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. Follow us on Instagram ⁠@theantidietclubpodcast⁠ Email ⁠theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com⁠ Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: ⁠www.tamsinbroster.co.uk⁠ Instagram: ⁠tamsin_broster⁠ Email: ⁠freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk⁠ Connect with ⁠Gillian McCollum⁠ Website:⁠ ⁠⁠www.gillianmccollum.com⁠ Instagram: ⁠iamgillianwilson⁠ Email: ⁠hello@gillianmccollum.com

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  Discussions in this episode include: Moving from diet culture into intuitive eating How does diet culture mindset impact our ability to eat intuitively Food scarcity/restriction Stages of feeling stuck or like it's not ‘working' Managing family life around eating intuitively Diet recovery stage and body image  Why it's so much more than hunger and fullness  Fear foods Body trust and attunement  Still wanting to lose weight and intuitive eating Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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: Anti-fat bias Medical weight bias Beauty ideals Body Grief Family/Community Dieting and weight loss Accessing Medical Care/Fertility treatment Eating Disorders BMI Health implications/Mortality rates Health-promoting behaviours 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 Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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: Health at Every Size (HAES) The relationship between weight and health Social determinants of health Health behaviours Mental/Physical/Emotional wellbeing Non-diet goal setting  Books Links mentioned in this episode:  Michelle Elman The Joy of Being Selfish book HERE Lindo Bacon, Health at Every Size HERE Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 Follow us on Instagram ⁠@theantidietclubpodcast⁠ Email ⁠theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com⁠ Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: ⁠www.tamsinbroster.co.uk⁠ Instagram: ⁠tamsin_broster⁠ Email: ⁠freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk⁠ Connect with ⁠Gillian McCollum⁠ Website:⁠ ⁠⁠www.gillianmccollum.com⁠ Instagram: i⁠amgillianwilson⁠ Email: ⁠hello@gillianmccollum.com

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.  Connect With Dacy: Substack: @dacygillespie Instagram: mindfulcloset Website: Mindfulcloset.com Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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:  Instagram Tiktok YouTube Website Books mentioned: Intuitive Eating by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 Leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts and connect with us:  Follow us on Instagram ⁠@theantidietclubpodcast⁠ Email ⁠theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com⁠ Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: ⁠www.tamsinbroster.co.uk⁠ Instagram: ⁠tamsin_broster⁠ Email: ⁠freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk⁠ Connect with ⁠Gillian McCollum⁠ Website:⁠ ⁠⁠www.gillianmccollum.com⁠ Instagram: ⁠iamgillianwilson⁠ Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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:  Weight loss injections Bariatric surgery Diet companies and slimming clubs Weight loss/Weight gain Dieting Anti fat bias Diabetes and disease Connect with Dr Asher Larmie (MBBS, MRCGP) (They/them or He/him) Fat Doctor  #NOWEIGH  Instagram  Leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts and connect with us:  Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 conditioning that had contributed to losing sight of what she really wanted from life.  Topics covered: Patriarchy and social conditioning Diet culture  Therapy Sexuality  Weight bias Systems of oppression Body liberation Leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts and connect with us:  Follow us on Instagram ⁠@theantidietclubpodcast⁠ Email ⁠theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com⁠ Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: ⁠www.tamsinbroster.co.uk⁠ Instagram: ⁠tamsin_broster⁠ Email: ⁠freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk⁠ Connect with ⁠Gillian McCollum⁠ Website:⁠ ⁠⁠www.gillianmccollum.com⁠ Instagram: ⁠iamgillianwilson⁠ Email: ⁠hello@gillianmccollum.com⁠

