I can’t believe I am still talking about toxic gym culture, but this week I was contacted by Mamamia to comment on Aaron Cartright, owner of a South Australian gym called “Harden The Fat Up”, who decided to market his gym’s ‘21 day body transformation package’ with...

This week on the All Fired Up! podcast I chatted with Jodie Arnot, body positive personal trainer from The Moderation Movement and one of our UNTRAPPED guides. We spoke about how gyms have become diet central, with all of the major chains promoting various $plans$...

We’re right in the middle of the ‘clean’ eating craze, and as I mentioned in last week’s blog, modern eating disorders are presenting more often as an obsession with health rather than thinness. This makes them incredibly difficult to call out, particularly in the...

This week’s All Fired Up podcast was about the increasing number of Instagram ‘influencers’ in the health and wellness space who claim to be in recovery from an eating disorder, but at the same time make a lucrative living from selling intense eating and exercise...

I recently saw a fellow health professional advertising a ‘cure’ for emotional eating. The assumption was that emotional eating is always wrong, that it must be eliminated in order to ‘fix’ the person and of course lead to the holy grail of weight loss. I totally...