FFF 073: How To Become Body Confident & Boost Self Esteem - with Shona Macpherson

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Scott Baptie

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4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Shona Macpherson has struggled for years with her weight, body image and self-love. If you name a nonsense diet she’s tried to nail it. Pick an exercise class or gimmick she’s practiced it. But she’s come through this – not only is she the healthiest and happiest she’s ever felt but she is on a mission to help others do the same.

Shona is a former nurse, counsellor, aid worker, project manager and support worker turned personal trainer and trainee life coach.

In this episode Shona shares her own body confidence story, the problem with ‘standardised beauty’, the benefit of tracking ‘strength over weight’, the impact body issues and social media is having on teenagers, top strategies to improve your self-esteem, exercise strategies for those who are terrified of gyms and how we can find a balance between being happy with ourselves yet wanting to improve.

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0:00.0	Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon?
0:04.5	Join us as we share simple, realistic, and above all, achievable weight loss advice
0:09.5	based on evidence gathered from helping hundreds of people look, feel, move, and perform better.
0:15.4	You don't need to starve yourself or hop on the latest fitness craze.
0:19.1	We'll show you how the smallest change can give you
0:21.5	the largest impact. Now join your healthy living host, Scott Baptee, for the Food for Fitness
0:27.4	podcast. Welcome to episode 73 of the Food for Fitness podcast, brought to you by
0:40.0	Food for Fitness.com.
0:42.1	I'm your host, Scott Bapty, and this week we're talking about body confidence.
0:47.4	Well, first of what does it mean to become body confident, and then how do we improve our
0:52.0	own self-confidence?
0:53.6	In this episode, I'm speaking with
0:55.5	Shona McPherson, who is a personal trainer and life coach based up in Inverness. Now,
1:01.1	in this episode, Shona will be talking about her own body confidence issues, why we live in
1:06.7	this either of standardized beauty and what it actually means to be beautiful. Some of the impacts that
1:13.2	this is having on society and especially in teenagers and younger women, some advice for people who
1:18.2	are struggling with self-esteem and self-confidence, and then how we can find this balance between
1:22.9	being happy in ourselves yet still wanting to make improvements. It's a really insightful episode and I
1:29.3	certainly hope you enjoy it. So here we go. Episode 73, How to Become Body Confident with Shona McPherson.
1:36.0	Hey, Shona, welcome to podcast. Hi, Scott. Thank you for having me. Excellent. My pleasure.
1:40.7	So Shona, give us a little bit more background about you. Who are you? What do you you do how did it start and why you so good at it okay cool um so i am from inverness in the highlands
1:52.3	of scotland and i work as a personal trainer and a weight loss coach and i'm training to be a life
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