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 thinness as a measure of health without questioning where this came from. We dig a little deeper into pockets of the history of dieting and the idea that women should keep themselves small to ensure they can keep the attention of men.  Topics covered: Anti fat bias Diet culture  Misogyny and patriarchal beliefs  International no diet day Body positivity  Body liberation Marginalized bodies  Medical fatphobia Racism and anti-blackness Ableism and healthism Books Mentioned Sabrina Strings - Fearing the Black Body Leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts and connect with us:  Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 for fat-positive, weight-inclusive support for menopause symptoms and surprised herself at what she uncovered! Tamsin also shares some things to consider if you find yourself trying to navigate healing from diet culture while going through the menopause years. This topic is huge and in this episode, Tamsin really scratches the surface of what could be a series of episodes! Topics: Menstruating and cycles Anti-fat bias Diet culture Body shame Dieting/weight loss Eating disorders Bariatric Surgery Intermittent fasting Pregnancy Intuitive eating Menopause Links mentioned: Podcast episode with Dr Asher Larmie (The Fat Doctor) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-anti-diet-club-podcast/id1590863754?i=1000571396278 The Fat Doctor Website which has links to resources as mentioned in this episode www.fatdoctor.co.uk Ragen Chastain's Website & HAES Health sheets: https://danceswithfat.org/?s=health+sheets Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 only fill the gap in this market but to raise awareness about how weight stigma in the clothing industry is affecting kids' ability to take part in and continue in sports they love.  Pam Luk is the founder of Ember & Ace, an athletic wear brand for plus-size kids. Growing up playing sports, Pam learned firsthand the importance of finding activewear that fits. Not finding it is one of the main reasons kids quit sports. Ember & Ace is launching their first five-piece essentials collection in February 2023. Topics covered: Anti-fat bias Body image  Weight stigma in schools Periods and puberty Diet Culture Plus size community Connect with Pam Luck: Website: https://www.emberandace.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emberandace  Also mentioned in this episode - Virginia Sole-Smith https://virginiasolesmith.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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't straightforward, she admits she was skeptical and thought she would never truly be able to relinquish control of food and tracking numbers, in this episode she shares the pivotal moments that lead her to be able to be around food and be on the side of her body for the first time in her life.  Topics covered Orthorexia Bodybuilding  Over-exercising  Weight Watchers Laxative use Alternative therapies Mental health Fatphobia & anti-fat bias Weight loss/weight gain Patriarchy Food insecurity Secret eating  Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 explore why it's ok 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: Anti-fat bias Medical weight bias Beauty ideals Body grief Family/Community Dieting and weight loss Accessing medical care/Fertility treatment Eating disorders BMI Health implications/mortality rates Health-promoting behaviours 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 Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 join and Big Girls Who was born. Ebony shares her story of growing up with body image struggles of her own and how she finally came to accept herself and everything her body can do and how she's found dating since accepting herself more. About Ebony: Ebony Jamillah also known as Jamjamjamillah on TikTok is a micro-influencer that wants to make a difference. Originally starting her page doing hair tutorials, she always felt like she wouldn't be received well doing fashion videos as a plus-size woman. After seeing a necessary change across social media and being inspired by more and more plus-size models/influencers, she decided to finally get into plus-size clothing hauls and OOTD. It wasn't until ordering from a clothing brand that constantly gets plus-sizes wrong, that she reached out to plus-size women who could relate to the disappointment. She was just frustrated with not having enough plus-size friends and wanted to be in a space where others understood what she went through being plus-size but also, who wanted to be able to meet up and not feel like the odd one out in any situation. With this, Big Girls Who was born and it's been one of the best things she's ever done. Monthly meet-ups with other big girls to just be fabulous and have that incredible support system. Topics Covered: CW: This episode mentions clothing sizes. Fashion & Plus Size Clothing Weight Stigma Weight Loss/Weight gain Post Natal Depression Emotional Eating Dieting Dating Connect with Ebony Instagram: @biggirlswho TikTok: @jamjamjamillah Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 our own experiences on what intuitive eating looks like in reality including the surprising things that we weren't expecting along the way. Wherever you are on your journey out of diet culture, this episode will help you keep progressing toward a more peaceful relationship with food. Topics covered: Intuitive Eating Weight gain/loss Clean eating Disordered eating Emotional eating Binge eating Comfort eating Trauma Food scarcity Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Group Coaching: https://www.gillianmccollum.com/group-coaching Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 joyful moments she faced along the way and how she now helps others seek the treatment they need. Topics Covered: Infertility Miscarriage BMI/Weight gain/weight loss Medical fatphobia Post Natal Depression IVF Donor pregnancy Weight loss/weight gain Connect with Emma Haslam https://www.yourivfabroad.co.uk/free-guide-to-having-fertility-treatment-in-europe Yourivfabroad.co.uk yourivfabroad.co.uk/blog yourivfabroad.co.uk/podcast www.instagram.com/Yourivfabroad Follow us on Instagram: @theantidietclubpodcast Email: theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 found the body positivity community and intuitive eating but with all those diet thoughts and desire for weight loss still taking up space in her mind, she knew she needed to get support. She shares her story of believing she was the problem to starting to put herself first and finding a peaceful relationship with food and her body. Topics covered: Weight loss Beauty culture Slimming clubs Intuitive eating Weight bias Body acceptance Body grief Systems of oppression Books: Body Positive Power by Megan Jayne Crabbe Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison Body Happy Kids by Molly Forbes Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Trible and Elyse Resch You can watch the full video here on You Tube: https://youtu.be/zHEeZxQuA4o Brand Photography: https://www.clairewiththecamera.co.uk/grow-your-business-with-brand-photography Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Rachael Botfield Instagram: rachiebotfield Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 accessible or sustainable for the vast majority of us. It often takes us away from simple health-promoting behaviours. We dive into all of it in this episode so that you can go into 2023 with your eyes wide open. We could have talked for hours, we crammed in some hilarious stories as well as our usual support and advice for those of you navigating wellness culture this January. Topics covered: Orthorexia Clean eating Disordered eating Food intolerance Weight loss Healthism The social determinants of health Weight stigma/Anti-fat bias Fat acceptance Books discussed Food Isn't Medicine by Dr Joshua Wolrich Anti-Diet Christy Harrison Documentary discussed Belle Gibson - Bad Influencer (BBC iplayer) Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Beyond Diet Culture - Group Coaching Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 understanding of where this might lead to even begin to share this journey with an intimate partner. We have received lots of messages asking about this topic and we explore many different scenarios to support you and what you may currently be experiencing. Topics Covered: Diets and Restriction of Food Fatphobia / Weight bias Body Shame Healthism Weight Gain Patriarchal Beauty Standards Medical Weight Stigma Dating and Long Term Partners Watch the episode on YouTube Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Beyond Diet Culture - Group Coaching Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Body Acceptance without Shrinking - Group Coaching Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 Orthorexia Feminism Spirituality + Religion Fat Liberation Body Trust Personal Pleasure + Joy Book Recommendations: The Religion of Thinness by Michelle Mary Lelwica Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey Women, Food and God by Geneen Roth Watch the episode on YouTube Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Free Intuitive Eating Webinar Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com Connect with Sabina McAllister Singwell Website: https://schoolofbitchcraft.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sobitchcraft/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sobitchcraft

