The Anti-Diet Club Podcast Tamsin Broster and Gillian McCollum

Well, what a ride these last two years have been with the podcast. We open this show with some news that has left a lump in our throat, to say the least! 

This episode is an emotional one and a must-listen, whether you are just discovering us or if you have been here since the beginning. 

Join us as we laugh, cry, and dive into the biggest and most unexpected twists and turns of the topics we’ve covered and the guests who have joined us.

We share the biggest things we have learned along the way, not only about dismantling diet culture but also what we have discovered about ourselves on a personal level. 



We are leaving no stone unturned and we hope you enjoy this very real, raw, and emotional episode.



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Here is our most popular episode from the last 2 years of The Anti-Diet Club Podcast and it's all about transitioning to intuitive eating when you have been dieting for longer than you can remember. 

This episode was our 3rd episode and we were still finding our feet with the podcast back then, but we knew that our listeners needed to have our take on how to move towards intuitive eating in the kindest, most compassionate way. There’s no doubt that dieting keeps a grip on us for a long time and we know it isn’t easy to let go of rules and beliefs that you’ve held onto for most of your life. 

In this episode, we’re talking through the surprising ups and downs of starting an intuitive eating practice. We share our own experiences and some common themes we see coming up in our coaching practices. If you’re transitioning away from diet culture and are wondering why intuitive eating doesn’t feel like plain sailing then join us for this episode to understand more about what you may be experiencing.

Intuitive Eating - Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch 

Discussions in this episode include:


Moving from diet culture into intuitive eating


How does diet culture mindset impact our ability to eat intuitively


Food scarcity/restriction


Stages of feeling stuck or like it's not ‘working’


Managing family life around eating intuitively


Diet recovery stage and body image 


Why it’s so much more than hunger and fullness 


Fear foods


Body trust and attunement 


Still wanting to lose weight and intuitive eating



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Show notes - Revisited: But I Need to Lose Weight

On this week's revisited episode, we get to number 2 in our most popular episodes. It’s no surprise that our second most popular episode is related to the feeling of needing to lose weight. The idea that our bodies are always too big is the very reason diet culture exists. 

What if you feel that you need to lose weight? Perhaps you feel that it’s ok for others to be in a bigger body but you just can’t accept it for yourself. In this episode, we discuss why it’s hard to simply let go of the desire to lose weight even if you want to pursue an anti-diet path.. 

If you experience discrimination due to your body size, pursuing weight loss can feel like the only way to support yourself. Society often doesn't feel like a safe place to ‘just not focus on your weight’ and we explore why it’s okay to know that diets don’t work but still have a deep down desire to be thinner.

We explain how you may have been convinced that weight loss is the only route to health, but we share with you why health-promoting behaviours have very little to do with weight loss and what you can pursue instead. 

Topics Covered:


Anti-fat bias


Medical weight bias


Beauty ideals


Body Grief


Family/Community


Dieting and weight loss


Accessing Medical Care/Fertility treatment


Eating Disorders


BMI


Health implications/Mortality rates


Health-promoting behaviours



Statistics Mentioned in this episode:

Health behaviours in relation to BMI/Morbidity

https://www.jabfm.org/content/25/1/9

Probability of death in relation to BMI

https://www.nature.com/articles/497428a



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As Gillian and I take a short break from recording, we wanted to share with you some of the most popular episodes so far. This Episode is our 3rd most popular so join us this week to revisit this topic. 



How do you set goals, focus on health or pursue your dreams when you are no longer dieting? Why does leaving diet culture often feel like giving up? 

When you first embark on a life without dieting, it can feel a little disorientating and while everyone around you is still rooted in diet culture, it can leave you questioning if you have made the right choice. 

In this episode, we help you detangle weight from health and bust some common myths around what it means to let go of the never-ending pursuit of weight loss. 

Topics covered:


Health at Every Size (HAES)


The relationship between weight and health


Social determinants of health


Health behaviours


Mental/Physical/Emotional wellbeing


Non-diet goal setting 



Books Links mentioned in this episode: 

Michelle Elman The Joy of Being Selfish book HERE

Lindo Bacon, Health at Every Size HERE



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Our 50th Episode is here! We are so thrilled to be reaching this milestone and we wanted to do something special for our listeners, so we decided a special Q&A episode would be the best way to give you some of the direct answers to some of your most commonly asked questions.

Over the last two years, we have received so many stories, comments, DM’s, and emails from our listeners with so many different topics and questions and before now we have stuck to one topic for each episode. For this episode, we wanted to cover a wide range of questions for our listeners. We picked the top 4 questions and give you answers to the things that matter to you most. 

We also catch up on where we are with our coaching, our personal lives, and what's next for the podcast in the future. 



Books Mentioned:

You just need to lose weight and 19 other myths about fat people by Aubrey Gordon

Anti-Diet by Christie Harrison

Health at Every Size by Lindo Bacon



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Email: ⁠freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk⁠



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How do you let go of clothes that don’t fit and find joy in dressing for your today body? Dacy Gillespie has built her personal styling business around helping women to let go of body ideals and beauty culture and find their own personal style. 

She joins us on the podcast to explore what happens in our body when we can feel our clothes digging in or open our wardrobes to see nothing that fits our body as it is today. 

Dacy brings her experience of how she works with clients to understand their body story to bring out the needs and desires of how women truly want to dress when the rules and expectations are stripped away. 

We delve into the frustration of finding size-inclusive clothing, accessing sustainable fashion, and rejecting the rules of fashion in a world that reinforces anti-fat bias. 

About Dacy Gillespie

As a personal stylist, Dacy Gillespie intuitively guides her clients to discover what they feel best in. She helps them let go of the external messages they’ve been given about what they should wear and get to the heart of what’s making them uncomfortable about their clothes. Through their work building a functional wardrobe, Dacy’s clients make a mindset shift from thinking they need to wear what’s flattering to unapologetically taking up space in the world. 

After a lifetime of jobs in high-stress careers that didn’t suit her highly-sensitive, introverted personality, Dacy started mindful closet in 2013 in an attempt to create a more emotionally sustainable lifestyle. She has two boys, ages 4 and 8, and a husband she adores who is well aware of her mental load. 

Connect With Dacy:

Substack: @dacygillespie

Instagram: mindfulcloset

Website: Mindfulcloset.com

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