All Fired Up

We all know that diet culture is full of shit, but in this week’s episode of All Fired Up the shit gets REAL. My guest is Jessica Campbell, nutritionist and medical intern, and she could not believe her eyes when she saw a documentary in which larger bodied teenage girls were being given pills full of thin people’s shit, in an effort to ‘cure them’ of their fatness. This documentary is part of a l...

We’re headed across the ditch to find out what on earth is going on with New Zealand’s OBSESSION with fitness trackers! Anti diet dietitian and All Blacks Fan Sarah Peck is LIVID because every time she turns around, someone is slipping her kids a fitness tracker! Not to mention the horrendous “Healthiest Schools Challenge,” in which kids as young as 5 are being forced to count their steps in a com...

This week on All Fired Up!, I share 3 incredible stories of women pushing back against diet culture bullsh*t! First up is the incredible Nicole McDermid from @theembodiedjourney on her ballsy call for action to the eating disorders community. Then, Drs Carolynne White @carolynneot and Natalie Jovanovski tell all about how they brought the weight-inclusive health approach to the attention of politi...

This week on All Fired Up! my guest is the incredible dietitian, diabetes expert & mindful eating pioneer Megrette Fletcher. She has had a GUTFUL of how diet culture is dumbing down diabetes, especially this idea that weight loss is the answer to everything! Don’t miss a fabulous deep dive into all things insulin resistant. Learn what diabetes really is, how gloriously complex it is, and how y...

This week on All Fired Up!, my incredible guest is Dr Lilia Graue, physician and anti-diet coach. Lilia is also an expert in mindfulness, and she is NOT HAPPY about the way diet culture has hijacked mindful eating and made out like it’s a nifty new diet. Join us for a truly incredible deep dive into the essence of mindfulness and mindfulness philosophy, and hear exactly why, because of its very de...

This week I chat with the fabulous Jodie Arnot, anti-diet fitness professional and co-founder of the Moderation Movement. She is RAGING about the toxic, obsessive, exclusionary and downright cult-like culture of gyms. It seems like there’s no safe place for us to go and simply enjoy moving our bodies anymore: instead, we’re very likely to feel like we’ve stumbled into a weight loss centre. It’s ba...

Straight from the pits of hell is diet culture’s latest trend, water fasting! People are actually PAYING MONEY to go to ‘treatment centres’ to be professionally starved for weeks on end. My guest this week is Sarah Barnitt, a listener from Chicago who is OUTRAGED that this ridiculous trend is taking hold all over the USA - water fasting! The worst part is this practice is being promoted by Instagr...

This week I’m All Fired Up about weight loss & women’s health with Terrill Bruere, anti-diet dietitian and ladyparts expert. Terrill has HAD IT with the constant ‘lose weight & you’ll cure your PCOS/get pregnant/fix your hormones’ messages that women are barraged with in the world of women’s health. Terrill brilliantly and kindly unpacks just how complex conditions like polycystic ovarian...

This week we are SEETHING about the weight loss industry targeting millennials! My guest is anti-diet dietitian and 100% genuine millennial, Megan Bray from Food Mind & Body. She is being literally STALKED by a weight loss app called Noom, who are making all sorts of outlandish claims about their shitty product. Megan is also utterly FED UP with the rise of the ‘influencer’ and how her insta f...

For decades, author Geneen Roth has been widely regarded as an anti-diet heroine. She’s written some kick arse books encouraging women to stop dieting, embrace their bodies, and look more deeply at their relationship with food. So just WHAT THE HELL is going on, as lately she’s riding the diet wagon. Not only is she terrified of sugar, she’s even openly trash talking weight?? My guest this week is...

This week I gained an insider’s perspective of Overeater’s Anonymous (OA) with my courageous guest Halina Brooke. As an ex-member, she is livid and ready to vent her spleen about the goings on in this super secretive organisation. Just what is OA all about, and how helpful is it for people who seek their guidance? Is OA helping people to recover, or is it just trying to force people to be ‘better’...

This week my guest Meg McClintock is mad as HELL about “Weigh Down Ministries,” a church devoted to weight loss. We thought it was a joke at first but nope, it’s a thing. As an anti-diet dietitian and a Christian, Meg is ROPEABLE about the idea that ‘thinness is Godly’. You won’t believe the outrageous claims being made by this eccentric evangelist!   Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

This week we’re All Fired Up on sugar! My incredible guest is Marci Evans, anti-diet dietitian, speaker, and eating disorders specialist. She’s had an absolute GUTFUL of the sugar hysteria gripping our planet, and is here to set the record straight! Is sugar addictive? Do we need to constantly police our intake? Why is Sarah Wilson’s hair so shiny? Has the world gone completely round the twist? Do...

