Talking with Emma: Stop fighting food & weight
Talking with Emma is the podcast for women who are tired of obsessive food thinking, struggling with body image and feeling like food and weight is the one thing they can’t get sorted.
I’m Emma Wright — feminist health coach, author, and someone who knows exactly how exhausting it is to live like not matter how much you try, your health is never quite “good enough.”
After years of controlling my weight, focusing on food, exercising harder, and constantly feeling like a failure, I discovered something different — and more powerful:
Coaching tools that help you trust yourself again - and take charge of your health the way you want to.
Each episode, I’ll share the tools I use with clients who want relief health feeling so confusing — and who are ready end emotional eating, stop thinking about food all the time and improve their body image.
If you’re ready for those things, this podcast is for you.
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Talking with Emma: Stop fighting food & weight
48: How to leave diet culture with Lotta Dann
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What does it look like to leave diet culture behind — to truly walk away from it?
Lotta Dann did it with alcohol. Then, a few years into sobriety, she found herself deep in a diet hole — losing weight, receiving praise, feeling like she was "floating on a cloud of thin." Inevitably, it all fell apart.
In this conversation, Lotta and I talk about what happened next: how she found anti-diet content, what helped her see the lies diet culture has her believe, and what it actually took — emotionally, practically, and culturally — to leave.
This is a conversation I have wanted to have for a long time.
In this episode we cover
- How Lotta went from sobriety to a strict diet — and why the language of addiction made it seem like the answer
- What "floating on a cloud of thin" was so compelling, and what it cost
- The moment she stumbled across anti-diet content and why it clicked so fast
- The biggest lies diet culture tells us — and the one Lotta found most heartbreaking
- How leaving dieting compares to leaving alcohol — and where it is much harder
- Why weight gain is almost always part of the process, and how to navigate it
- The behaviours to stop immediately, and the practical steps that actually help
"Thinness is highly valued in our culture — you're deemed a success regardless of your mental health or how you're actually functioning day to day."
"I refuse to feel bad about my body size. I've built a fierce defence against it — and it took time, mantras, and a lot of practice to get there."
— Lotta Dann
Mentioned in this episode
- Mrs D is Not on a Diet — Lotta Dann's book on leaving diet culture
- Living Sober — Lotta's free online community for people quitting drinking
- @mrs_d_alcoholfree — Lotta on Instagram
- Midlife Body Image Guide — Emma's free guide for women ready to stop fighting their bodies
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