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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Escaping The Weight Escape
ACT is a type of psychological therapy which is all about letting go of thoughts and ideas which are not serving you, and moving on to an awesome, authentic and meaningful life. A book called “The Weight Escape” uses ACT to promote weight loss, which is the WORST possible misuse of ACT! How gaslighting to tell people to ‘let go of thoughts about weight loss’ and then SELL THEM A DIET! My guest this week is Margit Berman, a fierce HAES warrior and ACT expert. Margit is here to tell us all about her new books, which are much more authentic and useful ways to use ACT in a non-diet way. Seriously an incredible conversation!
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I Broke Up With Geneen Roth
For decades, author Geneen Roth has been widely regarded as an anti-diet heroine. She’s written some kick arse books encouraging women to stop dieting, embrace their bodies, and look more deeply at their relationship with food. So just WHAT THE HELL is going on, as lately she’s riding the diet wagon. Not only is she terrified of sugar, she’s even openly trash talking weight?? My guest this week is Katie Thompson, psychotherapist and eating disorders specialist. She is MAD AS HELL at Geneen Roth and has officially BROKEN UP with her. Join me for an excellent discussion about who Geneen Roth is, why we think she’s betraying us, and how we can push back against guru gaslighting!
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Inside Overeaters Anonymous
This week I gained an insider’s perspective of Overeater’s Anonymous (OA) with my courageous guest Halina Brooke. As an ex-member, she is livid and ready to vent her spleen about the goings on in this super secretive organisation. Just what is OA all about, and how helpful is it for people who seek their guidance? Is OA helping people to recover, or is it just trying to force people to be ‘better’ at disordered eating?
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Losing Weight For God
This week my guest Meg McClintock is mad as HELL about “Weigh Down Ministries,” a church devoted to weight loss. We thought it was a joke at first but nope, it’s a thing. As an anti-diet dietitian and a Christian, Meg is ROPEABLE about the idea that ‘thinness is Godly’. You won’t believe the outrageous claims being made by this eccentric evangelist!
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Sugar Hysteria
This week we’re All Fired Up on sugar! My incredible guest is Marci Evans, anti-diet dietitian, speaker, and eating disorders specialist. She’s had an absolute GUTFUL of the sugar hysteria gripping our planet, and is here to set the record straight! Is sugar addictive? Do we need to constantly police our intake? Why is Sarah Wilson’s hair so shiny? Has the world gone completely round the twist? Don’t miss this fabulous dose of sensible sugar talk!
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