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 more importantly how to protect yourself and your own healing when you find the conversation has switched to food and body shaming. Topics covered: Dieting/Food Restriction/Slimming Clubs Fatphobia/Anti-fat Bias Body Image Food Obsession/Orthorexic Behaviours Boundaries Health at Every Size Systems of Oppression Intuitive Eating Watch the episode on YouTube Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Free Intuitive Eating Webinar Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Free Masterclass: How Not To Hate Your Body Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 video recording of this episode for the first time. Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Free Intuitive Eating Webinar Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: iamgillianwilson Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 in her life she had been avoiding and how this led her to discover intuitive eating and body positivity. She is honest about how this discovery was anything but a smooth ride and we laughed and cried along with her as she retold her story, shared her learnings and imagned what the future holds. Topics Covered Binge Eating & Emotional Eating Weight loss/Dieting Alcohol Misuse & Addiction Food Scarcity Exercise Addiction Mental Health Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Siobhan Outsauced Media on Instagram Not So Secretly Sober on Instagram Connect with Tamsin Broster Free Intuitive Eating Webinar Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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, or a professional. This week we explore the feelings of shame you might be experiencing to help you understand why you might feel this way and what to do if this happens to you. Topics covered Weight gain fears Dieting/diet culture Body image Body positivity Body acceptance Weight stigma Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Body Image Breakthrough Group Coaching https://www.subscribepage.com/body_image-breakthrough Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 dive into all the ways in which this relates to diet recovery and body image work with the hope that our listeners can start to be curious about their own journey and their own lives and have the courage to break free from anything that stops you from becoming your authentic self. Topics covered/CW Childhood sexual abuse Homophobia Sexuality Compulsory Heterosexuality Compulsory Femininity Trauma Coming out later in life Body Image Processing emotions Systems of oppression Anti-fat Bias Gender Roles Samantha Fox is a Sexuality Coach and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in New York. She has been in private practice since 2012, working with individuals and couples struggling with sexuality, sexual issues, coming out later in life, and intimacy. She pulls from various therapy models to work with clients, which supports my belief that one size doesn't fit all. She is sought out by women coming out later in life who need help processing feelings of guilt and shame created by Compulsory Heterosexuality, as well as internalized homophobia and struggling to embrace and embody their authentic selves. To give women a safe space to explore, find and live their truth, and to create an embracing community for women around the globe questioning their sexuality or coming out later in life, she has built the Curious, Questioning, and Coming Out Programs. Connect with Samantha Fox Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/curiousquestioningcomingout/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lesbiancuriositycoach?lang=en Website: https://www.curiousquestioningandcomingout.com/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCugZWOUuPKEtdXQndioSbYQ Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Body Image Breakthrough Group Coaching https://www.subscribepage.com/body_image-breakthrough Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 pressure of diet culture. Topics covered: Eating anxiety Secret Eating Dieting & weight loss Binge eating/Emotional eating Diet culture Anti-fat bias/Weight stigma Food addiction Weight set point Mindful eating Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

