The Anti-Diet Club Podcast

Well, what a ride these last two years have been with the podcast. We open this show with some news that has left a lump in our throat, to say the least! 

This episode is an emotional one and a must-listen, whether you are just discovering us or if you have been here since the beginning. 

Join us as we laugh, cry, and dive into the biggest and most unexpected twists and turns of the topics we’ve covered and the guests who have joined us.

We share the biggest things we have learned along the way, not only about dismantling diet culture but also what we have discovered about ourselves on a personal level. 

We are leaving no stone unturned and we hope you enjoy this very real, raw, and emotional episode.

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Here is our most popular episode from the last 2 years of The Anti-Diet Club Podcast and it's all about transitioning to intuitive eating when you have been dieting for longer than you can remember. 

This episode was our 3rd episode and we were still finding our feet with the podcast back then, but we knew that our listeners needed to have our take on how to move towards intuitive eating in the kindest, most compassionate way. There’s no doubt that dieting keeps a grip on us for a long time and we know it isn’t easy to let go of rules and beliefs that you’ve held onto for most of your life. 

In this episode, we’re talking through the surprising ups and downs of starting an intuitive eating practice. We share our own experiences and some common themes we see coming up in our coaching practices. If you’re transitioning away from diet culture and are wondering why intuitive eating doesn’t feel like plain sailing then join us for this episode to understand more about what you may be experiencing.

Intuitive Eating - Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch 

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Show notes - Revisited: But I Need to Lose Weight

On this week's revisited episode, we get to number 2 in our most popular episodes. It’s no surprise that our second most popular episode is related to the feeling of needing to lose weight. The idea that our bodies are always too big is the very reason diet culture exists. 

What if you feel that you need to lose weight? Perhaps you feel that it’s ok for others to be in a bigger body but you just can’t accept it for yourself. In this episode, we discuss why it’s hard to simply let go of the desire to lose weight even if you want to pursue an anti-diet path.. 

If you experience discrimination due to your body size, pursuing weight loss can feel like the only way to support yourself. Society often doesn't feel like a safe place to ‘just not focus on your weight’ and we explore why it’s okay to know that diets don’t work but still have a deep down desire to be thinner.

We explain how you may have been convinced that weight loss is the only route to health, but we share with you why health-promoting behaviours have very little to do with weight loss and what you can pursue instead. 

Topics Covered:

Statistics Mentioned in this episode:

Health behaviours in relation to BMI/Morbidity

https://www.jabfm.org/content/25/1/9

Probability of death in relation to BMI

https://www.nature.com/articles/497428a

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As Gillian and I take a short break from recording, we wanted to share with you some of the most popular episodes so far. This Episode is our 3rd most popular so join us this week to revisit this topic. 

How do you set goals, focus on health or pursue your dreams when you are no longer dieting? Why does leaving diet culture often feel like giving up? 

When you first embark on a life without dieting, it can feel a little disorientating and while everyone around you is still rooted in diet culture, it can leave you questioning if you have made the right choice. 

In this episode, we help you detangle weight from health and bust some common myths around what it means to let go of the never-ending pursuit of weight loss. 

Topics covered:

Books Links mentioned in this episode: 

Michelle Elman The Joy of Being Selfish book HERE

Lindo Bacon, Health at Every Size HERE

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Our 50th Episode is here! We are so thrilled to be reaching this milestone and we wanted to do something special for our listeners, so we decided a special Q&A episode would be the best way to give you some of the direct answers to some of your most commonly asked questions.

Over the last two years, we have received so many stories, comments, DM’s, and emails from our listeners with so many different topics and questions and before now we have stuck to one topic for each episode. For this episode, we wanted to cover a wide range of questions for our listeners. We picked the top 4 questions and give you answers to the things that matter to you most. 

We also catch up on where we are with our coaching, our personal lives, and what's next for the podcast in the future. 

Books Mentioned:

You just need to lose weight and 19 other myths about fat people by Aubrey Gordon

Anti-Diet by Christie Harrison

Health at Every Size by Lindo Bacon

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How do you let go of clothes that don’t fit and find joy in dressing for your today body? Dacy Gillespie has built her personal styling business around helping women to let go of body ideals and beauty culture and find their own personal style. 

She joins us on the podcast to explore what happens in our body when we can feel our clothes digging in or open our wardrobes to see nothing that fits our body as it is today. 

Dacy brings her experience of how she works with clients to understand their body story to bring out the needs and desires of how women truly want to dress when the rules and expectations are stripped away. 

We delve into the frustration of finding size-inclusive clothing, accessing sustainable fashion, and rejecting the rules of fashion in a world that reinforces anti-fat bias. 

About Dacy Gillespie

As a personal stylist, Dacy Gillespie intuitively guides her clients to discover what they feel best in. She helps them let go of the external messages they’ve been given about what they should wear and get to the heart of what’s making them uncomfortable about their clothes. Through their work building a functional wardrobe, Dacy’s clients make a mindset shift from thinking they need to wear what’s flattering to unapologetically taking up space in the world. 

After a lifetime of jobs in high-stress careers that didn’t suit her highly-sensitive, introverted personality, Dacy started mindful closet in 2013 in an attempt to create a more emotionally sustainable lifestyle. She has two boys, ages 4 and 8, and a husband she adores who is well aware of her mental load. 

