It was never about food; Weight Loss and the Psychology of being Overweight with Lucy Cavendish and Sarah Vine | S4 Special Episode episode artwork

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It was never about food; Weight Loss and the Psychology of being Overweight with Lucy Cavendish and Sarah Vine | S4 Special Episode

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Send us Fan MailA subject that has caught the imagination of the nation.Fat Jabs!A special episode with Sarah Vine and Lucy Cavendish, with role reversal - Sarah interviewing Lucy!A fascinating, relatable and insightful conversation.Hello and welcome to the podcast where we talk honestly about weight loss, body image, and everything that comes with it, emotionally, socially, and psychologically.Two brilliant voices: journalist and author Lucy Cavendish, and columnist and commentator Sarah Vine.Together, we’ll be exploring the realities behind the headlines, from the rise of weight loss injections to the lifelong mental load of being overweight, and what it really means to change your body in a world that never stops having an opinion.This is a conversation about more than pounds and calories. It’s about confidence, shame, freedom, identity… and the complicated journey of feeling at home in yourself.Let’s begin.Key points of the episode:The wrongness of fat shaming, including fat shaming of people on jabs.Lucy's theory on when her weight problem started.How people are put on the pill for virtually every reason, and it's connection to weight loss.How modern fashion does not cater for women with shapes."The only thing you can control"How the root of the problem can have started at a really early age.The revelation from her Dr that led her to the fat jabs.The transformations experienced by both of them.An important message from Lucy about this subject.Possible reasons from an evolutionary point of view.How society has changed, but we haven't.How our bodys hormones are very strong drugs.How partly it was an identity shift for Lucy.Lucy's "Sliding Doors" wonderings, if I had found this earlier, would my life have been better?How being overweight can be a kind of "suit of armour"How Lucy's world changed when her doctor recommended Mounjaro.The Webinar Lucy is doing on this - ATTEND HERE Support the showHas this podcast inspired you and would you like to learn more?You can reach out to Lucy, love coach, relationship counsellor, couples counsellor extraordinaire and author of "How to have extraordinary relationships with absolutely everybody".....On:http://www.lucycavendishlovecoach.com/

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Send us Fan Mail A subject that has caught the imagination of the nation. Fat Jabs! A special episode with Sarah Vine and Lucy Cavendish, with role reversal - Sarah interviewing Lucy! A fascinating, relatable and insightful conversation. Hello and welcome to the podcast where we talk honestly about weight loss, body image, and everything that comes with it, emotionally, socially, and psychologically. Two brilliant voices: journalist and author Lucy Cavendish, and columnist and commentator Sa...

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