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 recovery from diet culture, this episode gives an honest account of what to expect. We are so grateful to Karen for sharing her story with us as we know it's going to be so helpful to so many people. Nothing shared in private coaching has been discussed in this episode. (This episode is part 2 of 2, if you haven't listened to part one, be sure to go back and find episode 24) Topics covered: - Dieting and Weight Loss - Health at Every Size - Diet Recovery - Body Grief - Body Shame - Intuitive Eating - Perfectionism in Recovery Books referenced: Health at Every Size by Lindo Bacon Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Group Coaching: https://www.gillianmccollum.com/group-coaching Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

This week we bring you an incredible open and honest client story from Karen Murray. Like so many of us, her struggles with food and body span over decades and have been ever-present at every point in her life. Karen explains the true extent to which she attempted to control her body size through food and exercise and how she found her way out through anti-diet work. Karen is a client of Gillian's who has been on such a journey through her own recovery, she wanted to share her story to help others. Nothing shared in private coaching has been discussed in this episode. (This episode is part 1 of 2) Topics covered: - Dieting and weight loss - Bulimia - Over-exercising - Orthorexia - Infertility / IVF - Alcohol dependency - Depression - Suicidal ideation Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Group Coaching: https://www.gillianmccollum.com/group-coaching Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

What a guest we have for you this week, none other than Dr Asher Larmie (they/them) aka The Fat Doctor. Asher is a Transgender Non Binary fat activist and GP with over 20 years of medical experience in the UK. Asher shares with us how their own journey unfolded and the ways in which the medical system is harming fat patients and why they continue to fight for an end to medical weight stigma. Their #noweigh campaign aims to be the first step towards dismantling weight centric healthcare that has become the norm in our society. Topics Covered: Weight Loss & Dieting Eating Disorders Intuitive Eating Medical Weight Stigma Medical Trauma Social Determinants of Health BMI Dr Asher Larmie (The Fat Doctor) https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk https://www.noweigh.org Thefatdoctor/Instagram @fatdoctoruk/tiktok Ragen Chastain - https://danceswithfat.org Health Sheets - https://danceswithfat.org/2021/03/09/haes-health-sheets-diagnosis-specific-info-for-weight-neutral-healthcare/ Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Group Coaching: https://www.gillianmccollum.com/group-coaching Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

What happens when Intuitive Eating feels like an uphill struggle or quite simply out of reach? This week we share our honest thoughts and experiences of why Intuitive Eating might not be the perfect answer for everyone opting out of dieting. We delve into the privilege behind Intuitive Eating and discuss some of the factors that mainstream Intuitive Eating providers aren't talking about. Topics Covered: Eating disorder recovery Social determinants of health Binge eating Dieting & food restriction Anti-fat bias Wellness culture White supremacy and systemic racism Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

