Q&A Videos

Thu 6th Aug 2020

How does one persevere with recovery in the face of constant diet culture exposure? How can I eat mindfully in social situations? What should you do if your partner brings ‘trigger foods’ into the house? How can I make it not about the weight?

I answered these questions in this Q&A video.

Tue 28th Jul 2020

• How do you stop repeating the family history of eating in secret?
• How do you respond to the UK government’s new strategy of encouraging the public to lose weight to protect against poorer Covid-19 outcomes?

Find out the answers to these questions in this Q&A replay.

Wed 22nd Jul 2020

How do you start listening again when you’re so used to responding to emotions with eating and disconnecting from the body, so you don’t know when to stop?

What do you do when you’ve given up dieting but your co-workers talk about it ALL THE TIME!?

I answered these questions in this Q&A video.

Wed 15th Jul 2020

• What happens when you and your partner have different approaches to eating – and you have kids?
• What do you say when your doctor tells you to lose weight?
• How do you stop eating when you’re full?

Find out the answers to these questions in this Q&A video.

Tue 7th Jul 2020

• How do you stop binge eating?
• How do you eat the foods you fear?
• How do you deal with your desire for sugary foods when you’re tired?

Find out the answers to these questions in this Q&A video!

Fri 3rd Jul 2020

• What do you do when your family & friends comment on your body (with well meaning intentions)?
• How do you know if your body wants cake?
• What do you do if your job involves encouraging weight loss?

Find out the answers to these questions in this Q&A replay.

Wed 24th Jun 2020

This week’s Q&A had an interesting common thread through most of the questions: motivation…

• How to motivate yourself to eat intuitively
• How to change your motivation to exercise from weight loss to something else more sustainable (and supportive of your wellbeing)
• How to motivate yourself to find balance
• How to motivate yourself from a place of self-love rather than self-hate

Tue 16th Jun 2020

• Is pursuing health a moral imperative and how does one come to a place of acceptance when fat and unhealthy?
• How does one stop hating oneself for weight-related physical pain?
• How can we navigate intuitive eating with acid reflux and gastro symptoms?
• How can one wean oneself off the scale?

Find out the answers to the above questions in this Q&A replay.

Wed 10th Jun 2020

• How should we handle fatphobic memes about weight gain during lockdown?
• Is it possible to eat whatever you want without gaining weight?
• Does Health at Every Size mean being happy with your lot and are restriction and weight loss the worst things you can do?

Find out the answers to these questions in this Q&A replay.

Wed 3rd Jun 2020

Want to know how to deal with the panic of getting bigger? Or how to deal with wanting to eat ALL of anything sweet that comes into the house? These were the questions I answered in this episode.