#284: Simone Harding – Tackling Negative Body Image & Weight Stigma

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 28 May 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Simone is an Intuitive Eating Counsellor, currently finishing MSc Nutrition and Behaviour at Bournemouth University. She is also a PhD Counselling psychology candidate. Her academic research area is body image and adaptive eating, and she practices as a therapist in the field of nutrition, chronic dieting, body image and eating disorders.

In This Episode We Discuss
The scale of the problem of negative body image
Tying appearance to self-worth & personal identity
External drivers of negative body image
Root causes of obesity
Why “self-responsability” isn’t helpful at scale
Steps in modifying body image
Self-talk: moving from negative to neutral to positive
Can non-weight loss interventions improve health to the same degree as those that lead to weight loss in “at risk” groups (e.g. those with diabetes or with obesity)?

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0:00.0	We're losing a sense of identity as being cultivated by qualities, characteristics, what we bring to the world,
0:14.0	are broader experiences away from just what we look like, and it shrunk down to simply how we value ourselves, how we define our
0:24.8	identity is how we look and the reasons for that they are very complicated and we can certainly
0:32.0	explore some of those reasons. But if you think about where self-worth comes from, how we engage with people, the feedback we get from people, now our self-worth is primarily just coming from our appearance.
0:45.3	And appearance ideals are very narrow. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. My name is Danny Lennon and you're listening to Episode 284 of the podcast.
1:11.6	And before we get into things, just a quick reminder that we're less than two months out from the
1:17.6	pair of Sigma Nutrition seminars that are happening in Dublin in mid-July.
1:22.6	So first on July 20th, we have the Nutrition for Health Enhancement Seminar where we're going to be getting
1:29.2	into all sorts of health-centric topics that relate to nutrition going through the research
1:35.0	and application of those that's happening in Dublin on July 20th and then on July 21st we have a
1:41.4	seminar specifically for combat sport athletes and coaches.
1:46.2	So this is going to be the making weight and dieting for combat sport athletes.
1:51.6	We're going to get into all the nutrition protocols that we use for driving performance
1:57.5	in the gym, recovery, dieting during a fight camp, making weight with
2:02.8	weight cutting strategy the week of an event, the rehydration, afterwards, everything
2:07.1	were to go into detail, including with case studies and so on.
2:10.5	That's happening on July 21st.
2:12.5	You can get information about both of those seminars by just going to sigmautrition.com.
2:17.3	The first thing you'll see on the
2:18.7	homepage will be information about those two. So if you are interested in coming along to one of
2:23.9	them or both, feel free to check them out. And if the topics look good to you, then get your
2:29.9	ticket now. So moving on to today's episode, and today I'm going to be talking with Simone
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