Don’t Weight To Change!
Welcome to ‘Don’t Weight to Change!’ Our original ‘Why Weight to Change?’ podcast, began as an advocacy for mental health issues following my personal 10+ year battle with anorexia. By sharing my story, we aimed to help others struggling with mental health issues, especially young boys and men, creating a safe space for candid discussion and support. Following the phenomenal feedback from our listeners, our podcast has organically expanded into issues that affect mental health such as ‘what it means to be human’. Questions such as ‘what compels us to make the life choices we make? Who determines and influences that? How do we alight upon the opinions and beliefs that we live by that form our sense of identity, and how do we identify, and deselect, certain opinions or beliefs when they no longer prove to serve us and who we want to be? Our podcast now seeks to encourage conversations around how to relinquish the weight of self-doubt, expectation, fear and uncertainty which holds us back and prevents us from changing into who we want to be. We aim to encourage discussion around how to stop seeking external validation and permission to change, what change might look like, and how change benefits our mental wellbeing so that we live out the most beneficial version of ourselves in whatever way we choose! Thank you for joining in our discussion!
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Episodes
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
In this episode we discuss the pressures of social conditioning, how it contributes to male identity and its impact on men's mental health.
This is designed as an apolitical discussion predicated upon the structural messages that Harry identifies within his worldview which he ascribes as a major contributory factor to his eating disorder.
Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
Friday Jan 31, 2025
Friday Jan 31, 2025
In this week's episode, we discuss the latest developments within the government and charities such as CALM, supporting those with mental health conditions such as eating disorders, depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation.Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
In this week’s episode, we discuss the intention behind our podcast ‘why weight to change’. We aim to raise awareness of what an eating disorder looks, and feels, like for a sufferer and their family to enhance understanding of its devastating effects and increase the paucity of support available to all those afflicted by this most life-threatening mental illness. We hope to offer reassurance and guidance on seeking the support and intervention essential to conquering the devastating cycle of an eating disorder, and prove the opportunity of life which exists of the other side.
Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
In this episode, we discuss the dreaded ‘new year, new you’ resolution ritual, and how the post-Christmas spike in promotions for detox, cleansing and resets can elicit feelings of anxiety, insecurity and self-hate that can lead to eating disorders.
Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and new year, and wish you all a flourishing 2025! In this episode, we discuss how difficult Christmas and new year is for someone battling an eating disorder and discuss our experience of this challenging time of year for me and my family.Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
Friday Dec 06, 2024
Friday Dec 06, 2024
On today’s episode we discuss my eating disorder recovery, and how it is looking for me. During my struggles over the years, I often wanted to speak to someone who can help me navigate the difficulties of recovery and alleviate my anxiety that if recovery wasn’t a smooth transition from sufferer to cured, I was getting it wrong. This episode aims to dispel this assumption and offer hope to others.Please donate whatever you can to the incredible, vital charity, Seed here!
Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
Thursday Nov 28, 2024
Thursday Nov 28, 2024
Today’s episode is informed by the incredible Freddie Wise, who we had the honour of meeting through a New Maudsley online workshop. Freddie is an actor who has appeared in Poldark, The Radleys, Maleficent, and the comedy, Flatmates, amongst many other shows. In the workshop, he discussed his brave battle with his anorexia and substance abuse and shared his highly inspiring road to recovery.
On this episode, we also highlight holding onto the lighter side of life which is essential to disempowering the feelings of being held hostage to an eating disorder, for the sufferer as well as its loved ones.
Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Today’s episode discusses advice on supporting an adult with an eating disorder, and how this starts with breaking the attendant shame around talking about mental health.
We highlight the importance of ongoing specialist psychological support essential to providing the sufferer with critical cognitive techniques which enable the ability to challenge and overcome dangerous and self-destructive behaviours.
We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
In our latest episode, we had the privilege of speaking to Dan Somers of MANUP?, a phenomenal charity that tackles the stigma around men’s mental health.
November is Men’s Mental Health Month and not only do we discuss my experiences with an eating disorder but we also my battles with my mental health. We emphasise the importance of speaking up, reaching out and seeking help. Recovery isn’t about perfection; it’s about resilience, honesty, and the courage to keep going, even when it’s messy and hard.
We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
Friday Oct 25, 2024
Friday Oct 25, 2024
Today’s episode is dedicated to the powerful depiction of an eating disorder on Netflix’s, ‘Heartstopper’. This season’s series is a perceptive portrayal of the protagonist, Charlie Spring’s, battle with anorexia. If you haven’t watched the show, we highly recommend it, especially if you are supporting a person with an eating disorder. This episode contains spoiler alerts!
We highlight the importance of ongoing specialist psychological support essential to providing the sufferer with critical cognitive techniques which enable the ability to challenge and overcome dangerous and self-destructive behaviours.
We remind our listeners that we are not clinicians or eating disorder specialists. Our aim is to contribute to the narrative around eating disorders from our experience in order to extend understanding and support in this field.
Contact us: whyweightochange@outlook.com