Find Your Strong Podcast
Encouraging people to find what FEELS good in terms of food, movement and their bodies. Let's challenge the wellness w*nkery and start a new conversation.
In each episode, Christine and Ela discuss their thoughts on diet and fitness fads, speak with fabulous guests about their experiences with finding peace with food and movement, and interview experts so that they can share their insights and knowledge with you.
The hope is that together we can change the narrative around nutrition and exercise and help you find YOUR strong!
Find Your Strong Podcast
The Skinny Epidemic - Why Are We Shrinking Ourselves Yet Again?
Skinny is back. With a vengeance.
We're furious. Listen, we are very much speaking from a position of privilege in terms of both being in straight-sized bodies, but approaching fitness and health through an anti-oppressive and inclusive lens, this is simply not good news.
Eating disorders and disordered eating are very much on the rise, as is body dissatisfaction, and the very sad truth is, is that there is no quick fix when it comes to our fitness,our bodies and indeed our confidence. Sure we can lose weight in the short term but what about sustainability. What about the impact of continual weight fluctuations on our health.
Confidence is not waiting for us at our goal weight.
There is nuance here. For some folks, the new GLP-1 drugs have been beneficial and more and more research is being done into their impact on binge eating disorders.
We discuss all of this and more in today's episode. It is a spicy one and we'd absolutely LOVE your comments or feedback.
We start the episode with the following quote from the wonderful Abbie Attwood:
"There's something unbearably cruel about living in a world where millions of people go hungry because they have no choice, while millions more go hungry because they've been told that they should."
Please reach out if you would like some support with your relationship to food OR movement. Ela currently has limited spaces for Intuitive Eating coaching and if you'd like to reconnect with movement, contact Christine.
AND if you enjoyed this episode, please share and follow the 'Find Your Strong podcast' and if you have time, write us a short review. It would honestly mean the world. Love to you all, Ela & Christine x
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Ela Law: We want people to be. Well, of course we do, and I know there are. Some people say you don't owe anyone health. I don't know if I agree with that, because I would say everybody really would like to feel well and be healthy rather than live with chronic illness.
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Ela Law: but I think we should focus on that.
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Christine Chessman: Hmm.
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Ela Law: Not on well, make yourself as thin as possible, and potentially actually decrease your life expectancy and your health, because we don't know what's going to happen if you take those drugs, or if you have bariatric surgery, or you know all of those things.
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Christine Chessman: If I if I'm not unwell, I don't want to be taking drugs. No.
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Christine Chessman: if if I can possibly not take. So I want.
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Ela Law: Again.
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Christine Chessman: Few drugs as I can possibly take.
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Christine Chessman: No, I mean I I you don't want to be on them. If you don't have to be.
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Ela Law: No, no, exactly.
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Christine Chessman: I mean, and there's anyway do you know a comedian called Kyla Cobbler? She's an Irish comedian, is she? She wrote.
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Ela Law: Fake, Belle.
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Christine Chessman: She did a tour with Tommy Tiernan, but she did a whole reel on
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Christine Chessman: Skinny. Oh, I hear Skinny's back in.
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Ela Law: Right.
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Christine Chessman: Guinea can get fucked. Excuse my language, but she's got a really funny reel that she wants to be. Let's all be furious and jacked
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Christine Chessman: rather than skinny, and like like, let's stand up to this. She was talking about being, you know, the women of Ireland standing on the coast when people came, the invaders came to attack, and we looked so scary they turned around and she was like talking about. Let's let's like, come on, let's get strong. Why are we being? Why are we wanting to kind of fade away? No, we.
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Ela Law: No.
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Christine Chessman: Take up space and get mad. Get angry about all of this.
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Ela Law: Oh, I need to see that real! Was that a recent one.
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Christine Chessman: It's really good. She's hilarious. I've posted it. It's it's her Monday motivation. Let's get furious and jacked rather than skinny.
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Ela Law: Brilliant. Should we link in the show notes to her.
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Christine Chessman: Account absolutely sounds good, but anyway, we could go on for ages, but
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Ela Law: I think this is probably not. The last time we'll talk about this, and it would be really interesting to actually hear from anyone listening to this. If you have your own experience with.
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Christine Chessman: Yeah.
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Ela Law: Ones, or actually actively making a decision not to take them any.
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Christine Chessman: Percent.
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Ela Law: Would be really interesting to hear about it.
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Christine Chessman: And also again, we have to say, we don't have experience of living in a larger body. So anybody with experience, please.
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Ela Law: Hmm.
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Christine Chessman: Again, tell us what.
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Christine Chessman: Your feeling about glp-one,
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Ela Law: We are here to learn.
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Ela Law: Yeah. And I think it probably came out quite clearly that we have. No, you know, it's not that we're judging. Glp one S. We're not judging people who take them. We are just angry at the fact that society is pushing them on people and pushing that thin ideal. Yet again, do you know what it's that nineties fashion, isn't it? Alongside that stupid nineties, actual fashion which drives me nuts?
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Ela Law: Can I get a non strappy non cropped top. Please.
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Christine Chessman: Yeah. And what happened to those body things, you know, the things with like the baby grows.
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Ela Law: Oh, please!
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Christine Chessman: Why are we still wearing body suits.
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Ela Law: Sleeve.
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Christine Chessman: 4 of those at a time in the nineties, and it wasn't a good look.
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Ela Law: It wasn't good luck then, and it's not a good look now. No, thank you. Bye.
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Christine Chessman: I mean, do you remember going for a way and then trying to like rebutton? All of you.
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Ela Law: I was fucking.
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Ela Law: Why are they back?
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Ela Law: Don't know. I don't know. Well, people are well.
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Ela Law: they just need to recycle ideas, and the skinny idea is not a good one to.
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Christine Chessman: I always. I always tell my teams like every bit of music they listen to. It's a sample from our generation.
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Ela Law: Absolutely, you need a bit of originality.
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Ela Law: Yeah, yeah, I think we're all numb and dumbed down so we can't actually come up with original thought anymore.
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Christine Chessman: Oh, we're so cynical and and.
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Ela Law: We are angry today. I think
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Ela Law: some punch bag now, and let it.
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Christine Chessman: Exactly exactly, anyway. Thank you for listening, and we appreciate you more than you know, and we're going to take a little summer hiatus. But it's not a real hiatus, because I'm going to be posting and previous episodes from ages ago, which we will re-release.
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Christine Chessman: Which are all fantastic. We've had some amazing guests.
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Ela Law: Oh, God, yeah, yeah. You had some before I even joined. I mean.
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Christine Chessman: Oh yes!
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Ela Law: Definitely.
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Christine Chessman: Add some questions.
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Ela Law: Asking out for those.
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Christine Chessman: And we've got Stephanie Michelle on our return, which I am incredibly excited about, and we will post lots more about it. But for now thank you for listening, and we will see you soon.
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Ela Law: A great summer bye.
