Q&A Videos

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.

Wed 27th May 2020

Here’s what I covered in this episode:

• Why it seems harder to eat calmly and peacefully in the late afternoon and evening.
• How you differentiate between ‘junk food’ and ‘real food’.

Wed 20th May 2020

In this episode of my weekly LIVE Q&A, I answered questions about:

• How to navigate the way any kind of intervention, like assessing fullness or satisfaction, can trigger eating beyond comfort
• Whether some people can’t fully recover from disordered eating

Wed 13th May 2020

Here’s what I covered in this episode:

• How do you take care of yourself when you don’t believe you’re worthy of that?
• How do you marry up the internal changes of self-acceptance with the external challenges of the limitations of one’s body?

Wed 6th May 2020

In this episode, I touched on the following:

• How to deal with the physical and emotional discomfort of being in a bigger body, post dieting
• Whether it’s possible to lose weight without dieting
• What to do if you believe your weight is impacting on your flexibility, stamina, strength and other health conditions
• What to do when you hate your body and you can’t imagine not hating it
• Whether you need to learn to love your body to make peace with it
• Dealing with restrictions during Lockdown
• Dealing with restrictions due to a health condition

Wed 22nd Apr 2020

In this episode, I covered the following:

• How can I protect myself from Covid-19 without falling down the rabbit hole of weight loss?
• How do you escape the cycle of self-hating and eating?
• How do you separate self-worth from appearance/ size?