Hoovering - Episode 115: Caroline Dooner
Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew
Jessica Fostekew
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering.
In this episode I’m talking to the author of one of the best books about eating that I’ve ever read. The Fuck It Diet, by Caroline Dooner. I’m rereading it now and honestly - if you are anywhere near ready to stop over-thinking eating, if you think you’re ‘addicted’ to food or to any foods, if you think you’d be better if you were smaller, you can stop doing those things and be happy and this book is a genuinely incredible way to start - funny, accessible, well-written and full of innovative angles and insights - I AM NOT BEING PAID TO SAY ANY OF THIS - I just really really rate the book, The Fuck It Diet. I’ve bee trying to bagsy Caroline as a guest for ages as she’s in Philadelphia and we got there at last, we met remotely, in our own homes.
Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage.
Honourable Mentions
Caroline’s offerings on social media are incredible, follow the fuck it diet on INSTAGRAM to start with them just get on board and get the book THE FUCK IT DIET.
My live stuff is obviously all on hold but I’m in two series on telly at the moment, THE TROUBLE WITH MAGGIE COLE on ITV Hub and TRIGONOMETRY on the BBC iplayer. Also I’m part of the writing team between a new series called SUSAN CALMAN: SOCIALLY DISTANT on BB Iplayer for everyone and BBC Scotland for the Scottish Land.
If you have any spare dollar in your life the first thing I’d like you to do with it is give it to either a food bank like the TRUSSELL TRUST.
If after giving to them you’ve still got more spare dosh to give a month I’m on this great site called PATREON where I swap your money for ace podcast related stuff like totally exclusive content and guest recipes. It’ll help me keep the podcast not just alive, but also thriving. Thanks so so so much if you’ve become a patron recently and/ or stuck with me since the beginning of this.
She talked about the US supermarket we have a very bouji expensive little version of here called WHOLEFOODS
I talk about very funny CATIE HERRING and her podcast DRUNK WOMEN SOLVING CRIME
This is JOE WICKS and this is the book 1984
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast. Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature. It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just hit the link in the show description to support now. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. I'm Jessica Bostigue. I love eating as much as anything |
| 0:25.6 | else in the world, but also it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other things that are rubbish. |
| 0:33.5 | It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an interesting soul, not just about food, but about gobbling it up, or if you will, hoovering. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey, brilliant, you guys. I have got a fucking dozy of an episode here with a guest I've been trying to bagsy for ages. I'm talking to Caroline Duna, author of The Fuck It Diet, which I would say is quite frankly a masterpiece. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm not being paid to say anything at all in this episode. I'm just speaking honestly. |
| 1:03.2 | The book is the best, I mean, it's one of the best, if not the best book I've read about |
| 1:07.8 | eating and about how to make your relationship with eating effortless. |
| 1:13.0 | And I've read loads now. |
| 1:15.6 | It's funny and it's well written. |
| 1:16.7 | It's so accessible. |
| 1:18.3 | You sort of whip through it. |
| 1:24.4 | And it's also full of really innovative and powerful kind of angles and insights. |
| 1:25.7 | The Fuck It Diet. |
| 1:27.1 | It is so good. And she's amazing on social media as well. |
| 1:29.3 | As I said, I'm trying to get older her for ages. And it is. It was joyful to record a hoovering |
| 1:35.1 | with her. First up, thanks for listening, though, to the podcast. Tell every other sausage about it, |
| 1:39.2 | won't you? Rate review and subscribe. Why not? Why not? Helps other people find it if you |
| 1:43.3 | give it five-star review. Also, I am doing hoovering live conversations at nine o'clock every Monday night |
| 1:50.4 | on Instagram live. So follow at the hoovering pod on Instagram and then on Mondays at |
| 1:55.8 | nine I'll be talking to former guests face to face for some liquid hoovering and it's always |
| 2:00.2 | so far been very, very fun. |
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