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How does diet culture affect men? This is a question we haven’t explored on the podcast before but we recently connected with Jonny Landels, he joined us for a very interesting conversation about how he went from a fat loss coach to a HAES-aligned PT openly challenging his own anti-fat bias. 

He openly shared his struggle with knowing his diet culture approach was no longer what he believed in, but not knowing how to articulate what he was learning about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach to fitness and health. 

Jonny explains how the language around diet culture isn't often aligned with how men view their approaches to food and exercise, the language is different but the culture and the ingrained anti-fat bias is the same. He now tries to reach men and women with his non-diet approach to support them out of the rigid rules and disordered eating plans. 

Bio:

I'm a former diet-culture-obsessed fat loss coach turned intuitive eating coach and HAES advocate. I spent years fighting my own body and believing I just needed to be more disciplined and motivated to maintain weight loss long-term. A couple of years ago I started learning about disordered eating and intuitive eating, I slowly pivoted my coaching and re-trained, and I've not looked back since! I now help clients break free from food and body obsession and end their constant mental battle with food while using strength training to help them fall in love with exercise again.

Download Jonny’s free guide to ending food and body obsession: https://nextstepnutrition.co.uk/freeguide/ 

Website www.nextstepnutrition.co.uk

Podcast: Beyond The Mirror

Books Mentioned: 

You just need to lose weight and 19 other myths about fat people - by Aubrey Gordon

Intuitive Eating by Elyse Resch & Evelyn Tribole

HAES by Lindo Bacon

Podcasts mentioned: Maintenance Phase - With Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

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Our guest this week is Kelsey Ellis a body-positive fitness trainer who joins us to talk about movement outside of diet culture. Kelsey was a personal trainer who started her career in mainstream diet culture and weight loss focussed fitness, but she had a wake-up call that made her realise she was so deeply obsessed with body goals and counting calories and it was not only not serving her clients but it was damaging her own relationships and her ability to enjoy her life fully. 

Our bodies love to move and Kelsey is on a mission to help people untangle body size from movement and find things they truly enjoy without guilt or shame. 

We loved talking to Kesley, we’ve both been big fans of her for a long time and this episode is our first full episode about fitness and moving our bodies for joy, not punishment. 

Bio:

Kelsey (she/her) is a Black, award-winning, body-positive fitness trainer based in Vancouver, Canada. She helps chronic dieters and exercisers liberate themselves from diet culture, build body confidence, and take the shame out of their fitness game! 

Her on-demand studio Healthy With Kelsey TV offers 100% diet-talk and judgment-free fitness that encourages its members to move their bodies in a way that feels safe, inclusive, and uplifting!

Contact Kelsey: 

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Tiktok

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Website

Books mentioned:

Intuitive Eating by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole

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We love books and it’s surprising that we haven’t spoken about the role books play until now. This week’s episode is a deep dive into how books can really support everyone’s journey into anti-diet and body liberation. We uncover the reason perfectionism can actually hinder progress and how to approach books along your journey without reaching overwhelm. What were the first anti-diet, body-positive books we read, and the role they played in us seeing a glimpse of another world that validated how we were feeling when we were caught up in diet culture. 

If you love books (and podcasts because we also mention those) then this is a must-listen. Check out the books/podcasts we have mentioned in this episode below. Feel free to reach out and let us know your favourites and don't forget to rate and review us so we can keep bringing these episodes to you. 

Books List Read:

Intuitive Eating with Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

Reclaiming Body Trust with Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant

You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths + What we don’t talk about when we talk about fat by Aubrey Gordon and her podcast Maintenance Phase

The Body is not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings

Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison

Memoirs:

Hunger by Roxanne Gay

Body Positive Power by Megan Jayne Crabbe

Landwhale by Jess Baker

What we haven’t yet read but are on our list/bookshelves:

Fat Talk; Coming of Age in Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith

Belly of The Beast by Da’Shaun L. Harrison

It’s Always Been Ours by Jessica Wilson

Another resource for finding books we found useful is Nicolahaggett (instagram) Story highlights called Reads.

Virginia Sole-Smith - Burnt Toast Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/burnt-toast-by-virginia-sole-smith/id1598931199

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Let's talk about weight loss injections. If the headlines are to be believed, we’ve solved the puzzle of how to make fat people thin people…but have we really or is this just another diet packaged as a miracle cure? We reached out to Dr Asher Larmie to give us the inside knowledge of how these injections work, what the large companies and medical professionals are choosing not to show us, and what we know so far from the data and studies we do have. 

Asher leaves no stone unturned and gives us the truth behind the glossy headlines, even as far as the links between those promoting them and the profits being made. 

In this episode, Asher shares what we do and don’t know about the long-term impact, the probability of weight regain, the risks involved, and all the questions you may want to ask your doctor if they attempt to prescribe this to you. 

Asher is our first returning guest and we are incredibly grateful for sharing their time and knowledge with us because this is such an important conversation to have for anyone curious about weight loss injections. 

Dr Asher Larmie (he/they) is a Transmasculine weight-inclusive GP and a leading expert in weight stigma.  They are a fat activist and the founder of the #noweigh campaign, which is committed to putting an end to medical weight stigma. They have over 20 years of medical experience and have been fat for even longer than that. 

Topics covered: 

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(They/them or He/him)

Fat Doctor 

#NOWEIGH 

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