Am I Addicted To Food or Sugar?

Do you think about food all the time? Countdown the minutes until you can eat again? Are you addicted to eating? What about sugar? Is it impossible to leave sugary things in your vicinity because you'll eat them all up? In this podcast found out what is going on in our bodies and finally answer the question: Am I addicted to food or sugar? TW: Mention of addiction behaviors and substance use.

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Things Confident People Do

What is it exactly that confident people do? Do they have secret superpowers that can only be replicated with witchcraft and sorcery? In this episode, I'm going to share the things that confident people do on the regular that make them stay confident so that you can copy those behaviors and thoughts to increase your own self-esteem.

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Things People Get Wrong about Body Positivity

There are some pretty common things people get confused about or just plain get wrong about body positivity and in this episode I am going to clear it up once and for all. Make sure you're not making any of these mistakes and false. 😀

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How To Deal With Family Who Are Judgemental

What if I put a picture on Facebook and people notice that I have put on weight? What if my family judges me negatively for working on loving my fat body? What if I wear a crop top outside and a teenage boy shouts "Oi, fatty!"? Yep, fear of judgment is a real motherf*cker and can stop us from living our lives in an authentic way. In this episode, I will bust through some of these fears and let's see if we can shift some of those beliefs for you :)

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Eating More Food to Deal with Pandemic Stress

Have you gained weight during the pandemic...or at any time? In this episode, I will be covering what to do if you have put on weight or if you're anxious that you will put on weight. I'll be talking about the complex realities that folks face that has made living in a fat body harder than normal and the heightened global fatphobia. Also, how to cope if you're eating more food than normal and I talk about why engaging in exercise at home may be harmful to you.

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The Good Fatty vs Bad Fatty Dichotomy

Is your desire to be perceived as a "good fatty" stopping you from accepting your body? What the heck is a good fatty and bad fatty anyway? Is it bad to be a good fatty and good to be a bad fatty? I’m so confused! Find out the good answers to these good questions in this podcast episode.

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Dealing with Fatphobia During Covid-19

I have a super special podcast episode for you today! I would be remiss if I didn't talk about the shit show that is COVID-19 and so here is an episode to help you cope with all of the fatphobic memes, all of the WhatsApp messages from your mum telling you that if you put a cucumber up your bum you won't get sick, all of the weird feelings around food and your body. Phew, it's A LOT to cope with right now. I am joined by guests; sex therapist Dawn Serra, plus-size personal trainer Louise Green and body image coach Summer Innanen (who also happen to be my friends from Vancouver!). Yay. We will be talking about overcoming food scarcity feelings, fighting negative body thoughts, fat positive self-care, and lots of other things to make your brain happy.

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You’ve Been Brainwashed Into Hating Your Body (And How to Deprogram Yourself)

The belief "fat is bad" is an opinion you've been brainwashed into believing...it's not actually a fact! Because of these bogus messages you've been hearing all your life you have been convinced to hate your body. You now have to decide to change and start believing new ideas of what is acceptable, attractive and worthy. In this episode, I will teach you how to do that, let's do it!

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How to Tell a Fat Person to Lose Weight Because They're Unhealthy

Nancy Pelosi recently fat-shamed Trump. Trump is a horror show of a human being, but one thing about him that isn't bad? His weight. Literally there are hundreds of ways to take down Trump and him being fat is not one of his personal failures. But...is it ever ok to fat shame? What if you do it nicely because you're concerned about loved-ones health? What if someone thin shamed you? What if the fat person really is a massive bellend? We discuss this topic in today's episode. Let's do it!

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Would you dance in your bikini in public?

I took to the streets of Vancouver - Granville Island Market to be exact and danced like no one was watching - even though there were LITERALLY busloads of tourists driving by, haha.

I used to HATE my body and now I do things like this. WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO ME?!?!

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A Stand for Self-Love

I am so proud to have stood in the street in my bikini in Oxford during the filming of the BBC documentary "Who Are You Calling Fat?" What you can't see is that under the blindfold after the 1st few people started drawing hearts on me, I was crying.

I was crying because until people started coming up to me I doubted whether the British public could support fat bodies like mine. And when they showed me that they did...it was so incredible. They were happy tears. Happy tears because even though there are so many bigots out there, there are also people who believe fat bodies deserve love, respect, and care.