This week we welcome our first guest of season 3, Rebecca Spittles. She shares with us her own personal recovery story and journey from hating her body to finding her self-worth outside of diet culture. She tells her incredible story of always being presented as the ‘big' girl and the stigma that came with that from a young age and explains how this played out in her social life and the relationships she sought as a result. Rebecca is a Divorce & Separation Support Coach supporting men and women through the emotional and practical elements of a relationship breakdown. She lives in Bristol with her husband and 2 children. Topics Covered: Anti-fat bias/weight stigma Weight and weight gain Sex & relationships Drug abuse/laxative abuse Dieting & restriction Abusive relationships Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

How do you accept your body if you gain weight? Can you heal your relationship with food and still control your body? How much influence do you really have over your body size in the first place? We know weight gain is a valid fear for many, and that it's not as easy as simply just learning to love your body and be happy with it at any size especially when the world is set up for thin people and weight stigma is reinforced at every turn. In this episode we talk through these real fears, how we have navigated this in our own personal journeys and how to support yourself throughout your own recovery. Topics Covered: Anti-fat bias/weight stigma Weight and weight gain Intuitive eating Dieting & restriction Acceptance & validation when no longer dieting Judgments from others Thin privilege Medical weight stigma Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

How do you judge yourself? Who are you comparing yourself to? We know that you can't escape the trap of comparing yourself to others and wondering if you are good enough. Even if you have managed to leave the world of diet culture behind, these feelings still come occur. This episode is all about recognising when you are allowing these feelings to affect your self worth and how to work through them and build your resilience as you heal. Join us to find out more about our personal relationship with self judgment and comparison and hear how we help ourselves and clients through it. Topics Covered: Discovering your values and beliefs Body shame/body grief Dieting/Bingeing Acceptance & Validation when no longer dieting Validation yourself and finding self worth Letting go of control How to support work through difficult feelings Building a self worth practice Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

This week we are joined by Emily Perfect a primary school teacher passionate about supporting children to feel confident in themselves, their own bodies, and happy with who they are! She joins us to explain how diet culture and food obsession affect kids at a young age and shares with us the simple changes she had made at her school to ensure the children develop a positive body image. Emily shares her own story of struggles with her body and how she became an advocate for changing the way we talk about food and bodies in front of the younger generation to break the cycle of diet culture. Topics covered: Diet Culture/Weight stigma in schools Impact of negative body image on kids How fatphobia & weight stigma is reinforced in schools Helping kids tune in to their own bodies' needs Benefits of helping kids develop body trust & body autonomy Intuitive movement in schools Body Politics and actvism Emily Perfect Theconfidenceclub21 Body Happy Org Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

Emotional eating is a concern for many of our listeners so we wanted to cover this topic in detail for those of you that find yourselves continually in the cycle of eating emotionally and feeling bad about it afterwards. We both identified as emotional eaters during our own journey and struggled with trying to control it for years. In this episode we chat through these experiences of emotional eating, and explain more about our approach to it now. We help you understand why dieting harder doesn't solve it and how to break out of that cycle. Topics covered: Emotional Eating Binge Eating Self Care Managing stress/difficult feelings Disordered eating/eating disorders Dieting/restriction/orthorexia Free body confidence webinar, live 17th May 12:30 BST https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/body-confidence-tickets-330549651907 Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

This week we are talking about binge eating and how to feel relaxed around food with Isabel Foxen Duke. Isabel has been influential in both of our journeys to recovery from dieting and also our progression into becoming anti-diet coaches and developing our understanding of binge eating. She has an incredible amount of knowledge about food and how restriction of food ultimately affects our ability to trust ourselves with what we need and want. In this episode, she shares her knowledge and over a decade of experience with us on how to truly understand why we feel so out of control around food. Isabel Foxen Duke is the creator of Stop Fighting Food, a Video Training Series & Master Class for women who want to "stop feeling crazy around food." After years of trying to overcome binge eating disorder through weight-normative approaches, Isabel discovered the critical role of acceptance, surrender and social inquiry in the binge eating recovery process—and has been sharing her insights with clients and professionals ever since. A thought leader in the Intuitive Eating and Body Positive movements, Isabel has been featured in publications like Elle Magazine and Refinery 29, and has been widely praised by influencers like Ricki Lake and Lena Dunham. Isabel lives in San Francisco where she runs virtual group coaching programs for clients and professionals around the world. Her writing and free guide, How To Not Eat Cake, can be found at isabelfoxenduke.com and you can watch her free video training series at stopfightingfood.com. Intuitive Eating Free webinar - Tickets can be found here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-intuitive-eating-tickets-318767671687?aff=Podcast Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

