The Weekly Riff with Louise Green
The Weekly Riff cuts through fitness culture’s noise with real talk from Louise Green — award-winning coach, author, and size-inclusive fitness trailblazer redefining what strength looks like. In a world where most fitness spaces still exclude, this podcast offers something rare: a space that honours all bodies and holds the belief that your body is fully capable of strength, power, and performance — through every season of life, including midlife and menopause.
Each 20-minute episode dives into strength training, body image, mindset, and the deeper layers of showing up for yourself — without the toxic pressure to shrink, conform, or apologize. Louise blends expert insight, lived experience, and raw honesty to explore how we can all train for strength and self-respect, not validation.
Expect conversations that challenge stereotypes, dismantle diet culture, and invite you to rise — as you are, right now.
🎧 Tune in weekly for unfiltered, empowering riffs on what it really means to be strong — in body, mind, and culture.
The Weekly Riff with Louise Green
Episode 29 - Appearance Control: Understanding Diet Culture Through a Recovery Lens
Appearance control, also known as control through diet culture, is one of the most socially celebrated behaviours we engage in, yet it quietly damages our relationship with food, movement, and self trust. In this Weekly Riff, Louise Green explores appearance control through a recovery lens and asks the uncomfortable question we rarely name. What happens when a behaviour is harmful, but fully endorsed by culture.
This episode breaks down how diet culture, weight fixation, and “good body” rules mirror patterns we already recognize in other recovery conversations like eating disorders, compulsive behaviours, and burnout, yet are rarely granted the same language or compassion. When something is normalized, profitable, and praised, acknowledging harm becomes infinitely harder.
In this episode, Louise covers the parallels she has personally experienced between addiction recovery and diet culture through a recovery lens.
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Louise Green is an award-winning coach with 20 years invested in working with women of all body sizes. She has coached thousands of women from all over the world, if you're ready take the next step in your strength, check out her coaching program: https://www.louisegreeninc.com/size-strong