Thank you for all the fat allies who support me and speak up when they hear and see fatphobia. You give me so much hope for the future.

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Why Lacking Self Esteem Fucks With Your Life

The consequences of not feeling confident in yourself, in your body, confidence around food are massive. It affects so many areas of your life but when we are lacking self-esteem it can be REALLY hard to spot how our life is being negatively impacted by our limiting self-beliefs.

The 1st step is realizing the catastrophic outcomes that low confidence has on us and spot where we could make some changes. Once we really SEE it then we can be really motivated to CHANGE it.

One thing I didn’t mention in the video that I want you to consider is the impact that low self-esteem has on those around you that you care about.

Of course, we are doing this work for ourselves but it can be a great motivator when you want to shit talk yourself or try another diet to know that others are being influenced by you.

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Don't Love Your Body (Still)? Watch This!

Here’s a fact for you: There are TONS of resources out there to help you feel more confident in your body. Books, podcasts, Instagram accounts, courses like my Fierce Fatty Academy.

But still, people don’t love their fat bodies.

Why?

Well, it’s complex but a couple of reasons are:

+There are hidden benefits to hating your fat body
+It is easy to just NOT take action

There is a way to overcome this.

You have a choice and in this video, I explain “The Third Path”.

The Third Path has helped me overcome the stories I kept using as excuses as to why I couldn’t feel more confident. Perhaps it’s something that could be useful for you too?

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Avoid the Constant Learner Effect At All Costs!

What is the “Constant Learner Effect” is and why you need to avoid this at all costs. Why your current strategy is actually LOWERING your body confidence. The counter-intuitive thing you should be doing instead. 3 questions to ask yourself to determine if you’ve fallen into the “Constant Learner Effect.” PLUS what the heck does The Devil Wears Prada have to teach us about body confidence and how we can avoid making the same critical mistake Andy makes in the film.

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Is The Strategy You're Using To Love Your Body Broken?

Episode 035 of The Fierce Fatty Podcast is out!

In this episode, I reveal a massive issue in the confidence coaching world that you NEED to be aware of because following bad advice will damage your self-esteem. I also cover the biggest barrier that keeps people committed to hating their body and discuss why if you’ve been working on loving your body and you’re not seeing results it’s NOT your fault and what is actually going on. Also, we bust through the biggest limiting self-beliefs people have that is 1) “I’m scared to put on weight” and 2) “I’m anxious that being fat will make me unhealthy.

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Covid-19 and BMI Risk Factor

I hosted two free masterclasses yesterday about how to love your body and I saw that there was an increased amount of anxiety around health and being fat....which is 100% to be expected because of the increased amount of fatphobia due to our global pandemic.

Listen, even science showed us that a higher BMI is a risk factor for covid-19 there is nothing we can do to make our bodies smaller and "protect ourselves" from this increased risk (which doesn't exist). There hasn't been ANY reliable science to show that BMI is a risk factor.

Also, what do you think dieting right now will do to your mental and physical health? Numerous studies have shown that dieting negatively impacts them both. So, if being "as healthy as possible" could help us around covid-19 then I don't think dieting is going to get you there, in fact, the opposite.

We also know that fatphobia (aka weight stigma) actively harms the health of humans.

So let's break this down really simply:

⭕ BMI being a risk factor for covid-19: Not proven with science.

⭕ Putting your body on a diet: Science shows it harms our physical and mental health and makes us fatter (not that being fatter is bad). Not one study in history shows ANY weight-loss method works.

⭕ Weight stigma (aka all the fatphobic rhetoric around covid-19): Leads to poorer health outcomes.

So, what's the solution?

Well for me, the solution is to:

1️⃣ Protect my physical health: Follow the recommendations to social distance, wash my hands, don't make out with random strangers at the grocery store 😜 etc.

2️⃣ Remind myself that even if BMI was a risk factor there is literally nothing I can do about it.

3️⃣ Remind myself that there is ZERO good science showing BMI is a risk factor.

4️⃣ Protect my mental health: Unfollowing and calling out anyone who is spreading misinformation around this. Taking time off social media/consuming the news/the family WhatsApp group chat where aunt Susan is saying this is the end of the world etc. Reading what thought leaders have to say on this topic (@chr1styharrison and @drjoshuawolrich to name just 2).

5️⃣ Engaging in self-care and watching cool shit on Netflix 💯