This week I'm turning the mic on Gillian to interview her about her journey to becoming a yoga teacher and her experience of how diet culture intersects with yoga culture. Gillian explains how western yoga culture has become heavily interlinked with healthism, diet culture, and the beauty ideal which has an impact on how it is represented and who can access it. The version of yoga we're sold has so many barriers to entry through lack of representation to teachers ill-equipped to hold space for those in marginalized bodies. Join us for this conversation to understand more about how we can change our idea of what a yoga body really is. Topics covered: Movement Connection with our bodies Accessing yoga spaces in a larger body Diet & beauty culture in yoga spaces Orthorexia/food restriction & obsession ‘Clean eating' culture Western yoga culture Systemic oppression Recommended yoga teachers to follow on Instagram: Dianne Bondy Amber Karnes Jessamyn Stanley Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster_coaching Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Yoga: www.gillianmccollum.com/about-body-positive-yoga Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

Our guest on the show this week is fat fertility coach, Nicola Salmon. She shares with us the influence her PCOS diagnosis had on her from a young age, how anti-fat bias shows up in our healthcare system and what choices are available to people at higher weights who want to grow their families. Nicola is a fat-positive fertility coach and author of “Fat and Fertile”. She helps fat folks navigate getting pregnant in a weight-obsessed world and advocates for change in how fat people are treated whilst accessing help with their fertility. Nicola uses her unique fat-positive framework to support people in finding their own version of health without diets, advocate for their bodies, relearn how to trust their body, and believe in their ability to get pregnant. This is a must-listen episode for anyone in a bigger body navigating IVF and/or pregnancy. Topics discussed: PCOS Diet culture in fertility treatment Weight stigma during pregnancy IVF/Fertility BMI limits for treatment Self Advocacy NHS v's Private healthcare Big Birthas - https://www.bigbirthas.co.uk/ Connect with Nicola Salmon using the following links: Website Book Fat and Fertile Alliance Instagram: @fatpositivefertility Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster_coaching Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

Why do photos trigger so much body shame? What do we do when we look back at pictures and wonder why we ever thought there was anything wrong with us? How do we feel when our body has changed or we have recovered into a larger body? Why don't we feel confident to be able to get into the pictures with our loved ones? Join us as we discuss all the things that come up around photos, past, present and future and how we can take steps towards showing up without changing how we look. Topics discussed Body shame Self-judgment Weight loss/weight gain Weight stigma/anti-fat bias Body liberation/Body acceptance Recovery into a larger body Avoidance of pictures Body dysmorphia Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email us at theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster_coaching Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

Our guest on the show this week is body image expert, Summer Innanen. She shares her years of experience with us to explain why making peace with your body isn't about loving how you look. We get deep into conversation with Summer to help you explore healing your relationship with your body without trying to fall in love with every part of it. Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. She helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix, host of the podcast Eat The Rules, and creator of You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame. She also co-runs the Body Image Coach Certification program helping anti-diet professionals learn to work with clients around body image. Topics covered: Body Image & Positive Body Image Body Neutrality & Body Liberation Weight stigma Dismantling Anti-fat bias Self-worth Values & Beliefs Connect with Summer Innanen using the following links: Website Podcast: Eat the Rules Instagram: @summerinnanen Facebook Twitter Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email us at theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsin_broster_coaching Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

