Laura Adlington | Yo-Yo Dieting, Fatphobia and Body Acceptance.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Conversations about weight, size and shape have never been more loaded or volatile, which is why I am so pleased to have had Laura Adlington on the podcast. This felt like a really important conversation about the complex issues about weight, body shape, size and everything that goes hand-in-hand with complex and toxic relationships with and around food. Whether it's addiction, eating disorder or mental illness, it's something that can be all-consuming and life-limiting.
Laura has interrogated her relationship with her own body and food issues in her book Diet Starts Monday, but also takes a closer look at the ways in which diet culture and anti-fat bias seep into our consciousness and make us feel less than.
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| 0:00.0 | Joining me in this episode of the Emmagon show is body confidence advocate Laura Adlington. |
| 0:11.6 | Because you feel like you have to be like the good fatty as well. |
| 0:15.0 | Like that's a expression often using the Fat Liberation Movement of like, oh I'm on a diet, I'm trying. |
| 0:21.0 | I remember feeling like I didn't just have a body like I was my body it defined me |
| 0:26.8 | Yeah, I think I was trying to be careful when I say this because I don't want to |
| 0:30.8 | sort of diminish or or say that other prejudice doesn't exist because it is still very |
| 0:35.4 | rife but I sort of it does sometimes feel like fat shaming on fat favour is the last acceptable form of prejudice and where we quite rightly call out and cancel people for, you know, homophobic or racist remarks, |
| 0:49.0 | sometimes it feels like fat jokes are still fair game. |
| 0:52.0 | If I hadn't done these kind of like |
| 0:54.4 | yo-yo diets and fad diets throughout my life, maybe I wouldn't be as big as I am now and that's |
| 0:58.7 | the irony of it really. Yeah, there were a few points where I thought I don't want to do this, like I don't think I can put myself out there. |
| 1:07.0 | This episode of the podcast is brought to you in partnership with Senserdine. |
| 1:12.0 | You may have heard in the podcast last week that I took part in a chill test with dentist Anita Sandu. This is her area of expertise and she guided me through drinking ice cold water, eating a slice of fresh apple and taking a bite |
| 1:26.0 | out of a trock ice, all with the purpose of learning about my teeth sensitivity. |
| 1:30.6 | Now I knew I had some sensitivity, but was really helpful learning from Anita the reasons why, the foods that can cause that sharp feeling of sensitivity and the changes I can make to minimize any discomfort moving forward. |
| 1:42.0 | Since the chill test I've been using |
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| 1:55.3 | areas of your teeth to help protect you from the pain of sensitive teeth. |
| 1:59.1 | So if like me you've struggled with sensitive teeth, go get yourself some |
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