This week I am in a fit of rage with anti-diet dietitian and mum of two Alison Stewart. A flurry of headlines announced a new program in NSW schools to force kids to be more physically active, all in the name of 'reducing obesity.' Weighing kids, fitness assessments, and fitness report cards were just some of the scary sounding stuff printed in the papers. But what is really going on here? Alison...

In this week’s episode of All Fired Up, I am honoured to rant with Tracy Brown, RD and somatic coach from Florida, USA. Tracy is fed up with diet culture and how it basically forces us to leave our bodies!! The physiological impact of diet culture is disembodiment, which is a huge barrier to compassionate self-care. When we listen to diet cultures’ ‘rules’ about what is an acceptable body, we swal...

The latest ploy from Weight Watchers to capture our kids by offering ‘free’ memberships for teenagers has seen a MASSIVE and absolutely heartening backlash from a whole range of people. This week on All Fired Up! I was blessed to rant with Rebecca Scritchfield, anti-diet dietitian whose Washington Post article protesting against WW really helped to spur along the #WakeUpWeightWatchers campaign. Jo...

This week on All Fired Up! We have DOUBLE the outrage, with 2 amazing guests! It’s an incredible story of how Katie Rowell, cross fitter and eating disorder survivor, became sucked into the dark underworld of gaslighting #Fitspo women who turned out to be much less concerned about her health and much more concerned about her ability to sell, sell, sell their crappy, expensive Juice Plus products!...

This week on All Fired Up! I am venting with anti-diet dietitian Shane Jeffrey, who is ROPABLE about Jenny Craig’s latest ‘ambassador’: Brendan Fevola. It’s a blatant attempt to get men to jump on the weight loss wagon, which as we know is doomed to fall off a cliff! Diet culture is definitely turning up the heat on the male body, and far from being a positive force on our boys and men, we’re seei...

This week I’m back with the fabulous Fiona Willer from Health Not Diets, and we are SEETHING over the launch of yet another terrible diet! Join us as we dissect the outrageous claims of the “Number 1 Superfast Diet,” which is quite literally promising the world to anyone who’ll listen. Diet culture media has lapped up the bulls**t, without bothering to dig underneath any of the glitter. Fear not a...

This week I get totally ranty with Ashlee Bennett, AKA The Fat Therapist. Why aren't we talking about body size, weight bias, and how all of this impacts us in therapy? This is such an important topic and yet we seem to have no words. In this unmissable episode, we talk all about how body size really is A THING. We get into why it's important to check your privilege if you're a thin therapist, how...

Just what was the crappiest diet culture trend for 2017? Join us on the All Fired Up! podcast this week for our Inaugural Crappy Awards, as we hear from a sparkling array of past guests sharing their nominations for the Most Shitty Aspect of Diet Culture for #2017. BoPo hijacking, weight bias in health professionals, predatory weight loss programs, pretending a diet isn't actually a diet, even the...

Diet culture loves to target us when we're vulnerable, and we're utterly vulnerable when we're pregnant. This week I get utterly incandescent with rage chatting with the very awesome, very pregnant anti-diet dietitian Casey Conroy. The level of body policing hits a whole new level when we're bringing new life into the world. Join us for a fascinating chat about how diet culture targets us at our w...

This week I get into the nitty gritty of how social media affects our body image and eating behaviour with social justice warrior and pole dancer Hilary Smith. Hilary wants to HURL THINGS when she sees Fitspo or other 'inspirational' crap on social media, because she KNOWS that it's doing harm. She even took her passionate disgust to the next level by doing the research! Don't miss this fascinatin...

This week I chat with Dr Kiera Buchanan, anti-diet clinical and health psychologist, who is calming ME down as I am TOTALLY not ok with diet culture stealing the incredibly gentle and lovely practice of self-compassion and using as a frigging weight loss product! The rage is real as we chat about the horrendous concept of 'the self-compassion diet.' We discuss what self-compassion is actually all...

My guest this week is the incredible Lisa Du Breuil, a social worker who specialises in helping people who have developed addictions and eating disorders following weight loss surgery. Lisa is also very across the issue of weight bias and how this impacts everything: people's likelihood of getting surgery, the types of research questions we're asking, and even the conclusions we're drawing from re...