In this episode of our summer shorts series, Associate Registered Nutritionist Pixie Turner and Laura sink their teeth into the BBC programme ‘The Big Crash Diet Experiment’. The programme put participants with health conditions on an extremely restrictive very low energy shakes and soup diet.
In this episode Laura and Pixie discuss:
✨The double standard where behaviours that are considered ‘eating disorder behaviours’ in a smaller body are considered healthy and encouraged in someone of a higher weight
✨How programmes like this fail to discuss the importance of mental health
✨The detrimental effects that dieting and fat bias have on people’s health
✨How we can improve our health without going on a restrictive diet
Show Notes
{Pixie Turner Nutrition}
{Pixie on Instagram | Twitter | Facebook}
{Podcast Episode on Food Addiction}
{Weight Stigma 101 - The Body is Not an Apology}
{The DiRECT Trial}
With wedding season well underway, Laura speaks to Harri Rose about how to stay true to yourself and not get swept up in wedding fever. Harri is a certified health coach who helps people get unf*cked up from diet culture around food and their bodies so that they can live their best life and create their own version of wellness. She has done talks for organisations such as Sony Music and will be at many of the UK’s biggest festivals this summer with the Anti Riot Diet Club.
In this episode Laura and Harri discuss:
✨Finding a dressmaker or shop which supports and inspires you to find the right dress/outfit without body-shaming you
✨Choosing your wedding support team wisely
✨Investing in a photographer who makes you feel great
✨How to protect yourself from the diet culture/wedding industry crossover
SHOW NOTES
{Harri on Instagram | Website}
{The Ugly Truth About Wedding Diets}
{Wedding Workout for Stress Relief}
{8 Ways To Be A Body Positive Bride}
{My Wedding Was Perfect - Lindy West}
For the second episode of the Summer Shorts series Laura speaks to Becky, founder of Anti-Diet Riot Club, about Becky's 5 top tips for cultivating body confidence and self-compassion this summer.
In this episode Laura and Becky discuss:
✨ How mindfulness helps you to be more present and conscious of your emotions
✨ How social media can encourage us to unconsciously view ourselves as commodities
✨ The power of curating our social media feeds
✨ Ditching social media first thing in the day could be part of self-care
✨ Tips for buying & wearing clothes that make you feel great and comfortable in your own skin
Show Notes
{Anti-Diet Riot Club on Instagram | Twitter}
{Grace F Victory on Instagram}
{Tess Holliday on Instagram}
{Michelle Elman on Instagram}
{Jessamyn on Instagram}
{Callie Thorpe on Instagram}
In the first episode of our summer shorts series, Associate Registered Nutritionist Pixie Turner and I dissect a worrying Cosmo article from the July 2018 issue that feels more like a flashback to the clean eating articles of 2014. The article called 'Choose it or Lose it' promotes unnecessarily restrictive food swaps, demonising perfectly good foods and reads like a 'how to guide to orthorexia'.
In this episode we:
✨Discuss why it's unhelpful to focus on the minutiae of detail about nutrition
✨How food rules can lead to and overly restrictive diet and potentially even orthorexia
✨Blow the lid off some nutrition myths
✨How articles like this contribute to food fear
Show Notes
{Pixie Turner Nutrition}
{Pixie on Instagram | Twitter | Facebook}
{Refined Sugar Free is Not a Thing}
{Coconut Oil is Over}
{Can you Boost Your Immune System}
{Resources for Orthorexia}
{Podcast Episode on Orthorexia}
{Social Media and the Rise of Orthorexia}
{The Wellness Rebel}