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, n...
Oct 05, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 54
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 w...
Sep 21, 2023•44 min•Season 4Ep. 53
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 di...
Sep 07, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 52
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, ...
Aug 24, 2023•52 min•Season 4Ep. 51
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 ep...
Aug 10, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 50
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 bo...
Jul 27, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 49
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 approac...
Jul 14, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 48
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 ...
Jun 29, 2023•51 min•Season 4Ep. 47
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 ...
Jun 15, 2023•50 min•Season 4Ep. 46
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 th...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 45
This week it’s Gillian’s turn to take the solo mic for her own personal story of body liberation and beyond. She shares her deep and honest accent of how her life opened up beyond simply no longer dieting and punishing her body. Unlearning diet culture leads to questioning everything from her career, and relationships to her values and beliefs. Gillian gives a vulnerable, open account of how her life completely changed over years of self-reflection, therapy, and peeling back the layers of social...
May 18, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 44
With International No Diet Day upon us this week, we are discussing the ways the media have diluted the meaning of this day and used it to reinforce anti-fat bias and the idea that not dieting is unhealthy. This conversation leads us on to the ways in which the body-positive movement has strayed far away from the fat black and queer community, their voices all too often drowned out by the swathes of white, straight-sized bodies telling us to simply love our curves. Our culture is so focused on t...
May 18, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 43
This week Tamsin is doing a solo episode for the first time since we started the podcast. She is exploring perimenopause/menopause and the lack of representation and support for anyone who isn’t a white, straight-sized, cis-gendered woman. When we go through this phase in our lives the focus seems to be weight gain and there's so much discussion around being body positive but with the underlying message that we need to lose weight. Tamsin shares the horrors that she found when she went looking f...
Apr 20, 2023•42 min•Season 4Ep. 42
Why do kid's clothing brands ignore the fact that plus-size kids exist? We speak with Pam Luck, founder of Ember & Ace, a plus-size athletic clothing brand that she created to meet the demand that other clothing brands appear to be ignoring. In this episode, we ask Pam about her own experience as a young athletic kid growing up with no access to adequate sports clothes to fit her body, and how this affected her own relationship with sports. Now as a parent herself, she has a mission to not o...
Apr 06, 2023•41 min•Season 4Ep. 41
This week we talk to Sam, a client of Gillian's whose pursuit of the perfect body led her into years of restrictive diets, an obsession with wellness fads, and a dedication to bodybuilding and completely transforming herself over and over again. After spending decades pursuing thinness and thousands of pounds later she discovered intuitive eating, a path that would lead her directly to Gillian for support. Her story of rebuilding trust with her body and accepting herself as a different size wasn...
Mar 24, 2023•45 min•Season 4Ep. 40
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 ‘put weight on the back burner’ and we ...
Mar 10, 2023•53 min•Season 4Ep. 39
What do you do when you are surrounded by folks who don’t have to struggle to find clothes in high street stores, or understand what it’s like to be told you can’t enjoy sports or activities simply because of the size of your body? Ebony took matters into her own hands and put a call out on TikTok for some big baddie besties! What happened next shocked her as her DM’s were flooded with people sharing their own experiences of being the bigger one in the group and feeling isolated and asking to jo...
Feb 24, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 38
Do you feel that you just can’t get the hang of intuitive eating? Do you wonder if you are doing it wrong? In this episode, we discuss how doubts and fears can creep in when you start intuitive eating after years of chronic dieting. How can you tell if you’re on the right track? How can you really be sure it’s ‘working’? We share our expertise on how to evaluate your intuitive eating practice if you’re feeling as if it’s not clicking for you, including key things to watch out for. Plus we share ...
Feb 10, 2023•51 min•Season 4Ep. 37
This week we are joined by Emma Haslam, founder of Your IVF abroad. Her fertility journey almost came to an abrupt end due to BMI restrictions and medical weight bias. She shares her story of how her determination to have a child and advocate for herself led her to seek fertility treatment abroad. Emma shares her story in the hope of helping others advocate for themselves and seek alternative options to grow their family and not give up hope. We talk about her fears, heartbreak, anger, and the j...
Jan 27, 2023•49 min•Season 4Ep. 36
This week we are joined by Rachael, a client of Tamsin’s who has a history of dieting through slimming clubs and always being the one who was the one sharing diet tips, bringing her own food to events, and obsessively navigating life around food and dieting. She shares with us how becoming a mum and working in an industry that valued beauty and thinness left her lacking in confidence and unsure of a way out other than pursuing weight loss over and over again. Her anti-diet journey began when she...
