Our guest this week is the brilliant Dr Natasha Larmie. Weight-inclusive NHS GP by day and social justice advocate by way of – well, all other hours – Natasha believes passionately in bringing an end to weight stigma in the NHS. A relative newcomer to the Health At Every Size movement, Natasha has generated a significant online following over the past year as the ‘Fat Doctor’, and has since taken on the monumental challenge of speaking up against diet culture, advocating against weight stigma, and encouraging her NHS colleagues to do the same. 
 
In this episode, we talk about Natasha's own body and mental health struggles, her journey to discovering Health At Every Size,  and how she has since taken steps to incorporate a weight-inclusive approach into her professional GP practice. We explore the impact of weight stigma on the patient experience of engaging with the medical profession, and why it is this can be just so dangerous to public health outcomes. Natasha also shares with us a few very simple, practical steps any patient-facing medical professional can take to eliminate weight discrimination from their practice, and we explore what patients can do to feel more empowered to speak up about their medical needs.

If you want to hear more about Natasha's work, you can find out all her work through her website: https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/

You can also find Natasha on Instagram using @fatdoctoruk

This Season of Well Undone is brought to in partnership with The Diet-Free Revolution, the new diet-debunking book from clinical psychologist Dr Alexis Conason. Out on the 29th June, and available to pre-order wherever books are sold, you can find a copy in all your usual bookshops.

If you want an even deeper dive, you can also get 30% off Alexis' online 6-week mindfulness-based anti-diet course using the code: WELLUNDONE30