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 c...

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 th...

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...

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 dietin...

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 di...

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...

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, bu...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 underlyi...

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, an...

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...

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 suppo...

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 shar...

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 y...

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 opti...

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...

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 bl...

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 de...

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 wa...

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?...

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...