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!
Episodes
Sep 25, 2024
Sep 25, 2024
1 hr 5 min
In this episode, we discuss Harry's experience as an inpatient admission on St Ann's Eating Disorder Unit and how this shaped his eating disorder recovery.
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.
Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
Sep 17, 2024
Sep 17, 2024
32 min
We’re back! In this episode, we discuss the difficulties around food and diet that eating disorder recovery experiences around holidays.
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.
Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
Aug 27, 2024
Aug 27, 2024
44 min
In this week's episode we discuss how Harry's eating disorder has impacted his Dad as one of the contributory factors in his nervous breakdown.
The purpose of this episode is to acknowledge the importance of men talking in order avoid destructive gender stereotypes that have led to the dangerous and traumatic response of an eating disorder and a mental breakdown.
Please remember, we are not clinicians or qualified ED specialists. The aim of our podcast is to provide insight into our experience in the hope that we provide information that might save others from suffering the years of trauma we have encountered under the threat of an eating disorder.
Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
Aug 21, 2024
Aug 21, 2024
38 min
In this week's episode, we discuss how we came to acknowledge an eating disorder as 'an abusive partner' that convinces the sufferer, and their loved ones, that they are useless, contemptible and unworthy of respect or compassion. Insight into how an ED manifests in this way brought huge succor in how to change our approach, and help Harry to challenge the self-doubt generated by the internal voice of an eating disorder.
Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
Aug 13, 2024
Aug 13, 2024
23 min
In this week’s episode we had the honour of being invited as guest speakers at the New Maudsley Carers Support group chaired by the incredible Jenny Langley.
We hope this episode sheds more insight into my ED story and how my family and I are still navigating our way through my recovery. Here is part 2 of that interview.
Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
Aug 7, 2024
Aug 7, 2024
31 min
In this week’s episode we had the honour of being invited as guest speakers at the New Maudsley Carers Support group chaired by the incredible Jenny Langley.
We hope this episode sheds more insight into my ED story and how my family and I are still navigating our way through my recovery. Here is part 1 of that interview
Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
Jul 30, 2024
Jul 30, 2024
34 min
In this episode, we discuss how anorexia recovery relies upon reaching a recommended ‘goal weight’ which is only the beginning of the precarious recovery journey. 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.
Contact as at whyweighttochange@outlook.com
Jul 23, 2024
Jul 23, 2024
45 min
This was the hardest one yet.
In this episode, we discuss the highly sensitive issue of suicide and share my experience with contemplating such action. We emphasise that considering suicide is never a solution and that reaching out for help is always the better option. Speaking up about your struggles is never an inconvenience or a burden and there is always someone willing to listen and support you, especially through charities such as the Samaritans 24 hour helpline. Remember, talking to someone is always better than the alternative.
Our email is always open at: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
Jul 16, 2024
Jul 16, 2024
38 min
In today's episode, my Mum and I shed light on the devastating impacts that my behaviours had on the family. We share what it was like for my parents to live with and how such extreme behaviours and routines made life with an eating disorder unbearable.
Please note: We are not clinicians or qualified ED specialists. This is our account of an eating disorder and mental health aimed to raise awareness of the importance of speaking out and seeking immediate help with any of the issues raised.
Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com
Jul 9, 2024
Jul 9, 2024
31 min
In this episode, we shed light on the neurological factors that the brain suffers as the result of an eating disorder, and provide the crucial answers as to why resulting behaviours cannot simply be solved by 'just eating' and 'not exercising'. We also explain the importance of seeking early specialist intervention for those suffering from an eating disorder or mental health issue.
Please note: We are not clinicians or qualified ED specialists. This is our account of an eating disorder and mental health aimed to raise awareness of the importance of speaking out and seeking immediate help with any of the issues raised.
Contact us: whyweighttochange@outlook.com