care, and she Sharmila opens up, for the first time, about her coping with the desire to binge and purge.

TW: Discussion around eating disorders.

If you want to get in touch, you can email [email protected] or find us on twitter or instagram For more of Sharmila's life in Portugal, you can follow her @rebel_n_roll

This was a lovely chat where you can hear me and Froshie getting to know one another through many shared experiences relating to body image. Not the swimming though, I've never been into competitive swimming! In it, we talk about coping with judgment, eating with strangers, and a night in the theatre when she fell a little bit in love with herself.

If you want to follow Froshie on social media you can find her on Twitter: @froshieE, on Instagram @froshie.evans.film or @froshie.evans.writing or you can read her writing on pensandperennials.wordpress.com 

If you have any thoughts following our chat, please do email us at [email protected] or find us on social media: @howtobreathesoyoudontlookfat

Matt Armstrong is funny and clever. He was also once told he had muffin tops, right before he was due to "date" someone. They went on to NOT "date". His instagram search history isn't all puppies and half the time he doesn't know if he wants to look like the men he sees, or have sex with them. He worries about the messages young people get from social media, particularly how many young men think Chris Pratt is an achievable body type. We shared all this and much more in our chat. 

Warning: Language. We're both pretty sweary - apologies. 

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In this, the first ever How To Breathe So You Don't Look Fat, we talk to Laura Evans, also known as the St Ives Mermaid, about learning to accept her body when she started 'washing up' on beaches, what it's like loving another woman with her own complex relationship with body, food and self, and Laura tried her best to get us some sponsorship from Yorkshire Tea. (Yorkshire Tea! Yorkshire Tea!) 

You can follow our Mermaid here: Instagram: @stivesmermaid and here: Twitter: @stivesmermaid

You can follow us on Instagram: @howtobreathesoyoudontlookfat and here on Twitter: @HowtoBreatheSoYouDontLookFat tag or message us too, using the hashtag #htbsydlf

If you want to get in touch with us, feel free to email: [email protected] 

Anna lets us into a few of the secrets as to why she's spent 35 of her 43 years in a shitty relationship with her body. This is a round up of why she's starting the podcast, and what she hopes to bring to it. A teaser ahead of the first episode being launched mid October.