WELCOME TO THE ALL FIRED UP! PODCAST,
WITH YOUR HOST, LOUISE ADAMS
Louise is by nature a mild mannered clinical psychologist, but her alter ego – a FIERCE and fearless anti-diet crusader – is taking over! Louise specialises in helping people recover from disordered eating, and she’s COMPLETELY OVER trying to help people when the culture we live in is utterly sick, toxic, and screwed up when it comes to food, exercise, health, and body size.
Louise cannot for a second longer take the rampant injustice of a society obsessed with thinness and health. She can’t STAND how fat people are being treated like second class citizens. She is LIVID about the way weight science is being sold to make a buck off human misery.
And she’s SO OVER the diet bulls**t that she’s shelved her own introversion and started a podcast!
So welcome to All Fired Up!, where Louise delves deeply into diet culture and blows it the hell up! Each week we’ll meet brave and fascinating anti-diet warriors who are also fighting for equality, justice, and freedom. Join us, and get All Fired Up! about building a better world!
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Mindfulness Is Not A Weight Loss Plan
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 definition, mindfulness is WEIGHT INCLUSIVE and NOT about changing your body! This is a not-to-be-missed episode, share it with literally everyone you know!
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Toxic Gym Culture
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 bad for everyone, but particularly for anyone in a larger body, finding a safe space to exercise is like finding the proverbial hen’s tooth. Just what has happened to make the culture like this, and what can we do to make it better?
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Water Fasting
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 Instagram Influencers like the “Balanced Blonde,” who is apparently ‘recovered’ from orthorexia but needs to be cured of her many illnesses by starving herself. Join us down the rabbit hole of extreme self delusion, as we investigate these disturbing trends.
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Women’s Health and Weight Loss
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 syndrome are, and BLOWS UP some serious myths at the same time! If you are a woman, or if you know one, you NEED to hear this!!!
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Weight Loss For Millennials
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 feed is now full of so-called health professionals spruiking everything from charcoal toothpaste to laxative tea. In my day (good old GenX), we used to KNOW when we were being advertised to. Now, the advertising is lurking EVERYWHERE and posing as our friend! Is this progress, or are we worse off now? Don’t miss this great rant!
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