Jan 13, 2023•45 min•Season 4Ep. 35
New year, new you? Before you get sucked into a health kick, listen to this episode first! Wellness culture is the new diet culture and as you might expect it’s in full swing this January. In this episode, we share our own experiences with orthorexia, wellness culture & disordered eating. Including some tales of fancy gadgets, protein balls, obsession with popular wellness bloggers, and milking almonds before work! Health and wellness culture perpetuates food and body shame and isn’t accessi...
Dec 30, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 34
How do you cope if your partner has fatphobic views and you fear rejection if you gain weight? What if they’ve never struggled with their weight and have no concept of just how hard it is to keep pursuing thinness? How can you explore new relationships, dating and find a partner who isn’t fatphobic? Embarking on an anti-diet journey can be hard to explain to others, especially when we have been deep in diet culture for years. In the beginning you may not have the language or the full understandi...
Dec 16, 2022•43 min•Season 4Ep. 33
Exactly who are you when your identity no longer revolves around food rules and body obsession? This week we chat with Sabina McAllister Singwell about her reckoning with body trust, her struggle with Orthorexia, the reclamation of her body, and connecting with her spiritual self as part of her healing journey. This episode isn’t to be missed if not for some great book recommendations along the way. Content warning: Sexual assault (at 17 mins) Topics covered: Dieting/pursuit of weight loss Ortho...
Dec 02, 2022•49 min•Season 4Ep. 32
The holiday season is upon us with Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New year just around the corner. We know this is often the time of year that folks find themselves around the table with friends and family and diet chat with no clear escape route. How can you even begin to explain this anti-cultural way of being in your body to those who have never heard of intuitive eating or Health at Every Size? In this episode, we chat through some of the different scenarios people often find themselves in and...
Nov 18, 2022•42 min•Season 4Ep. 31
Our one-year anniversary episode is here! To celebrate this milestone we have recorded a very special episode. Join us as we recap where we are in our personal lives, sharing some of our most vulnerable moments that have happened behind the scenes but also we give you an insight into what to expect from season 4 including some very special news about how you can get much more from us in the future. And if that wasn't exciting enough, this episode is also on YouTube so you can actually watch the ...
Nov 03, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 30
This week we have a client story from Siobhan O’Conner. This was an emotional episode as Siobhan openly shares her memories of going along to slimming clubs from the age of 9, along with caregivers who regularly dieted and reinforced the idea that being fat was something to be avoided at all costs. Siobhan recalls her younger years of always being the party girl and struggling with alcohol, mental health, and binge eating. She describes how covid forced her to come face to face with the things i...
Oct 19, 2022•57 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Ever have that feeling of "I shouldn't feel this way about my body" because, in theory, you align with the body positivity movement? Because you've read all the books, you’ve followed all the social media accounts, you listen to all the podcasts. You might even be accepting and positive about all other bodies. Yet you can’t seem to shift your negative feelings about your own body, you still have thoughts of wanting to shrink your body and that shame stops you from seeking support from friends, o...
Oct 05, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 28
In this episode we have an incredible conversation with Samantha Fox, she lifts the lid on how compulsory heterosexuality and compulsory femininity is so deeply ingrained in us and forms so much of our beliefs from a young age. She explains how curiosity and getting radically honest with who we really are allows us to break free from these systems of oppression. There are so many parallels to anti-diet work because of how we find ourselves questioning the beliefs we have held for so long, we div...
Sep 21, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Do you find yourself eating in the dark? Hiding your food from others? Eating in your car or just anywhere out of sight from others? The restriction of dieting causes reactive eating but so often this reactive eating carries so much guilt and shame, we feel we have to hide it from others. We share our own stories of secret eating and how this played a big part in our dieting years, in the hope that you can see that you are not broken or flawed, it’s simply a way of surviving and coping under the...
Sep 07, 2022•52 min•Season 3Ep. 26
This is the second part of our client story with Karen Murray. This week Karen shares with us the highs and lows of her food and body recovery journey. She gives us an honest account of what she struggled with along the way, and what felt easier as she went through the process of accepting her body. Some surprising feelings came up as she began to dismantle diet culture thoughts and rediscover the joy of food through intuitive eating. If you want to know what it really feels like to work through...
Aug 25, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 25