Giving up dieting and healing from diet culture can uncover a myriad of emotions. This week we discuss why letting go of our ideal body and hopes of what could have been, feels like processing a loss through grief. In this episode, we explore the stages of body grief, why it's important to allow space for these feelings, and how to support yourself towards body acceptance. Topics covered: 5 Stages of grief Societal beauty standards & expectations Thin privilege Body Image/Body Acceptance Dieting/Weight loss Health at every size Weight set point theory Follow us on instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsinbrostercoaching Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

This week we welcome our first guest on the show, Ly Kerr. In this episode she shares her personal story of experiencing medical weight stigma and the impact it had on her journey to body liberation. Her story reminds us of the prevalence of weight bias in our health care system and the harmful effects it has on individuals in bigger bodies seeking medical care. If you feel alone in your struggles navigating medical fatphobia, and may be wondering how to advocate for yourself or if you can ever find body acceptance, then this episode is for you. Ly Kerr is a freelance writer, blogger & educator based in Glasgow. She writes on a variety of topics, but specialises in body liberation, mental & chronic illness, all with a feminist slant. She writes with passion from experience. Topics covered: Medical weight stigma The relationship between weight and health Health at every size (HAES) Marginalised bodies Living with chronic pain Body acceptance Connect with Ly Kerr using the following links: Blog: www.somethinginthewayshemoves.me Instagram: @wee_frumpy Contact us Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsinbrostercoaching Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

How do you set goals, focus on health or pursue wellbeing when you're no longer dieting? 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: What is Health at Every Size (HAES) The relationship between weight and health The difference between giving up and letting go Social determinants of health Health behaviours over outcomes Mental/Physical/Emotional wellbeing Non-diet goal setting Myth musting around HAES Books Links mentioned in this episode: Michelle Elman The joy of being selfish book HERE Lindo Bacon, Health at Every Size HERE Contact us Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsinbrostercoaching Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

As we approach January with it's relentless pushing of diets, lifestyles and wellness nonsense, we know that many people will be tempted and in some cases encouraged to partake again for yet another year. We've brought you this episode to help you make that decision armed with some things to think about when considering if dieting is in fact the solution. Topics covered in this episode include: Weight loss (we never discuss numbers) Chronic dieting, restriction and orthorexia Weight cycling Food cravings Binge eating Emotional eating Weight set point theory Social connections and how dieting affects our lives Contact us Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsinbrostercoaching Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

What is anti-fat bias? How does it harm us and what can we do about it? In this week's episode we're talking about some of the overt and covert ways in which anti-fat bias shows up in our culture and how this contributes to our collective fear of weight gain keeping us stuck in diet culture, body shame and distressed eating patterns. Discussions in this episode include: Weight stigma Weight bias/oppression Marginalised bodies Media representation Medical weight bias Contact us Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsinbrostercoaching Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

What does self-care actually do for us? How does it affect us when we're not taking care of our own needs? In this week's episode, we explore what self-care means to us and how it is linked to how we feel about our bodies and our ability to pursue a life without dieting. Discussions in this episode include: Body Dissatisfaction/Body image Self Talk/Inner Critic Diet Culture Values & Beliefs Social Media Self Comparison Contact us Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsinbrostercoaching Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

In this week's episode, we cover the topic of boundaries. What exactly are boundaries? Why do we need them and when is it ok not to have them? What's the difference between a request and a boundary? In this episode, we reveal the challenges we have faced with simple boundaries and why we feel it's ok not to have this perfected. Discussions in this episode include: Weight loss/dieting Diet recovery Body acceptance Perfectionism Disordered eating Fatphobia/Weight stigma Relationships Contact us Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsinbrostercoaching Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com

As we approach the holiday season, food begins to take on a new identity in terms of what's allowed and permissible. We're unpacking our thoughts around the marketing of foods at this time of year and the roller coaster we're being taken on. We discuss why food has taken on a moral value and how that affects our relationship with food and why it has power over us. Discussions in this episode include: Food morality Scarcity mindset Bingeing Intuitive eating Body acceptance Letting go of diet culture beliefs Contact us Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com Connect with Tamsin Broster Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk Instagram: tamsinbrostercoaching Email: freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk Connect with Gillian McCollum Website: www.gillianmccollum.com Instagram: gillianmccollum Email: hello@gillianmccollum.com